The Dawning 2021 in Destiny 2 has taken a lot from previous events. While players enjoy the festive atmosphere in the Tower, there are mainly a lot of frosty cosmetics and old weapons to earn. However, this treat is new in 2021 and a rare drop.
In Destiny 2, players are always on the hunt for the best items with good stats. However, during The Dawning, these drop very rarely. It’s often more about farming Glimmer through cookie baking to buy cosmetics in the Eververse or to upgrade other materials. The reward packages themselves, which players receive for baking and delivering cookies from NPCs, mostly do not drop good items.
- There is a chance for one of the 4 Dawning weapons 2021
- Mostly blue armor and weapons drop, legendary ones are rarer.
- Sometimes also destination materials, upgrade modules, legendary shards, and enhancement cores and prisms
Players can bake cookies for almost every NPC during The Dawning 2021 in Destiny 2 to earn rewards. However, a new NPC, which was assumed not to be able to be gifted during this event, actually has a taste for very different sweet treats.
The intergalactic “Buddy Horse” of Xur – nicknamed “Juan” by players – has a very special preference, as it prefers sweet sugar cubes instead of cookies. But not just any sugar cubes, only very special cosmic sugar cubes.
A cosmic sugar cube (by definition) is a small, crystalline hexahedron, and each facet is covered with miniature sugar galaxies. They shimmer beyond reality. Thematically, it belongs to consumables in Destiny 2 and is only available during The Dawning 2021. Additionally, it is also an exclusive drop that can give you better loot, making it highly sought after, not only by space horses.
Where can you find the intergalactic candy? The “Cosmic Sugar Cube” is a rare drop that players can only get in the “Trials of Eternity,” the free 6-player activity of the “30 Years of Bungie” anniversary. Anyone can earn the cube, but it only drops from the encounter with the “Treasure Ogre.”
If you defeat it and all the enemies, one of the rare cosmic sugar cubes might drop from its pouch at the end of the encounter. Even ogres seem to appreciate this sweet treat for intermissions.
Bring the sugar cubes to the star horse: If you snag one of the sugar cubes, fly to eternity and give it to Xur in his vault at his sparkling buddy. The impossible horse appreciates this treat and will also drop a reward package for a cosmic sugar cube.
This is why “Cosmic Sugar Cubes” are so special: The “Cosmic Sugar Cubes” are not just rare. The sugar cube reward packages have a chance for powerful cosmic items, like armor or the Dawning weapons. In addition, each sugar cube also provides 15 Dawning spirit. For the regular NPC reward packages, there are only 5.
By the way, these are good rolls for the four Dawning weapons in 2021:
Don’t open your reward packages right away: Some players leave these reward packages from the intergalactic horse unopened at first. Instead, they specifically buy the packages “Uniform Exchange” and “Sharp Exchange” from Eva. This costs 5x Dawning spirit and one reward package. This guarantees one of the Dawning weapons. While it’s not confirmed, the drops from the horse are said to have better results for armor as well.
The player SrslySam91 recommends on reddit not to open the packages right away:
[…] don’t open them. You need that one currency [Dawning spirit] to redeem them. […] I got the Glacioclasm fusion rifle with Franchise and Reservoir Burst. So far, I’ve only turned in 5 packages. 3 were fusion rifles (it’s either fusion or the LMG) and all 3 had Reservoir Burst. […] Also, make sure to buy the 2 upgrades where the items you trade the gifts for have a chance to roll a 2nd perk in the 3rd and 4th column.
The “Cosmic Sugar Cubes” are therefore an interesting item and possess real rarity in Destiny 2. The benevolent horse already wishes for a sweet addition from you, and some Guardians have decided to keep one of the cosmic sugar cubes as a keepsake of a unique, galactic buddy horse in their vault.
This is not the only strange item that Guardians keep in their vaults. Some even have a used toothbrush lying around that was once quite hard to obtain:
Have you already received one of the rare “Cosmic Sugar Cubes”? What has dropped from the reward package for you? Can you confirm the players’ experiences that the drops from the star horse promise better loot? And what items do you have in your vaults that have rarity in Destiny 2?
