Alchemy Lab

The alchemy lab is the tenth building in the game, initially costing 75 billion cookies. Each alchemy lab initially produces 1.6 million CpS by turning gold into cookies. When fully upgraded, they each produce 409.6 million CpS.

AchievementsEdit

Alchemy Lab achievements
Icon	Name	Description	ID
	Transmutation	Have 1 alchemy lab.	55
	Transmogrification	Have 50 alchemy labs.	56
	Gold member	Have 100 alchemy labs.	57
	Gild wars	Have 150 alchemy labs.	119
	The secrets of the universe	Have 200 alchemy labs.	154
	The work of a lifetime	Have 250 alchemy labs.	217
	Gold, Jerry! Gold!	Have 300 alchemy labs.	257
	All that glitters is gold	Have 350 alchemy labs.	288
	Worth its weight in lead	Have 400 alchemy labs.	348
	Don't get used to yourself, you're gonna have to change	Have 450 alchemy labs.	361
	We could all use a little change	Have 500 alchemy labs.	407
	Magnum Opus	Make 1 sextillion cookies just from alchemy labs.	140
	The Aureate	Make 10 octillion cookies just from alchemy labs.	198
	I've got the Midas touch	Make 100 decillion cookies just from alchemy labs.	302
	Phlogisticated substances	Reach level 10 alchemy labs.	316

UpgradesEdit

Alchemy Lab upgrades
Icon	Name	Unlock condition	Base price	Description	ID
	Antimony	Own 1 alchemy lab	750 billion	Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "Actually worth a lot of money."	22
	Essence of dough	Own 5 alchemy labs	3.75 trillion	Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "Extracted through the 5 ancient steps of alchemical baking."	23
	True chocolate	Own 25 alchemy labs	37.5 trillion	Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "The purest form of cacao."	24
	Ambrosia	Own 50 alchemy labs	3.75 quadrillion	Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "Adding this to the cookie mix is sure to make them even more addictive! Perhaps dangerously so. Let's hope you can keep selling these legally."	49
	Aqua crustulae	Own 100 alchemy labs	375 quadrillion	Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "Careful with the dosing - one drop too much and you get muffins. And nobody likes muffins."	115
	Origin crucible	Own 150 alchemy labs	37.5 quintillion	Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "Built from the rarest of earths and located at the very deepest of the largest mountain, this legendary crucible is said to retain properties from the big-bang itself."	197
	Theory of atomic fluidity	Own 200 alchemy labs	37.5 sextillion	Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "Pushing alchemy to its most extreme limits, you find that everything is transmutable into anything else - lead to gold, mercury to water; more importantly, you realize that anything can -and should- be converted to cookies."	302
	Beige goo	Own 250 alchemy labs	37.5 septillion	Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "Well now you've done it. Good job. Very nice. That's 3 galaxies you've just converted into cookies. Good thing you can hop from universe to universe."	315
	The advent of chemistry	Own 300 alchemy labs	37.5 octillion	Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "You know what? That whole alchemy nonsense was a load of baseless rubbish. Dear god, what were you thinking?"	436
	On second thought	Own 350 alchemy labs	37.5 nonillion	Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "Disregard that last upgrade, alchemy is where it's at! Your eggheads just found a way to transmute children's nightmares into rare metals!"	488
	Public betterment	Own 400 alchemy labs	375 decillion	Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "Why do we keep trying to change useless matter into cookies, or cookies into even better cookies? Clearly, the way of the future is to change the people who eat the cookies into people with a greater understanding, appreciation and respect for the cookies they're eating. Into the vat you go!"	514

Other UpgradesEdit

Icon	Name	Unlock condition	Base price	Description	ID
	Transmuted grandmas	15 alchemy labs and 1 grandma owned	3.75 trillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Alchemy labs gain +1% CpS per 8 grandmas. "A nice golden grandma to convert into more cookies."	61
	Arcane knowledge	15 Wizard towers, 15 Alchemy labs and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased	15.66 quadrillion	Wizard towers gain +5% CpS per alchemy lab. Alchemy labs gain +0.1% CpS per wizard tower. "Some things were never meant to be known - only mildly speculated."	379
	Primordial ores	15 Mines, 15 Alchemy labs and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased	15 quadrillion	Mines gain +5% CpS per alchemy lab. Alchemy labs gain +0.1% CpS per mine. "Only when refining the purest metals will you extract the sweetest sap of the earth."	383
	Gold fund	75 Banks, 75 Alchemy labs and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased	15.003 sextillion	Banks gain +5% CpS per alchemy lab. Alchemy labs gain +0.1% CpS per bank. "If gold is the backbone of the economy, cookies, surely, are its hip joints."	384
	Chemical proficiency	75 Alchemy labs, 75 Antimatter condensers and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased	34.15 septillion	Alchemy labs gain +5% CpS per antimatter condenser. Antimatter condensers gain +0.1% CpS per alchemy lab. "Discover exciting new elements, such as Fleshmeltium, Inert Shampoo Byproduct #17 and Carbon++!"	390
	Fortune #010	Random fortune from news ticker	5.833 duodecillion	Alchemy labs are 7% more efficient and 7% cheaper. "Don't get used to yourself. You're gonna have to change."	630

In Cookie Clicker ClassicEdit

Two images from the Classic version, left: icon shown in the store, right: appearance in the middle field

The Alchemy lab is the fifth most expensive item you can purchase. It will give you 500 cookies every 5 seconds by transforming gold.

It initially costs 50,000 cookies, increasing in price by 10% with each consecutive purchase. Some grandmas will change to that of a golden grandma.

Buying your first Alchemy Lab will increase Grandma output by +4 cookies per 5 seconds.

TriviaEdit

• The Alchemy Lab of Cookie Clicker parodies one of the most well-known goals of Alchemy, to devise a way to transform lesser metals, such as lead, into higher metals, usually gold.
• The economic consequences of transforming the rare element of gold into cookie material have not been fully explored by the game, but it would likely cause inflation in many of the world's currencies. However, given that the player is likely to create cookies at a fast enough rate to end world hunger entirely, a post-scarcity economy may have emerged in its place, potentially limiting the need of currency, to begin with.
• A news tick suggests that gold is not the only precious metal that can be used in Alchemy Labs. Silver can also be transmuted into white chocolate, according to the titles, but there are no other upgrades or achievements that support this. Additionally, the process of converting gold into cookies appears to be reversible.
• The "Aqua crustulae" upgrade name means "Water of cookie" in Latin. It's probably is a reference to Latin expression "Aqua vitae" that means "Water of life".
• The "All that glitters is gold" achievement is a reference to the chorus of "All-Star" by Smash Mouth.

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