The alchemy lab is the tenth building in the game, costs 75 billion cookies and produces a base of 1.6 million CpS by transmuting gold into cookies.
Achievements[]
| Icon | Name | Description | ID |
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Transmutation | Have 1 alchemy lab. | 55 |
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Transmogrification | Have 50 alchemy labs. | 56 |
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Gold member | Have 100 alchemy labs. | 57 |
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Gild wars | Have 150 alchemy labs. | 119 |
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The secrets of the universe | Have 200 alchemy labs. | 154 |
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The work of a lifetime | Have 250 alchemy labs. | 217 |
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Gold, Jerry! Gold! | Have 300 alchemy labs. | 257 |
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All that glitters is gold | Have 350 alchemy labs. | 288 |
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Worth its weight in lead | Have 400 alchemy labs. | 348 |
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Don't get used to yourself, you're gonna have to change | Have 450 alchemy labs. | 361 |
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We could all use a little change | Have 500 alchemy labs. | 407 |
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Just a phase | Have 550 alchemy labs. | 483 |
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Bad chemistry | Have 600 alchemy labs. | 501 |
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Metallic taste | Have 650 alchemy labs. | 564 |
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Sugar, spice, and everything nice | Have 700 alchemy labs. "These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect cookies." |
626 |
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Magnum Opus | Make 1 sextillion cookies just from alchemy labs. | 140 |
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The Aureate | Make 10 octillion cookies just from alchemy labs. | 198 |
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I've got the Midas touch | Make 100 decillion cookies just from alchemy labs. | 302 |
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Phlogisticated substances | Reach level 10 alchemy labs. | 316 |
Upgrades[]
| Icon | Name | Unlock condition | Base price | Description | ID |
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Antimony | Own 1 alchemy lab |  750 billion
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Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "Actually worth a lot of mony." |
22 |
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Essence of dough | Own 5 alchemy labs | 3.75 trillion
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Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "Extracted through the 5 ancient steps of alchemical baking." |
23 |
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True chocolate | Own 25 alchemy labs | 37.5 trillion
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Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "The purest form of cacao." |
24 |
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Ambrosia | Own 50 alchemy labs | 3.75 quadrillion
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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 |
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Aqua crustulae | Own 100 alchemy labs | 375 quadrillion
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Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "Careful with the dosing - one drop too much and you get muffins. And nobody likes muffins." |
115 |
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Origin crucible | Own 150 alchemy labs | 37.5 quintillion
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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 |
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Theory of atomic fluidity | Own 200 alchemy labs | 37.5 sextillion
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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 |
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Beige goo | Own 250 alchemy labs | 37.5 septillion
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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 |
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The advent of chemistry | Own 300 alchemy labs | 37.5 octillion
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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 |
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On second thought | Own 350 alchemy labs | 37.5 nonillion
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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 |
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Public betterment | Own 400 alchemy labs | 375 decillion
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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 |
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Hermetic reconciliation | Own 450 alchemy labs | 3.75 duodecillion
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Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "It's time for modern science and the mystical domains of the occult to work together at last. What do gravitons transmute into? What if alkahest is pH-neutral? Should a homunculus have the right to vote? And other exciting questions coming to you soon, whether you like it or not." |
670 |
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Chromatic cycling | Own 500 alchemy labs | 37.5 tredecillion
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Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "All states of matter exist in a continuous loop. Having learned how to cycle through them, all you have to do is to freeze matter right on the state you need. For reference, the cookie state of matter is situated at precisely 163.719°, right between lamellar gas and metaplasma." |
708 |
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Arcanized glassware | Own 550 alchemy labs | 375 quattuordecillion
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Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "You think your lab equipment enjoys taking part in these experiments violating all sorts of modern scientific precepts? Of course not. Thankfully, you've finalized the design of specialized beakers and flasks, recycled from the same glass used by the ancients to perform primeval alchemy, and therefore much less picky about the nature of the physical world." |
751 |
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The dose makes the poison | Own 600 alchemy labs | 3.75 sexdecillion
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Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "Iterative recipe refinement is a noble pursuit but maybe your cookies have come to contain, well, perhaps a bit too much cookie per cookie. Tweaking it down by a couple percents has helped reduce the amount of complaints to your toxicity call centers to almost nil!" |
848 |
Other Upgrades[]
| Icon | Name | Unlock condition | Base price | Description | ID |
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Transmuted grandmas | 15 alchemy labs and 1 grandma owned | 3.75 trillion
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Grandmas are twice as efficient. Alchemy labs gain +1% CpS per 8 grandmas. "A nice golden grandma to convert into more cookies." |
61 |
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Arcane knowledge | 15 wizard towers, 15 alchemy labs and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased | 15.66 quadrillion
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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 |
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Primordial ores | 15 mines, 15 alchemy labs and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased | 15 quadrillion
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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 |
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Gold fund | 75 banks, 75 alchemy labs and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased | 15.003 sextillion
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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 |
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Chemical proficiency | 75 alchemy labs, 75 antimatter condensers and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased | 34.15 septillion
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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 |
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Fortune #010 | Random fortune from news ticker | 5.833 duodecillion
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Alchemy labs are 7% more efficient and 7% cheaper. "Change what you cannot accept. Furthermore: accept nothing." |
630 |
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Unshackled alchemy labs (heavenly upgrade) |
"Unshackled shipments" purchased |  150 trillion
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Tiered upgrades for Alchemy labs provide an extra +110% production. Only works with unshackled upgrade tiers. "Anything you see, you can make." |
777 |
In Cookie Clicker Classic[]
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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.
Gallery[]
Background
Transmuted Grandma
Trivia[]
- 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.
- However, one News Ticker Text says "defective alchemy lab shut down, found to convert cookies to useless gold." might suggest gold has lost all of its value by the time you unlock alchemy labs. Another theory is that one piece of gold becomes 1.6 billion cookies because of the alchemy lab. It is not that alchemy labs use 1.6 billion gold as that would siphon the entire world's gold supply entirely, but 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.
References[]
- The achievement "Gild wars" is a reference to ArenaNet's online role-playing game Guild Wars.
- The achievement "Gold, Jerry! Gold!" is a phrase spoken by the character Kenny Bania from the American sitcom Seinfeld.
- 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 "Stairway To Heaven" by Led Zeppelin, or the chorus of "All-Star" by Smash Mouth.
- The "We could all use a little change" achievement is a reference to "All-Star" by Smash Mouth.
- The "Gold member" achievement is a reference to Austin Powers in Goldmember.
- The "Sugar, spice, and everything nice" achievement and its flavor text reference the opening of the 1998 animated series, The Powerpuff Girls, itself a reference to the popular nursery rhyme What Are Little Boys Made Of?.
- The achievement "Magnum Opus" is a reference to the alchemy term of the same name. Magnum opus, or the Great Work, refers to the creation of the Philosopher's stone, a mythical substance capable of turning base metals into gold and believed to make an elixir of life that could grant immortality.
- The achievement "I've got the Midas touch" is a reference to King Midas from Greek mythology, who has the ability to turn anything he touched into pure gold. This became known as the Midas touch.
- The achievement "Phlogisticated substances" refers to the phlogiston theory, which postulated that a fire-like element known as phlogiston was contained within combustible bodies and was released during combustion. It was proposed by the German alchemist and physician Johann Joachim Becher in the 17th century.
- The upgrade "Antimony" refers to the chemical element antimony. The Swiss alchemist Paracelsus believed that it was one of the key components to creating the Philosopher's stone.
- The upgrade "Ambrosia" refers to ambrosia, the food of the gods in Greek mythology, which was believed to confer immortality. It is also the name of a dessert that contains pineapple, mandarin oranges, marshmallows, and/or coconut.
