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[[File:FirstAscend.jpg|thumb|After the first ascension.]]
The '''ascension''' screen is accessed by the Legacy button, which is under the Info button. If you reach a certain number of [[Cookie (Currency)|cookies]], you can ascend and reset your progress in the main game.

Depending on how many cookies you have baked, you will earn [[Heavenly Chips]] and Prestige Levels when ascending (at a 1:1 ratio). Heavenly Chips are used in the Ascension screen to purchase Heavenly Upgrades, which are permanent throughout ascensions and provide various benefits. Each Prestige Level provides a permanent +1% CpS, although the power of your Prestige must first be unlocked in each playthrough by purchasing [[Upgrades#Heavenly Chips Upgrades|certain upgrades]]. Each prestige level follows a specific cubic pattern, with Prestige Level 1 needing 1 trillion cookies (1³ x 1 trillion), Prestige Level 2 needing 8 trillion (2³ x 1 trillion) and so on. [[File:LegacyButton.png|frame|right|Press the "Legacy" button to ascend.|192px]] The number beside the 'Legacy' button shows how many Heavenly Chips and Prestige Levels you will earn upon ascending. There are many [[Achievement]]s associated with ascension. See below for a full list. Also, the Ascension screen allows you to access [[Challenge Mode]]. Upon resetting, you will also hear a heavenly sound effect.

==Upgrade Tree==
These are the heavenly upgrades you can buy. The upgrades you buy here will never be deleted (unless you wipe your save or use [[Cheating]]).

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===Angel and Demon Upgrades===
The regular upgrades ''Fortune #102'' (1%), ''Fern tea'' (3%), and ''Ichor syrup'' (7%) also affect offline production. With all upgrades, offline production is 91% for 7 days, 8 hours. During offline cookie production, [[wrinklers]] are dormant and CpS is not withered.

For Synergies Vol. I you need at least 227,824 Heavenly chips.<br />For Synergies Vol. II you need at least 2,718,958 Heavenly chips.<br />For Chimera you need at least 44,719,651 Heavenly chips.
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===Persistent upgrades===
Permanent upgrade slots cannot hold research upgrades, [[Upgrades#Heavenly_Chips_Upgrades|heavenly&nbsp;chips upgrades]], or switches. In addition to permanent upgrade slots, this branch contains quality of life improvements to the store.
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===Unshackled flavor upgrades===
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===Unshackled building upgrades===
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===Golden Cookie upgrades===
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===Discount and Luck upgrades===
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===Season upgrades===
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===Cookie flavor upgrades===
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===Other production upgrades===
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===Sugar lump upgrades===
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===Others===
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==Achievements==
There are 61 [[Achievements]] related to ascension, two of which are Shadow Achievements:

===Cookies Baked in One Ascension===
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===Times Ascended and Cookies Sacrificed===
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==Additional Information==
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Note: These bulletpoints simply outline major milestones, as well as highlighting good spots to try for the Lucky Digit/Number/Payout upgrades. It's highly suggested that you set your own goals between the major stopping points.
*Making your first ascension at 440 heavenly chips allows for the purchase of:
**Legacy and How to Bake Your Dragon
**Heavenly cookies and the four boxes of cookies
**Starter Kit, Heralds and Heavenly Luck
**Permanent upgrade slot 1 (insert your highest Kitten upgrade)
**Note: As soon as 1 grandma is purchased after ascending, there will be a great boost in CPS, making progression much easier and faster.
*For early in the mid-game, ascending at 1,607,777 total prestige would allow the purchase of:
**Angel/Demon upgrade tree up to Asmodeus and Cherubim
**Synergies Vol. I and Kitten Angels
**Persistent Memory and Permanent Upgrade slots 2-4
**Starter Kitchen, Unholy Bait and Halo Gloves
**Golden Switch and Season Switcher
**Lasting Fortune and Decisive Fate
**Lucky Digit and Lucky Number (requires ending in 777)
**Golden Cookie Alert Sound and Residual Luck
**Divine Discount, Divine Sales and Divine Bakeries
**Cosmetic upgrades: Milk Selector and Background Selector
**Note: The non-cosmetic upgrades up to this point cost a total of 1,607,589, leaving 188 spare to reach a number ending in 777 to fulfill the requirement of Lucky Number. The cosmetic upgrades cost 9+99=108, leaving 80 heavenly chips for future upgrades.
*Later in the mid-game, ascending at 148,777,777 total prestige allows for the purchase of:
**Seraphim, Beelzebub, God, Lucifer, Synergy Vol 2 and Chimera
**Elder Spice, Sacrilegious Corruption and Wrinkly cookies
**Starspawn, Starsnow, Starterror, Starlove and Startrade
**Five-Finger Discount and Permanent Upgrade Slot 5
**Distilled Essence of Redoubled Luck
**Lucky Payout (requires ending in 777,777)
**Inspired Checklist, Label Printer and Genius Accounting
**Final (major) cosmetic upgrade: Fanciful Dairy Selection
*Beyond this point, the available upgrades are fairly straightforward. Price ranges are as follows:
**100-200 Million: Eye of the Wrinkler, Stevia Caelestis and Sugar Baking
**300-600 Million: Diabetica Daemonicus, Sugar Craving and Sugar Aging Process
**~1 Billion: Shimmering Veil, Sucralosia Inutilis, Sugar Crystal Cookie and Keepsakes
**9-15 Billion: Kitten Wages, Cosmic Beginner's Luck and Reinforced Membrane
**77,777,777,777: Fortune Cookies / 99,999,999,999: Pet the Dragon
**333 Billion: Box of Pastries, Box of Not Cookies and Box of Maybe Cookies
*Another strategy for ascending is to ascend every time an extra zero is reached at the prestige levels.
**After ascending at 100 prestige levels, the next ascension would be at 1000 prestige levels, then 10 000, then 100 000. etc.
**This strategy allows for a decent pace of progression in the early to mid game, but stops being sustainable in the late game.
*A commonly used ascension guide can be found [https://pastebin.com/PutF8qFd here.] However, before using the guide, it should be noted that it has not been updated since the Feedback Loop update.
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* Purchasing all heavenly upgrades costs a total of 2,237,247,776,092 heavenly chips, which requires {{hover|11.198 quindecillion|11,198,046,205,339,162,106,520,389,916,104,970,688,000,000,000,000}} cookies baked.
* Golden Switch is calculated using current CPS, so activating it during a Clot halves the price. Likewise, activating it during an Elder Frenzy multiplies the price by 666. Wrinklers do not have any effect on the price.
* The flavor text for the Lasting Fortune upgrade is a reference to the ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' episode "Rock bottom". The original quote from SpongeBob was: "This isn't your average everyday darkness. This is... advanced darkness."
* The flavor text for the "Obliterate" achievement, "Resistance is futile, albeit entertaining," is a reference to ''Star Trek''.
* The flavor text for the Classic Dairy Selection, "don't have a cow" is Bart Simpson's catchphrase in ''The Simpsons''.
* The Heavenly Upgrades 'Halo Gloves,' 'Aura Gloves,' 'Luminous Gloves,' 'And Five Finger Discount' all cost amounts of heavenly chips that are simply 5 repeating a certain number of times. This could be a reference to the number of fingers on one human hand, 5.
* "How to bake your dragon" is a reference to Cressida Cowell's book and the subsequent animated movie, "How to Train Your Dragon".
* Persistent memory was added in v1.0466 as a non-heavenly upgrade, but it was made into a prestige upgrade after Orteil had decided it was too overpowered (it was unlocked after only one research).
* "Five-Fingered Discount" is American slang for the act of Shoplifting.
* Beelzebub is a modern-day name for the devil. In some older Christian dictionaries, it is called the "Lord of the Flies", hence the strange icon that looks like the eyes of a fly. (Not to be confused with William Golding's book.)
* "Elder Spice" is a reference to the product "Old Spice", and its description "The cookie your cookie could smell like", is a reference to a line spoken in one of their commercials.
* "To crumbs you say?" and its flavor text is a reference to a popular line from ''Futurama'', where Professor Farnsworth says "To shreds you say? Very well, then."
* The flavor text for "Nihilism" is a reference to the YouTube series ''Ratboy Genius'', specifically "RBG Dreams Minecraft Interlude - HAPPY FACTORY", in which the character Little King John sings the line "There are many things that need to be erased."
* The flavor text of Kitten Angels ("All cats go to heaven.") is a reference to the animated series ''All Dogs Go to Heaven''.
* The flavor text of Golden switch ("Less clicking. More idling.") could possibly be a reference to Spirit Airlines' slogan ("Less money. More go.") Spirit Airlines is an American "ultra-low cost" carrier based in Fort Lauderdale. However, it may not be, as "less x, more y" is also found in other places.
* The achievement, "He who controls the cookies controls the universe" is a reference to the famous line, "He who controls the spice controls the universe," in the book ''Dune''.  The achievement's description is a reference to the line, "The spice must flow."
* The achievement, "The dreams in which I'm baking are the best I've ever had." is a reference to the Tears for Fears song "Mad World", which contains the'' ''line "The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had."
* The achievement "In the Mouth of Madness"  is also the title of the psychological Lovecraftian horror film from 1994 written by Michael De Luca, the achievement's description is also indirectly referencing the famous line "A reality is just what we tell each other it is." uttered by one of the movie's main characters.
*The "The land of milk and cookies" achievement is a reference to the Bible, which refers to Israel as the land of milk and honey.
**It may also be a reference to The Land of Milk and Cookies from ''Sharkboy and Lavagirl''.
**Another possible reference may be the webcomic Homestuck, in which a character trait involves 'Land of ___ and ___'
*The achievement, "The end of the world" and the description, "''(as we know it)''" are a reference to a song by R.E.M. called "It's the End of the World as We Know It".
*Clicking on the cookie as it breaks during ascension still makes the clicking sound until the ascension tree shows up (as of v 2.0106)
*Display boxes for buffs and debuffs are still shown until the ascension tree shows up (as of v 2.0106).
*The flavor text for the achievement "Endless cycle" could be a reference to the same line from the popular video game ''Portal 2'', in which GLaDOS, a keynote character, is quoted saying the same line to the player character.
*The flavor text for the "Heralds" upgrade is a reference to a quote from the movie ''Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure'': "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!"
* The icon and description for the upgrade "Tin of butter cookies" are based on the Royal Dansk brand of cookies, whose cookies come in large tins, and are placed in small paper cups inside the tins. The five upgrades unlocked through "Tin of butter cookies" are all based on cookies made by Royal Dansk.
* The flavor text of "Eye of the wrinkler" ("Just a wrinkler and its will to survive. Hangin' tough, stayin' hungry.") is a reference to the song Eye Of The Tiger, made by the rock band Survivor. The song contains the line: "Just a man and his will to survive." and "Hanging tough, staying hungry."
* When "Kitten Angels" is bought, it shows as "Purrchased" instead of "Purchased".
* Ascension clears your [[Garden]] crops, but does not reset your seed log or garden size.
* The flavor text for "Kitten Wages" is a reference to the 'Cats Can Have Little a Salami' meme. The flavor text is a slightly altered version of the original meme; "Cats can have little a salami. Cats are expert hunters and have a keen sense of smell, especially in the case of meat."
*The flavor text for "If at first you don't succeed" is a reference to "Far Cry 3", where the secondary antagonist of the game Vaas Montenegro describes to the player the definiton of insanity being "Doing the same thing, over and over again, expecting shit to change", this line has also become popular in meme culture.
* The flavor text for the unshackled cortex bakers upgrade ("Nothing is real. Everything is permitted.") is a reference to the Assasins Creed's maxim and primary guideline: ("Nothing is true; everything is permitted").
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