The Factory is the fifth building in the game, costs 130 thousand cookies and produces 260 CpS by mass-producing them. The beta test minigame Dungeons is available with Factories.
Achievements[]
| Icon | Name | Description | ID |
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Production chain | Have 1 factory. | 46 |
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Industrial revolution | Have 50 factories. | 47 |
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Global warming | Have 100 factories. | 48 |
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Ultimate automation | Have 150 factories. | 116 |
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Technocracy | Have 200 factories. | 151 |
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Rise of the machines | Have 250 factories. | 212 |
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Modern times | Have 300 factories. | 252 |
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Ex machina | Have 350 factories. | 283 |
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In full gear | Have 400 factories. | 343 |
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In-cog-neato | Have 450 factories. | 356 |
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Break the mold | Have 500 factories. | 402 |
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Self-manmade man | Have 550 factories. | 478 |
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The wheels of progress | Have 600 factories. | 496 |
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Replaced by robots | Have 650 factories. | 559 |
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Bots build bots | Have 700 factories. | 621 |
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The incredible machine | Make 10 quadrillion cookies just from factories. | 138 |
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Yes I love technology | Make 100 sextillion cookies just from factories. | 193 |
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Labor of love | Make 1 nonillion cookies just from factories. | 297 |
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Patently genius | Reach level 10 factories. | 311 |
Upgrades[]
| Icon | Name | Unlock condition | Base price | Description | ID |
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Sturdier conveyor belts | Own 1 factory |  1.3 million
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Factories are twice as efficient. "You're going places." |
13 |
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Child labor | Own 5 factories | 6.5 million
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Factories are twice as efficient. "Cheaper, healthier workforce." |
14 |
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Sweatshop | Own 25 factories | 65 million
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Factories are twice as efficient. "Slackers will be terminated." |
15 |
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Radium reactors | Own 50 factories | 6.5 billion
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Factories are twice as efficient. "Gives your cookies a healthy glow." |
46 |
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Recombobulators | Own 100 factories | 650 billion
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Factories are twice as efficient. "A major part of cookie recombobulation." |
112 |
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Deep-bake process | Own 150 factories | 65 trillion
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Factories are twice as efficient. "A patented process increasing cookie yield two-fold for the same amount of ingredients. Don't ask how, don't take pictures, and be sure to wear your protective suit." |
194 |
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Cyborg workforce | Own 200 factories | 65 quadrillion
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Factories are twice as efficient. "Semi-synthetic organisms don't slack off, don't unionize, and have 20% shorter lunch breaks, making them ideal labor fodder." |
297 |
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78-hour days | Own 250 factories | 65 quintillion
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Factories are twice as efficient. "Why didn't we think of this earlier?" |
310 |
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Machine learning | Own 300 factories | 65 sextillion
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Factories are twice as efficient. "You figured you might get better productivity if you actually told your workers to learn how to work the machines. Sometimes, it's the little things..." |
431 |
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Brownie point system | Own 350 factories | 65 septillion
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Factories are twice as efficient. "Oh, these are lovely! You can now reward your factory employees for good behavior, such as working overtime or snitching on coworkers. 58 brownie points gets you a little picture of a brownie, and 178 of those pictures gets you an actual brownie piece for you to do with as you please! Infantilizing? Maybe. Oodles of fun? You betcha!" |
483 |
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"Volunteer" interns | Own 400 factories | 650 octillion
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Factories are twice as efficient. "If you're bad at something, always do it for free." |
509 |
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Behavioral reframing | Own 450 factories | 6.5 decillion
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Factories are twice as efficient. "Through careful social engineering you've convinced your workers that "union" is a slur that only the most vile and repugnant filth among us would ever dare utter! Sometimes progress isn't in the big machines, it's in the little lies!" |
665 |
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The infinity engine | Own 500 factories | 65 undecillion
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Factories are twice as efficient. "In this house, I guess we don't care much for the laws of thermodynamics." |
703 |
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N-dimensional assembly lines | Own 550 factories | 650 duodecillion
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Factories are twice as efficient. "Lines are depressingly 1-dimensional. Beyond assembly lines, we posit the existence of higher-order assembly entities, such as assembly squares, assembly cubes - perhaps even assembly tesseracts. Any deeper than that and we doubt we'll be able to write manuals your workers can read." |
746 |
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Universal automation | Own 600 factories | 6.5 quattuordecillion
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Factories are twice as efficient. "It's simple common sense; the more automation, the less work you have to do! Maybe one day you'll even automate yourself out of your own job. Exciting!" |
843 |
Other Upgrades[]
| Icon | Name | Unlock condition | Base price | Description | ID |
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Worker grandmas | 15 factories and 1 grandma owned | 6.5 million
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Grandmas are twice as efficient. Factories gain +1% CpS per 3 grandmas. "A nice worker to manufacture more cookies." |
59 |
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Quantum electronics | 15 factories, 15 antimatter condensers and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased | 34 quintillion
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Factories gain +5% CpS per antimatter condenser. Antimatter condensers gain +0.1% CpS per factory. "Your machines won't even be sure if they're on or off!" |
373 |
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Temporal overclocking | 75 factories, 75 time machines and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased | 2.8 septillion
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Factories gain +5% CpS per time machine. Time machines gain +0.1% CpS per factory. "Introduce more quickitude in your system for increased speedation of fastness." |
374 |
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Printing presses | 75 banks, 75 factories and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased | 540 quadrillion
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Factories gain +5% CpS per bank. Banks gain +0.1% CpS per factory. "Fake bills so real, they're almost worth the ink they're printed with." |
376 |
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Shipyards | 75 factories, 75 shipments and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased | 1.02 sextillion
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Factories gain +5% CpS per shipment. Shipments gain +0.1% CpS per factory. "Where carpentry, blind luck, and asbestos insulation unite to produce the most dazzling spaceships on the planet." |
382 |
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Fortune #005 | Random fortune from news ticker | 10.111 decillion
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Factories are 7% more efficient and 7% cheaper. "True worth is not in what you find, but in what you make." |
625 |
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Unshackled factories (heavenly upgrade) |
"Unshackled mines" purchased |  1.172 trillion
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Tiered upgrades for Factories provide an extra +160% production. Only works with unshackled upgrade tiers. "Nothing to lose but your production chains." |
772 |
In Cookie Clicker Classic[]
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The Factory is the third-cheapest item you can purchase. It will give you 20 cookies every 5 seconds. It costs 500 cookies to start and will increase by 10% each consecutive purchase.
Purchasing your first factory increases Grandma output by +1 Cookie per 5 seconds. It will also cause some grandmas to wear blue work suits and yellow hard hats.
Gallery[]
Background
Worker Grandma
Trivia[]
- The flavor text of "Universal automation" could potentially reference the final building.
- When you have 50 factories on the beta (v.1.037 beta), you unlock Dungeons.
- Factories will be the first buildings to have their dungeons. There used to be a plan for a few buildings to have their own dungeon as their minigame as well. However, this plan have long since changed and each building will get its unique minigame.
- In Cookie Clicker Classic, the mines were unlocked after the factories, but in cookie clicker update 1.0 this was changed the other way around.
References[]
- The achievement "The incredible machine" likely refers to the series with the same name.
- It could also refer to the Incredible Machine, the giant "Gigaremo" unit from Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almnia.
- The achievement "Rise of the machines" is a reference to movie Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
- The achievement "Break the mold" is a reference to the song "All Star" by Smash Mouth.
- The "Volunteer" Intern's flavor text likely references the following quote from DC character the Joker: "If you're good at something, never do it for free".
