Grandma

Grandma
A nice grandma to bake more cookies.
Initial Price	100
Base CpS	1 /sec
Max CpS	211 × 214 × 2 × 23 × 1.02 × (1 + G/25 + Po/20) × (1 + (N - G)/100) /sec Where: G – number of Grandmas; Po – number of Portals; N – total number of buildings.
Introduction	Cookie Clicker Classic

For the same building in Cookie Clicker Classic, see Grandma (Cookie Clicker Classic).

The Grandma is the main antagonist of Cookie Clicker Classic and the 1.0 Update, and the second cheapest building you can purchase with an initial cost of 100 cookies. She produces cookies at a base rate of 1 cookie per second.

Unlike the Cursor and Farm, Grandmas progress with later buildings very well with the grandma type upgrades, most of which double its efficiency but require 15 or more of a superior building to purchase, and sometimes can be quite expensive, up to 15,500,000,000,000,000,000 cookies for Metagrandmas. After all upgrades, each grandma has a CpS of 104857.6 cookies per second herself, not counting the bonuses from One mind, Communal Brainsweep, and Elder Pact.

Once you have unlocked 7 grandmas, you unlock the Bingo Center/Research Facility, which (as of 1.036) is currently the only upgrade to make a building four times as efficient, although its price of 1,000,000,000,000,000 cookies means it'll be a while until it's worth the cost. This will unlock a new upgrade after 30 minutes (research only starting once the last item researched is purchased), including five multiplier upgrades (Specialized Chocolate Chips for +1% and costing 100,000,000,000 cookies, Designer Cocoa Beans for +2% and costing 200,000,000,000 cookies, Underworld Ovens for +3% and costing 800,000,000,000 cookies, Exotic Nuts for +4% and costing 3,200,000,000,000 cookies, and Arcane Sugar for +5% and costing 12,800,000,000,000 cookies), one upgrade to double Grandma efficiency (Ritual Rolling Pins for 400,000,000,000 cookies), and three upgrades to greatly increase Grandma output but start the Grandmapocalypse (One Mind for 1,600,000,000,000 cookies and Communal Brainsweep for 6,400,000,000,000 cookies, which each give each grandma +0.02 base CpS per grandma, and Elder Pact for 25,600,000,000,000 cookies which gives each grandma +0.05 base CpS per portal. After all the doubling upgrades those figures are a LOT higher than that.)

In theory, fully upgraded Grandmas are the most efficient building a player can buy because they have a CpS based on the number of Grandmas purchased. That is, the Grandma's CpS rate increases as a square where other CpS rates increase linearly. However, the crossover point where Grandmas outperform the best other building, the Chancemaker, requires purchasing so many grandmas that it is impossible even via cheating, since the price would be much higher than JavaScript (which Cookie Clicker is written in) can store.

Achievements

Building Achievements

Grandma achievements 

Icon	Name	Description	ID
	Just wrong	Sell a grandma. "I thought you loved me."	39
	Elder	Own at least 7 grandma types.	81
	Veteran	Own at least 14 grandma types. "14's a crowd!"	431
	The elder scrolls	Own a combined 777 grandmas and cursors. "Let me guess. Someone stole your cookie."	248
	Grandma's cookies	Have 1 grandma.	40
	Sloppy kisses	Have 50 grandmas.	41
	Retirement home	Have 100 grandmas.	42
	Friend of the ancients	Have 150 grandmas.	101
	Ruler of the ancients	Have 200 grandmas.	102
	The old never bothered me anyway	Have 250 grandmas.	149
	The agemaster	Have 300 grandmas.	208
	To oldly go	Have 350 grandmas.	209
	Aged well	Have 400 grandmas.	338
	101st birthday	Have 450 grandmas.	339
	But wait 'til you get older	Have 500 grandmas.	340
	Defense of the ancients	Have 550 grandmas.	399
	Okay boomer	Have 600 grandmas.	475
	They moistly come at night	Have 650 grandmas.	556
	And now you're even older	Have 700 grandmas.	618
	Gushing grannies	Make 10 quintillion cookies just from grandmas.	135
	Panic at the bingo	Make 100 septillion cookies just from grandmas.	190
	Frantiquities	Make 1 decillion cookies just from grandmas.	294
	Methuselah	Reach level 10 grandmas.	308

Grandmapocalypse Achievements

Grandmapocalypse achievements 

Icon	Name	Description	ID
	Elder nap	Appease the grandmatriarchs at least once. "we are eternal"	79
	Elder slumber	Appease the grandmatriarchs at least 5 times. "our mind outlives the universe"	80
	Elder calm	Declare a covenant with the grandmatriarchs. "we have fed"	82

Upgrades

Basic Upgrades

Grandma upgrades 

Icon	Name	Unlock condition	Base price	Description	ID
	Forwards from grandma	Own 1 grandma	1,000	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "RE:RE:thought you'd get a kick out of this ;))"	7
	Steel-plated rolling pins	Own 5 grandmas	5,000	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "Just what you kneaded."	8
	Lubricated dentures	Own 25 grandmas	50,000	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "squish"	9
	Prune juice	Own 50 grandmas	5 million	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "Gets me going."	44
	Double-thick glasses	Own 100 grandmas	500 million	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "Oh... so THAT's what I've been baking."	110
	Aging agents	Own 150 grandmas	50 billion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "Counter-intuitively, grandmas have the uncanny ability to become more powerful the older they get."	192
	Xtreme walkers	Own 200 grandmas	50 trillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "Complete with flame decals and a little horn that goes "toot"."	294
	The Unbridling	Own 250 grandmas	50 quadrillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "It might be a classic tale of bad parenting, but let's see where grandma is going with this."	307
	Reverse dementia	Own 300 grandmas	50 quintillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "Extremely unsettling, and somehow even worse than the regular kind."	428
	Timeproof hair dyes	Own 350 grandmas	50 sextillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "Why do they always have those strange wispy pink dos? What do they know about candy floss that we don't?"	480
	Good manners	Own 400 grandmas	500 septillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "Apparently these ladies are much more amiable if you take the time to learn their strange, ancient customs, which seem to involve saying "please" and "thank you" and staring at the sun with bulging eyes while muttering eldritch curses under your breath."	506
	Generation degeneration	Own 450 grandmas	5 nonillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "Genetic testing shows that most of your grandmas are infected with a strange degenerative disease that only seems to further their powers; the more time passes, the older they get. This should concern you."	662
	Visits	Own 500 grandmas	50 decillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "In an extensive double-blind study (sample size: 12 millions), your researchers have found evidence that grandmas are up to twice as productive if you just come by and say hi once in a while. It's nice to check up on your grans! (Do not under any circumstances ingest any tea or tea-like substances the grandmas may offer you.)."	700
	Kitchen cabinets	Own 550 grandmas	500 undecillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "A grandma's kitchen cabinet is a befuddling place. Through lesser-studied aggregating instincts, grandmas will tend to gradually fill all nearby cabinets with various sorts of things, such as curious coconut snacks or dietetic powders. By contract, these are legally yours, which opens up exciting opportunities for your substance investigation department."	743
	Foam-tipped canes	Own 600 grandmas	5 tredecillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "Perhaps the result of prolonged service, your grandmas have developed all kinds of odd and aggressive hierarchies among themselves; these will help them not hurt each other as bad during their endless turf wars."	840

Grandma Types

Grandma types 

Icon	Name	Unlock condition	Base price	Description	ID
	Farmer grandmas	15 farms and 1 grandma owned	55,000	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Farms gain +1% CpS per grandma. "A nice farmer to grow more cookies."	57
	Miner grandmas	15 mines and 1 grandma owned	600,000	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Mines gain +1% CpS per 2 grandmas. "A nice miner to dig more cookies."	58
	Worker grandmas	15 factories and 1 grandma owned	6.5 million	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Factories gain +1% CpS per 3 grandmas. "A nice worker to manufacture more cookies."	59
	Banker grandmas	15 banks and 1 grandma owned	70 million	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Banks gain +1% CpS per 4 grandmas "A nice banker to cash in more cookies"	250
	Priestess grandmas	15 temples and 1 grandma owned	1 billion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Temples gain +1% CpS per 5 grandmas. "A nice priestess to praise the great Baker in the sky."	251
	Witch grandmas	15 wizard towers and 1 grandma owned	16.5 billion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Wizard towers gain +1% CpS per 6 grandmas. "A nice witch to cast a zip, and a zoop, and poof! Cookies."	252
	Cosmic grandmas	15 shipments and 1 grandma owned	255 billion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Shipments gain +1% CpS per 7 grandmas. "A nice thing to... uh... cookies."	60
	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
	Altered grandmas	15 portals and 1 grandma owned	50 trillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Portals gain +1% CpS per 9 grandmas. "a NiCe GrAnDmA tO bA##########"	62
	Grandmas' grandmas	15 time machines and 1 grandma owned	700 trillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Time machines gain +1% CpS per 10 grandmas. "A nice grandma's nice grandma to bake double the cookies."	63
	Antigrandmas	15 antimatter condensers and 1 grandma owned	8.5 quadrillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Antimatter condensers gain +1% CpS per 11 grandmas. "A mean antigrandma to vomit more cookies. (Do not put in contact with normal grandmas; loss of matter may occur.)"	103
	Rainbow grandmas	15 prisms and 1 grandma owned	105 quadrillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Prisms gain +1% CpS per 12 grandmas. "A luminous grandma to sparkle into cookies."	180
	Lucky grandmas	15 chancemakers and 1 grandma owned	1.3 quintillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Chancemakers gain +1% CpS per 13 grandmas. "A fortunate grandma that always seems to find more cookies."	415
	Metagrandmas	15 fractal engines and 1 grandma owned	15.5 quintillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Fractal engines gain +1% CpS per 14 grandmas. "A fractal grandma to make more grandmas to make more cookies."	521
	Binary grandmas	15 javascript consoles and 1 grandma owned	3.55 sextillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Javascript consoles gain +1% CpS per 15 grandmas. "A digital grandma to transfer more cookies. (See also : boolean grandmas, string grandmas, and not-a-number grandmas, also known as "NaNs".)"	593
	Alternate grandmas	15 idleverses and 1 grandma owned	600 sextillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Idleverses gain +1% CpS per 16 grandmas. "A different grandma to bake something else."	683
	Brainy grandmas	15 cortex bakers and 1 grandma owned	95 septillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. Cortex bakers gain +1% CpS per 17 grandmas. "A clever grandma to think up some cookies."	729
	Clone grandmas	15 You and 1 grandma owned	27 octillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. You gain +1% CpS per 18 grandmas. "Yet another grandma to replicate even more cookies."	825

Since the 1.032 update, grandmas now have varying appearances based off the above type upgrades, as well as two seasonal grandma types for Easter and Christmas.

Grandma's different appearances

Normal Grandma

Farmer Grandma

Worker Grandma

Miner Grandma

Banker Grandma

Priestess Grandma

Witch Grandma

Cosmic Grandma

Transmuted Grandma

Altered Grandma

Grandma's Grandma

Antigrandma

Rainbow Grandma

Lucky Grandma

Metagrandma

Christmas Grandma

Bunny Grandma

Other Upgrades

Grandmas have a specific Santa upgrade, and synergize with one of the Garden cookies.

Santa upgrades 

Icon	Name	Unlock condition	Base price	Description	ID
	Naughty list	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3S	Grandmas are twice as productive. Cost scales with Santa level. "This list contains every unholy deed perpetuated by grandmakind. He won't be checking this one twice. Once. Once is enough."	162

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The Bingo Center/Research Facility can also unlock new upgrades for grandma. Although these upgrades can make grandmas more powerful, they would unlock the Grandmapocalypse as well. The following is a list of all upgrades for Grandma, unlocked in the Bingo Center/Research Facility. Once the Bingo Center is purchased, the first research project will be completed 30 minutes later. Once a research project is completed, research is halted until the resulting upgrade is purchased, which starts the 30 minute timer for the next project.

Research upgrades 

Icon	Name	Unlock condition	Base price	Description	ID
	Bingo center/Research facility	"Elder" achievement earned At least 6 grandmas owned	1 quadrillion	Grandma-operated science lab and leisure club. Grandmas are 4 times as efficient. Regularly unlocks new upgrades. "What could possibly keep those grandmothers in check?... Bingo."	64
	Ritual rolling pins	3rd research project completed	4 quadrillion	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "The result of years of scientific research!"	67
	One mind	5th research project completed	16 quadrillion	Each grandma gains +0.02 base Cps per grandma. Note: the grandmothers are growing restless. Do not encourage them. "We are one. We are many."	69
	Communal brainsweep	7th research project completed	64 quadrillion	Each grandma gains another +0.02 base Cps per grandma. Note: proceeding any further in scientific research may have unexpected results. You have been warned. "We fuse. We merge. We grow."	71
	Elder Pact	9th research project completed	256 quadrillion	Each grandma gains +0.05 base CpS per portal. Note: this is a bad idea. "squirm crawl slither writhe today we rise"	73

Changes During Grandmapocalypse

Main article: Grandmapocalypse

Background Changes

Stage 1

Stage 2

Final Stage

Changes from one stage to another can be obtained by the One Mind, Communal Brainsweep and Elder Pact upgrade. Once they're appeased, the background will change back to normal temporarily. When the Grandmatriarchs are appeased, the store icon will change back to normal.

Store Icon Changes

Since version 1.0393, the store icon for Grandmas will change from the regular version to different ones, depending on the state of the Grandmapocalypse.