Santa

Santa was first introduced during the Christmas (v1.04) update. Once A festive hat is purchased, an icon will appear under the Big Cookie reflecting Santa's current level. It can then be upgraded until Santa reaches his final form.

Santa's level has little impact on the game, but every time he is upgraded, a random upgrade is unlocked. One of them is Santa's legacy which will grant an additive boost of 3% to your cookie production for each level of Santa, up to 45%.

Santa's upgrades can be quite useful so once getting the season switcher it is recommended to use Christmas first.

Santa Stages[]

Name	Cost to upgrade	Cost of unlocked upgrades on this level
Festive test tube	25 (from purchasing "A festive hat" upgrade)	2,525
Festive ornament	1 (1¹)	7,575
Festive wreath	4 (2²)	22,725
Festive tree	27 (3³)	68,175
Festive present	256 (4⁴)	204,525
Festive elf fetus	3,125 (5⁵)	613,575
Elf toddler	46,656 (6⁶)	1.841 million
Elfling	823,543 (7⁷)	5.522 million
Young elf	16.777 million (8⁸)	15,567 million
Bulky elf	387.42 million (9⁹)	49.7 million
Nick	10 billion (10¹⁰)	149.099 million
Santa Claus	285.312 billion (11¹¹)	447.296 million
Elder Santa	8.916 trillion (12¹²)	1.342 billion
True Santa	302.875 trillion (13¹³)	4.026 billion
Final Claus	11.112 quadrillion (14¹⁴)	12.077 billion

Upgrades[]

Purchasing "A festive hat" or upgrading Santa's level to a stage that is not "Final Claus" will randomly unlock one of the other fourteen upgrades (excluding "Santa's dominion") below. Their price raises each time you upgrade Santa, starting with 2,525 cookies and tripling with every Santa level. Note that this also affects upgrades you unlocked previously but haven't purchased yet. Once Santa reaches his "Final Claus" form, "Santa's dominion" will be unlocked.

Santa upgrades
Name	Unlock condition	Base price	Description	ID
A festive hat	25 cookies baked during Christmas season	25	Unlocks... something. "Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."	152
Increased merriness	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3^S	Cookie production multiplier +15%. Cost scales with Santa level. "It turns out that the key to increased merriness, strangely enough, happens to be a good campfire and some s'mores. You know what they say, after all; the s'more, the merrier."	153
Improved jolliness	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3^S	Cookie production multiplier +15%. Cost scales with Santa level. "A nice wobbly belly goes a long way. You jolly?"	154
A lump of coal	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3^S	Cookie production multiplier +1%. Cost scales with Santa level. "Some of the world's worst stocking stuffing. I guess you could try starting your own little industrial revolution, or something?..."	155
An itchy sweater	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3^S	Cookie production multiplier +1%. Cost scales with Santa level. "You don't know what's worse : the embarrassingly quaint "elf on reindeer" motif, or the fact that wearing it makes you feel like you're wrapped in a dead sasquatch.	156
Reindeer baking grounds	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3^S	Reindeer appear twice as frequently. "Male reindeer are from Mars; female reindeer are from venison."	157
Weighted sleighs	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3^S	Reindeer are twice as slow. Cost scales with Santa level. "Hope it was worth the weight. (Something something forced into cervidude)"	158
Ho ho ho-flavored frosting	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3^S	Reindeer give twice as much. Cost scales with Santa level. "It's time to up the antler."	159
Season savings	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3^S	All buildings are 1% cheaper. Cost scales with Santa level. "By Santa's beard, what savings! But who will save us?"	160
Toy workshop	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3^S	All upgrades are 5% cheaper. ^{[note 1]} Cost scales with Santa level. "Watch yours-elf around elvesdroppers who might steal our production secrets. Or elven worse!"	161
Naughty list	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3^S	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
Santa's bottomless bag	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3^S	Random drops are 10% more common. Cost scales with Santa level. "This is one bottom you can't check out."	163
Santa's helpers	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3^S	Clicking is 10% more powerful. Cost scales with Santa level. "Some choose to help hamburger; some choose to help you. To each their own, I guess."	164
Santa's legacy	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3^S	Cookie production multiplier +3% per Santa's levels. Cost scales with Santa level. "In the north pole, you gotta get the elves first. Then when you get the elves, you start making the toys. Then when you get the toys... then you get the cookies."	165
Santa's milk and cookies	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3^S	Milk is 5% more powerful. Cost scales with Santa level. "Part of Santa's dreadfully unbalanced diet."	166
Santa's dominion	Reach the final stage of Santa	2.525 quadrillion	Cookie production multiplier +20%. All buildings are 1% cheaper. All upgrades are 2% cheaper. ^{[note 1]} "My name is Claus, king of kings; Look on my toys, ye Mighty, and despair!"	168

If you unlock all the upgrades above, you will get:

Cookie production ×235%
Milk increased by 5%
1.99% cheaper buildings
6.9% cheaper upgrades
10% more powerful clicking (in addition to cookie production multipliers)
Reindeer appear twice as frequently, give twice as many cookies and are twice as slow.
Random drops are more common
Grandmas are twice as productive

Notes[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Upgrades which lower the cost of upgrades stack multiplicatively, not additively. That is, if you have 3 of them which reduce the cost of upgrades by 5%, 2% and 1% then the final cost of an upgrade is (original cost) * 0.95 * 0.98 * 0.99.

Trivia[]

It costs approximately 14 quadrillion cookies to unlock and purchase everything for the season.
Nick is a reference to Saint Nicholas, a predecessor of Santa Claus.
'Final Claus' is likely a play on the term 'Final Clause,' or a 'Clause of Purpose,' a dependent adverbial clause expressing purpose.
'Final Claus' is vaguely similar to the final boss of Kirby's Dream Land 3, Zero, or Vaati Transfigured from The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap and The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords.
- The icon for Santa's dominion also loosely resembles the 2nd form for the final boss of Kirby's Dreamland 2 and the penultimate boss of Kirby's Dreamland 3, Dark Matter.
- 'Final Claus' himself also bears resemblance to the Daedric prince Hermaeus Mora from The Elder Scrolls series, more specifically Mora's depiction in The Elder Scrolls V: Dragonborn.
The description of Santa's dominion is a reference to the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem "Ozymandias".
The description of Santa's Legacy is a reference to the movie Scarface.
The description of Weighted Sleighs refers to Cervidae, the scientific name of the deer family.
The description of Weighted Sleighs may also refer to a popular Gabe Newell phrase: "Hopefully, it will have been worth the wait."
The sequence used for the Santa evolution prices has a name - the 'fz-n' sequence; for example, the last upgrade of Santa Claus would cost fzfourteen cookies. More information: Googology Wiki

Interactive Objects
	Big Cookie		Golden Cookie		Wrath Cookie
Wrinkler		Reindeer	Santa	Krumblor		Shiny wrinkler
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[cheapupgrades-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Upgrades which lower the cost of upgrades stack multiplicatively, not additively. That is, if you have 3 of them which reduce the cost of upgrades by 5%, 2% and 1% then the final cost of an upgrade is (original cost) * 0.95 * 0.98 * 0.99.

[note 1]