The Temple is a building added in the legacyupdate. It is the seventh building, cost 20 million cookies and produces 7,800 CpS by discovering cookies in the temple.
Temples are twice as efficient. "Lure even greedier adventurers to retrieve your cookies. Now that's a real idol game!"
238
Sacrifices
Own 5 temples
1 billion
Temples are twice as efficient. "What's a life to a gigaton of cookies?"
239
Delicious blessing
Own 25 temples
10 billion
Temples are twice as efficient. "And lo, the Baker's almighty spoon came down and distributed holy gifts unto the believers - shimmering sugar, and chocolate dark as night, and all manner of wheats. And boy let me tell you, that party was mighty gnarly."
240
Sun festival
Own 50 temples
1 trillion
Temples are twice as efficient. "Free the primordial powers of your temples with these annual celebrations involving fire-breathers, traditional dancing, ritual beheadings and other merriments!"
241
Enlarged pantheon
Own 100 temples
100 trillion
Temples are twice as efficient. "Enough spiritual inadequacy! More divinities than you'll ever need, or your money back! 100% guaranteed!"
242
Great Baker in the sky
Own 150 temples
10 quadrillion
Temples are twice as efficient. "This is it. The ultimate deity has finally cast Their sublimely divine eye upon your operation; whether this is a good thing or possibly the end of days is something you should find out very soon."
243
Creation myth
Own 200 temples
10 quintillion
Temples are twice as efficient. "Stories have been circulating about the origins of the very first cookie that was ever baked; tales of how it all began, in the Dough beyond time and the Ovens of destiny."
299
Theocracy
Own 250 temples
10 sextillion
Temples are twice as efficient. "You've turned your cookie empire into a perfect theocracy, gathering the adoration of zillions of followers from every corner of the universe. Don't let it go to your head."
312
Sick rap prayers
Own 300 temples
10 septillion
Temples are twice as efficient. "With their ill beat and radical rhymes, these way-hip religious tunes are sure to get all the youngins who thought they were 2 cool 4 church back on the pews and praying for more! Wicked!"
433
Psalm-reading
Own 350 temples
10 octillion
Temples are twice as efficient. "A theologically dubious and possibly blasphemous blend of fortune-telling and scripture studies."
485
War of the gods
Own 400 temples
100 nonillion
Temples are twice as efficient. "An interesting game; the only winning move is not to pray."
511
A novel idea
Own 450 temples
1 undecillion
Temples are twice as efficient. "You don't get rich starting a religion. If you want to get rich, you write science fiction."
667
Apparitions
Own 500 temples
10 duodecillion
Temples are twice as efficient. "You've booked a deal with the higher-ups that schedules one weekly earthly apparition by a deity, angel, ascended prophet, or other holy figure. This should boost interest in cookie religion among youths as long as you can secure a decent time slot."
705
Negatheism
Own 550 temples
100 tredecillion
Temples are twice as efficient. "Polytheism is a belief in multiple deities; monotheism in just one. Atheism is a belief in no deity whatsoever. Through logical succession it follows that this remains true when going into negative numbers, with belief systems involving minus 1 or more deities displaying unprecedented theological properties."
748
Temple traps
Own 600 temples
1 quindecillion
Temples are twice as efficient. "You've laid out your temples with (metaphorical) pitfalls, forcing adventurers to navigate through trappings (of power and wealth), ensuring that only the most pious (and poison dart-resistant) of them return with your precious cookies. These temples may be veritable mazes (of the soul) but perhaps you've lost yourself a little bit in the analogy too."
845
Other Upgrades[]
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Name
Unlock condition
Base price
Description
ID
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
Rain prayer
75 farms, 75 temples and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased
4.002 quintillion
Farms gain +5% CpS per temple. Temples gain +0.1% CpS per farm. "A deeply spiritual ceremonial involving complicated dance moves and high-tech cloud-busting lasers."
370
Paganism
15 temples, 15 portals and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased
200.04 quadrillion
Temples gain +5% CpS per portal. Portals gain +0.1% CpS per temple. "Some deities are better left unworshipped."
377
God particle
75 temples, 75 antimatter condensers and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased
34 septillion
Temples gain +5% CpS per antimatter condenser. Antimatter condensers gain +0.1% CpS per temple. "Turns out God is much tinier than we thought, I guess."
378
Mystical energies
75 temples, 75 prisms and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased
420 septillion
Temples gain +5% CpS per prism. Prisms gain +0.1% CpS per temple. "Something beckons from within the light. It is warm, comforting, and apparently the cause for several kinds of exotic skin cancers."
392
Thoughts & prayers
15 temples, 15 cortex bakers and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased
380 octillion
Temples gain +5% CpS per cortex baker. Cortex bakers gain +0.1% CpS per temple. "The notion of sacredness arises in most sentient evolved brains and may benefit the development of cognition via abstract thought. This mechanism, however, is absent in designed minds such as your cortex bakers; this process attempts to add it back. Just make sure to keep them in check - you really don't want these things to develop organized religion."
761
Fortune #007
Random fortune from news ticker
1.556 undecillion
Temples are 7% more efficient and 7% cheaper. "Not all guides deserve worship."
627
Unshackled temples (heavenly upgrade)
"Unshackled banks" purchased
12.353 trillion
Tiered upgrades for Temples provide an extra +140% production. Only works with unshackled upgrade tiers. "You can make a religion out of this."
774
Gallery[]
Background
Priestess Grandma
Trivia[]
References[]
The achievement "Church of cookiology" is a reference to the real world Church of Scientology. Additionally, the flavour text of the upgrade "A novel idea" is a reference to the truth that Church of Scientology is founded by a science fiction writer.
The achievement "Wololo" is a reference to Age Of Empires, wherein priests would attack by converting enemy units whilst chanting the aforementioned phrase.
The upgrade "Golden idols" is a reference to Indiana Jones and The Lost Ark, where the main protagonist attempts to retrieve a golden idol from a temple filled with traps.
The achievement "My world's on fire, how about yours" is a reference to the song All Star.
The achievement "It belongs in a bakery" is a reference to Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade where Indiana Jones states "That belongs in a museum" while reclaiming the Cross of Coronado from 'Panama Hat'.
The achievement "New world order" is a reference to the conspiracy theory of the same name.
The achievement "And I will pray to a big god" is a reference to the Peter Gabriel song Big Time
The flavor text for the "Unshackled temples" heavenly upgrade is a reference to Bill Wurtz's "history of the entire world, i guess," in which he uses the quote multiple times when describing the origins of various religions.