The Time Machine is a building added in the 0.125 update. It is the twelfth building in the game, costs 14 trillion cookies and produces 65 million CpS by recovering cookies from the past before they were even eaten.
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Have 300 time machines.
259
Way back then
Have 350 time machines.
290
Invited to yesterday's party
Have 400 time machines.
350
Groundhog day
Have 450 time machines.
363
The years start coming
Have 500 time machines.
409
Caveman to cosmos
Have 550 time machines.
485
Back already?
Have 600 time machines.
503
But the future refused to change
Have 650 time machines.
566
I only meant to stay a while
Have 700 time machines.
628
Spacetime jigamaroo
Make 100 sextillion cookies just from time machines.
142
Be kind, rewind
Make 1 nonillion cookies just from time machines.
200
Déjà vu
Make 10 undecillion cookies just from time machines.
304
The long now
Reach level 10 time machines.
318
Upgrades[]
Icon
Name
Unlock condition
Base price
Description
ID
Flux capacitors
Own 1 time machine
140 trillion
Time machines are twice as efficient. "Bake to the future."
28
Time paradox resolver
Own 5 time machines
700 trillion
Time machines are twice as efficient. "No more fooling around with your own grandmother!"
29
Quantum conundrum
Own 25 time machines
7 quadrillion
Time machines are twice as efficient. "There is only one constant, and that is universal uncertainty. Or is it?"
30
Causality enforcer
Own 50 time machines
700 quadrillion
Time machines are twice as efficient. "What happened, happened."
51
Yestermorrow comparators
Own 100 time machines
70 quintillion
Time machines are twice as efficient. "Fortnights into milleniums."
117
Far future enactment
Own 150 time machines
7 sextillion
Time machines are twice as efficient. "The far future enactment authorizes you to delve deep into the future - where civilization has fallen and risen again, and cookies are plentiful."
199
Great loop hypothesis
Own 200 time machines
7 septillion
Time machines are twice as efficient. "What if our universe is just one instance of an infinite cycle? What if, before and after it, stretched infinite amounts of the same universe, themselves containing infinite amounts of cookies?"
304
Cookietopian moments of maybe
Own 250 time machines
7 octillion
Time machines are twice as efficient. "Reminiscing how things could have been, should have been, will have been."
317
Second seconds
Own 300 time machines
7 nonillion
Time machines are twice as efficient. "That's twice as many seconds in the same amount of time! What a deal! Also, what in god's name!"
438
Additional clock hands
Own 350 time machines
7 decillion
Time machines are twice as efficient. "It seemed like a silly idea at first, but it turns out these have the strange ability to twist time in interesting new ways."
490
Nostalgia
Own 400 time machines
70 undecillion
Time machines are twice as efficient. "Your time machine technicians insist that this is some advanced new time travel tech, and not just an existing emotion universal to mankind. Either way, you have to admit that selling people the same old cookies just because it reminds them of the good old times is an interesting prospect."
516
Split seconds
Own 450 time machines
700 duodecillion
Time machines are twice as efficient. "Time is infinite, yes... But what if, nestled within each second, were even more infinities? Every moment an eternity! Think of how many scheduling troubles this solves!"
672
Patience abolished
Own 500 time machines
7 quattuordecillion
Time machines are twice as efficient. "You wait for no one."
710
Timeproof upholstery
Own 550 time machines
70 quindecillion
Time machines are twice as efficient. "Sometimes your time agents overshoot and end up having to fast-forward through the universe's entire history until they loop back to present time. It still takes a while, so they might as well travel in comfort and enjoy the show while they do."
753
Rectifying a mistake
Own 600 time machines
700 sexdecillion
Time machines are twice as efficient. "This whole time-travelling business has been a terrible mess and, frankly, far more trouble than was worth. It's decided: you'll hop in one of your time machines one last time, turn back the clock, knock on the door of your younger self and make a stern but convincing case against starting this entire nonsense in the first place. Oh hey, is someone at the door?"
850
Other Upgrades[]
Icon
Name
Unlock condition
Base price
Description
ID
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
Future almanacs
15 farms, 15 time machines and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased
2.8 quintillion
Farms gain +5% CpS per time machine. Time machines gain +0.1% CpS per farm. "Lets you predict optimal planting times. It's crazy what time travel can do!"
369
Temporal overclocking
75 factories, 75 time machines and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased
2.8 septillion
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
Relativistic parsec-skipping
15 shipments, 15 time machines and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased
2.81 quintillion
Shipments gain +5% CpS per time machine. Time machines gain +0.1% CpS per shipment. "People will tell you this isn't physically possible. These are people you don't want on your ship."
387
Primeval glow
75 prisms, 75 time machines and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased
448 septillion
Time machines gain +5% CpS per prism. Prisms gain +0.1% CpS per time machine. "From unending times, an ancient light still shines, impossibly pure and fragile in its old age."
388
Accelerated development
15 time machines, 15 you and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased
108 nonillion
Time machines gain +5% CpS per You. You gain +0.1% CpS per time machine. "Your clones may grow a little faster than your vanilla human being, but it's still a little silly having to wait so many years for them to reach a usable age. A quick trip in your time machines takes care of that; it doesn't technically age them faster, they're just sent to another point in time for a while where they live out a formative youth."
859
Fortune #012
Random fortune from news ticker
1.089 tredecillion
Time machines are 7% more efficient and 7% cheaper. "Do your future self a favor; they'll thank you for it."
632
Unshackled time machines (heavenly upgrade)
"Unshackled portals" purchased
537.477 trillion
Tiered upgrades for Time machines provide an extra +90% production. Only works with unshackled upgrade tiers. "All the time in the world."
779
In Cookie Clicker Classic[]
Two images from the Classic version, left: icon shown in the store, right: appearance in the middle field
The time machine costs 123,456,789 cookies, and is the most expensive of all the items, at their base levels. It produces 123,456 cookies per 5 seconds.
Adding 24,691.2 CpS (cookies per second), it is approximately 18.5203 times quicker than the Portal. It also makes some grandmas wear a pink jumpsuit with a visor, a hoverboard, and a green rolling pin, making some players assume that these grandmas came from the future.
Gallery[]
Background
Grandma's Grandma
Trivia[]
Since the full release of Cookie Clicker, the time machine was the only building to have a store icon completely different from its appearance in the buildings overview. With the release of the Javascript Console as well as You there are now three.
Until v2, when the prices and yields were adjusted to account for the new buildings, all of the base costs and yields associated with the time machine were made up of sequential numbers just like Cookie Clicker Classic. Counting forwards from 1 to 9, backwards from 9 to 1 or even from 9 down to 4 then up to 9 again.
The upgrade "cookie clicker forever and forever a hundred years cookie clicker, all day long forever, forever a hundred times, over and over cookie clicker adventures dot com" is one of the few achievement/upgrade titles in the game to not start with a capital character.
References[]
The time machine's store icon is based on the Marie-Antoinette watch.
The time machine model since 1.0 update loosely resembles the clockpunk designs used in films based on the novel The Time Machine.
The background of this building in the building overview was likely inspired by the time machine sequences in the media franchise Doraemon.
The achievement "cookie clicker forever and forever a hundred years cookie clicker, all day long forever, forever a hundred times, over and over cookie clicker adventures dot com" is a reference to the adult cartoon series Rick and Morty.
The achievement "Invited to yesterday's party" may be a reference to an experiment performed by physicist Stephen Hawking where he held a party but only gave out invitations after the party had ended, so only time travelers could attend.
The achievement "Groundhog day" is a reference to the 1993 time-travel movie Groundhog Day.
The achievement "The years start coming" is a reference to the song "All Star" by Smash Mouth.
The achievement "Cavemen to cosmos" is a reference to a popular mod for Civilization IV.
The achievement "But the future refused to change" is a reference to the 1995 video game Chrono Trigger.
The achievement "Be kind, rewind" is a reference to the identical phrase that refers to rewinding VHS tapes.
The "Flux capacitors" upgrade and its flavor text ("Bake to the future.") are references to the 1985 time-travel film Back to the Future.
The flavor text for the "Time paradox resolver" upgrade ("No more fooling around with your own grandmother!") may be a reference to episode 51 of the show Futurama or to the more general grandfather paradox.
The "Quantum conundrum" upgrade and its flavor text are a reference to the 2012 video game of the same name.
The "Timeproof upholstery" upgrade and its flavor text are likely a reference to episode 97 of the show Futurama, as well as the cyclic model of the universe.