Time Machine

Time Machine
Brings cookies from the past, before they were even eaten.
Initial Price	14 trillion
Base CpS	65 million /sec
Max CpS	65 million × 213 × 1.07 × (1 + Fr/1,000) × (1 + Fc/1,000) × (1 + S/1,000) × (1 + Pr/20) × (1 + G/1,000) /sec Where: Fr – number of Farms; Fc – number of Factories; S – number of Shipments; Pr – number of Prisms; G – number of Grandmas.
Introduction	Cookie Clicker Classic

The time machine is the twelfth building in Cookie Clicker. It initially costs 14 trillion cookies. Each time machine initially produces 65 million CpS by bringing cookies from the past before they were even eaten.

Achievements

Icon	Name	Description	ID
	Time warp	Have 1 time machine.	61
	Alternate timeline	Have 50 time machines.	62
	Rewriting history	Have 100 time machines.	63
	Time duke	Have 150 time machines.	121
	Forever and ever	Have 200 time machines.	156
	Heat death	Have 250 time machines.	219
	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	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

Grandmas' Grandma

Grandma's Grandma

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 was introduced in the 0.125 update. It 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.

Trivia

• The time machine's store icon is based on the Marie-Antoinette watch.
• 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, there are now two.
• A time machine is a fictional machine used in numerous works of Science Fiction; the revamped model loosely resembles the clockpunk designs used in films based on the novel The Time Machine.
• Until v2, when the prices and yields were readjusted to account for the new buildings, all of the base costs and yields associated with the time machine were made up of sequential numbers, counting forwards from 1 to 9, backwards from 9 to 1 or even from 9 down to 4 then up to 9 again.
• The "Flux Capacitor" upgrade, as well as its flavor text ("Bake to the future"), are references to the 80's classic film "Back to the Future."
• The "Quantum Conundrum" upgrade and its flavor text are a reference to the 2012 video game of the same name.
• The flavor text on the "Time Paradox Resolver" upgrade ("No more fooling around with your own grandmother") may be a reference to the show Futurama episode 51 ("Roswell that Ends Well") or to the famous grandfather paradox.
• 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 popular adult cartoon "Rick and Morty"
• The achievement "Heat Death" is a reference to a theory on how the universe might end. "Heat death" is the state of the universe once all available energy is at an equilibrium, such that effectively nothing can happen.
• The achievement "Time Warp" may be a reference to the song and dance of the same name from The Rocky Horror Show and, later, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• The achievement "Groundhog Day" is a reference to the 1993 movie of the same name.
• The achievement "The years start coming" is a reference to Smash Mouth's "All Star".
• The achievement "Invited to yesterday's party" may be a reference to the party theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking threw for time travelers. He only told everyone about it the day after he did it. His idea was that time travelers would show up on the party day, since no one else knew about it in that day.
• The achievement "Way back then" may possibly be a reference to the WayBack Machine.
  • However, it could be a reference to the popular Netflix show Squid Game, as YouTuber JX called the theme song "Way Back Then" when remixing it to sound like a Mega Man Zero game song.
  • This connection to Squid Game is unlikely as the show launched in late 2021, while the achievement was created in 2013.

Buildings
Cursor		Grandma		Farm		Mine		Factory
Bank		Temple		Wizard Tower		Shipment		Alchemy Lab
Portal		Time Machine		Antimatter Condenser		Prism		Chancemaker
Fractal Engine		Javascript Console		Idleverse		Cortex Baker		You
Buildings overview