The Time Machine is the twelfth building in Cookie Clicker. It initially costs 14 trillion cookies. Its base Cps is 65 million per second.
Achievements
Upgrades
Other Upgrades
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|Grandmas' grandmas
|15 time machines and 1 grandma owned
|data-sort-value="7E14"| 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
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|Future almanacs
|15 farms, 15 time machines and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased
|data-sort-value="2.8E18"| 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
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|Temporal overclocking
|75 factories, 75 time machines and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased
|data-sort-value="2.8E24"| 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
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|Relativistic parsec-skipping
|15 shipments, 15 time machines and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased
|data-sort-value="2.81E18"| 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
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|Primeval glow
|75 prisms, 75 time machines and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased
|data-sort-value="4.48E26"| 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
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|Accelerated development
|15 time machines, 15 you and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased
|data-sort-value="1.08E32"| 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
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|Fortune #012
|Random fortune from news ticker
|data-sort-value="1.089E42"| 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
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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, leading the assumption that these grandmas came from the future.
Trivia
- The time machine's store icon is based on the Marie-Antoniette 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 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 "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".