Upgrades

File:AllUpgrades.png

All upgrades unlocked. Version 1.034

Upgrades are game mechanisms introduced in the 1.0 Update. Upgrades are additional items within the game that cost cookies to unlock. Once unlocked, each upgrade will provide a special boost to cookie production, which is permanent and does not need to be purchased again (except Elder Covenant and its "Revoke..." counterpart).

Each cookie producing building except the Cursor and Grandma has four upgrades associated with it, two of which are available after a single item of that class has been bought, the third of which is available after 10 of the item have been purchased, and the last of which is available after 50 purchased. The Cursor has eight upgrades, and its last upgrade is available after 200 of them have been purchased. The Grandma has 4 upgrades, in addition to one for each superior building, equalling a total of 11. the grandma's 'variant' upgrades are unlocked when 15 of that variant's building have been built. for example, the farmer variant is unlocked by owning 15 farms, and so on...

Upgrades for Buildings

Cursor

Icon	Name	Quantity Needed	Price (cookies)	Description
File:WhiteCursor.png	Reinforced index finger	1	100	The mouse gains +1 cookie per click. Cursors gain +0.1 base CpS.
File:WhiteCursor.png	Carpal tunnel prevention cream		400	The mouse and cursors are twice as efficient.
File:DoubleCursor.png	Ambidextrous?	10	10,000	The mouse and cursors are twice as efficient. "Look ma, both hands!"
File:DoubleCursor.png	Thousand fingers	20	500,000	The mouse and cursors gain +0.1 cookies for each non-cursor object owned. "clickity"
File:TripleCursor.png	Million fingers	40	50,000,000	The mouse and cursors gain +0.5 cookies for each non-cursor object owned. "clickityclickity"
File:GoldCursors.png	Billion fingers	80	500,000,000	The mouse and cursors gain +2 cookies for each non-cursor object owned. "clickityclickityclickity"
File:PinkCursors.png	Trillion fingers	120	5,000,000,000	The mouse and cursors gain +10 cookies for each non-cursor object owned. "clickityclickityclickityclickity"
File:PinkCursors.png	Quadrillion fingers	160	50,000,000,000	The mouse and cursors gain +20 cookies for each non-cursor object owned. "clickityclickityclickityclickityclick"
File:PinkCursors.png	Quintillion fingers	200	50,000,000,000,000	The mouse and cursors gain +100 cookies for each non-cursor object owned. "man, just go click click click click click, it’s real easy, man."

Grandma

Icon	Name	Quantity Needed	Price (cookies)	Description
File:RollingPin.png	Forwards from grandma	1	1,000	Grandmas gain +0.3 base CpS. "RE:RE:thought you'd get a kick out of this ;))"
File:RollingPin.png	Steel-plated rolling pins		10,000	Grandmas are twice as efficient.
File:GoldRollingPin.png	Lubricated dentures	10	100,000	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "Squish"
File:PinkRollingPin.png	Prune juice	50	1,000,000	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "Gets me going."
File:GrandmaAchieve.png	Farmer grandmas	15 farms	50,000	Grandmas are twice as efficient.
File:GrandmaAchieve.png	Worker grandmas	15 factories	300,000	Grandmas are twice as efficient.
File:GrandmaAchieve.png	Miner grandmas	15 mines	1,000,000	Grandmas are twice as efficient.
File:GrandmaAchieve.png	Cosmic grandmas	15 shipments	4,000,000	Grandmas are twice as efficient.
File:GrandmaAchieve.png	Transmuted grandmas	15 alchemy labs	20,000,000	Grandmas are twice as efficient.
File:GrandmaAchieve.png	Altered grandmas	15 portals	166,666,600	Grandmas are twice as efficient.
File:GrandmaAchieve.png	Grandmas' grandmas	15 time machines	12,345,678,900	Grandmas are twice as efficient.

Farm

Icon	Name	Quantity Needed	Price (cookies)	Description
File:GreenWateringCan.png	Cheap hoes	1	5,000	Farms gain +0.5 base CpS.
File:GreenWateringCan.png	Fertilizer		50,000	Farms are twice as efficient. "It's chocolate, I swear."
File:GoldWateringCan.png	Cookie trees	10	500,000	Farms are twice as efficient. "A relative of the breadfruit."
File:PinkWateringCan.png	Genetically-modified cookies	50	5,000,000	Farms are twice as efficient. "All-natural mutations."

Factory

Icon	Name	Quantity Needed	Price (cookies)	Description
File:BlueGears.png	Sturdier conveyor belts	1	30,000	Factories gain +4 base CpS.
File:BlueGears.png	Child labor		300,000	Factories are twice as efficient. "Cheaper, healthier workforce - and so much more receptive to whipping!"
File:GoldGears.png	Sweatshop	10	3,000,000	Factories are twice as efficient. "Slackers will be terminated."
File:PinkGears.png	Radium reactors	50	30,000,000	Factories are twice as efficient. "Gives your cookies a healthy glow."

Mine

Icon	Name	Quantity Needed	Price (cookies)	Description
File:GrayPick.png	Sugar gas	1	100,000	Mines gain +10 base CpS. "A cheap, volatile gas, found in the depths of some chocolate caves."
File:GrayPick.png	Megadrill		1,000,000	Mines are twice as efficient.
File:GoldPick.png	Ultradrill	10	10,000,000	Mines are twice as efficient.
File:PinkPick.png	Ultimadrill	50	100,000,000	Mines are twice as efficient. "Pierce the heavens, etc."

Shipment

Icon	Name	Quantity Needed	Price (cookies)	Description
File:Spaceship.png	Vanilla nebulae	1	400,000	Shipments gain +30 base CpS.
File:Spaceship.png	Wormholes		4,000,000	Shipments are twice as efficient. "By using these as shortcuts, your ships can travel much faster."
File:GoldSpaceship.png	Frequent flyer	10	40,000,000	Shipments are twice as efficient. "Come back soon!"
File:PinkSpaceship.png	Warp drive	50	400,000,000	Shipments are twice as efficient.

Alchemy Lab

Icon	Name	Quantity Needed	Price (cookies)	Description
File:GreenFlask.png	Antimony	1	2,000,000	Alchemy labs gain +100 base CpS. "Actually worth a lot of mony."
File:GreenFlask.png	Essence of dough		20,000,000	Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "Extracted through the 5 ancient steps of alchemical baking."
File:GoldFlask.png	True chocolate	10	200,000,000	Alchemy labs are twice as efficient. "The purest form of cacao."
File:PinkFlask.png	Ambrosia	50	2,000,000,000	Alchemy labs are twice as efficient.

Portal

Icon	Name	Quantity Needed	Price (cookies)	Description
File:RedGalaxy.png	Ancient tablet	1	16,666,660	Portals gain +1666 base CpS. "A strange slab of peanut brittle, holding an ancient cookie recipe. Neat!"
File:RedGalaxy.png	Insane oatling workers		166,666,600	Portals are twice as efficient. "ARISE, MY MINIONS!"
File:GoldGalaxy.png	Soul bond	10	1,666,666,000	Portals are twice as efficient. "So I just sign up and get more cookies? Sure, whatever!"
File:PinkGalaxy.png	Sanity dance	50	16,666,660,000	Portals are twice as efficient. "We can change if we want to. We can leave our brains behind."

Time machine

Icon	Name	Quantity Needed	Price (cookies)	Description
File:PocketWatch.png	Flux capacitors	1	1,234,567,890	Time machines gain +9876 base CpS. "Bake to the future."
File:PocketWatch.png	Time paradox resolver		9,876,543,210	Time machines are twice as efficient. "No more fooling around with your own grandmother!"
File:GoldPocketWatch.png	Quantum conundrum	10	98,765,456,789	Time machines are twice as efficient. "It's full of stars!"
File:PinkPocketWatch.png	Causality enforcer	50	1,234,567,890,000	Time machines are twice as efficient. "What happened, happened."

Income-multiplier Upgrades

These upgrades contribute to a multiplier of the cookie income, which is the total output of all the buildings equipped with their respective upgrades. The income-multiplier upgrades are a mid-game to end-game feature since their prices can go very high.

Flavored Cookies

Flavored cookies add an amount to the base multiplier, starting from 100%. These bonuses do not stack multiplicatively; namely, each upgrade adds a fixed amount to the base multiplier.

Icon	Name	Unlocked at	Price (cookies)	Description
File:OatmealRaisinCookie.png	Oatmeal raisin cookies	9,999,999 cookies	99,999,999	All cookie income +5% "No raisin to hate these."
File:PeanutButterCookie.png	Peanut butter cookies			All cookie income +5%
File:PlainCookie.png	Plain cookies			All cookie income +5% "Meh."
File:SugarCookie.png	Sugar cookies			All cookie income +5%
File:CoconutCookie.png	Coconut cookies	99,999,999 cookies	999,999,999	All cookie income +5%
File:WhiteChocolateCookie.png	White chocolate cookies			All cookie income +5%
File:MacadamiaNutCookie.png	Macadamia nut cookies			All cookie income +5%
File:DoubleChipCookie.png	Double-chip cookies	999,999,999 cookies	99,999,999,999	All cookie income +10%
File:WhiteChocolateMacadamiaNutCookie.png	White chocolate macadamia nut cookies			All cookie income +10%
File:AllChocolateCookie.png	All-chocolate cookies			All cookie income +10%
File:DarkChocolateCoatedCookie.png	Dark-chocolate coated cookies	9,999,999,999 cookies	999,999,999,999	All cookie income +15%
File:WhiteChocolateCoatedCookie.png	White-chocolate coated cookies			All cookie income +15%
File:EclipseCookie.png	Eclipse cookies	99,999,999,999 cookies	9,999,999,999,999	All cookie income +15%. "Look to the cookie."
File:ZebraCookie.png	Zebra cookies			All cookie income +15%
File:Snickerdoodle.png	Snickerdoodles	999,999,999,999 cookies	99,999,999,999,999	All cookie income +15%.
File:Stroopwafel.png	Stroopwafels			All cookie income +15%. "If it ain't dutch, it ain't much."
File:Macaroon.png	Macaroons			All cookie income +15%.

Kitten Upgrades

Kitten upgrades add an amount based on the current milk percent to the income multiplier. Also, each of the three kitten upgrades stacks up with the other two. Unlike flavored cookie upgrades, each kitten upgrade multiplies the base multiplier by a different factor.

Icon	Name	Unlocked at	Price (cookies)	Description
File:Cat.png	Kitten helpers	13 Achievements	9,000,000	You gain more CpS the more milk you have. "how meow I help you"
File:GoldCat.png	Kitten workers	25 Achievements	9,000,000,000	You gain more CpS the more milk you have. "meow meow meow meow"
File:PinkCat.png	Kitten engineers	50 Achievements	9,000,000,000,000	You gain more CpS the more milk you have. "meow meow meow meow, sir"

If the first kitten upgrade is bought, the multiplier is calculated with the formula,

$M\%=M\%(Base)\times (100\%+0.05\times Milk\%)$

where M% = the multiplier, M%(Base) = the base multiplier = 100% + bonus from flavored cookies

If the second kitten upgrade is bought, the previous result is multiplied by $100\%+0.1\times Milk\%$.

If the third kitten upgrade is bought, the previous result is multiplied again by $100\%+0.2\times Milk\%$

Bingo Center/Research Facility

After you have all of the different grandma types and at least 6 grandmas you are eligible to get the Bingo Center/Research Facility. After you purchase it it will research an upgrade, each research taking 30 minutes. Researching will not begin again until the previously researched item has been purchased.

Icon	Name	Price (cookies)	Description
File:Bingo.png	Bingo center/research facility	100,000,000,000	Grandma-operated science lab and leisure club. Grandmas are 4 times as efficient. Regularly unlocks new upgrades.
File:Chips.png	Specialized chocolate chips	10,000,000,000	All cookie income +1%. "Computer designed chocolate chips. Computer chips, if you will."
File:Beans.png	Designer cocoa beans	20,000,000,000	All cookie income +2%. "Now more aerodynamic than ever!"
File:Cookieclicker.png	Ritual rolling pins	40,000,000,000	Grandmas are twice as efficient. "The result of years of scientific research!"
File:Ovens.png	Underworld ovens	80,000,000,000	All cookie income +3%. "Powered by science, of course!"
File:Cookieclicker2.png	One mind¹	160,000,000,000	Each Grandma gains +1 base Cps for each 50 grandmas. Note: the grandmothers are growing restless. Do not encourage them. "We are one. We are many."
File:ExoticNuts.png	Exotic nuts	320,000,000,000	All cookie income +4%. "You'll go crazy over these!"
File:Brainsweep.png	Communal brainsweep	640,000,000,000	Each Grandma gains +1 base Cps for each 50 grandmas. Note: proceeding any further in scientific research may have unexpected results. You have been warned. "We fuse. We merge. We grow."
	Arcane sugar	1,280,000,000,000	All cookie income +5%. "Tastes like insects, ligaments, and molasses."
	Elder Pact	2,560,000,000,000	Each Grandma gains +1 base CpS for each 20 portals. Note: this is a bad idea. "squirm crawl slither writhe today we rise"
File:ElderPledge.png	Elder Pledge	8^(Elder Pledges Purchased + 2) ²	[Repeatable] Contains the wrath of the elders, at least for a while.
File:Cookieclicker.png	Sacrificial rolling pins	28,888,888,888,888	[Requires having bought Elder Pledge 10x] Elder pledge lasts twice as long.
	Elder Covenant³	6,666,666,666,666	[Switch] Puts a permanent end to the elders' wrath, at the price of 5% of your CpS.
	Revoke Elder Covenant³	6,666,666,666	[Switch] You will get 5% of your CpS back, but the grandmatriarchs will return.

¹ Purchasing the One Mind upgrade triggers the begining of the Grandmapocalypse.

² The price of Elder Pledge goes up to 549,755,813,888 or 8¹³. Elder Pledge not show up in the Upgrades list.

³ The Elder Covenant and its reversion Revoke Elder Covenant do not show up in the Upgrades list, instead they can be repeatedly purchased. The "Revoke" upgrade appears in the cookie Store when the Elder Covenant is purchased and vice versa. This is not a toggleable upgrade in any conventional sense - and would be better considered "reversible" -  as a change in state must be purchased each time whereas "toggling" normally refers to single on-off switch function.

Other Upgrades

Icon	Name	Unlocked at	Price (cookies)	Description
File:WhiteArrow.png	Plastic mouse	1,000 hand-made cookies	50,000	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS.
File:WhiteArrow.png	Iron mouse	100,000 hand-made cookies	5,000,000	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS.
File:GoldArrow.png	Titanium mouse	10,000,000 hand-made cookies	500,000,000	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS.
File:PinkArrow.png	Adamantium mouse	1,000,000,000 hand-made cookies	50,000,000,000	Clicking gains +1% of your CpS.
File:GoldenCookie.png	Lucky day	7 Golden Cookies	777,777,777	Golden cookies appear twice as often and last twice as long.
File:GoldenCookie.png	Serendipity	27 Golden Cookies	7,777,777,777	Golden cookies appear twice as often and last twice as long.
File:GoldenCookie.png	Get Lucky	77 Golden Cookies	77,777,777,777,777	Golden cookie effects last twice as long.
File:Cookieclicker.png	Sacrificial rolling pins	?	28,888,888,888,888	Elder Pledge last twice as long.

Debug Upgrades

These upgrades are for debugging, and are not obtainable without cheating.

Icon	Name	Price (cookies)	Description
File:GoldenCookie.png	Gold hoard	7	Golden cookies appear really often.
File:Ultrascience.png	Ultrascience	7	Research takes only 5 seconds.

Version History

When introduced on August 24, 2013, the upgrade system contained 39 items. On August 25, when version 1.02 was introduced, 2 more items are added into the system. An update note on August 25 said that the prices as well as the cookie/second boosts of different upgrades are subject to frequent change, since the game was an early release.

On September 3, 2013 version 1.034 was released, adding a total of 4 new upgrades to the system.  The upgrade system contained 86 items as of that release.

Trivia

• The Mine upgrade "Ultimadrill" makes a reference to the 2007 anime Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann with its quote "Pierce the heavens, etc...". The line "Your drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens" has been used in many other works since, predominantly internet memes.
• The Portal upgrade "Sanity Dance" and its description are a reference to the song "Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats and the lyric from that song "We can dance if we want to / We can leave your friends behind".
• The Portal achievement "Now You're Thinking" is a reference to Valve's video game Portal, in which the protagonist uses portals to navigate puzzles. 
• The Time Machine upgrade "Flux Capacitors" and its description are a reference to the Flux Capacitor in the movie "Back to the Future".
• The description of the Time Machine upgrade "Time Paradox Resolver" is a reference to the famous Grandfather Paradox, by René Barjavel.
• The flavor text on the Time Machine upgrade "Causality Enforcer" may be a reference to LOST.
• The description of the Time Machine upgrade "Quantum Conundrum" is a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• The text for the Cursor upgrade called "Ambidextrous" ("Look ma, both hands") is a play on the phrase, "Look ma, no hands!"
• The Mouse upgrade "Adamantium Mouse" is in reference to the fictitious metal in the Marvel Comics Universe and other popualr media. The Greek word "adamas" means "invincible".
• The quote for the Clicker upgrade "Quintillion" is the second half of a quote given by Boomhauer in an episode of "King of the Hill" when he discusses manuevering the Internet.
• The quote for the cookie upgrade "Eclipse Cookies" ("Look to the Cookie") is from the Seinfeld episode "The Dinner Party" where Jerry orders an eclipse cookie.  He explains to Elaine that they must 'look to the cookie' and all our race problems will be solved (refering to black and white on one cookie, in harmony)