The Wizard Tower is a building added in the legacyupdate. It is the eighth building in the game, costs 330 million cookies and produces 44,000 CpS by summoning them.
Wizard towers can be upgraded with sugar lumps, unlocking the Grimoire minigame.
And now for my next trick, I'll need a volunteer from the audience
Have 300 wizard towers.
255
It's a kind of magic
Have 350 wizard towers.
286
The Prestige
Have 400 wizard towers. "(Unrelated to the Cookie Clicker feature of the same name.)"
346
Spell it out for you
Have 450 wizard towers.
359
The meteor men beg to differ
Have 500 wizard towers.
405
Higitus figitus migitus mum
Have 550 wizard towers.
481
Magic thinking
Have 600 wizard towers.
499
Shosple Colupis
Have 650 wizard towers.
562
You don't think they could've used... it couldn't have been ma-
Have 700 wizard towers.
624
Hocus Pocus
Make 10 quintillion cookies just from wizard towers.
188
Too many rabbits, not enough hats
Make 100 septillion cookies just from wizard towers.
196
Manafest destiny
Make 1 decillion cookies just from wizard towers.
300
Motormouth
Reach level 10 wizard towers.
314
Upgrades[]
Icon
Name
Unlock condition
Base price
Description
ID
Pointier hats
Own 1 wizard tower
3.3 billion
Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Tests have shown increased thaumic receptivity relative to the geometric proportions of wizardly conic implements."
244
Beardlier beards
Own 5 wizard towers
16.5 billion
Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Haven't you heard? The beard is the word."
245
Ancient grimoires
Own 25 wizard towers
165 billion
Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Contain interesting spells such as "Turn Water To Drool", "Grow Eyebrows On Furniture" and "Summon Politician"."
246
Kitchen curses
Own 50 wizard towers
16.5 trillion
Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Exotic magic involved in all things pastry-related. Hexcellent!"
247
School of sorcery
Own 100 wizard towers
1.65 quadrillion
Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "This cookie-funded academy of witchcraft is home to the 4 prestigious houses of magic : the Jocks, the Nerds, the Preps, and the Deathmunchers."
248
Dark formulas
Own 150 wizard towers
165 quadrillion
Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Eldritch forces are at work behind these spells - you get the feeling you really shouldn't be messing with those. But I mean, free cookies, right?"
249
Cookiemancy
Own 200 wizard towers
165 quintillion
Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "There it is; the perfected school of baking magic. From summoning chips to hexing nuts, there is not a single part of cookie-making that hasn't been improved tenfold by magic tricks."
300
Rabbit trick
Own 250 wizard towers
165 sextillion
Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Using nothing more than a fancy top hat, your wizards have found a way to simultaneously curb rabbit population and produce heaps of extra cookies for basically free! Resulting cookies may or may not be fit for vegans."
313
Deluxe tailored wands
Own 300 wizard towers
165 septillion
Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "In this age of science, most skillful wand-makers are now long gone; but thankfully - not all those wanders are lost."
434
Immobile spellcasting
Own 350 wizard towers
165 octillion
Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Wizards who master this skill can now cast spells without having to hop and skip and gesticulate embarrassingly, which is much sneakier and honestly quite a relief."
486
Electricity
Own 400 wizard towers
1.65 decillion
Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Ancient magicks and forbidden hexes shroud this arcane knowledge, whose unfathomable power can mysteriously turn darkness into light and shock an elephant to death."
512
Spelling bees
Own 450 wizard towers
16.5 undecillion
Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "You've unleashed a swarm of magically-enhanced bees upon mankind! Their stinging spells may be the bane of all living things but you're certain you can put their delicious, purple, fizzy honey to good use!"
668
Wizard basements
Own 500 wizard towers
165 duodecillion
Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "You've received construction permits allowing you to build basements underneath each wizard tower. This provides a handy storage space for precious reagents, fizzled-out soul gems, and weird old magazines."
706
Magical realism
Own 550 wizard towers
1.65 quattuordecillion
Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "More a social than thaumaturgical progress, magical realism refers to the normalization of modern technology among magic-users. It's totally fine for a wizard to drive a car! There's no stigma in waiting in line for coffee! Sure, take a phone call, send an email, whatever!"
749
Polymorphism
Own 600 wizard towers
16.5 quindecillion
Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "This astonishing new field of spellcasting can change any creature into another, its most widespread application being a wizard turning themselves into a different, smarter, stronger, more attractive wizard."
846
Other Upgrades[]
Icon
Name
Unlock condition
Base price
Description
ID
Witch grandmas
15 wizard towers and 1 grandma owned
16.5 billion
Grandmas are twice as efficient. Wizard towers gain +1% CpS per 6 grandmas. "A nice witch to cast a zip, and a zoop, and poof! Cookies."
252
Seismic magic
15 mines, 15 wizard towers and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased
66.024 trillion
Mines gain +5% CpS per wizard tower. Wizard towers gain +0.1% CpS per mine. "Surprise earthquakes are an old favorite of wizardly frat houses."
Wizard towers gain +5% CpS per alchemy lab. Alchemy labs gain +0.1% CpS per wizard tower. "Some things were never meant to be known - only mildly speculated."
379
Magical botany
75 wizard towers, 75 farms and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased
66.002 quintillion
Farms gain +5% CpS per wizard tower. Wizard towers gain +0.1% CpS per farm. "Already known in some reactionary newspapers as "the wizard's GMOs"."
380
Light magic
15 wizard towers, 15 prisms and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased
420 quintillion
Wizard towers gain +5% CpS per prism. Prisms gain +0.1% CpS per wizard tower. "Actually not to be taken lightly! No, I'm serious. 178 people died last year. You don't mess around with magic."
391
Fortune #008
Random fortune from news ticker
25.667 undecillion
Wizard towers are 7% more efficient and 7% cheaper. "Magic is about two things - showmanship, and rabbits."
628
Unshackled wizard towers (heavenly upgrade)
"Unshackled temples" purchased
31.457 trillion
Tiered upgrades for Wizard towers provide an extra +130% production. Only works with unshackled upgrade tiers. "There's a spell for everything."
775
Gallery[]
Background
Witch Grandma
Trivia[]
References[]
The first achievement "Bewitched" is a reference to a popular American sitcom of the same name, about a witch who marries a mortal, and vows to lead a non-magical life of an ordinary housewife.
The achievement "The sorcerer's apprentice" is a reference to the 1940s film "Fantasia."
The upgrade "Beardlier Beards" contains a reference to The Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird" in its description.
The upgrade "School of sourcery" is a reference to the Harry Potter series, written by J.K.Rowling; where the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is divided into 4 houses of magic. The names for the houses in the upgrade description seem tongue-in-cheek for those in the series.
The achievement "Hocus Pocus" is a reference to the commonly chanted phrase for magic tricks.
The upgrade "Cookiemancy" is the word "cookie" in front of the English suffix "mancy", which derives from Greek and means divination.
The flavor text of upgrade "Deluxe tailored wands" contains a reference to J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy series The Lord of the Rings, in which one of the main characters is introduced with a poem containing the line "not all who wander are lost."
The flavor text for upgrade "Electricity" is a reference to Thomas Edison's campaign against alternating current (A.C) electricity, in which he famously used it to shock an elephant to death to make A.C appear dangerous.