Cookies per Click
Cookies per Click, or CpC, is a major element in Cookie Clicker. You start off with 1 cookie per click when clicking the big cookie, so 15 clicks lets you buy the first cursor. Each cursor upgrade increases Cookies per Click.
Starting the Game
When the players start the game, they have no cookies. The player must click the big cookie to gain more cookies, or wait until a Golden Cookie appears (recommended to get the no-click achievements). Once the player has accumulated enough cookies, they can buy buildings and upgrades, which help the player gain cookies without clicking.
Early to Mid-Game
During mid early game, the player should have many buildings and upgrades allowing them to obtain cookies quickly, which makes clicking the Big Cookie seem obsolete unless you have Click Frenzy, the Dragonflight aura active, or are using naked godzamok. In midgame, clicking can yield at least 17% of CpS and increase it up to ~35% without any garden plants. With moderately fast constant clicking, the player can effectively at least double their cookie production.
Late-Game
During the late-game, the cookie production dramatically slows down because buildings and upgrades require years' worth of cookies to purchase. The cost of buildings will only further increase as their efficiency will continue to remain the same. With combos such as Frenzy Building Special and Click Frenzy, years of CpS may come from a single combo.
Cookie-Clicking Value
A number of upgrades increase base value of 1 CpC, processed in the following order:
- The Reinforced index finger, Carpal tunnel prevention cream and Ambidextrous Upgrades each double the click value (bringing the total to 8 CpC).
- The bonuses from Clicking upgrades, Fortune Cookie Upgrade #104, and the remaining cursor upgrades (Thousand fingers,...) are added to the CpC.
- All other multipliers that affect the CpC:
- Santa's helpers increases the click value by 10% (multiplier of 1.1).
- Cookie egg increases the click value by 10% (multiplier of 1.1).
- The Heavenly Upgrade Halo Gloves increases the click value by 10% (multiplier of 1.1).
- Aura gloves and Luminous gloves increase the click value by 5% per Cursor level, maxed at level 20 Cursor (multiplier of 2).
- Krumblor's Dragon claw increase the click value by 3% (multiplier of 1.03).
- Two of Krumblor's Auras directly increase the click value. Dragon Cursor increases the click value by 5% (1.05), Reality Bending by 0.5% (1.005), and with both active, they increase click value by 5.5% (1.055).
- Golden Cookie outcome Click Frenzy multiplies CpC by 777.
- Golden Cookie outcome Dragonflight multiplies CpC by 1111 (1223 if Dragon fang is purchased). Dragonflight requires the Dragonflight and/or Reality Bending Auras to be active.
- Muridal, Spirit of Labor multiplies CpC by 1.15/1.1/1.05 (Diamond/Ruby/Jade), but also multiplies CpS by 0.97/0.98/0.99, which affects the amount of cookies gained from the mouse upgrades.
- Godzamok, Spirit of Ruin multiplies CpC by 1.01/1.005/1.0025 (Diamond/Ruby/Jade) for 10 seconds, depending on the numbers of buildings sold.
- Note that consecutively selling buildings adds to the multiplier, despite how the duration does not refresh and that the tooltip does not update.
- The Wrath Cookie outcome Cursed Finger sets CpS to 0 for ten seconds, but each click is worth an amount equal to ten seconds of normal (unwithered) production base. The other CpC upgrades have no effect on Cursed Finger CpC.
Keep in mind that due to the clicking upgrades, auras such as Dragon Cursor and the pantheon spirit Muridal are often overshadowed by other auras and spirits that increase cookies per second.
Upgrades
Clicking Upgrades
Cursor Upgrades
Miscellaneous Upgrades
Icon | Name | Unlock condition | Base price | Description | ID |
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Dragon claw | Random drop from petting Krumblor | 1,800 x CpS (max level dragon: 180 x CpS) |
Clicks are +3% more powerful. Cost scales with CpS, but 10 times cheaper with a fully-trained dragon. "Will grow back in a few days' time. A six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, from the middle toe. So you know, try to show a little respect." |
649 | |
Santa's helpers | Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa |
2,525 × 3S | Clicking is 10% more powerful. Cost scales with Santa level. "Some choose to help hamburger; some choose to help you. To each their own, I guess." |
164 | |
Cookie egg | "Rare" egg (see Probabilities) |
999 x 3E | Clicking is 10% more powerful. Cost scales with how many eggs you own. "The shell appears to be chipped. I wonder what's inside this one!" |
225 | |
Halo gloves (heavenly upgrade) |
"Starter kit" purchased | 55,555 | Clicks are 10% more powerful. "Smite that cookie." |
290 | |
Aura gloves (heavenly upgrade) |
"Halo gloves" purchased | 555.556 million | Cursor levels boost clicks by 5% each (up to level 10) "Try not to high-five anyone wearing these. You don't want that mess on your hands." |
719 | |
Luminous gloves (heavenly upgrade) |
"Aura gloves" purchased | 55.556 billion | Aura gloves are now effective up to cursor level 20. "These help power your clicks to absurd levels, but they're also quite handy when you want to light up darkness on your way back from Glove World." |
720 | |
Unshackled cursors (heavenly upgrade) |
"Unshackled flavor" purchased | 15 million | Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 25. "These hands tell a story." |
768 |
Achievements
Clicking Achievements
The main achievements related to the big cookie are the ones for cookies baked through clicking.
Icon | Name | Description | ID |
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Clicktastic | Make 1,000 cookies from clicking. | 30 | |
Clickathlon | Make 100,000 cookies from clicking. | 31 | |
Clickolympics | Make 10 million cookies from clicking. | 32 | |
Clickorama | Make 1 billion cookies from clicking. | 33 | |
Clickasmic | Make 100 billion cookies from clicking. | 100 | |
Clickageddon | Make 10 trillion cookies from clicking. | 145 | |
Clicknarok | Make 1 quadrillion cookies from clicking. | 146 | |
Clickastrophe | Make 100 quadrillion cookies from clicking. | 244 | |
Clickataclysm | Make 10 quintillion cookies from clicking. | 245 | |
The ultimate clickdown | Make 1 sextillion cookies from clicking. "(of ultimate destiny.)" |
337 | |
All the other kids with the pumped up clicks | Make 100 sextillion cookies from clicking. | 376 | |
One...more...click... | Make 10 septillion cookies from clicking. | 377 | |
Clickety split | Make 1 octillion cookies from clicking. | 473 | |
Ain't that a click in the head | Make 100 octillion cookies from clicking. | 574 | |
What's not clicking | Make 10 nonillion cookies from clicking. | 640 |
Miscellaneous Achievements
Icon | Name | Description | ID |
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Neverclick [note 1] | Make 1 million cookies by only having clicked 15 times. | 29 | |
Uncanny clicker | Click really, really fast. "Well I'll be!" |
71 | |
True Neverclick [note 1] (shadow achievement) |
Make 1 million cookies with no cookie clicks. "This kinda defeats the whole purpose, doesn't it?" |
78 |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 These achievements can only be obtained before ascending for the first time (or after ascending without gaining anything) or in Challenge Mode.
Trivia
- Cookies per click can never go below zero.
References
- The "The ultimate clickdown" achievement is a reference to the song "The ultimate showdown" by Neil Cicierega (Lemon Demon) released in 2005.
- The "All the other kids with their pumped up clicks" achievement is a reference to the song "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People released in 2010.
- The "Ain't that a click in the head" achievement is a reference to the song "Ain't that a kick in the head" by Dean Martin released in 1960.
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