Cursor

Cursor
Autoclicks once every 10 seconds.
Initial Price	15
Base CpS	0.1 /sec
Max CpS	(0.1 × 23 + 64,000,000,000,000 &times (N - C)) × 1.07 × (1 + FE/20) /sec Where: N – total number of buildings; C – number of Cursors; FE – number of Fractal engines.
Introduction	Cookie Clicker Classic

The Cursor is the first building in Cookie Clicker, being the cheapest at just 15 cookies and producing 0.1 CpS by clicking the Big Cookie. It is one of the two buildings shown when the game first begins (the other being the grandma).

Cursors can be leveled up with Sugar lumps, granting +1% CpS. Upon leveling, Cursors unlock office levels which allow more stocks to be held in the Stock Market, as well as unlocking loans. With the Heavenly Upgrade Aura gloves, cursor levels from 1-10 also provide an additive 5% Cookies per Click buff each, and this may be buffed to level 20 with Luminous gloves.

Purchased cursors in their characteristic circular pattern around the Big Cookie. Cursors can be seen clicking the cookie in spirals which radiate from the center, as well as spinning in a counter-clockwise fashion.

Upgrades

Icon	Name	Unlock condition	Base price	Description	ID
	Reinforced index finger	Own 1 cursor	100	The mouse and cursors are twice as efficient. "prod prod"	0
	Carpal tunnel prevention cream	Own 1 cursor	500	The mouse and cursors are twice as efficient. "it... it hurts to click..."	1
	Ambidextrous	Own 10 cursors	10,000	The mouse and cursors are twice as efficient. "Look ma, both hands!"	2
	Thousand fingers	Own 25 cursors	100,000	The mouse and cursors gain +0.1 cookies for each non-cursor object owned. "clickity"	3
	Million fingers	Own 50 cursors	10 million	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 5. "clickityclickity"	4
	Billion fingers	Own 100 cursors	100 million	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 10. "clickityclickityclickity"	5
	Trillion fingers	Own 150 cursors	1 billion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "clickityclickityclickityclickity"	6
	Quadrillion fingers	Own 200 cursors	10 billion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "clickityclickityclickityclickityclick"	43
	Quintillion fingers	Own 250 cursors	10 trillion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "man, just go click click click click click, it’s real easy, man."	82
	Sextillion fingers	Own 300 cursors	10 quadrillion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "sometimes things just click"	109
	Septillion fingers	Own 350 cursors	10 quintillion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "[cursory flavor text]"	188
	Octillion fingers	Own 400 cursors	10 sextillion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20.. "Turns out you can quite put your finger on it."	189
	Nonillion fingers	Own 450 cursors	10 septillion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "Only for the freakiest handshakes."	660
	Decillion fingers	Own 500 cursors	10 octillion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "If you still can't quite put your finger on it, you must not be trying very hard."	764
	Undecillion fingers	Own 550 cursors	10 nonillion	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 20. "Whatever you touch turns to dough in your clutch."	873

Other Upgrades

Icon	Name	Unlock condition	Base price	Description	ID
	Mice clicking mice	75 cursors, 75 fractal engines and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased	62 octillion	Cursors gain +5% CpS per fractal engine. Fractal engines gain +0.1% CpS per cursor. "Absolutely blasphemous(e)!"	534
	Fortune #001	Random fortune from news ticker	1.167 nonillion	Cursors are 7% more efficient and 7% cheaper. "Fingers are not the only thing you can count on."	621
	Unshackled cursors (heavenly upgrade)	"Unshackled flavor" purchased	15 million	Multiplies the gain from Thousand fingers by 25. "These hands tell a story."	768

Achievements

Icon	Name	Description	ID
	Click	Have 1 cursor.	34
	Double-click	Have 2 cursors.	35
	Mouse wheel	Have 50 cursors.	36
	Of Mice and Men	Have 100 cursors.	37
	The Digital	Have 200 cursors.	38
	Extreme polydactyly	Have 300 cursors.	147
	Dr. T	Have 400 cursors.	148
	Thumbs, phalanges, metacarpals	Have 500 cursors. "& KNUCKLES"	246
	With her finger and her thumb	Have 600 cursors.	398
	Gotta hand it to you	Have 700 cursors.	474
	The devil's workshop	Have 800 cursors.	493
	All on deck	Have 900 cursors.	641
	A round of applause	Have 1000 cursors. "Boy, are my arms tired!"	642
	Click delegator	Make 10 quintillion cookies just from cursors.	134
	Finger clickin' good	Make 100 septillion cookies just from cursors.	189
	Click (starring Adam Sandler)	Make 1 decillion cookies just from cursors.	293
	Freaky jazz hands	Reach level 10 cursors.	307
	The elder scrolls	Own a combined 777 grandmas and cursors. "Let me guess. Someone stole your cookie."	248

In Cookie Clicker Classic

Two images from the Classic version, left: icon shown in the store, right: appearance in the middle field

Cursors around the big cookie in Cookie Clicker Classic.

The Cursor is the cheapest building in Classic. It will auto-click the Cookie for the player.

It initially costs 15 Cookies and has a CpS of 0.2.

As of the 0.124 update, when the Elder Pledge is purchased, cursor output increases by +1 for the first cursor purchase, and by +1.5 for every subsequent cursor purchased. Each cursor produces cookies according to the following formula, rounded to the nearest integer:

${\frac {\text{Cookies}}{\text{5 seconds}}}={\text{amount of Cursors}}\times 1.5-0.5$

Or equivalently: ${\text{CpS}}={\text{amount of Cursors}}\times 0.3-0.1$

Trivia

• Despite their building description implying that cursors "click" on the Big Cookie, their output is considered as CpS and is not boosted clicking upgrades and effects.
• Assuming that the highest number of cookies in the bank Javascript can store in a double is 1.798e308, the player can "only" buy 5060 cursors. The last one would cost 176 uncentillion. Further cursors could be bought, but after the 5060th cursor, the price will become infinity for each cursor, requiring cheating to make further purchases. This would raise the theoretical limit to 1.798e308 cursors, after which the next purchased cursor would cause it to read as infinite cursors. However, the game would become unstable from lag long before that point could be reached.
• Cursors are currently the only buildings that don't unlock a grandma upgrade.
• If one looks closely on how the cursors move when clicking the Big Cookie, it shows them clicking in a spiral pattern.
• The optimal ratio of Cursors to Grandmas for the Elder Scrolls achievement is 400:377.
• In the alternate reality update, the finger upgrades stack multiplicatively, rather than adding a flat number. Having all the upgrades add 25.6 trillion CpS per building to cursors including new upgrades, as opposed to 55.556 million per building prior to the update.
  • While overall it is a buff to the upgrades, it will make getting cookies in very early game slightly harder. Since the upgrades are now multiplicative, they are far less useful as standalone upgrades, and are no longer overpowered when equipped in permanent upgrade slots.

References

• The Quintillion fingers upgrade description is a reference to Boomhauer from King of the Hill when he says: "Yeah man I tell you what that dang 'ol internet man you just go on there point and click get in that talkin about doubleya doubleya doublya dot com and you got that them naked chicks on there man you go click click click click click, it’s real easy, man."
• The achievement Extreme Polydactyly is a reference to a real mutation in humans which causes an individual to have more fingers or toes than normal.
• The achievement Of Mice and Men is a reference to the novella by John Steinbeck of the same name.
• The Dr. T achievement is a reference to the 1953 Dr. Seuss film, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
• The "& Knuckles" from the description of the achievement Thumbs, phalanges, metacarpals is a reference to the game Sonic & Knuckles, as well as the Internet meme of adding "& Knuckles" to the titles of movies and video games.
• The achievement With her finger and her thumb is a reference to a lyric in the 2001 Smash Mouth song "All Star", which is in the line "She was lookin' kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an 'L' on her forehead".
• The achievement Finger clickin' good relates to the slogan from KFC, "It's finger lickin' good".
• The achievement Click (starring Adam Sandler) its a reference to the movie of the same name
• The "Let me guess, someone stole your cookie" from the description of the achievement The Elder Scrolls is a reference to a Skyrim line, "Let me guess, someone stole your sweet roll"
• The description of each Thousand Fingers related achievement has "clickity" as a quote, which is a reference to Quagmire from Family Guy's quote "giggity"
• The Undecillion fingers upgrade description references the characters Heat miser and Snow miser in the 1974 movie, "The Year Without a Santa Claus."

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