The Mine is the fourth building in Cookie Clicker, initially costing 12 thousand cookies and produces 47 CpS by mining out cookie dough and chocolate chips.
Mountain out of a molehill, but like in a good way
Have 600 mines.
495
Don't let the walls cave in on you
Have 650 mines.
558
Dirt-rich
Have 700 mines.
620
Never dig down
Make 1 quadrillion cookies just from mines.
137
Quarry on
Make 10 sextillion cookies just from mines.
192
Sedimentalism
Make 100 octillion cookies just from mines.
296
D-d-d-d-deeper
Reach level 10 mines.
310
Upgrades
Icon
Name
Unlock condition
Base price
Description
ID
Sugar gas
Own 1 mine
120,000
Mines are twice as efficient. "A pink, volatile gas, found in the depths of some chocolate caves."
16
Megadrill
Own 5 mines
600,000
Mines are twice as efficient. "You're in deep."
17
Ultradrill
Own 25 mines
6 million
Mines are twice as efficient. "Finally caved in?"
18
Ultimadrill
Own 50 mines
600 million
Mines are twice as efficient. "Pierce the heavens, etc."
47
H-bomb mining
Own 100 mines
60 billion
Mines are twice as efficient. "Questionable efficiency, but spectacular nonetheless."
113
Coreforge
Own 150 mines
6 trillion
Mines are twice as efficient. "You've finally dug a tunnel down to the Earth's core. It's pretty warm down here."
195
Planetsplitters
Own 200 mines
6 quadrillion
Mines are twice as efficient. "These new state-of-the-art excavators have been tested on Merula, Globort and Flwanza VI, among other distant planets which have been curiously quiet lately."
296
Canola oil wells
Own 250 mines
6 quintillion
Mines are twice as efficient. "A previously untapped resource, canola oil permeates the underground olifers which grant it its particular taste and lucrative properties."
309
Mole people
Own 300 mines
6 sextillion
Mines are twice as efficient. "Engineered from real human beings within your very labs, these sturdy little folks have a knack for finding the tastiest underground minerals in conditions that more expensive machinery probably wouldn't survive."
430
Mine canaries
Own 350 mines
6 septillion
Mines are twice as efficient. "These aren't used for anything freaky! The miners just enjoy having a pet or two down there."
482
Bore again
Own 400 mines
60 octillion
Mines are twice as efficient. "After extracting so much sediment for so long, you've formed some veritable mountains of your own from the accumulated piles of rock and dirt. Time to dig through those and see if you find anything fun!"
508
Air mining
Own 450 mines
600 nonillion
Mines are twice as efficient. "You've dug your drills through just about every solid surface you could find. But did you know recent advances have revealed untold riches hiding within non-solid surfaces too?"
664
Caramel alloys
Own 500 mines
6 undecillion
Mines are twice as efficient. "Your geologists have isolated a family of once-overlooked sugary ores that, when combined, may be turned into even more cookie ingredients. Your millions of miles of previously useless tunnels probably house insane amounts of the stuff!"
702
Delicious mineralogy
Own 550 mines
60 duodecillion
Mines are twice as efficient. "Stratum after stratum, you've extracted strange new minerals heretofore unknown to geology. Ushering a new era of materials research, your scientists have been able to identify every new element your mines have discovered, including whatever those things are in the upgrade tier names."
745
Mineshaft supports
Own 600 mines
600 tredecillion
Mines are twice as efficient. "You were rather skeptical about installing such embarrassingly low-tech implements, but limiting the number of daily cave-ins really does help with that annoying employee turnover!"
842
Other Upgrades
Icon
Name
Unlock condition
Base price
Description
ID
Miner grandmas
15 mines and 1 grandma owned
600,000
Grandmas are twice as efficient. Mines gain +1% CpS per 2 grandmas. "A nice miner to dig more cookies."
58
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."
371
Asteroid mining
75 mines, 75 shipments and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased
1.02 sextillion
Mines gain +5% CpS per shipment. Shipments gain +0.1% CpS per mine. "As per the 1974 United Cosmic Convention, comets, moons, and inhabited planetoids are no longer legally excavatable. But hey, a space bribe goes a long way."
372
Fossil fuels
15 mines, 15 shipments and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased
1.02 quadrillion
Mines gain +5% CpS per shipment. Shipments gain +0.1% CpS per mine. "Somehow better than plutonium for powering rockets. Extracted from the fuels of ancient, fossilized civilizations."
381
Primordial ores
15 mines, 15 alchemy labs and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased
15 quadrillion
Mines gain +5% CpS per alchemy lab. Alchemy labs gain +0.1% CpS per mine. "Only when refining the purest metals will you extract the sweetest sap of the earth."
383
Gemmed talismans
15 mines, 15 chancemakers and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased
5.2 sextillion
Mines gain +5% CpS per chancemaker. Chancemakers gain +0.1% CpS per mine. "Good-luck charms covered in ancient and excruciatingly rare crystals. A must have for job interviews!"
424
Fortune #004
Random fortune from news ticker
933,333 nonillion
Mines are 7% more efficient and 7% cheaper. "Riches from deep under elevate you all the same."
624
Unshackled mines (heavenly upgrade)
"Unshackled farms" purchased
245.76 billion
Tiered upgrades for Mines provide an extra +170% production. Only works with unshackled upgrade tiers. "Redefine the meaning of "depth"."
771
In Cookie Clicker Classic
Two images from the Classic version, left: icon shown in the store, right: appearance in the middle field
The Mine is the fourth item players can purchase. It will give 50 cookies every 5 seconds.
It costs 2,000 cookies to start and will increase by 15% with each consecutive purchase.
Buying the first mine will increase Grandma output by +2 cookies per 5 seconds. It will also cause some grandmas to don brown miner uniforms.
Gallery
Background
Miner Grandma
Trivia
In Cookie Clicker Classic, the mines were unlocked after the factories, but in cookie clicker update 2.0 this was changed the other way around. Orteil reasoned that player should have raw materials first before cookies can be mass-produced.
References
The flavour text for the upgrade "Ultimadrill" ("Pierce the heavens, etc.") is a reference to the anime Gurren Lagann, where lines such as "Your drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens!" are said several times.
The achievement "Never Dig Down" is a reference to a popular tip for Minecraft as digging straight down can lead to unseen hazards like a long drop or lava with little ways to recover the lost items.
The achievement "Can You Dig It" is a quote from the 1979 movie The Warriors.
The upgrade "H-Bomb Mining" is a reference to "Operation Plowshare" - A series of experiments by the US military to find non-combative uses for nuclear weapons. Unsurprisingly, testing proved that nukes were good for many things, mining however not being one of them.
The achievement "Hey now, you're a rock" is a reference to the song "All Star" by Smash Mouth, where part of the chorus is "Hey now, you're a rock star".