Prism
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The Prism is the fourteenth building in Cookie Clicker, initially costing 2.1 quadrillion cookies and produces 2.9 billion CpS by converting light into cookies.
Achievements
| Icon | Name | Description | ID |
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Lone photon | Have 1 prism. | 123 |
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Dazzling glimmer | Have 50 prisms. | 124 |
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Blinding flash | Have 100 prisms. | 125 |
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Unending glow | Have 150 prisms. | 126 |
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Rise and shine | Have 200 prisms. | 158 |
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Bright future | Have 250 prisms. | 221 |
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Harmony of the spheres | Have 300 prisms. | 261 |
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At the end of the tunnel | Have 350 prisms. | 292 |
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My eyes | Have 400 prisms. | 352 |
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Optical illusion | Have 450 prisms. | 365 |
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You'll never shine if you don't glow | Have 500 prisms. | 411 |
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A light snack | Have 550 prisms. | 487 |
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Making light of the situation | Have 600 prisms. | 505 |
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Enlightenment | Have 650 prisms. | 568 |
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Bright side of the Moon | Have 700 prisms. | 630 |
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Praise the sun | Make 10 septillion cookies just from prisms. | 144 |
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A still more glorious dawn | Make 100 nonillion cookies just from prisms. | 202 |
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Now the dark days are gone | Make 1 duodecillion cookies just from prisms. | 306 |
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Palettable | Reach level 10 prisms. | 320 |
Upgrades
| Icon | Name | Unlock condition | Base price | Description | ID |
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Gem polish | Own 1 prism |  21 quadrillion
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Prisms are twice as efficient. "Get rid of the grime and let more light in. Truly, truly outrageous." |
175 |
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9th color | Own 5 prisms | 105 quadrillion
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Prisms are twice as efficient. "Delve into the untouched optical depths where even the mantis shrimp hasn't set an eye!" |
176 |
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Chocolate light | Own 25 prisms | 1.05 quintillion
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Prisms are twice as efficient. "Bask into its cocoalesence. (Warning : may cause various interesting albeit deadly skin conditions.)" |
177 |
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Grainbow | Own 50 prisms | 105 quintillion
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Prisms are twice as efficient. "Remember the different grains using the handy Roy G. Biv mnemonic : R is for rice, O is for Oats... uh, B for barley?..." |
178 |
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Pure cosmic light | Own 100 Prisms | 10.5 sextillion
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Prisms are twice as efficient. "Your prisms now receive pristine unadulterated photons from the other end of the universe." |
179 |
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Glow-in-the-dark | Own 150 Prisms | 1.05 septillion
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Prisms are twice as efficient. "Your prisms now glow in the dark, effectively doubling their output." |
201 |
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Lux sanctorum | Own 200 Prisms | 1.05 octillion
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Prisms are twice as efficient. "Your prism attendants have become increasingly mesmerized with something in the light - or maybe something beyond it; beyond us all, perhaps?" |
306 |
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Reverse shadows | Own 250 Prisms | 1.05 nonillion
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Prisms are twice as efficient. "Oh man, this is really messing with your eyes." |
319 |
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Crystal mirrors | Own 300 Prisms | 1.05 decillion
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Prisms are twice as efficient. "Designed to filter more light back into your prisms, reaching levels of brightness that reality itself had never planned for. |
440 |
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Reverse theory of light | Own 350 Prisms | 1.05 undecillion
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Prisms are twice as efficient. "A whole new world of physics opens up when you decide that antiphotons are real and posit that light is merely a void in shadow." |
492 |
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Light capture measures | Own 400 Prisms | 10.5 duodecillion
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Prisms are twice as efficient. "As the universe gets ever so slightly dimmer due to you converting more and more of its light into cookies, you've taken to finding new and unexplored sources of light for your prisms; for instance, the warm glow emitted by a pregnant woman, or the twinkle in the eye of a hopeful child." |
518 |
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Light speed limit | Own 450 prisms | 105 tredecillion
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Prisms are twice as efficient. "Whoah, slow down. Harvesting light is well and good but it'd be much easier if it weren't so dang fast! This should thankfully take care of that." |
674 |
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Occam's laser | Own 500 prisms | 1.05 quindecillion
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Prisms are twice as efficient. "Invented by Franciscan friar William of Occam in 1327. An impossibly clever use of light theory with a billion possible applications, some of which frightfully destructive. Confined to a single goat-skin parchment for hundreds of years until the patent expired and hit public domain, just now." |
712 |
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Hyperblack paint | Own 550 prisms | 10.5 sexdecillion
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Prisms are twice as efficient. "As the technology behind your prisms evolves, their storage becomes more and more problematic: within seconds, a single prism's reflective ability can set a whole underground hangar ablaze as it catches the slightest glint of light. However, once coated with this new shade of paint, its damage may be reduced to only giving third-degree burns to employees that stand too close." |
755 |
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Lab goggles but like cool shades | Own 600 prisms | 105 septendecillion
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Prisms are twice as efficient. "Mandatory equipment in your prismatic labs, and dashingly stylish at that. A smidge safer than just squinting at the twinkly things." |
852 |
Other Upgrades
| Icon | Name | Unlock condition | Base price | Description | ID |
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Rainbow grandmas | 15 prisms and 1 grandma owned | 105 quadrillion
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Grandmas are twice as efficient. Prisms gain +1% CpS per 12 grandmas. "A luminous grandma to sparkle into cookies." |
180 |
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Abysmal glimmer | 75 prisms, 75 portals and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased | 422 septillion
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Portals gain +5% CpS per prism. Prisms gain +0.1% CpS per portal. "Someone, or something, is staring back at you. Perhaps at all of us." |
386 |
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Primeval glow | 75 prisms, 75 time machines and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased | 448 septillion
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Time machines gain +5% CpS per prism. Prisms gain +0.1% CpS per time machine. "From unending times, an ancient light still shines, impossibly pure and fragile in its old age." |
388 |
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Light magic | 15 wizard towers, 15 prisms and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased | 420 quintillion
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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 |
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Mystical energies | 75 temples, 75 prisms and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased | 420 septillion
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Temples gain +5% CpS per prism. Prisms gain +0.1% CpS per temple. "Something beckons from within the light. It is warm, comforting, and apparently the cause for several kinds of exotic skin cancers." |
392 |
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Recursive mirrors | 15 prisms, 15 fractal engines and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased | 66.2 sextillion
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Prisms gain +5% CpS per fractal engine. Fractal engines gain +0.1% CpS per prism. "Do you have any idea what happens when you point two of these at each other? Apparently, the universe doesn't either." |
533 |
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Fortune #014 | Random fortune from news ticker | 163.333 tredecillion
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Prisms are 7% more efficient and 7% cheaper. "Staring at a dazzling light can blind you back to darkness." |
634 |
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Unshackled prisms (heavenly upgrade) |
"Unshackled antimatter condensers"" purchased |  1.581 quadrillion
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Tiered upgrades for Prisms provide an extra +70% production. Only works with unshackled upgrade tiers. "Brilliance has no upper limit." |
781 |
Gallery
Background
Rainbow Grandma
Trivia
- Inside of the code for the beta version of the game, one can find an achievement "The Dark Side of The Moon" with flavor text "oh god", which requires to have 1000 prisms. It is not added to the final game and Orteil left a commentary after it which says: "this is a joke I promise".
- This building has a fixed distance between each building on the X axis, similar to antimatter condensers and chancemakers.
References
- The news ticker message "Can't you sense the prism watching us?" refers to PRISM, a United States surveillance outed by Edward Snowden.
- Part of the flavor text for the prism upgrade Gem Polish ("Truly, truly outrageous.") is a reference to the 1980s cartoon series Jem, specifically the opening theme. Some believe that it may also be a reference to the League of Legends champion, Taric, but in fact, this is also a reference to the theme from "Jem."
- The achievement "My eyes" may be a reference to the MY EYES!!! meme format, given the green colouration of the achievement, the green background of the meme, and the meme itself (which features a character's eyes being burned by bright light).
- The achievement "Praise the Sun" is a reference to a famous quote from the game Dark Souls.
- The upgrade "Lux sanctorum" may reference the book of same name and is "holy light" in Latin.
- The unused achievement "The Dark Side of The Moon" is a reference to the Pink Floyd album of the same name.
