Santa

Santa in his Santa Claus form

Santa is a widget in Cookie Clicker that grants upgrades in exchange for cookies. Once A festive hat is purchased, an icon will appear under the Big Cookie reflecting Santa's current level. It can then be upgraded using increasing amounts of cookies, each upgrade granting a unique upgrade until the final level.

Santa Stages

Icon	Name	Cost to upgrade	Cost of unlocked upgrades on this level
	Festive test tube	25 (from purchasing "A festive hat" upgrade)	2,525
	Festive ornament	1 (11)	7,575
	Festive wreath	4 (22)	22,725
	Festive tree	27 (33)	68,175
	Festive present	256 (44)	204,525
	Festive elf fetus	3,125 (55)	613,575
	Elf toddler	46,656 (66)	1.841 million
	Elfling	823,543 (77)	5.522 million
	Young elf	16.777 million (88)	15,567 million
	Bulky elf	387.42 million (99)	49.7 million
	Nick	10 billion (1010)	149.099 million
	Santa Claus	285.312 billion (1111)	447.296 million
	Elder Santa	8.916 trillion (1212)	1.342 billion
	True Santa	302.875 trillion (1313)	4.026 billion
	Final Claus	11.112 quadrillion (1414)	12.077 billion

Upgrades

Purchasing "A festive hat" or upgrading Santa's level to a stage that is not "Final Claus" will randomly unlock one of the other fourteen upgrades (excluding "Santa's dominion") below. Their price raises each time you upgrade Santa, starting with 2,525 cookies and tripling with every Santa level. Note that this also affects upgrades you unlocked previously but haven't purchased yet. Once Santa reaches his "Final Claus" form, "Santa's dominion" will be unlocked.

Santa upgrades

Icon	Name	Unlock condition	Base price	Description	ID
	A festive hat	25 cookies baked during Christmas season	25	Unlocks... something. "Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."	152
	Increased merriness	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3S	Cookie production multiplier +15%. Cost scales with Santa level. "It turns out that the key to increased merriness, strangely enough, happens to be a good campfire and some s'mores. You know what they say, after all; the s'more, the merrier."	153
	Improved jolliness	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3S	Cookie production multiplier +15%. Cost scales with Santa level. "A nice wobbly belly goes a long way. You jolly?"	154
	A lump of coal	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3S	Cookie production multiplier +1%. Cost scales with Santa level. "Some of the world's worst stocking stuffing. I guess you could try starting your own little industrial revolution, or something?..."	155
	An itchy sweater	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3S	Cookie production multiplier +1%. Cost scales with Santa level. "You don't know what's worse : the embarrassingly quaint "elf on reindeer" motif, or the fact that wearing it makes you feel like you're wrapped in a dead sasquatch.	156
	Reindeer baking grounds	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3S	Reindeer appear twice as frequently. "Male reindeer are from Mars; female reindeer are from venison."	157
	Weighted sleighs	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3S	Reindeer are twice as slow. Cost scales with Santa level. "Hope it was worth the weight. (Something something forced into cervidude)"	158
	Ho ho ho-flavored frosting	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3S	Reindeer give twice as much. Cost scales with Santa level. "It's time to up the antler."	159
	Season savings	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3S	All buildings are 1% cheaper. Cost scales with Santa level. "By Santa's beard, what savings! But who will save us?"	160
	Toy workshop	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3S	All upgrades are 5% cheaper. Cost scales with Santa level. "Watch yours-elf around elvesdroppers who might steal our production secrets. Or elven worse!"	161
	Naughty list	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3S	Grandmas are twice as productive. Cost scales with Santa level. "This list contains every unholy deed perpetuated by grandmakind. He won't be checking this one twice. Once. Once is enough."	162
	Santa's bottomless bag	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3S	Random drops are 10% more common. Cost scales with Santa level. "This is one bottom you can't check out."	163
	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
	Santa's legacy	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3S	Cookie production multiplier +3% per Santa's levels. Cost scales with Santa level. "In the north pole, you gotta get the elves first. Then when you get the elves, you start making the toys. Then when you get the toys... then you get the cookies."	165
	Santa's milk and cookies	Purchasing "A festive hat" or evolving Santa	2,525 × 3S	Milk is 5% more powerful. Cost scales with Santa level. "Part of Santa's dreadfully unbalanced diet."	166
	Santa's dominion	Reach the final stage of Santa	2.525 quadrillion	Cookie production multiplier +20%. All buildings are 1% cheaper. All upgrades are 2% cheaper. "My name is Claus, king of kings; Look on my toys, ye Mighty, and despair!"	168

Purchasing every Santa upgrade results in:

• Cookie production ×235%
• Milk increased by 5%
• 1.99% cheaper buildings
• 6.9% cheaper upgrades
• 10% more powerful clicking (in addition to cookie production multipliers)
• Reindeer appear twice as frequently, give twice as many cookies and are twice as slow.
• Random drops are 10% common
• Grandmas are twice as productive

Trivia

• It costs approximately 14 quadrillion cookies to unlock and purchase everything for the season.
• Nick is a reference to Saint Nicholas, a predecessor of Santa Claus.
• 'Final Claus' is likely a play on the term 'Final Clause,' or a 'Clause of Purpose,' a dependent adverbial clause expressing purpose.
• 'Final Claus' is vaguely similar to the final boss of Kirby's Dream Land 3, Zero, or Vaati Transfigured from The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap and The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords.
  • The icon for Santa's dominion also loosely resembles the 2nd form for the final boss of Kirby's Dreamland 2 and the penultimate boss of Kirby's Dreamland 3, Dark Matter.
• The description of Santa's dominion is a reference to the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem "Ozymandias".
• The description of Santa's Legacy is a reference to the movie Scarface.
• The description of Weighted Sleighs refers to Cervidae, the scientific name of the deer family.
• The description of Weighted Sleighs may also refer to a popular Gabe Newell phrase: "Hopefully, it will have been worth the wait."
• The sequence used for the Santa evolution prices has a name - the 'fz-n' sequence. Googology Wiki