Time Machine
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The Time Machine is the twelfth building in Cookie Clicker, costs 14 trillion cookies and produces 65 million CpS by recovering cookies from the past before they were even eaten.
Achievements
Upgrades
Other Upgrades
In Cookie Clicker Classic
Two images from the Classic version, left: icon shown in the store, right: appearance in the middle field |
The time machine costs 123,456,789 cookies, and is the most expensive of all the items, at their base levels. It produces 123,456 cookies per 5 seconds.
Adding 24,691.2 CpS (cookies per second), it is approximately 18.5203 times quicker than the Portal. It also makes some grandmas wear a pink jumpsuit with a visor, a hoverboard, and a green rolling pin, making some players assume that these grandmas came from the future.
Gallery
Trivia
- Since the full release of Cookie Clicker, the time machine was the only building to have a store icon completely different from its appearance in the buildings overview. With the release of the Javascript Console as well as You there are now three.
- Until v2, when the prices and yields were adjusted to account for the new buildings, all of the base costs and yields associated with the time machine were made up of sequential numbers just like Cookie Clicker Classic. Counting forwards from 1 to 9, backwards from 9 to 1 or even from 9 down to 4 then up to 9 again.
- The upgrade "cookie clicker forever and forever a hundred years cookie clicker, all day long forever, forever a hundred times, over and over cookie clicker adventures dot com" is one of the few achievement/upgrade titles in the game to not start with a capital character.
References
- The time machine's store icon is based on the Marie-Antoinette watch.
- The time machine model since 1.0 update loosely resembles the clockpunk designs used in films based on the novel The Time Machine.
- The background of this building in the building overview was likely inspired by the time machine sequences in the media franchise Doraemon.
- The achievement "Heat death" is a reference to the hypothetical heat death of the universe.
- The achievement "cookie clicker forever and forever a hundred years cookie clicker, all day long forever, forever a hundred times, over and over cookie clicker adventures dot com" is a reference to the adult cartoon series Rick and Morty.
- The achievement "Invited to yesterday's party" may be a reference to an experiment performed by physicist Stephen Hawking where he held a party but only gave out invitations after the party had ended, so only time travelers could attend.
- The achievement "Groundhog day" is a reference to the 1993 time-travel movie Groundhog Day.
- The achievement "The years start coming" is a reference to the song "All Star" by Smash Mouth.
- The achievement "Cavemen to cosmos" is a reference to a popular mod for Civilization IV.
- The achievement "But the future refused to change" is a reference to the 1995 video game Chrono Trigger.
- The achievement "Be kind, rewind" is a reference to the identical phrase that refers to rewinding VHS tapes.
- The "Flux capacitors" upgrade and its flavor text ("Bake to the future.") are references to the 1985 time-travel film Back to the Future.
- The flavor text for the "Time paradox resolver" upgrade ("No more fooling around with your own grandmother!") may be a reference to episode 51 of the show Futurama or to the more general grandfather paradox.
- The "Quantum conundrum" upgrade and its flavor text are a reference to the 2012 video game of the same name.