In the late game, the only practical way to keep advancing is through the Garden and crops of Bakeberries.
So, use your sugar lumps to upsize the Garden, get the Bakeberry seed and start planting/harvesting.
You’ll want to harvest when your rate is high (e.g. frenzy/building special combo), and you have a ton of cookies in the bank (because the Bakeberry harvest is constrained to 3% of bank).
They did it again - for those of you who haven’t paid attention lately, the Idleverse level (convert things from parallel universe games into cookies) was added on 11/1. Either I was lucky, or it was intentionally done this way, but I got the Idleverse-based fortune right away; all I need is 861 quindecillion cookies to activate it.
I’ve been meaning to bump this myself. Also new is the Stock Exchange minigame, unlocked by leveling up banks. There are 16 different commodities, loosely corresponding to the buildings, that continually vary in price. All are priced in "", which is defined as the highest CPS you've ever had this ascension (so you can't sell off all of your buildings to drive down the value of the to buy commodities cheaply).
Each has a “natural price”, that they’ll usually be close to: Assuming level 10 buildings, it’s $19 for the cheapest commodity, $29 for the next cheapest, and so on to $159 and $169 for the most expensive. But sometimes, they’ll go into a nosedive or a meteoric climb, and get to much higher or lower than their natural price.
If you’re just restarting, and gaining access to the new building tier and upgrades, your CPS is likely to grow by a lot, so start by investing a lot in the market, even for things above “market price”, because you’ll sell them in more valuable $. After that, buy whenever they’re significantly lower than natural price, and sell whenever they’re significantly higher.
Oh, and also start by upgrading your “brokers” (grannies who reduce your transaction overhead) and “office” as far as you can.
The stock market also lets you take out your choice of three “loans”, that temporarily increase your CPS at the cost of decreasing it for a longer time. By themselves, they’re a horrible deal, but they can be used to make a super-combo (double frenzy click frenzy, or whatever) even more super.
…Hm, apparently Discourse interprets quote-mark-dollar-sign-quote-mark as… something. The sentence that starts “all are priced in…” should have a dollar sign in it.
Eight years later, Cookie Clicker is now on Steam. The free web version is still available in the usual place.
I did a reincarnate about three months ago; after getting all of the fortunes, and 500 of everything except Javascript Consoles (450) and Idleverses (420), I pretty much reached a wall. My pre-wrinkler rate is 46.3 trillion/second, with both Golden Switch and Shimmering Veil on, Breath of Milk, Radiant Appetite, and the Pantheon has Moklasium 10%, Skruuia 100%, and Holobore 5%. Right now, I am waiting for Christmas season, as the Santa bonuses seem to give the most benefit.
You know that you can just turn on the seasons whenever you want, right?
Question for the old-timers: I have found 17 of the 20 Easter eggs through popping wrinklers, but I have popped about 200 of them since I got the 17th egg, and the last three just aren’t appearing:
Golden Goose Egg
Cookie Egg
“egg”
Is there some restricton on these - for example, I have to click on Golden Cookies (which I have turned off) to get them?
So far as I know, there are no special requirements for any of the Easter eggs.
If you don’t consider it cheating, one thing you can do is wait until you have a full set of wrinklers, and then open the game in a bunch of different tabs/windows, and pop the wrinklers in all of them. Whichever one gets the best results, keep open, and close all the rest.
It would help if you put Selebrak in your diamond worship slot. And do what Chronos said.
Finally got the last two eggs. Apparently, it turned into the “Coupon Problem,” where, if any coupon you receive has an equal chance of being one of N coupons, how many coupons are you expected to need to get before you have one of each one; the 20th cookie needs about twice as many wrinklers popped as the 19th.
Here’s my weekly (true!) run finale. Simultaneous Click Frenzy, Elder Frenzy, and 3 Building Specials. Also, Sugar Frenzy and Golden Switch are on.
Even at the start of the video, you had 1000x more CpS than I have cookies. At least I’m not the only one that realizes the Power of Kittens, with the milk spirit in the top slot of the pantheon.
I know, I know…Bakeberries, right?
It’s so satisfying to jump up from single digits to triple digits regardless how many -illions you have. Well done.
No, it’s the FtHoF combos. You watched the video to the end?
I’m still kicking myself that, A, I didn’t discover the exponential strategies when they first became possible, and B, that once I did discover them, I satisfied myself with just getting enough cookies for all of the (at the time) achievements, instead of going for a googol, before they were patched out. Who needs picayune trifles like getting a century’s worth of production in two minutes, when you can go exponential instead?
Ok, so I’d clicked about 1500 cookies before I realised that I had to click somewhere else, and get a cursor or grandma.
I wish they’d made that clearer.
Or a few hundred of them. Plus a bunch of other buildings.
They do at least label that right-side pane “Store”.
Looks like they’ve added a new level at the end of May - Cortex Bakers (they literally think cookies into existence). The corresponding fortune costs 130 sexdecillion, so unless you’re up near that level, O Fortuna just became much harder to obtain - consider that when you decide whether or not to reincarnate.
Speaking of which, there are a few new heavenly abilities available.
What, am I the only one still playing this?
They have added what they claim will be the last building level - “You”. Future upgrades will be minigames for the existing buildings, similar to the Stock Market and the Garden.
Be warned: when I got the upgrade, it reset my Krumblor one level - I had to sacrifice 200 of everything, including having to buy 200 Yous, to get the “two auras at once” ability back.