Advanced Ascension & Combo Guide

(Mobile Cookie Clicker V.8)

(Author: Jessie [Discord: bibikuranushi])

(People who helped: Goob [goobanator], Limes [limes5402], Nash [nashowan], Agile [agilecapegirl])

[Last Updated: February 20th, 2025]

(for a more basic ascension guide, click HERE, this one is meant to give more in-depth explanations for the most commonly played game stages)

Beginning Notes

This guide is meant as a summary of all important gameplay elements for Mobile Cookie Clicker (v8), which is available on Google Play Store (the iOS version is currently in development according to the dev but no solid release date yet). This is the official version of the game that you likely know from PC.

This guide is written up until the end of Lategame (the end of the Heavenly Tree), as most strategies beyond that point become increasingly insufficient to progress further, without spending thousands of hours in the game.

It’s also written with ACTIVE PLAY in the Competitive Ruleset in mind (speak: No Autoclicker, No Savescumming, No Modding the game, No Timeskipping, No Save Editing, current Leaderboard available HERE).

If you like using any of the above mentioned methods or like playing the game more as an Idle game, feel free to play the game the way you personally enjoy, just know this guide’s info will likely be somewhat limited for your playstyle.

It should be noted however, that currently without Timeskipping or Save Editing, achieving 100% completion is humanly impossible in the current Mobile Version of the game, until an update releases which would change that fact. This is not a plea for you to become the first person to achieve this, trust me on this one, it is provable to be impossible. At the time of writing this, the highest anyone has ever reached in the Competitive Ruleset is a completion of 98.2% of all achievements, and even with Autoclicker and Savescumming, that number only rises up to 99.1% of all achievements. Those last few percentages are harder than EVERYTHING ELSE in the game. So keep your goals reasonable.

Note that some abbreviations will be used from time to time in this guide, I will always introduce the concept in detail first before using any shortened versions.

With all that out of the way:

The Earlygame (The First Two Ascensions)

If you’re new to the game, you likely don’t know much about this game’s various systems. Let me start with one of the most important ones for the sake of this guide:

Ascension

There’s a high chance you’ll see this on your Special Tab:

Once you reach 1 Trillion cookies baked total (often also written as “Cookies Baked All Time” or shortened “CBAT”), this option will display a menu that should say

“Ascend will grant you 1 prestige”

Do Not Press This Button Yet.

I repeat:

DO NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON YET

Doing so will convert all your baked cookies into “heavenly chips”/prestige, while otherwise resetting your run. Each single prestige gives a 1% boost on all future runs/ascensions (additively, so 5 prestige will be a 5% boost, etc.), and each heavenly chip you get (1 prestige translates to 1 heavenly chip) can be spent on upgrades that will be kept in all future runs/ascensions. Achievements, stats etc. (aside from your cookies baked totals) will be kept, so don’t worry about losing those.

This may sound good on paper, but since you would reset most of what you did previously and start over with only a meager 1% boost, you would end up wasting several hours getting back to this point.

Instead, it’s highly recommended for you to wait until you can obtain at least 196 prestige before you ascend for the first time. This translates roughly to 7.529 Quintillion Cookies Baked All Time (CBAT), which may SOUND like a lot, but I promise this goal is a lot more reachable than it may seem, especially if you play actively and optimally. (I’ll get to how to do that, don’t worry.)

So get to the next point:

Achievements

First up, you should get a few of the easy achievements, since in this game, the amount of achievements you have can boost the production of some of your upgrades, notably any of the “Kitten” upgrades, and this boost is not negligible, every single achievement (with only a few exceptions) is worth a lot.

A list of easy achievements can be found HERE.

Buildings

Buildings are one of your main ways to progress, since clicking the Big Cookie alone won’t be enough to get you very far.

Furthermore, Buildings unlock both achievements and upgrades whenever they reach certain number thresholds:

1, 5, 15, 25, 50, 100, 150, 200, etc.

(For example, getting to 50 Grandmas will grant you an achievement and unlock an upgrade in the shop.)

As such, it is highly recommended to keep buying all types of buildings even when their gains alone don’t seem particularly impressive.

Three ways to get a decent feeling for how many buildings to buy especially early on are:

Keep your building prices relatively even, they shouldn’t necessarily have to be the exact same, but if one building costs more than around 20 times what another building costs, you’re likely doing something wrong, at least earlygame.
If you want to buy a new building you don’t have yet, make sure to buy at least up to 15 of the previous building.
Do not underestimate Cursors. They are very weak in the first 20 minutes or so but the upgrades you unlock from keeping on buying Cursors up to the next Threshold makes them one of your strongest and most consistent buildings for not just earlygame but almost your entirety playing this game.

Clicking

Of course, unless you’re playing Idle, you may obviously want to click the cookie quite a lot. Towards the start of the game, it may seem insufficient, but there are plenty of upgrades that boost Click Power dependant on your Cookies per Second (CpS) value.

But that’s not all! Remember, this is Mobile Cookie Clicker! We don’t have a single mouse, we have a touchscreen and several fingers to utilize!

Multitapping is the act of using as many fingers as you can possibly fit on the cookie hitbox at the same time. This may seem overkill, but depending on how high your tapping speed is with each finger and how many clicking upgrades you have, this can multiply your output by a lot! If you’re at home, or somewhere, where you can easily lay down your phone and tap with 6, 8, maybe even 10 fingers, then you can easily functionally multiply your output by over 5 times as much as you would normally gain, even earlygame.

Just make sure not to overdo it too much, you don’t want Carpal Tunnel for the sake of a cookie clicking game, so if you feel like you’ve clicked a ton and your hands/arms feel tired, it might be worth taking a break and just stretching your arms and fingers a little.

But luckily for you, you don’t need to click 24/7 to gain the most out of your clicks, because we have:

Golden Cookies

Golden Cookies (GCs) are objects that pop up from time to time on the cookie screen and when clicked apply a variety of effects.

The 4 most notable effects are:

Frenzy (F): A 7× CpS multiplier that lasts for 77 seconds (incredibly good for clicking the big cookie in that time, especially once you have any amount of upgrades that boost your Click Power)
Lucky (L): A quick burst of cookies that depends on how many cookies you have banked (the big number at the top) and your CpS, more info a bit below.
Click Frenzy (CF): A 777× multiplier for only your Click Power, that lasts for 13 seconds! Multitapping becomes very important here.
Building Special (BS): A 30 second long multiplier that chooses one of your buildings that you have at least 10 of, then gives you a 10% boost for each of that building type. As an example, let’s say you have 120 Cursors and it gives you the Cursor BS, that means it adds +1200% to your CpS, which functionally translates to a ×13 multiplier, with the way the math works out.

There are also Cookie Storm (CS) and Cookie chain, which also are both very good positive effects, but at least in earlygame, both of them are rather unlikely in comparison, and you shouldn’t have to rely on them or expect them very often. There’s also an effect called “Blab”, that just displays a random text box with some funny text and nothing else, but you’re extremely unlikely to even get that one earlygame.

As you can probably see, the effects are strong, and I urge you to click. every. golden cookie. Not only do they give you these benefits, clicking enough of them also unlocks not just achievements but also upgrades, which make them appear more frequently and make their buffs last twice as long! For those you have to click 7, 27 and 77 GCs respectively. The first 7 are the hardest usually due to their relatively slow time to appear until you buy that first upgrade. Either way, unlocking these upgrades and buying them as soon as they are in your price range should be your #1 priority.

But how do you effectively use GCs?

Luckymaxxing

As mentioned before, the “Lucky” effect grants you cookies based on your bank and your CpS. It calculates what 15 minutes (or 900 seconds) of your CpS would be, then compares it to 15% of your bank, and then gives you whichever of those two numbers is lower (unless you are at 0 for either of those, in which case it gives you 13 cookies).

The way to maximize this gain is by building up your bank until you have 100 minutes of your CpS in your bank, or in other words, you take your CpS and multiply it by 6,000, and that’s what your bank should be at the very least, and you should try to almost never dip below that number. And this sounds tedious, I know, but consider that almost every second GC gives you a Lucky. So maximizing the number you get from one is really important, especially if your GCs are still less frequent. Trust me, multitapping during a few Frenzies should get you there in a decent while, I’d be surprised if it took you very long.

Once you obtain the third big GC upgrade that you unlock by clicking 77 of them, that’s when you get maybe the biggest reward possible:

Frenzyluckymaxxing

The moment you buy the third GC upgrade, Frenzies become long enough that towards the end of them, a second GC will already spawn while the Frenzy is still going. This means, whatever effect you get from that second GC, it will apply to your buffed CpS from the Frenzy.

One of the most important effect combos that can happen earlygame is Frenzy+Lucky (F+L). If maximized, the Lucky will grant you 105 minutes of your base CpS, and this is the single most common combination of effects that can occur (it’s a 74% chance for the effect after a Frenzy to be a Lucky), so it is in your best interest to maximize this gain.

To get to the bank total needed, you need 700 minutes of your base CpS, or in other words 42,000 times your base CpS. This may seem like much, but multitapping + the fact that Frenzies now last over two and a half minutes makes this much more viable to get to in a reasonable amount of time. Make sure to never drop below that total in the earlygame, unless you absolutely have to.

But while this is the most important combo when it comes to strategy, it’s not the most powerful one overall for this stage of the game, that title goes to:

Frenzy + Click Frenzy (F+CF)

It’s only a 4.23% chance to happen, but earlygame is long enough that it will happen at some point, a GC will spawn towards the end of a Frenzy, and you will get a pop up that says “Click Frenzy”. Both of these effects will multiply for a power level of over 5000 times what you could normally put out, for the short time that the effects overlap. Especially if you Multitap, this will give you so many cookies, you won’t know what to do with them at first.

Make sure to spend them on big important things, things that multiply your CpS by huge numbers, Cursor upgrades, upgrades for your latest buildings, new buildings in general. But just make sure you keep an eye on your bank and your CpS, and to never drop below 42,000 times your CpS, you don’t want to have to build up to that number again.

Getting F+CF even once can save you several hours of playtime at this stage of the game, treasure that feeling!

The Quadrillion Mark (Research Center & the Grandmapocalypse)

Around the time you reach 1 Quadrillion CBAT, you’ll unlock the Research Center, a feature in the Special Tab that will gradually unlock Research upgrades that cost Quadrillions of cookies and take 30 minutes to research before you can gain them. At first this will seem rather straightforward, a 1% upgrade to your CpS here, doubling your Grandmas’ CpS there, nothing out of the ordinary

But eventually you’ll get the option to research “One Mind” (which will even display spoOoOoOoky red text underneath that tells you it's a bad idea to buy it.)

Doing so will force you into something called the Grandmapocalypse (if you are genuinely scared, there is an option in the settings to turn Scary Stuff off, which will make the Grandmas just look mildly cartoonishly angry instead). This has some positive and some negative effects.

For what it’s worth, the only thing you need to know is that unless you’re playing VERY Idle, purchasing One Mind and starting the Grandmapocalypse is not worth doing Earlygame.

I will go over the benefits and downsides of Grandmapocalypse in more detail in the Lategame section but for now you only need to know four things:

The further you progress the Research past One Mind, the better the upgrades from it get, but the most expensive one costs 256 Quadrillion cookies.
While in the Grandmapocalypse, these small critters called “Wrinklers” will attach themselves to your cookie and eat some of the cookies you’re generating. But you can pop a Wrinkler by tapping it three times, and it will explode into much more cookies than it ate. This is largely why the Grandmapocalypse is useful for Idle players, since you can let as many as possible spawn and whenever you come online again, pop them all for what’s essentially more than you would’ve generated otherwise.
After researching the final most expensive research upgrade for 256 Quadrillion, you are given an option to end the Grandmapocalypse anytime you choose to do so, but due to its rather high price for this stage and the fact researching it takes 30 minutes, this can functionally trap you in it for a decent while.
While the Grandmapocalypse is happening, the further you research and the more Angered the Grandmas become, more and more of your Golden Cookies will be replaced with these things called Wrath Cookies, which have some beneficial effects but also many detrimental effects and which also cannot spawn a normal Frenzy. This is a large reason why the Grandmapocalypse isn’t recommended for active players, you REALLY don’t want your combos messed with.

All in all, if you’re an active player, there is no downside to purchasing the Research Center and the first 4 Research upgrade, just make absolutely sure not to purchase One Mind during the Earlygame.

But, let’s say you started the grandmapocalypse already without knowing better, and you DO want to play actively, and don’t want to wait until you have enough cookies for the final upgrade, so what now?

Luckily, you can temporarily pause the grandmapocalypse while it’s active by selling all of your grandmas. You will keep unlocking research upgrades surprisingly enough, but you won’t get any Wrath Cookies or Wrinklers anymore until you buy at least 1 grandma again this ascension. This will lower your CpS a bit, but if you want to get GC combos immediately, this is your best bet, if you’ve already gotten One Mind.

I’m at 196 prestige, what now?

Congrats! This likely took some time and effort, the first ascension is one of the harder ones, especially due to all the mechanics it throws at you.

Make sure to buy up to as many building thresholds as you possibly can with your remaining cookies to get some achievements. One of the most important things, if you somehow haven’t done so yet, is to buy up to 250 Cursors for about 150 Quadrillion cookies and get the Quintillion Fingers upgrade. Trust me, you’ll need that upgrade, even if you’re “resetting” everything.

Finally, make sure to just click one more set of Golden Cookies. If you hit that 4% chance of F+CF, you’ll be VERY happy that you did, cause that’ll allow you to ascend with even more prestige. (But make sure to keep it at only that one small set of Golden Cookies. Trust me, all the numbers have been tested, you shouldn’t grind too long for a number far bigger than 196.)

Once all that is done. You can press the big button and

A S C E N D

You’re now gonna be on the Heavenly Tree screen, which allows you to pick upgrades to permanently unlock for all future Ascensions by using Heavenly Chips. The number 196 was chosen very deliberately, as it allows for a specific set of important upgrades, which I’ll list and explain (with their prestige prices in parentheses):

Legacy (1): The “main” upgrade that unlocks everything else, it’s what gives you that 1% boost for every prestige you gained, and currently it grants you a +196% boost, or in other words, a ×2.96 multiplier for the next ascension.
How to bake your dragon (9): This one doesn’t give much of a description but this will unlock Krumblor the Dragon. I’ll go over what he can do in the next section. Trust me, he’s friendly.
Heavenly Cookies (3): A 10% CpS multiplier.
Box of Macarons (25), Box of Brand Biscuits (25) and Tin of British Tea Biscuits (25) (75 combined): These will unlock several additional flavored cookie upgrades to buy on your next ascension, their combined boost is relatively strong. Don’t buy Tin of Butter Cookies yet. That one also unlocks flavored cookies, but all of those will be quite a bit out of your price range for the next ascension, so it’s not worth getting yet.
Permanent upgrade slot I (100): Incredibly important, this allows you to keep one of the upgrades from your previous ascension for the next one, so that you’ll have it immediately at the start of the run. IMPORTANT NOTE: Make sure to press on this upgrade again to actually assign the upgrade you want. Ideally you should assign the Quintillion Fingers upgrade you bought by getting 250 Cursors here, since it’s gonna be by far the biggest boost to your production. (You can find more detailed info about Permanent upgrade slots, or in short “Permaslots” in this guide.)
Power clicks (1) and Angels (7): A set of currently mobile exclusive upgrades that allow you to generate something called Power Clicks (PCs) by not playing the game. I’ll go over what they do at the start of the next section.

Make sure you bought all 8 of these upgrades and you actually assigned Quintillion Fingers before you do anything else. If you want you can also read the effects of the surrounding upgrades and get a rough idea where things might be going.

Your Heavenly Tree should look like this ideally now:

If everything is in place, you can now finally press the big “Reincarnate” button.

Ascension 2

Your next goal should be to ascend with 1186 more prestige or in other words, 1382 total, if you combine it with your previous amount. You’ll roughly need 2.63 Sextillion cookies CBTA for that, which sounds like a lot, but if you play VERY optimally this can easily take only under 3 hours of playtime.

Lemme introduce all the stuff you just gained:

Power Clicks (PCs) are now a resource that you can assign via a quick button onto the Cookie screen, that will recharge up to 10 (Base Maximum after all upgrades will be 40), with 1 PC per 28 minutes (Max Speed after all upgrades will be 1 every 15 minutes). They grant various effects depending on how you use them:

When clicking the Big Cookie with one, it counts as 2 clicks (Maximum after all upgrades will be 9 clicks), and grants a +5% CpS buff for 10 seconds (Base Maximum after all upgrades will be +17% for 45 seconds)
When clicking a Golden/Wrath Cookie, it boosts whatever effect you would gain from it by 20%
When clicking a Wrinkler, the Wrinkler pops instantly and explodes into 20% more cookies.
You can’t use PCs on the Big Cookie during a Click Frenzy (however you can still Power Click a Golden Cookie/Wrath Cookie/Wrinkler during a Click Frenzy). This is meant as a balancing mechanism presumably, but ends up functionally just making Click Frenzies worse for no reason.

Right now these are mostly just a gimmick, but they have a very specific unique function that will help you on this ascension and some parts of Midgame if you happen to play very Idle, more on that later.

The one other thing you unlocked is Krumblor. Once you’ve earned 1 million cookies this ascension, you’ll unlock the “A crumbly egg” upgrade in the shop, which will start a sort of sidequest on the Special Tab, that will grant you several upsides over the course of doing it.

At the start, you’ll have to pay roughly 31 million to hatch the egg and train what’s called a “Dragon Aura”. These Auras can be assigned via a quick button to the Cookie Tab, but for now you can only use one at a time, and you unlock each Aura by sacrificing 100 of its associated building type to Krumblor. This is ideally done when your building count is just high enough to do so but not any higher than 100, since that means the building price will be a lot lower than if you were to sacrifice at a higher number.

If you want to learn all the in-depth mechanics of the Krumblor Auras and which ones to use when, there’s a nifty little guide for you to check out HERE.

If you want just the most important bits for this ascension, here’s the TL;DR:

Breath of Milk (BoM), the Kitten Aura will be unlocked after the first 31 million cookies are given to Krumblor, and will give you a decent boost in CpS when equipped
Dragonflight (DF), the Shipment Aura will be unlocked after sacrificing 100 Shipments (min. price: 40 Quadrillion cookies), and will give you the odds to trigger the “Dragonflight” buff when clicking a GC while the Aura is equipped, and Dragonflight is almost a strictly better Click Frenzy in almost every single way, giving a ×1111 boost to your click power for 10 seconds at its base strength (20 if you have the third Golden Cookie upgrade already). AND it’s almost twice as likely to appear. AND you can use PCs during it. AND you can upgrade it later to become a ×1223 click power boost instead.
Get comfortable with the idea of quickly swapping Auras depending on the situation, using the quick button on the cookie screen, even despite the fact that doing so costs 1 of your building lowest on the list, it’s genuinely worth doing, even with bad execution. Right now the main use is to keep the DF Aura on as you click GCs, and if you get a Dragonflight, switch to the BoM Aura, then once you’re done clicking and the buff is over, switch back to the DF Aura before you decide what to do with the cookies you gained.

Other than all of that, this ascension’s main strategies are relatively similar, with some exceptions:

You should prioritize cursor upgrades like nothing else until you have 200 Cursors, the moment you have a decent enough CpS + Clickrate to buy a Cursor upgrade in a minute or two, you should 100% go for it. Once you have Thousand Fingers and beyond, the Quintillion Fingers you put into your Permaslot should activate and skyrocket your CpS for every cursor upgrade up until (and including) the 200 cursors one.

Furthermore, getting the 3 GC upgrade should be trivial this time, since you already unlocked them all, and the Quintillion Fingers boost I just mentioned should easily get you into the range to buy all 3 of them in under half an hour easily.

Once that’s done, prioritize getting the Dragonflight Aura for around 40 Quadrillion cookies. This one might be a bit harder, you may need to Frenzyluckymaxx your way there for a couple of minutes, but it should be doable.

And once you have the Dragonflight Aura, things should go a lot smoother:

Dragonflight/Click Frenzy Combos

Due to the increased chance of an extremely high Click Power Multiplier, thanks to your new Aura as well as the concept of swapping to BoM mid-combo, you can get through the rest of this ascension so fast (unless you get EXTREMELY unlucky). Getting Frenzy + Dragonflight (F+DF) or Frenzy + Click Frenzy (F+CF) will be what drives your ascension forward the most by far. But make sure to Frenzyluckymaxx despite that, just to make sure in case your luck turns out to be less than desirable.

Buildings

Once you have the Dragonflight Aura, focus on mostly buying and upgrading the buildings from Antimatter Condensers onwards. Especially once you unlock them, Fractal Engines will become so unbelievably strong, even more so than the next building after them, that it’s worth it to prioritize all Fractal Engine upgrades up to the 25 building one over even the 300 Cursor upgrade (although you should still get that one, so that you can put that Cursor upgrade into your permanent slot for the next ascension once you ascend again.)

What to do as an Idle Player

This is a bit of an exception, but it’s worth mentioning since it’s kind of unique to the Idle Playstyle for now. (An advanced version of this strategy will become available later on in Midgame and some early parts of Lategame for even Active players.)

If you play Idle, make sure to purchase all Grandmapocalypse upgrade until Elder Pact, and once that is done, let as many wrinklers as possible spawn (the current maximum is 10).

Then, before you go offline, change your Dragon Aura to BoM if you haven’t yet done so, to boost how high your CpS is, which will also boost how much the wrinklers will eat.

Once at least 5 hours have passed (probably more if you went to sleep), you’ll likely come online to 10 wrinklers that look ripe for the picking.

Turn Powerclicks on and Powerclick every single one of the 10 wrinklers. That should grant you a ton of additional cookies. Afterwards, buy as many STRONG upgrades and buildings as you can before letting Wrinklers spawn again. Repeat as many times as you need, it’s still less optimal than playing actively, but the increase is still very noteworthy compared to before.

I can finally ascend with 1186 more prestige!

Great job! Make sure to again, buy up to any building thresholds (most importantly the 300 cursor one for said upgrade), and make sure to again, get in just one single additional pair of GCs, in case you get an F+CF or an F+DF on this specific try.

If you didn’t, that’s fine too, 1186 more prestige is more than enough to start the next stage of the game!

So once all that is done, you can finally

A S C E N D

With 1186 more heavenly chips, you need to prioritize 3 upgrades:

Season Switcher (1111): You may have encountered seasons (which are themed after various holidays) naturally if you happened to play at the right time of year, but this will allow you to gain access to every season at any time of year, for functionally free! And trust me, that is VERY worth it.
Tin of Butter Cookies (25): You’re now slowly in the range where you can actually buy the Flavored Cookies from this upgrade. But that’s not the main reason you’re buying this, because doing so actually unlocks the next heavenly upgrade:
Starter Kit (50): You will now start with 10 cursors every run. This doesn’t sound like much, but due to how this is coded into the game, it functionally makes every single Cursor threshold about 4× as cheap in price as before which is unbelievably valuable.

Make sure to also put Sextillion Fingers into the Permanent upgrade slot before you Reincarnate, Quintillion Fingers is fine but Sextillion Fingers is just strictly better.

Here’s an upgraded image of the Heavenly Tree to reference after Ascension 2:

Now that you’re done with doing all this, congrats! Once you Reincarnate, you will finally enter:

The Midgame (The Ascension Spam)

This stage of the game will go much faster than before. Rather than wait for specific numbered thresholds, you should ascend early and often.

Ideally, the strategy is to multiply your prestige by at least ×2 every ascension, with higher multipliers becoming increasingly easier and easier the further you go!

I will give a “brief” introduction for the most important upgrade you just unlocked: The Season Switcher (for a far more detailed guide on Seasons & More, click HERE.)

Seasons have various upgrades that can randomly drop from various sources (Christmas has Reindeers, Halloween has Wrinklers, Easter has Golden Cookies and Wrinklers), and some even have their own unique gimmicks like Christmas having Santa, who you can level up to get upgrades.

Right now, the ideal way to use the Season Switcher is to get your bank as high as you possibly can in a minute or two by buying as much stuff as you can (ideally at least a teensy bit more than 1 Sextillion, if you’re on your third ascension 1 Quintillion or 1 Quadrillion is fine too), then selling all of your buildings down to 0. The Season Switcher’s prices are affected by your CpS, so lowering your CpS will lower the prices down to a meager 1 Billion cookies, which should be easy to buy over and over.

You should first go to Easter and do the following thing:

You see these rolling pins at the top of the final 3 tabs? You can interact with them actually by rolling them up and down, and now that you have seasons easily available, doing so actually has a chance to give you free stuff (and you’ll get even more free stuff from the rolling pins once you have a later Heavenly Upgrade). Just roll each of the pins up and down twice each, if it doesn’t drop anything, you can move on to the next one, if it does drop something, keep rolling until it’s done giving you stuff!

Similarly:

Tapping Mini-Orteil’s text box on the Misc screen also has a small chance to give you free stuff! Tapping it about 30-50 or so times or so without getting anything should be more than enough to guarantee you got all the stuff he can drop (which may or may not be 0 upgrades, it’s all random).

Once that’s done, you go to Halloween and repeat this whole thing with the rolling pins and Mini-Orteil there too.

After that, you should enter Valentine’s day. (Note: Currently Valentine’s day doesn’t give you anything from the rolling pins and Orteil, but later on once you get the “Fortunes” Heavenly Upgrade, it has the chance to do so, so keep in mind to also check Valentine’s for that stuff in the future).

Go in the shop and purchase as many of the heart cookies as you possibly can (and wait for the next one that you can’t buy yet to spawn in the shop). These go up to 1 Septillion in price.

Once that’s done, go to Christmas as your last season and as your main season to stay in for the rest of the ascension. (Business day also exists and HAS a use outside of unique visuals, but that use only becomes noteworthy later on.)

Roll the pins here in Christmas and spam-tap Orteil for any upgrades, and once that’s done, go to the shop and buy A festive hat, as well as any upgrades that you unlocked whose prices got lowered due to your 0 CpS, then you can finally buy back all your buildings.

Make sure to upgrade Santa on the Special Tab to his final form by giving him cookies and buy all the upgrades he unlocks in the shop, doing so will grant a MASSIVE CpS boost.

Then, just do the same strategies as you did on Ascension 2, while clicking the Reindeers that pass by every now and then.

Once you unlock Radiant Appetite (the Prism Aura, which grants ×2 CpS) and the Golden Switch (a later heavenly upgrade that, if turned on, gives you really good CpS boost) you can optimize the Dragonflight combo farming even more by turning on the Golden Switch and switching to Radiant Appetite or (if you have two Aura slots already) Radiant Appetite + Breath of Milk mid-combo once you have a Dragonflight or Click Frenzy already.

Keep going until you can double your prestige by ascending, do the same end-of-ascension procedures as you did in earlygame, and then ascend. You can keep doing this until you have about 8 Trillion prestige, in theory if you play actively this should go unbelievably fast, and you should gain hundreds of upgrades of upgrades and achievements doing so.

What heavenly upgrades do I buy?

There’s not really any specific order in which you should get any upgrade before any other upgrade, but there are some high priority ones that you can aim for, that will make your pathing much smoother, that I will outline here:

Kitten Angels

Cost: 9,000 prestige (around 11,800 combined with the upgrades you need to get there)

This upgrade is a really nice early goal to aim towards (branching off from the Angels line), as the increase in CpS from Kitten Angels is really nice.

The Remaining Permaslots

Cost: 2,000; 30,000; 400,000; and 5,000,000 prestige respectively

Getting one of these whenever you have enough heavenly chips is a massive boost in production, especially during the early parts of an ascension. If you need help with what to put into all your permaslots, HERE’s a handy guide for you.

The Wrinkler Upgrades

Cost: Around 900,000

Getting these (branching off from Starter Kit) is important for Idle players, as they make Wrinklers much more efficient to use.

The Synergies

Cost: 222,222 and 2,222,222 respectively

The Synergy upgrades are two of the most broken heavenly upgrades, situated inbetween the two Powerclick upgrade lines. Getting even just the first one will grant you a massive boost to your CpS, and the second one is even better.

Unshackled Cursors

Cost: 30 Million total

Branching off from Persistent Memory and Permaslot II (you need both of them), you can get to Unshackled Cursors quite easily, and unlocking it will yield yet another huge multiplier to Thousand Fingers, making Cursors even more broken again after they might’ve fallen by the wayside.

And Afterwards?

Once you have all of these, the “main part” of the Heavenly Tree should be pitifully easy, just keep spam ascending until you have roughly 8 Trillion Prestige, at which point you might notice the game slowing down.

For reference, all upgrades in the below screenshot cost less than 100 Billion prestige combined.

(Note that your Permaslots might be different)

Once you start only having the Unshackles left and you start noticing a severe decrease in speed around the 8 Trillion prestige mark, you will finally notice, that you are in:

The Lategame (The Grind)

The only thing remaining for you are a spare few upgrades and Achievements, as well as the Unshackled Heavenly Upgrades. The game will now start slowing down immensely, which makes for a perfect time to actually clean up and get more used to all the mechanics that just got thrown at you in the Midgame, most of which you likely neglected due to the immense speed at which you progressed.

Grandmapocalypse 101

I already went over the basics of the Grandmapocalypse (Gpoc), so let me go further in detail over the most important mechanics.

Wrath Cookies (WCs) have several effects, some of which are Golden Cookie effects (Lucky, CS, Chain, CF, BS, Blab and even Dragonflight or Dragon Harvest if you have their respective Auras equipped). It should be noted that Chain and CS are much more likely to appear from Wrath Cookies than Golden Cookies, keep that info in mind, it’ll become relevant later.

Some others are negative effects, most notably:

Clot (C): A negative buff similar to Frenzy but instead it halves your CpS for more than 2 minutes.
Ruin (R) : The negative version of lucky, it makes you lose cookies based on how high your bank/CpS is. Usually this shouldn’t be too much, but still.
Rust: The negative version of BS, instead of multiplying your CpS based on a certain building count, it instead divides your CpS by that same factor.

These negative effects occur over 50% of the time, but in return, Wrath Cookies have a few unique positive effects as well:

Cursed Finger (CuF): This reduces your passive CpS to 0 but instead makes every single click do 22 seconds of what you would otherwise produce, for 22 seconds long. Not as strong as CF or DF, but can still be useful from time to time, although the further you go, this effect becomes more useless.
Elder Frenzy (EF): Multiplies your CpS by ×666 for 14 seconds. I don’t think I need to elaborate that this one’s really good.

Wrinklers, as mentioned before, eat some of your CpS but then when popped explode into more cookies than they’ve eaten, which boosts your Idle production by a decent margin. By this point, up to 12 Wrinklers can spawn at once (14 maximum with Dragon Guts equipped). The ideal way to maximize their production (since you’re very likely to go offline from time to time), is to do the following:

Turn on the Golden Switch, wait for all 12 wrinklers to spawn, change your Dragon Auras to Radiant Appetite and Breath of Milk, and then go offline. Once you’re back online, change your Auras to Reality Bending and Dragon Guts, and powerclick all Wrinklers. This gives you the most you can get out of any amount of Idle time.

Gpoc has 3 stages, Awoken (after purchasing One Mind), Displeased (after purchasing Communal Brainsweep) and Angered (after purchasing Elder Pact). Each stage makes Wrath Cookies more likely to replace Golden Cookies and makes Wrinklers more likely to spawn. Whenever Gpoc starts while you already have all 3 of those upgrades, it takes a random amount of time for it to get to the next stage (usually a minute or two at most to get to Angered). You can check the status via the Special Tab at any time.

Finally, let’s talk about Elder Pledge and Elder Covenant.

Pledge is an option that temporarily turns off Gpoc for 30 minutes for a very small price (the maximum is 4.4 Trillion cookies, which should be laughably easy for you at this point), and can be rebought over and over. You can double this timer by buying the Sacrificial Rolling Pins upgrade in the shop, which unlocks by Pledging 10 times this ascension (this is very worth doing, since it takes only about 30 seconds or so to do and is functionally free).

Covenant costs 66.7 Trillion cookies and permanently stops Gpoc but decreases your CpS by 5%. Do not use Covenant for the sake of stopping Gpoc, instead you can just Pledge every time it starts up again while you’re playing, there’s no downside to Pledging over and over and over in comparison to the 5% decrease from Covenant.

However, Covenant does have one important use: It makes the option “Revoke Covenant” appear, which costs 6.6 Billion cookies and immediately starts Gpoc upon purchase. Doing “Covenant” -> “Revoke Covenant” is by far the easiest way to immediately get back to Gpoc, which is useful for when you want to build up Wrinklers for offline production or if you want a Wrath Cookie for any reason. (and there WILL be reasons to want Wrath Cookies, trust me)

Dragon Orbs, Nats, Pseudonats and the Golden Switch

Let me introduce you to two of your strongest tools going forward: The Golden Switch (GS) and the Dragon Orb (DO) Aura.

First up, let me explain how Natural Golden Cookies (Nat GCs, or short “Nats”) work.

Nat GCs have a hidden invisible timer that, after all GC upgrades, lasts about two minutes after you clicked the last Nat GC (the exact time is slightly randomized by a few seconds), and once that timer has counted down to 0, if the Golden Switch is currently off, it spawns another Nat GC. But what happens if you do have the Golden Switch active? It’s description says it prevents golden Cookies from spawning!

Well, the Nat timer still counts to 0 in the background while the Golden Switch is active. And once the Golden Switch is turned off after the timer has reached 0, the next Nat will immediately spawn. This makes the Golden Switch a really good tool to perfectly control when you want a GC to appear.

One of the most important ways to use this is called GS Flickering (or just short “Flickering”). Once the Nat timer has counted down, you can quickly turn the GS off and immediately on again, which will spawn a Nat GC, and give you the up to ×2.2 multiplier from the GS. This DOES cost a few hours of production, but trust me, this will be worth it for some strategies.

One other thing to talk about are Pseudonats! You might have noticed that not every GC click counts towards the stat on the stats screen for some reason, this is because that number only counts the Nats that you clicked! Pseudonats are functionally “artificially spawned” Golden/Wrath Cookies that still have the same random probabilities for effects that Nats do, and can be gotten via various ways, namely:

Distilled essence of redoubled luck (Deorl): A heavenly upgrade that gives a 1% chance to spawn a second GC whenever a Nat spawns. That second GC will be a Pseudonat.
“Today is your Lucky Day!” (LD Fortune, or short “LD”): A fortune that can appear in the newsticker from the Fortune cookies heavenly upgrade, that when clicked will spawn a Pseudonat immediately, but only once per ascension (with some exceptions).
Dragon Orbs (DO): A Dragon Aura that when equipped grants a 10% chance that, when you sell the final building in your list that you have at least 1 of (usually this is the You building), and you don’t have any buffs active in the top left, it will spawn a Pseudonat. This is by far the easiest way to spawn one.

The most important thing about Pseudonats is that, unlike Nats, they do not reset the GC timer back to 2 minutes. The second most important thing is that the Golden Switch does not prevent Pseudonats from spawning. Combined with the act of GS flickering, spawning Dragon Orb Pseudonats allows you to easily manipulate when you get GCs (and even to some minor degrees what you get from them).

(Short Note: Pseudonats are different from “Forced GCs”, a type of GC that spawns during a Cookie Storm or a Cookie Chain, I will elaborate on those in a later section.)

One important side note that will also become important later is that the GS being active actually stops all Nats and Pseudonats that you click from starting a Cookie Chain, this will be used later on so keep that in mind.

The Achievement Hunt

One of the most important aspects for Achievements at this late stage of the game are the seasons, as well as the Fortune Cookies you unlocked with 77 Billion prestige. These two topics intertwine quite a bit, and have a ton of depth, so I would really recommend for you to read the full Seasons & Fortunes Guide.

As a quick TL;DR that doesn’t go over most of the details but still gets the gist done:

You should get all seasonal drops (7 Reindeer Cookies, 7 Halloween Cookies, 20 Easter Eggs), as doing so will unlock achievements that make getting those on all future ascensions much easier.
You should get all 25 Fortune upgrades (which doesn’t include the two Fortunes that aren’t upgrades), since similarly it gives you an achievement to actually boost the chance for them to appear on future ascensions.
For the future, whenever your main goal of an ascension is a high CpS value for the sake of comboing, you should get all Seasonal upgrades and Fortune upgrades first (with the exception of chocolate egg which you should keep in the store to buy until the end of the ascension), all of those combined are a VERY good boost in speed, and when executed well can even be done in just a single hour.

However those aren’t the only achievements and upgrades to get that you might have missed. Let me break all the ones down for you that you won’t just get naturally while playing normally:

Moistburster: Burst 200 Wrinklers. Note that, UNLIKE the reindeer achievement which has a similar wording, this one instead requires popping this number of wrinklers in a single ascension. it should still not take too long, just pop them as soon as they attach to the big cookie and the CpS number turns red, and you’ll be fine.
Wrinkler poker: Poke a Wrinkler 50 times without killing it. This is relatively easy, just wait a second after each time you tap it, since wrinklers generate health relatively fast.
Wrinkler ambergris: A unique upgrade exclusive to the Mobile Version, that grants a 6% CpS boost as well as a 1% price reduction for all upgrades. It drops randomly when you pop a Wrinkler that’s already decreasing your CpS, but once it dropped even a single time, it will be unlocked forever and available in the shop on all future ascensions. Note that there is no way to increase the droprate of this upgrade from its 1/10,000 chance from normal wrinklers. It’s probably ideal to just play normally until you get this upgrade randomly one day, since in later strategies you end up bursting a ton of Wrinklers very frequently.
Reincarnation: Ascend 100 times. Note, that an “Ascension” only counts towards the number if you gained at least 1 prestige during it. This can still be done rather quickly if you buy exclusively Cursors and Grandmas and Upgrades quickly enough. There is also a harder version of this as a Shadow Achievement. (more info below)

Shadow Achievements

Finally, this is one of the best times to start grinding for Shadow Achievements.

Shadow Achievements are a type of achievement that doesn’t increase your achievement number or your milk level, meaning unlike all other achievements, they are only there for bragging rights and nothing else. If you still want to get them, here’s how to:

Just Plain Lucky: Every second that the game is active, you have a 1/1,000,000 chance to get this achievement randomly. There’s a chance you might have even already gotten it. There’s not really a way to specifically grind for it, you’ll just get it eventually, especially if you play actively.
Last Chance To See: Burst a Shiny Wrinkler. Shiny Wrinklers are rather rare (0.01% for a wrinkler to spawn shiny), they have more health, they have a 10 times higher chance to drop Ambergris and they explode into 3 times as many cookies as a normal Wrinkler. Similar to Ambergris, it’s probably better to wait until you get this one naturally.
When the cookies ascend just right: Ascend while you have exactly 1 trillion cookies banked. This is a bit tricky, but by making smart use of when you buy/sell buildings and making sure to not buy any click boosting upgrades, you can pinpoint the 1 trillion mark quite easily. More specifically, buying and immediately selling cursors to lower your bank and tapping the cookie afterwards to get closer to the actual number can make it a lot easier towards the end to get the exact number you need in your bank.
Endless Cycle: Ascend 1,000 times. Similar to Reincarnation, this requires at least 1 prestige every ascension, and now at the start of Lategame (from around 8 Trillion prestige until around 1 Quadrillion) is when this is the easiest to do. Make sure to permaslot the 3 highest Cursor upgrades and the 2 highest Kitten upgrades for this shadow achievement, those will boost your speed the most. Other than that, similar strategy to Reincarnation, just alternate between buying Max Cursors and Grandmas and upgrades until you can ascend with 1 prestige, eventually you’ll get a really good speed going and you can ascend once every 10 seconds or even faster, at which point this should take less than 3 hours.

These are all the Shadow Achievements currently in the mobile version of the game.

No, True Neverclick is not on mobile yet.

I got all of that, now what?

Once you’ve gotten everything you need from the list above, almost all remaining achievements, and upgrades are tied to only a few things:

Base CpS: Some of the achievements require your Base CpS without any buffs applied to be as high as 100 SpD (Septendecillion). This is doable with enough prestige, but it requires a ton of work and needs to be done in a rather unintuitive way, which I will cover in a bit.
GC clicks: You might have the achievement already that requires 777 GCs clicked but there is still one more that requires 7777 GCs clicked. Don’t worry, there is a rather simple way to get it, which I will also cover.
The Remaining Unshackles: These require up to 73 Quadrillion prestige, which translates to a bit less than 400 NoD (Novemdecillion) cookies in total across all ascensions.
Buildings, flavored cookies and building upgrades: Many of the remaining achievements and upgrades are functionally tied to “get X cookies first in this ascension” or “get Y amount of this building first”. Functionally, since these require certain cookie thresholds in one ascension, these are the same as:
Cookies Baked This Ascension (CBTA): CBTA achievements are the most “basic” ones left, as their requirement is literally just “number go up”, which you likely want to do anyway.

So I will now cover in order

1: How to get a high GC click count

2: How to get a high base CpS

3: How to make your cookie count in general go up

How to get more GC clicks (Chain lengthening)

I won’t go over the execution side of this one in too much detail, there’s a nice chain lengthening guide for you to read, instead I will go over the theory behind what you need to do and why, because there are 3 important facts:

1: Cookie Storms and Cookie Chains spawn Forced GCs (basically GCs whose outcome are predetermined), and while the GCs you get from a Storm don’t count towards the total, the ones from a Cookie Chain surprisingly do! We can abuse this fact.

2: Cookie Chains start at your bank total divided by 1 billion and increment by a multiplier of 10 for each member in the chain, and the chain can end either randomly with a 1% chance or it ends after a chain member would produce more than 21,600 times your CpS (6 hours worth) or more than 50% of your cookies banked. So, in theory, if you get your CpS and your bank up extremely high in the middle of a chain, you could get a chain with potentially dozens of GCs in it, all of which will count towards your total of GCs clicked. But the thing is, the timing is somewhat harsh since it only allows a few seconds for you to click the next cookie in the chain.

Unless of course-

3: Turning on the Golden Switch in the middle of a cookie chain, and then clicking the most recent member in the chain will temporarily pause the chain. This is what’s called Chain Lengthening. The moment you turn the GS off, the Chain will continue, but at the low number that it previously had, meaning if you used that time to get your bank and CpS extremely high up, you can easily get a Chain with up to 30 GCs in it, which is a LOT faster than clicking 30 Nats.

The main idea is getting your CpS and bank very high, with the sole exception of Farms and Grandmas, whose CpS should be as low as possible, then generate a bunch of Wrinklers to “store” some of your cookies for later.

Then you nuke your bank and CpS by selling all buildings except 1 Grandma (so the Gpoc stays active), and buying/selling max farms over and over until your bank can’t go much lower, but enough that you can turn on the golden switch with just one grandma.

Then you spawn as many wrath cookies via DO by selling farms as possible, waiting for Nat Wrath Cookies inbetween, until you get a Cookie Chain, you click one or two members in the chain, you turn on the GS quickly, you click the most recent chain member, and you now have perfectly set up a lengthened chain.

Now you get your CpS and bank up a lot buy buying as many buildings as you can, then you pop one or two of your wrinklers, so that you have enough cookies to turn off the GS, and once you turn it off, you’ll get a really long chain.

And you can repeat that over and over. That’s the basic gist of it. The main chain lengthening guide linked above has a bit more detail, so make sure to check that one out.

How to get a high Base CpS (DFo)

The Dragon Aura “Dragon’s Fortune” (DFo), has a unique effect in that it multiplies your Base CpS by ×2.23 for every GC currently on the screen (no, the hundreds of cookies from cookie storm don’t count)

Luckily there is a way to get 3-4 Nats and Pseudonats on screen at once.

To make things easier for you:

Take your max possible CpS with GS on and Radiant Appetite (RA) Aura equipped, but no other CpS boosting Aura.

Then multiply that number by 11.089567 (if you’re spawning 3 Nats/Pseudonats) or 24.72973441 (if you’re spawning 4) and if you get to more than one of the numbers listed below, you can get the related achievement by spawning that amount of Nats and Pseudonats and making your second Aura DFo.

1 SxD
10 SxD
1 SpD
10 SpD
100 SpD

Getting 3 Nats and Pseudonats is relatively easy, although you can only attempt it once per ascension:

You turn on your GS, and make sure your bank is high enough to GS flicker so you can spawn a Nat, then you go into Business Day since it has shorter newstickers and thus more newstickers per minute (you should also get the Lucky Numbers fortune as well as all Fortune upgrades, and push your CpS as high as possible), then you equip DO and RA Aura and you wait on the bottom of your building list for an LD fortune to show up.

Once it does, you sell as many Yous as possible (to spawn a DO Pseudonat), you click the LD fortune, itself, then you GS flicker, and suddenly you have 3 GCs on screen at the same time. make sure your GS is on and your Auras are DFo and RA and if that pushes your CpS above one of the thresholds above, you can say hello to the achievement that should pop up any moment after you equipped those Auras (it might take a few seconds to register).

But how do you get 4, you may ask? Simple.

We abuse an oversight.

Double Lucky Day (DLD) is an oversight in the code that the dev of the game knows about but kept in the game because the community really liked it. It allows for the potential for two Lucky Day fortunes to spawn one after another, which allows you to click both of them if you’re fast enough, in which case you get TWO Pseudonats from them.

We can incorporate this into our previous strategy, you wait on Business Day until you get an LD fortune, you quickly spawn the DO GC, and once that’s done you look whether there’s a second Lucky Day coming from the right side of the screen immediately afterwards, in which case you click both LDs and spawn the Nat via GS flickering. Afterwards you change your auras to RA and DFo and get your achievement!

If the newsticker after the first LD isn’t a fortune, and you need 4 Nats/Pseudonats for the next achievement, that’s fine too, just make sure not to click it yet and wait for the next chance for a DLD.

Of course some of these achievements are still incredibly hard to get, even with these methods. For a good chunk of them, you will need a higher amount of prestige.

How Unshackles work

First, I’ll explain Unshackles, since they’re a topic that often confuses people, so let me give an example:

You know these building upgrades, you likely have hundreds of them. Each of them has a corresponding building type as well as a corresponding flavor (the coloring, edgelighting and shading).

Now, let’s say I buy Unshackled factories as a building and Unshackled chalcedhoney as a flavor:

What this means is that now that I have these two, the chalcedhoney-tier Factory upgrade is now stronger!

What this means, is that instead of being a ×2 multiplier for Factory CpS, this upgrade is now instead a ×3.6 multiplier for Factory CpS (it’s an additive +160% sadly, not multiplicative).

Every single one of these upgrades gets a boost via these Unshackles, which overall boosts a lot of your buildings.

In theory, your prestige gain will outweigh this increase by a lot, but in theory you should aim for Unshackled Javascript Consoles first and prioritize only getting to them (which will take a while, the upgrade costs 6.2 Quadrillion prestige). Once done, you can get as many Unshackled Flavors as you want.

Now let’s get to the most important part:

Basic Golden Cookie Combos (Early Lategame)

There’s plenty of strategies the community has found over the years, but in the end, only a few of them turned out to be very optimal, so let me explain the first one to you.

Warning: This will functionally be a test of all your Mobile Cookie Clicker Knowledge. I will use a lot of abbreviations, especially with regards to Dragon Auras. Make sure to check out the Krumblor Guide if you feel uncertain about any abbreviations or any effects.

Now let me explain the main strategy, and one of the most popular ones you’ll use for cookie gains in the early parts of lategame (aka until roughly the early few Quadrillions of prestige):

DO GC GS

Dragon Orb

Golden Cookie

Golden Switch

DOGCGS is one of the most important and also natural combo strats for a beginner to learn and understand.

You may remember all those earlygame and midgame combos, using F+CF and F+DF to skip several hours of gameplay. This strategy’s base foundation is “What if I could force the game to give me as many of this type of combo as possible in as short of a time frame as possible and frequently repeatable over and over and over.”

First, maximize your CpS (buying upgrades, getting seasonals, getting buildings high, you know the drill), then enter either Valentine’s Day, Halloween or Easter (if you have gotten all fortune upgrades already) or Business day (if you still need some Fortune Upgrades this ascension, more info in the Seasons guide). Also make sure that you’re using Elder Pledge currently, you want 100% golden cookies for this strategy.

Turn on the Golden Switch and wait those roughly 2 minutes for the Nat timer to be over.

Then finally, make sure your Yous are at a low count, ideally about 50-100 less of them than the potential maximum amount you could buy. You’ll need this for selling them with the DO Aura.

That was all Step -1.

Step 0 is to get enough cookies in your bank to pay for a Frenzy GS flicker (this is 7 times as much as a normal flicker). You do that by equipping the two Auras DO+DF and then selling Yous until the notification pops up that a Golden Cookie has appeared. Once that happens, you can buy back all the Yous you just sold (but still keep them low).

Then, with DF+Epoch Manipulator Auras you click the GC you just spawned. In the case of a Lucky or a Blab, you go back to the selling buildings part, in the case of any better effect, you swap your Auras to BoM+RA and Multitap the cookie as much as you can. Depending on your tapping speed this may take 1-3 full Frenzies worth of tapping.

Once you’re at the amount of cookies needed, you can finally start step 1:

1: Change your Auras to DO+DF

2: Sell as many Yous as you need until the DO GC spawns.

3: Swap your DO Aura to Epoch Manipulator

4: Click the DO GC.

If it’s a Lucky/Blab, you go back to step 1.
If it’s a CS, you change your Auras to BoM+RA and click all the cookies that just spawned, then after the storm is over, you go back to step 1.
If it’s a F, DF or CF, you go to Step 5.
If it’s a BS, you have to know whether a flicker while BS is active would be easy to pay for, if yes go to step 5, if not, multitap the BS then go back to step 1.

5: Flicker the GS once (off and on).

6: If your DO GC from Step 4 was a DF, change your DF Aura to Reaper of Fields.

7: Click the Nat GC.

8: There is now 1 of 3 different outcomes that happened:

Outcome 1: You got a combo! Change your Auras to BoM+RA and make sure to multitap as much as you can! Once that’s done, you can tap the rest of the remaining buff then go back to Step 1.

Outcome 2: You got a Lucky as your second buff. That’s not TOO bad, just change your Auras to BoM+RA, then tap the remainder of the buff for cookies. Once it’s done, you can get back to step 1 about 2 minutes after you clicked the Nat GC.

Outcome 3: You got two Frenzies and now have a massively long Frenzy. This happens from time to time, you can either use this for getting more cookies in your bank if you don’t have enough for the next attempt by swapping your Auras to BoM+RA and clicking the 5 minute frenzy a lot, or (if you have enough cookies banked for a few more flickers) you can instead get funny with it and try to get a second or even third Nat to spawn:

In the case you do decide to go for more Nats, turn off the GS and wait for the Nat to spawn, then once it does, turn on the GS, make sure your Auras are DF+Epoch Manipulator and click it hoping for Outcome 1. If it’s NOT Outcome 1, you look at the remaining Frenzy Time, if it’s 2 or more minutes left, you can do this again for a third Nat (or potentially more if you get even more Frenzies). Just make sure that, if you click a Nat GC while the timer remaining is under 2 minutes and you don’t get a Frenzy, you should wait until the buff is over to try again and go back to Step 1.

DO GC GS is a lot.

It can at the start be very overwhelming for new players, but trust me, it gets far easier to understand once you’ve done it and gotten the combo a few times. You can use this strategy as your main strategy until about the single digit Quadrillions of prestige (and MAYBE the low 2-digit quadrillions, aka the 10s or the 20s or so), just multiply your prestige by about ×1.5 to ×2 every ascension. In theory it shouldn’t take you more than around 30 minutes to get the main combo once, unless you’re VERY unlucky.

But once you get to those amounts of Quadrillions of prestige, this won’t be enough to progress much, at least not very quickly. The way to progress much faster after that point is:

Advanced Wrath Cookie Combos (Late Lategame)

There are three elusive combos that even high level comp players will be happy about seeing:

EF+CF

EF+DF

CF+DF

We call these Incomplete Core Grails or also ICGs (the reason for this doesn’t matter right now).

These 3 as well as any combination of BS combined with 1 of EF, CF or DF are by far the strongest combos you can get in the game. And the way you can actually maximize getting one of these combos is:

First, you click a Wrath Cookie (WC)

Then, you click a Golden Cookie (GC)

There is one combo strat in particular that is widely regarded as the best way to get a double combo. Its name is

Spam DO WC RPS

Spam

Dragon Orb

Wrath Cookie

Reverse Pledge Swap

The main 2 ideas that this strat is based on are simple:

1: Get an EF from a DO WC while gpoc stage 3 (angered) is active, then flicker while EF is active (we will call this an EF Flicker) to spawn a Nat GC while you are pledged.

2: The “Spam” part alludes to the fact that WCs have a high chance of getting Luckies or Ruins, making the attempt rate to get EF very high if you keep spawning only DO WCs.

The first prerequisite is the price. EF flickers aren’t cheap, you have to first make sure your starting bank is very high. You can get a really close estimate by turning on GS and unequipping all Auras. Now, multiply your CpS by 100 million. That’s your ideal starting total.

You can usually get there in a few hours of doing DO GC GS.

I will give one warning: This strategy is not just skill demanding in execution speed, it’s also very variable in output. You can have days where you get 7 ICGs in a few hours, you can have days where you get 0 ICGs in 12 hours. Try not to overdo yourself, this is just a cookie clicking game after all.

With that in mind, once you have your starting bank ready, make sure your You count is low and you are prepared:

Step 0: Go into gpoc stage 3 (angered), you can do this by Covenant->Revoke Covenant if you are currently Pledged. This might take a few minutes, check on the Special Tab how far along it is. Also make sure your GS has been on for at least 2 full minutes. Start in Business Day (the big cookie hitboxes will help you a lot in execution, and if you’re lucky you can boost an already great combo by clicking an LD fortune GC). Your Quickslots should be 2 Auras, Golden Switch, Powerclicks.

(If you’ve never done it before, read the entire next section before executing the strategy, several steps have to be done in quick succession and you don’t have the time to read inbetween steps.)

Step 1: Change Auras to DO+DF.

Step 2: Sell Yous until a WC spawns. (If your count ever drops about 100 too low for the total where you want them to be, make sure to buy 100 back)

Step 3: Click the DO WC (no Aura swaps yet).

Step 4: Depending on the effect you got you will have to act differently:

If you get a Lucky, Ruin or Blab, go back to Step 2
If you get an EMG (Everything Must Go), CuF or Clot, wait it out, then go back to Step 2 as soon as you can.
If you get a CS, DO NOT CLICK ANY OF THE STORM COOKIES. It will decrease your chance for an EF. Wait out the effect, then go back to Step 2 once the effect is over.
If you get a BS, EF, CF or DF, continue to Step 5.

Step 5: Depending on which of the 4 buffs you got, you have to act differently.

BS: Go to your Special Tab, Pledge, Flicker the GS, Covenant, Revoke Covenant (to start gpoc up again), buy back any You buildings if needed, change DO to Epoch Manipulator, then click the Nat GC, swap Auras to BoM+RA and click the cookie. You have some time for this setup, so no need to rush too much.
CF: The moment you get the buff, Flicker the GS (while still in Gpoc) to spawn a Nat WC, hoping for EF. Change DO Aura to RA, then click the Nat WC. Then change DF Aura to BoM and click the big cookie. You have a tiny bit of time for this setup, but you still shouldn’t go too slow.
DF: Similar to CF, Flicker the GS while in Gpoc to spawn a Nat WC, change Auras to BoM+RA before clicking the Nat, and once done, click the Nat WC and click the big cookie. You have about 8 seconds max to do this.
EF: Quickly swap to Special Tab, Pledge, Flicker the GS (this will hurt your bank), go back to Cookie Tab, click the Nat GC, swap Auras to BoM+RA, click, click, click as much as you can, EF lasts only for 14 seconds and you have to make every second count. The moment EF is over, Covenant->Revoke Covenant to get gpoc starting again.

Step 6: If gpoc is at stage 3 (angered) again, and it's been over 2 minutes since the last Nat was clicked, you can go back to Step 1.

The EF execution in particular can be brutal for newcomers. I highly recommend doing a few test attempts with Clots, pretending that the Clot is an EF and that you have to be as fast as possible.

Additional tip: Whenever you get an EF+DF, turn on powerclicks (if you have any) and don’t hold back while powerclicking the big cookie as often as you can. This will increase the output from the EF+DF by a lot.

Final tips for pros: You can, if you feel far more comfortable with your bank amount, swap your Aura from DO to RA before clicking the DO WC, this will decrease some of the time spent on swapping Auras in the middle of an EF but in turn will double the EF Flicker cost. If you do this, in the case of a BS, make sure to swap from RA to a non-CpS boosting Aura before the flicker and then back to RA after the flicker, as a means to reduce the cost of BS flickers, without hurting your combo outcome, since a BS has enough time to micromanage this aspect.

This strategy should be enough to get you quite far, even just 1 or 2 ICGs early on can easily double your prestige in just one ascension (and even just BS+DF or similar cannot be undervalued).

By multiplying your prestige by about up to 2× every time you ascend, you should get to the end of the Ascension Tree in no time, and eventually reach:

The Endgame (The Endless Grind)

Anything beyond this point is uncharted territory. The Ascension Tree ends at around 73 Quadrillion prestige and only very few people have kept going much further beyond 100 Quadrillion. The current maximum anyone has ever gotten with the competitive ruleset as of writing this is at 589 Quadrillion prestige (which amounts to over 200 Vigintillion CBAT).

It’s currently widely agreed upon that Spam DO WC RPS is the strongest method of getting farther via just double combos but that it may be better from some point onwards to start aiming for triple or even quadruple combos instead by integrating Deorl, LD and DLD into various strategies in various ways. Most of those ways are based on personal opinions and preferences, so I feel it would be unwise to list all of them. And whenever a new version update with new features will come out, most of this guide will have to be overhauled, especially this section, since pretty much any new feature could get us much further in achievement count.

A good general tip for this stage of the game is to try and combine goals that are in a similar range, as well as using the buying/selling Auras and related buffs to your benefit. For example, let’s say, you want a building count achievement, as well as a flavored cookie upgrade that’s slightly cheaper, your first instinct might be to go for these two things one by one. However, you could go for both of these combined much faster by:

First selling 100 each of all other buildings with Reality Bending+Earth Shatterer
Then buying the chocolate egg to maximize your bank
Then buying the building you need a high count of with Fierce Hoarder+Reality Bending (+potentially Everything Must Go) (choose Reality Bending+Earth Shatterer before buying instead, if the building you want a high count of is Yous, so that you don’t have to sacrifice an expensive You for an Aura swap)
Afterwards selling the building with Reality Bending+Earth Shatterer to get 52.5% of your cookies back
And then finally swapping Auras to Master of the Armory+Reality Bending to buy an expensive flavored cookie upgrade with those.

That way you get both a flavored cookie upgrade and an achievement for a much lower effort. Stuff like that happens a ton in endgame.

Some important resources you might need for the rest of the way, depending on how far you decide to keep going:

The Endgame section of the Permaslot Guide gives a decent bit of insight on which upgrades are worth going for.

This Mobile Wiki by Discord: @hyperspeeed features a list of all Mobile Achievements and Upgrades.

Of course there’s the regular Cookie Clicker Wiki as well, as well as a page dedicated to the Mobile Version, just make sure to take note that most of this wiki was written for the Web/Steam version so some version differences can frequently apply.

There’s this Golden Cookie Calculator by Discord: @lookas123 that’s really helpful for understanding the probabilities of each GC effect. (Warning: Learning how this calculator works might take you a while, there’s a lot to the math behind GCs.)

And finally there’s the official Dashnet Discord server, where a ton of people can help with learning more about the game.

If you do want an actual endgame combo guide, let me know via Discord, I’m somewhat active on the official Dashnet Discord server myself.

Thanks for reading!