Cookie Clicker Guide: 10 Rarest Achievements and How to Get Them

With Cookie Clicker having recently been released on Steam – along with the ability to port save files from the web version – the stats of which players have achieved what feats are finally available to the world. As with many idle games, the question is often asked, “What’s the point?” but Cookie Clicker has a surprising amount of depth that has seen it rise to the top of the genre. With a bunch of different minigames, upgrades, events, buildings, and more, there is plenty to motivate players to keep going until their amount of Cookies is incomprehensibly high.

One of the biggest motivators is achievements, of which there are over 500. The sheer amount of time and dedication some of these achievements take means that anyone who has them all is truly a master of the game. With the release of the 2.0 version also came the implementation of the stock market and some of the achievements would the be somehow tied to stock market profits. You may be surprised at the fact that these may no necessarily be the rarest. There are some achievements out there that many of us would never even dream of attempting. This guide will help you on how to get the rarest achievements in Cookie Clicker.

Normal Achievements

Sexcentennial – 1.5% Achieved

Buildings are the lifeblood of Cookie production. They’re the things that passively produce, allowing this “idle” game to be called as such. They’re also the key to many minigames, a whole host of buildings having features unique to them. Naturally, players will want to get as many as possible, especially when it comes to the more expensive ones. The game knows this too, which is why this achievement requires you to have at least 600 of everything.

Getting 600 of the early-game buildings like Clickers and Grandma’s isn’t too difficult. It’ll take some time, but not too much. At the other end of the spectrum, there are the Java Console and Idleverses, which are so expensive it’ll be potentially weeks before a new player gets their hands on even one. Getting 600 requires putting production into overdrive for a very long time, but once it’s done, the endgame is surely near.

A Wizard Is You – 1.4% Achieved

Spells are one of the simpler mini-games in Cookie Clicker, but they still take plenty of time. Unlocked after upgrading the Wizard Tower to Level 1, the selection of spells offer many helpful effects. From summoning a Golden Cookie to making Buildings/Upgrades temporarily cheaper, or simply giving players many Cookies. They all have their chance to backfire, however, so be warned.

How often spells can be cast is governed by a mana bar. The amount of mana is determined by the amount of Wizard Towers the player owns, and the speed at which is refills gradually gets faster the more mana there is. It can also be marginally sped up by further upgrading the buildings. As such, casting 999 of them takes a long while. Even when choosing the cheapest possible spell, it’s going to be roughly 5 minutes between each cast, which makes 999 a long way away.

Hypersize Me – 1.3% Achieved

The gameplay cycle of Cookie Clicker is a simple one: make a thing, to buy a thing, to make more things. No matter what minigames or complicated benefits are on offer, it’s all done with the aim of getting that Cookie count as high as humanly possible. Players will probably discover numbers they didn’t even know the name of along the way. While amounts like Octillion, Nonillion or even Decillion sound impressive, they are not enough for Cookie Clicker.

Vigintillion Cookies

To get Hypersize Me, the final achievement for getting a certain amount of Cookies, the amount that has to be reached is One Vigintillion. That is 10 to the power of 63 or a 1 followed by 120 zeros. It’s so big that there is no possible way for the human mind to comprehend it. For some vague attempt at context, the nearest Galaxy from Earth is only just over 2 trillion kilometres away. The diametre of the entire known universe is estimated to be roughly 800 Sextillion kilometres, and Vigintillion is a factor of 40 bigger than that. At that point, it may be fair to claim that is too many Cookies.

With Unrivalled Fervor – 1.2% Achieved

Reaching a number like One Vigintillion Cookies is going to take a lot of doing and some truly incredible production rates. For that, players will need to pump up their Cookies Per Second metre to similarly ridiculous numbers. Once again, achievements give players a decent idea of just how stupidly big that number will have to get. Buying hundreds upon hundreds of every type of building, every upgrade the game has to offer and mastering the various minigames will be required to get the production where it needs to be.

Quindecillion Cookies Per Second

For the With Unrivalled Fervor achievement, players must bake Ten Quindecillion Cookies Per Second. This number isn’t quite as big as Vigintillion; it is 10 to the power of 49, or 1 with 91 zeros after it. However, it is still a factor of 20 bigger than the size of the known universe and is extra impressive because it’s being produced every second. Maybe the game needs an achievement similar to The Stanley Parable’s “Go Outside” achievement, encouraging players to leave the game alone for a while.

Four-Leaf Cookie – 1.2% Achieved

Here is the first Shadow Achievement to make the list. These are achievements so hard that the developers themselves have deemed them “unfair” to expect normal players to do without the help of a guide. Four-Leaf Cookie centres around Golden Cookies. These things appear at rough intervals and, when clicked, give a whole host of different beneficial effects, some more useful than others. They’re virtually essential to pushing the boundaries of production.

Getting more than one isn’t too difficult. After a few upgrades are unlocked, they will appear frequently enough that a new one may appear before the previous one’s effects have worn off. Getting a third on top of that is simply timing a spell right to summon one. Getting a fourth, however, really pushes the boundaries of what is possible; but that is what’s required for this achievement. Guides on the subject will be helpful, but it involved manipulating Wizard Towers, Sugar Lumps, Mana and just a little bit of luck for everything to line up perfectly.

When the Cookies Ascend Just Right – 1.2% Achieved

Another Shadow Achievement, this one is almost entirely luck. Ascending is a process that involves wiping away all your progress and turning it into Heavenly Chips, which can be used to purchase permanent upgrades for future runs. While this may seem horrible to some players, these upgrades are essential to reaching truly high numbers. Normally, players do this after they feel they’ve gathered a good amount of prestige levels. However, this achievement is a little more specific.

Ascension Menu

For this achievement, players must ascend when they have exactly One Trillion Cookies, not a single more or less. Since players will need a lot of Cookies Per Second to get to this number in the first place, clicking the ascend button at the perfect moment seems almost impossible. Getting it just right will require slowly reducing production as you get close to the One Trillion marker. Once again, a guide will be a great help in working out how to do this.

Keeper of the Conservatory – 1.1% Achieved

One of the more complicated minigames is the Farm. Unlocked once the Farms have reached Level 1, it allows players to grow a garden. They start with one type of seed, it costs a little to plant before slowly growing and maturing. It then must be harvested in the right window of time for a big benefit. This makes it one of the harsher minigames because players need to watch it a bit more carefully than most things in the game.

As the farm grows, more seeds will be unlocked, all with their own effects. Getting new seeds sometimes involves luck, but other times, careful cross-breeding of plants by putting them next to each other and using the right kind of fertilizer. It takes a hell of a lot of effort, which is why this achievement for getting every seed possible is so rare. What’s more, there’s another achievement for sacrificing the whole thing and starting from scratch. For masochists only, that one.

Seven Horseshoes – 0.8% Achieved

In the regions below 1%, three of the toughest Shadow Achievement lay in wait for players. This one doesn’t take the luck or precision that most others would; it would just take a stupid amount of time. To get this achievement, players must click 27,777 Golden Cookies. There are a few other achievements for clicking an amount of Golden Cookies. The highest is 7,777, and even that takes a long time.

Golden Cookies

Even when upgraded to their full extent, Golden Cookies only appear so often. Clicking them requires, at the very least, watching the game in your periphery to notice when they appear. 27,777 is an amount so big that it’d take ages beyond almost everything else there is to do. That’s why this is classed as a Shadow Achievement rather than a regular one.

Endless Cycle – 0.7% Achieved

Another achievement that takes way too much time for what it’s worth, this one involve Ascending. As already mentioned, there’s plenty of great benefits to doing it multiple times over the course of playing the game. The prestige levels boost production, and the upgrades mean it won’t take too long for players to get back to where they left off. Like everything else in the game, though, big numbers are what makes the world go round, and Ascending is no different.

This Shadow Achievement asks players to wipe the slate clean 1000 times. It doesn’t seem like that tough of a feat, you just have to spam the button, right? Unfortunately not. An Ascension only counts towards this achievement if players have got at least 1 prestige level first. The problem is that getting a new prestige level means getting a little further than where you previously got to. As a result, each successful Ascension will take upwards of an hour. Not a problem for regular play, but a pain in the arse when it needs to be done 1000 times.

Gaseous Assets – 0.7% Achieved

Much like in the real world, the Stock Market in Cookie Clicker is a confusing, unpredictable beast. Also, like in the real world, many people have developed bots to sort it out for them. Gaining profits in it is somewhat luck, but there are plenty of people whose minds work in just the right way to manipulate it to their benefit. It’s unlocked when Banks reach Level 1, and several more upgrades will likely be needed to hit this achievement.

To get this achievement, players will need to get into a bit of daily rhythm of buying and selling, not to mention an incredible amount of patience and a healthy dose of luck. Gaseous Assets requires players to get “a year’s worth” of CPS in profits. This means $31,536,000, which is the number of seconds in a year. There are guides of how to earn a decent bit of profit each day, but you’ll be in it for the long haul to get this, Cookie Clicker’s rarest achievement.

Third-Party Achievements

When the achievements that a game has by default prove to be insufficient, the community, enabled by the steam workshop, make sure to step in and come up with their own, third-part achievements. These are harder to track, being non-official achievements, but here are some of the ones that should be hardest to get. 

Quadrillion Fingers

Not an easy task by any stretch of the imagination, but once you’ve managed to have 1 quadrillion fingers in your cookie clicker, you’ll be rewarded with this achievement. And just how much is a quadrillion exactly? Well, a quadrillion is a 1 with 15 zeros after it.

Infinity Achievement

Moving on with the trend of numbers that are yet impossible to imagine (remember when one billion seemed like an insane number?), we have the Infinity Achievement, which you’ll get once you you have 10 undecillion cookies in your bank. One undecillion is a 1 followed by 36 zeros. Or 66 zeroes, if you are in the UK, for some reason.

Iron Will

Moving away from these fantasy numbers. Say I tell you this achievement only required you to reach the 1 million mark. Easy enough, right? Now what if told you you’ll only get the achievement after hitting that million without buying any upgrades or buildings. Still easy?

Memorable Mentions

These may not necessarily be the hardest or the rarest, but they can certainly be a pain to acquire, so it fits that they be added to this list. Prepare to spend a lot of time and resources on these too.

Chirped Out

When you start acquiring antimatter condensers you get a feeling like you are really moving forward in the game. However, this particular achievement is not related to the cookie count, but the actual condenser count. For this one, you will need 100 antimatter condensers and 1 chancemaker, which is the most expensive building in the game.

A Whole New World

Passively increasing your cookie count with portals is an essential part of your Cookie Clicker experience. To unlock A Whole New World, you will need to have placed 100 portals. Have I mentioned they cost one million cookies? 

Secrets of the Cookiverse

Once you start getting centennials, which are the milestones for reaching a number ending in 00, you will start to see them occasionally. The hardest achievement you can get from centennials is Secrets of the Cookieverse, which unlocks once you reach the 28th centennial and bake 1 million cookies in a single ascension.

Other Achievements related to the Centennials are: 

1. Fledgling Bakery – Bake 100,00 cookies in a single ascension. For this, you will have to reach the 19th Centennial.

Mathematician

Every time you reset your game to get those heavenly chips and upgrades, you are creating a Cookie Legacy. There are some achievements tied to this action, but the hardest one to acquire is likely Mathematician. Before resetting, you must already have 1 million cookies and 10 antimatter condensers in order to unlock it.

Other relevant Achievements for Cookie Legacies are the following.

1. Heavenly- Have at least 1 heavenly chip
2. Transcendent – Have at least 1,000 heavenly chips
3. Higher Purpose – Purchase 10 heavenly upgrades

Banksy

Using 75k cookies to buy an Alchemy Lab that will produce 260 cookies a second is nothing short of an investment. And the achievements that are tied to the Alchemy lab are the following.

1. Turning cookies – Acquired once you have 1000 Alchemy Labs
2. School of Sorcery – Acquired when you have 10,000 Alchemy Labs
3. Banksy – Acquired after you get 50,000 Alchemy Labs

Time Duke

Circling back to the realm of the ridiculous numbers, one of the buildings you can get in Cookie Clicker is the time machine. For this, you will need to first have 15 Alchemy Labs and it costs 26 billion cookies. You can get the achievement Going fast by having 300 Time Machines, all the way to the achievement Time duke once you get 10 million time machines.

Besides these two achievements, Time Machines will also help you get the following.

1. Time warp – 500 Time Machines
2. Alternative timeline – 1,000 Time Machines
3. Rewriting history – 1 million Time Machines

Egg Hunt

The seasonal event Hide & Seek comes around Halloween and lasts for a couple of weeks. There are a number of achievements related to this event that can prove to be particularly difficult because they must be completed before the end of the event. The hardest one of these time-sensitive is probably the achievement Egg hunt. Acquired by clicking on all 20 hidden Easter eggs during the event is how you get it. Easer said than done. 

Other notable achievements related to the Hide & Seek event are the following.

1. Getting even with the oven – Clicking a golden cookie has a 1% chance of actually being a hidden Easter egg. Hard by itself. 
2. Omelette – Finding a second hidden Easter egg after the first one, in case that wasn’t hard enough, also with a 1% chance per cookie click.

True Neverclick

Passive is the way to go if you intend to earn True Neverclick. For this one, without clicking the cookie at all, not even one time, you must get 1 million cookies. This means you are meant to rely on Buildings and purchases alone. 

And if you are up for turning the challenge up a little bit more, you can aim for the Hardcore Neverclick, for which you’ll also have to reach 1 million cookies, but do it only through building and purchases, without clicking the cookie nor purchasing a cursor.

You Get What You Deserve

Cookie Clicker has a lot of sweetness to offer such as natural cane sugar. Some of the achievements are tied to specifically to the Sugar Lumps you can purchase. While every now and again, with a chance of 1/1000 you are going to get a golden sugar lump, which works to acquire better improvements overall, they will not be useful for your achievement hunt. What you want is to acquire as many regular sugar lumps, because once you reach 100 purchased sugar lumps, you get the achievement Sugar Rush, and once you go all the way to 2,000 sugar lumps, then you’ll earn the achievement You Get What You Deserve. What is funny about the name of this last achievement is that it comes right after having acquired Diabetus at 1,000 sugar lumps purchased. 

Speed Baking Challenges

You think you can bake? And, you think you can bake fast enough? There are three significantly challenging achievements tied to how fast you can bake 1 million cookies. If you can bake them in under 8 minutes, then you’ll earn Speed Baking III. If you can also bake them from scratch, without any heavenly chips of upgrades, then you earn Hardcore Mode. 

If, however, you can hit the one million mark from scratch and in only 5 minutes or less, then you earn the shadow achievement called Speed Baking.

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