Cookie Clicker: Heavenly chips guide

One of the most admired and well-accepted idle games in the market today is Cookie Clicker. Developed by a single developer at first, the Cookie Clicker games have hooked millions of gamers around the world with their idle gameplay and fun mechanics. Despite being an idle game, it surprisingly harbours a lot of strategical gameplay mechanics along with in-depth meta-tactics used by veteran players.

One such mechanic that many players might be confused about is the Heavenly Chips that help players activate Heavenly Upgrades for their Cookies. Some of these upgrades are quite literally game-changing when it comes to your CPS (Cookie Per Second) and golden cookie generation. Let’s take an in-depth look at how you can maximise your Heavenly Chips generation along with the different upgrades associated with them.

THE ASCENSION SYSTEM

Before getting into detail regarding the Heavenly Chips system, it’s better to first understand the Ascension system that constitutes Heavenly Chips as a major part of it. Ascension in Cookie Clicker means essentially re-setting your entire progress made so far and starting from scratch. Feels stupid to do so? Well, it comes with its benefits such as unlocking achievements, gaining the ability to collect Heavenly Chips, and getting a huge CPS boost from Heavenly upgrades/Prestige Levels.

As a general rule of thumb, there’s no perfect cookie level at which you should Ascend. When Ascending in Cookie Clicker, you will get a detailed list of the stats and items you will obtain upon ascending. These include the Prestige points and the oh-so-desired Heavenly Chips. The hard part comes when deciding the question of when to Ascend. Many of the popular community guides state that ascending at 200 Prestige levels and 400 Prestige levels are some of the most optimal choices to make. For readers' information, a single Prestige level takes about 1 trillion cookies baked. That’s a huge number. It can take average active players days and even weeks to achieve that task.

Hence, we can conclude that Ascending is the core system that encompasses the Heavenly Chips as a reward in it. The higher the Prestige Level when you ascend, the more Heavenly Chips you are awarded.

WHAT ARE HEAVENLY CHIPS?

Heavenly Chip is an item that was first introduced in Cookie Clicker version 1.0.35. It was given to players along with the Ascension prestige mechanic that we talked about as part of the rewards for re-starting the game altogether. Heavenly Chips can be used to purchase some incredibly powerful buffs when a new player starts their game. These buffs are called “Heavenly Upgrades”. Heavenly Chips and your Prestige level in the Legacy system are directly co-related. The more chips you get, the more your prestige level will increase. There’s no specific way to detail how many chips you will get after a reset as the amount varies equally to the number of cookies you have baked during the period along with your current ascension prestige level.

The way players generally calculate their Heavenly Chips obtained is to compare the amount pre-reset and post-reset. The difference between the resets will give you the exact figure of Heavenly Chips given each reset. Coming to the Heavenly upgrades, they are permanent and stay active with the player once they are bought. They are buffs and amplify your power to bake more cookies. Heavenly chips can also be used for purchasing biscuits, unlocking dragon, buying season boosts, golden cookie buffs, and offline cookie production packages. A fun fact: the highest ever collected Heavenly chips equate to 564.38 Untrigintillion (that’s a 1 followed by 96 zeroes).

WHAT ARE HEAVENLY UPGRADES?

Heavenly upgrades are permanent buffs that can only be purchased using your collected Heavenly Chips. These buffs stay with the player no matter how many soft resets they do in their lifespan. These are of different varieties, ranging from CPS (Cookie Per Second) increasing buffs to a cookie dragon that can double the number of cookies you bake at a random probability. Further, you can also upgrade these buffs using Heavenly Chips to further improve their stats and usability.

ALL HEAVENLY CHIP UPGRADES

• Heavenly Chip secret - Unlocks 5% of the potential of your prestige levels. (Base Price – 11 heavenly chips)
• Heavenly cookie stand - Unlocks 25% of the potential of your prestige levels. (Base Price – 1,111 heavenly chips)
• Heavenly bakery - Unlocks 59% of the potential of your prestige levels. (Base Price – 111,111 heavenly chips)
• Heavenly confectionary - Unlocks 75% of the potential of your prestige levels. (Base Price – 11.11 million heavenly chips)
• Heavenly key - Unlocks 100% of the potential of your prestige levels. (Base Price – 1.111 billion heavenly chips)

HOW TO CALCULATE HEAVENLY CHIPS GAINED?

As a general rule of thumb, 1 trillion cookies baked are equal to 1 Heavenly Chip. However, this is only true for your 1st trillion cookies baked. The actual formula generated comes to be an algebraic equation of [1+2+3+..x]1012 < Your total number of cookies baked. The “x” denotes the highest integer in the chain that can sum to give the total number of cookies you have baked during the session. Sounds confusing? Let’s take a quick example.

If you bake 10 trillion cookies, the break up for the same in terms of the above-mentioned formula would be (1+2+3+4) x 1012. Hence, the highest integer value is 4. Therefore, 10 trillion cookies baked would give you 4 Heavenly Chips. The next upgrade would come at baking 15 trillion cookies which can add the next bigger integer “5” in the formula.

HOW TO GET HEAVENLY CHIPS FAST?

Sadly, there’s no real way to get Heavenly Chips faster but to bake more cookies. Get more CPS buffs, get more Heavenly upgrades such as the golden cookie upgrades, the dragon upgrades, and so forth to produce more cookies per second.

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