how do i increase cookie production?

[CheeseLord]

ive been stuck with 8 wizard towers and 2 shipments for months now, only slowly progressing, plz help.

[Porky Pig]

https://cookieclicker.fandom.com/wiki/Cookie_Clicker_Wiki:Strategy

[Fire Angel]

The start is slow. Best thing you can do is to leave your game running for many hours. Then you should be able to buy the next upgrade.

[red_uwu]

Either do the idle play and just wait or click on those golden cookies and hope for a clicking frenzy. It's called cookie clicker for a reason!

[Username017]

use debug mode to have 100% of your cps when offline

[Bomoo]

Leave it on while you're afk.

[agmdaniel]

This must be a joke. I've owned the game one day and I have 1 Alchemy lab, 7 shipments, 15 wizard towers and so forth. You can click on my profile and see I started yesterday.

[AlpacaDGY]

Originally posted by agmdaniel:

This must be a joke. I've owned the game one day and I have 1 Alchemy lab, 7 shipments, 15 wizard towers and so forth. You can click on my profile and see I started yesterday.

That's what i thought too, in the start you can't get stuck, it's really strange

[agmdaniel]

Originally posted by AlpacaDGY:

Originally posted by agmdaniel:

This must be a joke. I've owned the game one day and I have 1 Alchemy lab, 7 shipments, 15 wizard towers and so forth. You can click on my profile and see I started yesterday.

That's what i thought too, in the start you can't get stuck, it's really strange

Yeah. I mean it's now only a day or two later. I'm the definition of a casual player. I'm still in my first run, no ascensions, and I already have 1 Time Machine, 8 Portals, 15+ Alchemy labs, 50+ Wizard Towers, and so forth.
It's not physically possible to be stuck with only 8 Wizard Towers after months of playing.

[AlpacaDGY]

Originally posted by agmdaniel:

Originally posted by AlpacaDGY:

That's what i thought too, in the start you can't get stuck, it's really strange

Yeah. I mean it's now only a day or two later. I'm the definition of a casual player. I'm still in my first run, no ascensions, and I already have 1 Time Machine, 8 Portals, 15+ Alchemy labs, 50+ Wizard Towers, and so forth.
It's not physically possible to be stuck with only 8 Wizard Towers after months of playing.

Exactly, I think the first time I got stuck and couldn't buy anything was when I got ~400 Idleverses

[Pamonha]

true

[Donofgames]

Have you ascended? Somehow some new players are missing the fact that ascension is a thing.

[Malrath]

When should I first ascend?

[AlpacaDGY]

Originally posted by Malrath:

When should I first ascend?

https://nerdlodge.com/cookie-clicker-ascension-guide-when-to-ascend/

Read this guide, you can ascend as soon as you get a prestige, but it's no recommended.
The optimal is something between 90 and 2777, but it really depends on your patience.

[Malrath]

Thank you so much sir! I really appreciate it!

[flashadow]

Originally posted by Malrath:

When should I first ascend?

440 (https://pastebin.com/PutF8qFd) but if you have some luck could be more. You can get 440 in the first day of playing. 85% of game progress in 100 hours. Then starts end game part.
P.S 100 hours mean that you are in all of the time. Not in the half-AFK state.