Cookie Clicker Garden Guide

Welcome to the ultimate Cookie Clicker Garden Guide! In this comprehensive article, we will explore the world of gardens in Cookie Clicker and provide you with actionable strategies to maximize your CpS (cookies per second). Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned player, this guide will help you unlock new seeds, understand the mechanics of the garden, and optimize your cookie production. So grab your shovel and let’s dive in!

Accessing the Garden

To access the Garden mini-game in Cookie Clicker, you’ll need to have at least one sugar lump and reach a cookie count of one million. Once you meet these requirements, head over to the firm with one sugar lump to level up and unlock your very own garden. But don’t be fooled, the garden is more than just a plot to throw seeds in. It requires careful management and fertilization to unlock the full potential of its plants.

Seeds in Cookie Clicker

Seeds are an essential element of the Garden mini-game in Cookie Clicker. Initially, you’ll only have a wheat seed from the baker. However, as you upgrade your farms and progress in the game, you’ll unlock new and exciting seeds. These seeds can be obtained through harvesting and creating mutated plants. Each seed has unique effects that can enhance your game in various ways.

One of the first seeds you’ll encounter is the Baker’s Wheat. This seed is the starting point of your garden and can increase your CpS by 1% when planted. As you progress, you’ll unlock seeds like Cronerice, Bakeberry, Thumbcorn, and many more, each with its own special effects on your CpS, grandma output, golden cookies, and random drops.

Harvesting Seeds

To obtain seeds in Cookie Clicker, you’ll need to harvest mature plants in your garden. As a plant matures, you can harvest it to receive seeds. However, it’s important to note that each seed can only be obtained once from a specific plant. Once you have a seed, you can plant it multiple times in empty tiles. To harvest a mature plant, simply click on the tile where it is planted. Hovering over a plant will provide information about its growth stage and other details.

Planting and Maturation

In Cookie Clicker, your garden grows in ticks, with each tick representing a specific duration based on the soil you use. During each tick, your plants will grow a random amount, going through stages like budding, sprouting, blooming, and finally maturing. It’s crucial to ensure that you only harvest plants when they are mature unless you have unlocked specific plants like Brown Mold and Crumbspore. Premature harvesting can prevent new species from dropping innovative seeds.

Kinds of Seeds

Cookie Clicker offers a wide variety of seeds, each with its own unique effects when planted in your garden. Let’s explore some of these seeds and their benefits:

Baker’s Wheat: It is the first seed you start with at the time of the Garden mini-game. Just click if you want to plant it right away so it can start to spawn mutations. As you plant one Baker’s wheat, your CpS is increased by 1%.

Cronerice: This can spawn from the mutation with the Baker’s Thumbcorn and Wheat. When it is planted, your total grandma output is increased by 3%.

Bakeberry and Thumbcorn: Each seed can spawn from just the Baker’s Wheat. Bakeberry will mutate less likely, while Thumbcorn will more likely mutate. You may also generate Thumbcorn from the two Cronerice. The Thumbcorn boosts the clicked cookies of yours for each click by 2%.

Bakeberry provides you with an additional 1% CpS. If you harvest it during maturity, you also receive 30 minutes of additional CpS. They are one of the best plants to increase your overall cookie production.

Gildmillet: It spawns from a Cronerice and Thumbcorn. It helps boost your golden cookies, making those 1% more fruitful and lasting 0.1% more.

Golden Clover and Ordinary Clover: Both the varieties of clover spawn from a combination of Baker’s Gildmillet and Wheat. Nevertheless, to have two or more than two Ordinary clovers in the garden where you are harvesting can also assist in breeding Golden Clover. The ordinary clovers also provide you 1% more chance of getting a golden cookie, and at the same time, Golden clover enhances the chance by 3%.

Shimmerlily: This plant is created by crossing an Ordinary Clover and a Gildmillet. This plant affects your golden cookies and, at the same time, increases the frequency and gains by 1%. Also, it boosts your random drop percentage by 1%.

Elderwort: This variety spawns from the cross between Cronerice and Shimmerlily. Also, you may generate Elderwort with a Cronerice and a Winklegill. It provides a 1% enhancement to your Wrath cookie frequency and gains while simultaneously boosting your Grandma’s productivity. This variety is immortal.

Wardlichen: This is a cross between the Cronerice and White Mildew. Also, you can cross Cronerice and Keenmoss to sown Wardlichen. With that, you receive 2% lesser Wrath Cookies, whereas Wrinklers spawn 15% more slowly.

Green Rot: It mutates from White Mildew and Ordinary clover. With that, you receive a 0.5% duration of effects of golden cookie and an extra 1% golden cookie chance, as well as a 1% increase in random drops.

Ichorpuff: It comes from a mix of Crumbspore and Elderwort. It causes plants to last longer in a 3 x 3 grid, thus dropping their aging by half. Though, they are only half as efficient. It is best suited for people who are checking on their gardens constantly.

Meddleweed: It spawns in a plot that is empty in your garden. This is the basis of every fungal plant and mold. This is not a mutation. It can destroy and cover nearby plants. You require it to spawn particular mutations, but it does not provide much utility except for that.

Brown Mold: It can spawn from White Mildew. You may also receive them by harvesting Meddleweed. This reduces your CpS by 1% having the opposite effect. But it helps to receive the rest of the mutations, but overall it does not have any positive advantage.

Crumbspore: Like Brown Mold, it can spawn while you harvest Meddleweed. It can stop and cover plants nearby you from growing. When it is about to mature, it can explode, while planted, into extra CpS for up to a minute.

Keenmoss: It mutates while you cross a Brown Mold and a Green Rot. It increases your random drops by 3%.

Chocoroot: It spawns from the mix of Baker’s Wheat and Brown Mold. With that, you receive 1% additional CpS. Also, you can harvest it at maturity for an additional CpS of three minutes.

White Mildew: It can spawn from the Brown Mold and does not need any other plant to appear as a mutation. Also, it can create Brown Mold. When the White Mildew is planted, there is an increase in your CpS by 1%.

Wrinklegill: From a combination of Brown Mold and Crumbspore, Wrinklegill spawns. It affects the Wrinklers, thus allowing them to spawn 2% more quickly and digest 1% extra.

Glovemorel: Crumbspore and Thumbcorn, when planted near one another, can create Glovemorel. With that, you receive an extra 4% cookies for each click, and your cursors are efficient by more than 1%. However, you lose 1% of your total CpS.

Drowsyfern: It can appear as a mutation when you cross Keenmoss and Chocoroot. It will take 10% of your golden cookie probability away and 5% of the cookies-per click. Though, it lifts your CpS by 3%.

Doughshroom: It is the mutation of Crumbspore and does not need any other plants to appear. At the end of it’s life, it can generate CpS for up to 5 minutes. Also, it is able to grow over some other nearby plants.

Juicy Queenbeet, Duketater, Queenbeet: The Queenbeat grows from combining Chorocroot and Bakeberry. It is also able to mutate into Juicy Queenbeet and Duketater. You must plant 8 Queenbeets to generate a juicy Queenbeet. The Juicy Queenbeets lessens CpS by 10% and makes plants 20% less efficient in a 3vx 3 grid. But if you harvest them during maturity, it will provide them with a sugar lump.

On the other hand, Duketaters can grow in the same plot from having 2 Queenbeets. Duketaters provides you CpS of two hours when it is harvested during maturity. Your golden cookie effect timer is increased by 0.3% by Queenbeets, reducing your CpS by 2%. While you harvest them during maturity, you receive an additional CpS of one hour. Shriekbulbs are capable of spawning from crossing various plants, which include:

• 3 Duketatersz
• 5 Queenbeets
• 4 Doughshrooms
• Five Elderwort
• One Elderwort and One Wrinklegill

The mutation of Duketater is the most probable one for generating a Shriekbulb. Though several players who try to grow Shriekbulb select to plant Elderwort instead as it is immortal. The Shriekbulbs deduct 2% of the CpS, and the plants are made 5% less efficient in a 3×3 grid.

Nurse Tulip and White Chocoroot: The mutation of Chocoroot and White Mildew creates a White Chocoroot. When you plant it alone, it can spawn a Nurse Tulip. One White Chocoroot provides you one extra percent of cookie gains, as well as harvesting at maturity, providing you three additional minutes of CpS.

Tidygrass: It appears from the cross between White Chocoroot and Baker’s Wheat. It ensures that the tikes around the plant in a 5×5 area do not develop weeds or fungus.

Fool’s Bolete: It is the outcome of the cross between the Green Rot and Doughshroom. It will take away 5% of the golden cookie gain, 2% of the golden cookie duration, and 2% of the extent of the Golden cookie effect. Though, there is an extra 2% probability of the golden cookies appearing.

Everadaisy: It has a bit chance of appearing when you cross 3 Elderwort with 3 Tidygrass. It ensures that the tiles do not develop fungus or weeds in the 3×3 area. Although it covers a smaller size than the Tidygrass, it is immortal. This will make it more beneficial in particular garden setups.

Whiskerbloom: It can appear while you plant a White Chocoroot with a Shimmerlily in the same garden. While you plan to plant Whiskerbloom to increase the effects of your Kitchen Upgrade, we recommend you consider using the clay soil to keep them mature longer once they are ripe.

Chimerose: It grows from the cross of Shimmerlily and Whiskerbloom. Your reindeer efficiency is affected by it, providing you an additional perfect in both frequency and gains.

Nursetulip: If you cross two Whiskerbloom, you can generate a Nursetulip. Though it takes away your CpS by 2%, it can make the plants 20% more efficient in a 3×3 grid.

Cheapcap: It arrives from the cross between Shimmerlily and Crumbspore. It can make your upgrades and buildings cheaper by 2%.

These are just a few examples of the diverse seeds you’ll encounter in Cookie Clicker. Experiment with different combinations and discover the full potential of your garden!

Garden Soil

In Cookie Clicker, the soil you use in your garden can significantly impact the growth and mutation rates of your plants. Here are the different soil types available and their effects:

1. Wood Chips: These increase mutation rates but reduce growth rates by 90% and effectiveness by 75%. Each tick lasts for five minutes.
2. Pebble: These return your ticks by five minutes, reduce effectiveness by 75% and growth by 90%. However, you have a 35% chance of harvesting seeds automatically when plants are dying.
3. Clay: Clay slows down ticks to 15 minutes each but boosts efficiency by 25%.
4. Fertilizer: This soil speeds up ticks to three minutes each, providing a 20% growth boost at the cost of 25% efficiency.
5. Dirt: The base soil in Cookie Clicker, with each tick lasting five minutes. It doesn’t alter any base rates.

Choosing the right soil for your garden can help you achieve mutations more quickly and optimize the growth of your plants.

Seed and Garden Strategies

To make the most of your garden in Cookie Clicker, it’s important to develop a strategy. Here are some tips to help you maximize your chances of getting desired mutations while maintaining a high CpS:

1. Farms and Upgrades: Upgrade your farms to increase your plot size and unlock different soil types. Aim to have at least 200 farms to access various soil options and increase your growth rate. Prioritize upgrading your Garden mini-game early on to expand your plot size and accommodate more mutations.
2. Plant Pricing: Be mindful of buying too many plants at once, as it can increase the cost of each plant and harm your CpS and overall game progression. Consider planting when your CpS is reduced due to effects like Wrath Cookies, as it may increase your chances of getting similar mutations.
3. Sacrifice Garden: Once you’ve unlocked all the seeds, you have the option to sacrifice your garden and start fresh. While it may seem counterintuitive, sacrificing your garden can help you gather milk more quickly and boost your future garden production. Use this option wisely and only if you’re prepared to lose all your seeds.
4. Planting Patterns: Organize your garden plot strategically to optimize the chances of mutations. Experiment with different planting patterns, such as using specific rows or columns for certain plants. For example, for Shriekbulb, fill all rows with Duke Tater plants or Elderwort. For Everdaisy, fill one row with Tidygrass and the next row with Elderwort. And for Juicy Queenbeets, fill specific columns with Queenbeets. Finding the right planting patterns can increase your chances of getting desired mutations.
5. Quick Planting: To save time and effort, use the shift key while selecting a seed to plant it multiple times in different plots. This will prevent the need to click on each plot individually.

Planting Patterns:

Represent the 6×6 garden grid. Then consider each of the boxes on the left that are lettered from P to U. Now label the boxes with all odd numbers from 1 to 11 that are on the top.

Fig: 6×6 Grid Map

Wrapping Up

Congratulations! You are now equipped with a comprehensive Cookie Clicker Garden Guide to maximize your CpS. Remember to experiment with different seeds, soil types, and planting patterns to unlock the full potential of your garden. By carefully managing and optimizing your garden, you can significantly increase your cookie production and progress in the game. Keep exploring and enjoy the sweet rewards of Cookie Clicker!

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