Cursor

The cursor is a building in Fake Cookie Clicker Classic and Definitive Edition that clicks the cookie once every 10 seconds. It was available at launch of the original pre-release build and in version 0.0004, respectively.

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Cost: 15, goes up by 2 for every Cursor owned

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CPS: 0.1

To get the price for any number of cursors, put 2n + 15 where n is the number of cursors you have, for example: 2 \* 6 + 15 = 27

## Fake Cookie Clicker Classic

In FCC Classic, the cursor is the first and worst building in the game. It would take 2600 cursors to get to the CpS of a factory, and that would cost 5213 cookies which would take 14 hours, 13 minutes, and 50 seconds. That's more than half a day!

It would also take:

* 10 cursors to match the CpS of a grandma
* 80 cursors to match the CpS of a farm
* 470 cursors to match the CpS of a mine

The cursor is also the only building that has a visual representation of it unlike in the real game, as it appears below the big cookie.

With one single cursor, it would take 2 weeks, 1 day, 1 hour, 6 minutes, and 40 seconds to save up for a factory. You could watch a whole YouTube channel's worth of videos in that time, maybe 2 or 3 or 4 or 5?

The Sp1000cookies (Seconds per thousand cookies) of the cursor is unsurprisingly, 2 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds.

## Fake Cookie Clicker Definitive Edition

In FCC DE, the cursor is also the first and worst building in the game, when unupgraded.

It has the same CpS as its Scratch counterpart, however it doesn't appear below the big cookie due to a programming mistake involving the difference between strings and variables.

It has an upgrade that makes every cursor 2 times as powerful for the price of 17 cursors, so with the upgrades, that would be:

* 5 cursors and one upgrade for the CpS of a grandma, which would cost 345 cookies or 3 grandmas and 2 cursors which would be 3.2 CpS
* 3 cursors and 2 upgrades for the CpS of a grandma and 2 cursors, which would cost 2,801 cookies or 14 grandmas and 2 cursors which would be 14.2 CpS
* 2 cursors and 3 upgrades for the CpS of a grandma and 2 cursors, which would cost 27,782 cookies or 55 grandmas and 0 cursors which would be 55 CpS.

So it's better to just get a grandma than to rip yourself off by getting one for the price of three or 1.2 for the price of 14.

In fact, once you get to 6 or 7 cursors, you could've gotten a grandma by then.

## History

The cursor was created the very day the big cookie was: November the 19th, 2021. However, the cursor wasn't the thing we all knew and loved from the start. For starters, it didn't show the information on the price board Instead, there was a stat below the cookie counter that showed the cursor price. However, that would change in the next version, where the cursor became what it is today. End of the story, right?

### Well, there's Definitive Edition to worry about.

The first lines of the cursor were written in Prototype 2.5, with a brown rectangle that would become the cursor buy box. In the next version, the rectangle became blue and had the 15 cookies text on it, but didn't work.

Version 0.00031 had some more graphics but is the first one that we don't know what happened in. However, we do know that Version 0.0004 implemented the cursor properly, except for the thing that even Scratch got right first try: The cursor appearing under the big cookie. That was fixed in the next version though.

There wasn't much progress until version 0.00044 when the cursor upgrade was created. The next version added an achievement that, at the time, would just be for getting the cursor.

Then, in version 0.00052, the actual "get the cursor" achievement was added because the grandma was added before. In the next version, the bug where the cursor wouldn't appear underneath the big cookie was fixed. Then, in the next version, an achievement for getting 10 cursors was added.

## Gallery

The cursor that appears underneath the cookie after buying your first cursor (above.)The button used to buy the cursor [with info], (above.)The cursor in Definitive Edition
## Trivia

* It has the nickname "pointy mouse" (courtesy of the real cookie clicker wiki), due to it being really pointy, unlike actual mouse cursors.
* It only has 4 fingers.
* The cursor that appears below the big cookie isn't actually centered, the big cookie is at y -172 while that cursor is at y -179.
* The "price board" name for the cursor isn't aligned with the Grandma and Factory names.
	+ In particular, the Cursor, Farm, and Mine are all at x -26 while the Grandma's is at -25 and the Factory's is at -24.
		- In addition to that, none of them are actually aligned with the price board. The price board is at x -29.
	+ In addition to that, the "buy board" name is at x 155 and so are all the other's except for the Factory's, which is at x 153.

### Trivia for Definitive Edition

* It still has only 4 fingers.
	+ And those four fingers are treated like their own shapes, meaning there's a black line between the palm and the fingers.
* There's a "cursor time" variable that seems to control the CpS of the cursor time.
	+ If you time it right, you can technically get a cookie at the same time you buy the cursor, while sometimes you have to wait the whole 10 seconds if you get unlucky. Speedrun strats?
* There's also code for some debug text that the developer used to test the functionality of this "cursor time" variable.
* Fun fact: It takes 493 cursors to pass the price of 1000 cookies, at 1001.
	+ This can be found the easy way by realizing that for every cursor you get, the cost goes up by 2.
	+ Below here is a table of the amount of cursors vs the cost of cursors.

Table

1. ↑ 2.5 cursors isn't possible, so it has to be rounded up to 3.