Grandma

The Grandma is an object in both Fake Cookie Clicker games. It was available at launch of the full build (Nov. 20, 2021) in Fake Cookie Clicker Classic and had its debut in the Khan Academy version between 11AM-12PM (EDT) on the ninth of April 2022.

The formula for calculating grandma price is 15n + 100, where n is the number of grandmas you have. For example: 15 more future cost \* 20 grandmas + 100 original grandma price = 400 price

## Fake Cookie Clicker Classic

The second building you unlock in the game also means the second worst, but by how much exactly. Well, that's a question for a few sentences later but currently here's the basics. The grandma bakes 1 cookie per second and is the equivalent of 6 and two thirds cursors.

It is also only 120 cookies worse than buying a farm, maybe even only 20 cookies worse. Do the maths, it's just 100 + 115 + 130 + 145 + 160 + 175 + 190 + 205 = 1220

1220 is 120 cookies bigger than 1100, the cost of a farm.

Anyway, time for the part where you figure out how good a grandma is!

It would take...

* 0.1 grandmas for the CpS of a cursor, or 10 cookies because of the cost of the grandma. That means you're already getting scammed at the start of the game!
* 1 grandma for the CpS of a grandma, or 100 cookies because of the cost of the grandma. That's easy enough to figure out.
* 8 grandmas for the CpS of a farm, or 1220 cookies because of the cost of the grandma. So if you don't want to get ripped off, buy a farm because it's better.
* 47 grandmas for the CpS of a mine, or 20125 cookies because of reasons already mentioned. That's more than 8125 cookies more than buying a mine normally, don't scam yourself.
* 260 grandmas for the CpS of a factory, or way too many cookies to calculate manually. That's why I just gave myself a bunch of cookies and then spent them on grandmas, then did some subtracting and it was 531049 cookies.

However, if you knew anything about anything at all, you'd realise I didn't need to tell you because the CpS of a grandma is 1 so it's self explanatory.

Anyway, judging by the fact that you've read the last sentence, it should come as no surprise that the Sp1000cookies for the grandma (Seconds per thousand cookies) is 1000 seconds, or 16 minutes and 40 seconds.

And it should also come as no surprise that it would take...

* 15 seconds to get your first cursor with a grandma
* 1 minute and 40 seconds to get your first grandma with a grandma (Yes, that doesn't make sense I know)
* 18 minutes and 20 seconds to get your first farm with a grandma
* 3 hours and 20 minutes to get your first mine with a grandma
* 1 day, 14 hours, and 40 minutes to get your first factory with a grandma.

If you thought that last one was long, just remember that this is only the second worst building in the game. For the cursor, it'd take ten times as long, more than a week!

## Fake Cookie Clicker Definitive Edition

In FCC Definitive Edition, the grandma is the best and second worst building in the game, with the same CpS but no upgrades that work, unlike the worst building AKA the cursor.

It is better than the cursor in every way, excluding visual appearances which the cursor reigns supreme on with 3 visual appearences to a measly 2.

The grandma didn't start out so well though, debuting in version 0.0005 not as a buggy mess, but just with the same code as the cursor timer. Thankfully an update came just hours after the grandma was created, fixing the mess that the previous version made. The creator of the game had mixed feelings about the grandma, offering to delete the grandma in response to a post made on this wiki.

It is still only 6.66666667 times as expensive as the cursor so at 7 or 8 cursors you'd be wasting your time. In fact, it would cost 240 cookies to get 1 CpS using solely cursors, money that could be used to buy at least 2 grandmas and 2 cursors, amounting to 2.2 cursors.

It's actually better to save up for a grandma than to even use the cursor upgrade or anything as seen on a table on the cursor page.

Overall though, the grandma is pretty similiar to its Scratch counterpart and anything else isn't worth talking about.

## History

The grandma debuted on the same version as the farm, on November the 20th, 2021. And that's how it is today, end of the story. RIGHT? **WRONG.**

### Definitive Edition

The grandma debuted in Definitive Edition in version 0.0005, although it was first mentioned on the 9th of April in a discussion post by Jaydar and quickly made after.
However, that version was a buggy mess. The grandma said it had 0.1 CpS instead of 1 and the cursor said 1 CpS instead of 0.1. However, those problems were cleaned in version 0.00051, but not before Jaydar offered to outright delete the grandma for being so buggy. However there was still one bug left, which was fixed in version 0.000511. It got quiet for a moment until Version 0.00052(2) when the Grandma achievements were added. Another quiet spot was there until Version 0.00054 when the Grandma upgrade was added...and didn't work. Until version 0.000541 came and then everything was well.

## Trivia

### FCC Classic

* The Grandma shown on the buy icon has no wrinkles or features of any sort to indicate that it is old.

* It has the nickname "hubba bubba tape grandma" (courtesy of Fake Cookie Clicker Classic's creator.), due to it looking oddly pink.

### FCC DE

* It is actually worse than the cursor in at least two ways:
	+ It is more expensive for the same reward.
	+ It only counts as 0.1 in the stats page while the cursor is 1 in the stats page. It's like role reversal.
* In its original state, buying more than one Grandma would do ***ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING!!!***

However, since update 0.00051, those problems have been fixed.

* Buying a grandma doesn't unlock the cursor upgrade which is understandable, but what's more surprising is the fact buying a grandma doesn't unlock the achievement for buying a building.

Oh wait no, that got fixed too.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The cost goes up by 15 every time.
2. ↑ It started out as a worse cursor that didn't even unlock the building achievement.