Cinder Cogs.

How to play Cinder Cogs

1. Tap or click the large cog to work the forge. On a keyboard, focus the forge and press Space; holding Space supplies five taps per second. The floating number shows what that input earned.
2. Spend fifteen cogs on a helper bot. Buy additional machines from the store and compare their displayed production per second with their increasing prices. The owned count appears at the end of each row.
3. Switch to Upgrades to fit improvements. A machine upgrade requires enough copies of that machine and the displayed cog cost. It doubles production for that entire machine type.
4. Choose a purchase quantity of one, ten or one hundred. The store buys as many as your balance covers, up to that quantity. Switch to Sell only when you want to trade existing machines back for a smaller refund.
5. Open Stats to inspect lifetime output, the current run, production rates and achievements. A daily shift asks for a set number of taps and machine purchases. Complete both to collect a stamp, then copy your result if you want to share it.
6. Open Recast when a blueprint is available. Read the reset details before starting again with the permanent bonus, or close the panel and continue building the same foundry.

Make your move

About Cinder Cogs

Cinder Cogs is a free idle clicker game about turning a small hand-operated forge into a busy industrial workshop. You begin with an empty balance and a large cog to tap. Each tap makes one cog, and fifteen cogs buy the first helper bot. That small machine produces automatically, giving you a choice between clicking for the next purchase and watching the foundry work. As you add bellows, anvils and more advanced equipment, the cutaway building fills with moving machinery. The balance, production rate, price and owned count remain visible so you can judge what each purchase contributes.

The economy grows through purchases and upgrades. Another copy of a machine costs fifteen percent more than the previous one, before rounding, while its base production stays the same. That means the cheapest familiar machine is not always the best investment. Three upgrade tiers double the output of each machine type, and helper-bot upgrades also double your base tap. Later, power-assisted gloves add one percent of passive production to each tap per level. Buying in batches saves repeated button presses; selecting ten or one hundred buys the affordable part of that batch. Selling returns a quarter of the underlying purchase value and reduces production immediately.

Once you have made enough cogs in total, Recast lets you exchange the current foundry for blueprints. Each blueprint permanently adds ten percent to machine production and the base tap. The confirmation panel explains exactly what resets: your balance, owned machines, machine upgrades and glove upgrades. Achievements, lifetime production and daily shift stamps remain. You can keep expanding instead of recasting immediately, especially when you are close to another blueprint. Progress belongs to this browser and saves automatically. Returning after a break brings a clear summary of offline production, capped at eight hours. There are no accounts, paid upgrades or interstitial advertisements inside the game.

A little help for your next high score

• Buy the first helper early so your balance can grow between taps. A little passive production makes every later pause more useful.
• Compare a new machine with an upgrade for the machines you already own. Doubling a large group can be worth more than buying one expensive new machine.
• The helper upgrades improve both helpers and tapping. They are especially useful while manual forging is still a large part of your income.
• A bulk purchase uses the same underlying exponential prices. The selected quantity is a maximum, so check the affordable count before clicking a row.
• Recast is a choice, not a deadline. Check the permanent bonus and the next blueprint threshold before giving up a well-developed foundry.

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