When to prestige

What a prestige gives, what it costs, and how to read the numbers before you tap.

What you get

Prestige restarts your run and pays Golden Beans. You keep them for good, and each one raises your earnings. With no Master Seals and no recipes, each bean adds 10% to your earnings multiplier, so 10 beans double your income.

Each Master Seal makes your beans count 5% more, one on top of the other. Seals come from reaching a new chocolate for the first time, never from prestige itself.

What you give up

Robots, bays, ships, warehouses, research and cash all start again, and you are back on Plain Milk. Your warehouses go back to 1 warehouse, so the time you earn while away goes back to 1 h.

You keep your Golden Beans, Master Seals, Gold Foil and Master Recipes. Your skins, themes and artifacts are kept too. The Master Seal and the Gold Foil for reaching a chocolate are given only the first time you reach it, so you do not get them again on the way back up.

Read the Prestige menu first

Open Company, then Prestige. Three things matter:

• Waiting if you prestige now is the number of beans you would get.
• Earnings bonus is your multiplier today.
• The Prestige button says where the bonus would go: "Earnings bonus goes from one number to another".

If the second number is barely larger than the first, a prestige now gains little. The game asks you to confirm before it restarts anything.

How beans grow

Beans are counted from what you earned during this run, not from the cash you hold. Without any bonus recipes, the first bean needs $100K earned in one run.

After that the count grows slowly. Twice the earnings give only about 11% more beans, and it takes about 102 times the earnings to double them. The Waiting line shows the count as the run goes on.

What makes a prestige bigger

• Prestige Bonus: +10% beans per prestige, for up to 20 levels.
• Bean Roasting: Each bean gives +1% more, for up to 40 levels.
• Seal Bonus: Seals compound 1% harder, for up to 5 levels.

These are Master Recipes. They cost Gold Foil and are kept through every prestige. Gold Foil and boosts has their prices.

The full numbers are on the Prestige page.