📈 Leveling Up Your Factory

Use upgrades to set new records

You got Research Points. Now what? Spend them on upgrades, of course!

Improvement Station

By using Improvement Station, you can improve any part of your factory.

There are 7 types of upgrades in the game. Here are the upgrades you can buy at Improvement Station:

Upgrade	Description	Max Achievable
Power	Increases the Genewattor power output by 5% per level	+100%
Efficiency	Decreases the tax rate by 5% per level	-100%
Research	Increases Think Tank $RP production rate by 5% per level	+100%
Battery Capacity	Doubles Battery capacity per level	+104,857,600%
Think Tank Capacity	Doubles Think Tank capacity per level	+104,857,600%
Consumption Rate	Decreases $FOOD consumption rate of all staked Dupes by 3% per level	-60%
Watt Multiplier	Increases the $WATT multiplier from feeding Dupes by 5% per level	+100%

Upgrade Levels

All upgrades start at level 0 and have a maximum of 20 levels.

The $RP cost of leveling is solely dependent on the level itself. With each level the cost increases according to this formula:

$$rpUpgradeCost = 10*(1 + 0.65 * upgradeLvl) × 1.4 ^{upgradeLvl}$$

Our Daily $RP Rewards mechanic will ensure active players with a small amount of Dupes can reach high upgrade levels in a reasonable time.

Like Research Points, upgrades of your factory are tied to your wallet and can't be transferred or sold. This makes it impossible for players to cheat around game mechanics and buy progression second hand without personal time or $WATT investment.

Upgrade Cooldown

Repeatedly using the Improvement Station can overheat its intricate components, thus, to avoid this, each upgrade has a cooldown. Cooldown duration scales with upgrade level following this formula:

$$cooldownInSeconds = 14400*(1 + 0.75 * (upgradeLvl)) × 1.05 ^{upgradeLvl}$$

Cooldown can be skipped by burning additional $WATT. The amount of $WATT required also scales with level:

$$wattCostToSkipCooldown = rpUpgradeCost * 100$$

Upgrade Lvl	Cooldown Duration	Cost to Skip Cooldown
Level 1	4 hours	1,000 $WATT
Level 2	7 hours	2,300 $WATT
Level 10	48 hours	141,500 $WATT
Level 20	140 hours	11,713,600 $WATT

You can't skip cooldown more than once per day (per upgrade).

Factory Level

Every time you buy an upgrade, your total Factory level will increase by 1, putting you higher in the leaderboard. The current maximum achievable Factory level is 140.

Factory level is the only metric by which we rank the most active players. In the future, those with higher Factory Levels will be rewarded accordingly.