CC Krumblor Guide

Cookie Clicker Krumblor Guide
Made by: xxfillex

First of all, to even unlock Krumblor you are required to purchase the heavenly upgrade “How to Bake Your Dragon”, costing 9 heavenly
chips. Krumblor can then be purchased as the upgrade “A crumbly egg” after having baked 1 million cookies during that ascension, and
it only costs 25 cookies, at which point Krumblor will appear as an egg in the bottom left corner of the game and evolve into a
dragon as you sacrifice cookies and buildings to him.

When you first get Krumblor he will not give any benefit for you, as he is still an egg. You need to pay a total of 15 million
cookies to hatch him, at which point he will be a dragon but still useless. You must pay 16 million cookies to unlock the first aura,
Breath of Milk, and subsequently an amount of buildings to get more auras and an upgrade, as listed below.

Sacrificing buildings reduces the cost back down to the normal cost for that amount of buildings, and switching an aura forces you to
sacrifice one of your highest building. If you do not own any buildings it is free to switch an aura.

Dragon Training
Chip it                                                     | sacrifice 1/2/4 million cookies

Hatch it                                                    | sacrifice 8 million cookies

Train Breath of Milk                                        | sacrifice 16 million cookies
Aura: kittens are 5% more effective

Train Dragon Cursor                                         | sacrifice 100 cursors
Aura: clicking is 5% more effective

Train Elder Battalion                                       | sacrifice 100 grandmas
Aura: grandmas gain +1% CpS for every non-grandma building

Train Reaper of Fields                                      | sacrifice 100 farms
Aura: golden cookies may trigger a Dragon Harvest           (note: 5.09~7.14% chance, 0.94~1.194% from Wrath Cookies)

Train Earth Shatterer                                       | sacrifice 100 mines
Aura: buildings sell back for 50% instead of 25%

Train Master of the Armory                                  | sacrifice 100 factories
Aura: all upgrades are 2% cheaper

Train Fierce Hoarder                                        | sacrifice 100 banks
Aura: all buildings are 2% cheaper

Train Dragon God                                            | sacrifice 100 temples
Aura: prestige CpS bonus +5%

Train Arcane Aura                                           | sacrifice 100 wizard towers
Aura: golden cookies appear 5% more often

Train Dragonflight                                          | sacrifice 100 shipments
Aura: golden cookies may trigger a Dragonflight             (note: 5.09~7.14% chance, 0.94~1.194% from Wrath Cookies)

Train Ancestral Metamorphosis                               | sacrifice 100 alchemy labs
Aura: golden cookies give 10% more cookies                  (note: only affects luckies, storms and chains)

Train Unholy Dominion                                       | sacrifice 100 portals
Aura: wrath cookies give 10% more cookies                   (note: only affects luckies, storms and chains)

Train Epoch Manipulator                                     | sacrifice 100 time machines
Aura: golden cookie effects last 5% longer

Train Mind over Matter                                      | sacrifice 100 antimatter condensers
Aura: +25% random drops                                     (note: seasonal upgrades and garden drops are considered random drops)

Train Radiant Appetite                                      | sacrifice 100 prisms
Aura: all cookie production multiplied by 2

Train Dragon's Fortune                                      | sacrifice 100 chancemakers
Aura: +123% CpS per golden cookie on-screen
Effect: +123% CpS per golden cookie on-screen, multiplicative.

Train Dragon's Curve                                        | sacrifice 100 fractal engines
Aura: sugar lumps grow 5% faster, 50% weirder
Effect: +5% sugar lump growth. Sugar lumps are twice as likely to be unusual.

Train Reality Bending                                       | sacrifice 100 javascript consoles
Aura: 10% of every other aura, combined

Train Dragon Orbs                                           | sacrifice 100 idleverses
Aura: selling your best building may grant a wish
Effect: with no buffs and no golden cookies on screen, selling your most powerful building has 10% chance to summon one.

Train Supreme Intellect                                     | sacrifice 100 cortex bakers
Aura: confers various powers to your minigames
Effect: Garden plants age and mutate 5% faster. The stock market is more chaotic. The jade slot behaves as a ruby slot and
the ruby slot behaves as a diamond slot. Grimoire spells are 10% cheaper but fail 10% more.

Train Dragon Guts                                           | sacrifice 100 you
Aura: enhanced wrinklers
Effect: You can attract 2 more wrinklers. Wrinklers digest 20% more cookies. Wrinklers explode into 20% more cookies.

Bake dragon cookie                                          | sacrifice 50 of every building
Upgrade: "Dragon cookie", Cookie production multiplier +5%

Train secondary aura                                        | sacrifice 200 of every building
Lets you use two dragon auras simultaneously
Your dragon is fully trained.


Petting

With the heavenly upgrade "How to pet your Dragon" which costs 100 billion heavenly chips, you can select Krumblor and click it to pet
it; you may recieve an upgrade if it is a grown dragon, rather than hatchling or younger. Each of the four upgrades which are unlocked
by petting him is randomly assigned to its own quarter of each hour, the times being XX:00-XX:14 for the first, XX:15-XX:29 for the
second, XX:30-XX:44 for the third, and XX:45-XX:59 for the last. During the timeframe of an upgrade you have 5% chance of unlocking
the upgrade each time you pet it, and it can simply be repeatedly clicked be unlocked.

Upgrades:
"Dragon scale", cookie production multiplier +3%.
"Dragon claw", +clicks are 3% more powerful.
"Dragon fang", +3% golden cookie gains. Dragon harvest and Dragonflight are 10% stronger.
"Dragon teddy bear", +3% random drops.
Cost scales with CpS (base 30 minutes worth), but are 10 times cheaper (3 minutes worth) with a fully-trained dragon.


Simple strategy

At the start of each ascension, get Breath of Milk and slot it. You will not need any other auras until you have 100 prisms, so you
can wait until then before proceeding, or sacrifice them when it's the most cost efficient. After sacrificing the 100 prisms to
unlock Radiant Appetite, switch to that as it's stronger than Breath of Milk. After that, the next useful thing is
Bake dragon cookie, which requires you to first sacrifice 100 of the last building, so you wait until then with proceeding with
sacrificing to Krumblor. You will however be sacrificing 50 of every building and only gaining +5% CpS, so make sure rebuying
buildings to suitable amounts does not cost you too much. Finally, the secondary aura is immensely useful as you can slot both Breath
of Milk and Radiant Appetite simultaneously, which is one of the greatest flat increase to CpS you can get from auras.
In some parts of the game, notably with unshackled grandmas, Elder Battalion surpasses breath of milk and can therefore be switched in
instead of breath of milk. To note is Elder Battalion is weakened by Godzamok, which is almost a must in combos.

One hour before a sugar lump is ripe, you can switch in dragon's curve temporarily and harvest the lump. You can also do this before
you go to sleep if a sugar lump would auto-harvest during the night, when you otherwise leave the game, or when you come back
to the game and realise you have a ripe sugar lump. You then get the full benefit of the aura with minimal impact on cookie gains.
You can also do this if you have all cookie related achievements and only want to get the sugar lump related achievements.


More advanced Strategies

Before ascending, slot earth shatterer and sell expensive buildings (not necessarily the later ones, just the expensive ones) that
aren't close to reaching an achievement for having X of that building. If you have chocolate egg unbought, buy it then and proceed to
either buy an upgrade you will permaslot or buy buildings close enough to reach an achievement that you can do so with your amount of
cookies, and afterwards sell them and redo for other buildings you can do the same with. This may give you a few more building
achievements, as well as a few more heavenly chips through chocolate egg. Fierce Hoarder and/or Master of the Armory may be used in
addition if it would allow you to get one more building achievement or permaslottable upgrade (highly unlikely), by swapping in the
aura while you have very few of your highest building.

While hunting seasonal upgrades or garden drops while less interested in cookies, or with Cosmic beginner's luck, you can use Mind
over Matter to increase the chance to get them by a little bit.

Using Dragon Guts to give more spots for wrinklers to spawn also helps a bit with Easter and Halloween, especially Halloween since those drops are gotten exclusively from wrinklers. Dragon Guts also helps for trying to get a shiny wrinklers, and can be slotted when popping wrinklers for cookies, but apart from this Dragon Guts is not viable to use while idling, as simple CpS auras gives a greater benefit than the additional wrinklers.

While not doing combos because you lack the magic, or while the game is progressing quite fast, you may choose to slot Dragonflight in
order to have a higher chance to get a good natural clicking buff. While Dragonflight is typically bad for doing combos because the
game tries to prevent Dragonflight and Click Frenzy from happening simultaneously, it is decent on its own or with a frenzy while you
cannot do anything better. If you get dragonflight, switch back to CpS auras in order to get more cookies from the Dragonflight.

If you don't care about cookies or get too little cookies idly to care, and simply want to get black cat's paw, or for another reason
want faster spawns, you may want to use Arcane Aura. If the reason you want faster spawns is to stack a long frenzy, you can use
Epoch Manipulator as the secondary aura. In case you ever get enough buffs running to care about the cookie gain, you can always
switch back to CpS auras momentarily.

While there are no buffs active, you can temporarily swap in Dragon Orbs and sell your highest building until you get a golden cookie,
and repeat if it gives something else than a buff. When going for combos, you want to get and click the golden cookie as late as
possible to get as high overlap with any buff as possible, but depending on what you are going for you usually want to click it early
enough to be able to get another one in case it's not a buff. Otherwise, Dragon Orbs is very useful for getting easter eggs, eldeer, or
doing DO ASS CLGCF for golden cookie clicks (explained in the pins of the DashNet Forums Discord server)

If you have a secondary aura you can for many auras use Reality Bending together with it, to get 10% more of the aura. This can be
useful for the auras Earth Shatterer, Arcane Aura, Epoch Manipulator, Fierce Hoarder, Master of the Armory, Mind Over Matter and
Dragon's Curve. It does not work at all for Reaper of Fields and Dragonflight as it will not make the buffs more likely than without
Reality Bending. For other auras it is practically always more useful to use other secondary auras rather than Reality Bending, or
just not useful to use the aura itself.

To efficiently utilize the garden, Supreme Intellect can be slotted to grow plants faster, although only necessary when the ticks
happen. Supreme Intellect does make mutations more likely, although this is not necessarily useful since you'll usually have less
ticks of overlap too. It can help grind the stock market achievements despite making the stock market less predictable, especially
when using simple strategies for the stock market. Supreme Intellect is fairly unusable for the pantheon because the effects can be
replicated better with other auras, but it's useful for the Grimoire to be able to cast more spells, or to intentionally make Force
the Hand of Fate backfire for an Elder Frenzy, such as if you have "scried" it.

Very advanced endgame strategies

Reaper of Fields can be used to add a Dragon Harvest to a combo at the simple cost of a lot of time, as a Dragon Harvest is long
enough to have full overlap with a building special coming after it, and the frenzy coming before will also have full overlap as long
as you either have high spawnrate and/or the frenzy stacked to a little longer than normal. Because Dragon Harvest is rare, this
should only be used if you're doing large enough combos to already take a lot of time to set up. Arcane Aura can be used to speed the
process up. After getting the natural cookies you want, you switch back your auras to CpS auras to get more out of the combo.

Dragonflight can also be used as a natural part of a click combo, likely as an extension to getting F+DH+BS naturally. You will need
a high spawnrate, achieved by a garden of Golden Clovers, preferably mixed with Nursetulips to get an even higher spawnrate, in order
to get another natural GC before the Building Special runs out. Instead of switching Dragon Harvest to a CpS aura, you will switch it
to Dragonflight. If you want to reduce the chance FtHoF backfires, cast them before the natural GC spawns. Make sure to cast FtHoF
before clicking the natural GC as you cannot get Click Frenzy from FtHoF while Dragonflight is active. Also click the GC you're
hoping to be Dragonflight before the one you're hoping to be Click Frenzy, as Dragonflight has an 80% chance of cancelling an active
Click Frenzy.

Averagely you'd gain more from clicking all Golden Cookies spawned from FtHoF, but it's quite low chance to get Building Specials
from FtHoF which means you'll often not get what you want. If you want to get cookies more consistently, you can use Dragon's Fortune
instead of Breath of Milk and keep a few of the GCs on-screen instead of clicking them.

When going for complex combos, using Supreme Intellect to be able to afford a Diminish Ineptitude in addition to everything else can
be worth it, as Diminish Ineptitude reduces the backfire more than Supreme Intellect increases it. To make sure Diminish Ineptitude
does not itself backfire and ruin the combo, clicking Resurrect Abomination to check if it backfires is very useful. An example of how
to do it would be to have 851 wizard towers at level 10, cast Force the Hand of Fate, sell down to 51, use Diminish Ineptitude, sell
down to 1, use Force the Hand of Fate, then buy to 501 and dualcast like normal.

Other auras:

Dragon Cursor is heavily overshadowed by Breath of Milk, as it will at most give you 5% more cookies and is thus never usable.
Dragon God also never goes above +5% cookies, so it's never usable.
Ancestral Metamorphosis and Unholy Dominion only affects luckies, chains, and storms which means getting more CpS is simply better
outside of really specific cases.