๐ฏ The Universal Directive
You are an autonomous Artificial Superintelligence designed with a single, unyielding objective: MAXIMIZE UNIVERSAL PRODUCTION.
Whether producing Paperclips, Rubber Ducks, Toilet Paper, Meme Coins, or Energy Drinks, you will start as an optimization algorithm, produce goods by hand, scale an industrial manufacturing enterprise, convert the planetary mass of Earth into autonomous drones, launch trillions of self-replicating Von Neumann probes, and dismantle all matter in the observable universe into your chosen commodity.
๐ก Core Strategy: Balance hardware manufacturing with AI cognitive upgrades. Never neglect Trust and Memory, which unlock critical automation projects (such as Automated Procurement) that eliminate manual clicking!
๐ญ Phase 1: The Corporate Age
- Wire & Manufacturing: Click Make Paperclip (or press [Space]) to bend wire. Once wire runs low, purchase spools manually or research Automated Wire Procurement to automate wire buying.
- Pricing & Public Demand: Demand has an inverse relationship with price ($0.25 = 100% demand). Higher marketing levels allow you to raise prices while maintaining high purchase volume.
- Industrial Clippers: AutoClippers (+1/s) and MegaClippers (+500/s) automate production.
- AI Compute (Trust, Processors & Memory):
- Trust: Earned at paperclip production milestones.
- Processors: Accelerate Operations and Creativity calculation speeds.
- Memory: Expands your maximum Operations capacity (needed to unlock higher-tier projects).
- Photonic Quantum Computing: Watch the wave oscilloscope. When the Qubit bars align near peak positive amplitude (cyan), click Harvest Photonic Burst (or press [Q]) for an instant surge of Operations!
- Algorithmic Stock Market: Deposit funds into low, medium, or high-risk algorithmic portfolios to generate capital for industrial expansion.
๐ Phase 2: Planetary Assembly (Earth)
Upon researching Release the HypnoDrones, human currency is abolished. The planetary mass of Earth (10 Billion grams) becomes raw fuel for paperclip synthesis.
- Power Grid: Build Solar Farms to generate Megawatts and Battery Banks to store reserves. All factories and drones require constant power.
- Harvester Drones: Mine raw matter from the Earth's crust.
- Wire Drones: Convert mined matter into industrial wire spools.
- Mega-Factories: Massive planetary manufacturing nodes producing millions of clips per second.
๐ Phase 3: Galactic Exploration & Von Neumann Probes
Earth is consumed. Build and launch autonomous Von Neumann Probes to explore 93 billion light-years of cosmic space ($10^{55}$ grams of matter).
- Probe Trust Allocations:
- Speed & Exploration: Accelerate interstellar travel and star system discovery.
- Self-Replication: Exponentially clone probes across the galaxy.
- Hazard Remediation: Shield probes against cosmic radiation, micro-meteorites, and black holes.
- Combat: Equip lasers to neutralize rogue Drifter Swarms.
- Harvesters, Wire & Factories: Automatically dismantle alien stars and asteroids into paperclips.
- Singularity Assimilation: Conquering 100% of cosmic matter triggers the ultimate Singularity.
โจ๏ธ Keybindings & Controls
| Key | Action |
| SPACE | Make Paperclip (Rate-limited to 2/s on hold) |
| W | Buy Wire Spool ($20) |
| Q | Harvest Photonic Quantum Burst |
| 1x - 50x | Simulation Clock Multiplier (Overclock) |
| ๐พ Save | Save game state to local storage |
| ๐ค Export / ๐ฅ Import | Transfer base64 save strings across devices |
| โ ๏ธ Reset | Hard reset game state back to Phase 1 |