waybar-cookie-clicker

A Cookie Clicker game embedded in your waybar status bar.

Click the cookie button to earn cookies. Hover over it to reveal an expandable panel of buildings and upgrades. Passive income accumulates in the background — even across reboots and suspend.

• 8 buildings — Cursor, Grandma, Farm, Mine, Factory, Bank, Temple, Wizard Tower — each buyable multiple times with 1.15× cost scaling
• 32 upgrades — per-building doublers (up to 4 tiers each, every building included) and a 5-tier click power chain
• Passive CPS — income accumulates based on real elapsed time (unix timestamps, survives suspend, capped at 8 h offline)
• Progressive reveal — slots stay hidden until you can actually afford an item; no spoilers
• Expandable slot panel — hover the cookie button to reveal up to 8 slots; affordable items glow, empty slots collapse automatically
• Instant refresh — clicks and purchases send SIGRTMIN+9 to waybar so all slots update immediately
• Save file in repo — state.json lives next to the code for easy backup

• Rust (stable)
• waybar ≥ 0.9
• A Nerd Font (building icons use nerd glyphs)

git clone https://github.com/youruser/waybar_cookie_clicker
cd waybar_cookie_clicker
cargo build --release

ln -s /path/to/waybar_cookie_clicker/waybar ~/.config/waybar/cookie-clicker

This makes run.sh, modules.json, and style.css available at a stable path. Updates to the repo are reflected immediately — no re-copying.

At the top of your ~/.config/waybar/style.css:

@import "cookie-clicker/style.css";

In your ~/.config/waybar/config.jsonc, add the include path to each bar:

"include": [
  "~/.config/waybar/modules.json",
  "~/.config/waybar/cookie-clicker/modules.json"
]

In config.jsonc, add "group/group-cookie" to modules-right:

"modules-right": [
  "group/group-cookie",
  "group/group-power"
]

modules.json uses signal 9 (SIGRTMIN+9). If that conflicts with another module, change all "signal": 9 and SIGRTMIN+9 occurrences to a free number.

pkill waybar && waybar &

Each building produces cookies per second (CPS). Buying more of the same building raises its cost by 1.15× per unit owned.

One-time purchases that double a building's CPS or boost click power. They unlock automatically when their condition is met and only appear in the slot panel once you can afford them.

Click chain (each unlocks the next): Reinforced clicking → Mouse wheel → Plastic mouse → Iron mouse → Titanium mouse

Per-building chains: 3–4 doublers per building, unlocking at 1 / 5 / 25 / 50 owned.

Global multipliers: unlock at 1 M and 100 M total cookies ever produced.

Slots only reveal items you can actually buy right now (or buildings you already own). Everything else stays hidden — no seeing the endgame from the start.

Ordering: cheapest affordable items first, then owned buildings by next-purchase cost.

waybar_cookie_clicker [--state <path>] <command>

Commands:
  show             Output waybar JSON for the main cookie button
  click            Earn cookies_per_click cookies
  slot <N>         Output waybar JSON for slot N (0-indexed)
  buy-slot <N>     Purchase the item in slot N
  reset            Wipe all progress and start over

--state defaults to ~/.local/share/waybar_cookie_clicker/state.json when called directly. The waybar/run.sh wrapper always passes the repo's state.json.

Buildings and upgrades are defined in src/game/defs.rs. See CLAUDE.md for full field documentation. After adding entries, run cargo build --release — no other files need changing.

MIT