Gold

A gold coin

Gold is the main currency in Clicker Heroes. It can be obtained from monsters, Golden Clicks, Clickables, Timelapses, and Mercenary quests.

Obtaining Gold

Defeating Monsters

Monster drops gold after defeated

Defeating monsters is the primary way to obtain Gold, and the reward per monster increases as they get more HP. Gold acquired this way will not be stored to your Gold account immediately, but will instead be spread out in the form of coins on the ground beneath the next monster. It will automatically disappear and be added to your Gold account after a few seconds have passed, but if you're impatient, you can hover over them with your mouse for the same effect. The monster will drop 3, 4, or 5 gold coins, but this is purely aesthetic and will still reward the same total. Bosses aesthetically drop 10 coins. See also the exact formula for the amount of gold gained from a monster.

• There is a 1% chance of a Treasure Chest spawning instead of a regular monster on a non-boss zone, although the probability can be increased to 100% with Dora. These special monsters reward 10x the regular Gold reward when defeated, but you can increase that amount with Mimzee. Aesthetically, they drop 20 coins.

From Golden Clicks

After leveling King Midas to level 100, the Golden Clicks Skill can be bought: it gives you 1% (which can be increased by Pluto) of a monster's Gold reward (0.1% on bosses) for every time you click on a monster while it is active. Combined with Clickstorm, this can give you 3x a monster's Gold without having to defeat the monster or click yourself! It aesthetically drops a coin for every click, but if there are too many autoclickers, it will drop them less often without reducing the actual gold.

From Clickables

Clickables () are special bonuses that can randomly appear at a random point on your screen once you've reached zone 35. They give you the same amount of Gold a Treasure Chest of that level would have given you (without Mimzee's bonus), but instead of having to defeat a Treasure Chest, you just have to click the clickable for it to drop its Gold.

From Mercenary Quests

After your first Ascension, you'll unlock Mercenaries, special helpers which can be sent on quests to get certain bonuses, like skill activations, Rubies or Gold. There is no need to aid them in their quests, so the only thing you have to do to get the bonuses is to wait until the pre-set timer for their quest runs out, and click the 'Collect' button that appears.

Note that it sometimes helps to leave the gold bounty alone for a minute or more while it grows, if you are currently able to level up without their help; that way, you benefit more from the reward without having to start a new bounty and use up more of your Mercenary's life time.

Legend of Large Numbers

Since Gold is the most abundant resource, its values can be seen in very large numbers. For a full list of the representations, go to Legend of Large Numbers.

Fortuna's Platinum Coins

A platinum coin, worth 10× as much as a gold coin.

With the help of Fortuna, there is a chance that monsters can drop platinum coins, worth 10× as much as gold coins. With enough levels, Fortuna can take this chance all the way up to 100%. This can even affect Treasure Chests for an insane influx of gold. On mobile, Fortuna's coins look like gold coins, but they still give 10× gold. Note that 10x as much gold is another 1e1 to the gold you would get normally.

Spending Gold

Hiring and leveling Heroes

The main purpose of gold is to buy and level heroes. Heroes are helpers that can hextra damage to monsters. With the monsters getting progressively more HP, it will become essential money in them, or it will end up taking forever to kill a monster.

Upgrades

Each hero has a few Upgrades that are unlocked after reaching a certain level with that hero and can then be bought for some Gold. Their effects range from increasing a specific hero's damage, to a damage boost for all heroes, to an increase in the Gold reward for beating monsters. Most of them are worth buying.

Achievements

Achievement Name	Icon	Description
Frugal		Hoard 500k/5.000e5 gold.
Stingy		Hoard 5,000B/5.000e12 gold.
Miserly		Hoard 500Q/5.000e20 gold.
Greedy		Hoard 50,000O/5.000e31 gold.
Supervisor		Complete 5 quests for gold.
Assistant to the Regional Manager		Complete 25 quests for gold.
Corporate Raider		Complete 100 quests for gold.
Robber Baron		Complete 500 quests for gold.
The Big Cheese		Complete 2500 quests for gold.
Uptown		Receive (cumulative) 1,000K/1.000e6 gold.
Fat Cat		Receive (cumulative) 1,000M/1.000e9 gold.
Loaded		Receive (cumulative) 1,000T/1.000e15 gold.
The 1%		Receive (cumulative) 100Q/1.000e20 gold.
The 0.01%		Receive (cumulative) 100S/1.000e26 gold.
Buffett		Receive (cumulative) 100N/1.000e32 gold.
Gates		Receive (cumulative) 100U/1.000e38 gold.
Rockefeller		Receive (cumulative) 100!/1.000e44 gold.
Money Ain't A Thang		Receive (cumulative) 100#/1.000e50 gold.
Money Tree		Receive (cumulative) 100%/1.000e56 gold.
Gold Hoarder		Receive (cumulative) 100&/1.000e62 gold.
Super Rich		Receive (cumulative) 1.000e68 gold.
Filthy Rich		Receive (cumulative) 1.000e74 gold.

Currencies