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A gold coin
Gold is the main currency in Clicker Heroes. It can be obtained from monster rewards, Golden Clicks, Clickables, and/or Mercenary quests.
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Obtaining Gold
Defeating Monsters

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. 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.
From Golden Clicks
After leveling King Midas to level 100, the Golden Clicks upgrade can be bought: a skill with the same name that gives you 1.0% (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!
From Clickables
Clickables () are special bonuses that can randomly appear 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 get more without having to start a new bounty.
Legend of Large Numbers
1K | = | 1,000 | = | One Thousand |
1M | = | 1,000K | = | One Million |
1B | = | 1,000M | = | One Billion |
1T | = | 1,000B | = | One Trillion |
1q | = | 1,000T | = | One Quadrillion |
1Q | = | 1,000q | = | One Quintillion |
1s | = | 1,000Q | = | One Sextillion |
1S | = | 1,000s | = | One Septillion |
1O | = | 1,000S | = | One Octillion |
1N | = | 1,000O | = | One Nonillion |
1d | = | 1,000N | = | One Decillion |
1U | = | 1,000d | = | One Undecillion |
1D | = | 1,000U | = | One Duodecillion |
1! | = | 1,000D | = | One Tredecillion |
1@ | = | 1,000! | = | One Quattuordecillion |
1# | = | 1,000@ | = | One Quindecillion |
1$ | = | 1,000# | = | One Sexdecillion |
1% | = | 1,000$ | = | One Septendecillion |
1^ | = | 1,000% | = | One Octodecillion |
1& | = | 1,000^ | = | One Novemdecillion |
1* | = | 1,000& | = | One Vigintillion |
A lot | < | 1,000* | > | A lot |
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 e1 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 help you deal extra damage to monsters. With the monsters getting progressively more HP, it will become essential to invest 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 |
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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. |
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