Drill Baby Drill
Drill Baby Drill is the first era that feels genuinely fast. The three energy buildings — oil, coal, pipeline — each out-produce the last by roughly 9×, and this is the era where your first global upgrade appears. Globals multiply everything at once, and learning to prioritise them is the single biggest jump in skill the game asks of you.
New buildings this era
| Building | Base cost (MAGA$) | Base MAGA$/sec |
|---|---|---|
| Offshore Oil Rig | 34.7 million | 53,144 |
| Clean Coal Mine | 399 million | 478,297 |
| Keystone Pipeline | 4.6 billion | 4.3 million |
Global upgrade unlocked
Fake News Distraction (10 million MAGA$) — +25% to all production. It is the first global upgrade in the game. Buy it the instant you can afford it: a flat +25% on your entire economy will always out-value another copy of a single building.
Strategy
The rhythm of the mid-game starts here: buy the newest building in bulk, then sweep back through your older buildings topping them up toward their next upgrade breakpoint. Turn on the ×10 buy toggle — by now single purchases are a waste of clicks. When a building's income line stops mattering, it usually means one of its ×3/×5/×7 upgrades is sitting unbought; check the upgrades panel every time you enter a new era.
Grab the Ratings Machine click upgrade (5M lifetime, 50M MAGA$): each click now earns an extra 4% of your MAGA$/sec on top of Executive Time's 1%. Combined, your clicks are worth ~5% of a full second of production — which is why click frenzies stay relevant for the rest of the game.
The Handshake Summit (×5 production frenzy), the Gulf of America (a 15-minute lump sum), and the Freedom Blimp (×6 frenzy) all become possible from this era. Time a frenzy event alongside a Golden Trump if you can — the multipliers stack.
Side quest
Side quest: Drill, Baby, Drill — pump 10 Oil Barrels for the "Liquid Gold" achievement.
Reaching the next era
6.6 billion lifetime MAGA$ unlocks Trade Wars and the Deregulation Spree global (×2 to everything).