Cookie Clicker – Does Harvesting Doughshrooms or Crumbspores Grant Extra Cookies?

Given the date of this question, it was asked before "The Big Update" which removed this issue, but moreover completely revamped the game. To play as it was at the time of the question, one can still go back to cookie clicker classic.

In the update log of cookie clicker classic, you should note that the very next day, in version 0.125, an option to disable flashing was added. To prevent flashing, simply update to the newest version of cookie clicker classic (refresh the page) or upgrade to the entirely revamped cookie clicker where this is not an issue.

According to the source code in 0.125, this will affect the elder pledge:

if (Cookies>=1000000 && Pledge<=0 && Flashing)
{
    var r=(Cookies-1000000)/2000000;
    var r2=Math.max(0,(Cookies-100000000)/400000000);
    var icon='grandmaicon';
    if (Cookies>=2000000)
    {
        l('buyElder Pledge').style.display='block';
        if (Math.random()<0.02) icon='grandmaiconinvert';
        else if (Math.random()<0.02) icon='grandmaiconlustful';
    }
    if (Cookies>=10000000 && Math.random()<0.02) icon='skellington';
    if (Cookies>=1000000000) l('whole').style.background='url(kaleigrandma.png) '+Math.floor(T*0.2)+'px -'+Math.floor(T*0.1)+'px';
    else if (Math.random()<r)
    {
        l('whole').style.background='url('+icon+'.png) '+Math.floor(Math.random()*4)+'px '+Math.floor(Math.random()*4)+'px';
        l('whole').style.backgroundSize=Math.floor(r2*Math.random()*64+64)+'px '+Math.floor(r2*Math.random()*64+64)+'px ';
    }
}//sorry
else l('whole').style.background='#ccc';

As noted in the if statement, turning off flashing will disable the whole of the grandmapocalypse. Also, as this is in the main function, it should not be dependent upon any clicking and should happen on its own - perhaps it coincided with your clicks due to your browser or simply by coincidenced.

Believe it or not, those are still golden cookies.

Their graphic is replaced during the Grandmapocalypse - From the purchase of the One Mind upgrade onwards, you have incurred the wrath of the elders. You can subdue their wrath temporarily with an Elder Pledge and eventually form the Elder Covenant to stop their wrath for the long term. When their wrath is at bay, the golden cookies will return to their previous appearance and behaviour.

While the elders' wrath is incurred, golden cookies have their image replaced with the red one, and two negative effects + one positive effect are added to the possible effects of the golden cookies. This change happens more as you further incur the elder wrath by purchasing certain grandmapocalypse upgrades, starting off changing golden cookies 1/3 of the time with One Mind, 2/3 of the time with Communal Brainsweep and finally 100% of the time with Elder Pact. While there is a chance of negative effects, it's at its worst a little over 50% so the red golden cookies are not entirely unlucky. For more on the percentages, this question's answers cover this in detail.

As I said, to return the golden cookies to their previous behaviour, you will need to:

• Make an Elder Pledge which becomes available after you have purchased enough of the grandmapocalypse upgrades (after the purchase of Elder Pact). This will return the previous behaviour for a time. There is an upgrade to make the pledges last twice as long.
• Form the Elder Covenant. After you have made 10 Elder Pledges, the Elder Covenant becomes available for purchase, but its purchase will cost you 5% of your CPS (it will multiply your multiplier by 0.95) in addition to its cookie cost. The elder covenant will stop the wrath of the elders indefinitely. You can revoke the covenant after purchasing it for the same cookie cost.