Game Changelog

Game was released on 2017-10-09:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Paperclips

Which we can call Patch 0. Then there was Patch 1, released just a few days later around 2017-10-11, it's the earliest appearance on archive.org and still available here :

https://decisionproblem.com/paperclips/patch1notes.html

Then there was Patch 2, again, released just a few days later around 2017-10-14, the earliest appearance on archive.org and still available here :

https://decisionproblem.com/paperclips/patch2notes.html

Noticeable Patch difference : in Patch 2, you need 30 Solar Farms and 20,000 Creativity to get Momentum in Stage 2. Before that, you needed 50 Solar Farms and 30,000 Creativity.

Speedrun notes

I recorded these notes while watching Kragnir's most recent WR. 

The goal is to make a heads up document that can be used while running. I wanted to record some of the basic stat benchmarks for each phase of the game. 

Google doc: 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1swOLCglhtOAO4-51HRLpX75GatUMxNTtBmdjYVXPnT0/edit?usp=sharing

**Phase 1 stats recorded**
- Upgrade purchases (bulleted items)
- Excess inventory
- Price and Marketing purchase column (lines on either side)
- Processor and Memory values (circled P1, M1)
- Clip targets
- Autoclip and Megaclip values (in squares)
- Yomi target
- Investment engine level
- Cash value target

**Phase 2 stats recorded**
- Upgrade purchases (bulleted items)
- Processor and Memory values (circled P25, M81)
- Think / work direction 
- Factories (circled single value)
- Harvest and wire (circled two values)
- Solar production target and storage target (Circled

**Phase 3 stats recorded**
- Upgrade purchases (bulleted items)
- Processor and Memory values (circled P111, M138)
- First drone distribution (5 self rep, 5 hazard)
- Drone creation loop (starts at 10M probes created)
- Combat loop (starts at 4M lost to combat)

Thanks to everyone that has optimized this game so far, especially vivafringe, Kragnir, and ExtraTricky. Hopefully this helps the study of the game.

- JJ

Universal Paperclips – A Guide and my History for a Speedrun

https://www.zurd.ca/universal-paperclips-a-guide-and-my-history-for-a-speedrun

Guide available at this link.

Very Detailed Strategy Explanation by ExtraTricky

I want to preserve this run, even though it has been obsoleted - due to the level of effort and detail ExtraTricky put into his audio commentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzVU-wyfvaw

Elipsis

Zurd

Universal Paperclips

Christopho

ProjectsInFlight

DdRDan

USA / NTSC

Patch 0

Patch 1

Patch 2

Browser

Name of Operating System and version

Windows 11 22H4

Microsoft Edge 138.0.3351.95

Firefox 141

iOS 26.4.2

macOS 26.3.1

Brave 1.89.145

Unknown

Windows 10

Chrome

Brave 1.93.138

Operating System

Edge 138.0.3351.95

Patch Version

Android

Timing - Official Spreadsheet

Complete spreadsheet all runs - Modifications in Leaderboards

wrong time for marcf999

Congratulations christopho!

New modifications

Just submitted a world record run 1h27m32s

ExtraTricky

speteman

Name	Autor
Game Changelog	Zurd 4 months ago
Speedrun notes	JJ 6 years ago
Universal Paperclips – A Guide and my History for a Speedrun	Zurd 9 months ago
Very Detailed Strategy Explanation by ExtraTricky	Elipsis 8 years ago