Can Em All prestige is selling your factory. You give up the normal upgrade tree you have been building, and in exchange you receive permanent upgrade tokens that never expire and apply to every future run. The permanent tree is small but it is where the game actually gets easier, because its best node doubles every payout you make.
Can Em All prestige is selling the factory
There is no separate prestige menu. The reset happens when you accept the sell-factory email offer:
- Buy every normal upgrade in the skill tree except the final one.
- Wait for the sell-factory email to arrive.
- Open it and accept the offer.
- The normal tree resets. The permanent tree and its tokens stay.
That is the entire mechanic. Everything else is deciding when to do it, which is covered in the selling the factory guide.
The permanent tree: damage, creatures and income
Three kinds of node sit in the permanent tree:
- Damage upgrades. Your weapons hit harder, permanently, in every run.
- Creature upgrades. The creatures that arrive are worth more, so every can you ship pays more.
- The earnings multipliers. These are the expensive ones, and they are what the reset is actually for.
Because the tree is short, one good sale is usually enough to buy all of it. A player who sold the factory instead of using the key on the exit door ended up with enough credits to buy every permanent upgrade, including every earnings multiplier, and ran the next game much faster. Another player finished the game around day 90 without prestiging, then prestiged, maxed the permanent tree and had everything unlocked again within roughly ten more days.
How the 100% more earnings bonus works
The 100% more earnings bonus multiplies everything you take in, and it stacks. Each one you take doubles your income again, so two of them are a 4x multiplier and three are an 8x multiplier.
That is why it is worth holding tokens back rather than spending them immediately, and why the earnings multipliers are the nodes to prioritise when the tree is too small to buy outright. The effect applies to every payout — the money from shipped cans, the delivery bonuses, and the slot machine. The slot machine guide has the payout table that the multiplier scales.
When to spend your tokens
Most players wait until they are holding roughly 5,000 tokens before spending anything, so the next node is still comfortably affordable and you can buy several in one go. Two things to check before you start:
- Have you triggered the ending? Selling after buying the final key breaks the exit for that save.
- Do you need the fed-children counter? Buying out the permanent tree resets it, so do the sale before pushing the 100,000 feeding total, not after.
The reset itself is explained in the selling the factory guide, including exactly what survives a sale and what does not.
What a reset actually saves you
A reset saves you the boring part of the game, not the hard part. The normal tree is the set of upgrades you have to grind for on every run — the machines, the belts, the multipliers that get you from nothing to a working factory. You rebuild that once per reset. What you never rebuild is the permanent tree, so every sale makes the next run start further along.
The practical result: the first run of a fresh save takes the longest, and each prestige shortens it. If you are stuck on the very last purchase — the 666,666,666 final upgrade that unlocks the ending — a sale followed by a fresh cycle is usually faster than grinding out the last of the money.
Buying the whole permanent tree also pops an achievement, and the order that avoids the counter reset is in the Perfect Employee guide.