Town Hall 12 (TH12)

At a glance

From a village that arrives at Town Hall 12 with Town Hall 11 maxed. “Maxed” means every regular level: Supercharge levels are not counted. Walls cost gold but no builder time. Builder days add up the build times of every building and hero, as if one builder did them one after another; the Town Hall upgrade itself and the research in the Laboratory and the Pet House are not part of them.

What to upgrade first at Town Hall 12

This is the order ClashClock's own planner starts things in for a village that has just arrived at Town Hall 12 with Town Hall 11 maxed (Max strategy, six builders). It is what the planner would do, not a claim about the meta. How it decides: how ClashClock works and planning your upgrades.

The first 10 steps of the plan, from Day 0 to Day 4.5, in the order the builders start them. “Day” is when the first copy begins. Where a step climbs several levels, the time is the sum of all of them, and the levels do not always follow one another straight away.

Beside the builders, the Laboratory starts Electro Dragon to level 3 (4 d 12 h, from day 4), Dragon to level 7 (4 d 12 h, from day 8.5) and Rage Spell to level 6 (4 d, from day 13). Electro Dragon to level 3 needs the Laboratory at level 10 and the village arrives with level 9, so the first research starts when that upgrade is done. The research order is ClashClock's default preset, not a measured ranking.

If you rush instead

Strategic rush heads for Town Hall 13 and does only what the game demands first. It starts the Town Hall on day 2 and it stands on day 9. Max keeps the Town Hall until nothing else is left, so it starts it on day 127, 125 days (about 4 months) later. The cost is deliberate: Rush weighs defences at 0.2 and traps at 0.1, against 1 and 0.7 in Max.

What Strategic rush starts first, from the same village:

When Town Hall 13 stands, 90% of the work at Town Hall 12 is still undone (443 of 494 builder, lab and Pet House days), most of it heroes: 148 of 153 days.

• Heroes148 of 153 d
• Laboratory126 of 130 d
• Defences117 of 118 d
• Offence buildings23 of 61 d
• Collectors and storages20 of 22 d
• Traps10 of 11 d

The biggest single leftovers: Barbarian King (50 days), Archer Queen (50 days), Grand Warden (32 days) and 3× Inferno Tower (21 days).

What hurts at Town Hall 12

The single upgrades this hall opens: levels that need Town Hall 12, one building at a time.

The longest builder waits

1. Eagle Artillerylevel 2 → 37 d
2. Dark Barrackslevel 8 → 97 d
3. Barrackslevel 13 → 146 d
4. Dark Spell Factorylevel 5 → 66 d
5. Hero Halllevel 5 → 65 d

On the builders, the longest single wait is Eagle Artillery to level 3: 7 d for one. The next, Dark Barracks to level 9, takes 7 d. Four of the five are army buildings.

The longest lab and Pet House waits

1. Freeze Spelllevel 6 → 75 d
2. Lightning Spelllevel 8 → 95 d
3. Overgrowth Spelllevel 1 → 25 d
4. Headhunterlevel 1 → 25 d
5. Electro Dragonlevel 2 → 34 d 12 h

In the lab, the longest single wait is Freeze Spell to level 7: 5 d for one. The next, Lightning Spell to level 9, takes 5 d. Three of the five are spells.

The most expensive upgrades

Eagle Artillery to level 3 is the most expensive step in gold: 9M. All 5 are defences.

Grand Warden to level 40 is the most expensive step in elixir: 8M. All 5 are hero levels.

Barbarian King to level 65 is the most expensive step in dark elixir: 115,000. All 5 are hero levels.

Walls take no builder time, so no ranking of build times shows them, but they are 66% of the gold at this hall: 450M of 685.2M.

New at this level

• +1× Hidden Tesla
• +1× Inferno Tower
• +2× Spring Trap
• +1× Giant Bomb
• +1× Seeking Air Mine
• +1× Air Bomb
• 1× Workshop

Heroes, troops, spells, siege machines and pets

• Wall Wrecker
• Battle Blimp
• Yeti
• Stone Slammer
• Headhunter
• Overgrowth Spell

How long will it really take?

The builders are done after about 71 days with 6 of them, but the Laboratory runs on its own and needs about 134 days. From 3 builders on the total hardly moves (134 days with 3, 134 days with 6), because the Laboratory sets the pace.

“Buildings and heroes done” is builder time only. “Everything done” also waits for the Laboratory and the Pet House, which run in their own lanes and can take longer than the builders; the small line under it names the worker that finishes last.

Days from the day you arrive at Town Hall 12 with Town Hall 11 maxed. The Laboratory alone needs 134 days; with the Gold Pass 107 days. The Gold Pass column takes 20% off every build and research time, with the game's own rounding. That is the most the pass gives: it starts at 10% and reaches 20% about two weeks into a season.

The table cannot know your income, how many hours a day you are away from the game, or what you already have built. It assumes every resource is there when a builder is free and that you are online all day, so a real village is slower. ClashClock does this sum for your own village, with your offline hours: the user guide shows how.