Town Hall 13 (TH13)

At a glance

From a village that arrives at Town Hall 13 with Town Hall 12 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 13

This is the order ClashClock's own planner starts things in for a village that has just arrived at Town Hall 13 with Town Hall 12 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 11, 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 4 (7 d, from day 6), Dragon to level 8 (5 d, from day 13) and Balloon to level 9 (4 d 12 h, from day 18). Electro Dragon to level 4 needs the Laboratory at level 11 and the village arrives with level 10, 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 14 and does only what the game demands first. It starts the Town Hall on day 6 and it stands on day 14. Max keeps the Town Hall until nothing else is left, so it starts it on day 173, 167 days (about 5 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 14 stands, 88% of the work at Town Hall 13 is still undone (564 of 645 builder, lab and Pet House days), most of it defences: 178 of 188 days.

• Defences178 of 188 d
• Laboratory167 of 174 d
• Heroes154 of 166 d
• Offence buildings31 of 73 d
• Traps30 of 32 d
• Collectors and storages6 of 12 d

The biggest single leftovers: Barbarian King (40 days), Archer Queen (40 days), 4× X-Bow (34 days) and 5× Hidden Tesla (28 days).

What hurts at Town Hall 13

The single upgrades this hall opens: levels that need Town Hall 13, one building at a time.

The longest builder waits

1. Dark Barrackslevel 9 → 107 d 12 h
2. Eagle Artillerylevel 3 → 47 d 12 h
3. Barrackslevel 14 → 157 d
4. Spell Factorylevel 6 → 77 d
5. Scattershotlevel 1 → 2 · ×27 d

On the builders, the longest single wait is Dark Barracks to level 10: 7 d 12 h for one. The next, Eagle Artillery to level 4, takes 7 d 12 h. Three of the five are army buildings.

The longest lab and Pet House waits

1. Electro Dragonlevel 3 → 47 d
2. Siege Barrackslevel 3 → 47 d
3. Log Launcherlevel 3 → 47 d
4. Recall Spelllevel 1 → 27 d
5. Wall Wreckerlevel 3 → 47 d

In the lab, the longest single wait is Electro Dragon to level 4: 7 d for one. The next, Siege Barracks to level 4, takes 7 d. Three of the five are siege machines.

The most expensive upgrades

Eagle Artillery to level 4 is the most expensive step in gold: 10M. All 5 are defences.

Grand Warden to level 50 is the most expensive step in elixir: 11M. Four of the five are hero levels.

Barbarian King to level 75 is the most expensive step in dark elixir: 150,000. All 5 are hero levels.

Walls take no builder time, so no ranking of build times shows them, but they are 62% of the gold at this hall: 600M of 975M.

New at this level

• 2× Scattershot
• +1× Spring Trap
• +1× Seeking Air Mine
• +1× Bomb

Heroes, troops, spells, siege machines and pets

• Dragon Rider
• Siege Barracks
• Log Launcher
• Apprentice Warden
• Recall Spell
• Royal Champion

How long will it really take?

The builders are done after about 80 days with 6 of them, but the Laboratory runs on its own and needs about 180 days. From 3 builders on the total hardly moves (180 days with 3, 180 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 13 with Town Hall 12 maxed. The Laboratory alone needs 180 days; with the Gold Pass 143 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.