Town Hall 14 (TH14)

At a glance

From a village that arrives at Town Hall 14 with Town Hall 13 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 14

This is the order ClashClock's own planner starts things in for a village that has just arrived at Town Hall 14 with Town Hall 13 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 12, 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 5 (8 d, from day 7), Dragon to level 9 (7 d, from day 15) and Balloon to level 10 (7 d, from day 22). The Pet House starts L.A.S.S.I to level 2 (1 d, from day 1) and Electro Owl to level 2 (1 d 12 h, from day 3.5). Electro Dragon to level 5 needs the Laboratory at level 12 and the village arrives with level 11, 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 15 and does only what the game demands first. It starts the Town Hall on day 1 and it stands on day 9. Max keeps the Town Hall until nothing else is left, so it starts it on day 179, 178 days (about 6 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 15 stands, 93% of the work at Town Hall 14 is still undone (773 of 829 builder, lab and Pet House days), most of it heroes: 185 of 185 days.

• Heroes185 of 185 d
• Laboratory177 of 180 d
• Defences139 of 151 d
• Pet House123 of 130 d
• Other buildings45 of 45 d
• Collectors and storages43 of 43 d
• Traps31 of 33 d
• Offence buildings31 of 63 d

The biggest single leftovers: 5× Builder's Hut (45 days), Barbarian King (45 days), Archer Queen (45 days) and Minion Prince (40 days).

What hurts at Town Hall 14

The single upgrades this hall opens: levels that need Town Hall 14, one building at a time.

The longest builder waits

1. Dark Barrackslevel 10 → 118 d
2. Eagle Artillerylevel 4 → 58 d
3. Barrackslevel 15 → 167 d 12 h
4. Scattershotlevel 2 → 3 · ×27 d 12 h
5. Dark Spell Factorylevel 6 → 77 d

On the builders, the longest single wait is Dark Barracks to level 11: 8 d for one. The next, Eagle Artillery to level 5, takes 8 d. Three of the five are army buildings.

The longest lab and Pet House waits

1. Ice Block Spelllevel 1 → 210 d
2. Overgrowth Spelllevel 2 → 38 d 12 h
3. Electro Titanlevel 1 → 28 d
4. Dragon Riderlevel 2 → 38 d
5. Electro Dragonlevel 4 → 58 d

In the lab, the longest single wait is Ice Block Spell to level 2: 10 d for one. The next, Overgrowth Spell to level 3, takes 8 d 12 h. Three of the five are troops.

The most expensive upgrades

Eagle Artillery to level 5 is the most expensive step in gold: 12M. All 5 are defences.

Grand Warden to level 60 is the most expensive step in elixir: 15M. Four of the five are hero levels.

Barbarian King to level 85 is the most expensive step in dark elixir: 200,000. All 5 are hero levels.

Walls take no builder time, so no ranking of build times shows them, but they are 73% of the gold at this hall: 1.11B of 1.53B.

New at this level

• +1× Giant Bomb
• +1× Air Bomb
• +1× Seeking Air Mine
• +1× Bomb
• +1× Skeleton Trap
• +25× Wall
• 1× Pet House

Heroes, troops, spells, siege machines and pets

• Flame Flinger
• Electro Titan
• Druid
• Ice Block Spell
• L.A.S.S.I
• Mighty Yak
• Electro Owl
• Unicorn

How long will it really take?

The builders are done after about 88 days with 6 of them, but the Laboratory runs on its own and needs about 187 days. From 3 builders on the total hardly moves (187 days with 3, 187 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 14 with Town Hall 13 maxed. The Laboratory alone needs 187 days, the Pet House 131 days; with the Gold Pass 149 days and 104 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.