Town Hall 15 (TH15)

At a glance

From a village that arrives at Town Hall 15 with Town Hall 14 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 15

This is the order ClashClock's own planner starts things in for a village that has just arrived at Town Hall 15 with Town Hall 14 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 9 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 6 (8 d 12 h, from day 8), Dragon to level 10 (7 d 12 h, from day 17) and Healer to level 8 (7 d, from day 24). The Pet House starts Frosty to level 2 (1 d 12 h, from day 4) and Diggy to level 2 (1 d 12 h, from day 11). Electro Dragon to level 6 needs the Laboratory at level 13 and the village arrives with level 12, 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 16 and does only what the game demands first. It starts the Town Hall on day 7 and it stands on day 16. Max keeps the Town Hall until nothing else is left, so it starts it on day 274, 267 days (about 9 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 16 stands, 92% of the work at Town Hall 15 is still undone (1,050 of 1,147 builder, lab and Pet House days), most of it laboratory: 275 of 275 days.

• Laboratory275 of 275 d
• Heroes200 of 205 d
• Defences196 of 240 d
• Pet House196 of 206 d
• Offence buildings78 of 113 d
• Traps53 of 56 d
• Collectors and storages29 of 29 d
• Other buildings25 of 25 d

The biggest single leftovers: Minion Prince (55 days), Royal Champion (45 days), Diggy (38 days) and Phoenix (38 days).

What hurts at Town Hall 15

The single upgrades this hall opens: levels that need Town Hall 15, one building at a time.

The longest builder waits

1. Dark Spell Factorylevel 7 → 810 d
2. Dark Barrackslevel 11 → 129 d
3. Eagle Artillerylevel 5 → 69 d
4. Spell Towerlevel 2 → 3 · ×28 d 12 h
5. Spell Factorylevel 7 → 88 d

On the builders, the longest single wait is Dark Spell Factory to level 8: 10 d for one. The next, Dark Barracks to level 12, takes 9 d. Three of the five are army buildings.

The longest lab and Pet House waits

1. Ice Block Spelllevel 2 → 311 d
2. Electro Titanlevel 2 → 39 d
3. Wall Wreckerlevel 4 → 59 d
4. Battle Blimplevel 4 → 59 d
5. Stone Slammerlevel 4 → 59 d

In the lab, the longest single wait is Ice Block Spell to level 3: 11 d for one. The next, Electro Titan to level 3, takes 9 d. Three of the five are siege machines.

The most expensive upgrades

Eagle Artillery to level 6 is the most expensive step in gold: 13M. All 5 are defences.

Dark Barracks to level 12 is the most expensive step in elixir: 20M.

Barbarian King to level 90 is the most expensive step in dark elixir: 255,000. Four of the five are hero levels.

Walls take no builder time, so no ranking of build times shows them, but they are 71% of the gold at this hall: 1.3B of 1.84B.

New at this level

• 2× Spell Tower
• 1× Monolith

Heroes, troops, spells, siege machines and pets

• Battle Drill
• Root Rider
• Furnace
• Revive Spell
• Angry Spell
• Dragon Duke
• Phoenix
• Poison Lizard
• Diggy
• Frosty

How long will it really take?

The builders are done after about 113 days with 6 of them, but the Laboratory runs on its own and needs about 283 days. From 3 builders on the total hardly moves (283 days with 3, 283 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 15 with Town Hall 14 maxed. The Laboratory alone needs 283 days, the Pet House 210 days; with the Gold Pass 225 days and 167 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.