Town Hall 16 (TH16)

At a glance

From a village that arrives at Town Hall 16 with Town Hall 15 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 16

This is the order ClashClock's own planner starts things in for a village that has just arrived at Town Hall 16 with Town Hall 15 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 8 steps of the plan, from Day 0 to Day 13, 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 Dragon Rider to level 4 (9 d, from day 9), Electro Dragon to level 7 (9 d, from day 18) and Dragon to level 11 (8 d 12 h, from day 27). The Pet House starts Spirit Fox to level 2 (3 d, from day 6) and Angry Jelly to level 2 (3 d, from day 59). Dragon Rider to level 4 needs the Laboratory at level 14 and the village arrives with level 13, 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 17 and does only what the game demands first. It starts the Town Hall on day 9.5 and it stands on day 20. Max keeps the Town Hall until nothing else is left, so it starts it on day 356, 347 days (about 11 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 17 stands, 91% of the work at Town Hall 16 is still undone (1,139 of 1,255 builder, lab and Pet House days), most of it laboratory: 348 of 357 days.

• Laboratory348 of 357 d
• Heroes236 of 236 d
• Defences203 of 240 d
• Pet House146 of 149 d
• Traps74 of 82 d
• Collectors and storages71 of 83 d
• Offence buildings35 of 81 d
• Other buildings28 of 28 d

The biggest single leftovers: Minion Prince (73 days), Angry Jelly (57 days), Spirit Fox (50 days) and Electro Owl (39 days).

What hurts at Town Hall 16

The single upgrades this hall opens: levels that need Town Hall 16, one building at a time.

The longest builder waits

1. Dark Barrackslevel 12 → 1310 d
2. Eagle Artillerylevel 6 → 79 d 12 h
3. Spell Factorylevel 8 → 99 d
4. Barrackslevel 17 → 189 d
5. Clan Castlelevel 11 → 129 d

On the builders, the longest single wait is Dark Barracks to level 13: 10 d for one. The next, Eagle Artillery to level 7, takes 9 d 12 h. Four of the five are army buildings.

The longest lab and Pet House waits

1. Totem Spelllevel 1 → 212 d
2. Siege Barrackslevel 4 → 512 d
3. Log Launcherlevel 4 → 512 d
4. Flame Flingerlevel 4 → 512 d
5. Ice Block Spelllevel 3 → 412 d

In the lab, the longest single wait is Totem Spell to level 2: 12 d for one. The next, Siege Barracks to level 5, takes 12 d. Three of the five are siege machines.

The most expensive upgrades

Eagle Artillery to level 7 is the most expensive step in gold: 14M. All 5 are defences.

Spell Factory to level 9 is the most expensive step in elixir: 24M.

Royal Champion to level 45 is the most expensive step in dark elixir: 320,000. All 5 are hero levels.

Walls take no builder time, so no ranking of build times shows them, but they are 70% of the gold at this hall: 1.63B of 2.33B.

New at this level

• 2× Multi-Archer Tower
• 2× Ricochet Cannon

Heroes, troops, spells, siege machines and pets

• Ruin Witch
• Thrower
• Troop Launcher
• Totem Spell
• Spirit Fox
• Angry Jelly

How long will it really take?

The builders are done after about 127 days with 6 of them, but the Laboratory runs on its own and needs about 366 days. From 3 builders on the total hardly moves (366 days with 3, 366 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 16 with Town Hall 15 maxed. The Laboratory alone needs 366 days, the Pet House 155 days; with the Gold Pass 292 days and 123 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.