Town Hall 17 (TH17)

At a glance

From a village that arrives at Town Hall 17 with Town Hall 16 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 17

This is the order ClashClock's own planner starts things in for a village that has just arrived at Town Hall 17 with Town Hall 16 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 14, 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 Totem Spell to level 3 (14 d, from day 10), Dragon Rider to level 5 (10 d 6 h, from day 24) and Electro Dragon to level 8 (10 d, from day 34). The Pet House starts Sneezy to level 2 (8 d, from day 8) and Unicorn to level 11 (7 d, from day 80). Totem Spell to level 3 needs the Laboratory at level 15 and the village arrives with level 14, 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 18 and does only what the game demands first. It starts the Town Hall on day 31 and it stands on day 43. Max keeps the Town Hall until nothing else is left, so it starts it on day 394, 363 days (about 12 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 18 stands, 82% of the work at Town Hall 17 is still undone (1,328 of 1,617 builder, lab and Pet House days), most of it laboratory: 372 of 396 days.

• Laboratory372 of 396 d
• Defences312 of 409 d
• Heroes263 of 278 d
• Pet House163 of 187 d
• Traps156 of 165 d
• Other buildings35 of 35 d
• Collectors and storages27 of 47 d
• Offence buildings0 of 101 d

The biggest single leftovers: Minion Prince (72 days), Sneezy (48 days), 9× Seeking Air Mine (48 days) and Barbarian King (40 days).

What hurts at Town Hall 17

The single upgrades this hall opens: levels that need Town Hall 17, one building at a time.

The longest builder waits

1. Workshoplevel 8 → 913 d 12 h
2. Monolithlevel 3 → 411 d
3. Barrackslevel 18 → 1910 d 12 h
4. Spell Towerlevel 3 → 4 · ×210 d
5. Clan Castlelevel 12 → 1310 d

On the builders, the longest single wait is Workshop to level 9: 13 d 12 h for one. The next, Monolith to level 4, takes 11 d. Three of the five are army buildings.

The longest lab and Pet House waits

1. Furnacelevel 3 → 415 d
2. Meteor Golemlevel 1 → 214 d
3. Totem Spelllevel 2 → 314 d
4. Valkyrielevel 11 → 1214 d
5. Ice Block Spelllevel 4 → 514 d

In the lab, the longest single wait is Furnace to level 4: 15 d for one. The next, Meteor Golem to level 2, takes 14 d. Three of the five are troops.

The most expensive upgrades

Spell Tower to level 4 is the most expensive step in gold: 27M each, on 2 buildings. All 5 are defences.

Meteor Golem to level 2 is the most expensive step in elixir: 28M.

Barbarian King to level 100 is the most expensive step in dark elixir: 380,000. All 5 are hero levels.

Walls take no builder time, so no ranking of build times shows them, but they are 61% of the gold at this hall: 2.28B of 3.71B.

New at this level

• +1× Archer Tower
• +1× Multi-Archer Tower
• +1× Ricochet Cannon
• 2× Firespitter
• 1× Inferno Artillery
• 1× Multi-Gear Tower
• +1× Seeking Air Mine
• +1× Giant Bomb
• 1× Giga Bomb

Heroes, troops, spells, siege machines and pets

• Meteor Golem
• Sky Wagon
• Sneezy

How long will it really take?

The builders are done after about 175 days with 6 of them, but the Laboratory runs on its own and needs about 406 days. From 3 builders on the total hardly moves (406 days with 3, 406 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 17 with Town Hall 16 maxed. The Laboratory alone needs 406 days, the Pet House 195 days; with the Gold Pass 324 days and 155 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.