Town Hall 18 (TH18)

At a glance

From a village that arrives at Town Hall 18 with Town Hall 17 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 18

This is the order ClashClock's own planner starts things in for a village that has just arrived at Town Hall 18 with Town Hall 17 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 16, 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 4 (16 d, from day 16), Rage Spell to level 7 (14 d, from day 32) and Freeze Spell to level 8 (15 d 12 h, from day 46). The Pet House starts Diggy to level 11 (7 d, from day 14) and Greedy Raven to level 2 (8 d, from day 52). Totem Spell to level 4 needs the Laboratory at level 16 and the village arrives with level 15, so the first research starts when that upgrade is done. The research order is ClashClock's default preset, not a measured ranking.

What hurts at Town Hall 18

The single upgrades this hall opens: levels that need Town Hall 18, one building at a time.

The longest builder waits

1. Laboratorylevel 15 → 1616 d
2. Firespitterlevel 2 → 3 · ×215 d
3. Scattershotlevel 6 → 7 · ×215 d
4. Army Camplevel 13 → 14 · ×415 d
5. Monolithlevel 4 → 515 d

On the builders, the longest single wait is Laboratory to level 16: 16 d for one. The next, Firespitter to level 3, takes 15 d. Three of the five are defences.

The longest lab and Pet House waits

1. Electro Dragonlevel 8 → 916 d
2. Electro Titanlevel 4 → 516 d
3. Root Riderlevel 3 → 416 d
4. Meteor Golemlevel 2 → 316 d
5. Revive Spelllevel 4 → 516 d

In the lab, the longest single wait is Electro Dragon to level 9: 16 d for one. The next, Electro Titan to level 5, takes 16 d. Four of the five are troops.

The most expensive upgrades

Super Wizard Tower to level 2 is the most expensive step in gold: 30M each, on 2 buildings. All 5 are defences.

Grand Warden to level 85 is the most expensive step in elixir: 30.5M. Four of the five are troops.

Barbarian King to level 110 is the most expensive step in dark elixir: 490,000. 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: 3.25B of 5.25B.

New at this level

• +1× Wizard Tower
• 2× Super Wizard Tower
• 1× Revenge Tower
• 1× Longshot
• 1× Smasher
• 1× Logger
• +1× Air Bomb

Heroes, troops, spells, siege machines and pets

• Greedy Raven

How long will it really take?

The builders are done after about 308 days with 6 of them, but the Laboratory runs on its own and needs about 768 days. From 3 builders on the total hardly moves (768 days with 3, 768 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 18 with Town Hall 17 maxed. The Laboratory alone needs 768 days, the Pet House 124 days; with the Gold Pass 614 days and 99 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.