Town Hall 8 (TH8)

At a glance

From a village that arrives at Town Hall 8 with Town Hall 7 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 8

This is the order ClashClock's own planner starts things in for a village that has just arrived at Town Hall 8 with Town Hall 7 maxed (Max strategy, five 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 0.5, 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 to level 3 (1 d 12 h, from day 0.7), Rage Spell to level 5 (2 d, from day 2.2) and Lightning Spell to level 5 (1 d, from day 4.2). Dragon to level 3 needs the Laboratory at level 6 and the village arrives with level 5, 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 9 and does only what the game demands first. It starts the Town Hall on day 2 and it stands on day 4. Max keeps the Town Hall until nothing else is left, so it starts it on day 15, 13 days 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 9 stands, 72% of the work at Town Hall 8 is still undone (50 of 69 builder, lab and Pet House days), most of it defences: 15 of 20 days.

• Defences15 of 20 d
• Laboratory15 of 16 d
• Heroes12 of 14 d
• Collectors and storages4 of 7 d
• Offence buildings2 of 10 d
• Traps2 of 2 d

The biggest single leftovers: Barbarian King (9 days), 3× Wizard Tower (3.3 days), 3× Hidden Tesla (3 days) and 3× Air Defense (3 days).

What hurts at Town Hall 8

The single upgrades this hall opens: levels that need Town Hall 8, one building at a time.

The longest builder waits

1. Dark Barrackslevel 3 → 42 d
2. Hero Halllevel 1 → 22 d
3. Dark Elixir Storagelevel 3 → 41 d 12 h
4. Barrackslevel 9 → 101 d 12 h
5. Dark Barrackslevel 2 → 31 d 12 h

On the builders, the longest single wait is Dark Barracks to level 4: 2 d for one. The next, Hero Hall to level 2, takes 2 d. Four of the five are army buildings.

The longest lab and Pet House waits

1. Rage Spelllevel 4 → 52 d
2. Dragonlevel 2 → 31 d 12 h
3. Balloonlevel 4 → 51 d
4. Healerlevel 2 → 31 d
5. Healing Spelllevel 4 → 51 d

In the lab, the longest single wait is Rage Spell to level 5: 2 d for one. The next, Dragon to level 3, takes 1 d 12 h. Three of the five are troops.

The most expensive upgrades

Hidden Tesla to level 6 is the most expensive step in gold: 1.2M each, on 3 buildings. All 5 are defences.

Rage Spell to level 5 is the most expensive step in elixir: 2M.

Barbarian King to level 20 is the most expensive step in dark elixir: 15,000. All 5 are hero levels.

Walls take no builder time, so no ranking of build times shows them, but they are 39% of the gold at this hall: 22.7M of 57.7M.

New at this level

• +1× Hidden Tesla
• +1× Archer Tower
• +1× Wizard Tower
• +1× Mortar
• 1× Bomb Tower
• +2× Spring Trap
• +1× Giant Bomb
• 2× Skeleton Trap
• +2× Air Bomb
• +1× Seeking Air Mine
• +50× Wall
• +1× Elixir Storage
• +1× Gold Storage
• +1× Dark Elixir Drill
• 1× Dark Spell Factory
• 1× Blacksmith

Heroes, troops, spells, siege machines and pets

• P.E.K.K.A
• Valkyrie
• Golem
• Poison Spell
• Earthquake Spell
• Archer Queen

How long will it really take?

The builders are done after about 13 days with 5 of them, but the Laboratory runs on its own and needs about 17 days. From 4 builders on the total hardly moves (17 days with 4, 17 days with 5), 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 8 with Town Hall 7 maxed. The Laboratory alone needs 17 days; with the Gold Pass 13 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.