Town Hall 9 (TH9)

At a glance

From a village that arrives at Town Hall 9 with Town Hall 8 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 9

This is the order ClashClock's own planner starts things in for a village that has just arrived at Town Hall 9 with Town Hall 8 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 2.2, 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 4 (2 d, from day 1), Lightning Spell to level 6 (1 d 12 h, from day 3) and Balloon to level 6 (3 d, from day 4.5). Dragon to level 4 needs the Laboratory at level 7 and the village arrives with level 6, 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 10 and does only what the game demands first. It starts the Town Hall on day 3 and it stands on day 6. Max keeps the Town Hall until nothing else is left, so it starts it on day 32, 29 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 10 stands, 82% of the work at Town Hall 9 is still undone (137 of 168 builder, lab and Pet House days), most of it heroes: 38 of 44 days.

• Heroes38 of 44 d
• Defences37 of 39 d
• Laboratory31 of 34 d
• Collectors and storages15 of 17 d
• Offence buildings13 of 29 d
• Traps4 of 4 d

The biggest single leftovers: Archer Queen (23 days), Barbarian King (13 days), 4× Air Defense (11 days) and 3× Dark Elixir Drill (11 days).

What hurts at Town Hall 9

The single upgrades this hall opens: levels that need Town Hall 9, one building at a time.

The longest builder waits

1. Dark Barrackslevel 5 → 63 d
2. Hero Halllevel 2 → 33 d
3. Dark Spell Factorylevel 3 → 43 d
4. Dark Barrackslevel 4 → 52 d 12 h
5. Barrackslevel 10 → 112 d

On the builders, the longest single wait is Dark Barracks to level 6: 3 d for one. The next, Hero Hall to level 3, takes 3 d. All 5 are army buildings.

The longest lab and Pet House waits

1. Balloonlevel 5 → 63 d
2. Dragonlevel 3 → 42 d
3. Healerlevel 3 → 42 d
4. Witchlevel 1 → 22 d
5. Lava Houndlevel 1 → 22 d

In the lab, the longest single wait is Balloon to level 6: 3 d for one. The next, Dragon to level 4, takes 2 d. All 5 are troops.

The most expensive upgrades

X-Bow to level 3 is the most expensive step in gold: 2.4M each, on 2 buildings. All 5 are defences.

Dragon to level 4 is the most expensive step in elixir: 3M. Three of the five are troops.

Barbarian King to level 30 is the most expensive step in dark elixir: 35,000. All 5 are hero levels.

Walls take no builder time, so no ranking of build times shows them, but they are 57% of the gold at this hall: 79.8M of 140.1M.

New at this level

• +1× Hidden Tesla
• +1× Air Defense
• +1× Wizard Tower
• +1× Archer Tower
• 2× X-Bow
• +1× Air Sweeper
• +2× Seeking Air Mine
• +1× Giant Bomb
• +25× Wall
• +1× Elixir Storage
• +1× Elixir Collector
• +1× Gold Mine
• +1× Gold Storage
• +1× Dark Elixir Drill
• 1× Helper Hut

Heroes, troops, spells, siege machines and pets

• Witch
• Lava Hound
• Baby Dragon
• Jump Spell
• Freeze Spell
• Haste Spell
• Skeleton Spell
• Minion Prince

How long will it really take?

The builders are done after about 30 days with 5 of them, but the Laboratory runs on its own and needs about 35 days. From 4 builders on the total hardly moves (35 days with 4, 35 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 9 with Town Hall 8 maxed. The Laboratory alone needs 35 days; with the Gold Pass 28 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.