Mobile strategy games seem to be the most addictive gaming craze nowadays. Clash of Clans, a free-to-play take on the genre, lets players raid each other’s villages with barbarians, wizards and pissed off dragons. We’re back to aid you in your run to the top of game’s leaderboards. Here’s the top 10 tips and cheats you need to know for Clash of Clans.

1. Know Which Resources to Raid During Multiplayer Battles

– During the multiplayer skirmishes you’ll no doubt be a part of, there’s a certain percentage of resources that are obtainable from certain item drills/storage locations:
– 100-percent of whatever’s stored in the Town Hall
– 75-percent of the Dark Elixirs stored in Dark Elixir Drills
– 50-percent of whatever’s stored in the gold/elixir collectors
– 20-percent of whatever’s stored in the gold/elixir storage (up to 198,000)
– 5-percent of the Dark Elixirs stored in the Dark Elixir Storage (up to 2,000)
– The overall available loot is reduced though if your opponent’s Town Hall level is lower than your’s. But if your opponent’s Town Hall level is higher than your level, the loot amount you get for a victory will garner a nice increase.

2. Defend Your Base With a Bunch of Walls

Once you start the game, you’ll have access to wooden walls. These walls come in at a pretty low level (level one), which means they’re not worth much when high-level barbarians come barging into your base.
– Try to upgrade these wooden walls to level three as fast as possible (attain for level four or five if you can, too). These walls will end up being your strongest defense, so make sure you purchase all the available walls within your level. Place these walls all around your base so that no opening pathways are available for entry.
– Let those attackers break down your walls and struggle; don’t let them ease on in without much trouble because you mistakenly left a lane open.

3. The Low Level Trophy Farming Solution

One of the easiest and laziest ways of farming in clash of clans is by lowering your trophies to under 200 and farming with goblins. The match-making system in clash of clans uses your amount of trophies to find an enemy. When a player is still low level they won’t have a lot of trophies. This way we can use this match-making system to our benefit by lowering our trophies and getting easy opponents. Of course, the loot will be less, so that’s why we’re going to use less troops as well.
Goblins are one of the cheapest troops, and we only need about 20-40 goblins to raid at least 30k gold and elixir from a very badly protected village. As you can see on the picture here, there’s 87k gold and 58k elixir available, while there’s only a level 1 cannon there to protect it! I only had to use 25 goblins to steal all of his gold and elixir. To lower your trophies it’s always very basic. Train goblins only and just start looking for battles, but we’re going to be using a little bug. I wouldn’t call it abusing because we’re just giving away our trophies, and all this little glitch is going to do is speed up the process.
So when you battle, you usually skip a lot of fights until you find the right one. But when you’re dropping trophies you’re going to be using 1 goblin on every village you see, but this would still take a very long time if you had to load your own village after every battle, so here’s a step-by-step explanation of how the ‘glitch’ works:
– Find a match
– Hold your finger on the ‘next’ button
– Drop 1 goblin
– Quickly after deploying release the ‘next’ button

4. Keep Your Trophies Even After Ending A Battle Prematurely

– If you’re ready to wave the white flag before the start of a tough raid, just go on ahead and end the battle. You’ll keep your trophies as long as you don’t deploy any troops or cast any spells. Make sure the “Surrender” option isn’t visible, either!

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Free elixir
This cheat only works when you have less than 30 seconds from finishing a troop upgrade an a full army. About before thirty seconds, cue up the troop you are upgrading. Don’t forget before you do this you have to make sure you have a full army. After the upgrade finishes, untrain the troops. Now, you will get free Elixir!
How to save your elixir when your offline
To be able to save your elixir where people won’t get that much elixir. Just make sure your camps are full and then fill your barracks up with bombers then you can get offline with like only 100,000 elixir instead of 300,000 elixir. Get back on, then unload your barracks first thing and then you will get all of your elixir back.

‘Clash of Clans’ Builder: Top 10 Layouts You Need to See

Check out these guides and figure out the best methods towards crafting the best offensive or defensive village layouts for Clash of Clans!

1. A Stage Layout That Offers Ample Protection for Heroes and Resource Bases

This massive defensive base setup does a lot of great things – every space that needs closure is covered in full by plenty of Walls, Hero troops are safely encased inside this fort, bombs are scattered at various kill points for raiding troops and your Gold/Elixir storage is protected greatly.

2. A Town Hall 9 Hybrid Base for Clan Wars

This stage layout should do wonders for players engaging in multiplayer Clan Wars. The abundance of Hidden Telsa towers near the center of your village will catch enemy troops off guard. They shouldn’t have much luck getting in there anyway, thanks to the wealth of Defensive Buildings inside your Walls.

3. An Ultimate Town Hall 7 Layout That’s a Good Trophy Base

Trophy hunting players should adopt this layout if they have the necessary currency to do so. Placing your Walls in this way will give your placement of Cannons, X-Bow’s and Mortars a better chance of killing invading troops. Placing more Mortars and Hidden Telsa towers within range of your Town Hall is another great aspect of this design.

4. A Town Hall 8 Village Layout That’s Good at Protecting Your Gold Storage

You’ll need to adopt this village layout if you aren’t too concerned with anything else but your Gold storage. Your Town Hall may lie behind one set of Walls, but your Gold is well protected as it lies within the center. Your Mortars and towers will lend some great protection, while your Army/Resource buildings will soak up damage on the outside.

5. A Town Hall 7 Symmetrical Base Layout

Placing your Town outside of the perimeter of your village is risky, yes. But make sure you lay down some Hidden Telsa buildings and traps near it so no one will know what him ’em. This base setup can be primarily used to protect your Gold/Elixir storage, so have some Mortars and Wizard Towers on hand for this one.

Head to the next page to watch some video walkthroughs of some of the best designed Town Hall layouts for Clash of Clans!