https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/ Clash of Clans strategy and progression writing: which attack to learn at your Town Hall, what to upgrade, what to spend, and what the game's own files say about all of it. en https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/best-th11-attack-strategy.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/best-th11-attack-strategy.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Town Hall 11 gives you 260 army camp space and a Grand Warden. Here are the armies that fit it exactly, what the game files say they hit for, and which one to learn first. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/best-th12-attack-strategy.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/best-th12-attack-strategy.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Town Hall 12 gives you 280 army camp space and your own Workshop. Here are the armies that fit exactly, which siege machine to put behind them, and what the game files say each one hits for. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/best-th13-attack-strategy.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/best-th13-attack-strategy.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Town Hall 13 gives you 300 army camp space, the Royal Champion and a Scattershot to attack into. Here are the armies that fit exactly and what the game files say they hit for. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/which-hero-equipment-to-upgrade-first.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/which-hero-equipment-to-upgrade-first.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 We summed the ore cost of all 43 hero equipment pieces from the game files. Every Common costs 27,260 Shiny Ore, every Epic costs 56,060. Here is what that means for upgrade order. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/which-pet-for-which-hero.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/which-pet-for-which-hero.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 All twelve Clash of Clans pets summed from the game files: 24.2 million dark elixir and 782 days in the Pet House. Here is which pet belongs on which hero and what to level first. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/are-super-troops-worth-it.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/are-super-troops-worth-it.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 We compared all 17 Super Troops with their base troops at matched levels from the game files. Not one wins on damage per housing space. Here is what you are actually paying 25,000 dark elixir for. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/what-a-defence-upgrade-is-actually-worth.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/what-a-defence-upgrade-is-actually-worth.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 We measured every defence upgrade in the game files by damage gained per builder-day. At Town Hall 8 it is 19 DPS a day. At Town Hall 18 it is 1.08. Here is what that means for upgrade order. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/army-camp-space-by-town-hall.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/army-camp-space-by-town-hall.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Army camp capacity for every Town Hall in Clash of Clans, read from the game files: 20 housing space at TH1, 352 at TH18, and three Town Halls that add nothing at all. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/which-siege-machine-to-use.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/which-siege-machine-to-use.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 All nine Clash of Clans siege machines compared from the game files: hitpoints, damage, research cost and lab time. Maxing every one is 490 million elixir and 315 days of laboratory. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/dark-elixir-is-the-real-bottleneck.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/dark-elixir-is-the-real-bottleneck.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A maxed Clash of Clans account needs about 100 million dark elixir. Three maxed drills produce 14,400 a day. We did the arithmetic from the game files, and the answer is 19 years. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/how-long-to-max-clash-of-clans.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/how-long-to-max-clash-of-clans.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 We summed every upgrade in Clash of Clans' own game files. A maxed Town Hall 18 costs about 15.4 billion gold and over 6,700 days of timers. Here is the full breakdown. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/attack-strategies-by-town-hall.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/attack-strategies-by-town-hall.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Which attack strategy to learn at each Town Hall in Clash of Clans, what unlocks when, and why learning one army properly beats knowing five badly. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/which-hero-to-upgrade-first.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/which-hero-to-upgrade-first.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Which Clash of Clans hero to upgrade first, with the real dark elixir and time costs of every hero from the game files, and a rule that works at any Town Hall. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/hardest-town-hall-upgrades-ranked.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/hardest-town-hall-upgrades-ranked.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Which Clash of Clans Town Hall is the biggest jump? We measured every level by the research and hero time it adds, not just the Town Hall upgrade price. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/is-the-gold-pass-worth-it.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/is-the-gold-pass-worth-it.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Whether the Clash of Clans Gold Pass is worth buying, who it actually pays off for, and the one habit that decides the answer more than anything else. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/hog-rider-vs-miner-vs-valkyrie.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/hog-rider-vs-miner-vs-valkyrie.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A straight comparison of the Hog Rider, Miner and Valkyrie in Clash of Clans: housing space, what they target, what counters each, and which to commit your laboratory to. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/starting-clash-of-clans-in-2026.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/starting-clash-of-clans-in-2026.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Whether it is worth starting Clash of Clans in 2026, what the game is actually like now after fourteen years, and what your first month realistically looks like. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/free-to-play-clash-of-clans.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/free-to-play-clash-of-clans.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 What a free-to-play Clash of Clans account gives up compared with a paying one, what money actually buys, and how to close most of the gap without spending. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/why-your-clash-of-clans-account-stalls.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/why-your-clash-of-clans-account-stalls.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ten reasons Clash of Clans accounts stop progressing — idle builders, an empty laboratory, rushed Town Halls — and the specific fix for each one. https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/clash-of-clans-glossary.html https://goblinsfarm.com/blog/clash-of-clans-glossary.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A plain-English Clash of Clans glossary: attacking terms, base-building jargon, clan and war vocabulary, and every abbreviation your clan chat uses.