Town Hall 5: Upgrade Order, Priorities and Common Mistakes
Town Halls
Updated: 18 September 2026 · By the Goblins Farm team
Town Hall 5 is where air defence stops being optional, because the players attacking you are unlocking air troops.
What changes at this level
You gain more defence variety, and crucially the attacks coming at you begin to include air. A base without adequate anti-air from this point is a base that loses every defence.
Upgrade order
The framework does not change between Town Halls, only the specifics. Keep the laboratory running, keep a hero upgrading where you have one, and keep every builder busy. Within that:
- Air Defense, and place it deep rather than on the perimeter.
- Army camps and laboratory research.
- Splash damage, since massed cheap troops are the common attack at this range.
- Storages, defences, then walls.
The general reasoning behind this ordering is set out in upgrade priority.
Mistakes that cost you weeks here
Treating Archer Towers as anti-air. They can hit air units, but single-target damage does not stop a group of Dragons. You need dedicated Air Defense, and you need it placed where an attacker cannot remove it cheaply from the edge.
Reading the tables below
The loot table shows what an attacker can take from a Town Hall 5 village: the share of your storages that is available and the cap per attack. That is the number that decides whether you are worth attacking, and it is why spending down before you log off works. The building table shows what you can own at this level and what is new.
How available loot is calculated in general is covered in loot mechanics.
What it unlocks
Stats by level
| Resource | Share of storage | Maximum per attack |
|---|---|---|
| Gold and Elixir from storages | 20% | 200,000 |
| Dark Elixir from storage | 6% | 2,000 |
| Gold and Elixir from the Treasury | — | 600,000 |
| Dark Elixir from the Treasury | — | 0 |
Where these numbers come from. Read from Clash of Clans' own game files, client build 18.600.3. They are exact for that build and do not reflect anything released after it, so verify in game before committing an upgrade.
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Frequently asked
What should I upgrade first at Town Hall 5?
Army camps and laboratory research before anything else, since they improve every attack you make at this level, then storages so you can afford later upgrades, then whichever defence category is weakest. Walls last, using surplus.
How long does Town Hall 5 take to complete?
It depends entirely on how consistently you keep builders, the laboratory and a hero running rather than on how much you play. Players who never leave a builder idle finish a Town Hall in a fraction of the time of players who log in twice a week, regardless of skill.
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