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Clash of Clans guides

Reviewed guidance for upgrades, equipment, resources, and events.

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Understand points, rewards, and quests—then plan your next hero upgrade.

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28 guides

ReferenceGeneral

Town Hall 19: News, Rumors, and How to Prepare

Explore Termynater's Town Hall 19 discussion, with clear distinctions between current mechanics, creator-reported plans, speculation, and useful preparation.

Termynater video and ClashVault rumor analysis
EventGeneral

Summer Jam 2026: Official Schedule and Planning Lessons

Supercell's official Summer Jam 2026 phase dates, preserved with a reusable account-planning framework after the August 1 finale.

Supercell — Barbarian's Odyssey
StrategyGeneral

How to Use Left to Max for a Real Upgrade Plan

Use ClashVault's Left-to-Max calculator as an upgrade inventory and planning aid without mistaking partial coverage or raw duration for a guaranteed finish date.

ClashVault product methodology
ProgressionGeneral

Clash of Clans Upgrade Tracker: Player Tag vs. Village Export

Learn what a Clash of Clans upgrade tracker can see from a player tag, when a Village Export is required, and how to interpret completion, coverage, costs, and raw upgrade time.

ClashVault verified product guide
StrategyGeneral

Best Barbarian King Equipment: Loadouts, Tradeoffs, and Ore Priorities

Compare Barbarian King equipment combinations by core dive, building-chain damage, funnel pathing, sustain, execution risk, and Shiny, Glowy, and Starry Ore priorities.

Official Supercell mechanics and ClashVault editorial review
EconomyGeneral

Clash of Clans Ore Calculator Guide: Plan Hero Equipment Upgrades

Use a Clash of Clans ore calculator to compare Hero Equipment targets, separate Shiny, Glowy, and Starry costs, and build an honest income scenario.

ClashVault verified product guide
ProgressionGeneral

Clash of Clans Hero Journey: Points, Rewards, Quests, and Planning

Learn how Hero Journey points, rewards, Ore Chests, catch-up drops, and launch migration work, then connect the next Hero level to an honest Hero and Equipment plan.

Supercell release notes and support guidance
StrategyGeneral

Best Grand Warden Equipment: Loadouts, Tradeoffs, and Ore Priorities

Compare Grand Warden equipment loadouts by army fit, activation timing, tradeoffs, execution risk, and the Ore commitment required to make each pairing useful.

Official Supercell mechanics and ClashVault editorial review
EconomyGeneral

Clash of Clans Resource Calculator Guide: Plan Costs and Bottlenecks

Choose the right Clash of Clans resource calculator, separate costs from raw timers, identify the active bottleneck, and turn totals into a funded upgrade queue.

ClashVault verified product guide
StrategyGeneral

Clash of Clans Upgrade Efficiency: What to Upgrade First

Choose the next Clash of Clans upgrade by goal, progression lane, and constraint. Includes a practical checklist, honest time-to-max boundaries, magic-item tradeoffs, and worked examples.

Supercell releases + ClashVault product audit
StrategyGeneral

Best Royal Champion Equipment: Loadouts, Tradeoffs, and Ore Priorities

Compare Royal Champion equipment loadouts by attack role, activation timing, tradeoffs, execution risk, replay evidence, and Ore commitment.

Official Supercell mechanics and ClashVault editorial review
LayoutGeneral

Clash of Clans Farming Base Layout Guide: Protect More Loot

Build or adapt a Clash of Clans farming base around storage distribution, costly loot routes, replay evidence, and the resource funding your next upgrade.

Supercell loot rules and ClashVault editorial review
ProgressionRusher

How to Un-Rush Your Base Without Quitting the Game

Build a manageable recovery plan for a rushed village: fix one army, clear prerequisites, schedule Heroes, and choose useful upgrades without restarting.

Official Supercell sources and ClashVault editorial analysis
EconomyGeneral

Is the Gold Pass Worth It? How to Decide for Your Account

What the reworked Gold Pass includes, how to value its boosts in builder-days without guessing percentages, which account types get the most from it, and when in the season buying still makes sense.

Supercell Gold Pass, Season Tasks and Hoggy Bank support articles and announcements; ClashVault planning analysis
StrategyCompetitive

Clan War League Strategy for Small Clans: Roster Size, Rotation and Bonus Medals

How a smaller clan should choose between 15v15 and 30v30, rotate seven days of attacks so reliable members reach the 8-star full-medal threshold, pair attackers with bases, and award bonus medals fairly.

Supercell CWL support articles and October 2026 calendar; Clash of Clans Wiki (secondary); ClashVault planning analysis
GuideBeginner

How to Choose a Clan: What a Good Clan Gives You and How to Vet One

Which Clash of Clans rewards depend on your clan, how to use the in-game search filters and clan profile to vet one, why leadership matters, and when switching clans costs you rewards.

Supercell clan, Clan Perks, Clan War, Clan Games and Clan War League support articles; ClashVault editorial analysis
EventGeneral

Treasure Hunt Guide: Dates, Chest Odds and How Many Chests You Can Get

How Treasure Hunt chests work, what the reported rarity odds mean over a full event, how many chests an eight-day run allows, and how to stack chest attacks with October’s other events.

Supercell announcements; community-reported chest odds; ClashVault planning analysis
StrategyGeneral

How to Choose Your Attack Army: A Framework That Outlasts the Meta

The game rules that limit every army, four questions every attack must answer, the roles inside any composition, why reliability beats ceiling in Ranked, and where to practice without losing Trophies.

Supercell Heroes, Siege Machines, Ranked, Clan War, Friendly Challenge and Single Player support articles; ClashVault editorial framework
StrategyCompetitive

How to Scout a Base Before You Attack: A Repeatable Checklist

A fixed scouting order built around the three star conditions, base types and their weaknesses, and how scouting changes between regular wars, Clan War League, Ranked, regular Battles and the Builder Base.

Supercell Clan War, Clan War League, Ranked, Legend League, Heroes, Guardians, Friendly Challenge and Builder Battle support articles; ClashVault editorial analysis
EconomyGeneral

Magic Item Priority: What to Use Now vs. What to Save

Choose when to use Books, Hammers, Runes, and Potions with worked examples for resource shortages, builder time, prerequisites, and reward limits.

Official Supercell sources and ClashVault editorial analysis
StrategyGeneral

Trophy Pushing vs Farming After Ranked: How to Split Your Attacks

How Ranked and regular Battles divide the old push-or-farm choice, the weekly Ranked battle budget for every league, why dropping trophies no longer helps farming, and how high it is worth climbing.

Supercell Ranked announcements and support articles (Ranked Leagues, trophy calculation, Legend League, Star Bonus); ClashVault planning analysis
StrategyGeneral

Clan Capital Guide: Raid Weekend Strategy, Raid Medals and Where to Spend Capital Gold

How Raid Weekend attacks, persistent damage and the defensive bonus decide your Raid Medals, how many attacks your clan really has, and where Capital Gold and Forge Builders do the most good.

Supercell Clan Capital support articles and 2022 announcements; Clash of Clans Wiki (secondary); ClashVault planning analysis
StrategyGeneral

Defensive Base Building Principles: How to Judge, Adapt and Test Any Layout

How Ranked trophies reward star denial, which of your layouts follows which snapshot rule, five principles for reading any base, Town Hall 18 Guardians and Crafted Defenses, and a replay routine for testing changes.

Supercell Ranked, Legend League, Clan War, Guardian and Crafted Defense support articles; ClashVault editorial analysis
ProgressionGeneral

Is the Builder Base Worth It? B.O.B, Daily Star Bonus and When to Stop

What the Builder Base is worth to your Home Village: the exact B.O.B sixth-builder requirements, how few battles the daily Star Bonus needs, the smaller cross-mode rewards, and when you can stop.

Supercell Builder Base 2.0 announcement and Builder Base support articles; Supercell Hoggy Bank, Gold Pass and Clan Games sources; ClashVault planning analysis