Buildings
To earn and store gold and elixir, players must build mines and storage buildings
for each resource. Elixir is used to conduct research in the Laboratory to upgrade
troops and to construct or upgrade certain buildings, primarily offensive ones.
Gold is used to build defensive structures and to upgrade the Town Hall, which
unlocks access to more buildings and higher levels for existing ones. At Town Hall
7, Dark Elixir becomes available. This resource is used to upgrade Dark Elixir
troops, heroes such as the Barbarian King, and—starting at Town Hall 8—Dark Spells.
To earn and store Dark Elixir, players must build Dark Elixir Drills and Dark
Elixir Storages.
There are a number of buildings available to the player to defend their village,
including cannons, mortars, archer towers, wizard towers, Inferno towers, an Eagle
artillery, Scattershots, Monoliths, air defenses, spell towers, the clan castle,
multi archer towers, and ricochet cannons. There are also traps including Tesla
towers, bombs, giant bombs, tornado traps, seeking air mines, and air bombs.
Players can also build walls, which can be upgraded further as a player's town hall
level increases.[18][19] As the Town Hall level increases, the player gets access
to stronger buildings such as the Monolith, the Eagle artillery, and the inferno
towers.[20]
