One builder free at all times for walls?

I know there's advantages/disadvantages of both:

One builder free:
- Can always dump gold/elixir into walls (and even farm + dump more resources into if you don't have a shield)
BUT
- You lose value of that builder for the time that he's not hammering away at an upgrade

One builder not free (basically opposite):
- Getting most value out of that builder for always upgrading (especially if 4th or 5th builder that has been gemmed)
BUT
- Your resources have potential to stack up (thus increasing your chances of being raided if you don't have a shielf)

Or does it all depend on your TH level/farming situation/how active you are?

Personally I try to keep all builders active to get the value. I try to synchronise builders so that there's at least one that finishes sooner than the rest (e.g. 5 builders working, 1d, 2d, 3d, 4d, 5d left on buildings instead of 2d, 2d, 5d, 5d, 5d). I dump resources into walls and then start a new upgrade. A lot of my walls actually get done while my TH is upgrading (along with the few last buildings that need to be maxed)

What does everyone else do?

Depends on my farming situation:cool:

Always keep a builder free. Working on skulls, so i can easily gather 500k for each upgrade, and immediately dump it into walls.

Plus the fact that i can never manage to synchronize my timing. Real life too busy to worry about that.

The only times I don't have a builder free is if I have an upgrade that takes ~8 hours and I'm about to go to sleep or school. Otherwise the builder is always free. Not to mention I can always remove random foliage around my base.

But yes it depends on activeness. If I'm going somewhere for a week without internet then id use my 5th

I only use all five builders if one of them will free up within the next 24 hours

I've never kept a builder free until I max the defenses buildings then obviously a builder will be free. Only had max loot problems towards the end of th9.

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Originally Posted by Fitrah

I know there's advantages/disadvantages of both:

One builder free:
- Can always dump gold/elixir into walls (and even farm + dump more resources into if you don't have a shield)
BUT
- You lose value of that builder for the time that he's not hammering away at an upgrade

One builder not free (basically opposite):
- Getting most value out of that builder for always upgrading (especially if 4th or 5th builder that has been gemmed)
BUT
- Your resources have potential to stack up (thus increasing your chances of being raided if you don't have a shielf)

Or does it all depend on your TH level/farming situation/how active you are?

Personally I try to keep all builders active to get the value. I try to synchronise builders so that there's at least one that finishes sooner than the rest (e.g. 5 builders working, 1d, 2d, 3d, 4d, 5d left on buildings instead of 2d, 2d, 5d, 5d, 5d). I dump resources into walls and then start a new upgrade. A lot of my walls actually get done while my TH is upgrading (along with the few last buildings that need to be maxed)

What does everyone else do?

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When i started in th9, i used all my builders to cope up with the new level. Now that i have upgraded half of my defenses, i free up one builder to finish my lego.

Cheers. 😁

Stuff walls, you do them when you're up high. I only start doing walls once I hit 2900

At TH7 & TH8 I always kept a builder free to dump extra gold into walls.

Now at TH9 I've discovered that my skull walls tend to keep most attackers away and is good enough for intimidation. So now I keep all five builders busy at all times. For this TH level I will do all my upgrades and end off upgrading walls (instead of doing that first or during other upgrades).

Alway keep one free for walls, folks can't raid/revenge loot after it is spent.

Depends usually if my builder is busy for 2 days + iwould farm til lfull storage

Just went on an upgrade spree. back to back defense upgrading with only 3 builders (too lazy to get #4 and 5 but wil later) but now that its slowed down marginally and I don't want two WT down at a time, I have a builder free for walls

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Originally Posted by Fitrah

I know there's advantages/disadvantages of both:

One builder free:
- Can always dump gold/elixir into walls (and even farm + dump more resources into if you don't have a shield)
BUT
- You lose value of that builder for the time that he's not hammering away at an upgrade

One builder not free (basically opposite):
- Getting most value out of that builder for always upgrading (especially if 4th or 5th builder that has been gemmed)
BUT
- Your resources have potential to stack up (thus increasing your chances of being raided if you don't have a shielf)

Or does it all depend on your TH level/farming situation/how active you are?

Personally I try to keep all builders active to get the value. I try to synchronise builders so that there's at least one that finishes sooner than the rest (e.g. 5 builders working, 1d, 2d, 3d, 4d, 5d left on buildings instead of 2d, 2d, 5d, 5d, 5d). I dump resources into walls and then start a new upgrade. A lot of my walls actually get done while my TH is upgrading (along with the few last buildings that need to be maxed)

What does everyone else do?

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I use 1 builder for hero, 1 for resources, 2 for defense and 1 free to hide the rest in walls. The 5th builder is just for peace of mind, in a way protecting the hard earned loot you just raided.

Walls should never determine a base's strength. Walls are merely to slow down troops. Defences on the other hand should determine a base's strength and can kill troops.

For me it was like this:

When I upgraded townhall I left no free builder out of the 5. I upgraded walls between upgrades. In past month I left one free builder for walls as I was near maxing my defences. Now I'm max in terms of defenses, I still have some barracks and traps to do but still leaving a builder for walls.

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Originally Posted by January109

Walls should never determine a base's strength. Walls are merely to slow down troops. Defences on the other hand should determine a base's strength and can kill troops.

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Wrong..... If SC were to offer you a Tesla or xbow upgrade that gave it an extra 5500 HP you would be in love with it but when a queen pounds on a wall for 20 shots while getting destroyed its all of a sudden not valuable? Come on defenses behind a wall essentially have a big health boost when it comes to all melee units and often ranged ones as well. Most people who pretend walls don't matter attack bases with purple or skulls walls or bad design basses and pretend like that gives them the full understanding of walls.


Anyways OP I believe in th8-10 it is important to keep a builder open. Anyone who uses all builders at th9-10 will always be able to give up an extra star in wars due to their lower level walls being a handicap. Since people don't like to wait for 3 months finishing walls after maxed defenses they usually move to th10 and are premises forever. In the end having a builder free balances your base much much better when your finished with defenses

I'm way too active to not have a builder not free.

But right now I have 5 builders free lol.

Yes,sometimes,I keep one builder for walls,but not always.

I just reached TH9 with max loot, and 5 of my builders are hammering on xbows/lab.

It depends on which stage you're on.

If you're really active, I would leave a builder free for walls.

I have never been able to allow a builder to be free. I even time the upgrades of my town halls so that every builder will be working non-stop during the town hall upgrade and I will still be maxed (except possibly for collectors) by the time the town hall is done upgrading (always maxed every town hall level walls included). Now that I am TH9 I realize that I can afford to keep a builder free since it will take a very long time to finish walls anyway, but I can't bring myself to have only 4 people working when I could have 5. I want my stuff to upgrade as quickly as possible and keeping one guy doing nothing just doesn't sit well with me.

Been keeping my 1 builder free for 2 months now, back then my walls are still skull and now i left 90+ walls to complete all my lavas :). If you are very active clasher i suggest you keep 1 builder free so you can play more and dump all exceeding resources into walls and you dont have to worry about raiders.

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Originally Posted by bradleytjohnson1

I've never kept a builder free until I max the defenses buildings then obviously a builder will be free. Only had max loot problems towards the end of th9.

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My style is exactly the same.

Builders are my ♥♥♥♥♥. He has to work for me all the time. I'm not paying him 2k Gems for him to sit on his butt.

Upto Th 8 I had all my builders working. I always got my walls done before the rest of defenses. I just tried to stagger them to have 1 finish daily.

Once I was TH 9 I changed my farming style to Barch/Bam with a few WB. The only reason I did was to get more gold/elixir profit per hour. I was farming well with my giant/healer combo. Returns were a lot less than barching due to army build time.

I had all my offensive buildings built and was filling my storages to quickly and had to stop raiding. On the Lava Hound Update I kept one builder free, just to do my walls. I know have all mine done as TH 9 and still got 2 months left as Th 9. Must been around 8 weeks with 1 builder free. Better 8 weeks with 1 builder free than 8 weeks at end with 5 builders free.

If you raid loads it makes sense from TH 9 to keep builder free in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by o0oAnnyo0o

Builders are my ♥♥♥♥♥. He has to work for me all the time. I'm not paying him 2k Gems for him to sit on his butt.

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Lol. That's what I initially thought - to get the value and to get upgraded (mainly) defenses faster.

I do however see the point about leaving one free if one is active on Clash of Clans. I like that idea but I also like the idea of forcing myself to detach from it (if I've got all 5 builders busy then I can't dump farmed resources into walls) and do something a little more productive heh

If you're constantly bumping up against your storage cap keep a builder free.

If you hardly ever reach your storage cap, there is no real need to keep a builder free. In this circumstance it then comes down to personal choice, number of defs down, prioritise walls or defs etc.