TH8 Labyrinth Farming Base - Progress Journal

Only recently, I got my Town Hall upgraded to level 8. I haven’t maxed TH7 yet but I figured I’d just go for TH8 because I’ve been getting a lot of elixir and I got not much to spend my elixir on so I figured I’ll just upgrade to TH8. Also, my Dark Elixir Storage will be overflowing soon if I didn’t do anything with it (my BK is already level 5 and I don’t really use Dark Troops that much).

So what is this thread about? Well, being in TH8 has got me excited since I can finally design a base. I haven’t been able to in TH7 because I just feel like it’s way too hard designing a base with only a few walls. In this thread, I will be documenting my progress on designing with my base and also to get some feedback from other Clashers as well.

Anyways, I present to you my base (no name for it yet):

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This is the latest version of the base. It has been modified a little so the pictures below might be a little different. Some wall placement have been changed and some trap placements as well. The positions of the defenses have been changed as well.

I decided to make a labyrinth base (or at least I think it’s a labyrinth) because I got low level walls still and I think it will be much more fun designing a labyrinth base rather than just the traditional “make a box in the center, expand it with compartments, put stuff inside, make some hole, put traps in it” sort of thing.

What is the purpose of this base? What are its goals? Well, I’ve designed this to resist any three star attacks from different troop compositions including Giants and Dragons. I also want to protect my resources as well whilst using the Storages themselves as meat shields.

Step-by-step Construction

I started with the core like all base designers do. It’s just a simple core, nothing too special (besides the fact that it’s not a box), Clan Castle, Dark Elixir Storage and Barbarian King Altar with the Teslas (the Torch is where the third Tesla should be) and Skeleton Traps inside. I decided to put the Teslas in the core because I’ve found out that they have the highest DPS of all the defensive buildings.

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Next, I began to add the “compartments” to form the second layer of the base. The Mortars and Air Defenses are here with double Giant Bombs to take care of Hog Riders.


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Next is I added the bottom “compartment” with two Storages to act as meat shield for Dragons to attack while the Air Defense work on them. The Storages are covered by the Archer Tower, Cannons and Mortars. Also, you can see I put two Spring Traps up where the other two Air Defenses are.


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Here I added the side “compartments” with Archer Towers and Storages. Again, these Storages are covered by the Archer Towers and Mortars. Also, I put the Wizard Towers between the Cannons and the Archer Towers.


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I finally added the top “compartment” with the other Storages again acting as meat shields for the Air Defenses. These Storages are also covered by the Archer Towers, Mortars, Cannons and the Wizard Tower. Also, I added the remaining Spring Traps where Giants are expected to walk through.

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Seeking Air Mines placed where the Dragons are able to breach easily into the second layer without interference from Air Defenses.


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Air Bombs placed scattered within the second layer for Balloons and Minions. The remaining two Bombs are placed to provide a little more protection to the bottom “compartment” although they won’t really make much difference on their own.

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Here is the final look of the base with all the remaining buildings placed. I believe I have protected my Storages pretty good and got to use them as meat shields like planned.


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Note that I have been using the word “compartment” a lot and I know that it’s not the proper term to use since a compartment is an “enclosed area or space” and not a single one of those “compartments” are enclosed. If anyone could tell me the proper word to use, I would be grateful.

Please assume that the base is already maxed out and judge it from there. I don’t want people judging the base and saying that it’s bad just because the buildings are low level. I want people to judge it by the design itself and not the levels of the buildings.

Attack Logs

Attack 1:

15 Level 4 Archers
18 Level 4 Giants
15 Level 4 Barbarians
Level 2 Barbarian King
8 Level 3 Wall Breakers
16 Level 4 Wizards
1 Level 3 Heal

The attacker began the attack by sniping the Town Hall with Archers.

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He then tried to lure out the Clan Castle troops using Giants.

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He lured them out where the Town Hall is and dropped the King to help take care of the CC troops.

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After he dealt with the CC troops, he sent in the remaining of his Giants with a Healing Spell.

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He then dropped his Wizards.

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The Giants got funneled towards the lower left Mortar while getting Spring Trapped along the way.

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The remaining Giants went towards the Air Defense and finally getting finished off by the double Giant Bomb.

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The result was a one-star victory getting the one star only from sniping the Town Hall.

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The base has successfully defended against the Giants. The Spring Traps are well placed for Giants to walk on. And the double Giant Bomb also work for Giants as you can see here. The Giants also tend to split up with the ranged troops behind them which worked well as the other towers can easily snipe those support troops (in this case the Wizards).

Attack 2:

11 Level 3 Dragons
1 Level 6 Balloon
3 Level 4 Rage

The attacker used mass Dragons. He started from the top and dropped all of his Dragons.

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Out came the CC troops. He dropped a Rage spell to help take care of the CC troop and to get through the Storages quickly.

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He deploy his Clan Castle troops and out came another Dragon and a Balloon. Second Rage spell was placed.

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The Dragons successfully breached the core with the Clan Castle acting as meat shield for the three Teslas but the Teslas are only at low level and the Dragons will eventually destroy the core.

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Third Rage spell placed.

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Only that one Air Defense and the Archer Tower are still standing and there are still a few Dragons alive.

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Eventually the Dragons won.

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The battle ended with a 3-star.

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The base worked well with the Storages acting as meat shield for the other towers but the sheer power of the Dragons has easily overpowered this base because the Air Defenses and the other defenses are at low levels. Though if they are not that low leveled, the result could have been different.

Not bad! Looking for defense logs :).

I got a couple of logs to show. Note that I have modified the base since those attacks and improved it learning from those attacks. I'm pretty much done with the base now. I will be upgrading my buildings and then test it to see what it can do (testing with some buildings at level 1 isn't going to be very accurate).

That's probably it for this thread. I will be making a new thread later on (not gonna be anytime soon) when I got to actually test it with upgraded buildings.

Is it just me or the images really aren't visible?

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Originally Posted by Newbee

Is it just me or the images really aren't visible?

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I cannot see some images on 2nd post neither.

The pictures are there and they're showing up perfectly for me.

Anyway, I just realized that this base can barely protect any resource. Storage are just easy to get even with splash defenses covering them (they're just way too exposed). The DE isn't even that protected so I might just wing this base and make a new one.