Tips for my village/base

can anyone look at my base and give tips for improvement?Attachment 7891

pretty weak. looks like a premature th8 you got there. Get working on those mortars first! all three all the way up to lvl 6. stagger the upgrades so one today, one in two days, another in 4 days. use the excess gold to upgrade walls. Use y our elixir to get your troops up to lvl 5, starting with archers. youll notice so much difference between your lvl 4 mortars and lvl 6! after mortars do wizard towers.

have a look here for some better layouts. There's no need for your th to be inside your walls, your putting yourself at a huge disadvantage by leaving it in the middle as all of your storages are exposed.

agree with the previous poster, get the splash defenses upgraded asap (mortars, wiz towers). They are the best at defeating large numbers of standard farming troops (barbs, archers, gobs).

To be honest my base was quite similar to yours when I upgraded to TH8 (I was one of those that hadn't read the forums and thought getting higher townhalls as quickly as possible was the way forward!). It's taken me just over a month but I'm now in a decent position and I haven't had to spend money on gems, so it's doable. Focus on the defenses first.

Once splash is done I'd get your walls up, at least the inner ones. Get them to level 6 at least so it takes 2 level 5 wb's to break them. If you're raiding regularly then do them all but get the inner ones done so that once they break through the outer ones (which they will do) the inner ones hold up better against standard troops.

Also, stick the TH outside the walls. You'll get cheap shields which will help you save resources for the buildings.

I'm now enjoying TH8 and the raiding is pretty good around 1400 trophies. Planning to max everything apart from mines/collectors before I move up.

Trust what people are saying - get the 5th builder. It is huge in the long run.

I see this layout quite common during raids and frankly, I think they're rather weak.
The sides are exposed and its easy to pick most of the outer structures since your cannons, mortars, archers, wiz towers are far apart with each other. Your layout looks aesthetic but pretty much spread out and that creates too many weak access for enemies to break into.