My TH3 after 2 days of playing, what to do next?

Hi all,
I've been playing COC for 2 days now. It's my first time playing this game, and my first account. Yes, I've already broken my shield and attacked tons of people.
Here's the TH3 base: http://i.imgur.com/xUfg96q.jpg
Obviously I have a slight issue with my walls, this will be fixed when I get to TH4. I'd like to upgrade enough walls to the 2nd level to at some point surround either a gold mine or elixir collector with walls one time.
As you can see, I'm waiting for my mortar to be finished.
I'm going to bed once my upgrades are done but I'll launch longer upgrades while I'm sleeping.
I've just been attacked and lost 1.6k gold and 1K elixir, though since my "coffers" were full anyway it doesn't matter.
The Chinese guy sent 6 giants and 1 archer against my village but only managed to destroy 37% of it.
Overall I've only suffered a complete destruction once.

What would you upgrade tonight and tomorrow if you were me?
My cannons and my archer tower are level 2. I've already unlocked the archers for the camp.

Should I just upgrade my gold and elixir storages? My issues with that is that these are "short upgrades" which will be quite inexpensive and finished way before I wake up.

Thank you very much for your help!

At that level there isn't really that much room for creativity in the base building aspects of the game. You shouldn't be enclosing that Boulder next to the gold mine. The walls can be used elsewhere. Now to the topic you asked about, what you should upgrade. I don't remember how high you can upgrade stuff with a level 3 town hall. If you can, you should upgrade your archer tower 1st. Maybe your canons and camps next. No matter what you upgrade always remember to not upgrade your town hall until you have upgraded everything else as high as it will go. Every time you upgrade your town hall the cost to hit the "next" button goes up.also the amount of loot available to take goes up. if you attack someone with a higher level town hall you get more available loot than if you two were on the same town hall level. The opposite goes for if you attack a lower level town hall. If you upgrade everything before the town hall you will then have the advantage of being able to take more while still being the same strength. I hope this helps. I'm sorry if I'm just repeating stuff you have already heard.:cool:

P.S. save those gems for another worker! Don't spent em yet!
Also, breaking your shield and attacking isn't bad. Its actually good so long as you attack often. If you are active, then most of your resources will come from others. Your mines pumps and (when the time comes) drills are just an extra bonus.

Hi, and thank you so much for giving me advice!
Sadly, I've already upgraded my archer tower to the max for my gold/elixir storage capacities. Same goes for the mortar apparently.
I absolutely need to be able to store 20k-25k gold and elixir to get better defenses, so I guess I have to work on that first.
I've decided against upgrading my cannon and camps overnight, because I badly need gold if I want to get my walls and other things higher.

Here's my TH3 now :)
Is there anything that I should absolutely improve? As you can see I've listened to you and moved some things around. I've also spent tons of gold on upgrading my walls to level 2.
http://i.imgur.com/zXGpen0.jpg

Even if I know I'll need to play less for the next few weeks (exams + studying for my driver's license) I still think attacking was the best choice.
I was able to get my castle repaired and to build about 35k worth of walls, and other stuff thanks to attacking.
That being said, I only did it because I made the "mistake" of upgrading my camps and putting defenses up right when I started playing.

if you play a lot, go for storages first. What's the us of looting if you got nowhere to keep it

Thank you for the advice!
I'm currently upgrading both the gold storage and the elixir storage.
Should I upgrade the camps after the storages or rather the mortar/tower/cannon?

if you are active enough, your collectors wouldnt be full so why protect a collector when you have that storage unprotected in the north side

Hi, and thank you very much for your input, that makes a lot of sense.
I modified my base thanks to your advice:
http://i.imgur.com/psg9Qmt.jpg
All my storages are now protected by the 2 cannons, the archer tower and the mortar. I'm probably going to surround the level 5 gold storage with the level 2 walls.

I would say wall off your Mortar + Storages, as they are important.
No need to put walls around obstacles or gold mines/elixir collectors.

TH3 huh, here is what you should do right now:

- join a clan, preferably one with TH8+
- start rushing your TH to lvl 5, construct new building available, upgrade storage until you can upgrade TH again. Farm resource from dead bases in Bronze league, stay there!.
- Ignore defense before you get to TH5, but don't ignore offense! upgrade your barracks and AC if possible.

After you RUSH to TH5, sit there and slowly grind up your walls and defense until all your offense, defense, and walls are maxed. Collectors are optional. and make sure you max out your base before moving on every th lvl after that.