Matthew Cenance's Strategy Guides/Main Guide/Farming

This section of the guide is a tutorial on Farming. Farming is a strategy used to obtain Gold, Elixir, and Dark Elixir required to upgrade.

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What is farming?
Farming is a strategy players use to obtain Gold, Elixir, and Dark Elixir required to upgrade. Since upgrades cost large amounts of Gold, Elixir, or Dark Elixir, players need to find ways to obtain it. This is why farming was invented in Clash of Clans.

The basics of farming

 * When farming, players place the village's Town Hall outside of the walls for reasons I will discuss below.
 * When the Town Hall is destroyed in a raid, the defending player gains a twelve hour shield to prevent players from losing trophies rapidly. Farming players use this to their advantage by placing the Town Hall out of range of the village's defenses to encourage players to only attack the Town Hall, and not attack any resource buildings.
 * Defenders lose only 1,000 Gold and Elixir from their Town Hall being destroyed, which for players that have a Town Hall higher than level four is easily re-obtained from their Gold Mines and Elixir Collectors or raiding.
 * The above two factors make leaving the Town Hall out of range sort of a trademark of farming players.
 * Obviously farming players will strive to defend their storage buildings (especially the Dark Elixir Storage) because they want to gain resources, not lose more than they can obtain.
 * Farming players raid for resources that they need usually for long sessions at a time, up to six hours at a time, if the rate at which they earn resources is slow.

How do I farm?

 * Firstly, you need to search for a "farming base layout", or create one yourself (not recommended). Then you need to use the layout you found or created. Make sure that the Town Hall is outside of the walls.
 * Second, you should learn an inexpensive farming strategy (like Barbarians-Archers). (If it says the army uses Gold for spells, it is severely out of date, so be warned!)
 * Third, raid using the farming strategy that you found. Raid until you find the amount of resources you want or require.