Time to max explained: how long until your village is maxed?

"How long until I'm maxed?" is the question every Clash player asks after a Town Hall upgrade. The honest answer is three different clocks running at once.

The three queues

• Builders: buildings, traps, walls and heroes. You have up to 6 builders (5 huts plus B.O.B), so their total work is split across them.
• Laboratory: troops, spells and siege machines, one at a time.
• Pet House: pets, one at a time, separate from the lab.

Your village is maxed when the slowest of these finishes. At Town Hall 18, the full lab path for troops, spells and sieges adds up to about 2,476 days from level 1, while all six heroes add up to about 1,789 days of builder time, and that's shared between several builders.

What a calculator assumes

A time-to-max number is a best case with no boosts: every builder and the lab running 24/7, no idle time, no magic items. Real villages lose time to idle builders and gain it back with books, potions, helpers and the Gold Pass.

How to shorten it

• Keep the lab running at all times, because it's usually the bottleneck.
• Use the Lab Assistant and Builder's Apprentice every day (helpers guide).
• Consider the Gold Pass during heavy upgrade months (is it worth it?).
• Spend magic items on the longest upgrades, not the shortest.

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