When you are finished with the tutorial, you will have new cannon, elixir collector, elixir storage, builder’s hut, and barracks with trained troops. Try to keep your town hall in the center of your town to keep it more secure. A marker will show the center of the base. The tutorial will offer you some basic information to get started.

Buildings and Traps: This section is under the tab that has an icon that resembles a saw and hammer. This is where you will purchase most of your items from. Tap the Army tab to purchase offensive buildings, such as Barracks, and Army camps. The Resources tab is where you purchase resource-specific buildings, such as Gold Mines, and Elixir collectors. The Defenses tab is where you purchase defensive buildings, such as walls, cannons, and archer towers. The Traps tab is where you purchase traps you can put in your town. Decorations: The Decorations tab has an icon that resembles a sword in a stone. This is where you can purchase decorative buildings for your town. This includes statues, torches, and flags. Treasures: This is the tab that has an icon that resembles an elixir bulb, gem, and stack of gold. This is where you can purchase gems using real money. You can then use the gems your purchase to buy more gold or elixir. Shield: This is the tab that has an icon that resembles a shield with arrows sticking out of it. This is where you can buy shields to protect your town for a certain amount of time. League shop: This has a tab with a league metal on it. You can earn league medals by competing in Clan War Leagues. You can use the league medals you earn to purchase items in the League Shop. [1] X Research source

To purchase items from the shop, open the shop and then tap the item you want to purchase. Tap where you want to place it on the map. To move buildings and items on your map, tap the object you want to move. Then tap and drag it to a new location.

Use your gems to build builder’s huts. It is tempting to use them all right away, but you will need your gems later. The most efficient way to spend gems is to invest in three more builder’s huts. This enables you to upgrade multiple towers and other defenses at once. In the tutorial, you are given 5 wizards to destroy the base. Only two wizards are needed to defeat the 1st goblin base. So if you only use two, you will have the other 3 in your army camp already. However, the wizards may be taken away from you without notice after the tutorial is complete. Don’t upgrade the second gold or elixir storage at first. You will need them at level one to upgrade to Town Hall level 4, but that doesn’t mean you need them upgraded further.

There are other ways of getting gems than spending money, so if you don’t want to spend your money, don’t worry. You can get gems when you remove trees and obstacles from the area around your base.

At Town Hall 14 and higher, stop placing them in the corners and instead treat your Builder Huts as defensive buildings, as they can be upgraded to defend your base.

Tap the orange icon that says Attack in the lower-right corner. Tap Singleplayer or Multiplayer. On Singleplayer, tap one of the circles on the map to launch an attack. For multiplayer, tap Find a match. Multiplayer matches cost 50 or more gold depending on the current Town Hall level.

Tap and hold to deploy multiple troops at once.

After a successful attack, you will bring back more gold and elixir, which you can then spend. If you are losing an attack, there is no shame in just surrendering. You can always train more troops later. Know when to quit. If you quit before deploying all troops the remaining troops will still be usable in the next battle. When you attack storages and resource collectors, the resources will go into your bank account immediately. Even if your troops are killed during the attack, the resources remain in your account. You get even more treasure/bonuses if you destroy the opponent’s base or town hall which gets you one-star meaning victory.

You can also build a spell factory after Town Hall 5. This can create many spells that add different advantages to your attacks.