What is the best TH16 base layout?

The strongest Town Hall 16 layout depends on your goal: an anti-3-star war base keeps the Town Hall and key defenses in separate walled compartments; a farming base buries storages instead; a hybrid base balances both. Explore each TH16 layout interactively above to see what it's weak to.

What do you unlock at Town Hall 16?

Town Hall 16 unlocks Multi-Archer Tower, Ricochet Cannon, plus extra copies of existing buildings and new upgrade levels — the full list is in the "What changes at Town Hall 16" table.

What armies attack TH16 in the current meta?

The most common TH16 attacks right now are RC Charge Mass Dragons, Fireball Ruin Witch, Jetpack Dragon Riders (Duke Charge). Build your base against these — full compositions are on the TH16 attack strategies page.

All base layouts

Base layouts

Best Town Hall 16 base layouts

6 fully interactive TH16 layouts — inspect every building, toggle defense ranges, see what each base is weak to, then customize it in the builder.

TH16 unlocks & max levels TH16 attack strategies

13 bases — interactive layouts open in the viewer, copy links open in your game

“Stronghold 16”

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An anti-3-star war layout for Town Hall 16: the Town Hall and Clan Castle sit in the walled core, key defenses are split across compartments so one spell package can't clear them, and Air Defenses are spread into separate quadrants against zap-quake.

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Customize in base builder Hover to identify · click to inspect

Design score 86/100

16 compartments · Town Hall walled in · 59/59 defenses placed

Ground coverage100%

Air coverage100%

Near-total air coverage over the base footprint.
Splash damage is distributed across the layout.
16 walled compartments break up ground pathing.
Deep, central Town Hall — expensive to reach.

Watch out for

Zap-quake (Lightning + Earthquake). Two Air Defenses sit 7 tiles apart — close enough for one spell package to take both.
Spell value (Freeze / Lightning stacks). 6 pairs of key defenses sit inside a single spell radius.

Scored by the Clashest base analyzer — geometry heuristics (coverage, spacing, compartments) computed from official building data, not battle statistics.

TH16 farming base #1

TH16 trophy base #2

TH16 trophy base #3

TH16 trophy base #4

TH16 war base #5

TH16 war base #6

TH16 war base #7

Copy links open Clash of Clans on your device with the layout ready to place — they're created and shared by their designers in game, so there's no preview here until you open them.

What changes at Town Hall 16

Straight from the game data — the buildings you unlock, the extra copies you get, and where your level caps move when you reach TH16.

New unlocks

Multi-Archer Tower×2

Ricochet Cannon×2

Extra copies

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TH16 max building levels

Building	Count	Max level at TH16	Change
Army Camp	×4	12	—
Barracks	×1	18	17 → 18
Blacksmith	×1	9	8 → 9
Clan Castle	×1	12	11 → 12
Dark Barracks	×1	12	—
Dark Spell Factory	×1	7	—
Helper Hut	×1	1	—
Hero Hall	×1	10	9 → 10
Laboratory	×1	14	13 → 14
Pet House	×1	10	8 → 10
Spell Factory	×1	9	8 → 9
Workshop	×1	8	7 → 8
Air Defense	×4	14	13 → 14
Air Sweeper	×2	7	—
Archer Tower	×8	21	—
Bomb Tower	×2	11	10 → 11
Builder's Hut	×5	6	5 → 6
Cannon	×7	21	—
Eagle Artillery	×1	7	6 → 7
Hidden Tesla	×5	15	14 → 15
Inferno Tower	×3	10	9 → 10
Monolith	×1	3	2 → 3
Mortar	×4	16	15 → 16
Multi-Archer Tower	×2	2	new
Ricochet Cannon	×2	2	new
Scattershot	×2	5	4 → 5
Spell Tower	×2	3	—
Wizard Tower	×5	16	15 → 16
X-Bow	×4	11	10 → 11
Dark Elixir Drill	×3	11	10 → 11
Dark Elixir Storage	×1	11	10 → 11
Elixir Collector	×7	17	16 → 17
Elixir Storage	×4	17	16 → 17
Gold Mine	×7	17	16 → 17
Gold Storage	×4	17	16 → 17
Air Bomb	×7	11	10 → 11
Bomb	×8	12	11 → 12
Giant Bomb	×7	10	9 → 10
Seeking Air Mine	×8	6	5 → 6
Skeleton Trap	×4	4	—
Spring Trap	×9	11	10 → 11
Tornado Trap	×1	3	—

31 buildings gain new levels at TH16. Source: official game data (footprints, counts and level caps), regenerated each game update.

Base design at TH16: what matters

War Base

War

Deny the enemy all three stars.

Centralise the Town Hall — a core TH forces the attacker to break every ring of walls to reach it.
Spread your splash defenses (Wizard Towers, Bomb Towers, Multi-Archer) so one Freeze or Rage can't neutralise the whole core.
Compartmentalise walls into many small cells to slow Wall Breakers and stop Root Riders / Hog Rider pathing.

Farming Base

Farming

Protect your storages and Dark Elixir.

Centre the Dark Elixir storage — it's the slowest resource to farm and the one raiders want most.
Distribute Gold and Elixir storages into separate compartments so a single push can't reach them all.
An exposed or edge Town Hall can trade a shield-granting star for saved loot while you're offline.

Hybrid / Trophy Base

Hybrid

Balance loot protection with trophy defense.

Keep the Town Hall central-ish so defenders lose trophies to give it up.
Ring key defenses around a protected storage + TH core.
Balance compartments so neither loot nor the TH is trivially exposed.

Armies that attack TH16

The current meta attack strategies at Town Hall 16 — build your base against these, or take them to war yourself.

RC Charge Mass Dragons

Easy

War / 3-star · #1 at TH16

Blueprint's current #1 at TH16: merged defenses mean fewer, bigger threats, and the Champion snipes exactly those. Rated Easy at this hall because max-level Dragons simply outlast what's left after the charge.

Fireball Ruin Witch

Medium

War / 3-star · #2 at TH16

The new post-Anime-Fury archetype: Ruin Witches convert destruction into fresh bodies, so a Fireball opening literally powers the army. The more the attack destroys, the harder it snowballs — a genuinely new smash rhythm at TH16.

Jetpack Dragon Riders (Duke Charge)

Medium

War / 3-star · #3 at TH16

The Rocket Backpack turns the Duke into a base-length opening move, doing a Queen Charge's job in five seconds. Dragon Riders' defense-first pathing then keeps the whole army on target.

Root Rider Spam

Easy

War / 3-star · #4 at TH16

Root Riders walk through TH16's walls while Overgrowth switches off the defenses that punish spam. The lowest-skill legitimate three-star army at this hall — deploy wide, rage, watch.

All base layouts

Base layouts

Best Town Hall 16 base layouts

6 fully interactive TH16 layouts — inspect every building, toggle defense ranges, see what each base is weak to, then customize it in the builder.

TH16 unlocks & max levels TH16 attack strategies

13 bases — interactive layouts open in the viewer, copy links open in your game

“Stronghold 16”

Waranti-3-starwarcwl

100%

Customize in base builder Hover to identify · click to inspect

Design score 86/100

16 compartments · Town Hall walled in · 59/59 defenses placed

Ground coverage100%

Air coverage100%

Near-total air coverage over the base footprint.
Splash damage is distributed across the layout.
16 walled compartments break up ground pathing.
Deep, central Town Hall — expensive to reach.

Watch out for

Zap-quake (Lightning + Earthquake). Two Air Defenses sit 7 tiles apart — close enough for one spell package to take both.
Spell value (Freeze / Lightning stacks). 6 pairs of key defenses sit inside a single spell radius.

Scored by the Clashest base analyzer — geometry heuristics (coverage, spacing, compartments) computed from official building data, not battle statistics.

TH16 farming base #1

TH16 trophy base #2

TH16 trophy base #3

TH16 trophy base #4

TH16 war base #5

TH16 war base #6

TH16 war base #7

Copy links open Clash of Clans on your device with the layout ready to place — they're created and shared by their designers in game, so there's no preview here until you open them.

What changes at Town Hall 16

Straight from the game data — the buildings you unlock, the extra copies you get, and where your level caps move when you reach TH16.

New unlocks

Multi-Archer Tower×2

Ricochet Cannon×2

Extra copies

Walls325

TH16 max building levels

Building	Count	Max level at TH16	Change
Army Camp	×4	12	—
Barracks	×1	18	17 → 18
Blacksmith	×1	9	8 → 9
Clan Castle	×1	12	11 → 12
Dark Barracks	×1	12	—
Dark Spell Factory	×1	7	—
Helper Hut	×1	1	—
Hero Hall	×1	10	9 → 10
Laboratory	×1	14	13 → 14
Pet House	×1	10	8 → 10
Spell Factory	×1	9	8 → 9
Workshop	×1	8	7 → 8
Air Defense	×4	14	13 → 14
Air Sweeper	×2	7	—
Archer Tower	×8	21	—
Bomb Tower	×2	11	10 → 11
Builder's Hut	×5	6	5 → 6
Cannon	×7	21	—
Eagle Artillery	×1	7	6 → 7
Hidden Tesla	×5	15	14 → 15
Inferno Tower	×3	10	9 → 10
Monolith	×1	3	2 → 3
Mortar	×4	16	15 → 16
Multi-Archer Tower	×2	2	new
Ricochet Cannon	×2	2	new
Scattershot	×2	5	4 → 5
Spell Tower	×2	3	—
Wizard Tower	×5	16	15 → 16
X-Bow	×4	11	10 → 11
Dark Elixir Drill	×3	11	10 → 11
Dark Elixir Storage	×1	11	10 → 11
Elixir Collector	×7	17	16 → 17
Elixir Storage	×4	17	16 → 17
Gold Mine	×7	17	16 → 17
Gold Storage	×4	17	16 → 17
Air Bomb	×7	11	10 → 11
Bomb	×8	12	11 → 12
Giant Bomb	×7	10	9 → 10
Seeking Air Mine	×8	6	5 → 6
Skeleton Trap	×4	4	—
Spring Trap	×9	11	10 → 11
Tornado Trap	×1	3	—

31 buildings gain new levels at TH16. Source: official game data (footprints, counts and level caps), regenerated each game update.

Base design at TH16: what matters

War Base

War

Deny the enemy all three stars.

Centralise the Town Hall — a core TH forces the attacker to break every ring of walls to reach it.
Spread your splash defenses (Wizard Towers, Bomb Towers, Multi-Archer) so one Freeze or Rage can't neutralise the whole core.
Compartmentalise walls into many small cells to slow Wall Breakers and stop Root Riders / Hog Rider pathing.

Farming Base

Farming

Protect your storages and Dark Elixir.

Centre the Dark Elixir storage — it's the slowest resource to farm and the one raiders want most.
Distribute Gold and Elixir storages into separate compartments so a single push can't reach them all.
An exposed or edge Town Hall can trade a shield-granting star for saved loot while you're offline.

Hybrid / Trophy Base

Hybrid

Balance loot protection with trophy defense.

Keep the Town Hall central-ish so defenders lose trophies to give it up.
Ring key defenses around a protected storage + TH core.
Balance compartments so neither loot nor the TH is trivially exposed.

Armies that attack TH16

The current meta attack strategies at Town Hall 16 — build your base against these, or take them to war yourself.

RC Charge Mass Dragons

Easy

War / 3-star · #1 at TH16

Fireball Ruin Witch

Medium

War / 3-star · #2 at TH16

Jetpack Dragon Riders (Duke Charge)

Medium

War / 3-star · #3 at TH16

The Rocket Backpack turns the Duke into a base-length opening move, doing a Queen Charge's job in five seconds. Dragon Riders' defense-first pathing then keeps the whole army on target.

Root Rider Spam

Easy

War / 3-star · #4 at TH16

Root Riders walk through TH16's walls while Overgrowth switches off the defenses that punish spam. The lowest-skill legitimate three-star army at this hall — deploy wide, rage, watch.