What is the best TH4 base layout?

The strongest Town Hall 4 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 TH4 layout interactively above to see what it's weak to.

What do you unlock at Town Hall 4?

Town Hall 4 unlocks Air Defense, Spring Trap, plus extra copies of existing buildings and new upgrade levels — the full list is in the "What changes at Town Hall 4" table.

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Best Town Hall 4 base layouts

12 interactive TH4 layouts, with defense ranges and what each one is weak to.

TH4 unlocks & max levels Attacking TH4

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

“Citadel 4”

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An anti-3-star war layout for Town Hall 4: 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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Design score 86/100

4 compartments · Town Hall walled in · 11/11 defenses placed

Ground coverage100%

Air coverage100%

Scored by the Clashest base analyzer on geometry — coverage, spacing and compartments.

What changes at Town Hall 4

New unlocks

Air DefenseSpring Trap×2

Extra copies

Archer Tower+1 → 2Elixir Collector+1 → 4Gold Mine+1 → 4

Walls+25 → 75

TH4 max building levels

Building	Count	Max level at TH4	Change
Army Camp	×2	4	3 → 4
Barracks	×1	6	5 → 6
Clan Castle	×1	2	1 → 2
Laboratory	×1	2	1 → 2
Air Defense	×1	2	new
Archer Tower	×2	4	3 → 4
Builder's Hut	×5	1	—
Cannon	×2	5	4 → 5
Mortar	×1	2	1 → 2
Elixir Collector	×4	8	6 → 8
Elixir Storage	×2	8	6 → 8
Gold Mine	×4	8	6 → 8
Gold Storage	×2	8	6 → 8
Bomb	×2	2	—
Spring Trap	×2	1	new

12 buildings gain new levels at TH4.

Base design at TH4: 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 TH4

Attacks at Town Hall 4 are mostly mass single-troop pushes rather than a settled meta, so the layouts above are built around spreading defenses instead of countering named armies.

Ranked army breakdowns start at Town Hall 8, once dark troops, sieges and the full spell roster make attack composition a real choice. See the TH8 armies or browse all armies.