This is the new version of the old Crux base from Ash which was introduced to you on CoCland couples of months ago. This version with the second Air Sweeper and plenty of new improvements, which has been tested by a large number of testers for weeks, bring to all your resources the flawless protection!
There are 2 version of this layout: One for Town Hall 9 and the another one is for Town Hall 10.
Crux Town Hall 9 Farming Layout
Crux Town Hall 10 Farming Layout
The Crux’s Features
Solid Core
The core of the Crus is surrounded by all high HP storages, which work as the big wall for point defensive buildings inside. Skeleton traps are placed deep inside and cannot be activated If the enemy troops don’t break inside the core.
Balanced Storage Protection
- All Storages are located in different compartments. It is pretty hard for the attackers to raid them all.
- Centralized Dark Elixir Storage is heavily protected by plenty of point defensive buildings as well as splash damage defense and high HP storages.
- Defenses in the core give the storage outside a perfect protection. The enemy troops will be hurt badly while they are working on those high HP Storages.
- Giant Bombs are placed between storages for much more protection.
Anti-Giant
Giants are pretty cheap and very effective for farming. All decent farming layouts need to have this anti-giant feature.
Blue and red lines in the screenshot above show you the directions of funneled Giants. They will go around the base and will be either flown off by Spring Traps or hit till death by defenses nearby. Well-placed Spring Traps can catch up to couples of Hog Riders and Giants at a time when they are traveling around the base.
Teslas work perfectly at inner compartments, can’t attract and break the Giants funneling.
Anti-Hog Riders
Although this base is not the best layout to stop mass Hog Rider attacks but it can make them hip jump around the base easily which is similar to anti-Giant feature above but also redirect them to the Teslas inside, which are protected by Double Giant Bombs. Bang! Say good bye to Hog Riders!
Anti-Lavaloon
As you can see in the screenshot above:
- All Wizard Towers are out of the Air Defenses‘ range so they will not be attracted by Lava Hounds.
- 2 Seeking Air Mines at the top and bottom can take down a Lava Hound within seconds. Most attackers think these two Air Defenses are a bit exposed and attack from these sides.
- Well-placed Air Bombs cannot be activated by Lava Hounds.
- Asymmetrical Air Defense placements increase the difficulty of all air attacks.
- An Air Sweeper can always protect the core If the another one gets taken down.
- Core Air Defenses are protected my plenty of defenses.
Anti-Wall-Breakers
I always love bases which have this awesome feature. T-Junctions of this base can trick all Wall Breakers when the attackers are trying break inside the core. Moreover, these Junctions are always protected by Wizard Towers and Teslas.
Defense Logs
Here are couples of replays of this bases against some decent attacks so you can see how it works clearly:
If you are facing Barch, Heroes and ground attacks more than air attacks, you can try to use this version 2.0 for Town Hall 9.
Don’t know what do you think about this base layout but I love it. Gonna use it for the trip to Master I from Gold of my TH9 village!
Hmm – where should I put the 2nd Airsweeper in the TH10 Layout?
You can place it between the Cannon and Archer Tower at the bottom!
Ah, I see. Thx, good idea.
Okay, please share If you find any good place to put it 😀
Hy will.. Soon I am moving ahead fr town hall 8.. Can u suggest me best base design fr early th8?? Plz reply.. Thnx..
I think you will like this one: http://cocland.com/base-designs/golden-planet-early-mid-town-hall-8-farming-base
Thnx alot will.. Ill sure give it a try..
Good luck at TH8 buddy!
Thnx again will.. Very excited abt it.. Bt still yet to finish elixir collectors n mines.. N bcoz of the event 1 gen.. It might take more tym to upgrade then..
is best
I keep getting rocked no matter what… Not sure if it’s bc I’m fairly new at TH9 or the amount of loot I usually have for upgrades is too tempting but I’ve had a difficult time finding a decent farming layout.
I have been testing this base and everything cant be better. Can I know your league please?
I was using this one and everything was very nice: http://cocland.com/base-designs/the-cogwheel-high-de-protection-farming-base-for-th8-9
You should also try it!
I pretty much hang in Silver I, every once in a while I’ll drop to Silver II but not for long.
Also, I was upgrading my second X-Bow so that might have played into how desirable it was to TH snipe my base…
@windmm:disqus Which base layout will you recommend the most when starting in TH 9: This crux layout or the Cogwheel layout? :-). I have to mention i raid a lot, and currently i’m TH 8 in Masters league 2, which i intend to stay in :).
You can use the Cogwheel when you are at early TH9 and this one from mid buddy!
Wow, I rarely see a TH8 in Master II. You are doing it great!
Cool! i’ll use both these setups for sure! thanks for the guide and your reply! :D.
Last question: will this crux layout stay as usefull as from mid th 9 to max th 9? 🙂
– Naa i don’t see many neither! had to learn GoWiPe to get here:p haha
Hi Jan.
Yep. It works prodigiously. I have been using it for couples of weeks!
Great base, but could you please put up some bases for those at mid TH 9 annd don’t have maxed defences and walls as yet. Most of these bases are great, but require stronger defences and walls to work really efficiently. (Android)
Keep up the great work!
I think this base can also work pretty well with mid TH9. There are also some awesome bases for TH9 at the Base Designs section.
Gonna update a new one soon!
Okay,Thanks very much. I am a TH9 player with what you can call ‘rushed’ walls, (i.e Level 6 and 7), however, I do have pretty strong defences including level 3 x-bows. It would be helpful if one of the authors can post a guide to upgrading walls quick and efficiently. Thanks for the reply! (Android)
Hey you don’t need to comment Android here. Just in the Giveaway page is enough, thank you.
Basically upgrading walls is just farming and Attackers need 2 WBs to break walls level 6-8 so I think that is not a big deal.
Hope this guide can help you: http://cocland.com/strategies/farm-3m-loothour-without-spending-gems
Thanks for the reply, I do find that having higher level walls does help for both defensive and looting purposes. I do randomly get attacked with maxed troops, and I am sitting in Gold II, so for those types of cases I do think high level walls are necessary.
Yep or course they are always useful for slowing down the enemies but IMO I meant you were right, defenses are much more important!
I really like the layout of this base and its features. Is there a different version of this for TH 8 players like me? 🙂
Due to the number of walls I think not, but there are a lot of awesome bases for TH8 out there!
I’ma try this base later; I’m mid TH9. Will give you defense logs. 🙂
Waiting for your great results buddy!
On the TH 10 set up there are no double giant bombs, will this still stop mass hog attacks?
Hog is the weakness of this base but truly I don’t face many Hog attacks, just 1-5 times every month so I think everything will be ok.
I tried it, but unfortunately a guy quite a bit weaker than me just dropped 4 earth quake spells between the gold and elixir storage and then had a straight shot with level 10 arch queen and healers to the DE.
Most bases now are very weak against Earthquake Spells. Luckily we don’t face them much below Champion, We can get 3 stars from all bases, that’s for sure. But the point is how much loot they can save for you!
This was bronze, lol. I found there is much better looting way down low. The earthquake spell is a bit overpowering, I 3 starred a guy in clan war this week that was level 10-11 walls, maxed x-bows, lvl 2 infernos, maxed mortars.
That’s awesome buddy!
And yeah, but I usually just face normal spells below Champion 😀
Hi I’m a new th9 player so I just recently created new WT and archer tower plus air defense all three of them are still level 1 and I obviously don’t have xbows yet nor the second air sweeper (sorry I’m suck lol ) will this base still work for me? BTW my new walls are lv 6 right now just to let you know
Hi Abbas.
This base will not work properly for you because the X-Bows are the main damage in this base layout.
I think you should use TH8 base and modify it a bit.
ah. I see… thnk you buddy 🙂
well well when i build my xbows I need to put them on ground and air mode right? ah another question is it ok to put the heros sleep or they are important to this layout?
They are always important Abbas. But you can leave them sleep If you want to use them for farming anytime!
This base is a beast!
I’ve been using this base for a few months now and it’s been working great for me. Thanks for this awesome base!
If you’re not convinced by how great this base is, i posted a screenshot of a TH10 unable to even get a star with maxed out troops.
Thanks for your amazing defense logs Tyler. Just want to say Thank you again!
Why don’t put the Gold Mines and Elixir Collectors closer, so that you can protect them?
That will prevent the attacker from having enough space for deploying troops. I usually collect them so I don’t want to protect them much!
Awesome!!
Can you make 1 for the war base?
The purpose of this base is protecting your loot against popular farming strategies. I don’t think we can use it for Clan Wars.
You can try another great one on cocland buddy!