- Dragon Duke event challenges you to free a new hero
- Gold Pass redesigned with Choice Nodes and new Hoggy Bank
- Town Hall 18 gets upgrades and Greedy Raven’s pet benefit
When I played Clash of Clans, Town Hall 9 looked like a rooftop. That was a big milestone, the point where your village finally looked complete. Fast forward a few years, we’re sitting in Town Hall 18, which still feels a little surreal. And now, this latest February update builds on that high-level progression with a Gold Pass rework, new upgrades, a fresh pet, and even a hero who has yet to escape his prison.
The biggest topic of discussion at the moment is Dragon Duke. However, he is not immediately playable; Instead, the community will have to work through a dungeon-style maze between February 24 and March 1 to get him out.
Elsewhere, Gold Pass has been rebuilt from the ground up. The layout is clean, the rewards seem easy to track, and the new Choice Nodes let you choose what really suits your village rather than blindly working your way through a certain track.
The old Season Bank has also been replaced with something called the Hoggy Bank, which starts out full and pays out at the end of the season, while the new Prospector Helper quietly converts ores every day if you’ve reached Town Hall 10 or higher.
Town Hall 18 players probably have the most selection to make. A wave of level upgrades to defenses, troops, and spells have arrived, along with the Greedy Raven – a new flying pet that targets resource buildings as if it holds a personal vendetta against your opponent’s loot stash.
Ranked mode has also seen some cleanup, primarily focused on making battles more consistent and reducing the possibility of weird edge cases.
And if all this village-building puts you in the mood for more strategic planning, you might want to check out our list of the best tower defense games on Android for something similar!