Clash of Clans April 2021 Update

Hritwik Raj

Published: Apr 14, 2021 09:42 am

Clash of Clans April 2021 update that released on the 12th of this month has brought a plethora of new changes to the game. There are several new content additions including, new Town Hall level, troops level, defence level, traps, pets, brand new battle builders and much more. Clash of Clans April update also features a plentitude of quality of life changes. There are so many changes the game has gone through, that discussing it with our own summarized words will not do justice.

Clash of Clans April 2021 Update Official Patch Notes

Here are the official patch notes for the Clash of Clans April 2021 update.

Disclaimer – We haven’t changed any value or terms in the below patch notes. Everything new feature and addition are official. We have mentioned only the major changes and additions that the Clash of Clans April 2021 update has brought. To know about the miscellaneous changes, check out the official post.

TOWN HALL 14

Town Hall 14 Giga Inferno

Town Hall 14 will still have a Giga Inferno that can be upgraded 5 levels. However, when the Town Hall is destroyed, it’ll now drop a Poison Bomb that deals damage, slows enemy attacks and movement speed.

Upgrading to Town Hall 14 unlocks:

25x new Wall pieces
1x Air Bomb
1x Seeking Air Mine
1x Skeleton Trap
1x Bomb
1x Giant Bomb
1x Pet House

New Levels Of Defenses, Buildings and Traps:

Level 4 Builder’s Hut
Level 12 Laboratory
Level 10 Clan Castle
Level 15 Gold Storage
Level 15 Elixir Storage
Level 9 Dark Elixir Storage
Level 20 Cannon
Level 13 Hidden Tesla
Level 9 Bomb Tower
Level 8 Inferno Tower
Level 5 Eagle Artillery
Level 3 Scattershot
Level 10 Bomb
Level 15 Wall

New Hero Levels

Barbarian King Level 80 → Iron Fist Level 16
Archer Queen Level 80 → Royal Cloak Level 16
Grand Warden Level 55 → Eternal Tome + Life Aura Level 11
Royal Champion Level 30 → Seeking Shield Level 6

New Troop Levels

Level 10 Barbarian (Super Barbarian level 10)
Level 10 Archer (Super Archer level 10)
Level 10 Wall Breaker (Super Wall Breaker level 10)
Level 7 Healer
Level 8 Baby Dragon (Inferno Dragon level 8)
Level 10 Minion (Super Minion level 10)
Level 9 Valkyrie (Super Valkyrie level 9)
Level 6 Ice Golem

New Spell Levels

Level 7 Clone
Level 8 Poison

Town Hall 14 Specific Changes

Attack and nexting cost increased from 1200 to 1300
Gold/Elixir Storage loot cap increased from 550k to 600k
DE Storage loot cap increased from 4.5k to 5k
Max gold/elixir loot in war increased from 130k to 140k
Max DE loot in war increased from 700 to 750
Max gold loot in legend league increased from 500k to 550k
Max gold/elixir in loot cart increased from 2.6M to 2.8M
Max DE in loot cart increased from 5.2k to 5.6k
Max gold/elixir in reengagement loot cart increased from 16M to 17M
Max DE in reengagement loot cart increased from 160k to 170k
Max gold/elixir in Treasury increased from 4M to 4.4M
Max DE in Treasury increased from 20k to 22k

INTRODUCING: HERO PETS!

Hero Pets are a brand new kind of unit in Clash of Clans. When you upgrade your Village to Town Hall 14, you’ll be able to unlock a brand new building: the Pet House. The Pet House is where you can manage your Hero Pets, upgrade them, and assign them to your Heroes.

When you upgrade your Pet House, you will also gain access to a new Hero Pet at each level. Each Hero Pet has its own unique ability that will aid the Hero it’s assigned to.

Level 1 unlocks L.A.S.S.I
Level 2 unlocks Electro Owl
Level 3 unlocks Mighty Yak
Level 4 unlocks Unicorn

Each Hero can take one of any of the available Hero Pets into battle, depending on the strategy you’re using. Assigning different Hero Pets to different Heroes will allow you to create various flexible strategies around the needs of your army composition! Want to give your Barbarian King some extra ranged damage? Then bring in Electro Owl as his Hero Pet. Or perhaps you want to bring your Queen Walk to the next level, then give her Unicorn for additional healing!

Finally, Hero Pets can be upgraded using Magic Items. Just like your Heroes, they can be upgraded using Book of Heroes to complete an upgrade in process or a Hammer of Heroes to instantly give your Hero Pet a level.

So let’s take a look at what Hero Pets will be available with the Town Hall 14 update!

L.A.S.S.I

This adorable automaton pup will attack nearby targets and will even jump over Walls to bite the mailman’s leg…and in it’s eye, everything looks like the mailman’s leg.

Ability: High Jumper. LA.S.S.I can jump over Walls to attack targets on the other side.
Favorite target: Within 2.5 Tiles of Hero
Damage type: Single Target
Targets: Ground
Movement speed: 32

Electro Owl

Mysterious in appearance, this superconductive bird of prey silently glides alongside your Hero, automatically giving that Hero additional points in coolness. Who wouldn’t want a fine-feathered friend with glowing eyes perched on their shoulder? In combat, the Electro Owl shoots a ranged attack that bounces once to a nearby target.

Ability: High Voltage. Electro Owl’s attack bounces to a nearby target.
Favorite target: Hero’s Target
Damage type: Single Target
Targets: Ground & Air
Movement speed: 20

Mighty Yak

While this messy-maned monstrosity may seem less than menacing, Mighty Yak’s skull and horns are definitely not to be trifled with. Tougher than mountains, Mighty Yak uses his horns to batter a path for his Hero companion by dealing extra damage to Walls.

Ability: Wall Buster. Mighty Yak deals extra damage to Walls.
Favorite target: Within 7 Tiles of Hero
Damage type: Area Splash
Targets: Ground
Movement speed: 24

Unicorn

This pulchritudinous pointy-headed prancing pony doesn’t just act as a beacon at night for lost travelers with its glowing horn. Heroes who bask in its regenerative radiance will recover damage over time as their own personal healer!

Ability: Personal Healer. Unicorn follows and heals the Hero it is paired with.
Favorite target: Hero
Heal type: Single Target
Targets: Ground & Air
Movement speed: 16

NEW: BATTLE BUILDERS

1) Defensive Builder’s Huts!

When you upgrade to Town Hall 14, you unlock the ability to upgrade your Builder’s Huts.

After years of having his creations smashed to kindling day after day, Builder has finally decided to transform his humble abode into a tool for retaliation. That’s right! Builder Hut is no longer just extra damage percentages or that lone building in the corner causing you to get a 99% 2-Star attack when time runs out.

Once upgraded beyond Level 2, the Builder’s Hut will actively defend itself with a weaponized turret that shoots invading enemies.

Range: 6 Tiles
Damage type: Single Target
Targets: Ground & Air
Favorite target: Any

2) Builders Battle Back!

At Town Hall 14, the Builder will no longer hide inside his Builder Hut and now takes an active role in defending your Village! In order to stymie the damage being done to his architectural wonders, Builder will attempt to repair nearby Defenses during a battle.

Although the Builder himself cannot be dealt damage nor can he be targeted by attacking Troops, he CAN be targeted by offensive Spells. Poison and Freeze Spells will slow/halt him from repairing nearby buildings. Lightning Spell will cause him to reset his repair target.

Builder will cease repairing his targeted building once his own Builder Hut has been destroyed. Another thing to keep in mind is the Builder Hut is now a Defense structure and will be targeted by units that attack Defenses such as Balloons, Hog Riders, etc!

BALANCE CHANGES

Level 6 Clone Spell house space effect has been increased from 33 to 34
Super Giant HP has been reduced by 200
Super Minion DPS has been decreased by 50. HP has been increased by 100
Inferno Dragon level 2 DPS has been decreased from 80-1600 to 79-1580 and HP reduced by 50
Inferno Dragon beam cooldown time has been increased from 0.5s to 0.6s
Increase max Spell donation count by 1 for Clans of Level 4 and above
Level 8 Inferno Tower will have 6 beams while in Multi-Inferno mode

Donation Changes

Clan Castle Level	Donated Troop Laboratory Level Cap
1	5 (TH7)
2	6 (TH8)
3	7 (TH9)
4	8 (TH10 inc. Sneaky Goblin)
5	9 (TH11 inc Super Barbarian, Super Archer, and Super Wall Breaker)
6	10 (TH12 including all remaining Super Troops)
7	11 (TH13)
8	Can receive any level troops

Referencing the table above, a level 1 Clan Castle, when you receive donated troops, the level of those troops will be restricted to troop levels for a level 5 Laboratory.
Using Barbarian in the above example, the max level Barbarians a level 1 Clan Castle will receive would be level 4 when they are donated since that’s the highest level they can be upgraded to with a level 5 Laboratory.
This level cap also affects War donations as well. Higher level Troop donations will automatically have their levels reduced by the level cap. Additionally, any Troop levels gained through Clan perks will still adhere to the level cap.

STARTER CHALLENGES

Starter Challenges are a new way for players between Town Hall 2-6 to speed up their progress through a variety of Challenges similar to the Silver/Gold Pass. These new Challenges are unlocked with each Town Hall level and completing each Challenge will provide more Challenges to complete.

There are some deliciously tempting rewards that can be earned on the Starter Pass. From Rune of Gold to a Book of Building, the Starter Pass reward track has up to 5000 points for players to complete.
Once a player upgrades to Town Hall 7, all unclaimed rewards are automatically collected.

Season Challenge Changes

When claiming a resource reward if the player only has enough storage space for some of the reward they can now take whatever amount of the reward will fit and some gems. The amount of gems scales from a max 5 down to 1 based on what proportion of the resources were taken. E.g. if a player takes 20% of resources they will receive 4 gems (80% of 5).
When a Season ends any unlocked but unclaimed rewards from the Season will be automatically claimed. Any rewards unable to fit into storage will be converted to gems according to the same rules as if this was done manually.
If a player is close to maxed and cannot complete the requirements of a challenge requiring upgrading a certain number of walls or buildings, they will only have to complete as much as they can still upgrade. If they are fully maxed out and cannot eupgrade anything the challenge will be automatically completed.
New Clan Games and Gold Pass challenges for Invisibility Spell
All Season Challenges relating to Winning Battles with a Troop or Spell have had the quantity needed per battle reduced to 1 each.

RECRUITMENT TOOL IMPROVEMENTS

We’ve made a number of changes to help improve the user experience when players use the Find New Member feature.

It is now possible for players to receive invites without also being suggested in the Find New Members feature. The Invites preference in the player profile now offers 3 settings.
- Receive Invites + Be Suggested
- Receive Invites
- No Invites
Players who chose to be suggested in the Find New Members feature must confirm that they are still looking for a Clan every week to continue being suggested.
Invites to join a clan now expire after 2 weeks. This will prevent cases where someone joins a clan unexpectedly from a very old invite.
There is now an info popup in Find New Members that gives some detail on how the feature works and explains what controls clans have over the recommendations.
Clans can now set a language in their settings.

SEVERAL COST REDUCTIONS

Check them out here!

NEW ACHIEVEMENTS

We’ve added new Achievements aimed at high-level players to accomplish!

Not So Easy This Time – Destroy weaponized Town Halls in Multiplayer Battles
Siege Sharer – Donate Siege Machines (Note: Since Siege Machine donations are now counted towards this Achievement, they are no longer counted towards the Friend in Need Achievement)
Superb Work – Boost Super Troops
Bust This! – Destroy weaponized Builder Huts in Multiplayer battles

GAMEPLAY

Boosts on Heroes or Buildings are no longer cancelled when an upgrade is started and will continue to run in the background.
Practice mode levels are now only available at the same Town Hall as the level, not one earlier.
Ongoing Lab upgrade timer continues normally when Lab is upgraded and can be finished with Gems or a Book. New unit/spell upgrades still cannot be started before the Lab upgrade is completed.
Move some of the obstacles from the new Village starting layout closer to the edges so there’s larger continuous empty space for the Village.
The rewards for the first 19 Goblin Map levels after the tutorial have been increased for a better new player experience:
- Values for level 20 and beyond remain unchanged.