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Traps upgrade costs and times

Data current as of Jul 10, 2026Updated Oct 4, 2026

Traps are cheap, quick to upgrade and disproportionately effective, and they are still the most neglected category on most accounts. Because they are invisible until they fire, a Giant Bomb or Seeking Air Mine at the right level decides more attacks than its price suggests, and it punishes the players who scout you, attack, and come back the next day expecting the same result.

This page lists every trap in the catalogue with the gold cost, upgrade time and Town Hall requirement of each level, and the TH Cap for each Town Hall. A new trap is placed at level 1 instantly, so the first row of most tables shows no build time; later levels take a builder like anything else. All traps are paid in gold, which means they compete with defenses for the same storage, not with your army.

Use the Town Hall filter to see only what you can build right now. The totals strip then tells you how much builder time maxing every trap at that Town Hall takes, both from scratch and from where the previous Town Hall left you. That second number is the honest one for a fresh upgrade, and it is usually small enough to fit around your defenses.

What to upgrade first

Giant Bombs and Seeking Air Mines. Giant Bombs break Hog Rider and Miner pushes; Seeking Air Mines take out Lava Hounds, Balloons and healers. These two do the most work per level.
New traps the day they unlock. The Tornado Trap at TH11 and the Giga Bomb at TH17 change how an attack plays out, and a level 1 version is a much smaller surprise.
Bombs, Air Bombs and Spring Traps in idle moments. They are cheap and short, so they are good filler when a builder frees up just before you log off.
Skeleton Traps last. They distract rather than kill, so their levels matter least.

Max-out Cost at Town Hall 18

Showing every level (TH18 is the current max)

Maxing all traps at Town Hall 18 from level 0 takes 876 builder-days and 1,891,073,200 gold.

From level 0

876builder-days(2y 4mo)

1,891,073,200Gold

From the TH17 cap

473builder-days(1y 3mo)

798,449,000Gold

Builder-days are the summed upgrade time of every copy for one builder; divide by your builder count for a calendar estimate. No boosts, gems or helpers. “From the previous cap” assumes everything was at the TH17 TH Cap before you upgraded. Full Max-out Cost calculator

Every trap

Bomb

Unlocks at TH3 · TH18 Cap: level 14 · 8 at TH18 · max level 14

Bomb: TH Cap and count at each Town Hall
Town Hall	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
TH Cap	2	2	3	3	4	5	6	7	8	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Count	2	2	4	4	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	8	8	8	8	8

Bomb: cost and time per level, levels 1–14
Level	Cost	Time	Town Hall
1	400Gold	Instant	TH3
2	1,000Gold	1m	TH3
3	10,000Gold	5m	TH5
4	40,000Gold	40m	TH7
5	100,000Gold	1h	TH8
6	230,000Gold	2h	TH9
7	330,000Gold	3h	TH10
8	500,000Gold	4h	TH11
9	750,000Gold	6h	TH13
10	1,300,000Gold	12h	TH14
11	2,500,000Gold	18h	TH15
12	4,000,000Gold	1d	TH16
13	8,500,000Gold	2d	TH17
14	14,000,000Gold	8d	TH18

Spring Trap

Unlocks at TH4 · TH18 Cap: level 13 · 9 at TH18 · max level 13

Spring Trap: TH Cap and count at each Town Hall
Town Hall	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
TH Cap	1	1	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Count	2	2	4	4	6	6	6	6	8	9	9	9	9	9	9

Spring Trap: cost and time per level, levels 1–13
Level	Cost	Time	Town Hall
1	2,000Gold	Instant	TH4
2	130,000Gold	1h	TH7
3	240,000Gold	2h	TH8
4	350,000Gold	3h	TH9
5	800,000Gold	4h	TH10
6	1,000,000Gold	6h	TH11
7	1,700,000Gold	8h	TH12
8	2,000,000Gold	12h	TH13
9	3,000,000Gold	18h	TH14
10	4,000,000Gold	1d	TH15
11	6,000,000Gold	2d	TH16
12	13,000,000Gold	3d	TH17
13	16,000,000Gold	11d	TH18

Air Bomb

Unlocks at TH5 · TH18 Cap: level 13 · 8 at TH18 · max level 13

Air Bomb: TH Cap and count at each Town Hall
Town Hall	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
TH Cap	2	2	3	3	4	4	5	6	8	9	10	11	12	13
Count	2	2	2	4	4	5	5	6	6	7	7	7	7	8

Air Bomb: cost and time per level, levels 1–13
Level	Cost	Time	Town Hall
1	4,000Gold	Instant	TH5
2	20,000Gold	30m	TH5
3	75,000Gold	1h	TH7
4	300,000Gold	4h	TH9
5	550,000Gold	8h	TH11
6	800,000Gold	12h	TH12
7	1,000,000Gold	14h	TH13
8	1,200,000Gold	16h	TH13
9	2,000,000Gold	1d	TH14
10	3,000,000Gold	1d 12h	TH15
11	5,000,000Gold	2d	TH16
12	9,500,000Gold	3d	TH17
13	15,000,000Gold	9d	TH18

Giant Bomb

Unlocks at TH6 · TH18 Cap: level 12 · 8 at TH18 · max level 12

Giant Bomb: TH Cap and count at each Town Hall
Town Hall	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
TH Cap	2	2	3	3	4	5	5	7	8	9	10	11	12
Count	1	2	3	4	5	5	6	6	7	7	7	8	8

Giant Bomb: cost and time per level, levels 1–12
Level	Cost	Time	Town Hall
1	12,500Gold	Instant	TH6
2	75,000Gold	1h	TH6
3	220,000Gold	3h	TH8
4	750,000Gold	4h	TH10
5	900,000Gold	10h	TH11
6	1,300,000Gold	11h	TH13
7	1,500,000Gold	12h	TH13
8	2,000,000Gold	1d	TH14
9	3,200,000Gold	2d	TH15
10	5,500,000Gold	2d 12h	TH16
11	10,000,000Gold	4d	TH17
12	17,000,000Gold	10d 12h	TH18

Seeking Air Mine

Unlocks at TH7 · TH18 Cap: level 8 · 9 at TH18 · max level 8

Seeking Air Mine: TH Cap and count at each Town Hall
Town Hall	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
TH Cap	1	1	2	3	3	3	4	4	5	6	7	8
Count	1	2	4	5	5	6	7	8	8	8	9	9

Seeking Air Mine: cost and time per level, levels 1–8
Level	Cost	Time	Town Hall
1	12,000Gold	Instant	TH7
2	600,000Gold	6h	TH9
3	1,200,000Gold	1d	TH10
4	2,500,000Gold	1d 12h	TH13
5	5,000,000Gold	2d	TH15
6	6,500,000Gold	3d	TH16
7	12,000,000Gold	5d	TH17
8	19,000,000Gold	11d 12h	TH18

Skeleton Trap

Unlocks at TH8 · TH18 Cap: level 5 · 4 at TH18 · max level 5

Skeleton Trap: TH Cap and count at each Town Hall
Town Hall	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
TH Cap	2	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5
Count	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4

Skeleton Trap: cost and time per level, levels 1–5
Level	Cost	Time	Town Hall
1	6,000Gold	Instant	TH8
2	250,000Gold	5h	TH8
3	400,000Gold	8h	TH9
4	1,000,000Gold	12h	TH10
5	18,000,000Gold	7d	TH18

Tornado Trap

Unlocks at TH11 · TH18 Cap: level 3 · 1 at TH18 · max level 3

Tornado Trap: TH Cap and count at each Town Hall
Town Hall	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
TH Cap	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Count	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Tornado Trap: cost and time per level, levels 1–3
Level	Cost	Time	Town Hall
1	1,800,000Gold	Instant	TH11
2	2,000,000Gold	1d	TH11
3	2,500,000Gold	2d	TH12

Giga Bomb

Unlocks at TH17 · TH18 Cap: level 4 · 1 at TH18 · max level 4

Giga Bomb: TH Cap and count at each Town Hall
Town Hall	17	18
TH Cap	3	4
Count	1	1

Giga Bomb: cost and time per level, levels 1–4
Level	Cost	Time	Town Hall
1	4,500,000Gold	Instant	TH17
2	8,500,000Gold	4d	TH17
3	12,500,000Gold	5d	TH17
4	20,000,000Gold	13d	TH18

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