"The Crusher REALLY likes its personal space. This hulking stone slams ground units with a mighty wallop!"
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Summary
The Crusher is a single target splash damaging defense unlocked at Builder Hall level 3.
Every few seconds, the Crusher slams down, doing heavy damage to all ground units in its radius.
The range of the Crusher is short and thus it excels against short-range troops such as Raged Barbarians and Boxer Giants but will be outranged by long-range troops such as the Sneaky Archer.
Keeping the Crusher centered in the Builder Base helps protect it from ranged troops.
Use Push Traps to push ranged units into the Crusher.
You can make an opening in your village using Walls to lure ground troops so they can push them into the Crusher. The troops will not want to break the wall so they will go through the gap.
You can put a Guard Post near a Crusher so the Guard Post troops lure your opponent's troops into the Crusher to get crushed.
Put good, short ranged defenses, such as the Double Cannon behind the Crusher (more towards the center of the base, where your opponent's troops will have to go through the Crusher to get to it) to protect it.
Try to avoid putting Crushers by walls as they cannot crush the melee over them , allowing the ranged units more time to destroy the Crusher before it can crush the melee units.
Try to put Crushers near your Firecrackers and Air Bombs to protect them from the Skeletons of the Drop Ship, as they will not be able to destroy the Crusher easily and it will stall the Drop Ships, therefore your Firecrackers and Air Bombs to take it out.
Offensive Strategy
The Boxer Giant's Power Punch ability can destroy a Crusher if there are enough of them at once.
Use air troops to take down the Crusher if using a swarm attack. This is only for unprotected Crushers - watch out for Firecrackers, Air Bombs and the Archer in the Guard Post!
To avoid a luring technique, as explained above, use Bombers to destroy walls and create another opening into a base away from the Crusher
The Battle Machine can take out the Crusher before it does massive damage to units. However, with the help of other defenses, the battle machine will likely be at low hitpoints or taken out by the Crusher, even if the ability, Electric Hammer, is used.
You can take advantage of the Crusher's cooldown time to make it crush a few Raged Barbarian then swarming it with multiple Raged Barbarians to take it down before it has chance to crush the rest of the Raged Barbarians again. This technique requires precise timing and can ruin your attack if not executed correctly.
Upgrade Differences
At level 1, the Crusher looks like a mossy stone attached to a large screw emerging from a hole in the ground.
At level 2, the stone has wooden planks attached to its sides. The bolt at the top turns into metal one.
At level 3, the planks are replaced with ropes and the moss is gone. Some stones appear around the crushing platform.
At level 4, the ropes are replaced with metal blue bands.
At level 5, the crushing stone becomes larger, the bolt at the top of the stone becomes gold, the hole receives a golden fitting and the crushing area is now completely surrounded by stone.
At level 6, the metal bands are now gold, and the crushing stone is slightly darker.
At level 7, the metal bands disappear and the crushing stone turns black. An extra bolt also appears at the top.
At level 8, the bolt grows in size and the top of the crusher gains gold plates. The sides of the crushers gain spikes.
Trivia
The Crusher is the only defensive building (from both bases) that doesn't shoot any kind of projectiles.
Supercell were going to add a 2nd Crusher to Builder Hall level 7, but then they decided to add it at Builder Hall level 6.
On 9/29/2017, the Crusher could no longer hit over walls, even if units are within its range.
Icon Descriptions
Tapping this icon displays information about the Crusher, such as Level, Damage Per Second, Hitpoints, Range, Damage Type, Targets and Favorite Target.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Crusher, such as Level, Re-arm cost, Damage Type and Targets.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Crusher, such as Level, Damage Type and Targets.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Crusher, such as Level, Capacity, Production and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Crusher, such as Level, Capacity, Production and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Crusher, such as Level, Storage Capacity and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays the Hut's Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Crusher, such as Level, Total Troop Capacity and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays the Army Camp's Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Crusher, such as Level and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Crusher, such as Level and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Crusher, such as Level and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Crusher, such as Level, Spell Capacity and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Crusher, such as Level, Elixir Storage Capacity, Gold Storage Capacity and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Crusher, such as Level, Troop Capacity, Hitpoints and Troops inside.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Wall, such as Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Wall, such as Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Crusher, such as Level, Damage per Second, Hitpoints, Regeneration Time and Ability Level.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Crusher, such as Level, Damage per Second, Hitpoints, Regeneration Time and Ability Level.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Workshop, such as Level, Siege Machine Capacity and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon begins upgrading the Crusher to the next level, if you have enough resources and a free Builder. When the Crusher is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon instantly upgrades the Crusher to the next level, at the cost of one Hammer of Building if you have one. When the Crusher is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of the displayed number of Gems.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of one Book of Building. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Book of Building.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of one Book of Everything. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Book of Everything but do not have a Book of Building.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, boosts all your Builders for 1 hour by a factor of ten, at the cost of one Builder Potion. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Builder Potion.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, cancels the current upgrade and refunds half of the upgrade cost.
Tapping this icon, which is shown only when the Town Hall is level 12, begins upgrading the Giga Tesla to the next level, if you have enough resources and a free Builder. When the Giga Tesla is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon, which is shown only when the Town Hall is level 12, instantly upgrades the Giga Tesla to the next level, at the cost of one Hammer of Building if you have one. When the Giga Tesla is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon begins upgrading the Crusher to the next level, if you have enough resources and a free Master Builder. When the Crusher is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon instantly upgrades the Crusher to the next level, at the cost of one Hammer of Building if you have one. When the Crusher is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of the displayed number of Gems.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of one Book of Building. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Book of Building.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of one Book of Everything. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Book of Everything but do not have a Book of Building.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, cancels the current upgrade and refunds half of the upgrade cost.
Tapping this icon switches the Crusher attack mode to attack air units. This icon is only displayed while the Crusher is in Ground mode.
Tapping this icon switches the Crusher attack mode to attack ground units. This icon is only displayed while the Crusher is in Air mode.
Tapping this icon switches the Crusher to be deployed as an air unit. This icon is only displayed while the Crusher is in Ground mode.
Tapping this icon switches the Crusher to be deployed as a ground unit. This icon is only displayed while the Crusher is in Air mode.
Tapping this icon re-arms this Crusher. This icon is only displayed after this Crusher has been triggered during an enemy attack.
Tapping this icon re-arms all Traps. This icon is only displayed when one or more of your Traps have been triggered in a previous enemy attack.
This icon informs you that all Traps are armed. It is not tappable, and replaces the re-arm icons.
Tapping this icon reloads this X-Bow with Elixir. This icon only appears if this X-Bow is not fully loaded.
Tapping this icon reloads all X-Bows with Elixir. This icon only appears if one or more X-Bows are not fully loaded.
Tapping this icon reloads the Eagle Artillery with Elixir. This icon only appears if the player owns the Eagle Artillery but not an X-Bow, and if the Eagle Artillery is not fully loaded.
Tapping this icon reloads all X-Bows and the Eagle Artillery with Elixir. This icon only appears if at least one of these buildings is not fully loaded, and will replace the icons above if the player has both an X-Bow and the Eagle Artillery.
This icon informs you that all X-Bows are fully loaded. It is not tappable, and replaces the Load icons.
This icon informs you that the Eagle Artillery is fully loaded. It is not tappable, and only appears if the player owns the Eagle Artillery but not an X-Bow.
This icon informs you that all X-Bows and the Eagle Artillery are fully loaded. It is not tappable, and replaces the icon above if the player has both an X-Bow and the Eagle Artillery.
Tapping this icon switches the X-Bow attack mode to attack both ground and air units. This icon is only displayed while the X-Bow is in Ground mode.
Tapping this icon switches the X-Bow attack mode to attack ground units only. This icon is only displayed while the X-Bow is in Air and Ground mode.
Tapping this icon reloads this Inferno Tower with Dark Elixir. This icon only appears if this Inferno Tower is not fully loaded.
Tapping this icon reloads all Inferno Towers with Dark Elixir. This icon only appears if one or more Inferno Towers are not fully loaded.
This icon informs you that all Inferno Towers are fully loaded. It is not tappable, and replaces the Load icons.
Tapping this icon switches the Inferno Tower attack mode to attack multiple enemies. This icon is only displayed while the Inferno Tower is in Single attack mode.
Tapping this icon switches the Inferno Tower attack mode to attack a single enemy. This icon is only displayed while the Inferno Tower is in Multiple attack mode.
Tapping this icon reloads the Eagle Artillery with Elixir. This icon only appears if the Eagle Artillery is not fully loaded.
This icon informs you that the Eagle Artillery is fully loaded. It is not tappable, and replaces the Load icon.
Tapping this icon boosts your Gold production for 1 day at the cost of the displayed amount of Gems.
Tapping this icon boosts your Gold production of all the Crushers for 1 day at the cost of the displayed amount of Gems.
Tapping this icon boosts the production of all the Resource collector buildings for 1 day at the cost of one Resource Potion. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Resource Potion.
Tapping this icon collects the uncollected Gold from the Crusher.
This icon informs you that you don't have Gold to be collected from your Crusher.
Tapping this icon boosts your troop training for 1 hour, reducing the time required to train troops by a factor of four for the duration of the boost.
Tapping this icon boosts your troop training, spell brewing and hero regeneration for 1 hour, reducing the time by a factor of four for the duration of the boost, at the cost of one Training Potion. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Training Potion.
Tapping this icon opens up the troop training interface, allowing you to train troops.
Tapping this icon opens up the troop training interface, allowing you to train troops.
Tapping this icon opens up the troop training interface, allowing you to train troops.
Tapping this icon opens up the Laboratory interface, allowing you to upgrade your troops' levels.
Tapping this icon opens up the Star Laboratory interface, allowing you to upgrade your troops' levels.
Tapping this icon boosts your spell creation for 1 hour, reducing the time required to create spells by a factor of four for the duration of the boost.
Tapping this icon boosts your troop training, spell brewing and hero regeneration for 1 hour, reducing the time by a factor of four for the duration of the boost, at the cost of one Training Potion. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Training Potion.
Tapping this icon opens up the Crusher's interface, allowing you to brew spells.
Tapping this icon begins upgrading the Crusher to the next level, if you have enough resources and a free Builder. When the Crusher is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon instantly upgrades the Crusher to the next level, at the cost of one Hammer of Heroes if you have one. When the Crusher is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of the displayed number of Gems.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of one Book of Heroes. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Book of Heroes.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of one Book of Everything. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Book of Everything but do not have a Book of Heroes.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, boosts all your Builders for 1 hour by a factor of ten, at the cost of one Builder Potion. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Builder Potion.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, cancels the current upgrade and refunds half of the upgrade cost.
Tapping this icon puts the Crusher to sleep. This icon only appears when the Crusher is at full health and is in Guard mode.
Tapping this icon awakens the Crusher, whom will then help guard your village. This icon only appears when the Crusher is at full health and is in Sleep mode.
Tapping this icon instantly heals the Crusher for the displayed amount of Gems. This icon only appears when the Crusher is currently regenerating health on the Altar.
Tapping this icon boosts the Crusher's regeneration speed for 1 hour, reducing the time required to regenerate the Crusher by a factor of four for the duration of the boost.
Tapping this icon boosts your troop training, spell brewing and hero regeneration for 1 hour, reducing the time by a factor of four for the duration of the boost, at the cost of one Training Potion. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Training Potion.
Tapping this icon temporarily boosts all your Heroes by 5 levels for 1 hour, bounded by your Town Hall and Builder Hall's limits, at the cost of one Hero Potion. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Hero Potion.
Tapping this icon begins upgrading the Crusher to the next level, if you have enough resources and a free Builder. When the Crusher is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon instantly upgrades the Crusher to the next level, at the cost of one Hammer of Heroes if you have one. When the Crusher is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of the displayed number of Gems.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while the Battle Machine is being rebuilt, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of one Book of Building. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Book of Building.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while the Battle Machine is being upgraded, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of one Book of Heroes. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Book of Heroes.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, instantly finishes that upgrade at the cost of one Book of Everything. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Book of Everything but do not have a Book of Building or Book of Heroes, where relevant.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed only while an upgrade is in progress, cancels the current upgrade and refunds half of the upgrade cost.
Tapping this icon instantly heals the Crusher for the displayed amount of Gems. This icon only appears when the Crusher is currently regenerating health on the Altar.
Tapping this icon temporarily boosts all your Heroes by 5 levels for 1 hour, bounded by your Town Hall and Builder Hall's limits, at the cost of one Hero Potion. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Hero Potion.
Tapping this icon requests troops from your fellow clan members. It will appear if your Clan Castle is not already full and the timer since your last request has elapsed.
Tapping this icon requests troops from your clan members without waiting for the timer at the cost of the displayed number of Gems. It will appear if your Clan Castle is not already full and the timer since your last request is still counting down.
This icon informs you that your Clan Castle is full of troops and spells. It will replace both Request icons if the Clan Castle is full.
Tapping this icon displays information about the clan which the player owning the Clan Castle belongs to (this icon can appear when you are visiting another village). This icon only appears if the player owning the Clan Castle is in a Clan.
Tapping this icon displays information about your Treasury.
Tapping this icon displays information about your inventory of Magic Items.
Tapping this icon puts the Crusher to sleep, preventing any troops inside from guarding your village. This icon only appears when the Crusher is in Guard mode.
Tapping this icon awakens the Crusher , allowing any troops inside to help guard your village. This icon only appears when the Crusher is in Sleep mode.
Tapping this icon upgrades the Wall to the next level, if you have enough Wall Rings and a free Builder. When the Wall is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon selects a row of Walls to move or rotate instead of a single Wall. The longest contiguous row of Walls will be selected.
Tapping this icon rotates the selected row of Walls. This icon is only displayed while you have multiple Walls selected.
Tapping this icon upgrades all the upgradable Walls in the selected row to the next level, if you have enough resources and a free Builder. This icon is only displayed while you have multiple Walls selected.
Tapping this icon rotates the selected row of Walls.
Tapping this icon upgrades the selected Walls to the next level, if you have enough resources and a free Master Builder. When the selected Walls are at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon upgrades the selected Walls to the next level, if you have enough Wall Rings and a free Master Builder. When the selected Walls are at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon rotates the Air Sweeper 45 degrees clockwise.
Tapping this icon gears up the Crusher, if you have upgraded it enough to do so, have enough resources and a free Master Builder. If any Crusher is already geared up, this icon will not appear.
This icon informs you that the Crusher cannot be geared up because it is insufficiently upgraded. Tapping this icon will tell you the required level to gear up this Crusher. If any Crusher is already geared up, this icon will not appear.
Tapping this icon switches the Crusher to Burst mode. This icon only appears when the Crusher is geared up, and is in Normal mode.
Tapping this icon switches the Crusher to Normal mode. This icon only appears when the Crusher is geared up, and is in Burst mode.
Tapping this icon switches the Archer Tower to Fast Attack mode. This icon only appears when the Archer Tower is geared up, and is in Long Range mode.
Tapping this icon switches the Archer Tower to Long Range mode. This icon only appears when the Archer Tower is geared up, and is in Fast Attack mode.
Tapping this icon switches the Archer Tower to Fast Attack mode. This icon only appears when the Archer Tower is in Long Range mode.
Tapping this icon switches the Archer Tower to Long Range mode. This icon only appears when the Archer Tower is in Fast Attack mode.
Tapping this icon rotates the Push Trap 90 degrees clockwise.
Tapping this icon collects the loot from the Loot Cart.
Tapping this icon switches between the Home Village and the Builder Base.
Tapping this icon boosts timers in the Builder Base, by a factor of eight for a duration determined by the level of the Clock Tower. This icon is only displayed when a free boost is available.
Tapping this icon boosts timers in the Builder Base, by a factor of eight for 30 minutes, at the cost of one Clock Tower Potion. This icon is only displayed if you have at least one Clock Tower Potion.
Tapping this icon allows you to boost the Clock Tower before its free boost is available, at the cost of the displayed amount of Gems. This icon is only displayed when the Clock Tower's free boost is in cooldown.
Tapping this icon removes this obstacle using Gold, if you have enough Gold and a free Builder. This icon only appears if the obstacle is in the Home Village and requires Gold to remove.
Tapping this icon removes this obstacle using Elixir, if you have enough Elixir and a free Builder. This icon only appears if the obstacle is in the Home Village and requires Elixir to remove.
Tapping this icon removes this obstacle using Gold, if you have enough Gold and a free Master Builder. This icon only appears if the obstacle is in the Builder Base and requires Gold to remove.
Tapping this icon removes this obstacle using Elixir, if you have enough Elixir and a free Master Builder. This icon only appears if the obstacle is in the Builder Base and requires Elixir to remove.
Tapping this icon, which is displayed while the selected obstacle is being removed, cancels the removal of this obstacle and refunds the full cost.
Tapping this icon moves this Obstacle to another place, at the cost of one Shovel of Obstacles. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Shovel of Obstacles.
Tapping this icon stashes the selected decoration in the shop, allowing you to place it again at a later time at no cost.
Tapping this icon completely fills the Gold Storages, at the cost of one Rune of Gold. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Rune of Gold.
Tapping this icon completely fills the Gold Storages, at the cost of one Rune of Builder Gold. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Rune of Builder Gold.
Tapping this icon completely fills the Elixir Storages, at the cost of one Rune of Elixir. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Rune of Elixir.
Tapping this icon completely fills the Dark Elixir Storage, at the cost of one Rune of Dark Elixir. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Rune of Dark Elixir.
Tapping this icon boosts all your Builders for 1 hour by a factor of ten, at the cost of one Builder Potion. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Builder Potion.
Tapping this icon boosts your siege machine training for 1 hour, reducing the time required to train Siege Machines by a factor of four for the duration of the boost.
Tapping this icon boosts your siege machine training, spell brewing and hero regeneration for 1 hour, reducing the time by a factor of four for the duration of the boost, at the cost of one Training Potion. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Training Potion.
*Exact value as derived from game files. In-game, this is stated as being 2 tiles.
**The splash radius is always centered on the Crusher, unlike most splash defenses whose splash radius centers on the location where the projectile hits.
