Changes: Dark Barracks

Revision as of 19:55, 15 April 2020

"The Dark Barracks will open doors for creatures born out of Dark Elixir. Upgrade the barracks to unlock more troops with unique battle skills."


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Level 5	Level 6	Level 7	Level 8

Summary
- Dark Barracks allow you to train Dark Elixir Troops using Dark Elixir. These troops will be stationed in Army Camps.
- The Dark Barracks functions identically to the normal Barracks, except for the fact that it uses Dark Elixir instead of Elixir.
- The troops' rate of training depend on the number of Dark Barracks that can train said troops; the troop's training time is inversely proportional to the number of barracks you have, and can be determined by dividing a troop's base training time (training time with one barrack) by the number of available barracks capable of training that troop, rounding down any fractions of seconds.
  - For example, the Golem's base training time is six minutes. If both Dark Barracks are available and able to train Golems, the training time of Golems will be three minutes. If only one of them is able to train Golems, the training time will be six minutes.
- Dark Barracks are unable to function while being upgraded, considerably increasing the time it takes to train your armies; this should be taken into consideration when deciding to upgrade a Dark Barracks. Any Troops that are queued up inside will start training when the upgrade has been finished.
- Once you have queued Troops in your Dark Barracks, you can instantly complete their training with Gems; the amount required is directly proportional to the amount of time remaining to finish training normally.
- There is also an option to boost Troop production for an hour. The boost option costs 30 Gems and will increase the training speed of all troops by a factor of 4.
  - Note: The boost timer will continue to count down even if you aren't making troops, so don't boost your Dark Barracks until you are ready to use it.
- When you click to boost the Dark Barracks a clock appears for a few seconds.
- Similar to the normal Barracks, Troops may be removed from the Dark Barracks training queue at no penalty; 100% of the Dark Elixir cost will be refunded to you.
- You may queue more Troops than your Army Camps can hold. This is useful for two reasons:
  - You may queue Troops prior to engaging in combat (either single-player or multiplayer). Your Dark Barracks will begin creating Troops proportional to the amount of time you spent from when you start searching for opponent to completing an attack, significantly reducing your downtime between battles.
  - You may queue Troops to 'hide' Dark Elixir while you are offline, as long as your Army Camps are full. Currently, up to 8,920 Dark Elixir can be hidden in this fashion by queuing 1 level 8 Golem, 44 level 5 Bowlers and 3 level 10 Hog Riders if the player has 251/280 Army Camp spaces occupied. When you return you simply un-queue the training queue to reclaim your hidden Dark Elixir.
- A Dark Barracks will maintain its queue if destroyed by enemy Troops, and will even continue to produce new units if your Army Camps have sufficient space.

Upgrade Differences
- Like the normal Barracks, the Dark Barracks goes through major visual changes at each level. Each upgrade appears to have a hint on the side of what the unlocked troop is. (A hammer for the Hog Rider, an axe for the Valkyrie, etc.)
  - When initially constructed, the Dark Barracks look much like a normal Barracks, but has an axe and hammer on the top and a stone doorway that leads underground. It also has a spell casting bowl filled with Dark Elixir, possibly referring to the Dark Elixir spat out by Minions. It also has dark crystals on the left and right corners.
  - At level 2, spikes hang down from the doorway, and the front pillars turn to stone, and appear to have a curve. The Dark Barracks gets put on a stone base, and the bowl gets replaced with a rack holding a hammer and a blue-bladed sword, representing the ability to train Hog Riders.
  - At level 3, the front pillars turn to black crystal, and the curve appears to be more defined. The Dark Barracks get a two-tiered stone base. The rack turns into a wooden target with an axe stuck in it, referencing the Valkyrie.
  - At level 4, the bottom of the front pillars get the same red material as the roof. A Golem's arm jutting out from a rock replaces the wooden throwing target. The crystals at the corners are removed.
  - At level 5, the top gain skulls representing the skull of the Witch's staff, and the second tier of the base turns a golden/copper color. The Golem hand from level 4 is replaced with a trio of sticks with torn blue cloth hung between them.
  - At level 6, the Dark Barracks gains a lava flow on the left side, and the skeletons heads on top are replaced by a single Lava Hound skull with a small pair of wings set around it. The base of the building turns red, and lava can be seen around part of the base.
  - At level 7, the Dark Barracks's roof appears to have been smashed with a big boulder. The lava flow on the sides is replaced with tons of rocks, and the building gains gold on top. The lava is gone. You can see little purple crystals poking out of the rocks. All of these changes reference the Bowler.
  - At level 8, the roof is replaced by a gold axe and hammer, similar to those seen on levels 1-6 (but the hammer is slightly larger). The base of the Dark Barracks is now blue, and is mostly covered in ice; several ice crystals can be seen on the side in place of the boulders. It references the Ice Golem.

Trivia
- Dark Barracks were introduced in the "Dark Elixir Troops" release on 12 March 2013.
- Newly trained Troops from the Dark Barracks can jump over Walls to get to their assigned Army Camp, unlike the normal Barracks.
- If a Troop upgrade finishes in your Laboratory while you have that particular Troop type queued in your Dark Barracks, the units within that queue will be produced at the newly upgraded level, even though they were queued at the previous level's cost. This holds true even if you un-queue the Troops without producing them; you will be credited the newly upgraded Troop cost in Dark Elixir. Many players take advantage of this by filling their Dark Barracks queues with Troops that are about to be upgraded, un-queuing them after the upgrade finishes and pocketing some free Dark Elixir.
- Instead of a pair of crossed swords like the normal Barracks, the Dark Barracks has on its roof a crossed warhammer and battleaxe (used by the Hog Rider and Valkyrie, respectively). This is also similar to the Builder's Huts' hammer and saw.
- Although the level 6 Dark Barracks has a lava theme, it is unlocked at Town Hall level 9 rather than level 10. This makes the Dark Barracks have two levels on each of Town Hall levels 7, 8 and 9 like the Dark Elixir Storage, which also uses Elixir to upgrade and deals with Dark Elixir.
- The level 1 Dark Barracks had a stone base during the 2014 Winter Update alongside a rack containing a hammer and its cauldron, but has since been reverted.
- Every single Dark Barrack troop is in Clash Royale.

Icon Descriptions

	Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Barracks, such as Level and Hitpoints.
	Tapping this icon begins upgrading the Dark Barracks to the next level, if you have enough resources and a free Builder (or B.O.B). When the Dark Barracks is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
	Tapping this icon instantly upgrades the Dark Barracks to the next level, at the cost of one Hammer of Building if you have one. When the Dark Barracks is at maximum level, or if the Town Hall requirements for the next level are not met, 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 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 and 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.
	Tapping this icon resumes a paused boost to your troop training. This icon is only shown if you have an active troop training boost that was paused by a maintenance break.
	Tapping this icon opens up the troop training interface, allowing you to train troops.

Town Hall Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Number Available	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Town Hall Level	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Number Available	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2

Size
3x3

Level	Build Cost	Build Time	Experience Gained	Boost Cost	Hitpoints	Town Hall Level Required	Unlocked Unit
1	500,000	8h	169	30	500	7	Minion
2	1,000,000	16h	240	30	550	7	Hog Rider
3	1,500,000	1d	293	30	600	8	Valkyrie
4	2,000,000	1d 12h	360	30	650	8	Golem
5	2,500,000	2d	415	30	700	9	Witch
6	3,000,000	3d	509	30	750	9	Lava Hound
7	4,000,000	5d	657	30	800	10	Bowler
8	6,000,000	10d	929	30	850	11	Ice Golem

Training Times of Dark Elixir Troops
Troop	Number of Dark Barracks Available
Troop	1 Barracks	2 Barracks
Minion	36s	18s
Hog Rider	1m 30s	45s
Valkyrie	3m	1m 30s
Golem	10m	5m
Witch	6m	3m
Lava Hound	10m	5m
Bowler	2m	1m
Ice Golem	6m	3m

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 **Dark Barracks allow you to train [[Dark Elixir Troops]] using [[Resources#Dark Elixir|Dark Elixir]]. These [[Troops|troops]] will be stationed in [[Army Camp]]s.
 **The Dark Barracks functions identically to the normal [[Barracks]], except for the fact that it uses [[Resources#Dark Elixir|Dark Elixir]] instead of [[Resources#Elixir|Elixir]].
+**The troops' rate of training depend on the number of Dark Barracks that can train said troops; the troop's training time is inversely proportional to the number of barracks you have, and can be determined by dividing a troop's base training time (training time with one barrack) by the number of available barracks capable of training that troop, rounding down any fractions of seconds.
+***For example, the [[Golem]]'s base training time is six minutes. If both Dark Barracks are available and able to train Golems, the training time of Golems will be three minutes. If only one of them is able to train Golems, the training time will be six minutes.
 **Dark Barracks are '''unable''' to function while being upgraded, considerably increasing the time it takes to train your armies; this should be taken into consideration when deciding to upgrade a Dark Barracks. Any [[Dark Elixir Troops|Troops]] that are queued up inside will start training when the upgrade has been finished.
 **Once you have queued [[Dark Elixir Troops|Troops]] in your Dark Barracks, you can instantly complete their training with [[Gems]]; the amount required is directly proportional to the amount of time remaining to finish training normally.
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 *'''Trivia'''
 **Dark Barracks were introduced in the "[[Version History|Dark Elixir Troops]]" release on 12 March 2013.
-**If your Dark Barracks is upgraded while training [[Dark Elixir Troops|Dark Troops]], the [[Dark Elixir Troops|Troops]] cannot be finished until after the upgrade! The [[Resources#Dark Elixir|Dark Elixir]] you spent to queue them will be unavailable as well, as the [[Dark Elixir Troops|Troops]] cannot be un-queued until that time, either.
 **Newly trained [[Dark Elixir Troops|Troops]] from the Dark Barracks can jump over [[Walls]] to get to their assigned [[Army Camp]], unlike the normal [[Barracks]].
 **If a [[Dark Elixir Troops|Troop]] upgrade finishes in your [[Laboratory]] while you have that particular [[Dark Elixir Troops|Troop]] type queued in your Dark Barracks, the [[Dark Elixir Troops|units]] within that queue will be produced at the newly upgraded level, even though they were queued at the previous level's cost. This holds true even if you un-queue the [[Dark Elixir Troops|Troops]] without producing them; you will be credited the newly upgraded [[Dark Elixir Troops|Troop]] cost in [[Resources#Dark Elixir|Dark Elixir]]. Many players take advantage of this by filling their Dark Barracks queues with [[Dark Elixir Troops|Troops]] that are about to be upgraded, un-queuing them after the upgrade finishes and pocketing some free [[Resources#Dark Elixir|Dark Elixir]].