"Only the most brilliant or reckless Master Wizards dabble in Dark Elixir brewery. Their compact Dark Spells require keen insight to master, but provide unique tactical advantages."
All existing Dark Spells take up one housing space in the spell storage, whereas most Elixir spells take two spaces. The total spell storage capacity is shared between the Spell Factory and the Dark Spell Factory. The Dark Spell Factory adds one spell storage capacity to the total spell storage capacity upon construction, but adds no more when it's upgraded.
After the December 2015 update, players can donate one dark spell to clanmates if their clan castle's level is 4-6, in which it has one spell housing space. Two can be donated if clan castle is level 7, in which it can hold 2 dark spells as it has 2 spell housing space.
The Dark Spell Factory is unlocked at Town Hall 8.
Upgrade Differences
The Dark Spell Factory undergoes a significant visual change at all levels.
When initially constructed, the Dark Spell Factory consists of a big wooden cauldron with a red interior and metal rims, supported by 4 wooden legs which have metal bases. Unlike the Spell Factory, it doesn't have a slingshot-shaped structure for the mixing spoon.
At level 2, the base is now metal with golden spikes on the legs.
At level 3, the outer side of the cauldron receives gold plating. The legs seem thicker and is protected by an external metal plating outside, which has crossed bones stuck on it.
At level 4, the metal plating covering the legs becomes larger, and three large golden spikes replace the crossed bones. The top of the cauldron also becomes covered in gold, and the four points where the legs attach are covered in a light blue.
Trivia
The Dark Spell Factory's styling cues are inspired by the Dark Barracks.
The Dark Spells brewed in the Dark Spell Factory are placed inside vials, unlike Elixir Spells, which are placed inside bottles.
Since there is no spell counterpart of the Army Camp which can hold spells, the Spell Factories takes the role of both creating and holding spells; the Spell Factory determines the main part of spell capacity, while the Dark Spell Factory increases the capacity by one. For example, you'll have to upgrade the Spell Factory to level 5 (rather than upgrading the Dark Spell Factory) in order to hold eleven Dark Elixir spells.
However, as of the 12/10/16 update, if you do this, you can no longer simultaneously hide Elixir by queuing Elixir spells.
Although Dark Elixir Troops generally have more housing spaces than ElixirTroops, currently all Dark Elixir Spells occupy only 1 housing space, while all Elixir spells have at least two. This probably leaves room for future Dark Elixir spells which are more powerful and take more than two housing spaces.
The price of the Dark Spell Factory is twice the price of the Dark Barracks of equal level.
Oddly, although the Skeleton Spell is unlocked at Dark Spell Factory level 4, the crossbones appear on Dark Spell Factory level 3. Also, the level 4 Dark Spell Factory, which is unlocked at Town Hall level 9, has similar spiked bottom as the level 14 Cannon and Archer Tower, the level 10 Mortar, the level 5 Bomb Tower, and the level 2 Eagle Artillery, which are unlocked at Town Hall level 11.
If the player only brews elixir spells but not dark spells, the dark spell factory will still play it's brewing animation. The inverse is also applicable.
Icon Descriptions
Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Spell Factory, such as Level, Damage Per Second, Hitpoints, Range, Damage Type, Targets and Favorite Target.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Spell Factory, such as Level, Re-arm cost, Damage Type and Targets.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Spell Factory, such as Level, Damage Type and Targets.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Spell Factory, such as Level, Capacity, Production and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Spell Factory, such as Level, Capacity, Production and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Spell Factory, such as Level, Storage Capacity and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays the Hut's Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Spell Factory, such as Level, Total Troop Capacity and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays the Army Camp's Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Spell Factory, such as Level and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Spell Factory, such as Level and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Spell Factory, such as Level and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Spell Factory, such as Level, Spell Capacity and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Spell Factory, such as Level, Elixir Storage Capacity, Gold Storage Capacity and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Spell Factory, such as Level, Troop Capacity, Hitpoints and Troops inside.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Wall, such as Level and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Wall, such as Level and Hitpoints.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Spell Factory, such as Level, Damage per Second, Hitpoints, Regeneration Time and Ability Level.
Tapping this icon displays information about the Dark Spell Factory, 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 Dark Spell Factory to the next level, if you have enough resources and a free Builder. When the Dark Spell Factory is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon instantly upgrades the Dark Spell Factory to the next level, at the cost of one Hammer of Building if you have one. When the Dark Spell Factory 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 Dark Spell Factory to the next level, if you have enough resources and a free Master Builder. When the Dark Spell Factory is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon instantly upgrades the Dark Spell Factory to the next level, at the cost of one Hammer of Building if you have one. When the Dark Spell Factory 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 Dark Spell Factory attack mode to attack air units. This icon is only displayed while the Dark Spell Factory is in Ground mode.
Tapping this icon switches the Dark Spell Factory attack mode to attack ground units. This icon is only displayed while the Dark Spell Factory is in Air mode.
Tapping this icon switches the Dark Spell Factory to be deployed as an air unit. This icon is only displayed while the Dark Spell Factory is in Ground mode.
Tapping this icon switches the Dark Spell Factory to be deployed as a ground unit. This icon is only displayed while the Dark Spell Factory is in Air mode.
Tapping this icon re-arms this Dark Spell Factory. This icon is only displayed after this Dark Spell Factory 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 Dark Spell Factorys 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 Dark Spell Factory.
This icon informs you that you don't have Gold to be collected from your Dark Spell Factory.
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 Dark Spell Factory's interface, allowing you to brew spells.
Tapping this icon begins upgrading the Dark Spell Factory to the next level, if you have enough resources and a free Builder. When the Dark Spell Factory is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon instantly upgrades the Dark Spell Factory to the next level, at the cost of one Hammer of Heroes if you have one. When the Dark Spell Factory 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 Dark Spell Factory to sleep. This icon only appears when the Dark Spell Factory is at full health and is in Guard mode.
Tapping this icon awakens the Dark Spell Factory, whom will then help guard your village. This icon only appears when the Dark Spell Factory is at full health and is in Sleep mode.
Tapping this icon instantly heals the Dark Spell Factory for the displayed amount of Gems. This icon only appears when the Dark Spell Factory is currently regenerating health on the Altar.
Tapping this icon boosts the Dark Spell Factory's regeneration speed for 1 hour, reducing the time required to regenerate the Dark Spell Factory 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 begins upgrading the Dark Spell Factory to the next level, if you have enough resources and a free Builder. When the Dark Spell Factory is at maximum level, this icon is not shown.
Tapping this icon instantly upgrades the Dark Spell Factory to the next level, at the cost of one Hammer of Heroes if you have one. When the Dark Spell Factory 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 Dark Spell Factory for the displayed amount of Gems. This icon only appears when the Dark Spell Factory is currently regenerating health on the Altar.
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 Dark Spell Factory to sleep, preventing any troops inside from guarding your village. This icon only appears when the Dark Spell Factory is in Guard mode.
Tapping this icon awakens the Dark Spell Factory , allowing any troops inside to help guard your village. This icon only appears when the Dark Spell Factory 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 Dark Spell Factory, if you have upgraded it enough to do so, have enough resources and a free Master Builder. If any Dark Spell Factory is already geared up, this icon will not appear.
This icon informs you that the Dark Spell Factory cannot be geared up because it is insufficiently upgraded. Tapping this icon will tell you the required level to gear up this Dark Spell Factory. If any Dark Spell Factory is already geared up, this icon will not appear.
Tapping this icon switches the Dark Spell Factory to Burst mode. This icon only appears when the Dark Spell Factory is geared up, and is in Normal mode.
Tapping this icon switches the Dark Spell Factory to Normal mode. This icon only appears when the Dark Spell Factory 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 sells the selected decoration for one-tenth of their price.
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.
