Obstacles/Home Village

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For the Obstacles in the Builder Base, see Obstacles/Builder Base.

For the Obstacles in the Clan Capital, see Decorations/Clan Capital.

Obstacles are trees, logs, rocks, and other foliage that are randomly placed in your village. You start with about 40 obstacles around your village. You can remove them if you have a small amount of Gold or Elixir.

Summary

• Obstacles are structures that obstruct the placement of a village's Buildings.
• While the player can still build villages without being hindered by obstacles (by building around them or choosing a relatively clear location), it is significantly harder to do so at higher levels. To free up space for buildings to be placed, the player must either remove the obstacles or relocate it elsewhere or stash it using a Shovel of Obstacles.
• If a Shovel of Obstacles is used on an obstacle, that obstacle will be permanently movable like any other building. The obstacle can also be stashed in Village Edit Mode similar to Decorations. The obstacle can also be removed normally afterwards, though this does not provide further compensation beyond the standard rewards for removal.
• If you accidentally set a Villager to remove an obstacle, you can cancel it if the button is tapped before the Villager is finished.
• Canceling the removal of an obstacle will refund you 100% of the resources spent, compared to the 50% refund on all other upgrades.
• Your village can have a maximum of 45 obstacles at one time - if this limit is reached or exceeded, regular obstacles will no longer spawn until obstacles are removed. Gem Boxes and holiday-themed obstacles ignore this limit when spawning and can spawn even if more than 45 obstacles are present on the village.
  • Obstacles stashed in Village Edit Mode will still count towards this limit.
• There is an achievement called "Nice and Tidy" which gives players Experience and Gems for removing obstacles.
• Troops can be spawned beside and/or on top of obstacles.
• After the Halloween 2014 update, the required time to remove all obstacles except Mushrooms was reduced.

Undecorated Obstacles

• Each obstacle that is removed can contain anywhere from 0 to 6 Gems.
• There are two cycles governing the number of Gems you receive by removing obstacles in your Home Village. These cycles all occur concurrently and are independent of each other, including those for Obstacles in the Builder Base. This means that clearing an obstacle advances only one of the below cycles and has no effect on the position of the other cycles.
  • The first cycle applies to original obstacles in the Home Village (those that spawned when you first created your Home Village). This cycle has no 4, 5 or 6 gem rewards. The cycle is 3, 0 ,1 ,2 ,0 ,1 ,1 ,0 ,0 ,3 ,1 ,0 ,2 ,2 ,0 ,0 ,3 ,0 ,1 ,0 for initial obstacles.
  • The second cycle governs the number of Gems you receive from spawned obstacles in your Home Village. It advances when you remove an obstacle in the Home Village. The cycle is 6, 0, 4, 5, 1, 3, 2, 0, 0, 5, 1, 0, 3, 4, 0, 0, 5, 0, 1, 0 for spawned obstacles.
• On average, each obstacle cleared has 2 Gems. This pattern does not include the 25 Gems held from the Gem Box.

Vegetation

• Vegetation respawns at a rate of one item per eight hours, except if all the spaces in your village are totally filled, or the 45-obstacle limit has been reached.
• With the exception of the Gem Box, an obstacle will only spawn if there is a 1-tile buffer zone between the spaces in which it will spawn and another building or obstacle.
• Since vegetation respawns and removing one may have Gems, removing vegetation regularly can be an unlimited (although sometimes slow) source of Gems.

Obstacle	Size	Removal Cost	Removal Time	Experience Gained	Respawn Weight
Mushroom	2x2	100	10s	3	10%
Bush	2x2	250	10s	3	20%
Trunk (1)	2x2	1,000	10s	3	10%
Trunk (2)	2x2	1,000	10s	3	10%
Fallen Trunk	2x2	1,000	10s	3	20%
Small Tree	2x2	2,000	10s	3	20%
Medium Tree	3x3	7,500	15s	3	5%
Large Tree	3x3	10,000	15s	3	5%

Clash-o-Ween Themed Appearances

• Since 2012, most Vegetation obstacles have a special appearance during the Clash-o-Ween period.
• Clash-o-Ween adds special textures and sounds to all Vegetation except the Small Tree. In 2012, the Mushroom had a different appearance to future years.

Halloween Mushroom (2012)	Halloween Mushroom (2013-Present)	Halloween Bush	Halloween Trunk (1)	Halloween Trunk (2)

Halloween Trunk (Fallen)	Halloween Tree (Medium)	Halloween Tree (Large)	Halloween Headstone (2014)	Halloween Cauldron (2015)	Scary Pumpkin (2016)

Halloween Obstacle (2017)	Witch's Hat (2018)	Spooky Tree (2019)	Vacant Tomb (2020)	"Friendly" Flower (2021)	Trick or Treat? (2022)

Sinister Sapling (2023)	Ghost Post (2024)	Cursed Seedling (2025)

Winter Themed Appearances

• Since 2012, Vegetation obstacles have a special appearance during the Clashmas period which often extends through Winter.
• Obstacles have special textures with snow mixed into them. In 2012, the Large Tree had a different appearance to future years.

Winter Mushroom	Winter Bush	Winter Trunk (1)	Winter Trunk (2)	Winter Trunk (Fallen)	Winter Tree (Small)

Winter Tree (Medium)	Winter Tree (Large, 2012)	Winter Tree (Large, 2013-)	2012 Clashmas Tree	2013 Clashmas Tree	2014 Clashmas Tree

2015 Clashmas Tree	2016 Clashmas Tree	2017 Clashmas Tree	2018 Clashmas Tree	2019 Clashmas Tree	2020 Clashmas Tree

2021 Clashmas Tree	2022 Clashmas Tree	2023 Clashmas Tree	2024 Clashmas Tree	2025 Clashmas Tree

Rocks

Rocks do not respawn once they are removed.

Obstacle	Size	Removal Cost	Removal Time	Experience Gained
Stone (1)	2x2	500	10s	3
Stone (2)	2x2	500	10s	3
Stone (3)	2x2	500	10s	3
Stone (4)	2x2	500	10s	3
Stone (Pillar)	2x2	10,000	15s	3
Stone (Large)	3x3	20,000	15s	3

Rare Stone

• In very early versions of the game, an odd looking stone was able to appear in a newly created village. It became unobtainable soon after the game's release, and only a few players are known to still have it. A few examples of players who still have this stone: (#Y98CJG, #L9G9RL, #LLJUOO, #C2VY8G, #UPYJ, #8J88U, #V9CC8).
  • This stone made a new appearance in the 23rd October 2018 update, in the new Single Player Campaign maps "High Pressure" and "Burning Sensation."
  • It also appears in the first battle in the Builder Base, against Master Jimmy.
  • You can also see it in the playground for testing Super Troops if you are Town Hall 11 or above.

Goblin Map Stones

In the Single Player Campaign, several unique Stone varieties appear, all of which being darker and pointier than the others. These can't, and have never been able to spawn in the Home Village, outside of some rare cases of players being somehow able to place them into theirs via illegitimate means. Such players usually have their bases changed by Supercell directly to remove such obstacles.

Gem Box

• The Gem Box is a mysterious box containing 25 gems.
• When the Gem Box was added it was quickly deleted due to a few glitches relating to how many Gems it gives. The Gem Box was added back into the game on April 9, 2014, the update that added Clan Wars. Said update also increased the amount of Gems it gave from 20 to 25.
• You can only have 1 Gem Box at any time. Clearing the Gem Box costs 1,000 Elixir. It takes 30 seconds to clear one, and the removal of one will yield 25 gems. The gem box is rare, but in the April 2014 update, their spawn rate was increased.

Obstacle	Size	Removal Cost	Removal Time	Removal Reward	Respawn Weight
Gem Box	2x2	1,000	30s	25 and 5	1%

Special Event Obstacles

• These obstacles only appear for a limited time, and are usually created to commemorate holidays. After the period in which they spawn ends, players can continue to keep these obstacles.
• Note that all special obstacles ignore the one-tile buffer zone rule that governs where normal vegetation can spawn. They can spawn in any 2x2 empty space within your village, though they tend toward spawning close to the outer edges of the field.

Clashmas Trees

• Clashmas Trees are a prominent special obstacle, with different versions of them appearing in every winter period since the game's launch in 2012.
• Each Clashmas tree takes 30s to remove and gives 5 Experience
• Clashmas trees were originally named "X-Mas Tree", which was later changed to "Clashmas Tree", and then even later changed to specify the year they originated from.

Obstacle	Size	Removal Cost	Removal Time	Removal Reward	Respawn Weight
2012 Clashmas Tree	2x2	25,000	30s	30,000 and 5 (Initially) 50,000 and 5	2%
2013 Clashmas Tree	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
2014 Clashmas Tree	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
2015 Clashmas Tree	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
2016 Clashmas Tree	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
2017 Clashmas Tree	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
2018 Clashmas Tree	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
2019 Clashmas Tree	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
2020 Clashmas Tree	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
2021 Clashmas Tree	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
2022 Clashmas Tree	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
2023 Clashmas Tree	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
2024 Clashmas Tree	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
2025 Clashmas Tree	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%

Clash-o-Ween Obstacles

Obstacle	Size	Removal Cost	Removal Time	Removal Reward	Respawn Weight
Halloween Headstone (2014)	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
Halloween Cauldron (2015)	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
Scary Pumpkin (2016)	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
Halloween Obstacle (2017)	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
Witchs Hat (2018)	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
Spooky Tree (2019)	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
Vacant Tomb (2020)	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
"Friendly" Flower (2021)	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000	2%
Trick or Treat? (2022)	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000	2%
Sinister Sapling (2023)	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000	2%
Ghost Post (2024)	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000	2%
Cursed Seedling (2025)	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000	2%

Anniversary Obstacles

Obstacle	Size	Removal Cost	Removal Time	Removal Reward	Respawn Weight
5th Anniversary Cake (2017)	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
6th Anniversary Cake (2018)	2x2	25,000	30s	75,000 and 5	2%
7th Birthday Surprise (2019)	2x2	7,777	30s	77,777 and 5	N/A
8th Anniversary Cake (2020)	2x2	8,888	30s	88,888 and 5	N/A
9th Anniversary Cake (2021)	2x2	9,999	30s	99,999 and 5	N/A
10th Anniversary Cake (2022)	2x2	10,000	30s	101,010 and 5	N/A
11th Anniversary Cake (2023)	2x2	10,000	30s	101,010 and 5	N/A
12th Anniversary Cake (2024)	2x2	1,200	30s	12,000 and 5	N/A
13th Anniversary Cake (2025)	2x2	13	30s	13,000 and 5	N/A

Lunar New Year Obstacles

Obstacle	Size	Removal Cost	Removal Time	Removal Reward	Respawn Weight
Fireworks Stash (2018)	2x2	500	30s	25,000 and 2	N/A
Fortune Tree (2018)	2x2	1,000	30s	75,000 and 2	N/A
Glowy Lantern (2020)	2x2	7,777	30s	77,777 and 5	N/A
Lucky Shrub (2021)	2x2	7,777	30s	77,777 and 5	N/A
Rabbit Lantern (2023)	2x2	7,777	30s	77,777 and 5	N/A
Lucky Letterbox (2024)	2x2	8,888	30s	88,888 and 5	N/A
Snake Sculpture (2025)	2x2	888	30s	8,888 and 5	N/A

Other Event Obstacles

• The Spike-y Cactus was released in celebration of Supercell's highly anticipated game, Brawl Stars. It resembles the Brawler Spike.
• The Mysterious Object started spawning on April 26, 2024 for the Clash with Haaland event, it appears as a spherical ball used for association football. When selected, it bounces into the air.
• Money in the Bank started spawning on April 1, 2025 for the ClashaMania event. It appears as a briefcase with the WWE logo on it, overflowing with dollar bills that have the Goblin Builder's face on them.
• The Glowy Ore Meteorite, Shiny Ore Meteorite and Starry Ore Meteorite started spawning on November 1, 2025. Like their names imply, they will give a varying amount of their corresponding Ores when removed.

Obstacle	Size	Removal Cost	Removal Time	Removal Reward	Respawn Weight
Spike-y Cactus	2x2	1,000	30s	75,000 and 5	N/A
Mysterious Object	2x2	3,600	9s	9 and 3	N/A
Money in the Bank	2x2	41	30s	41,000 and 5	N/A
Shiny Ore Meteorite	2x2	18,181	30s	181 and 5	N/A
Glowy Ore Meteorite	2x2	18,181	30s	18 and 5	N/A
Starry Ore Meteorite	2x2	181	30s	2 and 5	N/A

Immovable Obstacles

These Obstacles cannot be made moveable by the Shovel of Obstacles and are immediately removed when tapped.

Obstacle	Size	Removal Benefit	Removal Type	Spawning Event
Tombstone	1x1	20	All Tombstones are cleared upon being tapped, including Dark Tombstones.	Attacking or defending Elixir troop is killed.
Dark Tombstone	1x1	1	All Dark Tombstones are cleared upon being tapped, including normal Tombstones.	Attacking or defending Dark Elixir troop is killed.
Overgrowth Root	1x1	1	All overgrowth roots are cleared upon being touched	Roots left behind by Overgrowth spell.
Present	1x1	5,000	Each Present can be removed separately.	Presents spawned by the 2014 Clashmas tree.
Present	1x1	5,000	All Presents generated from the Spell are cleared upon being tapped.	Presents left behind from the Santa's Surprise spell.
Present	1x1	5000	All Presents generated from the Spell are cleared upon being tapped	Presents left behind from the Birthday Boom spell.
Sour Elixir Tombstone	1x1	1	All Sour Elixir Tombstones are cleared upon being tapped.	Attacking Mashup Troop is killed.
Sweet Elixir Tombstone	1x1	1	All Sweet Elixir Tombstones are cleared upon being tapped.	Attacking Cookie Rumble Troop is killed.
ClashaMania Tombstone	1x1	1	All ClashaMania Tombstones are cleared upon being tapped.	Attacking ClashaMania Troop is killed.

Trivia

• The rainbow effect on the Gem Box is a reference to the saying "There's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow." However, in this case, the pot of gold is a pot of gems.
• The Gem Box may have squashed a patch of mushrooms when falling out of the sky. Mushrooms are visible underneath it.
• If no gems are purchased, earned through achievements or spent on various purposes, 1623 obstacles (not including Gem Boxes) are needed to clear to buy the 3rd, 4th and 5th Builder Huts which cost 3500 gems in total, which roughly translates to 528 days (counting from the first obstacle removed and assuming that the village always contain less than 45 obstacles, in order for new obstacles to spawn).
• Aside from the Gem Box, the Spike-y Cactus and the Glowy Lantern (from the Builder Base) are the only obstacles that give a different resource than used to remove it.
• For a 2015 April fools prank Supercell said that Gem Boxes would be affected by Lightning Spell as well as other pranks.

  

• On 13 December 2019, Clash of Clans Community Manager Darian made this Reddit post with a graph, seen on the right, with data on the number of players who had an Clashmas Tree from each year.
• Early footage of the November 2025 Meteorites showed by creators such as Judo Sloth revealed earlier names for each one, being:
  • Shimmering Stone for the Starry Ore Meteorite;
  • Pulsating Stone the Shiny Ore Meteorite;
  • Glowing Stone for the Glowy Ore Meteorite.
    • These names were likely changed to make it more clear what each Meteorite gives upon being removed.

Icon Descriptions

	Tapping this icon removes this obstacle using Gold, if you have enough Gold. 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. This icon only appears if the obstacle is in the Home Village 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 allows this Obstacle to be permanently movable, at the cost of one Shovel of Obstacles. This icon is only shown if you have at least one Shovel of Obstacles.