2014-10-22

(Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) – Clash of Clans has received a new update today, adding Halloween themed features to the mobile game, as well as a few tweaks and additions.

Included in the update is a new permanent Skeleton Trap that allows players to distract enemies with skeleton troops, improvements to the search feature, increased league bonus, boost improvements, and interface additions, says a forum post from SuperCell.

Check out the full patch notes below:

New permanent trap: The Skeleton Trap!

✔ Ambush and distract your enemies with a small group of Skeleton troops! They might be short-lived, but will certainly get some attention.

✔ Skeleton Traps can be set to target either ground troops or air troops. Find the right mix of trap modes for your village!

✔ Skeleton Traps become available at Town Hall 8 and can be upgraded to deploy more skeletons at once.

Limited-time treats lasting through Halloween weekend

✔ 1-gem Spell Factory boost special is back!

✔ Harvest some bonus Elixir from special Halloween Headstone obstacles

Clan profile and search improvements

✔ Specify your Clan’s war frequency in your Clan profile, anything from always to never

✔ Specify your Clan’s location, or declare it as International

✔ Search other Clans by war frequency, location, member count and minimum clan points, even without specifying a search name

✔ Know what Clan you’re searching for? Search via hashtag to get the exact result you need.

✔ Clan descriptions can now be much longer!

Increased League bonus and more War loot

✔ Get at least 20% more Gold, Elixir and Dark Elixir from Clan Wars, win or lose!

✔ Keep more of your war loot even if your Clan doesn’t win the Clan War

✔ Store more war loot in your Clan Castle

✔ Get a bigger League bonus from winning multiplayer battles in all Leagues

Boost improvements

✔ Boost all buildings of the same type with one button

✔ Barracks, Spell Factory and Hero boosts will now be automatically paused during maintenance and can be resumed later for free

✔ Slightly reduced boost cost for Elixir Pump level 11, Gold Mine level 11 and Dark Elixir Drill levels 5 & 6

Other Interface Improvements

✔ New Mortar at Town Hall 8

✔ Player profile now shows the highest unlocked level of a player’s troops, heroes and spells!

✔ The Hero icons will now show Hero ability status also in replays

✔ Army camp contents are now visible to visitors in the Army Camp info screen

✔ Time to remove obstacles is now lower

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