What is farming?

Sometimes, you may see a base where the town hall is unprotected, and out in the open.  When you see this, it usually means that the person is "farming."

Well what is farming?  Let's take a look at a base first, to see what it actually is.

This is my base, we will use it as an example.  Here you can see that the town hall is up at the top, barely protected.  The question you may have is "Why on earth is the town hall there?  Won't you lose trophies when someone attacks?"  The answer is simple, yes you lose trophies.  

Here is the reason why that is beneficial as compared to having it in the middle.  Whenever you (or anyone else for that matter) attacks, you get one star for getting 50%, one star for 100%, and  one star for destroying the town hall.  Each star you get, you will get approx. one-third of the possible trophies.  With the town hall exposed like this, there will be a very high likelihood that someone comes along, attacks the town hall, and leaves the rest of the base untouched.  When someone does this, you get a 12 hour shield, lose 1000 gold and elixer, lose anywhere from 5 to 10 trophies, and keep all the rest of your loot.  What's more important, 6 trophies, or 100,000 gold and elixer?

This is what a base looks like while you are farming, but how do you farm?

I will explain how to attack when you farm.  It is a little different that regular attacking.  For example, if you are attacking to get a lot of trophies, and to 100% someone else's base, you may use 10 giants, a healer, 30 archers, 5 wall breakers, and 20 goblins.  But when you farm, the main troops you use are goblins.   My farming attack strategy is 10 wall breakers, 20 archers, and about 125 goblins.  Let me post some pictures of how to attack to explain better.

To find the right base, sometimes you need to hit next multiple times.  You want to look for bases where the loot is in the elixer collectors and gold mines, and not in the storages.  If the storages are close to the edge, then that's even better, attacking those may be easier.

How do you know if there is loot in a collector or gold mine?

 The next two pics are empty mines and collectors.

The next two pics are of full mines and collectors.

In the gold mine, the empty one you can see a small empty box, and a full one, you can see gold blocks next to the rail cart.  In the elixer collector, the empty one appears empty, and the full one appears as if it is full of elixer.  As you farm, look for places with full elixer collectors and gold mines.

This next base is perfect to attack:

You can see that most of the elixer collectors and gold mines are on the outside of the walls.

Send in lots of goblins!

Sometimes there are walls on the outside of the collectors or mines and you will need to use wall breakers to get the loot. Send in a few goblins to distract the archers towers, cannons, mortars, and wizards towers, then send in the goblins like this:

You can see that some goblins are attacking the walls, and there are two incoming wall breakers. The wall breakers will surivive because the goblins are taking a hit. Once the wall is broken open I send in way more goblins! Works every time.

Success!

I got tons of loot, and lost some trophies.  Farming takes a huge trophy hit almost every time.  But it makes it worthwhile in the long run. After dropping down a hundred trophies I make a different style of attack, and I attack for trophies instead of loot.

Any questions? Write a comment and I will try to answer it as best I can!