Town Hall 16 Farming Layout #9

TH16 Farming Base #9: Storage-Led Diamond with a Lower-Right Entry

Town Hall 16 Farming Layout #9 is built around a storage-led diamond, which gives it a noticeably different feel from the broken-ring layouts around it. Instead of asking troops to circle one central objective, this design spreads important resource buildings through several stages of the village. The Town Hall sits slightly above the visual center, while the major storages and defensive buildings create a layered route through the middle.

That arrangement makes sense for farming. An attacker may reach one valuable pocket fairly quickly, but taking the next storage is not necessarily a straight continuation of the same push. The army has to cross another compartment, change direction, or spend additional troops opening a second route.

In practical terms, the base is trying to make complete loot collection more expensive than partial loot collection.

The storage-led diamond shapes the attack

The wall structure creates a diamond-like path around the central area, with storages helping define where troops are likely to travel.

That is important because storages are not just resource buildings; they are also high-hitpoint targets that can slow an attack. When several of them sit along different branches of the layout, a Queen, Dragon group, or ground force may spend valuable time working through one section while another resource pocket remains untouched.

A raid can therefore look successful quite early.

An attacker may clear the first compartment, take one storage, and move toward the Town Hall with plenty of troops still alive. But the final resource buildings may sit behind a different wall line or on the opposite side of the central diamond.

That is where the farming value begins to show.

Why the lower-right edge looks like the easiest funnel

The lower-right edge, roughly around four or five o’clock, appears to be the most natural place to shape an entry.

There are enough outside buildings in that area to create a controlled funnel without immediately deploying the entire army. From there, the wall lines offer a diagonal route toward the middle.

It is also the side I would watch most carefully as the defender.

A disciplined attacker could remove the correct exterior buildings, open one storage lane, and create a surprisingly direct route toward the central section. If that happens, the layout becomes easier to read.

A sloppy funnel is different.

If too much of the lower-right side is cleared, the main ground army may move inward while the Queen or supporting troops follow buildings closer to the edge. The attack can still look strong because multiple sections are being cleared at once, but spell support becomes much harder once those groups separate.

That split may not kill the army immediately. It can simply make the raid slower, which is often enough for a farming layout.

The main weakness: a diagonal push through an exposed storage lane

The clearest weakness is a controlled diagonal entry that turns one storage lane into a shortcut toward the center.

If an attacker manages to open that lane cleanly, Root Riders or another heavy ground smash army could move through the compartments with less pathing uncertainty than the layout intends.

Root Riders would probably be one of the first strategies worth testing because the wall network itself is unlikely to stop them for long. The more important defensive question is whether the base can pull heroes and support troops away from the main group.

If everything stays compact, the attacker can get strong value from Rage, Heal, Freeze, Overgrowth, or other support spells.

If the army spreads, the same composition becomes less efficient even when most of the troops survive.

That difference could decide whether the attacker takes one or two storages—or manages to sweep the entire base.

Queen Charge Hybrid could control the diagonal

Queen Charge Hybrid is another realistic counter.

A Queen beginning from the lower-right could remove one defensive pocket and clear the outside buildings that might otherwise pull the Hybrid army away from the central route.

If the Queen creates the intended funnel, Miners and Hog Riders would have a much more predictable line through the storage-led diamond.

The catch is time.

Storages can slow Queen Charges more than players sometimes expect. One extra high-hitpoint target or awkward wall choice can add several seconds. If the Queen continues around the edge rather than entering the intended compartment, the main Hybrid phase may start noticeably later.

The Town Hall may still fall. Good percentage may still be achieved.

But the final storage could remain untouched simply because the surviving army is too far away when the timer becomes uncomfortable.

That is exactly the kind of result a farming base can benefit from.

Air approaches have multiple paths, but no effortless shortcut

The Air Defenses appear to cover different entry lanes rather than sitting together in one compact group. The Inferno Towers also function more like separate inner anchors.

That spacing makes air attacks less straightforward.

Dragons could potentially enter from the lower-right after a funnel is prepared. I would expect a relatively narrow deployment to work better than a wide line. If some Dragons follow outside buildings while the stronger group enters the center, the main push arrives with less damage than the attacker originally planned.

LavaLoon offers more control over target order, but the attack still has to be solved in stages.

Removing one Air Defense does not automatically open the full base. The attacker has to plan the next defensive section, manage the Town Hall area, and still finish close enough to the remaining storages for cleanup.

That final transition is important because the storage route is deliberately broken into separate stages.

Why this layout fits the Farming category

The strongest farming idea in Layout #9 is not simply the Town Hall placement. It is the distance and wall cost between one storage pocket and the next.

An attacker might take one storage fairly easily.

The second asks for another commitment.

A third may require the army to cross the center or redirect into another branch of the diamond.

By then, some troops may already be gone, hero abilities may have been used, and the timer begins to matter.

That is a realistic defensive concept. A farming base does not have to promise that no attacker will take resources. Against a strong, well-planned TH16 army, that would be unrealistic.

A more believable goal is to make rushed farming attacks leave something behind.