COC Bases: TH17 All Layouts (War, Farming, Defense & More)
All TH17 layouts in one place — war, farming, defense, hybrid, anti-2 star, anti-3 star, anti-air, trophy, and balanced designs for every goal.
Complete Guide to TH17 Base Layouts
Town Hall 17 changes how the central area of a Home Village should be designed.
The Eagle Artillery is merged with the Town Hall to create the Inferno Artillery,
the traditional Town Hall destruction bomb is replaced by a separate visible
Giga Bomb, and Firespitters introduce directional defensive coverage.
A useful TH17 base layout must therefore do more than surround
the Town Hall with walls. It should control access to the Inferno Artillery,
place the Giga Bomb where it affects a meaningful route, direct Firespitters
toward likely troop paths, protect major defenses from early Hero removal,
and preserve enough damage for the final part of an attack.
The layouts on this page cover several different goals. Use the sections below
to decide whether you need a war, farming, defense, hybrid, anti-air,
anti-2-star, anti-3-star, or ranked design.
TH17 War Layouts
TH17 war layouts are designed to make a planned three-star attack difficult. They separate high-value defenses, create uncertain entry choices, preserve back-end damage, and use traps against routes that attackers are likely to select after studying the base.
Choose a war layout when Clan Wars or Clan War Leagues are your main priority. The base should force attackers to decide how they will handle the Inferno Artillery, Firespitters, defending Heroes, Monolith, Spell Towers, Giga Bomb, and remaining defenses without gaining all of them from one entry.
TH17 Farming Layouts
TH17 farming layouts distribute Gold, Elixir, and Dark Elixir storages across defended sections of the village. The goal is to prevent one simple raid from reaching every valuable storage while you continue upgrading Heroes, pets, troops, defenses, walls, equipment, and merged buildings.
A farming layout should not place every storage in one central group. Separating resources can force attackers to choose between securing stars and collecting the maximum possible loot.
TH17 Defense Layouts
Defense layouts are intended for regular multiplayer and ranked defensive use. They balance Town Hall access, percentage denial, defensive Hero placement, air and ground coverage, trap value, and the survival of important back-end defenses.
Select this category when you want broad protection against several army styles rather than a layout designed around one specific war matchup.
TH17 Hybrid Layouts
Hybrid layouts combine resource protection with trophy and star defense. Storages can be used as high-hitpoint buffers, but they should not create a direct path toward the Town Hall or block important defenses from supporting one another.
This style is suitable when you want one active village layout for normal progression instead of changing between separate farming and trophy bases.
TH17 Anti-2-Star Layouts
Anti-2-star layouts focus on denying a safe Town Hall takedown while also making the required destruction percentage difficult to collect. They may use a protected or offset Town Hall, dangerous central compartments, defended percentage buildings, and routes that require early Hero or spell commitment.
This approach is useful when opponents frequently secure the Town Hall and enough percentage without placing the rest of their army at significant risk.
TH17 Anti-3-Star Layouts
Anti-3-star layouts accept that a skilled attacker may secure the Town Hall but try to prevent the complete clear. Major defenses are separated, pathing is less predictable, and strong back-end zones remain after the first objective falls.
Choose this layout type for war when preventing the third star matters more than creating the lowest possible destruction percentage.
TH17 Anti-Air Layouts
TH17 anti-air layouts use Air Defenses, Sweepers, Firespitters, air-targeting traps, defending Heroes, and separated defensive zones to disrupt Dragons, Electro Dragons, Balloons, Dragon Duke entries, and air Siege Machine routes.
Use an anti-air layout when your defense log shows that air armies repeatedly gain safe funnels, strong chain value, or predictable access to the Inferno Artillery.
TH17 Legend and Ranked Layouts
Legend and ranked layouts should prepare for repeated attacks from players using different armies and Hero combinations. They need broad defensive coverage, protected back-end damage, carefully aimed Firespitters, and trap placements based on likely high-level entries.
Ranked performance should be reviewed through several defensive battles. One result is not enough to determine whether the complete layout is weak.
What Makes Town Hall 17 Base Building Different?
The defining feature of TH17 is the Inferno Artillery. It replaces the separate Eagle Artillery by merging that defense with the Town Hall. The weapon remains active throughout the attack and can fire at multiple targets while leaving damaging areas behind.
Unlike the weapon used by several earlier Town Hall levels, the TH17 building does not produce a destruction explosion after it is removed. Instead, TH17 introduces the separate Giga Bomb. This means the Town Hall and the strongest explosion trap can influence different parts of the attacker’s route.
TH17 also adds Firespitters, which cover a selected direction rather than attacking equally in every direction. Their value depends heavily on orientation. A Firespitter aimed toward an unused section of the village may contribute much less than one covering a common ground or air route.
Inferno Artillery Placement
The Inferno Artillery can apply pressure throughout an attack, but central placement is not automatically the best choice. A fully centralized Town Hall may give attackers access to several nearby defenses after creating one successful entry.
Review whether your Town Hall position creates competing objectives or simply concentrates every important target in the same compartment.
Giga Bomb Placement
The Giga Bomb is visible, deals damage in a large area, and applies strong pushback. Place it where attackers must decide whether to trigger it early, route around it, or use protection while crossing its area.
Avoid placing it in a location that can be triggered by a small test troop without affecting the main army. Its position should support the layout’s pathing and trap plan.
Firespitter Direction
A Firespitter attacks within a chosen cone. Aim it across a likely troop route, central objective, or back-end compartment rather than directly toward a section attackers can easily avoid.
Review both Firespitter direction and building placement after copying a base. The copied orientation may not match the entry routes common in your league or war group.
Defending Hero Selection
The Hero Hall system allows TH17 players to select active Heroes and place defensive Heroes through Hero Banners. Hero choice and positioning should support the layout rather than follow the same setup on every base.
Separate defending Heroes when grouping them would allow one spell, equipment ability, or troop group to damage several Heroes and defenses together.
How to Build Around the Inferno Artillery
Attackers often plan an important part of their army around reaching or controlling the Town Hall. A strong TH17 design should make the Town Hall expensive to reach without placing every major defense directly beside it.
Central Town Hall
A central Inferno Artillery can apply damage for longer and may force attackers to travel through several defended layers. This style can be useful for anti-2-star designs, but it must avoid creating one compact area containing the Town Hall, Monolith, Spell Towers, defending Heroes, and both Firespitters.
Offset Town Hall
An offset Town Hall can pull the attacking army away from other important defenses or create uncertainty about the main entry. It works best when the apparent Town Hall route leads into traps, awkward pathing, or a strong defensive exchange.
Exposed or Teaser Town Hall
A teaser-style Town Hall may encourage attackers to enter from a predictable side. The surrounding layout must punish that decision through traps, Firespitter coverage, defending Heroes, or difficult access to the remaining base.
Do not use an exposed Town Hall only because it looks unusual. The placement needs a clear pathing purpose.
Town Hall Compartment Spacing
Avoid placing too many valuable defenses within the same spell or Hero ability area. Attackers should not be able to secure the Town Hall and remove most of the core with one protected troop group.
Using Firespitters Effectively
Firespitters are among the most layout-dependent TH17 defenses because they do not provide equal coverage on every side. Their direction should match predicted troop movement rather than simply point toward the center.
Cover a Likely Entry
Aim a Firespitter across a route where tanks, Heroes, support troops, or flying units are likely to travel. Buildings and walls should help keep troops inside the covered area instead of directing them away from it.
Protect the Firespitter
Avoid placing it where a Queen entry, long-range troop, or early Hero ability can remove it without entering other defensive ranges. Its rapid attacks provide more value when it survives into the main phase of the attack.
Create Cross-Coverage
Firespitters can support different sides of an important area without being placed next to each other. Separated positions reduce the chance that one entry or spell group removes both defenses.
Avoid Dead Coverage
Inspect the visible targeting cone in the Layout Editor. Reposition or rotate the Firespitter when most of its coverage falls outside the base or across an area attackers rarely use.
Planning the Giga Bomb Zone
Because the Giga Bomb is separate from the Town Hall, attackers can see and plan around both objectives. This creates an opportunity to influence their route, but only when the bomb is supported by the rest of the layout.
- Place it on a likely route: the main army should have a realistic reason to move through its trigger area.
- Support it with defenses: troops affected by the pushback should remain under meaningful defensive fire.
- Avoid easy activation: do not allow one low-value troop to trigger the bomb safely before the main deployment.
- Consider Hero movement: the bomb can interrupt a Hero-led entry when walls and buildings guide the Hero toward its position.
- Do not copy placement blindly: check whether the bomb supports the copied base’s actual pathing.
Important Defensive Zones at TH17
TH17 has enough high-impact defenses that placing all of them in one central cluster usually creates excessive value. Spread important targets while keeping enough overlapping coverage to prevent attackers from removing them individually.
- Inferno Artillery zone: protect the Town Hall without allowing one entry to remove the full defensive core.
- Firespitter zones: aim them through likely troop paths and avoid leaving both exposed to the same approach.
- Giga Bomb zone: support its damage and pushback with surrounding defenses.
- Monolith zone: protect it from simple Hero removal while avoiding excessive value beside the Town Hall.
- Spell Tower zones: use settings that support nearby defenses and the purpose of each compartment.
- Merged defense zones: position Ricochet Cannons and Multi-Archer Towers where their coverage is difficult to avoid.
- Defending Hero zones: create pressure on different sections rather than grouping every Hero in one area.
- Back-end zone: preserve enough defensive damage to challenge troops that survive the Town Hall compartment.
Common TH17 Attack Threats
TH17 attackers can combine five available Heroes with four active Hero slots, Siege Machines, pets, equipment, Clan reinforcements, and several strong ground and air armies. A base should not be described as capable of stopping every strategy.
Thrower Armies
Throwers have long range, high hitpoints, and can target any building. Layouts should avoid giving them a protected line of important defenses while tanks or Heroes absorb damage in front.
Use walls, building offsets, defending Heroes, and angled defensive coverage to force Throwers to move closer or change targets.
Meteor Golem and Heavy Ground Armies
Meteor Golems and other durable ground troops can create broad paths through the village. Compartment design should prevent one push from reaching the Town Hall, Monolith, Spell Towers, and back-end defenses in sequence.
Dragon and Air Armies
Dragons, Electro Dragons, Balloons, Dragon Duke entries, and air Siege Machines can punish predictable Sweeper directions, grouped buildings, and exposed Air Defenses. Use spacing and directional Firespitter coverage to create less efficient air routes.
Hero-Led Entries
Heroes can remove several important defenses before the main army is deployed. Check whether one Hero route can reach a Firespitter, Spell Tower, Monolith, defending Hero, and Inferno Artillery without changing direction.
Revive Spell Attacks
The Revive Spell can return a defeated Hero with part of its health. A layout should not depend entirely on defeating one attacking Hero early if that Hero can return and continue along the same valuable route.
Separate important defensive objectives so a revived Hero still needs to travel through additional coverage.
Siege Machine Entries
Battle Blimps and other Siege Machines can bypass normal wall routes or deliver troops into protected areas. Place traps according to realistic travel lines toward the Inferno Artillery and other high-value compartments.
Choosing Defensive Heroes at TH17
TH17 players can choose which Heroes are active on defense. The best defensive combination depends on the base rather than one universal setup. Review which Hero ranges and abilities support each compartment.
Ground-Focused Defense
When durable ground armies repeatedly enter through the same section, select and position Heroes that add pressure along that route. Avoid placing every ground-focused Hero where one spell can control them together.
Air-Focused Defense
When air armies gain easy access, use defensive Hero positions that support Air Defenses, Firespitters, Sweepers, and back-end coverage. Check whether the Heroes can be removed safely from outside the base.
Hero Separation
Separating Heroes can create several defensive encounters during one attack. This reduces the chance that one equipment activation, spell group, or troop push removes all defensive Heroes together.
Hero Banner Placement
Review Hero Banner positions after copying a layout. A copied base may use a different defensive Hero selection from the one currently active on your account.
TH17 War Layout or Ranked Layout?
A war attacker can study the base, inspect available buildings, and prepare a specific army. War layouts therefore benefit from uncertain entry choices, misleading routes, and traps placed for likely custom plans.
Ranked and regular defensive layouts may face a wider range of armies over multiple battles. They need balanced coverage and should avoid a weakness that can be repeated by many attackers.
Choose a War Layout When
Your priority is preventing a planned three-star attack, preserving difficult back-end defenses, and forcing the attacker to divide spells and Hero abilities between several objectives.
Choose a Ranked Layout When
Your priority is broad defensive coverage against several troop combinations and reducing repeated high-destruction results over a series of battles.
How to Choose a TH17 Layout from This Page
Begin with the purpose of the layout rather than selecting the most compact or visually unusual design. A farming base, anti-2-star base, and anti-3-star war base should be evaluated according to different goals.
- Choose the correct category: decide whether your main goal is war, farming, ranked defense, resource protection, air defense, or star denial.
- Inspect the Inferno Artillery route: identify which Heroes, troops, and Siege Machines can reach the Town Hall from each side.
- Review the Giga Bomb: confirm that its placement supports a likely route and cannot be triggered safely.
- Check Firespitter directions: make sure their targeting cones cover meaningful ground and air paths.
- Review defensive Hero positions: avoid excessive grouped value and exposed edge placements.
- Inspect spell value: important defenses should not all fit within one spell-supported entry.
- Check the back end: enough damage should survive after the attacker reaches the first major objective.
- Match your upgrade levels: the layout may perform differently when its Firespitters, Heroes, walls, or core defenses are still upgrading.
How to Use TH17 Copy Links
Open the copy link for the layout you want and review the complete design in the Clash of Clans Layout Editor. Confirm that every building, wall, trap, defense, and Hero Banner has been placed before saving or activating the layout.
After copying, inspect the Firespitter directions, Giga Bomb position, Spell Tower settings, Inferno Tower modes, X-Bow settings, Air Sweeper directions, defensive Hero selection, Hero Banner positions, and available temporary or phase-based defenses.
Treat a copied base as a starting design. Adjust it according to your own upgrade levels and the attack routes shown in your defensive replays.
Common TH17 Base-Building Mistakes
- Building one overloaded core: placing the Inferno Artillery, Monolith, Spell Towers, defending Heroes, and Firespitters together can provide excessive value from one entry.
- Aiming Firespitters poorly: large targeting areas outside the village or across unused sections reduce their defensive influence.
- Using an ineffective Giga Bomb route: an easily triggered bomb may not affect the main army.
- Expecting a Town Hall explosion: TH17 does not use the same destruction bomb mechanic as several earlier Town Hall levels.
- Exposing long-range defenses: attackers may remove Firespitters, Monoliths, or Spell Towers before deploying the main army.
- Grouping defending Heroes: one spell or equipment activation may control several Heroes at once.
- Ignoring Revive Spell routes: defeating an attacking Hero once may not end its contribution to the attack.
- Designing only against one army: a layout focused entirely on ground defense may leave an obvious air route, and the reverse is also true.
- Copying defensive settings without review: defense modes and directions should match the actual layout.
- Replacing a layout after one replay: evaluate repeated attack patterns before deciding that the whole base has failed.
When Should You Change Your TH17 Layout?
Change or adjust the layout when several defensive replays show the same successful entry, Hero route, Siege Machine path, Giga Bomb avoidance, Firespitter blind spot, or weak back-end section.
Begin with a targeted adjustment instead of replacing the whole base. Rotate a Firespitter, change a wall opening, move a trap group, reposition a Hero Banner, strengthen a back-end defense, or adjust the Giga Bomb route. Review additional defenses before making another major change.
Why Rotating TH17 Layouts Can Help
Layout rotation can be useful when opponents recognize the same design or when one base performs poorly against the armies common in your current league, ranked group, or Clan War environment.
Rotation should be based on defensive evidence rather than a fixed schedule. Keep separate layouts available for war, farming, ranked defense, anti-air use, and star denial when those goals require different structures.
How These TH17 Layouts Are Reviewed
Layouts may be community-submitted or editorially reviewed for their Town Hall level, image, category, visible structure, and copy-link availability. Publication does not automatically mean that a layout has undergone controlled defensive testing.
Visit the layout review methodology to learn how submissions, descriptions, corrections, review labels, and testing information are handled.
Explore this page to choose a TH17 base layout for war, farming, ranked defense, resource protection, air defense, or star denial. No Town Hall 17 Clash of Clans base can guarantee a successful defense. Review your replays and adjust Firespitter directions, the Giga Bomb, defensive Heroes, traps, walls, and high-value compartments according to the attacks you actually face.
