



Village Guard - Online Time Support

While Village Guard is active, your village acts as if you are online, even if you close the game or get disconnected

Players can freely attack through Village Guard with no penalty

Free Village Guard time activates automatically when shields expire, from 15 minutes to 3 hours long based on League

2 hours of extra Village Guard can be bought for 10 gems every day in the shop, when your shield is down (23 hour cooldown)

Active Village Guard can be dismissed at any time

Buying a Shield from the Shop will dismiss active Village Guard

The existing Personal Break system is also related to any talk about online time. Personal Breaks place a time limit on how long any one player can stay online without a shield until the game says, "Okay, to play Clash you have to defend, and it's fair time other players get a chance to attack you." The player is then kicked offline for a few minutes of matchmaking time to allow attackers that chance.





Personal Breaks make sure everyone defends regularly



A player is forced offline for 6 minutes after 3 hours of cumulative online time (or Village Guard time) without shield

This Personal Break 3-hour limit is only reset after getting a shield, or in some special cases covered below

Buying the 2-hour Village Guard from the Shop will extend a player's current Personal Break 3-hour limit by 2 hours

The Personal Break 3-hour limit for online players is paused during server maintenance, but not reset

We're already discussed a whole lot of changes, and there are still more changes to loot, League Bonuses and Trophy offers to tie them all together, which we will discuss in our next post. For the rest of this post, we are diving into finer details of the revamped shield system that are somewhat complex. The Personal Break rules, especially, will not be a factor for most players, so if you just want to wait for the update and learn by playing, please do! We're sure all Clashers will get the hang of it after just a few attacks and defenses. However, if you want to dive into what this new system means in practice, learn exactly how the Village Guard differs from Shield, and go over even finer details of the revamped Personal Break system, read on to find out more!

Support for Dedicated Clashing





Go online, offline and attack freely, safe from attack with Village Guard

