Getting farmed means other players repeatedly attack you to steal your resources. Especially for new players, this can slow down your progress and make the game frustrating. The good news: there are several ways to make yourself a less attractive target.
Below you’ll find practical steps you can take to protect your villages and discourage farmers.
Farmers often target players who appear inactive. Many use “inactive search” tools or simply watch nearby villages for signs of slow growth.
To show that you’re active:
Increase your population regularly throughout the day.
Keep your buildings and fields upgrading whenever possible.
Frequent development signals that you’re online and ready to defend yourself — and most farmers prefer to avoid an active opponent.
Try to maintain your village population within the top 200–300 players on your gameworld.
This helps in two ways:
You’ll appear less vulnerable to opportunistic farmers.
You’ll have a better chance of being invited to a strong alliance, which provides valuable protection.
Train some troops and upgrade your wall to at least level 10–15.
This increases potential losses for any player attacking you and makes farming you unprofitable.
In every village — even new ones — keep at least:
5 scouts early on
Later, 20–30 scouts minimum
Scouts help you detect incoming attacks early and discourage repeated raids.
Never leave large amounts of resources sitting in your villages while you’re offline. Before logging out:
Queue up expensive buildings.
Send resources to your capital or another well-defended village.
If you still have too much, contribute to your alliance bonus.
Reducing the loot available makes you a much less appealing target.
Set up trade routes that automatically send your resources to a defended village during your offline hours.
As a guideline, keep no more than 20,000 total resources in a resource village.
With about 30 scouts, 800 defensive units, and a wall level of 15, most attackers will move on — you’re simply not worth the risk.
If you need to save up for major buildings, collect those resources only when you’re actively checking your account and spend them immediately.
A strong alliance name alone can often discourage attacks.
If you follow the steps above, joining one should be easy — alliances look for active, well-developed players.
You don’t need to fill every village with defensive troops. As long as your resource villages stay light on resources, you detect enemy scouts, and you have some defense available in nearby villages (your own or your allies’), most farmers will give up.
You might think that building multiple crannies would protect your resources. In practice, this isn’t very effective.
Crannies take up valuable building slots that are better used for growth.
They can’t protect enough resources once your development advances.
Building one cranny early can help, but relying on many crannies slows your progress compared to players who invest in proper defense and development.
