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How does beginner protection work?

New players are protected for 24 hours: nobody can attack, raid or scout their villages. Attacking, raiding or scouting another player ends your protection at once.

Your protection starts when you register and lasts 24 real hours. The Village overview shows the time left.

While you are protected, other players cannot attack, raid or scout your villages.

Your protection ends immediately when you send an attack, raid or scouts to another player's village.

These do not end protection: raiding or attacking oases, sending reinforcements, trading, and founding villages.

You can buy 24 more hours of protection for 80 Gold. See Buying protection.

What works best
  • Raid oases while protected. You get resources and hero experience at no risk to your village.
  • Prepare for the end: build a Cranny, some defence, and do not keep full storage.

Plus & Gold (protection)

Related topics

  • Buying protection Gold & servicesBuy 24 hours of protection for 80 Gold. Only while you are not protected, and not within 8 hours after your last bought protection ended or after you attacked a player.
  • What should I do in my first hour? Getting startedUpgrade all resource fields, build a Rally Point, Warehouse, Granary and Cranny, then raise the Main Building and start raiding oases. Use your 24 hours of beginner protection well.
  • Raiding oases for resources OasesFree oases collect resources over time. On this world each +25% bonus gathers 4,000 per hour, up to 80,000 per resource. Win a raid or attack to take them.
  • How does the cranny work? Defence & protectionThe cranny hides 3.5% of your storage per level (35% at level 10) of each resource from raiders. Gauls hide twice as much, but never more than 35%.

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