Decorations & Obstacles

Decorations:

Decorations are purely for looks objects. They have no active purpose in the defense or production of your base. Funneling, as of the March 2013 update, which allows troops to be placed upon decorations, is no longer possible using these items. However, you can use structures  like builders huts, army camps, etc. to funnel troops.

Obstacles: 

Summary:

1) Obstacles are plants and rocks that are randomly placed in your village. 

2) You start with about 40 obstacles around your village. 

3) You can remove them if you have an available builder and a small amount of gold or elixir.

4) Gold is used to remove rocks and elixir to remove vegetation.

5) Each obstacle that is removed will yield 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 gems.  

6) The distribution is not random and follows the following repeating sequence: 6, 0, 4, 5, 1, 3, 2, 0, 0, 5, 1, 0, 3, 4, 0, 0, 5, 0, 1, 0.

 7) This means on average, each obstacle cleared yields 2 gems. 

8) This pattern does not include 25 gems yielded from the gem box.

9) Vegetation re-spawns at a rate of one item per eight hours, except if all the spaces in your village are totally filled. 

 10) A obstacle will only spawn if there is a one tile buffer zone between the spaces in which it will spawn and another building or obstacle.

11) Rocks do not re-spawn once they are removed.

12) You can't place buildings on obstacles.

13) Your village can have a maximum of 40 obstacles at one time.

14) There is an achievement called "Nice and Tidey" which gives players experience & gems for removing 10/50/500 obstacles. 

15) Troops can be spawned beside and/or on top of obstacles.

 

Information & Charts: 

Vegetation:

When the game re-spawns an obstacle, the re-spawn weight represents the chance of that particular item being the one that appears. Also, a new obstacle called the Gem Box was added, but quickly deleted due to a few glitches relating to how many gems it gives. They have been added back into the game on April 9, 2014, the update that added Clan Wars.

Type	Size	Removal Time	Experience Gained	Remove Cost	Re-spawn Weight
Mushroom	2x2	5s	3	100	10%
Bush	2x2	10s	3	250	20%
Trunk (1)	2x2	10s	5	1,000	10%
Trunk (2)	2x2	10s	5	1,000	10%
Trunk (fallen)	2x2	10s	5	1,000	20%
Tree (small)	2x2	10s	5	2,000	20%
Tree (medium)	3x3	10s	6	7,500	5%
Tree (large)	3x3	10s	7	10,000	5%
Gem Box	2x2	30s	5	1,000

Rocks: 

Rocks, once removed, do not reappear.

Type	Size	Removal Time	Experience Gained	Remove Cost
Stone (small 1)	2x2	20s	4	500
Stone (small 2)	2x2	20s	4	500
Stone (small 3)	2x2	20s	4	500
Stone (small 4)	2x2	20s	4	500
Stone (pillar)	2x2	45s	6	10,000
Stone (large)	3x3	60s	7	20,000

Tombstones:

Tombstones spawn when attacking troops are killed. 

 

Type	Size	Removal Time	Removal Benefit	Event at which appears:
Tombstone	1x1	Instant	Gives 20 elixir	attack/defend troop killed.
Dark Tombstone	1x1	Instant	Gives 1 dark elixir	attack/defend troop killed.

Gem Box:

The Gem Box is a mysterious box packed with gems! You can only have 1 gem box at any time in a village. Clearing the Gem Box costs 1,000 Elixir, takes 30 seconds to clear and will give you 25 gems. The gem box is rare but in the recent update they made them more common.

Special Obstacles:

During the Winter 2012 Update, they added a X-mas Tree that gives 30,000 gold when cleared, which was then increased to 50,000. On 3 January 2013, Supercell indicated on the forums that people will get to keep their trees even after the winter theme is gone. The 2012 X-mas Tree appears as a small tree with flashing colorful ornaments.

During the Winter 2013 Update, they introduced another X-mas Tree that gives 75,000 gold when cleared. The 2013 X-mas appears as a small tree with golden garlands, a golden spike ball on top, and two skulls at the bottom of the tree.

Type	Size	Remove Cost	Removal Time	Experience Gained	Remove Value	Re-spawn Weight
X-mas Tree (2012)	2x2	25,000	30s	5	50,000	2%
X-mas Tree (2013)	2x2	25,000	30s	5	75,000	2%
Halloween Headstone (2014)	2x2	25,000	30s	5	75,000	2%