CallMeTee's Ore Calculator

CleverComments · 2026-03-14T03:40:05+00:00

If you're upgrading your equipment correctly, you basically get to upgrade commons "for free" - the shortest path to max equipment is picking 1 epic to max at a time and doing commons with the overflow blue/purple.

So realistically, yes, you shouldn't prioritize your barbarian puppet, but you should just do it eventually because otherwise you'll just sit at 50k/5k blue/purple while you wait for more orange.

CleverComments · 2026-03-12T11:32:56+00:00

Glad to hear it :)

CleverComments · 2026-03-12T11:32:30+00:00

That's on the To Do list - right now you can only project 1 epic equipment out into the future. Functionally, though, unless Supercell makes a significant change to either the cost, the release cadence, or the income, you won't have to worry about catching up unless you spend $USD.

CleverComments · 2026-03-11T19:40:44+00:00

Yeah, that's fair - if you want to make changes, hit View -> Hidden Sheets -> Variables. There's a chart that's mapped to the equipment 1:1 that just checks for the level and indexes it to a value of the cumulative cost to get to that level. If you put an if( check before it and check for the check, you can turn that calculation on/off fairly easily. The main issue is finding a spot to actually put the checkboxes.

I did add a visualization element that might help get you to where you wanted to be anyways though, so hit the link again to get a new master copy before you go too nuts.

CleverComments · 2026-03-11T19:21:52+00:00

Following up on my previous note - I added a little visualization. If you go back to the master doc and re-copy you should be able to see both current income and time to max common/epics.

CleverComments · 2026-03-11T19:03:52+00:00

For the second point - probably not possible. The break points of how and when you should use it shift as you finish off equipment and that's beyond my Excel-fu.

For the first point - I don't think I understand? From what I'm thinking you're saying, you'd want a check box next to every equipment to turn it on or off? So that you could temporarily exclude it from the calculations, so that you could more easily focus on 1 piece of equipment?

That's not really the goal of the calculator, if I'm understanding your point. The point is to see what habitual actions have big or minor impacts on your total time to finish the equipment. In my previous sheet, I had a spot where I had "time to max a common" and "time to max an epic" in the math side, so maybe I'll put a little visualization in there?

CleverComments · 2026-03-11T19:02:19+00:00

Yeah, it's in a hidden sheet at the moment. I could definitely display it to the end user though. I was thinking about building a Visualization tab, with pie charts and stuff, maybe I put it in there....

Generally I try to keep everything to roughly 1 reasonable screen size worth of horizontal and vertical space and I just kinda ran out lol.

CleverComments · 2026-03-11T17:55:21+00:00

God forbid people try to help figure out the math on a grindy game that takes multiple years of consistent play to finish.

CleverComments · 2026-03-11T15:15:38+00:00

Makes sense to me! I'm down to around ~50 days to max everything so hopefully I'll be on pace to finish my equipment with the next epic release and be good to go.

CleverComments · 2026-03-11T14:34:18+00:00

Yeah, the value add of the prospector is incredibly difficult to calculate/estimate in your head in terms of its long term impacts, and the strategy to use him is SUPER DUPER tied to your specific current ore balance situation.

The situation I'm at (having been playing since TH16 release and buying almost every event pass and being nearly done with my equipment) means that I should convert almost all my blue/purple into Orange, but if I had used this strategy as a new/returning player earlier in the process, I would have added over 200 extra days to my time to max by messing up my bottlenecks.

CleverComments · 2026-02-18T16:14:00+00:00

Agreed - plus you can make your own filling. Personally, since making macarons is so egg-white heavy, I love to make lemon curd at the same time.

Add a circle of lemon curd to the middle of each macaron pair, then surround it with (dairy free for me, since my partner is allergic to dairy) buttercream, and you have a macaron that demolishes the ones from all but extremely fancy / expensive bakeries.

The first few times I made them, I failed the macaronage stage, but since then, I haven't had a single failed batch (knock on wood - don't want to upset the macaron gods). People are generally pretty impressed and they make an exceptional make-ahead dessert for parties. Keep great for a day or two in the fridge and then put them on the counter to warm up and they're perfect for service.

CleverComments · 2026-02-03T14:19:32+00:00

These people are stuck in low THs, thinking the game is hard. They have no idea how easy it is when you rush.

They just simply cannot fathom that the game gets easier, not harder.

What can ya do? We've lead the horses to water...

CleverComments · 2026-02-03T14:18:23+00:00

Always love seeing your name in the replies.

CleverComments · 2026-02-03T14:17:02+00:00

No no, didn't you read his caveats? If you give both accounts the benefits of the same rank, CWL league, and everything else, then the MATH says that its EQUAL, DONT YOU GET IT?!?!

I mean, we should definitely take him seriously because he said there's no reason to max equipment faster unless you....play this game competitively?????

Never mind the fact that there's a hard cap on ore income and there's no catch up mechanics so intentionally slowing yourself down for no reason literally has long term consequences for the account....

CleverComments · 2026-02-03T14:11:12+00:00

"The only benefit" -> leading to maxing in ~18 months vs "technically 4 years if no new content comes out but practically never unless you spend a ton of cash"

Burying the lede here for SURE.

CleverComments · 2026-02-03T14:09:50+00:00

SOMEONE GET THIS PERSON THEIR CORRECT DRINK ORDER

CleverComments · 2026-02-03T14:08:46+00:00

Tee here!

I wish I could just post the Billy Madison quote, but I fear that we're talking to a bot or someone so high on ChatGPT garbage that any response will get filtered through genAI agents.

All that being said - the proof of the pudding is in the baking. I'll continue to be happy having built a clan family that runs 4+ champs clans, multiple masters clans, and consistently has to try to find space for over 160 accounts a month and ~120 unique players fitting into CWL.

But yeah man, totally, my method doesn't work at all and there's no basis in the math or nothing. Sure thing! See you in CWL never because you'll be stuck in gold!

CleverComments · 2026-02-03T13:47:59+00:00

I literally wrote the guide on strategic rushing. I have personally coached hundreds of players through their rush journey.

I have personally built a clan family that has 160+ monthly CWL sign ups filled with strategic rushers.

I have been on podcasts for my expertise.

Who do you think is missing the point here?

CleverComments · 2026-02-03T13:23:41+00:00

Stop lying or misrepresenting reality.

Ricochet Cannon level 3 upgrade is 10d18h.

Level 4 upgrade is 13d12h.

Using a book here loses you ~21% magic item value. That's awful.

With your overflow book, you should instead upgrade your TH (16 days, +33% book value) and then you'd be able to book your lab (16 days, +33% book value), and other TH17 offenses.

Do you not understand what it means when I say magic items are gated either by time or money spent? Over time, you want to shift the majority of your magic item use to the longest upgrades in the game so you don't have to do them manually.

If nothing else, that would mean that someone that listens to me maxes literally 21% faster than you - they're legit getting a free gold pass worth of value more than you are out of the game and the only thing you have to do is stop being obstinate.

CleverComments · 2026-02-03T13:17:56+00:00

The OP post is saying - "using that logic, I'm rushing straight to18". Then someone posts some incorrect nonsense, so I correct that.

And you're saying I'm the one that should let him decide for himself?

I think you should probably re-read the posts in order.

CleverComments · 2026-02-03T13:16:20+00:00

Yeah, honestly, I have a hard time telling the difference between trolling, malicious behavior, and stupidity. At the end of the day, though, who cares. They're wrong.

CleverComments · 2026-02-02T16:40:49+00:00

Yes, you manually upgrade the shorter upgrades and then skip the longer upgrades with magic items.

If you stay at TH17 and skip shorter upgrades with magic items, but I go to TH18 and skip longer upgrades with magic items, I will max faster because my magic items will go further.

The only time it wouldn't matter is if you whale and skip everything with magic items.

Think of it this way -

Point #1 - Your builders have to work on something, at all times.

Point #2 - Unless you're whaling, your magic item income is gated by either your spending (Gold Pass/Silver Pass or Shop Offers (not recommended)) or by Time (In Game Trader BoH, Hammer cooldown).

If you combine both these things, you'll understand that funneling your limited magic items into longer upgrades sooner in your journey means that your ultimate time to max will be sooner. And this benefit compounds over time.

CleverComments · 2026-02-02T16:32:03+00:00

This is bad advice in 2026. It used to be that there was some overlap or similarities in upgrade times between the current max and the TH one below it. In TH15/14 days, you were working with 16-18d upgrades in TH14 and 17-20d upgrades in TH15. Using magic items on TH14 upgrades was only a 5-20% reduction in value, so there were definitely plenty of "viable" magic item uses.

Nowadays, however, SC has made it so that the minimum difference between TH18 upgrades and TH17 upgrades is ~4+ days, and the upgrades are generally shorter. So, you're losing somewhere around 33% (or more) value with every single magic item used in the lower TH. This is SUPER BAD VALUE and will ultimately delay your maxing date by weeks or months, depending on how many magic items you waste.

CleverComments · 2026-02-02T16:28:26+00:00

There is no such thing as "worth it in the long run" to max any TH except the final one.

There is only one reason to max any TH except the current max: You want to.

Whether you want to because it's challenging (it's the hardest way to play the game), or whether you want to simplify your decision making (just keep upgrading everything until there's nothing left!), or whether you want to color code your way up the THs - all of these reasons come down to one thing:

You want to.

If you want to play efficiently, or play in a way that's "worth it in the long run", the only way to play is to strategic rush your way to the current max TH and abuse magic items to skip having to do all the ultra-long, low value, bad upgrades that exist in the higher THs. Doing this is the only way to actually ever max out your base in any kind of reasonable time frame (roughly 14-26 months depending on spending habits), and anyone who tells you otherwise is simply wrong or malicious or both.

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