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Two events, one plan. During Ancients' Treasure your members earn vault points, and the clan spends them on three artifacts. What you buy decides how many Tin Men you can summon, how long you get to kill each one, and how much HP each kill takes. Then, in the Rise of the Ancients run that follows, your members have to actually deal that HP.

The planner is the bridge between the two. You spend the pot on one page and it tells you, tier by tier, what each member has to score in the next run. Open the Ancients' Treasure event from Clan Administration → Event Hub and it is on the event's own page — that event type and nowhere else.

The one thing to understand first: summons are not kills

The Enchanted Figurine buys summons. You pay for every one of them. But only a kill — a Tin Man you intend to finish — moves the Tin Man up a level, and only kills decide how much HP the clan has to chew through.

Five summons with three kills is an ordinary plan, not a mistake. The other two are farmed for XP and clan vault points; they add nothing to the points your members need. You choose which ones — the farmed summon can sit anywhere in the order, including the middle.

The coin pot

The pot is worked out from your roster. Each tier contributes a fixed number of vault points:

The ten boxes under Members per tier are counted from your roster when the plan is first opened. They are yours to change — type over them if you know that four of your G9s will not take part. Count the roster again puts the real numbers back.

No-shows (%)

Not everyone plays every event. This takes that share off the pot before anything is bought, so the plan is made with the points you will actually have. Set it to 8 and the pot is treated as 92% of a full turnout.

A smaller pot can drop you to a lower Tome level, and a lower Tome means lower targets — so this figure moves every number on the page, not just the pot.

Overshoot (%)

People usually score a bit more than they are asked for. This lowers what each member is told to score by that much, so the sum of what they actually score still lands on the HP that has to be dealt. Set it to 10 and each target is divided by 1.10.

Set it to 0 and members are asked for the full amount with nothing to spare.

What the coins buy

Three artifacts, bought in this order. The first two are chosen by you; the third takes whatever is left.

🗿 Enchanted Figurine — how many Tin Men you summon

Summons 7 and 8 only exist while a seasonal kingdom is running. Tick Seasonal kingdom is active to unlock them.

⏳ Mysterious Clock — minutes you get per summon

Twenty-eight levels, from 2 minutes at level 1 to 120 minutes at level 28. The list shows every level with the minutes it buys and the cumulative coins it costs, and opens scrolled to the level you have chosen.

📚 Tome of Knowledge — takes whatever is left

You do not pick this one. Whatever remains after the Figurine and the Clock buys the highest Tome level it can afford, and the card shows what that is, how far the leftover coins got you towards the next level, and how many more coins that next level needs.

The fight

Tin Man level right now is where your clan currently stands, 1 to 250. It is remembered between runs and moved when you close the Rise of the Ancients run — by the kills somebody confirms actually happened, less any Seals of Suppression they spent.

Kill summons is a count, not a setting: it follows the schedule below, where you mark each summon as a kill or a farm one by one. It can never exceed the number of summons, because it is counted from them.

Under those two, the planner spells out the whole derivation as a chain of badges:

• One badge per Tin Man you plan to kill, with its level and its raw HP.
• Those added together — the raw HP.
• Multiplied by the Tome bonus.
• The result: the HP that actually has to be dealt.

What each tier has to score

The table on the right is the answer. One row per tier, always all ten — T9 and G9 down to G1, including the tiers your clan has nobody in.

T9 is its own tier, not a G9

A T9 is a member maxed on G, S, M and E. They hit half again as hard as a G9 — weight 20.1 against 13.4 — and folding them into G9 asked the strongest members in the clan for the same points as everyone else in the tier.

Changing the split

The weights are a default, not a fact. A clan whose G8s pull harder than the table says had to correct every target by hand, every run. Change a weight and the table redistributes immediately: points each, totals, shares and the verdict at the top all move with it.

• Back to standard puts every weight back to the built-in split.
• Keep this split for future runs saves it on the clan, so every future plan starts from it. Only the tiers you actually changed are stored — adjust G8 and you still follow the default everywhere else.

Overrides

An override sits beside the calculated figure, not over it, so it stays obvious what was changed and by how much. Overriding one tier does not take points off another — it changes the total, and the total is what decides whether the Tin Man dies. The verdict at the top of the planner is where you see the consequence.

The verdict

The bar across the top of the planner answers the only question that matters: will what the clan is being asked for cover the kills?

• The first number is what will be delivered — everything handed out, plus the overshoot allowance you set.
• The second is what is needed — the HP of every kill, with the Tome bonus on top.
• The badge is the difference, in both points and per cent.

Green means the plan covers the kills. Amber means it falls short, and the badge says by how much. Beside them are the four figures you will be asked about most: kill summons, minutes each, Tome bonus, and where the Tin Man ends up after the run.

The summon schedule

One row per summon. Type the UTC time you intend to start each one and the planner shows it back as hours after game reset — +3 GR — because that is how a clan actually talks about time. Reset is 17:00 UTC.

Each row is marked Kill or Farm only, and any summon can be the farmed one — including one in the middle. Clans that spend Seals of Suppression part way through routinely farm the summon that follows them, and the schedule is where you write that down.

Kill rows carry the Tin Man level and its HP. A farm row sits on whatever the Tin Man stands at when its turn comes and leaves it there, so every row after it is one level lower than it would otherwise have been. The level on each row is the level that summon actually meets.

Handing the targets over

Apply these as the point targets writes the per-tier figures onto the Rise of the Ancients run that follows this event — not onto the Ancients' Treasure event you are standing on.

If the Rise run does not exist yet, the planner says so and the transfer is offered again once you create it. The plan is saved either way.

Standing on a Rise of the Ancients run, the same link works the other way: Take targets from the Ancients' Treasure plan pulls in what the previous Ancients' Treasure worked out for it.

Telling the clan — two announcements, not one

Towers / Tin Man instructions opens the messages your clan will read. There are two, and they go out a day apart, because they are about two different events.

Each one has its own Hours before … starts, and the panel says the exact moment it will go out. Both are ordinary scheduled announcements: they become the same kind of record every other announcement is, they are picked up by the same job that runs every minute, and you can see or cancel them on the Announcements page.

The message writes itself

The body is built from the plan and is not editable, because every fact in it is already on this page — a textarea an admin can edit is a textarea that drifts out of step with the plan it claims to describe. It updates whenever the plan changes.

What you want to add in your own words has its own field, Add your own words, and is appended underneath.

Where each one goes

Four channels, each with its own limit:

After the run — what actually happened

The plan says what you meant to do. Where your Tin Man ends up is decided by what happened, and that is confirmed when you close the Rise of the Ancients run, not here.

The close lists every summon the plan had, at the level it was fought, with a switch each. Nothing is ticked on your behalf — a summon you planned to kill but did not is left off, and a farm you decided to finish after all is ticked on.

Under them, Seals of Suppression spent. A seal takes the Ancient down one level and is spent between summons, so nobody knows how many were used until the run is over — which is why it is asked for here and not in the plan. Three kills with two seals spent leaves you one level higher than you started, not three.

The box above the close button says exactly what closing is about to write, before it writes it. Re-opening the run puts the level back where it was.

Saving

Save Ancient planner saves everything you can edit in the planner — the roster, the allowances, the artifacts, the Tin Man level, the kills, the weights, the overrides, the summon schedule and both announcements — and queues the two announcements. The same button sits at the foot of the planner and at the foot of the instructions panel; they do the same thing.

It does not save the event's own settings — dates, grace period, point targets, penalty chests. Those live in their own panels on the event page and save themselves.

A closed event cannot be planned. Re-open it first.

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