Goblin Hut

Goblin Hut is a 4-Elixir Rare building with no attack of its own. It stays dormant until an enemy troop comes within 6 tiles, then deploys a Spear Goblin 0.5 seconds later and another every 2.2 seconds after that for up to 30 seconds, plus one final Spear Goblin the instant it's destroyed. All of its offense comes from those ranged Spear Goblins, which can hit both air and ground targets.

• Goblin Hut has been part of Clash Royale since 4 January 2016, when the game entered a small regional soft-launch in a handful of countries including Canada, Australia, and the Nordic region — about two months before the game's worldwide release in March 2016.

• Goblin Hut costs 4 Elixir and has 1,228 hitpoints at level 11. It has no attack of its own and does nothing at first — it stays dormant until an enemy troop comes within 6 tiles of it. Once that happens it wakes up, deploys its first Spear Goblin 0.5 seconds later, and then keeps launching a new one every 2.2 seconds for the rest of its 30-second lifetime.

• Every Spear Goblin the hut spawns has 133 hitpoints and deals 81 damage per throw on a 1.7-second hit speed, which works out to roughly 47 damage per second. It attacks from 5 tiles away and can hit both air and ground targets, and its first throw comes out unusually fast — just 0.5 seconds after it spawns — instead of waiting for a full hit-speed cycle like its later attacks.

• Even when a Goblin Hut is destroyed, it gets one more attack in — it spawns a final Spear Goblin right as it goes down, so finishing off the building doesn't necessarily clear the area around it.

• If no enemy troop ever comes within range, a Goblin Hut simply does nothing for its entire lifetime — its 30-second timer keeps counting down regardless of whether it ever wakes up, so a hut placed somewhere the opponent avoids can expire without ever spawning a single Spear Goblin.

• Goblin Hut used to spawn Spear Goblins automatically on a fixed timer regardless of what the opponent was doing. In May 2025, Supercell reworked it into a reactive defensive building that only spawns Spear Goblins once an enemy troop actually approaches, dropped its cost from 5 Elixir to 4, and significantly increased its hitpoints to help it survive while waiting to trigger.

• In August 2025, Supercell cut the delay between a Goblin Hut waking up and its first Spear Goblin actually appearing from 1 second down to 0.5 seconds, making its initial response much snappier, while slightly slowing the pace of spawns afterward — from every 1.8 seconds to every 1.9 seconds — to keep the buff in check.

• In April 2026, Supercell slowed Goblin Hut's spawn interval from 2.1 seconds to 2.2 seconds, explaining that the card was doing 'too good of a job at controlling the Arena' and that the change would let defenders push through without feeling like they had to overcommit troops just to break it.