New Update 2014 - Gem Box, Minions, Co-leader's, Special Abilities etc.

Supercell are releasing sneak peeks of what is coming for the new update, here is what has been released so far, this will be continually updated as more info gets released!

Gem Box:

The Gem Box spawns as an obstacle like trees and bushes.

Only one will appear at a time so harvest it as soon as it appears.

It will cost 1,000 elixir to remove the box and Harvest the Gems.

No word on how many Gems will be in the box but I imagine it should be significantly more than you get from removing trees.




Trees and Bushes Gem Harvest increased:
Trees and bushes now give you more gems, would be nice to see how many, I hope its a significant increase.

(It might be worth saving your trees until the update is released to get more gems!)

Boost cost reduction:
Only on Barracks and Spell factory but still a slight improvement.

Boost cost and duration is halved to 10 gems for 2 hours.

Hero recovery boost:
You can now boost your heros recovery by 4x (unsure on cost as of yet).

Freeze spell improvement:
Duration of spell increased at level 5

Minion Level 6
nothing for me to get excited about but it may appeal to you. You can now upgrade a minion to level 6... Yippeee....

Clan Co-leader roles

A clan co-leader rank is to be introduced into clans, this role will have all the privalages of clan leaders except the ability to demote or kick other co-leaders, so it looks like you can have a number of 'co-leaders' in your clan not just one.

Clan elders with have less powers, they will no longer be able to promote or demote and can only kick normal members.




Hero ability: Iron Fist

A barbarian king and all surrounding barbarians become enraged for a short period of time, dealing more damage and moving faster, just like the rage spell.

Tap the barbarian king icon after deployment to activate rage.

Rage strength increases every five levels of barbarian king's upgrades

Doesn't combine with rage spell.



Archer Queen special ability: Royal Cloak

The Archer Queen hides from and becomes invisible to all enemy defenses for a short time.
She becomes invisible and untargetable temporarily; any defenses attacking her will stop and find new targets.

A group of archers appear around her.

Not unlocked until she reaches level 5 and like the king's ability it improves every 5 levels and is activated the same way.

She can still set off traps when invisible.

More info coming and hopefully the update will be released soon! So far gem box is my favourite.