Builder's Apprentice

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==Summary==
*The Builder's Apprentice is a non-combatant character in the Home Village. He appears around the Home Village once the player has reached Town Hall level 10, and requires 500 Gems to unlock.
*When unlocked, the Builder's Apprentice can be assigned to a building construction or Hero upgrade that a Builder is currently working on, shortening the overall upgrade time. He can work for one hour at a time, with a cooldown of 23 hours (which starts as soon as he is assigned).
**The Builder's Apprentice cannot work on Builders' tasks on his own. If the task he was assigned to is completed while he is still active, he will stop work early and cannot be assigned to a different task before the normal cooldown elapses.
**The Builder's Apprentice can only work in the Home Village and cannot be assigned to work in the Forge.
*Upgrading the Builder's Apprentice (which costs Gems) increases the rate at which he works, and consequently, the amount of time saved every time he is assigned to a task. Upgrading the Builder's Apprentice does not take any time, but cannot be done while he is currently working.
*The and Builder Bite have no effect on the Builder's Apprentice.
==Appearance==
* The Builder's Apprentice dresses similarly to a Builder, with a brighter red vest with a pocket in front like a work apron, brown pants without a belt and shoes, and the hat has a stitch. He wears a backpack with a big scroll in it. He has blue eyes, red hair and a side bang, no visible eyebrows like the Builder, and smiling without showing teeth.
==Statistics==
Level	Work Rate	Upgrade Cost	Town Hall Level Required
1 	1x 	500 	10
2 	2x 	500 	10
3 	3x 	750 	11
4 	4x 	750 	11
5 	5x 	1,000 	12
6 	6x 	1,000 	12
7 	7x 	1,000 	13
8 	8x 	1,000 	14
==Profitability==
To get an idea of how effective Builder's Apprentice is, some assumptions must be made. It is assumed that the Builder's Apprentice is used once per day, and the value of the alternative methods used is estimated slightly higher than it is actually gonna be in most cases:
*Directly completing (building or hero) upgrades costs 260 Gems for the first day and 123.333 per day afterwards. For every upgrade (below 20 days, which is every upgrade available in-game), that averages more than 130 Gems per day, which is the amount used here.
**In reality, this is one of the worst ways to spend Gems and should use any other methods to speed up progress.
*3 Builder Potions can be purchased from the Trader every week, for 285 Gems per piece. We assume that all 6 builders have already been unlocked. Therefore, every Potion reduces the overall building time by 54 hours.
**In reality, Builder's Apprentice unlocking at Town Hall 10 is the same time when Mortar can be upgrade to level 8, then needs to be geared up among other requirements to earn B.O.B. This allows Builder's Apprentice to get a head start.
*1 Book of Heroes can be purchased from the Trader every week, for 500 Gems per piece. We assume that every book is used for a high level hero, reducing the maximum amount of building time for Heroes, which is 8 days.
**In reality, not all Hero upgrades take 8 days.
*It is assumed that the Goblin Builder is available all the time.
**In reality, due to it being an event feature, it might not even be available long enough for anyone to be able to spend all the Gems before the Builder's Apprentice is already more profitable.
By biasing against the Builder's Apprentice, the actual value of him being more profitable than the listed methods eventually is going to be lower than the value shown at the table for most players. Keep this in mind if the number of days for the return seems unrealistic.
In the following table, it shows how many days it will take for the Builder's Apprentice to save more building time than the same amount of Gems used on an alternative method of speeding up builders:
Days until Builder's Apprentice is better than the alternative usages of Gems
Builder's Apprentice level	Total Cost	Completing upgrades with Gems(130 Gems per day)	Builder Potion(126.7 Gems per day)	Book of Heroes(62.5 Gems per day)	Goblin Builder(40 Gems per day)
1 	500 	93 	95 	192 	300
2 	1,000 	93 	95 	192 	300
3 	1,750 	108 	111 	224 	350
4 	2,500 	116 	119 	240 	375
5 	3,500 	130 	133 	269 	420
6 	4,500 	139 	143 	288 	450
7 	5,500 	146 	149 	302 	472
8 	6,500 	150 	154 	312 	488
In the long run, using Gems on the Builder's Apprentice will save the most building time in comparison to other ways of speeding up Builders with Gems. It depends on how willing one is to use him everyday. Note that unlocking the fifth Builder is still the most important use of Gems for more reasons than one.
==Trivia==
*Builder Potion and Builder Bite are given flavor text in their description for reasons why Builder's Apprentice cannot benefit from them; he is mentioned to be too young for the brew and a vegetarian respectively, which explains why he does not consume them to work faster.
*Unlike the Builders, the Apprentice Builder is a 3D character.
Category:Non-Combatants
Category:Home Village