Dark Elixir Storage

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"The power of Dark Elixir could not be contained in a regularly shaped Elixir vat. As it's three times as powerful, we had to invent a cubical form of storage!"
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==Summary==
*This Dark Elixir Storage is a resource building that expands the player's Dark Elixir capacity. It is unlocked at Town Hall level 7, along with the Dark Elixir Drill.
*The Dark Elixir Storage is a transparent, rectangular-shaped building. It is stated that this storage had to resemble a cube due to the Dark Elixir's power.
*6% or 5% (depending on your Town Hall level) of the total Dark Elixir in the storage (up to 9,000, or none if you are in the Legend League) can be stolen by attackers, although loot penalties may change this amount (see Raids).
* Upgrading your Dark Elixir Storage to a higher level than you require for storage purposes can potentially save Dark Elixir in a raid. As an attacker receives an amount of Dark Elixir proportional to the percentage of damage each hit causes, the higher health of the upgraded building results in less Dark Elixir per hit. It also takes longer to destroy, giving you more time for your defenses to destroy the attacker before they can steal all the available Dark Elixir.
*Dark Elixir Storages remain fully functional while being upgraded, like all other storages.
*If a player manages to obtain Dark Elixir without the ability to store it, they will be lost. However they still give credit toward the Heroic Heist Achievement.
*Due to the low cap on Dark Elixir, it is sometimes difficult to tell if the Dark Elixir Storage is full. For example, a Town Hall 9 player with a level 6 Dark Elixir Storage with just under 36,000 Dark Elixir in the Dark Elixir Storage and just under 7,200 Dark Elixir in the Town Hall (almost enough to reach the 2,500 cap) is less than 20% full and therefore appears empty.
**Alternatively, tapping on the Dark Elixir Storage before attacking in a Multiplayer Battle will allow you to see how much Dark Elixir is available from that storage.
*Dark Elixir is the most difficult resource to obtain, with the possible exception of Gems. Consequently, many players protect the Dark Elixir Storage as best they can.
*As of the 2015 July update, all kinds of storages now no longer take damage from spells. This was introduced as a response to the infamous tactic of using the Lightning Spells to steal Dark Elixir by damaging the storage by placing them on this building. Earthquake Spells were not affected since it was introduced in the same update.
==Upgrade Differences==
*Dark Elixir Storages undergo mostly minor visual changes as they are upgraded. The major significant changes occur at levels 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 11.
**When initially constructed, the Dark Elixir Storage consists of a transparent, slightly rounded cubical storage vessel situated on a four-legged wooden platform. There appears to be a small square opening at the top of the storage.
**At level 2, the storage adds a brass frame to the top of the vessel and a metal spigot at the base. The corners have a spike on each leg.
**At level 3, the cubic vessel grows substantially in size, and both the wooden platform and brass frame are replaced by versions made of steel.
**At level 4, the storage gains dark gold legs and a bigger and slightly different tap.
**At level 5, the storage receives spiked steel armor plating on each of the four corners of the base.
**At level 6, these armor plates become slightly wider with a pair of small golden spikes on each, and the steel frame atop the vessel turns golden as well. The base's platform is now made out of steel, with the some of the wood turning into gold linings.
**At level 7, the storage's armor plates lose their spikes and become smooth blackish-gray metal. The spigot is now made of the same dark metal and has golden accents. There are also gold pieces atop the armor plates. The steel frame also gains silver platings in each corner.
**At level 8, the storage's armor plates are darker with purple accents and slightly bigger. They gain two bluish spikes on each plate.
**At level 9, the storage's spikes disappear, and golden lining replaces them. The top has faint green lines on them and the spigot turns brighter. The storage slightly becomes taller.
**At level 10, the footings are reinforced with thicker purple frames with gold plating on top. The spigot turns into a slight tint of light blue. The frame at the top of the storage is now wider with the color being similar to that of the spigot, and the same thing applies to the gold lining of the platform.
**At level 11, the footings are now made out of black metal at the bottom with two studs each, red wood at the middle, and the topmost are made out of reinforced golden plates, with three spikes each. At the top, the frame becomes gold with red reinforced wood on the inner part, and the golden platings of the frame are now made out of metal. The end of the spigot is now slightly thinner, but gains a red ring near the valve. The platform gains a red base at the bottom.
==Statistics==
Level	Storage Capacity	Hitpoints	Build Cost	Build Time	Experience Gained	Town Hall Level Required
1 	10,000 	2,000 	250,000 	8h 	169 	7
2 	17,500 	2,200 	500,000 	16h 	240 	7
3 	40,000 	2,400 	1,000,000 	1d 	293 	8
4 	75,000 	2,600 	1,500,000 	1d 12h 	360 	8
5 	140,000 	2,900 	2,000,000 	2d 	415 	9
6 	180,000 	3,200 	3,000,000 	2d 	415 	9
7 	220,000 	3,500 	3,800,000 	3d 12h 	549 	12
8 	280,000 	3,800 	5,400,000 	5d 	657 	13
9 	330,000 	4,100 	7,000,000 	6d 	720 	14
10 	350,000 	4,300 	11,000,000	12d 	1,018 	15
11 	360,000 	4,500 	13,500,000	15d 	1,138 	16
==History==
Patch 	Description
January 10, 2013 	Added the Dark Elixir Storage, with 6 levels.
January 11, 2013 	Increased hitpoints at all levels.
*Level 1: 400 -> 1,000 
*Level 2: 600 -> 1,200 
*Level 3: 800 -> 1,400 
*Level 4: 1,000 -> 1,700 
*Level 5: 1,200 -> 2,000 
*Level 6: 1,500 -> 2,400
June 17, 2013 	Increased hitpoints at all levels.
*Level 1: 1,000 -> 2,000 
*Level 2: 1,200 -> 2,200 
*Level 3: 1,400 -> 2,400 
*Level 4: 1,700 -> 2,600 
*Level 5: 2,000 -> 2,900 
*Level 6: 2,400 -> 3,200
July 1, 2015 	The Dark Elixir Storage no longer takes damage from spells.
March 21, 2016 	The Dark Elixir Storage now has more visual states to indicate more clearly how full or empty they are.
June 11, 2018 	Added the level 7 Dark Elixir Storage.
June 26, 2018 	Reduced build times at level 1-6.
*Level 1: 1d -> 12h 
*Level 2: 2d -> 1d 12h 
*Level 3: 3d -> 2d 
*Level 4: 4d -> 2d 12h 
*Level 5: 5d -> 3d 12h 
*Level 6: 6d -> 4d
April 2, 2019 	
*Reduced build times at all levels.
**Level 1: 12h -> 8h 
**Level 2: 1d 12h -> 16h 
**Level 3: 2d -> 1d 
**Level 4: 2d 12h -> 1d 12h 
**Level 5: 3d 12h -> 2d 
**Level 6: 4d -> 3d 
**Level 7: 7d -> 5d 
*Reduced build costs at level 1-6.
**Level 1: 600,000 -> 500,000 
**Level 2: 1,200,000 -> 750,000 
**Level 3: 1,800,000 -> 1,000,000 
**Level 4: 2,400,000 -> 1,500,000 
**Level 5: 3,000,000 -> 2,000,000 
**Level 6: 3,600,000 -> 3,000,000 
*Increased build cost at level 7.
**4,200,000 -> 6,000,000
December 9, 2019 	Added the level 8 Dark Elixir Storage.
April 12, 2021 	
*Added the level 9 Dark Elixir Storage.
*Reduced build costs at level 1 and 2.
**Level 1: 500,000 -> 250,000 
**Level 2: 750,000 -> 500,000
December 12, 2023	
*Added the level 10 Dark Elixir Storage.
*Reduced upgrade cost for levels 9 Dark Elixir Storage from 11.5M to 8.1M 
*Reduced upgrade time for levels 6, 8, 9 and 10 Dark Elixir Storage.
**Level 6: 3d -> 2d 
**Level 8: 6d 12h -> 6d 
**Level 9: 14d 6h -> 12d 
**Level 10: 15d -> 12d 12h
==Trivia==
*Although the description refers to Dark Elixir as "three times as powerful," in the game it is in fact 100 times as powerful. This can be observed by the Gem cost of buying resources: for example, both 10,000,000 Elixir and 100,000 Dark Elixir can be bought with 3,000 Gems.
**The phrase of "three times as powerful" may also be explained as an exponentiation operation, with the fact that 1 Dark Elixir equals to, in Gems, the (3-1=2)nd power of 10, which equals to 100, Elixir.
*It is possible to overflow the Dark Elixir Storage, but only by purchasing special resource packs found in the shop for real money or receiving extra Dark Elixir from the Season Bank. If this is done, any excess Dark Elixir will remain in the storage, and until the excess is removed (either by spending the Dark Elixir or being raided), any Dark Elixir earned from raids will be lost.
*The Dark Elixir Storage has the most hitpoints out of all storages.
===Comparisons===
*The Dark Elixir Storage is one of the four buildings that are associated with Dark Elixir, the other three being the Dark Barracks, Dark Spell Factory, and Dark Elixir Drill.
*The Dark Elixir Storage, and Dark Elixir Drill are the only resource buildings in the Home Village that do not appear in a loading screen.
*The Dark Elixir Storage, along with the Clan Castle and Dark Elixir Drill are the only resource buildings not to have Builder Base counterparts.
*It is the only storage in the game where you can only build one of such storage. This makes Dark Elixir the only resource which is stored in one storage.
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