Clan Overview

This guide gives a basic explanation of the Clan system in The Walking Dead: Survivors and show you the importance of joining a strong and helpful clan as soon as possible! Because you should never forget… you cannot survive alone!

## **Why should you join a Clan?**

Clans are a critical part of TWD: Survivors gaming experience. Once you join a Clan you will gain access to many benefits and features!

Here are a few of the **key benefits of joining a Clan**:

* Clan members can **fight together** or **reinforce each other** during battle, you will always have a better chance of winning battles when fighting alongside clanmates!
* Clan members can help you **reduce your building or healing times**, and you can help them as well and gain solo points for helping them!
* You can **send/receive resources** from and to Clan members!
* Gain access to **Clan events**! Such as “Tides of the Dead” or “Rescue Rick”. Through these events you can obtain awesome rewards!
* Generate **additional resources** based on your Clan size and territory!
* You can also make many **friends in-game** that will be willing to help you out!

## **How to join a Clan?**

At the bottom right of your screen, you can find **the Clan button**. If you are not in a Clan, when you click this button it will show you a list of all the clans in your state ranked by power. Some clans will be open for anyone to enter, others might have certain requirements and will require you to apply and have your application reviewed by one of their officers. Make sure to choose your alliance wisely!

### **Clan Interface**

Once you have joined a clan, if you tap on the clan icon on the bottom right of your screen, you will enter your clan interface which consists of **5 different tabs**:

#### **Home Tab**

Here you can find your Clan’s general information. You will find information about each member, your Clan’s Prosperity, your Clan’s preferred language as well as any messages that the leaders have left on the Clan noticeboard.

#### **Clan Technology**

Each Clan has its own technology tree that will bring benefits to the entire Clan and each of its members. To research these technologies, each member will have to donate certain resources, each time you donate you will earn solo points that you can spent in the Clan Shop. Once enough resources have been donated, the Clan Leader or a Rank 4 officer can start the research.

The clan technology tree is separated into the following **3 categories**:

**Development**

Researching technologies in this category will grant clan members the following benefits:

* Increased Clan Help times
* Increased Depot Capacity
* Increased amount of Raid-Proof Resources
* Increased building upgrade speed
* Increased Gathering speed
* Reduced troop Veggie consumption

**Battles**

Battle technologies have a strong impact on each member individually as they will increase grant important combat buffs. By researching technologies in this category, you can gain the following benefits:

* Increased Attack and Defense of Melee Fighters (for all members)
* Increased Attack and Defense of Sharpshooters (for all members)
* Increased Attack and Defense of Cavalry (for all members)
* Increased Rally march speed

**Auxiliary**

By researching technologies in this category, you can obtain the following benefits:

* Increased Clan members capacity
* Increased buildings upgrade speed
* Increased Veggie/Water/Lumber/Meat production
* Increased Research speed
* Increased max Raid-proof resources

#### **Clan Events**

In the Events tab you can see information about your **Clan Buildings and occupied Community Buildings**. Clan Buildings and occupied Community Buildings increase your **Clan Prosperity**, so make sure to build and occupy as many as possible!

**There are two types of Clan Buildings that you can build:**

* **Clan Base:** your Clan can have up to 3 bases to increase your territory (13X13 on the map)
* **Clan Outpost:** each Outpost increases your Clan territory (9X9 on the map)

There are **5 different levels of Community Buildings** that will be made available to occupy as the map opens up and your Clan progresses through **“The Chronicles”**. You will be able to see information about Community Buildings that your Clan is currently occupying in this “Events” tab.

Your Clan Territory will also generate resources passively which you can claim in this “Events” tab.

#### **Battles**

In this tab you can find any PVP or PVE battles currently taking place by any of your Clan members. It is very important to check this regularly so you can help your clanmates by joining them on PvE battles or reinforcing them if they are being attacked.

#### **Clan Benefits**

This tab, has 3 subsections that are used to claim important benefits:

* **Store:** Here is where you can spend your hard-earned Solo Points for valuable items or resources. If you are Clan Leader or a Rank 4 officer, you will have to use Clan Points to keep your store stocked up!

* **Gifts:** Here you will be able to regularly claim gifts that appear when other Clan members complete certain actions. Such as purchasing bundles or defeating certain PvE enemies. Each gift contains a small amount of keys which can be used to unlock the **“Survivor’s Treasure”**. The more gifts you open, the quicker you can upgrade your Clan Gift level and obtain better rewards over time.

* **Help:** Here you can see which Clan members have currently requested help, and you can help them all at once by tapping the **“Help All”** button. Helping Clan members will gain you Solo Points which you can spend at the Clan Store. However, you can only gain 20,000 Solo Points per day. You can see how many Solo Points you have earned so far today in this tab.