Township: 5 Hidden Tricks to Save Resources and Progress Faster

You can significantly speed up town progression and save resources in Township by taking advantage of five hidden mechanics across match-3 puzzles, orders, co-op interactions, the market, and the mine.

1. Reset Match-3 Boards Without Losing Lives or Boosters

You can safely quit and restart any match-3 puzzle level without losing a life or any pre-selected boosters, provided you exit before making your first move. The game only locks in your attempt and consumes your resources once you interact with a tile on the board.

If your starting board has unfavorable tile placements or spawns your pre-equipped bombs and rockets far away from target obstacles:

1. Open the pause or settings menu in the upper corner of the puzzle screen immediately upon loading.
2. Select the exit option to leave the level.
3. Check your inventory to confirm your lives and boosters remain untouched.
4. Re-enter the stage to generate a fresh layout.

Repeat this process until you get adjacent power-ups or favorable clusters near key obstacles, which is especially helpful on turn-limited Super Hard levels.

2. Trash Low-Value Helicopter Orders

The helicopter landing pad does not require you to complete every incoming task. Fulfilling tasks that offer minimal coins or experience while demanding complex, multi-hour factory goods drains your barn stock and stalls construction projects.

Tap the trash can icon on any inefficient order to remove it. A short cooldown timer will start, after which a new order appears on the board. Deleting poor requests preserves high-tier items for train crates and airplane cargo.

3. Manage House of Luck Clover Caps

Filling transport crates and train cars for friends and co-op members awards thank-you letters containing clovers for the House of Luck. However, clovers and letters have strict storage limits that can lead to wasted rewards if ignored:

• Active clover cap: You can hold a maximum of 50 clovers at one time.
• Mailbox cap: Your town hall mailbox can hold up to 100 thank-you letters.

To avoid losing clovers, spend your balance at the House of Luck whenever your counter reaches roughly 45. Once your balance drops, open your mailbox to collect accumulated letters. Prioritize filling simple crop and basic dairy requests for neighbors so you can earn clovers steadily without depleting complex goods from your barn.

4. Delay Market Dealer Renewals for a Discount

Hiring the Market Dealer immediately after a contract expires forces you to pay full price in T-Cash. You can trigger a discount of up to 60% on a 10-day contract by leaving the dealer unhired.

When your contract ends, do not renew it right away. Leave the stall empty for roughly one to two days while monitoring the market. The dealer will eventually show a promotional discount icon offering the reduced rate.

Once hired at the discounted rate, direct the dealer toward high-value supplies rather than basic farm goods:

• Mining tools: Stock up on picks and dynamite for ore-doubling events.
• Raw ores: Accumulate copper, silver, and gold to smelt ingots for factory upgrades.
• Demanding goods: Purchase time-consuming items needed to fill urgent airplane crates.

5. Scout Mine Layers Before Using Explosives

Blindly detonating explosives burns tools quickly. Mine blocks feature visual indicators that reveal their durability:

• Light-colored dirt: Cleared with a single pickaxe hit.
• Dark stone and granite: Requires two or more pickaxe strikes or an explosive blast to break.

Because dynamite clears a horizontal line and TNT clears a surrounding grid area, triggering explosives against unbreakable borders or empty gaps wastes their radius. Use single pickaxe strikes on adjacent light dirt blocks first to reveal what lies beneath. Once you locate clusters of dark stone, ore veins, clay, or hidden reward satchels, place your explosives to clear the maximum number of high-durability blocks in a single blast.