Identifying Abandoned Villages

Many players have trouble getting the resources needed to fund building upgrades. It is quite simple to raise over 1 million resources per hour if you have the patience and knowledge to do so. the first part is being able to identify abandoned villages. With an abandoned village almost all of the resources are in mines and elixir collectors. This makes the resources easy to take from the village your attacking without the need of penetrating into the defending village.

Here are the major signs of an abandoned village.

1. Missing league rank
2. A lot of resources
3. Resource containers appear to be empty
4. Resource levels are close to equal
5. Both gold mine buckets are full
6. There are tombstones all over the place
7. There are a lot of obstacles 
8. No clan
9. Builder huts are inactive
10. Crossbow is not loaded
11. Inferno tower isn't charged

In this picture you can see most of the signs that are needed to identify this village as abandoned. 

To get the resources from an abandoned village all that you need to do is to unleash your barbarians and archers on each side and let them pillage away.