If you don't mind losing trophies, a good strategy is to put your town hall on the outside of your base. Then using a bulkhead base design, focus all of your defenses to protecting your resources.
I typically hover around 1k trophies this way. Most people that attack me will just go for the Town Hall and leave my huge defenses alone. This gives me a free 12 hour shield when they do so as well.
Just a note: if you cannot protect your resources at Town Hall 7, then you're going to lose even more resources at Town Hall 8. The bigger the difference in Town Hall levels between players greatly affects how many resources they can take.
When you have the war gold and elixir storage in your clan castle, what happens when you collect it?
When you collect your war win bonus from your clan castle, it goes directly into your storage.
Do you only collect the war and elixir you from which you have won from the war?
No. War win bonuses can be accumulated over several wars, however: If you run out of space in your clan castle, any excess resource will be thrown away.
That's why it is recommended to claim your resources right after getting them (if your win always gives you close to your clan castle's capacity.
I don't want to make a mistake and take all the resources if we share it as a clan.
Don't worry - War win bonuses are awarded on a per player basis. For example, a high-up player defeating other people with Town Hall (let's say 8) will recieve more war loot bonus than those defeating Town Hall 6 players. You can't steal another player's War Win bonus (if they have some unclaimed) unless you looted it from a multiplayer battle.
Your war loot bonus is determined by the matches that you win, regardless if you only scored one star. As long as it's a defeat (scoring more than 1 star), you'll receive the loot bonus for the village you've won it from.
Lastly, even if 10 players defeat the same village, they'll all recieve the war win bonus for that village (if they win the war, otherwise - the standard 40%). War win bonus works like your league bonus, except you only get to claim the win bonus AFTER the war has been done. All loot from previous wars will be avaliable for collection (even when in another war)
Best Answer
According to the top answer here, when your base is attacked and your Elixir Collectors/Gold Mines are destroyed, you will only lose as much as 50% of what was already in your buffer.
But to answer your question, yes, the Elixir Collectors/Gold mines still continue to function as normal, even after you are attacked, and they appear to be rubble. I know this from firsthand experience and I assume that the "rubble" appearance is merely a aesthetic affect.