# Bloons TD 6 Bloons TD 6 - Update 53.0!

- Product: Bloons TD 6 (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6)
- Vendor: Ninja Kiwi
- Date: 2026-02-12
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/960090/view/525367916192858219
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bloons-td-6/releases/2026-02-12-bloons-td-6-update-53.0

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- **added** — New Hero Skin - Firecracker Gwen with fireworks celebration effects
- **added** — New Advanced Map - Party Parade with dual-direction lane defense gameplay
- **added** — New Quest - ZOMG Rush: Beat rounds 30-60 on Off the Coast with a ZOMG that spawns immediately and respawns when popped
- **added** — New Quest - Support Monkeys Only: Beat Bazaar on Impoppable difficulty using only Support Monkeys
- **added** — New Quest - Targeting Monkeys: Clear the faster paced Rogue Roundset on Logs with limited towers where all Monkeys shoot where you aim
- **added** — New Trophy Store Items including Firecracker Gwen avatar, Cupcake Heroes avatar, Silas profile banner, and Lunar New Year profile banner
- **added** — Co-op end screens now have Add Friend buttons
- **added** — Tower Info panels now include a performance summary button showing pops, damage, cash earned, current value, and lives earned
- **added** — Powers that you own a copy of can now be used in Sandbox for free
- **added** — New banner displays when obtaining an Insta-Monkey for the first time on the rewards screen
- **added** — Hero Pets can now be mixed and matched regardless of associated Hero Skin
- **added** — Boomerang Paragon new ability Overcharge that grants itself 10 stacks of increased attack speed which deplete over time
- **changed** — Druid Jungle's Bounty ability removed in favor of purely passive end of round cash generation
- **changed** — Optimizations made for load times and performance in Legends game modes
- **fixed** — Resolved T5 towers consumed to create paragons contributing their cost value in addition to their T5 value to the resulting tower
- **fixed** — Pro Powers no longer count as a tower towards global tower limits preventing placement of future towers
- **fixed** — What Did it Cost ability now works again
- **fixed** — Budget Cash Drops now work while in the main menu
- **fixed** — Challenges that prevent use of certain upgrades now correctly prevent use of instamonkey towers upgraded beyond banned tiers

##### New Awesome

- New Hero Skin - Firecracker Gwen!

- Celebrate anything and everything with Firecracker Gwen’s fireworks!

- New Advanced Map - Party Parade!

- Festivities are under fire! Bloons have been spotted at Party Parade, and it’s up to you to defend the great lane division from oncoming threats in both directions! Don't let the Bloons burst the fun - stay sharp, divide your forces, and let’s get this party popping!

- New Quests

- **ZOMG Rush:** Beat rounds 30-60 on Off the Coast with a ZOMG that spawns right away at the start, and respawns every time you pop it!
- **Support Monkeys Only:** Beat Bazaar on Impoppable difficulty with Support Monkeys only
- **Targeting Monkeys:** Clear the faster paced Rogue Roundset on Logs with limited towers but with a catch, for this quest All Monkeys shoot where you aim!

- New Trophy Store Items

- Game & UI: Firecracker Gwen avatar, Cupcake Heroes avatar, Silas profile banner
- Limited Seasonal Item: Lunar New Year profile banner

##### Game Changes / Additions

- Co-op end screens now have Add Friend buttons
- Advanced tower performance: Towers Info panels now have an extra button listing a performance summary with more details for how many pops, how much damage, cash earnt, current value and lives earnt they have!
- You asked (many times), and finally you receive! Powers that you own a copy of can now be used in Sandbox for free
- Obtaining an Insta-Monkey for the first time will now display a ‘New’ banner on the rewards screen - no more guessing if you already had it in your collection!
- Hero Pets can now be mixed and matched regardless of the associated Hero Skin, because Ocean Obyn loves that little fiery Balfrog
- Optimizations made for load times & performance in Legends game modes
- Boomerang Paragon new ability ‘Overcharge’. Upon activating immediately granting itself 10 stacks of ‘Overcharge’ which give increased attack speed for every stack, stacks will deplete over time one by one every few seconds. More detail in balance changes section later
- Druid Jungle’s Bounty ability is no more, druid cash generation is now purely a passive end of round bonus. We are looking at possible changes for other abilitized cash generation and would like to hear more thoughts on this. **To be clear;** we are **not** simply looking to swap every cash generating ability to a passive, but there should be some choice in when you time an ability activation and we do not agree there was any reason to not spam these on cooldown which makes this a tedious clicking quota. Druid’s cash generation already has interesting interaction so for this case it felt more interesting to focus on that interaction instead, and the new ability gives careful timed activation that can assist in holding off on spending money on DPS towers for longer to effectively earn more cash which is more engaging of a choice to make. More detail in balance changes section later

##### Bug Fixes & General Changes

- Resolved a number of minor localization & UI issues
- Resolved a number of erratic menu screen transitions
- [Map Editor] Crash closing tab when previewing Prop or Action Prop
- Resolved an issue with Tower Unlock Packs displaying ‘purchased’ when they were not
- Resolved an issue where T5 towers consumed to create paragons were contributing their cost value in addition to their T5 value to the resulting tower
- Pro Powers should no longer count as a tower towards global tower limits in regards to preventing placement of future towers (Were already placable themselves past the limit)
- Insta Monkey collection no longer list ‘out of 1664’ as there are still only 1600 instas
-  What Did it Cost should now work again
-   Budget Cash Drops should again work while in the main menu
- The ‘Log In’ pop up should no longer be able to stack multiple times
- Challenges that prevent use of certain upgrades should now correctly prevent use of instamonkey towers that are upgraded beyond those banned tiers
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