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Bloons TD 6 — Bloons TD 6 51.0!

Bloons TD 6 51.0!

Update Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO9QMlaVJRc

New Paragon

  • Bomb Shooter’s Ballistic Obliteration Missile Bunker is INCOMING, codename B.O.M.B. for short!

  • Anti-MOAB clustering stun bombs. MOABs? Gone.

  • Pop that BAD in only 3 shots? You got it!

  • Spammable Anti-Boss assassination missile? Consider it done.

  • All the small stuff? ahem weee-have backup for that

  • Ok, jokes aside we wanted to add something expensive but simple to understand into the primary category of Paragons, and the Bomb Shooter paragon feels like it accomplishes this with 1 attack, 1 active ability, and yes 1 passive ability.

  • Slow firing but heavy hitting main attack fires homing missiles that explode with force that stuns & pushes back Bloons and bursts into a cluster of powerful explosions, each of which will always burst into further clusters. The art for this oversized Monkey madness is incredible, and we hope you find it as hilarious as we do.

  • The Bomb Paragon’s ability fires an Indomitable Surface-to-Air Ballistic Missile (ISABM) which slowly travels through the air leaving a trail of explosions that would be pushing back any MOABs they pass over (If any MOABs were to somehow survive it passing over) until coming into contact with its designated target in one final powerful explosion. Also hey, leaking lives partially resets the cooldown, so go ahead and be a bit reckless!

  • Blitz Tactical Storm. Yea it’s Bombest Blitzier, just a wee bit stronger of a Bomb Blitz, nothing crazy here… Although, I guess we can mention early that Bomb Blitz itself has been balance changed so that it can now hit the leaking target that triggers it and can potentially prevent any life loss, and that of course carries up to this paragon version as well - this is exhilarating, get excited!

New Awesome

  • New Beginner Freeplay Challenge Map, Three Mines ‘Round!

  • One of the most popular freeplay maps of all time from Bloons TD5 is being re-imagined in BTD6 style!

  • This isn’t a revenge map, no if anything it’s a de-venge map. Ever wanted to get a Paragon in CHIMPS, but you just haven’t quite been able to save up the cash? Well spend enough spare time between Bloon pops mining for gold and you just might get the chance now, make sure to clear those obstacles out of the way!

  • New Quests

  • Skeletor Quest - Try out the new Skeletor Obyn Skin & Havoc Staff power

  • Ice To Meet You - Discover Silas’ strengths and abilities

  • New Achievements

  • No new achievements, but Black Bordering every map in the game should award you an overwhelming sense of great accomplishment

  • *Sense of accomplishment not guaranteed. Side effects may include carpal tunnel, loss of social life, and an unhealthy obsession with MOAB Glue

  • New Trophy Store Items

  • Monkeys: Ice Monkey Walrus pet (Honestly, you kinda need this)

  • Bloons: Mohawk Bloons decal (because this was clearly missing from your must have options)

  • Game & UI: Autumn Banner

  • New Limited Time trophy items (Note: Not available until the seasonal event begins!)

  • 2025 Halloween Avatar, 2025 Halloween Banner

Game Changes / Additions
  • Sandbox ‘Clear Pops’ button now also clears Cash Generation
  • Further changes to ‘ignore’ modded elements within save data instead of softlocking when returning to the base game after using certain mods

Skeletor Crossover

Have you had your daily dose of maniacal laughter? Do you long to insult your Monkeys when they let Bloons leak? Then this is the premium Hero Skin for you!

Continuing our Masters of the Universe crossover, we're excited to introduce a realm-conquering new Skeletor skin for Obyn, available through the Skeletor Prestige Pack where available. This pack also includes every usurper’s favorite Skeletor Power, the Havoc Staff! The Havoc Staff stuns all Bloons on screen for up to 10s while ghostly hands produce cash by dragging Bloons away into oblivion. The team had huge fun working on Skeletor and he is a blast to play, especially in co-op or in late rounds when the VO is triggering frequently.

Skeletor Prestige Pack

  • Obyn Hero Unlock
  • Skeletor Skin Unlock
  • 30x Havoc Staff Powers
  • Druid xx5 and Wizard xx4, xx5 Instas
  • Exclusive Avatar
  • Exclusive Banner

Havoc Staff Booster Pack

  • 30x Havoc Staff Powers
  • 4x Tier 4 Poplust Druid Instas
Bug Fixes & General Changes
  • Resolved a number of localization issues
  • Insta-Monkeys in-game should now appear following correct category order
  • Fast Track no longer fails in Co-op if you have Ranked mode selected on the Boss Event
  • Resolved an issue where quitting from Co-op did not immediately drop the player
  • Using the last insta of any tower type no longer leaves behind an empty panel
  • She-Ra Sword of Protection power’s audio should no longer be interruptible
  • Hero unlock animations should no longer skip when obtained through IAP
  • One time purchase IAPS should correctly be sorted to the back of the list
  • Resolved a number of edge case crashes
Event changes
  • Lych Soul should now correctly be modified by boss modifiers
  • Rock Bloons should now correctly be modified by boss modifiers
  • Paragon limit restriction is now per-player
Map Specific changes
  • Ice Platforms should correctly appear in the water
  • Resolved a number of edge cases with various track interactions
  • [Glacial Trail] Frozen Farms should no longer be able to produce Camo Bananas
  • [Dark Dungeon] Statue should no longer block tower placement after purchase
  • [Dark Castle] Resolved an issue with removables being treated as removed on restart

Legends changes

  • Resolved a crash when mentoring a tower while exceeding the current party limit
  • Resolved a possible infinite chain loop between some artifact generated projectiles
  • Resolved an issue where Monkey Meadow always displayed as practice mode save
  • Sale notification pip should correctly clear within Legends

Tower Specific Fixes

Ice Monkey

  • Arctic Wind aura should no longer break against regular Bloons on crosspathing

Desperado

  • Some desperadoes… they’ve taken the gloves off. And some? Well… they just put the gloves on. Either way… someone's gettin’ popped.

Monkey Buccaneer

  • Resolved a crash with x4x attempting to hook DDTs in a specific case
  • Buccaneer 012 no longer has more pierce than its 013 upgrade

Heli Pilot

  • Chinook should no longer be able to stack towers

Dartling Gunner

  • 5xx Ray of Doom now applies laser shock to the first target hit

Super Monkey

  • 140 Tech Terror projectile radius is no longer decreased by crosspath 5 > 10
  • 240 Tech Terror projectile radius is no longer decreased by crosspath 5 > 11
  • 4xx Sun Temple instas no longer ignore placement logic (Dang I wanted to leave that in)
  • 4xx Sun Temple magic Storm Blast fart attack no longer strips Glue from Boss/BAD

Ninja Monkey

  • Paragon no longer changes art at Degree 59 instead of 60

Druid

  • Resolved some animation issues with 130 Druid crosspath

Mermonkey

  • Map Border rebounds now allow projectiles to re-hit targets on the return bounce (previously this only applied for obstacle rebounds)

Obyn Greenfoot

  • Lv3 ability visuals should no longer be missing

Ezili

  • Ezili's MOAB Hex target prio tiebreaker should now work correctly
  • Sacrificial Totem should again correctly display life cost when used

Admiral Brickell

  • ‘Ampihibious Towers’ are no longer counted as ‘Water-based’ towards Brickell

Geraldo

  • Geraldo’s shop open/close button should update correctly when hero hotkey is used to open shop

Corvus

  • Lv11 should no longer be a downgrade to Aggression

Silas

  • Lv7 Frozen Cascade can no longer apply Frozen state to BAD Bloons

Platform Specific fixes

  • Resolved corrupted textures on some low-resolution devices
  • Account Webview updated to an in-game account management page
Balance Changes

Did anyone else watch that entire 'Exceptionally Brief' feedback video on tower balance multiple times while taking notes? Well, some response to that are included here, we couldn't get around to it all at once but see if you can spot any.

Tower Balance

Bomb Shooter

Minor quality of life no one’s particularly fussed about outside of the multitude of requests

  • x4x MOAB Assassin ability no longer targets DDTs unless able to damage Black
  • xx5 Bomb Blitz passive activation can damage triggering Bloon and potentially prevent life loss if this damage is enough to completely destroy the target

Tack Shooter

As it is primarily a small Bloon cleanup tower path, Super Maelstrom has struggled to keep up in the lategame, mostly because Super Ceramics don’t care how fast you’re spinning if you can’t break them so we’ve added a Ceramic bonus to the attack and ability.

  • x5x Super Maelstrom main bonus damage to Ceramics +5
  • x5x Super Maelstrom ability bonus damage to Ceramics +8

Ice Monkey

Super Brittle’s never stood out on its own which was fine for a tower whose job was making other things better, but recently after the addition of Silas we've started to feel its value is really too niche even for a support piece, so we’re cranking the numbers so it can actually break a few things itself. Absolute Zero on the other hand has enjoyed being busted lately, and thanks to a crosspathing bug fix also included this update will be getting even better, since it’s currently freezing everything imaginable we’re counter-balancing that with a nerf of increased damage and higher cost.

  • 5xx Super Brittle attack cooldown reduced 1.8s > 1.2s
  • 5xx Super Brittle damage increased 1 > 5
  • 5xx Super Brittle bonus Ceramic damage +5
  • 5xx Super Brittle Ice Shard damage increased 5 > 10
  • x5x Absolute Zero price increased from $16,000 > $19,000
  • x5x Absolute Zero global freeze no longer freezes Camo/Lead/White without buffs
  • x5x Absolute Zero global attack bonus damage to Ceramic +3
  • x5x Absolute Zero global attack deals damage +1
  • x5x Absolute Zero ability bonus damage to Frozen +4

Glue Gunner

MOAB Glue’s always been a bit too clingy & its slow duration against MOABs has been further reduced while lasting longer at higher tiers to keep the base tower in check and give Glue Splatter & higher tiers more purpose in life. Meanwhile, Corrosive Glue now gains bonus MOAB damage so it can now try to serve as an alternate DPS hybrid. Super Glue’s baseline DoT is being replaced with a simple initial hit damage so it also requires the new 205 Crosspath to act as a DPS Hybrid

  • xx3 MOAB Glue AoE slow duration for MOAB-Class 12s > 9s
  • 203 MOAB Glue increased DoT damage to MOABs +4
  • xx4 Relentless Glue AoE slow duration for MOAB-Class remains 12s
  • 204 Relentless Glue increased DoT damage to MOABs +9
  • xx5 Super Glue AoE slow duration for MOAB-Class increased 12s > 18s
  • 205 Super Glue increased DoT damage to MOABs +19
  • 005 Super Glue no longer gains base Corrosive Glue (Still deals a +30 tic to moabs)
  • xx5 Super Glue deals a capped 1 damage to all targets on initial impact

Desperado

Some quality-of-life and consistency updates for base Desperado and its top path, we enjoyed the balancing act of trying to makeBlazing Sun's burn lead popping consistent but this didn't come through well so it is gaining base Lead popping. Avenger’s price is going down as it did too little damage for that price range. Meanwhile, The Desert Phantom gains extra initial damage to MOABs as well as Ceramic damage bonuses to the Burn mechanics so it can show up more prepared for Super Ceramics.

  • Desperado now automatically reloads burst shots at end of a round
  • 5xx The Blazing Sun damage type Sharp > Normal
  • xx4 Avenger price reduced from $9500 > 8500
  • xx5 The Desert Phantom buckshot MOAB bonus 10 > 20
  • xx5 The Desert Phantom burn DoT deals bonus to Ceramic +10
  • xx5 The Desert Phantom burn DoT AoE explosion bonus to Ceramic increased 5 > 15

Monkey Sub

Energizer’s cooldown reduction for nearby water towers has always felt excessive, so we’re dialing it back to 40%, still strong just not quite double uptime strong. Pre-Emptive Strike’s ability is getting a serious boost, both in raw damage and AoE, so hopefully the upgrade can finally feel like a significant step up. Finally Armour Piercing Darts, the upgrade that has had fans yelling ‘it doesn’t actually pierce armor!’ for years – it still won’t hit Leads (Not sorry). Now it grants bonus damage against Fortified targets.

  • 5xx Energizer buff to water towers in radius reduced 50% > 40%
  • x5x Pre-Emptive Strike ability damage 10k > 20k
  • x5x Pre-Emptive Strike ability AoE damage 350 > 1000
  • xx4 Armour Piercing Darts bonus dmg to fortified +1

Monkey Buccaneer

Navarch’s sellback bonus is updating to match the new max stack value of Flavoured Trades so you don’t feel shortchanged on that bonus after upgrading. Cannon Boss Damage is also getting a bump as Navarch hasn’t been a popular pick for Bosses.

  • Paragon sellback bonus 10% > 12%
  • Paragon Cannon Batteries bonus Boss damage 60 > 80

Monkey Ace

Spectre is trying a new approach: darts are trading in pierce for higher single-target damage, while bombs lean more into AoE Ceramic cleanup to improve overall efficiency. These changes are mirrored on the Flying Fortress to keep the behavior consistent.

  • xx4 Spectre Frontal Darts pierce reduced 10 > 4
  • xx4 Spectre Frontal Darts damage increased 4 > 8
  • xx4 Spectre Frontal Darts bonus to Ceramic removed 1 > 0
  • xx4 Spectre Frontal Bombs bonus to Ceramic increased 3 > 5
  • xx5 Flying Fortress Frontal Darts pierce reduced 10 > 4
  • xx5 Flying Fortress Frontal Darts damage increased 4 > 8
  • xx5 Flying Fortress Frontal Darts bonus to Ceramic removed 2 > 0
  • xx5 Flying Fortress Frontal Darts bonus to MOABs increased 10 > 14
  • xx5 Flying Fortress radial darts type Sharp > Normal

Heli Pilot

MOAB Shove’s stalling potential was far too strong for how early and cheaply it becomes available, so we’re dialing back the ZOMG slow amount to keep its late-game impact more balanced. In return, Comanche Defense is getting an increase to these slowing capabilities, giving it the utility for controlling ZOMG movement.

  • xx3 MOAB Shove explosion damage increased from 1 > 2
  • xx3 MOAB Shove ZOMG Shove 0.33 > 0.61
  • xx4 Comanche Defense MOAB Shove -0.40
  • xx4 Comanche Defense ZOMG Shove 0.22 > 0.2

Mortar Monkey

No big shakeup for Mortar right now, but upon review of crosspaths we felt some low-end pricing wasn’t well balanced. These adjustments should improve early-game options without touching the core power of the tower.

  • 1xx Bigger Blast price reduced $500 > 300
  • 4xx The Big One price reduced $7200 > 7000
  • x1x Faster Reload price increased $300 > 400
  • xx2 Burny Stuff price reduced $500 > 400
  • xx3 Signal Flare price increased $1000 > 1100

Dartling Gunner

Ray of Doom was a hard carry through most rounds, but just never felt satisfying against round 100 for the price, so we’re giving the first target hit bonus a significant damage spike.

  • 5xx Ray of Doom first target hit damage 80 > 140

Wizard Monkey

The Wizard Paragon has been truly popping off with Master Builder's help, it is getting a slight price increase to match its power, but actually also Phoenix Rebirth is also getting a buff to its damage as we didn't feel it was getting enough of the spotlight compared to the rest of the tower’s kit. Max Mana has been reduced by 1 to remove a frustrating ‘perfect timing’ window in Metamorphosis activation.

  • Paragon price $750,000 > $800,000
  • Max Mana reduced from 100000 > 99999
  • Phoenix Rebirth damage over time 2500 > 3500
  • Phoenix Rebirth zombie ZOMG damage 4000 > 8000
  • Phoenix Rebirth zombie BFB damage 700 > 1400

Super Monkey

We wanted to try shifting more of Legend of the Night’s raw power from pierce into damage, giving it stronger single-target potential.

  • xx5 Legend of the Night pierce reduced 23 > 16
  • xx5 Legend of the Night damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased 13 > 25
  • 4xx Sun Temple Primary Glaive projectile is visually larger

Sun Temple - Military

We’ve been wanting to give the Military path of the Temple more long-range focus for a while, so this update pushes toward that goal. Single-target damage is getting a big boost, while the Missile attack becomes a pure long-range damage dealer. Golden Spectres are also seeing a rework similar to the regular Spectre changes happening for Monkey Ace aimed as an overall single-target DPS improvement

  • Military Missile projectile is visually larger at all tiers
  • Missile explosion MOAB bonus damage increased at all tiers 75 > 1999
  • Missile now has a minimum range at all tiers of 75
  • Missile explosion pierce reduced at all tiers 50 > 40
  • T1 Military Missile attack cooldown increased 3s > 6s
  • T2 Military Missile attack cooldown increased 1.5s > 3s
  • T3 Military Missile attack cooldown remains 1s
  • Golden Spectre Dart pierce reduced 50 > 6
  • Golden Spectre Dart damage increased 10 > 25
  • Golden Spectre Bomb pierce increased 10 > 30
  • Golden Spectre Bomb bonus damage to Ceramic +20

Sun Temple - Magic

The baseline power of Magic sacrifice leaned far too heavily on Mini Sun Avatars (The category was... pretty bad... until reaching 100% sacrifice value), so we’ve shifted some of that strength into making Arcane Blast hits, while Mini Sun Avatars are toned down to balance things out while keeping the overall unbuffed damage of this path roughly the same. We will also note in advance there are a couple more buffs to lower tiers here that we found weren’t working right but will be fixed in .1 or v52, this will not impact max-powered temples.

  • Arcane Blast projectile speed reduced at all tiers 400 > 300
  • T2 Magic Arcane Blast damage increased 60 > 100
  • T3 Magic Arcane Blast damage increased 70 > 150
  • T2 Magic Storm Blast fart attack can hit up to MOAB > BFBs
  • Magic Storm Blast fart attack BFB pierce penalty +4
  • Magic Mini Sun Avatars damage reduced 4 > 2

Ninja Monkey

A few attacks had been missed on the Ninja’s last distraction change and have now had their distraction distance properly standardized. The Ninja Paragon is also seeing a set of light adjustments, most notably the much requested rebalance to Sticky Bomb now with a slower attack rate to scale properly against Bosses at high degrees, while the main attack now also hits much harder against any Stickied targets.

  • Distraction distances standardized from 10-300 > 100-150
  • Paragon ma
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