Update history:Bloons TD 6/Version 23.0

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Version 23.0

Release dates
Steam		2 February 2021

◄◄ 22.0

◄ 22.2

24.0 ►►

23.1 ►

Version 23.0 is the first major update to Bloons TD 6 of 2021. This update introduced the map Ravine alongside changes to the Challenge Editor.

Additions

• Ravine

Cosmetic items

Item	Category
Trucker Hats	Bloons ― All Bloon Skins
Lantern BFB	Bloons ― MOAB Skins
Pow Pop FX	Bloons ― Pop FX
Custom Avatar - Heli Pilot	Game & UI ― Avatars
Custom Avatar - Kabuki Ninja	Game & UI ― Avatars
Jukebox: BMC Street Party	Game & UI ― Music Tracks
Spike Factory Pineapples	Monkeys ― Projectiles

Changes

This section is incomplete. You can help out by expanding it. The editor who added this notice elaborates: Tower bug fixes

Towers

Dart Monkey

“

While we’re happy with Dart Monkey being a more niche or early use tower, too many people were finding Juggernaut itself even further niche or lackluster on first impression. While retaining the overpower power potential we’ve added a beefy impact to each individual target hit, and we’ve tweaked sharpshooter slightly to provide similar power but with more of a speed focus to enable more distinct crosspath choice between speed and pierce. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Juggernaut	Damage increased ― 1 → 2  Pierce reduced ― 100 → 50
5-X-X Ultra-Juggernaut	Main projectile: damage increased ― 4 → 5 (undocumented)
X-X-4 Sharp Shooter	Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.85s → 0.75s  Damage reduced ― 6 → 5

Boomerang Monkey

“

Small price adjustment to push when you get this tower a little closer to when it’s useful. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Glaive Lord	Upgrade cost reduced ― $40,000 → $35,000

Bomb Shooter

“

Small nerf to the regular-Bloon power of MOAB Mauler’s domination. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X MOAB Mauler	bonus to Ceramic reduced ― +4 → +3 Note: MOAB Assassin unaffected (+4)

Tack Shooter

“

With pierce and range on the base Tack Zone so high that increases weren’t noticeable the middle crosspath was underserved. To balance crosspathing we have reworked the base Tack Zone around lower values then improving them greatly for the crosspaths. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-5 The Tack Zone	Damage increased ― 1 → 2  Range reduced ― 46 → 30  Pierce reduced ― 9 → 4
0-2-5 The Tack Zone + Super Range Tacks	Super Range Tacks grants Tack Zone +20 range bonus ― +3.9 → +20 Note: range reduced from 53.8 to 50  Super Range Tacks grants Tack Zone +6 pierce bonus ― +1 → +6 Note: pierce unchanged at 10

Ice Monkey

“

Ice Monkey power is currently too bottom heavy and mid-to-higher tiers are neglected, so some tweaks to mid-tier upgrades have been made. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Embrittlement	Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,000 → $2,200
X-3-X Arctic Wind	Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,200 → $2,900
X-4-X Snowstorm	Snowstorm ability: cooldown reduced ― 60s → 30s
X-5-X Absolute Zero	Absolute Zero ability: initial cooldown increased ― 0s → 20s (undocumented)
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,000 → $1,750

Glue Gunner

“

Adjustments to top-path upgrades to make each step more noticeable. Very small nerf to the slow amount on MOAB Glue as it has for a long time held a dominating spot in MOAB support, but this same amount has been returned to the previous value at Tier 4. We are still looking at future improvements here, including reworking the priority tree of glue stacks. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Bloon Dissolver	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,700 → $2,600
4-X-X Bloon Liquefier	Pierce increased ― 1 → 2
X-X-3 MOAB Glue	MOAB Glue: slow amount reduced ― 0.625x → 0.75x Note: Relentless Glue unchanged

Sniper Monkey

“

Small improvements for underloved sniper upgrades with respective path specialties intact. As bottom path sniper has proven superiority for group damage dealing in many situations and middle T4 on the group-damage path has only offered a farming option, the pierce of shrapnel has been doubled at this T4 to add offensive value as well..[sic] — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Cripple MOAB	Bullet: damage increased ― 60 → 80
X-4-X Supply Drop and further upgrades	Shrapnel: pierce increased ― 3 → 6

Monkey Sub

This article is in need of research. You can help out by editing this article or discussing your findings on the talk page. The editor who added this notice elaborates: Does the flat pierce buffs/nerfs of middle path affect Energizer too? Is it ever 1200 -> 1020 and 1200 -> 1050 with 5-1-0 and 5-2-0?

“

As Bloontonium Reactor rarely uses up enough pierce that the pierce crosspath would ever matter, a large chunk of this has been moved into the middle crosspath. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Bloontonium Reactor	Damage pulse: base pierce reduced ― 70 → 50 Note: Does not affect Energizer (1000)
4-1-0 Bloontonium Reactor + Barbed Darts	Damage pulse: base pierce reduced ― 84 → 70 Note: Pierce bonus increased from +14 to +20
4-2-0 Bloontonium Reactor + Heat-tipped Darts	Damage pulse: base pierce reduced ― 84 → 100 Note: Pierce bonus increased from +14 to +50

Monkey Ace

“

Monkey Ace was never intended to be a great starting tower and instead come into power at mid- and high-tier upgrades, but since the base tower feels lacking to new players (and some of us old timers) we decided to rework low tier power into the base tower. In addition to this we are experimenting with adding a small amount of homing to the spectre upgrade as rapid fire missing is not the intended design. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower 1-X-X Rapid Fire and further upgrades X-1-X Exploding Pineapple and further upgrades X-X-1 Sharper Darts X-X-2 Centered Path X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting	Dart projectile size increased ― 2 → 3
0-0-0 base tower 0-1-X Exploding Pineapple and further upgrades 0-X-1 Sharper Darts 0-X-2 Centered Path 0-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting	Base Monkey Ace attack cooldown reduced ― 2.1s → 1.68s
1-X-X Rapid Fire	Rapid Fire attack rate buff reduced ― 0.6× → 0.75× Note: Spectre unchanged as it was always 0.75×. Exploding Pineapple and bombs from middle crosspath unchanged at 0.6×  Attack cooldown remains at 1.26s
1-1-0 Rapid Fire + Exploding Pineapple and further upgrades	Exploding Pineapple: attack cooldown reduced ― 1.6s → 1.2s
X-1-X Exploding Pineapple 0-1-1 Exploding Pineapple + Sharper Darts and further upgrades X-2-X Spy Plane	Exploding Pineapple: attack cooldown reduced ― 3s → 2s
X-X-4 Spectre and further upgrades	Now has a slight seeking effect on dart projectiles
X-X-5 Flying Fortress	Upgrade cost reduced ― $105,000 → $100,000

Heli Pilot

“

Further small buff to Comanche as prior balancing has not felt sufficient. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Comanche Defense	Mini-Comanche passive summon: duration increased ― 12s → 15s

Dartling Gunner

“

As our most recently added tower we are very happy with all the excitement surrounding this beloved monkey tower and the general middleground play position. We’re happy enough with its time in the wild to make some first impression changes here which we hope you’ll continue to enjoy. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Plasma Accelerator	Plasma Accelerator can now apply Laser Shock with the beam as well as focal point  Beam: now also deals +10 MOAB class damage (bug)
5-X-X Ray of Doom	Upgrade cost reduced ― $110,000 → $95,000
1-4-0 Rocket Storm + Focused Firing and further upgrades	Rocket Storm ability spread: reduction increased ― 30% → 60%
X-5-X M.A.D	Upgrade cost reduced ― $65,000 → $60,000
X-X-3 Buckshot	Upgrade cost reduced ― $4,000 → $3,800
X-X-3 Buckshot and further upgrades	Buckshot: now knocks back non-MOAB class Bloons a small amount on hit

Wizard Monkey

“

Despite ranking low overall, Wizard Lord Phoenix has dodged balance changes because of its extremely popular place as a challenge tower. With the rise of other towers in challenges, we’ve decided to start off buffing it based on its own merits in general gameplay. We’ve also added some previously intended minor changes to Prince of Darkness which were held back due to bugs that have now been resolved. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Dragon's Breath X-4-X Summon Phoenix	Fireball: damage increased ― 1 → 3
X-3-X Dragon's Breath and further upgrades	Fireball: radius increased ― 10 → 14
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Upgrade cost reduced ― $60,000 → $54,000  Fireball: damage increased ― 1 → 9  Dragon's Breath: damage increased ― 1 → 2
X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Pops retained in graveyard increased ― 2 rounds → 3 rounds  Grave required for damage stacks increased ― 200 → 300

Alchemist

“

Lead to Gold hasn’t been a competitive 3rd tier outside of special game modes and challenges, so we’ve added some more uniqueness by allowing it to truly live up to its description and deal enough damage to instantly ‘convert’ a Lead Bloon, children layers and all, also carrying on some value here in the later game by allowing this bonus to deal extra against DDTs as well. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-3 Lead to Gold and further upgrades	Main potion now does +9 damage to Lead properties

Druid

“

The most recent buff to Superstorm was great fun, but when spending pierce so quickly we wouldn’t see many extra Ball Lightnings. Since many find Superstorm lacking in pierce overall, the ‘extra’ pierce consumptions for hitting larger targets have been reduced to make it more effective and more lightningey. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Ball Lightning	Upgrade cost reduced ― $6,000 → $5,500
5-X-X Superstorm	Superstorm: pierce penalty to MOABs reduced ― +19 → +4  Superstorm: pierce penalty to BFBs reduced ― +49 → +19  Superstorm: pierce penalty to ZOMGs reduced ― +199 → +49  Superstorm: pierce penalty to DDTs reduced ― +49 → +9

Banana Farm

“

Monkey Bank is just too stonks even without Benjamin. This nerf shouldn’t hurt it too much, but will make it snowball a little bit slower and balance with the other paths better. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Monkey Bank	Upgrade cost increased ― $3,300 → $3,500

Spike Factory

“

Like a few other towers before it, the attack speed crosspath for Spike Factory has outshined the others. We have reworked the lower Spike Factory tiers to distribute this power more evenly while keeping high tier factories at a similar level of power. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost increased ― $800 → $1,000
0-0-0 base tower 1-0-X Bigger Stacks 2-0-X White Hot Spikes 3-0-X Spiked Balls 4-0-X Spiked Mines X-0-1 Long Reach X-0-2 Smart Spikes X-0-3 Long Life Spikes X-0-4 Deadly Spikes	Base spike factory rate increased ― 2.2s → 1.75s
5-0-X Super Mines	Rate increased ― 4.4s → 3.5s (undocumented)
5-1-0 Super Mines + Faster Production	Rate reduced ― 2.64s → 2.8s (undocumented)
5-2-0 Super Mines + Even Faster Production	Rate increased ― 1.98s → 1.96s (undocumented)
X-1-X Faster Production	Upgrade cost reduced ― $700 → $600  Faster Production rate buff reduced ― 0.6× → 0.8×
X-1-X Faster Production 1-1-0 Bigger Stacks + Faster Production 2-1-0 White Hot Spikes + Faster Production 3-1-0 Spiked Balls + Faster Production 4-1-0 Spiked Mines + Faster Production 0-1-1 Faster Production + Long Reach 0-1-2 Smart Spikes + Faster Production 0-1-3 Long Life Spikes + Faster Production 0-1-4 Deadly Spikes + Faster Production	Rate reduced ― 1.32s → 1.4s
X-2-X Even Faster Production	Upgrade cost reduced ― $900 → $800  Even Faster Production rate buff increased ― 0.75× → 0.7×
X-2-X Even Faster Production and further upgrades 1-2-0 Even Faster Production + Bigger Stacks 2-2-0 White Hot Spikes + Even Faster Production 3-2-0 Spiked Balls + Even Faster Production 4-2-0 Spiked Mines + Even Faster Production 0-2-1 Even Faster Production + Long Reach 0-2-2 Even Faster Production + Smart Spikes 0-2-3 Long Life Spikes + Even Faster Production 0-2-4 Deadly Spikes + Even Faster Production	Rate increased ― 0.99s → 0.98s
X-5-X Carpet of Spikes	Upgrade cost reduced ― $42,000 → $40,000
0-1-5 Perma-Spike + Faster Production	Rate reduced ― 3.6s → 4.8s (undocumented)
0-2-5 Perma-Spike + Even Faster Production	Rate reduced ― 2.7s → 3.36s (undocumented)

Monkey Village

“

Lead to Gold hasn’t been a competitive 3rd tier outside of special game modes and challenges, so we’ve added some more uniqueness by allowing it to truly live up to its description and deal enough damage to instantly ‘convert’ a Lead Bloon, children layers and all, also carrying on some value here in the later game by allowing this bonus to deal extra against DDTs as well. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Call to Arms	Call to Arms ability: duration increased ― 10s → 12s Note: Homeland ability duration unchanged (20s)

Engineer Monkey

“

Sentry Expert has underperformed for a while, so we’re adding solid crosspathing buffs to all Sentries. We’ve added a pierce & speed boost to Overclock’s base upgrade and lowered the cooldown on Ultraboost to allow the possibility for it to achieve full uptime as a freeplay tower and get its stacks up faster. Finally last update we allowed Bloontrap to be set multiple times per round, and we wanted to stay on the side of caution with a long cooldown, but after seeing it in the wild we are happy to make this cooldown faster. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-0-1 Sentry Expert + Oversize Nails	Oversize Nails increases Sentry pierce by roughly 25% instead of +1  Crushing Sentry: pierce increased ― 22 → 28  Bomb Sentry: pierce increased ― 30 → 38  Cold Sentry: pierce increased ― 15 → 19
1-2-0 Deconstruction + Sentry Gun and further upgrades	Deconstruction: now grants all Sentries +1 damage to Fortified & MOAB
X-4-X Overclock	Pierce increased ― 3 → 15
X-4-X Overclock and further upgrades	Projectile speed increased ― 375 → 750
X-5-X Ultraboost	Pierce increased ― 3 → 30  Ultraboost: ability cooldown reduced ― 45s → 35s  Ultraboost: initial cooldown reduced ― 15s → 5s (undocumented)
X-X-4 Bloon Trap	Bloon Trap: trap cooldown reduced ― 20s → 15s
2-0-4 Bloon Trap + Faster Engineering 2-0-5 XXXL Trap + Faster Engineering	Faster Engineering: rate buff to Bloon Traps increased ― 0.8× → 0.6×

Heroes

Gwendolin

“

The last Gwendolin change didn't come through as well as intended for a number of reasons, so while keeping true to the intention behind this change it has been improved across the board to properly buff this again — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
4-11	Heat It Up: shot requirement reduced ― 60 → 40
12-14	Heat It Up: shot requirement reduced ― 70 → 48
15-17	Heat It Up: shot requirement reduced ― 90 → 64
18+	Heat It Up: shot requirement reduced ― 110 → 70

Adora

“

Ball of Light’s power before level 20 has been improved to scale through the mid game better — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
10-14	Ball of Light: damage increased compared to Adora's base damage ― +1 → +2
15-19	Ball of Light: damage increased compared to Adora's base damage ― +1 → +3
20	Ball of Light: remains at Adora's base damage +18

Etienne

“

Etienne’s main power through mid-to-endgame intentionally comes from his UCAV, however it still overperforms and needs to be pulled back a bit. — Update notes

”

Levels	Changes
10-14	UCAV: duration reduced ― 20s → 18s
15-19	UCAV: duration reduced ― 25s → 20s

Maps

Bazaar

Icons indicate whether a change is beneficial or detrimental to the subject of this section, not to the player.

•  Area between the two paths on the bridge now allows placement of towers with medium-sized footprints

Flooded Valley

• "Resolved an issue with Flooded Valley blocking vision on some towers at times when it should not"
• "Resolved some collision on Flooded Valley"

Modes and events

Apopalypse

• Now displays a victory screen upon completion
• Restarting no longer pauses the game

Race Event / Odyssey

• "Custom Rounds" challenge rule added

Continue

•  First ever continue to be used is now free

Social features

Profile

•  New stats added:
  • Insta Monkey Collection
  • Most Experienced Monkey
  • Most Experienced Monkey XP
  • Collection Chests Opened (does not track chests opened before this update)

Challenge Editor

• "Double Cash Disabled" challenge rule added

Challenge Browser

• "Challenges now allow users to toggle between Player Completion Rate (current number, which displays % of players who have beaten the challenge) & Win Rate (displays the total % of wins against losses)"
• "Challenge Browser now supports an option to “hide” challenges from searches if you have already completed them"
• "Added a ‘follow user’ option & ‘Following’ search to the challenge browser"
• "Challenges that have been greyed out in searches from a previous version of the game will now update to blue again if they are passed on a newer version without using double cash by enough players"
• "Challenge browser now supports filtering challenges by maximum number of rounds & minimum number of rounds. This filter will unfortunately not work on existing challenges.
• "Challenge browser win rates now support displaying >99% & <1% for win rate, if a challenge is not quite actually 100% or 0%."
• "Challenge browser has had some general improvements & optimization to filters, sorting, searching & returning from a challenge"

Miscellaneous

• Added warnings to some screens which had started to be blocked from loading under certain settings in VPN’s & other 3rd party DNS based filters.
• Reworking of tower upgrade UI when hovering/holding over upgrades
• Added a first-time pop-up for targeting priorities
• Resolved some map specific FX not speeding up their animations when in 3x speed
• Resolved an issue that would cause pets to continue playing their SFX after being sold
• Resolved some issues causing Bloons to choose path inconsistently when tracks split off in multiple directions
• Fixed login prompts which had stopped working for guest users
• Login page should correctly load in the webview
• A number of localization issues resolved
• Improved tutorial to feel less clunky
• Snap of Your Fingers achievement correctly works again for players with Double Cash
• The corner of some random Heli can no longer be spotted in the corner of Chutes
• Resolved an issue with Techbots linked to engineers not remembering to trigger Overclock after loading a save
• Resolved an issue with Odyssey wins getting mixed up with regular wins sometimes
• Added some instruction for how to unlock locked maps
• Minor UI fixes and optimizations in a few places
• Some general minor cleaning up of UI in challenge creation
• Changing hero skin right before a co-op game should no longer cause a desync

Notes

• The official update notes include this list of known issues:

“

'Ghost' MOAB Class Bloons visible briefly during Pat Fusty Big Squeeze ability Tower UI may break if too many actions are taken during garbage collection Save integrity of any current Odyssey progress may have issues updating if not already completed

”

External Links

Official Patch notes on Reddit