Mushroom Grotto

Mushroom Grotto

Difficulty	Advanced
Music	Tribes & Tribulations
Default Co-op division	Free-for-all
Introduced	Version 54.0
Entrances	2	Exits	2
Junctions	0	Water?	No

Removables and gizmos
Mushrooms: $250 (×4) Big mushroom: $400 (×1)

Path lengths (RBS)
Path		Easy	Medium	Hard
Left		23.2	21.1	18.6
Right		23.5	21.4	18.8

Mushroom Grotto is an Advanced map in Bloons TD 6, introduced in version 54.0. It is set inside a forest populated with mushrooms. The mushrooms apply regions of spore-filled darkness that towers cannot target through, but the player can interact with the mushrooms to illuminate more areas.

Reddit user u/Oski_01 designed this map for the BTD6 7 Year Anniversary Map Competition on the official Bloons TD 6 subreddit. It was one of three winning entries, alongside Tricky Tracks and the upcoming Ship Capture. It was originally created in the Map Editor, and players can access the original map in the Content Browser using the code ZFMVFCD.

Layout

The map features 2 winding tracks that intersect towards the center. The Bloons come from the top-left and bottom-right corners, and move towards the opposite corner. The main gimmick of this map is that Monkeys cannot see or damage Bloons that are in the dark, nor can Monkeys be placed in the dark.

By default the center mushroom is the only light source, and the smaller mushroom patches can be lit up for $250 in order to increase the revealed area. Towers cannot detect Bloons in the hidden area, similar to how Camo Bloons function with towers that cannot see camo, but their projectiles can still hit them normally. Downdraft and higher can still use its main attack on hidden Bloons, but only on Bloons it has just blown back. Once the four smaller mushroom patches have been purchased, the larger mushroom can be bought for $400, which increases the light radius of all mushrooms.

Strategy

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This section was last updated for: version 54.3

Overall, the early game is the hardest part of this map with its darkness gimmick, limiting placement and vision while being not an obstacle. It gets relatively easier starting from about the 20s once all the mushrooms can be lighted up. That being said, the mushrooms don't have to be lit up, because some towers actually thrive off this.

Recommended towers and upgrades

Name	Portrait	Reasoning
Carpet of Spikes		When no mushrooms are activated, all its spikes guarantee to land on the middle section, concentrating its damage. The Carpet's extreme single-target trivialises the BAD and makes non-dense rounds much easier to handle. Its usual best pairings, like Lord of the Abyss, are recommended.
Mortar Monkey, Dartling Gunner		These towers fire their projectiles without requiring a target, granting them much more effective range for the early rounds compared to other tower options.

Gallery

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In other languages

This section was last updated for: version 54.0

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	مغارة الفطر	—
Danish	Svampegrotten	—
German	Pilzgrotte	—
Spanish	Gruta de hongos	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Gruta de hongos	—
Finnish	Sieniluola	—
French	Grotte des champignons	—
Italian	Grotta dei funghi	—
Japanese	キノコ洞窟	—
Korean	버섯 동굴	—
Dutch	Paddenstoelengrot	—
Norwegian	Soppgrotte	—
Polish	Grota grzybów	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Gruta dos Cogumelos	—
Russian	Грибной грот	—
Swedish	Svampgrotta	—
Thai	ถ้ำเห็ด	—
Turkish	Mantar Mağarası	—
Chinese (simplified)	蘑菇洞窟	—
Chinese (traditional)	蘑菇洞窟	—

Navigation

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* Not playable in standard solo or Co-op play