Life

Icon in BTD6

Lives (also referred to as health or hearts) are a resource that primarily appears in the Bloons TD series. In the Bloons TD series, it limits the number Bloons the player is allowed to leak. When a Bloon leaks, it removes a certain amount of lives (usually equal to its RBE), and causes a game over if the player runs out. Lives can also be consumed to activate effects, such as Activated Abilities. In most games in the series, the number of lives the player starts with depends on the difficulty.

Starting lives

Game	Mode(s)	Amount
Bloons Tower Defense	—	40
Bloons Tower Defense 2	Easy	100
	Medium	75
	Hard	50
Bloons Tower Defense 3	Easy	100
	Medium	75
	Hard	50
Bloons TD 4	Easy	200
	Medium, Apopalypse, Deflation	150
	Hard	100
	Sandbox	100,000
Bloons TD 5	Easy	200
	Medium, Apopalypse, Deflation	150
	Hard	100
	Impoppable	1
	Sandbox	∞
Bloons TD Battles	Default	150
	1 Life	1
	Sandbox	∞
Bloons Monkey City	—	20
Bloons TD 6	Easy	200
	Medium	150
	Hard	100
	Impoppable, CHIMPS	1
	Sandbox	999,999
Bloons TD Battles 2	—	150
Bloons Adventure Time TD	Normal, Martian Games	200
	Hard	150
	Extreme	100
	Impoppable	1

Increasing starting lives

• In the Flash version of Bloons TD 5 and Bloons TD 5 Deluxe, Triple Lives triples the player's starting lives.
• In the mobile version and console version of Bloons TD 5, the player can upgrade their starting lives in the Monkey Lab, gaining 400 extra lives (outside of Impoppable) at level 13.
• In Bloons TD 6, the Box of Chocolates Relic Knowledge increases starting lives by 100.
• In Bloons Monkey City, the player's starting lives increases by 5 each time their City Level increases, for a maximum of 215 lives at level 40.

Life generation

Certain mechanics can generate extra lives in the middle a game. Some allow the player to have more lives than they started the game with, but others cannot. The player cannot generate extra lives on Impoppable mode in Bloons TD 5 and Bloons TD 6, but can in Bloons Adventure Time TD, provided the source of the lives allows the player to exceed the starting amount.

In Bloons Monkey City, the remaining lives are converted into additional City Cash at the end of a captured Tile, at a ratio of 1:1. On the Flash version of Bloons Monkey City, this also extends to bonus lives generated by the Cuddly Bear.

In BTD6, the player earns 90% less lives if they have 1,000 or more lives (rounded down to a minimum of 1). If a source of lives causes the player to reach more than 1,000 lives, only the lives that put the player above 1,000 are reduced (for example, collecting a life crate from a Support Chinook at 995 lives earns 6 lives, because the first 5 lives made the player's lives equal to 1,000, and the remaining 5 were reduced to 1). By default, the player is capped at 5,000 lives, though some modes and challenge rules alter this.

Bloons TD 4

Source	Amount	Can raise above starting lives?	Notes
Banana Farm	1 (+1 per upgrade tier) per round		Requires Healthy Bananas.
More Lives	200

Bloons TD 5

Source	Amount	Can raise above starting lives?	Notes
Continue	100
Banana Farm	1 (+1 per upgrade tier) per round		Requires Healthy Bananas.
Life Injection	200
Support Chinook's life crates	50–75

Bloons TD Battles (mobile)

Source	Amount	Can raise above starting lives?	Notes
Attrition	2 every 15 seconds		In Assault mode, the lives are stolen from the opponent. If the opponent has 2 or fewer lives left, it instead gives $50 every 15 seconds.
Support Chinook's life crates	50–75

Bloons Monkey City

Source	Amount	Can raise above starting lives?	Notes
Continue	Starting lives
Cuddly Bear	20
Support Chinook's life crates	50–75

Bloons TD 6

Source	Amount	Can raise above starting lives?	Notes
Support Chinook's life crates	10 (12 with Charged Chinooks)
Special Poperations's life crates	25 (31 with Charged Chinooks)
Spirit of the Forest's ability	25
Marketplace	1 per round		Requires Healthy Bananas.
Central Market	3 per round		Requires Healthy Bananas.
Monkey Wall Street	15 per round
Benjamin's Cyber Security (levels 4–13)	5 per round
Benjamin's Cyber Security (levels 14+)	10 per round		Capped at starting lives +100.
Geraldo's Rejuv Potion	50
Regeneration	20 per round (if no lives lost per round)
Restoration	10 per round (if no lives lost per round)		Capped at starting lives +150.
Continue	Starting lives
Cats Meow	3 per round (Rare) 9 per round (Legendary)

Bloons Adventure Time TD

Source	Amount	Can raise above starting lives?	Notes
COBRA's life crates	1–2
Continue	Starting lives
Cyclops tears	5–15		Can only be activated if the player has less lives than their starting lives.
Finn's Big Hearted Hero	150
Finn's Bro Fist	10 per round
Treetrunks's pies	1 (3 with Gourmet Pies)

Equipment

Source	Amount	Can raise above starting lives?	Notes
Abraham Lincoln's Penny	Starting lives
Ancient Sleeping Magi of Lifegiving	50% (+1% per 4 ranks) of lives the player had at the start of the round
Anti-Gravity Tote Chamber	50% more	Depends on source
Apple Pie	50 (+1 per 2 ranks)
Branches of Palm	1 per 500 damage
Candy Seeds	3 per round
Dimension Disruptor	150
Grave Ring	1 per round
Lemonsweets	5 per round
Prismo's Homemade Artisanal Pickles	75
Soul Redeemer Sword	1 per 100 pops
Stone Skin Potion	20
The Lover	1 per round		Despite what the description states, this weapon does not generate more lives depending on the number of characters in range.
Thought Cannon Wand	5–20 (+1 per 2 star levels)
Time Travel Machine	Starting lives
Witch's Donuts	10 (+1 per 10 ranks) per round

Bloons TD Battles 2

Source	Amount	Can raise above starting lives?	Notes
Support Chinook's life crates	15
Special Poperations's life crates	15
Spirit of the Forest's ability	25
Beetienne's Making Honey	Depends on level

Shield lives

In Bloons TD 6 and Bloons Adventure Time TD, the player can generate additional "shield lives" that act as an additional layer of lives. These function similarly to normal lives, except Bloons will remove shield lives before regular lives, and effects that consume lives (such as Ezili's Sacrificial Totems) will only consume regular lives. Shield lives have their own limit on the amount the player can have, separate from regular lives.

Bloons TD 6

• Mana Shield: +25, regenerates up to 5 per round (after 1 round without leaking)
• Mana Bulwark: +50

Bloons Adventure Time TD

• Tiki Shield: +5, regenerates up to 5 per round
• Billy's Shield: +100 (+1 per rank)

In other games

Hot Air Bloon (iOS)

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Bloons Supermonkey 2 (mobile)

In the Endless Mine event, the player has a life meter that functions similarly to the Bloons TD series. When a Bloon escapes, the player loses lives equal to its RBE and resets their score multiplier. The First Aid Bonus Power restores up to 50 lives, and the Invincibility Bonus Power prevents the player from losing lives or their multiplier for 30 seconds. The player starts with 150 lives and is capped at 200.

Bloons Pop!

Main article: Life (Bloons Pop!)

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