Luminous Cove

This article is about the map in BTD6. For the area in Frontier Legends inspired by this map, see Luminous Cove (Frontier Legends).

Luminous Cove

Difficulty	Intermediate
Music	Winter Nights Chilled
Default Co-op division	Free-for-all
Introduced	Version 44.0
Entrances	2	Exits	2
Junctions	0	Water?	Yes

Path lengths (RBS)
Easy	Medium	Hard
34.8	31.6	27.8

Luminous Cove is an Intermediate map in Bloons TD 6, introduced in version 44.0. The cove features tide pools and Mermonkey ruins. It is one of many hidden entrances to Monklantis. This map was created to promote the Mermonkey, which was released in the same update.

Layout

Luminous Cove has 2 alternating lanes, with the Bloons coming from the top-left and exiting at the bottom-right on odd rounds and from the top-right and exiting at the bottom-left on even rounds. On all rounds, Bloons take one loop in the middle before exiting. The pre-waterfall parts of both lanes lie at a higher elevation than most of the map, preventing most towers from reaching there. Most of the map is filled with water, with the central water spot being particularly strategic due to being surrounded by the central loop.

Strategy

Due to the surroundings of its strategic central loop being filled with water, water-based strategies are optimal for Luminous Cove. The long portions of the track that lie at higher elevations, while being blocked off by line-of-sight for most of the map, can be overcome with towers such as Heli Pilots and Carrier Flagship. Luminous Cove can be beaten using guidelines below.

• Basic Deflation strategies
• Basic Apopalypse strategies
• Basic Half Cash strategies
• Basic Alternate Bloons Rounds strategies
• Basic Impoppable strategies
• Basic CHIMPS strategies

The Mermonkey secret only opens up new water placement for the rest of the game. For a large cost, it's only worth it for maximizing cash generation of bottom path Monkey Buccaneers, as well as maximizing placements for water-based Paragons (Navarch of the Seas and Nautic Siege Core).

Due to the abundance of strategic water spots on Luminous Cove, certain water towers listed below excel.

Recommended towers and upgrades

Name	Portrait	Reasoning
Carrier Flagship		Flagship, with its ability to overcome line-of-sight blockers and attack Bloons throughout the map, is especially powerful on Luminous Cove. It tears through the mid-game and 80s, retains great power into the 90s, and grants a ~17% buff to all water towers, which is crucial on this map.
Admiral Brickell		Brickell's synergy with water towers makes her exceptionally powerful on this map. Her Naval Tactics ability greatly aids surrounding water towers with the most difficult rounds, her +1 pierce to all water towers is very helpful, and her Mega Mines adds solid popping power to her own arsenal.

Easter eggs

All three carvings glowing and the seaweed removed

The uncovered area

• Interacting with the seaweed on the carving removes it.
• If a Mermonkey is upgraded to one of its 5 upgrades (Lord of the Abyss, Popseidon, or The Final Harmonic), causes the corresponding carving to glow. The glow does not disappear if the Mermonkey with that upgrade is sold or otherwise removed. Lighting up all three carvings makes it interactable. Once interacted with, the carving sinks and reveals extra water space.

Gallery

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  Easter theme
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  Fireworks theme
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  Halloween theme
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  Holiday theme
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  Island statue

Trivia

• Luminous Cove is the first map to use a Music Track from the Trophy Store as its default theme.

In other languages

This section was last updated for: version 48.1

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	تجويف مضيئ	—
Danish	Lysende bugt	—
German	Leuchtende Bucht	—
Spanish	Cueva Luminosa	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Caleta luminosa	—
Finnish	Hohtava poukama	—
French	Crique lumineuse	—
Italian	Baia luminosa	—
Japanese	光り輝く入り江	—
Korean	어스름 만	—
Dutch	Lichtgevende grot	—
Norwegian	Lysende hull	—
Polish	Świetlista Zatoka	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Enseada Luminosa	—
Russian	Светящаяся пещера	—
Swedish	Lysande viken	—
Thai	ลูมินัสโคฟ	—
Turkish	Aydınlık Koy	—
Chinese (simplified)	夜光海湾	—
Chinese (traditional)	輝光灣	—

References

• Path lengths sourced from the BTD6 Index

Navigation

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* Not playable in standard solo or Co-op play