Mortar Monkey (BTD6)

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Mortar Monkey

Launches an exploding mortar shell to a fixed location anywhere on the screen.

Category	Military
Cost	$510 — Easy $600 — Medium $650 — Hard $720 — Impoppable With Advanced Logistics: $485 — Easy $570 — Medium $615 — Hard $685 — Impoppable With Military Conscription: $340 — Easy $400 — Medium $435 — Hard $480 — Impoppable With Advanced Logistics and Military Conscription: $315 — Easy $370 — Medium $400 — Hard $445 — Impoppable
Hotkey	N
Introduced	Version 6.0

The Mortar Monkey is a Military tower in Bloons TD 6, introduced in Version 6.0. It can be unlocked at levels 7 through 12.

The Mortar Monkey slowly shoots mortar shells at the selected target, anywhere on the map, with random deviation around the target. When landing, the shell create a blast, dealing 2 damage to Bloons hit by the blast, up to a pierce cap.

It can be upgraded to increase the size and damage of the explosion as well as creating a stunning effect, increase the attack speed, or gain support options, like burning Bloons and removing properties.

Upgrades

Path 1

Bigger Blast XP cost: 180
	Bigger shells deliver a bigger blast radius. Easy Medium Hard Impoppable $255 $300 $325 $360

Bloon Buster XP cost: 600
	Smash through 3 layers of Bloons at once! Easy Medium Hard Impoppable $425 $500 $540 $600

Shell Shock XP cost: 2,500
	Blast shockwave stuns Bloons at impact, pops bloons in a wider area, and increases Burny Stuff damage. Easy Medium Hard Impoppable $700 $825 $890 $990

The Big One XP cost: 15,000
	Devastating explosions pop 10 layers. Increases Burny Stuff damage further. Easy Medium Hard Impoppable $5,950 $7,000 $7,560 $8,400

The Biggest One XP cost: 29,000
	Blasts deeply through Bloons and layers over a huge area, plus powerful Burny Stuff damage. Easy Medium Hard Impoppable $30,600 $36,000 $38,880 $43,200

Path 2

Faster Reload XP cost: 150
	Increases the attack speed of the Mortar. Easy Medium Hard Impoppable $340 $400 $430 $480

Rapid Reload XP cost: 600
	Even faster reload. Easy Medium Hard Impoppable $425 $500 $540 $600

Heavy Shells XP cost: 2,300
	Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, Fortified, MOABs, and stunned Bloons. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons. Easy Medium Hard Impoppable $765 $900 $970 $1,080

Artillery Battery XP cost: 12,500
	Bombardment Ability: Unleashes a rapid fire attack in a slightly wider area. Upgrades to 3 barrels for incredibly fast attacks. Easy Medium Hard Impoppable $5,525 $6,500 $7,020 $7,800

Pop and Awe XP cost: 32,000
	Pop and Awe has permanent rapid attack speed. Pop and Awe Ability: rains explosions over the whole screen, damaging Bloons and stunning them periodically. Easy Medium Hard Impoppable $32,300 $38,000 $41,040 $45,600

Path 3

Increased Accuracy XP cost: 140
	Makes the shots more accurate. Easy Medium Hard Impoppable $170 $200 $215 $240

Burny Stuff XP cost: 650
	Damaged Bloons are set ablaze momentarily with each hit. Easy Medium Hard Impoppable $340 $400 $430 $480

Signal Flare XP cost: 2,200
	Camo Bloons popped by flares lose their camouflage permanently. Easy Medium Hard Impoppable $935 $1,100 $1,190 $1,320

Shattering Shells XP cost: 12,000
	Shattering shells strip special Bloon properties off all but the biggest bloons. Burny stuff melts through 5 layers with each shot and burns MOAB-class Bloons for extra damage. Easy Medium Hard Impoppable $8,075 $9,500 $10,260 $11,400

Blooncineration XP cost: 35,000
	Superhot burny stuff that incinerates MOAB-Class Bloons with ease. Easy Medium Hard Impoppable $34,000 $40,000 $43,200 $48,000

Stats

For a complete list of Mortar Monkey stats, see Stats:Mortar Monkey (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 30 units Footprint radius 11 units

Attack
Cooldown 2s Offset (X, Y, Z) -4.03, 2.5, 20 Spread 18 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range ∞ units Rotation speed ∞ deg/s Filters Cannot target Camo
Ignores blockers
Explosion Pierce 25 Damage 2 Damage type Explosion Lifespan 0.05s Radius 20 units Filters Cannot hit Camo

Related Monkey Knowledge

A list of Monkey Knowledge that are specific to the Mortar Monkey. Does not include Monkey Knowledge that are specific to the Military class or all towers.

Monkey Knowledge	Cost	Prerequisites	Introduced
Extra Burny Stuff Burny Stuff pops every second.	Free	4 invested	Version 6.0
Paint Stripper Mortar shattering shells removes Fortification from DDT Bloons.	250	8 invested Extra Burny Stuff	Version 6.0
Budget Battery Artillery Battery cost reduced by 600.	500	8 invested Paint Stripper	Version 6.0

Rogue Legends

Starter parties with Mortar Monkeys

Item	Insta Monkey 1	Insta Monkey 2	Artifact
Striker Jones	0-1-0 Ninja Monkey	0-2-0 Mortar Monkey	Malicious Mauling Common
Sentai Churchill	1-0-0 Monkey Ace	1-0-0 Mortar Monkey	Squadron Together Strong Common
Biker Bones	0-1-0 Wizard Monkey	0-0-2 Mortar Monkey	Pops Fired Common
Galaxili	2-0-0 Tack Shooter	0-0-2 Mortar Monkey	Quantum Leap Common

Artifacts that add Mortar Monkeys

Artifact	Common	Rare	Legendary
Critical Impact	1-1-0 Mortar Monkey	2-1-0 Mortar Monkey	2-0-0 Mortar Monkey

Artifacts that affect Mortar Monkeys

This list does not include Artifacts that affect all Military towers.

Artifact	Common effect	Rare effect	Legendary effect
Critical Impact	Tier 3 and higher Mortars have a 1 in 8 chance to Crit for 250% damage. Adds a 1-1-0 Mortar to your Party	Tier 3 and higher Mortars have a 1 in 8 chance to Crit for 350% damage. Adds a 2-1-0 Mortar to your Party	Tier 3 and higher Mortars have a 1 in 8 chance to Crit for 500% damage. Adds a 2-0-0 Mortar to your Party
Fish Nova	Tier 3 and higher Bomb Shooter, Mortar, Ice Monkey, Glue Gunner & Banana Farm attacks have a chance to release swarms of fish each dealing 1 damage to 2 Bloons	Tier 3 and higher Bomb Shooter, Mortar, Ice Monkey, Glue Gunner & Banana Farm attacks have a chance to release swarms of fish each dealing 2 damage to 3 Bloons	Tier 3 and higher Bomb Shooter, Mortar, Ice Monkey, Glue Gunner & Banana Farm attacks have a chance to release swarms of fish each dealing 4 damage to 4 Bloons

Costs and sell values

Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.

Tiers	Total cost				Sell value
	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable	Easy	Medium	Hard	Impoppable
0-0-0	$510	$600	$650	$720	$357	$420	$455	$504
1-0-0	$765	$900	$975	$1,080	$536	$630	$683	$756
1-1-0	$1,105	$1,300	$1,405	$1,560	$774	$910	$984	$1,092
1-0-1	$935	$1,100	$1,190	$1,320	$655	$770	$833	$924
0-1-0	$850	$1,000	$1,080	$1,200	$595	$700	$756	$840
0-1-1	$1,020	$1,200	$1,295	$1,440	$714	$840	$907	$1,008
0-0-1	$680	$800	$865	$960	$476	$560	$606	$672
2-0-0	$1,190	$1,400	$1,515	$1,680	$833	$980	$1,061	$1,176
2-1-0	$1,530	$1,800	$1,945	$2,160	$1,071	$1,260	$1,362	$1,512
2-2-0	$1,955	$2,300	$2,485	$2,760	$1,369	$1,610	$1,740	$1,932
2-0-1	$1,360	$1,600	$1,730	$1,920	$952	$1,120	$1,211	$1,344
2-0-2	$1,700	$2,000	$2,160	$2,400	$1,190	$1,400	$1,512	$1,680
0-2-0	$1,275	$1,500	$1,620	$1,800	$893	$1,050	$1,134	$1,260
1-2-0	$1,530	$1,800	$1,945	$2,160	$1,071	$1,260	$1,362	$1,512
0-2-1	$1,445	$1,700	$1,835	$2,040	$1,012	$1,190	$1,285	$1,428
0-2-2	$1,785	$2,100	$2,265	$2,520	$1,250	$1,470	$1,586	$1,764
0-0-2	$1,020	$1,200	$1,295	$1,440	$714	$840	$907	$1,008
1-0-2	$1,275	$1,500	$1,620	$1,800	$893	$1,050	$1,134	$1,260
0-1-2	$1,360	$1,600	$1,725	$1,920	$952	$1,120	$1,208	$1,344
3-0-0	$1,890	$2,225	$2,405	$2,670	$1,323	$1,558	$1,684	$1,869
3-1-0	$2,230	$2,625	$2,835	$3,150	$1,561	$1,838	$1,985	$2,205
3-2-0	$2,655	$3,125	$3,375	$3,750	$1,859	$2,188	$2,363	$2,625
3-0-1	$2,060	$2,425	$2,620	$2,910	$1,442	$1,698	$1,834	$2,037
3-0-2	$2,400	$2,825	$3,050	$3,390	$1,680	$1,978	$2,135	$2,373
0-3-0	$2,040	$2,400	$2,590	$2,880	$1,428	$1,680	$1,813	$2,016
1-3-0	$2,295	$2,700	$2,915	$3,240	$1,607	$1,890	$2,041	$2,268
2-3-0	$2,720	$3,200	$3,455	$3,840	$1,904	$2,240	$2,419	$2,688
0-3-1	$2,210	$2,600	$2,805	$3,120	$1,547	$1,820	$1,964	$2,184
0-3-2	$2,550	$3,000	$3,235	$3,600	$1,785	$2,100	$2,265	$2,520
0-0-3	$1,955	$2,300	$2,485	$2,760	$1,369	$1,610	$1,740	$1,932
1-0-3	$2,210	$2,600	$2,810	$3,120	$1,547	$1,820	$1,967	$2,184
2-0-3	$2,635	$3,100	$3,350	$3,720	$1,845	$2,170	$2,345	$2,604
0-1-3	$2,295	$2,700	$2,915	$3,240	$1,607	$1,890	$2,041	$2,268
0-2-3	$2,720	$3,200	$3,455	$3,840	$1,904	$2,240	$2,419	$2,688
4-0-0	$7,840	$9,225	$9,965	$11,070	$5,488	$6,458	$6,976	$7,749
4-1-0	$8,180	$9,625	$10,395	$11,550	$5,726	$6,738	$7,277	$8,085
4-2-0	$8,605	$10,125	$10,935	$12,150	$6,024	$7,088	$7,655	$8,505
4-0-1	$8,010	$9,425	$10,180	$11,310	$5,607	$6,598	$7,126	$7,917
4-0-2	$8,350	$9,825	$10,610	$11,790	$5,845	$6,878	$7,427	$8,253
0-4-0	$7,565	$8,900	$9,610	$10,680	$5,296	$6,230	$6,727	$7,476
1-4-0	$7,820	$9,200	$9,935	$11,040	$5,474	$6,440	$6,955	$7,728
2-4-0	$8,245	$9,700	$10,475	$11,640	$5,772	$6,790	$7,333	$8,148
0-4-1	$7,735	$9,100	$9,825	$10,920	$5,415	$6,370	$6,878	$7,644
0-4-2	$8,075	$9,500	$10,255	$11,400	$5,653	$6,650	$7,179	$7,980
0-0-4	$10,030	$11,800	$12,745	$14,160	$7,021	$8,260	$8,922	$9,912
1-0-4	$10,285	$12,100	$13,070	$14,520	$7,200	$8,470	$9,149	$10,164
2-0-4	$10,710	$12,600	$13,610	$15,120	$7,497	$8,820	$9,527	$10,584
0-1-4	$10,370	$12,200	$13,175	$14,640	$7,259	$8,540	$9,223	$10,248
0-2-4	$10,795	$12,700	$13,715	$15,240	$7,557	$8,890	$9,601	$10,668
5-0-0	$38,440	$45,225	$48,845	$54,270	$26,908	$31,658	$34,192	$37,989
5-1-0	$38,780	$45,625	$49,275	$54,750	$27,146	$31,938	$34,493	$38,325
5-2-0	$39,205	$46,125	$49,815	$55,350	$27,444	$32,288	$34,871	$38,745
5-0-1	$38,610	$45,425	$49,060	$54,510	$27,027	$31,798	$34,342	$38,157
5-0-2	$38,950	$45,825	$49,490	$54,990	$27,265	$32,078	$34,643	$38,493
0-5-0	$39,865	$46,900	$50,650	$56,280	$27,906	$32,830	$35,455	$39,396
1-5-0	$40,120	$47,200	$50,975	$56,640	$28,084	$33,040	$35,683	$39,648
2-5-0	$40,545	$47,700	$51,515	$57,240	$28,382	$33,390	$36,061	$40,068
0-5-1	$40,035	$47,100	$50,865	$56,520	$28,025	$32,970	$35,606	$39,564
0-5-2	$40,375	$47,500	$51,295	$57,000	$28,263	$33,250	$35,907	$39,900
0-0-5	$44,030	$51,800	$55,945	$62,160	$30,821	$36,260	$39,162	$43,512
1-0-5	$44,285	$52,100	$56,270	$62,520	$31,000	$36,470	$39,389	$43,764
2-0-5	$44,710	$52,600	$56,810	$63,120	$31,297	$36,820	$39,767	$44,184
0-1-5	$44,370	$52,200	$56,375	$62,640	$31,059	$36,540	$39,463	$43,848
0-2-5	$44,795	$52,700	$56,915	$63,240	$31,357	$36,890	$39,841	$44,268

Strategy

For more in-depth strategies, see Strategy:Mortar Monkey (BTD6).

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Mortars are flexible at dealing grouped damage on a focused area anywhere on screen, but require micromanagement to fully take advantage of. Regularly adjust the position of the reticle ahead of Bloons, preferably around bends. Being able to be purchased at the start of standard CHIMPS allows it to be an early-game carry on maps with tight bends, such as Dark Path and Glacial Trail. Most of its power come from its Tier 3 and above upgrades, as its lower-tiers are only okay. Striker Jones is its favored Hero for Mortar-centric defense, as he provides them with increased attack speed, black-popping, and other benefits that assist them.

Top path is focused on grouped damage and support via stuns. All of the higher-tiers on this path deal much more damage with Burny Stuff, so should be bought as crosspaths if the map has sufficient length or has wide bends, otherwise middle crosspath is better. They all have Black Bloon weaknesses, making Striker's black-popping buff vital.

Middle path is the speed path, and its higher-tiers lack Black Bloon weaknesses and excel against MOAB-class Bloons. Heavy Shells and above favor stun synergies to maximize damage. Artillery Battery is a powerful mid-game carry, and Pop and Awe has outstanding DPS and grouped damage against all Bloons below BAD.

Bottom path is mostly support-oriented, and its burning damage-over-time from Burny Stuff and above allow the Mortar to spread damage over multiple Bloons. Signal Flare is a reliable long-range decamo, and the blimp defortification from Shattering Shells assists against heavy Fortified rounds. Blooncineration does immense DoT damage and receives external buffs well, making it suitable as a late-game carry on CHIMPS.

Changes from Bloons TD 5

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Update history

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Version 14.0

• "Mortars should no longer display line of sight as they can ignore all blockers"

Version 15.0

• "The mortar’s projectiles should no longer visually drop back down the barrel"

Version 21.0

“

Mortar’s Faster Reload feels like a ‘required’ as a crosspath with Burny Stuff never scaling well on any path but it’s own. We like choices not requirements so to counter this we have made Burny Stuff scale with top-path damage & shifted a small amount of the speed from Faster Reload onto the base mortar and reduced base accuracy considerably.
— Update notes

”

•  Mortar base rate of fire increased ― 2.2s → 2s
•  Random spread radius increased ― 18 → 30
  • Note: Random spread with X-X-1 Increased Accuracy is unchanged (8)

Version 22.0

“

We felt like we set up the math quite well with Mortar changes last update, but regardless of this missed shots due to inaccuracy vs. attack speed turned out to be unpopular and impacted the middle path too severely. Fortunately this change led to the community finding some critical bugs in the middle path upgrades there since Mortar’s release! That said, since low tier Mortars were never powerful we chose to leave the speed buff from last update but revert the accuracy nerf.
— Update notes

”

•  Base accuracy increased ― 30 → 18

Version 39.0

“

We’re looking to shakeup mortar in a couple small ways this update, along with Striker Jones changes noted further on for ‘multi-mortaring’ synergy. From the base level Mortar has far more pierce than should ever be necessary at low rounds but doesn’t hit beefy enough for the low fire rate, so we are trading up some base pierce for damage, instead moving this lost pierce up into crosspath.
— Update notes

”

•  Explosion: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
•  Explosion: Pierce reduced ― 40 → 25
  • Note: Bigger Blast and its subsequent upgrades unchanged

Version 50.0

“

Mortar Monkey’s base price has been reduced to make it a possible starting tower, if you really want to try that. While it’s still not intended to be a great starter we hope that having the extra option will be fun.
— Update notes

”

•  Cost reduced ― $750 → $600

Cosmetic items

Item	Category	Unlock method(s)	Introduced
Mortar Monkey Snow Projectile	Monkeys — Projectiles	Trophy Store —  50	Version 29.0
Mortar Monkey Safety Mole Pet	Monkeys — Pets	Trophy Store —  120, Pets Fan Pack (IAP)	Version 44.0

Gallery

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Screenshots

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Assets

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  Portrait
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  Insta Monkey icon

In other languages

This section was last updated for: version 49.2

Name

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	قرد مدفع هاون	—
Danish	Mortér-abe	—
German	Mörseraffe	—
Spanish	Mono mortero	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Mono mortero	—
Finnish	Mörssäriapina	—
French	Singe à mortier	—
Italian	Scimmia mortaio	—
Japanese	迫撃砲モンキー	—
Korean	박격포 원숭이	—
Dutch	Mortieraap	—
Norwegian	Morter-ape	—
Polish	Małpka z moździerzem	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Macaco Morteiro	—
Russian	Обезьяна с мортирой	—
Swedish	Granatkastarapa	—
Thai	ลิงปืนครก	—
Turkish	Havancı Maymun	—
Chinese (simplified)	迫击炮猴	—
Chinese (traditional)	迫擊砲猴	—

Description

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	يقوم بإطلاق قذيفة هاون متفجرة على موقع ثابت في أي مكان على الشاشة.	—
Danish	Affyrer en eksploderende mortérgranat mod et fast mål, hvor som helst på skærmen.	—
German	Verschießt eine Mörsergranate auf einen festgelegten Ort irgendwo auf dem Bildschirm.	—
Spanish	Lanza un proyectil de mortero explosivo a una ubicación determinada en cualquier parte de la pantalla.	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Lanza un proyectil de mortero explosivo a una ubicación determinada en cualquier parte de la pantalla.	—
Finnish	Ampuu räjähtävän kranaatin kiinteään kohtaan minne tahansa näytöllä.	—
French	Lance un obus de mortier explosif sur un lieu précis de l'écran.	—
Italian	È in grado di lanciare colpi di mortaio esplosivi verso un punto fisso casuale sullo schermo.	—
Japanese	画面上の任意の定位置めがけて、爆破する迫撃炸裂弾を発射する。	—
Korean	화면 내 어디든 고정된 지점에 폭발성 박격포탄을 발사합니다.	—
Dutch	Lanceert een exploderende mortierprojectiel naar een vaste plaats op het scherm.	—
Norwegian	Sender et eksploderende morterskjell til et satt sted hvor som helst på skjermen.	—
Polish	Strzela wybuchającymi pociskami moździerzowymi w wybraną lokalizację na ekranie.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Lança uma cápsula explosiva de morteiro contra um ponto fixo em qualquer lugar da tela.	—
Russian	Запускает снаряд мортиры в любое указанное место на экране.	—
Swedish	Avfyrar en exploderande granat mot en bestämd plats var som helst på skärmen.	—
Thai	ยิงกระสุนปืนครกระเบิดไปยังตำแหน่งตายตัวที่กำหนดไว้บนหน้าจอ	—
Turkish	Ekranda herhangi bir sabit konuma patlayan havan mermileri fırlatır.	—
Chinese (simplified)	向屏幕上的任意固定位置发射高爆迫击炮弹。	—
Chinese (traditional)	向螢幕上任意固定位置發射爆炸迫擊砲彈。	—