Spirit of the Forest (BTD6)

For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Spirit of the Forest (Battles 2).

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Spirit of the Forest

Grows thorned vines along the path that deal constant damage and bonus damage to ceramics. Vines nearest the Spirit of the Forest do more damage. Activated ability generates more lives and cash.

Tower	Druid — Path 2 — Tier 5
XP cost	40,000
Cash cost	$29,750 — Easy $35,000 — Medium $37,800 — Hard $42,000 — Impoppable

← Jungle's Bounty

Root of all Nature →

Spirit of the Forest is the Druid's path 2 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6.

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
0-5-0	$35,650	$41,950	$45,305	$50,340	$24,955	$29,365	$31,714	$35,238
1-5-0	$35,945	$42,300	$45,685	$50,760	$25,162	$29,610	$31,980	$35,532
2-5-0	$36,665	$43,150	$46,605	$51,780	$25,666	$30,205	$32,624	$36,246
0-5-1	$35,735	$42,050	$45,415	$50,460	$25,015	$29,435	$31,791	$35,322
0-5-2	$35,990	$42,350	$45,740	$50,820	$25,193	$29,645	$32,018	$35,574

Update history

For a complete list of Druid changes, see Update history:Druid (BTD6).

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Version 2.0

•  Ability: Base cash generated increased ― $100 → $200
•  Ability: Cash per Banana Farm increased ― $100 → $150
•  Ability: Range increased ― 35 units → 75 units

Version 7.0

•  Thorns: base damage increased by 1
•  Track vines: now deal +4 damage to Ceramics
•  Track vines: now deal +4 damage to MOAB-Class
•  Vine attack: "targets Bloons about 20% faster"

Version 8.0

•  Ability: Now starts with its full cooldown

Version 12.0

“

This is to better synergize with the bottom path by not automatically reducing the bonus from Heart Of Vengeance every round.
— Update notes

”

•  No longer generates 25 lives at the end of each round
•  Ability: now generates 25 lives when activated

Version 15.0

• Description changed ― "Grows thorned vines along the path, dealing constant damage, regenerating lives and providing money every round." → "Grows thorned vines along the path that deal constant damage, plus regenerates lives and provides money when ability is activated."

Version 16.0

•  Base range increased ― 35 → 55
•  Jungle's bounty ability: range decreased ― 75 → 55
•  Jungle's bounty ability: cash gained per farm reduced ― $150 → $100
•  Vines: ceramic damage bonus increased ― +4 → +8

Version 21.0

“

We’ve wanted to work on this upgrade for a while but first had to deal with an issue causing it to perform far differently to intended. Unfortunately while we expected improvement from this fix, it ended up being an overall nerf. We have cut the price by a large amount to counter this and will revisit the upgrade again after this settles.
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost reduced ― $50,000 → $35,000

Version 24.0

• Spirit of the Forest vine visuals should correctly layer over split tracks now (bug fix)

Version 27.0

“

To allow for more strategy in placement, Druid’s Spirit of the Forest track vines are now more dense & deadly the closer they are to the main tower.
— Update notes

”

•  Bloons outside 100 Range take 2 damage and +8 bonus damage to Ceramics and MOAB-class
•  Bloons within 100 Range take an additional 1 damage and +4 bonus damage to Ceramics and MOAB-class
•  Bloons within 50 Range take an additional 1 damage and +4 bonus damage Ceramics and MOAB-class

Version 28.0

“

Jungle Druids have been reworked to have more offensive power at both T3 and the T4 while not being quite so good at farming
— Update notes

”

•  Vine attack: Can now grab 2 bloons at once
•  Ability: Cooldown increased ― 40s → 60s
•  Ability: Base cash amount increased ― $200 → $240
•  Ability: Cash bonus per farm increased ― $100 → $120
•  Ability: Now stops recharging during a round if 3 minutes elapse after the start
•  Vine attack: Now leaves a thorn pile on the track after popping the target
•  First child of Bloons popped by Spirit of the Forest should take damage again (bug fix)
• Reworked some functionality around chinooking a Spirit of the Forest

Version 29.0

“

We are also starting to look at moving some cash farming potential with Jungle’s Bounty to favour Obyn as the ‘Druid Hero’ more than Benjamin who is meant to focus more on Banks - more on that further down in the Obyn section.
— Update notes

”

“

While having fun with the new Druid of the Vine changes, we want this new power to scale further with the T5.
— Update notes

”

•  Thorn pile: Damage increased ― 1 → 5
•  Range reduced ― 55 → 45
  •  Also affects range with Druidic Reach ― 65 → 55

Version 30.0

•  Overall cost reduced by $25 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 31.2

•  Brambles: no longer has single-layer damage (undocumented)

Version 32.0

“

More needed crosspath reworking for the new 1xx Hard Thorns upgrade, as it now upgrades the druid from sharp to normal damage it doesn't make sense for the track brambles on 030 to not require this crosspath for lead popping. Spirit of the Forest's base attack has also had a simple damage increase as it contributes very little to the power of the tower by T5 and the tower lacks in single target.
— Update notes

”

•  Base attack: Damage increased ― 2 → 20
•  Vine bramble piles damage type ― Normal → Sharp
  • Note: 1-3-0 retains Normal type damage

Version 33.0

“

Druid of the Jungle’s vines feel too strong already for this, but for quality of life the T4 Jungle’s Bounty Druid will now gain targeting options for the global vine attack, which we hope will make all players as well as Druid fans happy.
— Update notes

”

•  Jungle's Bounty vine can now follow tower Target Priority

Version 34.0

“

Druid’s vine brambles are very bottom-heavy in power, with high performance leading into a comparably small T4 increase, so some of the pierce is being moved up into the T4.
— Update notes

”

•  Brambles: Pierce increased ― 30 → 40

Version 35.0

“

Many people seem to feel that moving to a big damage bonus on the basic main attack has lost this tower's identity in the vines. We are reworking this a little, with the main attack & Bramble piles having their damage contributions tweaked to have value over multiple x4xs but not far exceeding them on the main attack anymore, and the main actual increase in DPS output is being shifted into the small center track vine damage zone in hopes of making placement more impactful.
— Update notes

”

•  Base thorn damage reduced ― 20 → 6
•  Bramble vine refresh rate increased ― 0.3s → 0.1s
•  Bramble vine lifespan increased ― 4.5s → 9s
•  Closest track ring MOAB-class/Ceramic bonus increased ― +20 → +30

Version 36.0

“

increasing the base cash amount gained from the ability as it currently needs quite a lot of initial investment to really get going at all compared to other farming options
— Update notes

”

•  Ability: Base cash generation increased ― $240 → $320

Version 37.0

“

Housekeeping - even deep in the forest, it does actually make life better.
— Update notes

”

•  Jungle Vine follows target prio of tower instead of always targeting strong
•  Jungle Vine Brambles without Hard Thorns are now destroyed by Lead/Frozen bloons
  • Note: Lead and Frozen Bloons are still targetable

Version 37.2

•  Now properly needs Hard Thorns crosspaths to grab lead/frozen bloons with vines (bug fix)

Version 38.0

“

Middle path T4 isn't a very good improvement over the T3 so is getting small improvements to both its offense and cash generation.
— Update notes

”

•  Cash bonus per farm in range increased ― $120 → $130

Version 39.0

“

Experimenting more with druid ‘life play’ functionality, similar to Heart of vengeance, we’re adding new functionality to Heart of Oak along with improved means of building into this with the Jungle’s Bounty upgrade, however the base pierce of Jungle’s Bounty is being reduced slightly to account for a higher buff potential it now grants itself.
— Update notes

”

•  Now gains a new buff – gains 1% pierce for every life gained from the starting value after the upgrade. Maxes at 100% and diminishes if lives are lost. Includes crosspathed attacks, excluding lightning (which can't be pierce-buffed).
•  Track bramble: Pierce reduced ― 40 → 30

Version 41.0

•   Spirit of the Forest track vines can no longer damage while frozen on Glacial Trail (bug fix)

Version 42.0

“

Same as the sniper, group triggering these spam abilities that require no timing other than ‘as soon as possible once off cooldown’ feels like a good quality of life change for those wishing to play alternate farming methods.
— Update notes

”

•  Jungle's Bounty ability now triggers all available Jungle’s Bounty abilities when one is used

Version 43.0

“

Passive life generation is being removed in favor of the active ability being the only source of life generation, this allows druid-focus strategies to no longer ‘accidentally’ heal their Vengeance buffs away.
— Update notes

”

•  Spirit of the Forest no longer passively generates lives per round

Version 44.0

“

Druid of the Jungle’s vine attack rate has always been possible to be influenced by buffs though the time taken to destroy any larger Bloons is simply longer than the base cooldown so this hasn’t been relevant to it, we’ve now given it a normal attack cooldown to the point where the 031 crosspath should make some difference when grabbing larger Bloons.
— Update notes

”

•  Vine minimum cooldown increased ― 0.25s → 2.6s

1-5-0, 2-5-0

•  Vine minimum cooldown increased ― 0.0625s → 0.65s (undocumented)

Version 44.1

•  Base attack cooldown reduced ― 2.6s → 0.25s
  • Note: x4x and x5x still depends on other vines to cool off before producing a new vine, which is unchanged

Version 45.0

“

Our initial rework to Vine attack rate in v44 caused some issues at T4, to get around these issues T4 now improves the power of vines directly instead.
— Update notes

”

•  Vine brambles: rate that pierce refreshes at can now be buffed by attack speed buffs
•  Vine attack: count reduced ― 2 → 1
•  Vine brambles: lifespan increased ― 4.5s → 9s
•  Vine attack: minimum attack cooldown increased ― 0.25s → 2.6s
  • Note: Cooldown of 1-5-0 and 2-5-0 crosspath is also changed to 0.65s.

Version 46.0

0-5-2

•  Heart of Vengeance now properly applies to the vine attack (bug fix)

Version 48.0

“

Druid’s Jungle Vine crush time formula has been modified, time taken to crush will now scale up slower but increase more when crushing Lead or Ceramic targets. Spirit of the Forest’s baseline cash generation has been improved to give a later game goal to aim for with Druid farming strategies. Druid projectile lifespans are being shifted from many base weapons into the xx1 range crosspath, this is a nerf to top path lifespan when not taking the crosspath and a buff to 031 druids
— Update notes

”

•  Jungle's Bounty ability: Base cash generation increased ― $320 → $1280
  • Note: Scaling per Farm remains the same.
• Should now correctly deal damage to children of targets broken by track vine damage zone (bug fix)
•  Grab vine: Calculation reworked to work faster against non-heavy (Ceramic, Lead) targets.
  • Note: Does not affect pre-existing 1.4s flat cooldown. Nerf versus Super Ceramics.
  • Base formula: →
  • "Heavy" extra duration (seconds):
    • Lead: 0.5 → 0.625
    • Ceramic: 0 → 1.25
  • Overall duration to digest bloons (seconds):
    • Red: 0.5 → 0.25
    • Blue: 0.60355339 → 0.30277669
    • Green: 0.68301270 → 0.34150635
    • Yellow: 0.75 → 0.375
    • Pink: 0.80901699 → 0.40450850
    • White/Black/Purple: 1.07915620 → 0.53957810
    • Zebra: 1.44895788 → 0.72447894
    • Lead: 1.94895788 → 1.34947894
    • Fortified Lead: 2.02475488 → 1.38737744
    • Rainbow: 1.96391365 → 0.981956825
    • Ceramic: 2.79950976 → 2.64975488
    • Fortified Ceramic: 2.91926956 → 2.70963478
    • Super Ceramic: 2.26556444 → 2.38278222
    • Fortified Super Ceramic: 2.41506351 → 2.45753175

0-5-1, 0-5-2

•  Vine brambles: lifespan increased ― 9s → 12s

Version 53.0

“

Druid Jungle’s Bounty ability is no more, druid cash generation is now purely a passive end of round bonus. We are looking at possible changes for other abilitized cash generation and would like to hear more thoughts on this. To be clear; we are not simply looking to swap every cash generating ability to a passive, but there should be some choice in when you time an ability activation and we do not agree there was any reason to not spam these on cooldown which makes this a tedious clicking quota. Druid’s cash generation already has interesting interaction so for this case it felt more interesting to focus on that interaction instead, and the new ability gives careful timed activation that can assist in holding off on spending money on DPS towers for longer to effectively earn more cash which is more engaging of a choice to make. More detail in balance changes section later
[...]
We want different farming methods to have different interesting ways of engaging with them, but when an ability should always be used on cooldown that’s when it really shouldn’t be an ability, while there is strategy in stall tactics there isn’t for that ability timing most don’t have fun engaging with this when they are group spam abilities. Due to this we’ve reworked the druid ability so that the farm interaction is the important mechanic to engage with here instead, and the ability is a targeting method of providing cleanup that does have strategic timing which can be used to focus more on farming with careful ability usage instead of building other defensive towers.
— Update notes

”

•  Ability: Jungle's Bounty is replaced by Vine Crush
  •  The cash and lives effect is reworked to be triggered at end-of round
  •  Base amount of cash reduced ― $1280 → $120
  •  Cash per farm in range reduced ― $130 → Depends on the Farm tier:
    • Note: In certain situations the extra Farms will not produce extra income or produce more than intended
    • Base: +$10
    • Tier 1: +$20
    • Tier 2: +$40
    • Tier 3: +$60
    • Tier 4: +$120
    • Tier 5: +$120
  •  Cash is now capped to $10,000 (no cap before)
  • Now shows an icon indicating the amount of farms on range
  • Note: End of round income unchanged ($1,000)
  • If moved with a Support Chinook to a position where it has a Farm in range while also also being in the range of a Level 5+ Obyn, when the ability activates, it won't produce any cash and instead report an extremely negative amount of cash in the advanced info panel (bug)
• Description changed

Before	Grows thorned vines along the path that deal constant damage and bonus damage to ceramics. Vines nearest the Spirit of the Forest do more damage. Activated ability generates more lives and cash.
After	Grows thorned vines along the path that deal constant damage and bonus damage to ceramics. Vines nearest the Spirit of the Forest do more damage. Activated ability grabs more Bloons.

Levels	Changes
5+	Nature's Wrath: In certain situations, when selling and re-buying Obyn while it has Jungle's Bounty Druids in range, the cash buff will not be removed properly from the Druids and can stack with itself. It can persist across games and even cause a cash overflow and report an extreme negative value if repeated several times (bug)

Version 53.1

• Jungle's Bounty: Resolved a series of issues where it didn't award extra cash for Farms in range or produce an extremely negative amount of cash under certain circumstances (bug fix)

Version 54.0

“

Spirit of the Forest’s upgrade for Vine Crush wasn't particularly impactful, so instead we’re changing this to drop track brambles like true vine grabs.
— Update notes

”

•  Ability: No longer has a full cooldown when upgraded (bug fix)
  • Note: Initial cooldown set to 2/3 like most towers: ― 30s → 10s
•  Ability: Pierce reduced ― 60 → 20
•  Ability: Now leaves thorn piles on the track like its main attack

Version 55.0

•  Main attack: Projectile spread can now be affected by accuracy buffs

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In other languages

Language	Name / Description	Notes
Arabic	روح الغابة نمو الكرومات الشائكة على طول المسار من شأنها إيقاع الأضرار المستمرة والأضرار الأخرى للبالونات السيراميكية، الكرومات الأقرب إلى روح الغابة تتسبب في إيقاع المزيد من الضرر، وتؤدي إلى منح قدرة منشّطة تولد المزيد من الأرواح والنقود.	—
Danish	Skovens ånd Planter torneranker langs sporet som gør konstant skade og bonus-skade på keramiske bloons. Tornerankerne nærmest Skovens ånd gør mere skade. Den aktiverede evne genererer flere liv og penge.	—
German	Waldgeist Lässt Dornenranken am Weg entlang wachsen, die konstanten Schaden verursachen sowie Zusatzschaden an Keramik auslösen. Ranken in der Nähe des Waldgeistes fügen mehr Schaden zu. Wenn die Fähigkeit aktiviert ist, werden mehr Leben und mehr Geld generiert.	—
Spanish	Espíritu del bosque Hace crecer unas enredaderas espinosas en el camino que causan daño constante y daño adicional a los bloons cerámicos. Las más cercanas al espíritu del bosque hacen más daño. La habilidad activada genera más vidas y dinero.	—
Spanish (LA)	Espíritu del bosque Hace crecer unas enredaderas espinosas en el camino que causan daño constante y daño adicional a los bloons cerámicos. Las más cercanas al espíritu del bosque hacen más daño. La habilidad activada genera más vidas y dinero.	—
Finnish	Metsän henki Kasvattaa polun varrelle piikkiköynnöksiä, jotka tekevät jatkuvasti vahinkoa. Tekevät bonusvahinkoa keraamisille blooneille. Metsän henkeä lähimpänä olevat köynnökset tekevät enemmän vahinkoa. Aktivoitava kyky tuottaa enemmän elämiä ja rahaa.	—
French	Esprit de la forêt Fait pousser des plantes grimpantes à épines sur le circuit qui infligent des dégâts constants ainsi qu’un bonus de dégâts aux Bloons en céramique. Les plantes grimpantes les plus proches de l’Esprit de la forêt infligent plus de dégâts. L’aptitude activée génère plus de vies et d’argent.	—
Italian	Spirito della foresta Fa crescere rampicanti spinati lungo il percorso, che infliggono danni costanti e danni bonus ai bloon di ceramica. I rampicanti più vicini allo spirito della foresta infliggono più danni. L'abilità attivata genera più vite e contante.	—
Japanese	森の精霊 常にダメージを与えて陶器に常にダメージを加えるトゲのツルを道沿いに生やす。森の精霊に最も近いつるは、より多くのダメージを与える。発動済みアビリティがライフとキャッシュを生成する。	—
Korean	숲의 정령 지속 피해를 주며 세라믹 풍선에 추가 피해를 주는 가시덩굴이 경로를 따라 자라게 합니다. 숲의 정령에 가까울수록 가시덩굴이 더 많은 피해를 줍니다. 능력을 발동하면 더 많은 목숨과 캐시를 생성합니다.	—
Dutch	Geest van het bos Groeit doornige ranken langs het pad die constante schade en bonusschade aan Keramische Bloons doen. Ranken in de buurt van de Geest van het woud richten meer schade aan. Geactiveerde vaardigheid genereert meer levens en geld.	—
Norwegian	Skogens ånd Vokser torneranker langs veien som påfører konstant skade og bonusskade på keramikk. Rankene nærmest Skogens ånd påfører mer skade. Aktivert evne genererer flere liv og mer penger.	—
Polish	Duch lasu Hoduje wzdłuż ścieżki cierniste winorośle, które zadają ciągłe obrażenia oraz obrażenia dodatkowe ceramicznym blonom. Winorośle najbliżej ducha lasu zadają większe obrażenia. Aktywowana umiejętność generuje więcej życia i gotówki.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Espírito da Floresta Cresce vinhas espinhadas pelo caminho que causam dano constante e dano extra a Cerâmica. Vinhas mais perto do Espírito da Floresta causam mais dano. Habilidade ativada gera mais vidas e dinheiro.	—
Russian	Лесной дух Выращивает вдоль трассы шипастые лозы, постоянно наносящие урон и доп. урон керамике. Лозы около лесного духа наносят больше урона. Примененная способность генерирует больше жизней и денег.	—
Swedish	Skogens ande Får taggiga vinrankor att växa fram längs med vägen som ger konstant skada och bonusskada mot Keramikbloons. Rankorna närmast Skogsanden ger högre skada. Aktiverad förmåga genererar mer liv och pengar.	—
Thai	จิตวิญญาณแห่งผืนป่า สร้างเถาไม้หนามขึ้นมาตามเส้นทาง ทำดาเมจตายตัว และทำดาเมจโบนัสกับบลูนเซรามิก เถาไม้ที่อยู่ใกล้จิตวิญญาณแห่งผืนป่าที่สุดจะทำดาเมจมากขึ้น สกิลที่กดใช้จะสร้างแต้มชีวิตและเงินมากขึ้น	—
Turkish	Ormanın Ruhu Yol boyunca seramiklere kalıcı ve bonus hasar veren dikenli asma yaprakları büyütür. Ormanın Ruhuna en yakın asma yaprakları daha fazla hasar verir. Etkinleştirilmiş yetenek daha fazla can ve nakit sağlar.	—
Chinese (simplified)	森林精灵 路径上生长刺藤，造成持续伤害，对陶瓷气球造成额外伤害。最靠近森林精灵的刺藤造成的伤害更多。技能激活后可恢复更多生命并生成现金。	—
Chinese (traditional)	森之精靈 在路徑上種植刺藤，造成持續傷害，對陶瓷氣球造成額外傷害。距離森之精靈最近的藤蔓造成更多傷害。技能啓用後可生成更多生命和現金。	—
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