Druid of the Jungle (BTD6)

For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Druid of the Jungle (Battles 2).

Druid of the Jungle

Calls a vine from the ground to entangle and crush Bloons one at a time, leaving behind a deadly thorn pile.

Tower	Druid — Path 2 — Tier 3
XP cost	2,000
Cash cost	$890 — Easy $1,050 — Medium $1,135 — Hard $1,260 — Impoppable

← Heart of Oak

Jungle's Bounty →

Druid of the Jungle is the Druid's path 2 tier 3 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It now spawns a vine that has infinite range and destroys the Bloon caught and damages all affected Bloons that pass through. After it destroys a Bloon, it leaves a thorn pile on the track that damages Bloons that go over it. If Obyn Greenfoot is present on screen and at least level 5, all Druids of the Jungle gain 40% more range.

With Hard Thorns, both the vine grab and leftover vine can pop Frozen and Lead, and the vine grab is able to target Frozen and Lead. Druidic Reach improves duration of the leftover vine by +33%.

Mechanics

Jungle Vine

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With this upgrade, the Druid gains a new vine attack that instantly destroys a regular Bloon.

The vine takes $\frac{\sqrt{\text{leakDamage}}+1}{8}$ seconds to fully destroy the target, but Lead Bloons takes an additional 0.625 seconds, and Ceramic Bloons takes an additional 1.25 seconds.

The vine attack has a 2.6-second attack cooldown, but cannot activate within 1.4 seconds after the target is fully destroyed. The cooldown for the vine attack can receive attack speed buffs, but not the flat cooldown after destroying a target nor the digestion time.

When the target is destroyed, a thorn pile is created on the track. The thorn pile has a 0.3 second re-hit and pierce refresh interval, 20 pierce, 1 Sharp damage (Normal with Hard Thorns), 2 projectile radius, and a 4.5-second lifespan (6 seconds with 0-3-1).

The pierce refresh interval can receive attack speed buffs, but the re-hit interval can not.

The following is a table for the time required to fully destroy each of the bloons (excluding the activation cooldown, which is independent from destruction time):

Bloon	Leak amount	Destruction time (s)	Total time (s)
Red Bloon	1	0.25	1.65
Blue Bloon	2	0.3018	1.7018
Green Bloon	3	0.3415	1.7415
Yellow Bloon	4	0.375	1.775
Pink Bloon	5	0.4045	1.8045
White Bloon	11	0.5396	1.9396
Black Bloon	11	0.5396	1.9396
Purple Bloon	11	0.5396	1.9396
Lead Bloon	23	1.3495	2.7495
Zebra Bloon	23	0.7245	2.1245
Fortified Lead Bloon	26	1.3874	2.7874
Rainbow Bloon	47	0.9819	2.3819
Ceramic Bloon	104	2.6498	4.0498
Fortified Ceramic Bloon	114	2.7096	4.1096
Super Ceramic Bloon	65	2.3828	3.7828
Fortified Super Ceramic Bloon	75	2.4575	3.8575

Stats

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

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 35 units Footprint radius 7 units Targeting options First Last Close Strong

Attack
Cooldown 1.1s Offset (X, Y, Z) -1.99, 8.17, 7 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 35 units Pierce per extra life +1% Max extra lives for pierce 100 Filters Cannot target Camo
Projectile Count 8 Angle 25° Pierce 1 Damage 1 Damage type Sharp Speed 340 units/s Lifespan 0.3s Radius 0 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Removes Regrow if the target takes damage from this projectile

Vine
Cooldown 2.6s Offset (X, Y, Z) -1.99, 8.17, 7 Targeting First / Last / Close / Strong Targeting range ∞ units Pierce per extra life +1% Max extra lives for pierce 40 Filters Ignores Lead or Frozen if its damage type cannot damage it Cannot target off-screen Bloons Cannot target Camo Cannot target MOAB-Class
Ignores blockers
Collidable Pierce 9,999,999 Damage 9,999,999 Damage type Sharp Lifespan 0.1s Radius 4 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Cannot hit MOAB-Class Ignores blockers Projectile Pierce 20 Damage 1 Damage type Sharp Lifespan 4.5s Radius 2 units Rehit interval 0.3s Refresh pierce interval 0.3s Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers Removes Regrow

1-3-0

Attack
Projectile Pierce 1 → 2 Damage type Sharp → Normal

Vine
Collidable Damage type Sharp → Normal Projectile Damage type Sharp → Normal

2-3-0

Lightning
Cooldown 2.3s Offset (X, Y, Z) -3.52, 6.06, 7 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range 35 units Pierce per extra life +1% Max extra lives for pierce 100 Filters Cannot target Camo
Lightning Pierce 5 Max pierce 5 Damage 2 Damage type Plasma Bounce distance 86 units Radius 0 units Filters Cannot hit Camo Ignores blockers Removes Regrow if the target takes damage from this projectile

0-3-1

Tower
Display range 35 units → 45 units

Attack
Targeting range 35 units → 45 units
Projectile Lifespan 0.3s → 0.4s

Vine
Projectile Lifespan 4.5s → 6s

0-3-2

Attack
Speed per life lost +1% Speed per life lost base bonus +10% Max lives lost for attack speed 40

Vine
Speed per life lost +1% Speed per life lost base bonus +10% Max lives lost for attack speed 40

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
0-3-0	$1,735	$2,050	$2,215	$2,460	$1,215	$1,435	$1,551	$1,722
1-3-0	$2,030	$2,400	$2,595	$2,880	$1,421	$1,680	$1,817	$2,016
2-3-0	$2,750	$3,250	$3,515	$3,900	$1,925	$2,275	$2,461	$2,730
0-3-1	$1,820	$2,150	$2,325	$2,580	$1,274	$1,505	$1,628	$1,806
0-3-2	$2,075	$2,450	$2,650	$2,940	$1,453	$1,715	$1,855	$2,058

Strategy

This section was last updated for: version 49.3

Druid of the Jungle is a decent early-game carry on single or alternating lane maps, bypassing Line of Sight with its vine grabs and leftover vines that damage passing bloons. However, it attacks too slowly to be usable on any multi-lane map. Additionally, it does not build into any useful towers for the late game and can actively hurt defenses that rely on stall by popping the last ceramic. For its purpose in CHIMPS, it is generally outclassed by Heart of Thunder, and Druid of the Storm is preferred for Ceramics. It's still helpful in Race Events and CT Time Attack for consistent popping, but its vine must be controlled to not go too far away from crowds.

Besides upgrades that can increase its damage, Druid of the Jungle and its subsequent upgrades are limited in how it can be buffed. Although it cannot decrease the time it takes for the vines to crush bloons, the vines being affected by attack speed buffs could help improve its cleanup potential.

If anti-stalling is not a concern, Druid of the Jungle synergizes well with Relics and Artifacts that take advantage of the sharp, fast-rate leftover vine. Growing Steady and Flint Tips are among them.

For crosspaths, 1-3-0 is more practical because of its innate lead-popping, while 0-3-1 is for general vine DPS due to increased lifespan. Lightning can be bought if needing to handle groups within range, but Heart of Vengeance's speed buffs don't really impact much for the vine grab rate.

Update history

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

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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: Now leaves a thorn pile on the track after popping the target

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.
— Update notes

”

•  Vine bramble piles damage type ― Normal → Sharp
  • Note: 1-3-0 retains Normal type damage

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 reduced ― 30 → 20

Version 36.0

“

Slightly shifting price down from T4 into T3 midpath
— Update notes

”

•  Upgrade cost increased ― $950 → $1,050

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
•  Jungle Vine defaults tower to strong priority when purchased

Version 37.2

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

Version 38.0

•  Upgrading a crosspathed Druid to x-3-x changes target priority to Strong (bug fix)
•  Jungle vine: Can no longer grab frozen bloons without popping them (bug fix)

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
— 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).

Version 40.0

“

We enjoyed this change a lot, but it unfortunately seems that to a lot of players this added more frustration than intended. We will look for a better way of accomplishing what we wanted to do here, but until then it doesn't really feel worth keeping the automatic targeting swap when players who do want it could also just change targeting themselves before or after buying the upgrade, and those who don’t want it have no workaround.
— Update notes

”

•  Buying x-3-x no longer swaps to Strong target prio automatically

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

Version 45.0

•  Vine brambles: rate that pierce refreshes at can now be buffed by attack speed buffs

Version 46.0

0-3-2

•  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. [...]
— Update notes

”

•  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

0-3-1, 0-3-2

•  Vine brambles: lifespan increased ― 4.5s → 6s

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	كاهن الأدغال استدعاء كرمة من الأرض لتشابك البالونات وسحق واحدة تلو الأخرى، تاركًا وراءه كومة شائكة مميتة.	—
Danish	Junglens Druide Hidkalder en ranke fra jorden til at fange bloons og knuse dem én ad gangen, og efterlader en bunke farlige torne.	—
German	Dschungeldruide Ruft eine Schlingpflanze aus dem Boden, die einen Bloon nach dem anderen fesselt und vernichtet und einen tödlichen Dornenhaufen hinterlässt.	—
Spanish	Druida de la selva Hace crecer unas enredaderas que atrapan y aplastan a los bloons uno a la vez. Deja una pila de espinas letales.	—
Spanish (LA)	Druida de la selva Hace crecer unas enredaderas que atrapan y aplastan a los bloons uno a la vez. Deja una pila de espinas letales.	—
Finnish	Viidakon druidi Kutsuu viiniköynnöksiä maasta kietoutumaan ja murskaamaan blooneja yksi kerrallaan, ja jälkeen jää tappavia piikkikasoja.	—
French	Druide de la jungle Invoque une plante grimpante à partir du sol pour emmêler et écraser les Bloons, un par un, laissant derrière elle un tas de ronces mortel.	—
Italian	Druido della giungla Evoca un rampicante che germoglia dal suolo e avvolge stritolandolo un bloon per volta, lasciandosi dietro una pila di spine letali.	—
Japanese	ジャングルのドルイド 地面からツルを呼び出して、ブルーンを一度に1つずつ絡ませて押しつぶし、致命的なとげの山を残す。	—
Korean	정글의 드루이드 풍선을 하나씩 휘감아 으스러뜨리고 무시무시한 가시 더미를 남기는 넝쿨을 땅에서 소환합니다.	—
Dutch	Druïden van de Jungle Roept een rank uit de grond om Bloons een voor een te verstrengelen en laat een dodelijke stapel doorns achter.	—
Norwegian	Druide av jungelen Får en ranke fra bakken til å vikle seg rundt og knuse bloons én etter én, og den etterlater seg en sti av dødelige torner.	—
Polish	Druid dżungli Przyzywa z ziemi pnącze, które oplata i miażdży blony po jednym naraz, pozostawiając za sobą stos śmiercionośnych cierni.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Druida da Selva Invoca vinhas do chão para enredar e esmagar Bloons, um de cada vez, deixando para trás uma pilha de espinhos mortal.	—
Russian	Друид джунглей Вызывает из земли стебель, который обвивает и давит шары один за другим и оставляет после них кучу опасных колючек.	—
Swedish	Djungelns druid Frammanar en vinranka från marken som trasslar in och krossar en Bloon i taget och efterlämnar en dödlig tagghög.	—
Thai	ดรูอิดแห่งผืนป่า เรียกเถาไม้จากพื้นดินมารัดและทำลายบลูนทีละตัว ทิ้งกองหนามอันน่ากลัวเอาไว้	—
Turkish	Orman Medyumu Bloon’ları teker teker engellemek ve çarpmak için yerden bir üzüm asması çağırır geride ölümcül bir diken yığını bırakır.	—
Chinese (simplified)	丛林德鲁伊 召唤藤蔓缠绕并一次碾碎一个气球，留下一堆致命的荆棘。	—
Chinese (traditional)	叢林督伊德 從地面召喚葡萄藤，同時可纏住並砸碎一個氣球，並留下一堆致命荊棘。	—
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