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Version 23.0
Artwork representing version 23.0
Release dates
Steam2 February 2021 [1]

Version 23.0 is the first major update to Bloons TD 6 of 2021. This update introduced the map Ravine alongside changes to the Challenge Editor.

Additions

Cosmetic items

Item Category
Image ofTrucker HatsTrucker Hats
 Bloons ― All Bloon Skins
Image ofLantern BFBLantern BFB
 Bloons ― MOAB Skins
Image ofPow Pop FXPow Pop FX
 Bloons ― Pop FX
Image ofJukebox: BMC Street PartyJukebox: BMC Street Party
 Game & UI ― Music Tracks
Image ofSpike Factory PineapplesSpike Factory Pineapples
 Monkeys ― Projectiles

Changes

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The editor who added this notice elaborates: Tower bug fixes

Towers

Dart Monkey

“ While we’re happy with Dart Monkey being a more niche or early use tower, too many people were finding Juggernaut itself even further niche or lackluster on first impression. While retaining the overpower power potential we’ve added a beefy impact to each individual target hit, and we’ve tweaked sharpshooter slightly to provide similar power but with more of a speed focus to enable more distinct crosspath choice between speed and pierce.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
4-X-X Juggernaut
  • Buff Damage increased ― 1 → 2
  • Nerf Pierce reduced ― 100 → 50
5-X-X Ultra-Juggernaut
  • Buff Main projectile: damage increased ― 4 → 5 (undocumented)
X-X-4 Sharp Shooter
  • Buff Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.85s → 0.75s
  • Nerf Damage reduced ― 6 → 5

Boomerang Monkey

“ Small price adjustment to push when you get this tower a little closer to when it’s useful.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
5-X-X Glaive Lord
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $40,000 → $35,000

Bomb Shooter

“ Small nerf to the regular-Bloon power of MOAB Mauler’s domination.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
X-3-X MOAB Mauler
  • Nerf bonus to Ceramic reduced ― +4 → +3
    • Note: MOAB Assassin unaffected (+4)

Tack Shooter

“ With pierce and range on the base Tack Zone so high that increases weren’t noticeable the middle crosspath was underserved. To balance crosspathing we have reworked the base Tack Zone around lower values then improving them greatly for the crosspaths.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
X-X-5 The Tack Zone
  • Buff Damage increased ― 1 → 2
  • Nerf Range reduced ― 46 → 30
  • Nerf Pierce reduced ― 9 → 4
0-2-5 The Tack Zone + Super Range Tacks
  • Buff Super Range Tacks grants Tack Zone +20 range bonus ― +3.9 → +20
    • Note: range reduced from 53.8 to 50
  • Buff Super Range Tacks grants Tack Zone +6 pierce bonus ― +1 → +6
    • Note: pierce unchanged at 10

Ice Monkey

“ Ice Monkey power is currently too bottom heavy and mid-to-higher tiers are neglected, so some tweaks to mid-tier upgrades have been made.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
4-X-X Embrittlement
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,000 → $2,200
X-3-X Arctic Wind
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,200 → $2,900
X-4-X Snowstorm
  • Buff Snowstorm ability: cooldown reduced ― 60s → 30s
X-5-X Absolute Zero
  • Nerf Absolute Zero ability: initial cooldown increased ― 0s → 20s (undocumented)
X-X-3 Cryo Cannon
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,000 → $1,750

Glue Gunner

“ Adjustments to top-path upgrades to make each step more noticeable. Very small nerf to the slow amount on MOAB Glue as it has for a long time held a dominating spot in MOAB support, but this same amount has been returned to the previous value at Tier 4. We are still looking at future improvements here, including reworking the priority tree of glue stacks.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
3-X-X Bloon Dissolver
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,700 → $2,600
4-X-X Bloon Liquefier
  • Buff Pierce increased ― 1 → 2
X-X-3 MOAB Glue
  • Nerf MOAB Glue: slow amount reduced ― 0.625x → 0.75x
    • Note: Relentless Glue unchanged

Sniper Monkey

“ Small improvements for underloved sniper upgrades with respective path specialties intact. As bottom path sniper has proven superiority for group damage dealing in many situations and middle T4 on the group-damage path has only offered a farming option, the pierce of shrapnel has been doubled at this T4 to add offensive value as well..[sic]
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
5-X-X Cripple MOAB
  • Buff Bullet: damage increased ― 60 → 80
X-4-X Supply Drop and further upgrades
  • Buff Shrapnel: pierce increased ― 3 → 6

Monkey Sub

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The editor who added this notice elaborates: Does the flat pierce buffs/nerfs of middle path affect Energizer too? Is it ever 1200 -> 1020 and 1200 -> 1050 with 5-1-0 and 5-2-0?
“ As Bloontonium Reactor rarely uses up enough pierce that the pierce crosspath would ever matter, a large chunk of this has been moved into the middle crosspath.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
4-X-X Bloontonium Reactor
  • Nerf Damage pulse: base pierce reduced ― 70 → 50
    • Note: Does not affect Energizer (1000)
4-1-0 Bloontonium Reactor + Barbed Darts
  • Nerf Damage pulse: base pierce reduced ― 84 → 70
    • Note: Pierce bonus increased from +14 to +20
4-2-0 Bloontonium Reactor + Heat-tipped Darts
  • Buff Damage pulse: base pierce reduced ― 84 → 100
    • Note: Pierce bonus increased from +14 to +50

Monkey Ace

“ Monkey Ace was never intended to be a great starting tower and instead come into power at mid- and high-tier upgrades, but since the base tower feels lacking to new players (and some of us old timers) we decided to rework low tier power into the base tower. In addition to this we are experimenting with adding a small amount of homing to the spectre upgrade as rapid fire missing is not the intended design.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
0-0-0 base tower
1-X-X Rapid Fire and further upgrades
X-1-X Exploding Pineapple and further upgrades
X-X-1 Sharper Darts
X-X-2 Centered Path
X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting
  • Buff Dart projectile size increased ― 2 → 3
0-0-0 base tower
0-1-X Exploding Pineapple and further upgrades
0-X-1 Sharper Darts
0-X-2 Centered Path
0-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting
  • Buff Base Monkey Ace attack cooldown reduced ― 2.1s → 1.68s
1-X-X Rapid Fire
  • Nerf Rapid Fire attack rate buff reduced ― 0.6× → 0.75×
    • Note: Spectre unchanged as it was always 0.75×. Exploding Pineapple and bombs from middle crosspath unchanged at 0.6×
  • Neutral Attack cooldown remains at 1.26s
1-1-0 Rapid Fire + Exploding Pineapple and further upgrades
  • Buff Exploding Pineapple: attack cooldown reduced ― 1.6s → 1.2s
X-1-X Exploding Pineapple
0-1-1 Exploding Pineapple + Sharper Darts and further upgrades
X-2-X Spy Plane
  • Buff Exploding Pineapple: attack cooldown reduced ― 3s → 2s
X-X-4 Spectre and further upgrades
  • Buff Now has a slight seeking effect on dart projectiles
X-X-5 Flying Fortress
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $105,000 → $100,000

Heli Pilot

“ Further small buff to Comanche as prior balancing has not felt sufficient.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
X-X-4 Comanche Defense
  • Buff Mini-Comanche passive summon: duration increased ― 12s → 15s

Dartling Gunner

“ As our most recently added tower we are very happy with all the excitement surrounding this beloved monkey tower and the general middleground play position. We’re happy enough with its time in the wild to make some first impression changes here which we hope you’ll continue to enjoy.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
4-X-X Plasma Accelerator
  • Buff Plasma Accelerator can now apply Laser Shock with the beam as well as focal point
  • Buff Beam: now also deals +10 MOAB class damage (bug)
5-X-X Ray of Doom
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $110,000 → $95,000
1-4-0 Rocket Storm + Focused Firing and further upgrades
  • Buff Rocket Storm ability spread: reduction increased ― 30% → 60%
X-5-X M.A.D
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $65,000 → $60,000
X-X-3 Buckshot
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $4,000 → $3,800
X-X-3 Buckshot and further upgrades
  • Buff Buckshot: now knocks back non-MOAB class Bloons a small amount on hit

Wizard Monkey

“ Despite ranking low overall, Wizard Lord Phoenix has dodged balance changes because of its extremely popular place as a challenge tower. With the rise of other towers in challenges, we’ve decided to start off buffing it based on its own merits in general gameplay. We’ve also added some previously intended minor changes to Prince of Darkness which were held back due to bugs that have now been resolved.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
X-3-X Dragon's Breath
X-4-X Summon Phoenix
  • Buff Fireball: damage increased ― 1 → 3
X-3-X Dragon's Breath and further upgrades
  • Buff Fireball: radius increased ― 10 → 14
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $60,000 → $54,000
  • Buff Fireball: damage increased ― 1 → 9
  • Buff Dragon's Breath: damage increased ― 1 → 2
X-X-5 Prince of Darkness
  • Buff Pops retained in graveyard increased ― 2 rounds → 3 rounds
  • Nerf Grave required for damage stacks increased ― 200 → 300

Alchemist

“ Lead to Gold hasn’t been a competitive 3rd tier outside of special game modes and challenges, so we’ve added some more uniqueness by allowing it to truly live up to its description and deal enough damage to instantly ‘convert’ a Lead Bloon, children layers and all, also carrying on some value here in the later game by allowing this bonus to deal extra against DDTs as well.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
X-X-3 Lead to Gold and further upgrades
  • Buff Main potion now does +9 damage to Lead properties

Druid

“ The most recent buff to Superstorm was great fun, but when spending pierce so quickly we wouldn’t see many extra Ball Lightnings. Since many find Superstorm lacking in pierce overall, the ‘extra’ pierce consumptions for hitting larger targets have been reduced to make it more effective and more lightningey.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
4-X-X Ball Lightning
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $6,000 → $5,500
5-X-X Superstorm
  • Buff Superstorm: pierce penalty to MOABs reduced ― +19 → +4
  • Buff Superstorm: pierce penalty to BFBs reduced ― +49 → +19
  • Buff Superstorm: pierce penalty to ZOMGs reduced ― +199 → +49
  • Buff Superstorm: pierce penalty to DDTs reduced ― +49 → +9

Banana Farm

“ Monkey Bank is just too stonks even without Benjamin. This nerf shouldn’t hurt it too much, but will make it snowball a little bit slower and balance with the other paths better.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
X-3-X Monkey Bank
  • Nerf Upgrade cost increased ― $3,300 → $3,500

Spike Factory

“ Like a few other towers before it, the attack speed crosspath for Spike Factory has outshined the others. We have reworked the lower Spike Factory tiers to distribute this power more evenly while keeping high tier factories at a similar level of power.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
0-0-0 base tower
  • Nerf Cost increased ― $800 → $1,000
0-0-0 base tower
1-0-X Bigger Stacks
2-0-X White Hot Spikes
3-0-X Spiked Balls
4-0-X Spiked Mines
X-0-1 Long Reach
X-0-2 Smart Spikes
X-0-3 Long Life Spikes
X-0-4 Deadly Spikes
  • Buff Base spike factory rate increased ― 2.2s → 1.75s
5-0-X Super Mines
  • Buff Rate increased ― 4.4s → 3.5s (undocumented)
5-1-0 Super Mines + Faster Production
  • Nerf Rate reduced ― 2.64s → 2.8s (undocumented)
5-2-0 Super Mines + Even Faster Production
  • Buff Rate increased ― 1.98s → 1.96s (undocumented)
X-1-X Faster Production
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $700 → $600
  • Nerf Faster Production rate buff reduced ― 0.6× → 0.8×
X-1-X Faster Production
1-1-0 Bigger Stacks + Faster Production
2-1-0 White Hot Spikes + Faster Production
3-1-0 Spiked Balls + Faster Production
4-1-0 Spiked Mines + Faster Production
0-1-1 Faster Production + Long Reach
0-1-2 Smart Spikes + Faster Production
0-1-3 Long Life Spikes + Faster Production
0-1-4 Deadly Spikes + Faster Production
  • Nerf Rate reduced ― 1.32s → 1.4s
X-2-X Even Faster Production
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $900 → $800
  • Buff Even Faster Production rate buff increased ― 0.75× → 0.7×
X-2-X Even Faster Production and further upgrades
1-2-0 Even Faster Production + Bigger Stacks
2-2-0 White Hot Spikes + Even Faster Production
3-2-0 Spiked Balls + Even Faster Production
4-2-0 Spiked Mines + Even Faster Production
0-2-1 Even Faster Production + Long Reach
0-2-2 Even Faster Production + Smart Spikes
0-2-3 Long Life Spikes + Even Faster Production
0-2-4 Deadly Spikes + Even Faster Production
  • Buff Rate increased ― 0.99s → 0.98s
X-5-X Carpet of Spikes
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $42,000 → $40,000
0-1-5 Perma-Spike + Faster Production
  • Nerf Rate reduced ― 3.6s → 4.8s (undocumented)
0-2-5 Perma-Spike + Even Faster Production
  • Nerf Rate reduced ― 2.7s → 3.36s (undocumented)

Monkey Village

“ Lead to Gold hasn’t been a competitive 3rd tier outside of special game modes and challenges, so we’ve added some more uniqueness by allowing it to truly live up to its description and deal enough damage to instantly ‘convert’ a Lead Bloon, children layers and all, also carrying on some value here in the later game by allowing this bonus to deal extra against DDTs as well.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
X-4-X Call to Arms
  • Buff Call to Arms ability: duration increased ― 10s → 12s
    • Note: Homeland ability duration unchanged (20s)

Engineer Monkey

“ Sentry Expert has underperformed for a while, so we’re adding solid crosspathing buffs to all Sentries. We’ve added a pierce & speed boost to Overclock’s base upgrade and lowered the cooldown on Ultraboost to allow the possibility for it to achieve full uptime as a freeplay tower and get its stacks up faster. Finally last update we allowed Bloontrap to be set multiple times per round, and we wanted to stay on the side of caution with a long cooldown, but after seeing it in the wild we are happy to make this cooldown faster.
— Update notes 		”
Tiers Changes
4-0-1 Sentry Expert + Oversize Nails
  • Buff Oversize Nails increases Sentry pierce by roughly 25% instead of +1
    • Buff Crushing Sentry: pierce increased ― 22 → 28
    • Buff Bomb Sentry: pierce increased ― 30 → 38
    • Buff Cold Sentry: pierce increased ― 15 → 19
1-2-0 Deconstruction + Sentry Gun and further upgrades
  • Buff Deconstruction: now grants all Sentries +1 damage to Fortified & MOAB
X-4-X Overclock
  • Buff Pierce increased ― 3 → 15
X-4-X Overclock and further upgrades
  • Buff Projectile speed increased ― 375 → 750
X-5-X Ultraboost
  • Buff Pierce increased ― 3 → 30
  • Buff Ultraboost: ability cooldown reduced ― 45s → 35s
  • Buff Ultraboost: initial cooldown reduced ― 15s → 5s (undocumented)
X-X-4 Bloon Trap
  • Buff Bloon Trap: trap cooldown reduced ― 20s → 15s
2-0-4 Bloon Trap + Faster Engineering
2-0-5 XXXL Trap + Faster Engineering
  • Buff Faster Engineering: rate buff to Bloon Traps increased ― 0.8× → 0.6×

Heroes

Gwendolin

“ The last Gwendolin change didn't come through as well as intended for a number of reasons, so while keeping true to the intention behind this change it has been improved across the board to properly buff this again
— Update notes 		”
Levels Changes
4-11
  • Buff Heat It Up: shot requirement reduced ― 60 → 40
12-14
  • Buff Heat It Up: shot requirement reduced ― 70 → 48
15-17
  • Buff Heat It Up: shot requirement reduced ― 90 → 64
18+
  • Buff Heat It Up: shot requirement reduced ― 110 → 70

Adora

“ Ball of Light’s power before level 20 has been improved to scale through the mid game better
— Update notes 		”
Levels Changes
10-14
  • Buff Ball of Light: damage increased compared to Adora's base damage ― +1 → +2
15-19
  • Buff Ball of Light: damage increased compared to Adora's base damage ― +1 → +3
20
  • Neutral Ball of Light: remains at Adora's base damage +18

Etienne

“ Etienne’s main power through mid-to-endgame intentionally comes from his UCAV, however it still overperforms and needs to be pulled back a bit.
— Update notes 		”
Levels Changes
10-14
  • Nerf UCAV: duration reduced ― 20s → 18s
15-19
  • Nerf UCAV: duration reduced ― 25s → 20s

Maps

Bazaar

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  • Nerf Area between the two paths on the bridge now allows placement of towers with medium-sized footprints

Flooded Valley

  • "Resolved an issue with Flooded Valley blocking vision on some towers at times when it should not"
  • "Resolved some collision on Flooded Valley"

Modes and events

Apopalypse

  • Now displays a victory screen upon completion
  • Restarting no longer pauses the game

Race Event / Odyssey

  • "Custom Rounds" challenge rule added

Continue

  • Buff First ever continue to be used is now free

Social features

Profile

  • Buff New stats added:
    • Insta Monkey Collection
    • Most Experienced Monkey
    • Most Experienced Monkey XP
    • Collection Chests Opened (does not track chests opened before this update)

Challenge Editor

  • "Double Cash Disabled" challenge rule added

Challenge Browser

  • "Challenges now allow users to toggle between Player Completion Rate (current number, which displays % of players who have beaten the challenge) & Win Rate (displays the total % of wins against losses)"
  • "Challenge Browser now supports an option to “hide” challenges from searches if you have already completed them"
  • "Added a ‘follow user’ option & ‘Following’ search to the challenge browser"
  • "Challenges that have been greyed out in searches from a previous version of the game will now update to blue again if they are passed on a newer version without using double cash by enough players"
  • "Challenge browser now supports filtering challenges by maximum number of rounds & minimum number of rounds. This filter will unfortunately not work on existing challenges.
  • "Challenge browser win rates now support displaying >99% & <1% for win rate, if a challenge is not quite actually 100% or 0%."
  • "Challenge browser has had some general improvements & optimization to filters, sorting, searching & returning from a challenge"

Miscellaneous

  • Added warnings to some screens which had started to be blocked from loading under certain settings in VPN’s & other 3rd party DNS based filters.
  • Reworking of tower upgrade UI when hovering/holding over upgrades
  • Added a first-time pop-up for targeting priorities
  • Resolved some map specific FX not speeding up their animations when in 3x speed
  • Resolved an issue that would cause pets to continue playing their SFX after being sold
  • Resolved some issues causing Bloons to choose path inconsistently when tracks split off in multiple directions
  • Fixed login prompts which had stopped working for guest users
  • Login page should correctly load in the webview
  • A number of localization issues resolved
  • Improved tutorial to feel less clunky
  • Snap of Your Fingers achievement correctly works again for players with Double Cash
  • The corner of some random Heli can no longer be spotted in the corner of Chutes
  • Resolved an issue with Techbots linked to engineers not remembering to trigger Overclock after loading a save
  • Resolved an issue with Odyssey wins getting mixed up with regular wins sometimes
  • Added some instruction for how to unlock locked maps
  • Minor UI fixes and optimizations in a few places
  • Some general minor cleaning up of UI in challenge creation
  • Changing hero skin right before a co-op game should no longer cause a desync

Notes

  • The official update notes include this list of known issues:
“
  • 'Ghost' MOAB Class Bloons visible briefly during Pat Fusty Big Squeeze ability
  • Tower UI may break if too many actions are taken during garbage collection
  • Save integrity of any current Odyssey progress may have issues updating if not already completed

 ”

Official Patch notes on Reddit

References

  1. ↑ SteamDB
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