Relic Knowledge

"Relic" redirects here. For the Bloons 2 level, see Relic (level).

Relic Knowledge is a game mechanic in Team events in Bloons TD 6. The system consists of Relics, items that grant certain enhancements to the player when enabled, such as making certain towers cheaper, increasing the amount of cash or lives, increasing towers' strength in certain situations, and allowing use of a limited number of free Powers in a game.

Unlocking

Contested Territory

See also: Relic Tile

In Contested Territory some tiles are Relic tiles which when captured, allows all players on the capturing team to use its Relic as long as they remain in control of that tile. Each player may only use up to four Relics from captured Relic tiles at a time.

In addition to Relic tiles, there are up to three Event Relics and one Daily Power Relic available for purchase with Team Trophies. Daily Power Relics are a Relic which grants free use of a Power. The Daily Power Relic changes every day, and upon refresh teams must spend Team Trophies again to unlock the new one. Event Relics start out inaccessible, but over the course of an event teams get the opportunity to purchase them. After a team purchases a Daily Power or an Event Relic, players on that team all gain access to that Relic for all tiles. At any given time, all teams have access to the same Event Relics and Daily Power Relics.

Occasionally, the same Relic is available as both a Daily Power/Event Relic and a captured Relic at the same time. In that case, two copies of that Relic may be equipped at the same time. The effects of equipping two copies varies depending on the Relic.

Primary Primates, Military Monkeys, Magic Monkeys, Support Simians, and Monkey Tycoon are only available as Event Relics in Contested Territory.

Boss Rush

In Boss Rush, teams begin with one Relic enabled. After defeating each island, they gain access to an additional Relic for all the subsequent islands. It's not possible to disable a Relic in Boss Rush.

All Relics, except Power Relics, Relics found exclusively in the Event Store, El Dorado, Rounding Up, Regrow-specific Relics, and life-specific Relics, are possible options for available Relics.

List of Relics

Item	Team Store exclusive?
Abilitized All Activated Ability cooldowns for all Monkeys reduced 10%
Air and Sea Ace, Heli, Buccaneer and Sub have placement and upgrade costs reduced 5%, and reload improved by 5%
Alchemist Touch All attacks can pop Lead Bloons
Bigger Bloon Sabotage All MOAB-class Bloons spawn with 15% less health and move at 95% speed
Box of Chocolates Start each game with 100 extra lives
Box of Monkey Start each game with one free Monkey costing $400 or less for unmodified initial placement
Broken Heart All attacks do +5 damage to Regrow Bloons
Camo-flogged All attacks do +3 damage to Camo Bloons
Camo Trap Grants the use of 1 Camo Trap Powerup per game
Deep Heat All attacks can pop White Bloons and frozen Bloons, freezes last longer and through more layers.
Durable Shots All projectiles have +25% pierce
El Dorado All Monkey Money and Team Trophy rewards from game victories are increased by 25% (minimum +1)
Extra Empowered Your hero starts a game with 3 extra levels (max 4 levels with Empowered Heroes on Regular Tiles)
Flint Tips Sharp projectiles add fire dot to all Bloons they damage (1 damage every 2.5s for 5s total)
Fortifried All attacks do +3 damage to Fortified Bloons
Glue Trap Grants the use of 2 Glue Trap Powerups per game
Going the Distance All Monkeys gain +30% range and their projectiles gain +30% lifespan
Hard Baked All attacks do +1 damage to Ceramic Bloons
Heartless Regrow Bloons regeneration is disabled
Hero Boost Heroes earn XP 20% faster in each game
Magic Monkeys Reduces cost of all Magic Monkeys by 8%
Mana Bulwark Creates a shield that absorbs up to 50 lives (stacks with Mana Shield on Regular Tiles)
Marching Boots In restricted count games, gives players +1 max count of each tower in their loadout or +4 total max count per game
Military Monkeys Reduces cost of all Military Monkeys by 8%
MOAB-Clash All attacks do +2 damage to MOAB-class Bloons
MOAB Mine Grants the use of 1 MOAB Mine Powerup per game
Monkey Boost Grants the use of 2 Monkey Boosts per game
Monkey Tycoon Get +1 of all Monkey Towers in your loadout and their base price is reduced by 4%
Primary Primates Reduces cost of all Primary Monkeys by 8%
Regeneration Restore 20 lives per round up to each game’s starting lives value, if no lives lost that round
Restoration Restore 10 lives per round up to an increased starting lives value of +150, if no lives lost that round
Road Spikes Grants 10 stacks of Road Spikes per game
Rounding Up Earn +$25 at the end of every round
Royal Treatment All attacks can pop Purple Bloons
Sharpsplosion All attacks can pop Black Bloons
SMS Grants the use of 2 SMS per game
Starting Stash Start each game with an extra 250 cash (stacks with More Cash on Regular Tiles)
Support Simians Reduces cost of all Support Monkeys by 10%
Techbot Grants the use of 1 Tech Bot Powerup per game
Thrive Grants the use of 2 Thrive Powerups per game

Strategy

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Relics provide valuable benefits that usually may help beat games easier. However, while some Relics are simply useless, there are edge cases where certain Relics are more harmful than good. A notable anti-synergy is Heart of Vengeance with Regeneration or Restoration, though the latter two are preferred elsewhere and are worth buying at the Contested Territory shop.

In Contested Territory, the aim is to only pick Relics that will help conquer the board easier and break scores of rival teams. Relics can be game-changing, some strong enough for certain tiles to be literally impossible to beat without them. However, capturing Relic tiles aren't as valuable as Banner or Regular tiles, so only capture necessary Relic tiles. Buying the Store Relics can help gain an advantage, at the cost of Team Trophies. If Team Trophies aren't a concern, it's almost always preferred to buy all of Relics, with exception of useless ones such as Techbot.

In Boss Rush, the strategy to Relics is to forsee the strength of this Relic and take advantage of it, if applicable. There are no actively harmful Relics in Boss Rush, except for Relics that add minor inconveniences (e.g. Bigger Bloon Sabotage potentially stealing Paragon pops, or Flint Tips contributing to high lag).

Unused content

Icon	Text	Notes
	Open Season Attack any Tile on the map	—
	Monkey Shield For 1 hour after capture, Tile cannot be attacked by opposing Teams. Improved score will re-engage.	—
	Monkey Shield Mark 2 For 2 hours after capture, Tile cannot be attacked by opposing Teams. Improved score will re-engage.	—
	Monkey Shield Mark 3 For 3 hours after capture, Tile cannot be attacked by opposing Teams. Improved score will re-engage.	—
	Psi Vision See full details for all Tiles on the map	—