Update history:Mortar Monkey (BTD6)

This is a list of changes to the Mortar Monkey in Bloons TD 6 post-release.

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Version 7.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X The Biggest One	Main explosion: Base damage increased ― 10 → 20
0-3-2 Heavy Shells + Burny Stuff	Now applies burn to Black Bloons (bug fix)

Version 8.0

Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Bigger Blast 2-X-X Bloon Buster 3-X-X Shell Shock	"Blast radius increased slightly"
4-X-X The Big One	Upgrade cost reduced ― $10,000 → $8,000  "Blast radius increased"  Can now damage DDTs when given Camo detection (bug fix)
5-X-X The Biggest One	Upgrade cost reduced ― $30,000 → $24,000  Overall cost reduced by $8,000 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)  "Blast radius increased by a big amount"
X-3-X Heavy Shells (and further upgrades)	Now deals +1 damage to MOAB-Class
X-X-4 Shattering Shells X-X-5 Blooncineration	Damage counter now counts removed health from defortifying outer layers
X-X-5 Blooncineration	Upgrade cost reduced ― $55,000 → $50,000  Explosion: Damage type changed ― Explosion → Normal  DoT: Damage type changed ― Fire → Normal  DoT: Deals 1 extra tick of damage before it expires (bug fix)  Now creates a wall of fire at the point of impact

Version 9.0

“

5xx The Biggest One deals 3x damage to any Ceramic or higher, that’s a little spooky.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X The Biggest One	Upgrade cost increased ― $24,000 → $28,000  Explosion: Now deals +40 damage to Ceramic and MOAB-class Explosion art updated compared to 4-x-x
X-X-5 Blooncineration	Should be able to apply burn to DDTs (bug fix)
1-0-5 Blooncineration + Bigger Blast 2-0-5 Blooncineration + Bloon Buster	Bigger Blast now grants +5 pierce to the wall of fire  Bigger Blast now increases the radius of the wall of fire by 40%
2-0-5 Blooncineration + Bloon Buster	Bloon Buster now grants +1 damage to the wall of fire

Version 10.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X The Biggest One	Can now hit Camo DDTs when given Camo detection (bug fix)
X-X-4 Shattering Shells	Upgrade cost increased ― $10,000 → $11,000

Version 11.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X The Biggest One	Explosion: Damage to Ceramics and MOAB-Class reduced ― +40 → +20  Shockwave: Now deals +20 damage to Ceramics
X-5-X Pop and Awe	Ability: Damage per tick increased ― 2 → 10
X-X-5 Blooncineration	Upgrade cost reduced ― $55,000 → $45,000  Can now remove Camo from DDTs without Paint Stripper Description changed ― "Superhot burny stuff burns through 5 layers of Bloon each time, and can also burn up MOAB-Class Bloons." → "Superhot burny stuff melts through 5 layers of bloon each shot, burns MOAB class bloons for extra damage, and strips DDT camo."

Version 12.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X The Biggest One	Shockwave: Damage to Ceramic reduced ― +20 → +10
X-4-X Artillery Battery X-5-X Pop and Awe	Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.359333s → 0.2695s (attack speed increased by 33.33%)
X-5-X Pop and Awe	Upgrade cost reduced ― $33,000 → $30,000  Ability: Damage per tick increased ― 10 → 20

Version 14.0

Tiers	Changes
All tiers	"Mortars should no longer display line of sight as they can ignore all blockers"

Version 15.0

Tiers	Changes
All tiers	"The mortar’s projectiles should no longer visually drop back down the barrel"

Version 17.0

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Heavy Shells	Description changed (undocumented) Before Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead and all Fortified Bloons. Can also pop Black Bloons. After Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, all Fortified, and all stunned bloons. Can also pop Black bloons.
X-3-X Heavy Shells X-4-X Artillery Battery	Now deals +2 damage to stunned Bloons
X-5-X Pop and Awe	Now deals +10 damage to stunned Bloons Description changed (undocumented) Before Pop and Awe Ability: Rains explosions over the whole screen, popping and immobilizing all Bloons for a few seconds. After Pop and Awe Ability: rains explosions over the whole screen, damaging and immobilzing all bloons for a few seconds. Main attack gains additonal[sic] bonus damage to stunned Bloons.
X-X-5 Blooncineration	Changed the visual effects of the wall of fire

Version 18.0

Tiers	Changes
X-X-5 Blooncineration	Wall of Fire: Now detects Camo Bloons

Version 20.0

“

5xx The Biggest One description updated as it deals much more damage now
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X The Biggest One	Description changed Before Smashes through 20 layers of Bloon over a huge area. After Smashes deeply through Bloons and layers over a huge area.

“

x5x Artillery Battery description updated as ‘triple pain’ doesn’t describe 4x attack speed very well
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Artillery Battery	Description changed Before Artillery battery has 3 barrels for triple the pain. After Artillery Battery upgrades to 3 barrels for incredibly fast attacks.

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

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower 1-X-0 Bigger Blast (and further upgrades) X-1-0 Faster Reload (and further upgrades)	Random spread radius increased ― 18 → 30 Note: Random spread with X-X-1 Increased Accuracy is unchanged (8)
0-0-0 base tower 1-X-0 Bigger Blast (and further upgrades) X-0-1 Increased Accuracy (and further upgrades)	Mortar base rate of fire increased ― 2.2s → 2s
3-0-2 Shell Shock + Burny Stuff	Damage over time: Damage per tick increased ― 1 → 2
4-0-2 The Big One + Burny Stuff	Damage over time: Damage per tick increased ― 1 → 3
5-0-2 The Biggest One + Burny Stuff	Damage over time: Damage per tick increased ― 1 → 25
X-1-X Faster Reload	Attack cooldown modifier reduced ― ×0.7 → ×0.75  Overall attack cooldown reduced ― 1.54s → 1.5s (attack speed increased by 2.67% due to changes to the base attack cooldown)
X-2-X Rapid Reload	Attack cooldown modifier reduced ― ×0.7 → ×0.72  Overall attack cooldown increased ― 1.078s → 1.08s (attack speed reduced by 0.19% due to changes to the attack cooldown of previous tiers)
X-3-X Heavy Shells	Attack cooldown increased ― 1.078s → 1.08s (attack speed reduced by 0.19% due to changes to the attack cooldown modifiers of previous tiers)
X-4-X Artillery Battery X-5-X Pop and Awe	Attack cooldown increased ― 0.2695s → 0.27s (attack speed reduced by 0.19% due to changes to the attack cooldown modifiers of previous tiers)

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. Additionally mid-path T5 mortar has had all of its T3 damage bonuses increased to better reflect its position as a Tier 5.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower 1-X-0 Bigger Blast (and further upgrades) X-1-0 Faster Reload (and further upgrades)	Base accuracy increased ― 30 → 18
X-5-X Pop and Awe	Damage to Ceramics increased ― +3 → +12  Damage to Lead increased ― +1 → +4  Damage to Fortified increased ― +1 → +4  Damage to MOAB-class increased ― +1 → +4  Ability: No longer expires at the end of a round (bug fix)

Version 23.0

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Shattering Shells X-X-5 Blooncineration	When defortifying a Bloon, the damage counter now additionally calculates removed health of descendants instead of just the outer layer.

Version 24.0

“

As an expensive high-layer T5 DPS tower lurking behind a mainly support path on path 3 Mortar it’s not easy to save for, so Blooncineration has had a fair price reduction.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-5 Blooncineration	Upgrade cost reduced ― $45,000 → $40,000

Version 25.0

Tiers	Changes
X-X-5 Blooncineration	Blaze (WoF): Damage type changed ― Corrupted damage type functionally identical to Normal → Fire (undocumented) (bug fix)

Version 27.0

“

Mortar Monkey has been given a T4 ability, since it didn’t have one and also to make up for Bloon Impact no longer triggering ‘stun debuff’ on MOABs when it hasn’t actually been stunning them. Signal Flare has had its camo revealing aspect reworked to make it more generally useful.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Artillery Battery	Bombardment ability added
X-X-3 Signal Flare (and further upgrades)	Now triggers a larger secondary AoE at the point of impact that removes Camo and ignores Bloon immunities  Main explosion: No longer removes Camo

Version 28.0

“

Bottom path Mortar burns have been reworked to burn faster and last longer at all upgrades; the Extra Burny Stuff MK has been tweaked in order to keep it’s benefit the same comparatively to the new & improved base values.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-2 Burny Stuff X-X-3 Signal Flare X-X-4 Shattering Shells	DoT: Damage interval decreased ― 1.5s → 1.25s
X-X-3 Signal Flare X-X-4 Shattering Shells	Decamo AoE: No longer affects DDTs without Paint Stripper (bug fix)
X-X-5 Blooncineration	DoT: Damage interval decreased ― 1s → 0.75s  DoT: Duration increased ― 3s → 3.75s

Version 29.0

Tiers	Changes
1-0-3 Signal Flare + Bigger Blast (and further upgrades)	Decamo explosion: Pierce increased ― 80 → 85 (bug fix)  Decamo explosion: Radius increased ― 50 → 70 (bug fix)

Version 30.0

“

Mortar top path feels too weak for the lead up to the Tier 5, so it along with the T5 have had some general number increases. Additionally the 302 crosspath has failed to ever see a great deal of use compared to much faster firing, to make it easier to to use up power from the DoT this path will now burn through faster
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Bloon Buster	Upgrade cost reduced ― $650 → $500
3-X-X Shell Shock	Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,100 → $900  Overall cost reduced by $350 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
3-0-2 Shell Shock + Burny Stuff (and further upgrades)	DoT: Damage rate increased ― 1.25s → 0.625s  DoT: Duration reduced ― 3.75s → 1.875s
4-X-X The Big One	Center AoE damage increased ― 5 → 7
4-0-2 The Big One + Burny Stuff	DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 3 → 5
5-X-X The Biggest One	Center AoE damage increased ― 20 → 25  Center AoE damage to Ceramic increased ― +10 → +20

Version 31.0

Tiers	Changes
5-0-2 The Biggest One + Burny Stuff	Can now apply DoT to visible DDTs without an MIB buff (bug fix)

Version 33.0

“

It has been hard for The Bloon Solver & The Biggest One to exist so close in the same price range when they fill the same role but with The Biggest One being simply better and more versatile, so we have ramped The Biggest One to fill a better role but for a higher cost. Artillery Battery’s special stun bonus is completely ineffective against targets which are impossible to stun, so it is receiving a small damage bonus to these targets to compensate. Other similarly priced decamo options are able to decamo DDTs, so Signal Flare feels like a far lesser choice here having this basic decamo utility locked behind Monkey Knowledge, so that’s being freed up.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X The Big One	Shockwave: Now deals +1 damage to Ceramics
5-X-X The Biggest One	Upgrade cost increased ― $28,000 → $36,000  Shockwave: Can now stun MOAB-Class-Bloons for a reduced duration
X-4-X Artillery Battery	Now deals +4 damage to BADs and bosses
X-5-X Pop and Awe	Now deals +10 damage to BADs and bosses  Now grants all other Artillery Battery mortars +6 bonus damage to BADs & Bosses
X-X-3 Signal Flare X-X-4 Shattering Shells (further upgrades unaffected)	Decamo blast: Can now decamo DDTs
X-X-4 Shattering Shells (further upgrades unaffected)	DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 1 → 5

Version 34.0

“

The recent Mortar 5xx rework significantly devalued 502 crosspath, undermining the work we previously put into trying to balance that choice, likewise 205 Mortar is not often used as base damage isn't relevant for Blooncineration compared to attack speed, following along with the idea of Top Path improving burny stuff damage in addition to base hit damage both of these paths will now benefit from increase burn DoT in such a way.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-0-2 The Biggest One + Burny Stuff	DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 25 → 45
2-0-4 Shattering Shells + Bloon Buster 2-0-5 Blooncineration + Bloon Buster	DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 5 → 8
2-0-5 Blooncineration + Bloon Buster	MOAB-class DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 100 → 150

Version 37.0

“

As the Rapid Reload crosspath has actually fallen behind in value compared to Burny Stuff for top path Mortars we want to try a slight stun duration increase as this buffs the base path with a larger benefit to Rapid Reload mortars as a stalling option. Mortar consistency is lacking at x3x making it tough to spend on even though x4x is fairly good, so some of the T4 rate is shifting down to help out with this. As the camo property has grown quite weak and currently Signal Flare is considered the best decamo tool, we want to push back slightly on its cost and by reducing the blast radius of the decamo area while emphasizing crosspathing for effectiveness there.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X The Big One 5-X-X The Biggest One	Stun duration for regular Bloons increased ― 0.5s → 0.75s
5-X-X The Biggest One	Stun duration for MOABs increased ― 0.3s → 0.5s  Stun duration for BFBs and DDTs increased ― 0.2s → 0.3s
X-3-X Heavy Shells (further upgrades unaffected)	Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.08s → 0.81s (attack speed increased by 33.33%)
X-X-3 Signal Flare	Upgrade cost increased ― $700 → $800
X-X-3 Signal Flare (and further upgrades)	Decamo AoE: Radius reduced ― 50 → 43
1-0-3 Signal Flare + Bigger Blast (and further upgrades)	Bigger Blast grants the decamo AoE more pierce ― +5 → +10
X-X-4 Shattering Shells	Upgrade cost reduced ― $11,000 → $10,900  Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-X-4 Shattering Shells (further upgrades unaffected)	DoT: Now deals +5 damage to MOAB-class

Version 38.0

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Heavy Shells (and further upgrades)	Lead/MOAB/Fortified damage bonuses no longer stack (bug)

Version 38.1

•  Resolved an issue with x4x and higher Mortar Monkeys not applying their damage bonuses at all (These bonuses will not stack still) (bug fix)

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. To reduce the great feeling of loss that some players feel when upgrading to Pop and Awe & losing their Artillery Battery ability, this upgrade is seeing a stat rework that considers Artillery Battery as now always active at T5 instead of pumping up the damage numbers.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower 1-X-X Bigger Blast X-1-X Faster Reload (and further upgrades) X-X-1 Increased Accuracy (and further upgrades)	Explosion: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
0-0-0 base tower X-1-X Faster Reload (and further upgrades) X-X-1 Increased Accuracy (and further upgrades)	Explosion: Pierce reduced ― 40 → 25 Note: Bigger Blast and its subsequent upgrades unchanged
2-X-X Bloon Buster 3-X-X Shell Shock	Explosion: Damage increased ― 2 → 3 Note: Shockwaves from Shell Shock and above unchanged, and The Big One and above unchanged
X-3-X Heavy Shells (and further upgrades)	Explosion: Lead/Mortar/Fortified bonuses should all stack their bonuses on single targets (bug fix)
X-5-X Pop and Awe	Explosion: Main attack explosion radius increased ― 20 → 23  Explosion: attack cooldown delay reduced ― 0.27s → 0.0675s  Explosion: bonus Ceramic damage reduced ― +12 → +3  Explosion: bonus Lead damage reduced ― +4 → +1  Explosion: bonus Fortified damage reduced ― +4 → +1  Explosion: bonus MOAB damage reduced ― +4 → +1
X-X-3 Signal Flare (and further upgrades)	Decamo explosion: Pierce reduced ― 80 → 50 (undocumented) Note: Bigger Blasts crosspath remains at 90 pierce

Version 39.2

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Pop and Awe	Upgrading to Pop and Awe now ends Bombardment immediately if still active (bug fix) Note: This exploit allowed the player to apply Bombardment's buffs to Pop and Awe's base stats

Version 40.0

“

We’re ecstatic for all the Mortar love after the recent rework, however the two bonuses we left unchanged with the rework in order to leave a buff are… Probably a biiit much now and this has been far too significant an improvement, easily slotting Pop and Awe into an extremely high tier position over the past update. We don’t want to take this away, but are nipping those bonuses back slightly so it doesn't feel broken for our entire holiday break.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Pop and Awe	Damage to BADs and bosses reduced ― +10 → +6  Damage to stunned Bloons reduced ― +10 → +8

Version 41.0

“

Such a heavily explosive based tower upgrade to ignore its explosive weakness on every path didn’t sit right, some of the Normal damage type on top path is now trading in to make it stronger in other ways. BAD/Boss damage was used to help prevent middle path falling flat against strong single targets - but the more recent rework did farr better at bringing great power to this path so we’re cutting back on those bonuses again now. Signal flare is too effective a cheap full map de-camo though a little unreliable due to the lower rate & low radius of de-camo, cost is increasing a little but also with greater radius for the de-camo area to improve reliability and a power buff at Shattering Shells for there to be more of a reason to path through Signal Flare rather than stop at it.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X The Big One	Upgrade cost reduced ― $8,000 → $6,500  Explosion: Damage increased ― 7 → 8
4-X-X The Big One 5-X-X The Biggest One	Shockwave: Damage increased ― 1 → 2  Explosion center: Damage type changed ― Normal → Explosion
4-0-2 The Big One + Burny Stuff	DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 5 → 7
5-0-2 The Biggest One + Burny Stuff	DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 45 → 50
X-4-X Artillery Battery	Damage to BADs and bosses reduced ― +4 → +1
X-5-X Pop and Awe	Upgrade cost increased ― $30,000 → $32,000  Damage to BADs and bosses reduced ― +6 → +2  Damage buff to BADs and bosses to other Mortar Monkeys reduced ― +6 → +1
X-X-3 Signal Flare	Upgrade cost increased ― $800 → $900
X-X-3 Signal Flare (and further upgrades)	Decamo AoE: Radius increased ― 43 → 52
X-X-4 Shattering Shells	Upgrade cost reduced ― $10,900 → $10,500  Overall cost reduced by $300 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
2-0-4 Shattering Shells + Bloon Buster (further upgrades unaffected)	Bloon Buster now grants +5 damage per tick to the MOAB-class DoT  Stacks with changes to the DoT's non-crosspathed damage; overall damage per tick with this crosspath increased ― 5 → 15
X-X-4 Shattering Shells (further upgrades unaffected)	MOAB-class DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 5 → 10

Version 42.0

“

We’re feeling quite happy about the overall state of mortar compared to how it has fared in the past, however the Burny Stuff crosspath is still very hard to justify on middle mortar so along with other DoT attacks in this update we’re trying out a slight increase to damage over time across this path.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-3-2 Heavy Shells + Burny Stuff	DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 1 → 2
0-4-2 Artillery Battery + Burny Stuff	DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 1 → 3
0-5-2 Pop and Awe + Burny Stuff	DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 1 → 5

Version 43.0

“

Artillery Battery use has really exploded (!) and over the past few updates it has been sitting fairly steady in a great spot, the current power level feels good but we don’t want to create too big of a gap from the T3 yet so only a very slight cost increase. Blooncineration’s 025 crosspath currently works so much better with external buffs so we're tweaking the 205 crosspath to feel better in some situations.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Artillery Battery	Upgrade cost increased ― $5,500 → $5,900
1-0-5 Blooncineration + Bigger Blast	Wall of Fire: Pierce per tick with Bigger Blast increased ― 25 → 36
2-0-5 Blooncineration + Bloon Buster	Wall of Fire: Damage per tick with Bloon Buster increased ― 2 → 3

Version 44.0

“

We’ve been happily taking our time on this since it's about time Mortar gets some spotlight, but the middle path has been overperforming far too much for a while now so it is about time to start pushing it up to a more reasonable price range for the power it brings.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Artillery Battery	Upgrade cost increased ― $5,900 → $6,500
X-5-X Pop and Awe	Upgrade cost increased ― $32,000 → $38,000  Overall cost increased by $6,600 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 45.0

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X The Big One	Description changed ― "Devastating explosions pop 8 layers of any Bloon type. Increases Burny Stuff damage further." → "Devastating explosions pop 8 layers. Increases Burny Stuff damage further."

“

General tweaks to top path upgrade flow, slightly moving up the costpoint but improving the power of this path. Middle Mortar is seeing improvements mainly for damage over time crosspathing, and we’ve also added Burny Stuff to the Pop & Awe ability with crosspathing. We had been happy with Shattering Shells for a while, but as the game has evolved outright removing Fortification isn’t as valuable anymore, so the price feels high for such a specific role compared to other supportive options.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Shell Shock	Upgrade cost reduced ― $900 → $825
3-0-2 Shell Shock + Burny Stuff (and further upgrades)	No longer has halved burn duration ― 1.875s → 3.75s
4-X-X The Big One	Upgrade cost increased ― $6,500 → $7,200  Overall cost increased by $625 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)  Shockwave: damage to Ceramics increased ― +1 → +2
5-X-X The Biggest One	Center explosion: damage to Ceramics increased ― +20 → +30  Center explosion: damage to MOAB-Class increased ― +20 → +30
5-0-2 The Biggest One + Burny Stuff	Damage over time: Damage per tick increased ― 50 → 60
0-3-2 Heavy Shells + Burny Stuff	Damage over time: Damage per tick increased ― 2 → 3
0-4-2 Artillery Battery + Burny Stuff	Damage over time: Damage per tick increased ― 3 → 4
0-5-2 Pop and Awe + Burny Stuff	Damage over time: Damage per tick increased ― 5 → 18  Damage over time: Duration increased ― 3.75s → 7.5s  Ability: Now applies damage over time for 36 damage per tick
X-X-4 Shattering Shells	Upgrade cost reduced ― $10,500 → $9,500

Version 46.0

Tiers	Changes
0-3-2 Heavy Shells + Burny Stuff	Can apply Burny Stuff to DDTs if it has Camo Detection (bug fix)

Version 47.0

“

Improvements made for the underused damage over time crosspaths, and improved damage for the T4 as it’s effective at what it does but not so versatile outside of shredding metal bands.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X The Big One	Main blast: Damage increased ― 8 → 10 Note: Does not affect The Biggest One
4-0-2 The Big One + Burny Stuff	DoT damage increased ― 7 → 12
5-0-2 The Biggest One + Burny Stuff	DoT damage increased ― 60 → 65
0-3-2 Heavy Shells + Burny Stuff	DoT damage increased ― 3 → 4
0-4-2 Artillery Battery + Burny Stuff	DoT damage increased ― 4 → 6
0-5-2 Pop and Awe + Burny Stuff	Main DoT damage increased ― 18 → 20 (undocumented)
0-X-4 Shattering Shells 1-0-4 Shattering Shells + Bigger Blast	DoT damage versus MOAB-class increased ― +10 → +20 Note: Total MOAB-class damage increased from 15 to 25. Does not affect Blooncineration. 204 crosspath remains at +15 MOAB damage which is a bug

Version 47.1

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X The Big One	Description changed ― Devastating explosions pop 8 layers. Increases Burny Stuff damage further. → Devastating explosions pop 10 layers. Increases Burny Stuff damage further.
2-0-4 Shattering Shells + Bloon Buster	Resolved an issue where 204 Mortar crosspath would reduce MOAB DoT ― +15 → +25 (bug fix)

Version 49.0

“

Mortar BAD/Boss bonus was introduced to help with some concerns that have been more effectively solved through other means, so as a simplification to understanding these upgrades we are removing the bonuses
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Heavy Shells	Description changed ― Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, all Fortified, and all stunned Bloons. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons. → Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, Fortified, MOABs, stunned Bloons, and Bosses. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons. Note: Description is incorrect, it does not do extra damage to Bosses.
X-4-X Artillery Battery	No longer does +1 damage to BADs and Bosses Description changed ― Bombardment Ability: Unleashes a rapid fire attack in a slightly wider area. Main attack does more damage to BADs and Boss Bloons and upgrades to 3 barrels for incredibly fast attacks. → Bombardment Ability: Unleashes a rapid fire attack in a slightly wider area. Upgrades to 3 barrels for incredibly fast attacks.
X-5-X Pop and Awe	No longer does +2 damage to BADs and Bosses Note: Does not include Artillery Battery buff

Version 49.1

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Heavy Shells	Description changed ― Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, Fortified, MOABs, stunned Bloons, and Bosses. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons. → Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, Fortified, MOABs, and stunned Bloons. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons.
X-5-X Pop and Awe	Description changed ― Pop and Awe has permanent rapid attack speed and enhances the BAD and Boss damage of all Artillery Batteries. Pop and Awe Ability: rains explosions over the whole screen, damaging Bloons and stunning them periodically. → Pop and Awe has permanent rapid attack speed. Pop and Awe Ability: rains explosions over the whole screen, damaging Bloons and stunning them periodically.

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. Most of the reduced price from this change has been moved into Signal Flare, though left out of the other T3 crosspaths since we feel they are fine receiving the small buff.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost reduced ― $750 → $600
X-X-3 Signal Flare	Upgrade cost increased ― $900 → $1,000  Overall cost reduced by $50 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 51.0

“

No big shakeup for Mortar right now, but upon review of crosspaths we felt some low-end pricing wasn’t well balanced. These adjustments should improve early-game options without touching the core power of the tower.
— Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Bigger Blast	Upgrade cost reduced ― $500 → $300
4-X-X The Big One	Upgrade cost reduced ― $7,200 → $7,000  Overall cost reduced by $400 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-1-X Faster Reload	Upgrade cost increased ― $300 → $400
X-X-2 Burny Stuff	Upgrade cost reduced ― $500 → $400
X-X-3 Signal Flare	Upgrade cost increased ― $1,000 → $1,100  Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 53.0

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The Biggest Stun gains great value from any rate buffs, causing it to become a powerful full game lockdown without very much support.
— Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
5-X-X The Biggest One	Stun: Duration for MOABs reduced ― 0.5s → 0.4s  Stun: Duration for BFBs and DDTs reduced ― 0.3s → 0.2s
0-3-2 Heavy Shells + Burny Stuff (and further upgrades)	Can now inflict damage over time on explosion-immune Bloons (bug fix)

Version 55.2

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Shattering Shells X-X-5 Blooncineration	Decamo blast: Can now remove the Regrow property from any Bloon Note: This change was implemented because the main explosion could not remove the Regrow property from Lych

Version 56.0

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The path has struggled for relevance for a long time, and bottom-path Mortar is the anti-Camo path, so Increased Accuracy is being updated to now hit Camo Bloons directly as utility progression into Signal Flare.
— Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
X-X-1 Increased Accuracy	Description changed Before Makes the shots more accurate. After Makes the shots more accurate, enough to hit Camo Bloons!
X-X-1 Increased Accuracy X-X-2 Burny Stuff	Gains Camo detection

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