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Knowledge Pack
Monkey Knowledge is an enhancement system in Bloons Monkey City that is unlocked at City Level 12. By opening Monkey Knowledge Packs, the player can earn cards that unlock permanent enhancements for towers and some other gameplay elements. Each monkeys has 15 ranks that progress by earning XP from the cards. Monkey Knowledge Packs are earned by capturing tiles, participating in events, or with in-app-purchases.
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Opened Monkey Knowledge Pack with all four main rarities: Common (Green), Uncommon (Red), Rare (Purple), and Legendary (Yellow)
Monkey Knowledge Packs contain four cards each. One card is guaranteed to be of a specific rarity, while the other three are random. There is a separate chance that one of the random cards will be replaced with a Bounty Card. In the Flash version, the contents are determined the moment the player selects a pack, while in the mobile version, they are determined when the pack is opened. There are three types of packs:
Knowledge Packs are the most common type of pack. They can contain any type of card.
Ancient Packs (also called Ancient Monkey Knowledge Packs) are more rare and valuable than Knowledge Packs. They cannot contain common cards and are more likely to contain higher-rarity cards and Bounty Cards.
Wild Card Packs (also called Wild Card Monkey Knowledge Packs) are the most rare packs. They are similar to Knowledge Packs, but exclusively contain Wild Cards and Bounty Cards. Bounty Cards in Wild Card Packs can only contain other Wild Card Packs and the "? ? ?" Bounty. In the Flash version, after the player has revealed all of the Wild Cards, the player can click on one of the buttons to open a new pack and automatically claim all Wild Cards.
Pack
Probabilities
Guaranteed card's rarity
Common
Uncommon
Rare
Legendary
Bounty
Knowledge Pack
60%
30%
9%
1%
10%
Rare
Ancient Pack
0%
60%
30%
10%
20%
Legendary
Wild Card Pack
57%
30%
11%
2%
10%
Rare
Sources
Capturing a regular tile has a 33.3% chanceBloons Monkey City (Flash) to reward a Knowledge Pack. During Monkey Knowledge Madness, the chance is increased 100%. In the mobile version, they can be earned from track replays during Monkey Knowledge Madness as well.
Capturing a treasure chest tile guarantees a regular pack and has a 10% chance to additionally reward an Ancient Pack.
Capturing a Bloon Beacon tile rewards one Knowledge Pack on top of the usual random chance of a pack.
Knowledge Packs can be purchased at any time via in-app purchases. Ancient Packs and Wild Card Packs can only be purchased during certain events.
Bounty Cards can contain Knowledge Packs, Ancient Packs, or Wild Card Packs.
Most events can reward Knowledge Packs, including:
Cards grant XP to a random monkey when collected. If a monkey is already at rank 15, it disenchants and grants the player City Cash instead. Cards come in four rarities: common, uncommon, rare, and legendary. Higher rarity cards grant more XP or City Cash.
Rarity
XP
City Cash if maxed
Common
10
1,000
Uncommon
30
3,000
Rare
80
8,000
Legendary
250
25,000
Wild Cards
Wild Cards are cards that can be assigned to any monkey of the player's choosing, except those that are already at rank 15. Like regular cards, Wild Cards come in common, uncommon, rare, and legendary rarities, but unlike regular cards, they cannot disenchant into City Cash, even if the player has reached rank 15 for all monkeys.
In the Flash version, Wild Cards prompt the player to assign them immediately upon claiming them, though the player can close the prompt to save them for later. In the mobile version, Wild Cards do not prompt the player to assign them immediately.
Bounty cards
Bounty cards are rare cards that grant a random reward instead of only XP. Only one Bounty Card can appear per pack. All rewards have the same probability of appearing, except in Wild Card Packs, where all rewards except the "? ? ?" Bounty are replaced with 2× Wild Card Packs (consequently giving it a 90% chance of appearing).
The "? ? ?" Bounty adds 250 XP to all monkeys, though it does nothing for monkeys that are already at rank 15.
Each monkey has 15 ranks that unlock permanent enhancements. The enhancements are unique to each monkey, and each monkey has its own XP, though they all require the same amount of XP to rank up. The current ranks and XP for each monkey can be seen in the Book of Knowledge, a menu accessed from the book icon in the Monkey Knowledge menu. There are 24 monkeys in total (21 in the Flash version): one for every placeable tower except the Banana Farmer, plus three additional monkeys that are not specific to any tower:
Active Ability (called Activated Ability in the Flash version) reduces the cooldowns of Activated Abilities and unlocks additional perks that randomly trigger whenever the player activates an ability.
XP requirements
In the mobile version, each rank requires more XP than the previous rank. It takes 4,020,000 XP to unlock rank 15 for all 24 monkeys. In the Flash version, the XP requirements stop increasing after rank 5, and it only takes 630,000 XP to unlock rank 15 for all 21 monkeys.
Activating an ability has a chance to grant bonus lives
Activating an ability has a chance to grant bonus lives
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Activating an ability increases pierce of all Monkeys by 1 for 10 seconds
Activating an ability grants +1 pierce to all Monkeys for 10 seconds
5
Activating an ability increases attack speed of all Monkeys by 5% for 10 seconds
Activating an ability grants +5% attack speed to all Monkeys for 10 seconds
6
All cooldowns reduced by 7%
All cooldowns reduced by 7%
7
All cooldowns reduced by 10%
All cooldowns reduced by 10%
8
Activating an ability has a chance to grant bonus lives and cash
Activating an ability has a chance to grant bonus lives and cash
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Activating an ability increases pierce of all Monkeys by 1 for 15 seconds
Activating an ability grants +1 pierce to all Monkeys for 15 seconds
10
Activating an ability increases attack speed of all Monkeys by 8% for 10 seconds
Activating an ability grants +8% attack speed to all Monkeys for 10 seconds
11
All cooldowns reduced by 13%
All cooldowns reduced by 13%
12
All cooldowns reduced by 16%
All cooldowns reduced by 16%
13
Activating an ability has a chance to grant bonus lives, cash and stun bloons
Activating an ability has a chance to grant bonus lives, cash and stun bloons temporarily
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Activating an ability increases pierce of all Monkeys by 1 for 20 seconds
Activating an ability grants +1 pierce to all Monkeys for 20 seconds
15
Activating an ability increases attack speed of all Monkeys by 10% for 10 seconds
Activating an ability grants +10% attack speed to all Monkeys for 10 seconds
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Assets
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Knowledge Pack
Ancient Pack
Wild Pack
Star reward for Monkey Knowledge, used by the Fireworks event
Star reward for Ancient Knowledge, used by the Fireworks event
Star reward for Wild Packs, used by the Fireworks event
Ancient Pack sale icon
Wild Pack sale icon
Footnotes
↑ 1.01.11.2In the Flash version, the MOAB damage multiplier applies twice due to a bug. It deals 44% more MOAB damage at rank 3, 207% more at rank 8, and 298% at rank 13. These tiers do not affect its damage to Boss Bloons at all, as MOAB-SHREDR Spikes has a separate damage modifier for them.
↑In the mobile version, this actually reduces Spike Storm's cooldown by 12 seconds.
↑ 3.03.13.2In the Flash version, this actually increases the range buff provided by Monkey Beacon by the specified amount, and has no effect on the range of the Village itself.
↑ 4.04.14.24.34.4In the Flash version, this does not apply to "SentrySprockets" (Sentries spawned by Engineers with the Sprockets upgrade).