Terrain (BMC)

For the mechanic that determines where towers can be placed, see Terrain (map mechanic).

Terrain is a game mechanic in Bloons Monkey City. The terrain of a track determines which towers are favoured and/or restricted on it. This applies even in My Tracks and Contested Territory, which do not have tiles. Some terrain types have a difficulty modifier that increases the base difficulty rating of a tile by a flat amount, but unlike favoured and restricted towers, this only affects tiles and has no effect in My Tracks or Contested Territory.

Special Terrain

Special Terrain are variants of terrain types that contain Special Missions (with the exception of Caves Terrain). These terrain types inherit the same placement restrictions as the base terrain (for example, Ports can be placed on Shipwreck tiles because Shipwreck Terrain is a variant of Lake Terrain), though some Special Buildings require specific Special Terrain tiles. Only a limited number of Special Terrain tiles spawn per city.

Water's Edge Terrain

Water's Edge Terrain is a term for any land tile that is orthogonally or diagonally adjacent to a Lake or River Terrain tile, including any Special Terrain variants. The only function of Water's Edge Terrain is that it is required for building the Pirate School.

List of terrain types

Icon	Name	Difficulty mod	Favoured	Restricted	Special terrain	Music
	Arid Grasslands Terrain	0	Monkey Ace	—	Sandstorm	Gold Rush
	Badlands Terrain	0	Monkey Engineer, Sniper Monkey	Monkey Ace, Banana Farm	Dry As A Bone	Way Out West
	Caves Terrain	2	Monkey Engineer	Monkey Ace, Mortar Monkey	—	Ocarina Time
	Desert Terrain	0	Boomerang Thrower, Bomb Shooter	Spike Factory, Super Monkey, Glue Gunner	MOAB Graveyard	Monkey Hermanos
	Forest Terrain	0	Ninja Monkey	Tack Shooter, Banana Farm	Wattle Trees	Monkey Hermanos
	Grass Terrain	0	Monkey Ace, Bloonchipper	—	—	Street Party
	Heavy Forest Terrain	0	Sniper Monkey	Tack Shooter, Banana Farm, Heli Pilot	Tranquil Glade, Engineer Rescue	Monkey Hermanos
	High Desert Terrain	0	Monkey Engineer, Monkey Ace	Spike Factory, Super Monkey, Banana Farm, Dartling Gun	ZZZZOMG	The Good the Bad the Monkey
	Hills Terrain	0	Heli Pilot, Tack Shooter	Dart Monkey	Crash Site	Street Party
	Jungle Terrain	3	Glue Gunner	Monkey Apprentice, Ice Monkey	Sticky Sap Plant	Street Party
	Lake Terrain	0	Monkey Buccaneer	Ninja Monkey, Bomb Shooter, Bloonchipper	Shipwreck, Submarine Alliance	Roaring Humpers
	Mountain Terrain	0	Ice Monkey	Monkey Ace, Heli Pilot, Banana Farm, Dartling Gun	Caves Terrain, Bloonprint Hideout	Ocarina Time
	River Terrain	0	Banana Farm	Ninja Monkey, Bomb Shooter, Monkey Engineer	—	Roaring Humpers
	Snow Terrain	1	Ice Monkey	Dart Monkey, Boomerang Thrower, Dartling Gun, Monkey Engineer	Glacier	Ocarina Time
	Volcano Terrain	5	Monkey Apprentice, Mortar Monkey	Ice Monkey, Monkey Village, Boomerang Thrower	Phase Crystal	Ocarina Time