Update history:Bloons TD 6/Version 14.0

Version 14.0
Artwork representing version 14.0
Build №2200
Release dates
App Store13 December 2019[1]
Steam13 December 2019[2]

Version 14.0 is the seventh and final major update to Bloons TD 6 of 2019. It introduced Adora, the Fusty the Snowman skin for Pat Fusty, the maps Winter Park and Adora's Temple, and the new holiday Collection Event.

Additions

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Changes

Tiers Changes
5-X-X Ultra-Juggernaut
  •   Projectiles can now re-hit Bloons after bouncing off a blocker
Tiers Changes
X-X-3 Neva-Miss Targeting
  • "Global Range tracking no longer stutters unreasonably"
Tiers Changes
All tiers
  • "Mortars should no longer display line of sight as they can ignore all blockers"
Tiers Changes
4-X-X Arcane Spike
  • Description changed ― "Magic does extra damage to MOAB-Class Bloons." → "Magic does huge damage to most bloon types."
Sun Temple sacrifice powers have been reworked.
— Update notes
Tiers Changes
3-X-X Sun Avatar
4-X-X Sun Temple
5-X-X True Sun God
Primary
  •   Glaive attack (all tiers): pierce reduced ― 100 → 50
  •   Glaive attack (tiers 1–2): damage increased ― 2 → 10
  •   Glaive attack (tiers 3–6): damage increased ― 2 → 20
  •   Glaive attack (tiers 7+): damage increased ― 3 → 30
  •   Blade attack (tiers 5–8): pierce reduced ― 100 → 10
  •   Blade attack (tiers 5–8): damage increased ― 1 → 15
  •   Blade attack (tier 9): pierce reduced ― 100 → 20
  •   Blade attack (tier 9): damage increased ― 2 → 25
Military
  •   Missile attack (all tiers): pierce reduced ― 100 → 50
  •   Missile attack (all tiers): damage increased ― 50 → 75
  •   Spectre attack (tiers 5+): cooldown increased ― 0.04s → 0.15s
  •   Spectre attack (tiers 5+): dart pierce reduced ― 50 → 10
  •   Spectre attack (tiers 5+): explosion pierce reduced ― 100 → 30
  •   Spectre attack (tiers 5–8): dart damage increased ― 2 → 10
  •   Spectre attack (tiers 5–8): explosion damage increased ― 2 → 6
  •   Spectre attack (tier 9): dart damage increased ― 3 → 15
  •   Spectre attack (tier 9): explosion damage increased ― 3 → 10
Magic
  •   Arcane blast (tiers 1–4): damage increased ― 1 → 20
  •   Arcane blast (tiers 5–6): damage increased ― 2 → 30
  •   Arcane blast (tiers 7+): damage increased ― 4 → 35
  •   Sun Avatar (tier 9): damage increased ― 1 → 4
  • Sun Avatar sub-towers now display the name "Sun Avatar" instead of "SunAvatarMini" or "TrueSunAvatarMini" (bug fix)
Tiers Changes
X-4-X IMF Loan
X-5-X Monkey-Nomics
  •   Upgrading IMF Loan to Monkey-Nomics while the Farm still has debt permanently disables the ability (bug)
Tiers Changes
X-X-2 Smart Spikes
  • Name changed ― "Directed Spikes" → "Smart Spikes"
  • Description changed ― "Spike Factory gains special targeting priority." → "Spike Factory gains special targeting priority and accelerated production at the start of each round."
X-X-2 Smart Spikes and further upgrades
  •   Now gains a 4× attack speed buff for 2.5 seconds at the start of each round
Tiers Changes
All tiers
X-2-X Radar Scanner and further upgrades
  •   Now correctly grants Camo detection to mini-Comanches (bug fix)
Tiers Changes
4-X-X Sentry Expert
  •   Crushing Sentry: attack cooldown reduced ― 1.25s → 1s
  •   Boom Sentry: attack cooldown reduced ― 1.5s → 1.4s
  •   Boom Sentry: explosion damage increased ― 1 → 2
  •   Energy Sentry: damage increased ― 1 → 2
5-X-X Sentry Paragon
  •   Champion Sentry self-destruct: damage increased ― 70 → 85
  •   Champion Sentries now self-destruct instantly if sold, skipping the shaking animation
X-4-X Overclock
X-5-X Ultraboost
  •   Ability: attack speed buff reduced ― +100% → +66.7% (does not affect Farms or Village range)[3]
  •   Ability: now affects submerged Monkey Subs
  •   Ability: can no longer target Phoenixes (which does nothing)
X-5-X Ultraboost
  •   Ability: permanent attack speed buff reduced ― +10% → +6.67% (max +80%)[3]
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The editor who added this notice elaborates: Unclear what causes this; Quincy's RetargetOnContactModels are completely unchanged from 13.1
Levels Changes
All
  •   Ricochet targeting changed (specifics unknown) (undocumented)[4]
Levels Changes
17+
  •   Heat It Up: Now also grants a +1 damage buff to Lead Bloons and DDTs for the duration
17
  • Description changed ― "Heat it up gives affected Monkeys 1 extra layer pop." → "Heat it up empowers affected Monkeys to pop 1 extra layer, and do +2 damage to Lead Bloons."
    • Note: Description is incorrect about the damage to Lead Bloons
Levels Changes
5–9
  •   Level 5 ("Increased attack speed.") swapped with level 9 ("Makes all Black Bloons less resistant to explosive damage from all Monkeys.")
19+
  •   Now also increases chance of ignoring Black Bloon properties to 100%
19
  • Description changed ― "Increased attack speed." → "Increased attack speed and makes all Black Bloons vulnerable to explosive damage."
Levels Changes
4–7
  •   Nature's Ward Totem: slow effect on MOAB-Class Bloons reduced ― -30% → -15%
4
  • Description changed ― "Every 18 seconds creates a nature totem that slows all Bloon movement near the totem by 30%." → "Every 18 seconds creates a totem that slows all bloons near the totem by 30%. Less effective vs MOAB-class Bloons."
8–14
  •   Nature's Ward Totem: slow effect on MOAB-Class Bloons reduced ― -40% → -20%
15+
  •   Nature's Ward Totem: slow effect on MOAB-Class Bloons reduced ― -60% → -30%

Maps

Map Changes
Bloody Puddles
  • Reduced the upper footprint size of the jeep
  • "Fixed translations"
Workshop
  • Power Core renamed to "Track Extensions" and now has proper localizations
  • "Substantial refactor of co-op lobbying, connections, and player to player messages, for efficiency and stability"
  • "Sent money in co-op should now round off decimal places"
  • "Resolved a crash in co-op with players leaving in the lobby"
  • "Co-op non-host desync when backgrounding the app has been resolved"
  • "Co-op ‘separate game’ desync has been resolved"
  • "Co-op ‘Guests’ will now be given names"
  • "Co-op ‘Thanos Snap’ bug has had a lot of preventative work done, but we’d appreciate any reports if user still find their towers randomly deleted in co-op."
  • "Co-op using a cash drop before everyone has loaded in will no longer desync"
  • The Insta Monkeys button on the Powers screen has been redesigned and moved to the top-right corner
  • "Insta Monkeys should no longer come only in 032 and 042 variations"
  • "Placing Insta Monkeys should correctly play all sounds & animations again"
  • Now displays a warning message if the player attempts to use the ability when there are no towers it can target
Knowledge Changes
  There Can Be Only One
  •   No longer grants +50 damage to Sun Avatar sub-towers
  •   Now increases the damage of additional attacks by 3×

Miscellaneous

  • "Complete refactor and optimization of all UI Systems"
  • "Additional performance improvements assets, rendering, and packing"
  • "Updated save system"
  • "Updated widescreen display handling"
  • "Resolved an issue with the ability bar sometimes not working"
  • "The powers menu has been changed to toggle on/off on widescreen devices"
  • "Restarting a save game with a different hero to your current selected hero will no longer lock any hero from being placed"
  • "Resolved many issues related to using the ‘restart’ option, including for races, daily challenge & freeplay"
  • "Resolved a rare crash when double tapping the Events Monkey"
  • "Resolved an issue with high speed buffs causing abilities to trigger many times"
  • "ESC will no longer open the options menu if a tower is mid-placement, instead the placement will cancel and ESC will need to be pressed once more to pause."
  • "We are aware there is a texture issue with the 010 Bomb Shooter on Steam, we will have a fix for this later but did not want to delay the release"

Video

Description

In-game patch notes

  • New Hero! Adora is a divine new Hero that no monkey temple should be without
  • 2 new maps: festive Winter Park and mysterious Adora's Temple
  • Fusty the Snowman skin
  • Plus performance improvements, balance changes, and heaps of improvements!
  • Check our social channels for full list of balance changes and fixes:
    • forums.ninjakiwi.com/forum/bloons-td-6
    • reddit.com/r/btd6

App Store

Mega update for the holidays!
- New Hero! Adora is a divine new Hero that no monkey temple should be without
- 2 new maps: festive Winter Park and mysterious Adora's Temple
- Fusty the Snowman skin
- Plus performance improvements, balance changes, and heaps of improvements!

Notes

  • The update notes claim that Overclock's attack speed buff was reduced from +100% to +80% and Ultraboost's permanent attack speed buff was reduced to +8%, when it actually reduces them to +66.7% and +6.67%, respectively. The error most likely stems from the buff internally being represented by a multiplier to the tower's attack cooldown, which was changed from ×0.5 to ×0.6 in this update, and representing it as an attack speed buff requires calculating its reciprocal.

References

  1. "Bloons TD 6 on the App Store". Archived from the original on 29 February 2020.
  2. SteamDB
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Overclock+Ultraboost stealth nerf?". Reddit. Retrieved Wed, 10 Sep 2025.
  4. BTD6 Index