Super Mines (BTD6)

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Super Mines
Portrait of Super Mines
Icon of Super Mines Creates gigantic exploding spiked mines that can wipe out almost anything.
Tower Path Tier
Spike Factory 1 5
XP cost 32,500
Cash cost $106,250 — Easy
$125,000 — Medium
$135,000 — Hard
$150,000 — Impoppable

Super Mines is the Spike Factory's path 1 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It dispenses super mines half as quickly, but the mines deal much more damage and have many more explosions that can pop any Bloon type. Each super mine has 18 pierce, dealing 50 damage per spike, with extra damage to Ceramic and Fortified Bloons. Every time a spike is depleted, a non-burning mini-explosion is produced. If the super mine expires, it generates a huge burning explosion that deals much more damage. All explosions deal more damage to Ceramic and Fortified Bloons.

Stats

For a complete list of Spike Factory stats, see Stats:Spike Factory (BTD6).
This data was last updated for: version 55.1
Tower
Display range34 units
Footprint radius8 units
Targeting options
  • Normal
Attack
Cooldown3.5s
Offset (X, Y, Z)
0, 0, 19.95
TargetingDepends on targeting option
Targeting range34 units
Filters
  • Cannot target Camo
  • Ignores blockers
Projectile
Pierce18
Damage50
Damage to Ceramic
(excl. Ceramic Armor Shell)
+30
Damage to Fortified+15
Damage typeNormal
Lifespan50s
Radius6 units
Rehit interval0.001s
  • Ignores blockers
Mini-explosion
Pierce30
Damage20
Damage to Ceramic
(excl. Ceramic Armor Shell)
+15
Damage to Fortified+5
Damage typeNormal
Lifespan0.1s
Radius30 units
  • Ignores blockers
Explosion
Pierce60
Damage1,000
Damage to Ceramic
(excl. Ceramic Armor Shell)
+500
Damage to Fortified+250
Damage typeNormal
Lifespan0.1s
Radius100.2 units
  • Ignores blockers
Damage over time
Damage2,500
Damage typeFire
Duration6.05s
Interval2s
Layers

5-1-0

Attack
Cooldown3.5s → 2.8s
Explosion
  • Ignores blockers

5-2-0

Attack
Cooldown2.8s → 2.1s

5-0-1

Tower
Display range34 units → 42 units
Attack
Targeting range34 units → 42 units
Projectile
Lifespan50s → 100s
Mini-explosion
Radius30 units → 40 units
Explosion
Radius100.2 units → 133.6 units
  • Ignores blockers

5-0-2

Tower
Targeting options
  • Close
  • Smart
  • Automatic
  • Set Target
Start-of-round buff
Cooldown modifier×0.25
Lifespan3s

Costs and sell values

Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
Tiers Total cost Sell value
Easy Medium Hard Impoppable Easy Medium Hard Impoppable
5-0-0 $118,320 $139,200 $150,340 $167,040 $82,824 $97,440 $105,238 $116,928
5-1-0 $118,830 $139,800 $150,990 $167,760 $83,181 $97,860 $105,693 $117,432
5-2-0 $119,510 $140,600 $151,855 $168,720 $83,657 $98,420 $106,299 $118,104
5-0-1 $118,445 $139,350 $150,500 $167,220 $82,912 $97,545 $105,350 $117,054
5-0-2 $118,785 $139,750 $150,930 $167,700 $83,150 $97,825 $105,651 $117,390

Strategy

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Super Mines does incredible damage for its cost despite its speed penalty.

Crosspathing is beneficial for Super Mines, and should be crosspathed unless the challenge is Least Tiers. Middle crosspaths are usually better for the increased rate, because bloon ramping may naturally cause mines to consume quickly. Bottom crosspaths are mostly reserved on Boss Rush to take full advantage of the start-of-round speed boost.

Update history

For a complete list of Spike Factory changes, see Update history:Spike Factory (BTD6).
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  • Buff Attack cooldown reduced by 20%
  • Buff Overall cost reduced by $2,200 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
  • Buff Explosion: damage type changed ― Explosion → Normal
  • Buff Explosion: pierce increased ― 40 → 60
  • Buff Spike: Damage to Ceramics increased ― +2 → +3
  • Buff Spike: damage increased ― 1 → 10
  • Buff Attack cooldown reduced ― 5.5s → 4.4s
  • Buff Explosion: damage increased by 650
  • Buff Base damage of each spike increased ― 1 → 2
Bigger balance shifts including Super Mines were not feasible for this update, but we did make a meaningful price reduction.
— Update notes
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $175,000 → $162,500
We quite liked how the lifespan changes for xx1 spikes went previously, though this still wasn’t enough to make the path competitive and increasing this number further wouldn’t have much of an impact since most earlier rounds aren’t long enough. Spiked Balls strats have also felt too strong compared to higher tiers on top path, so touching on all of these issues slightly the base lifespan of spikes has been reduced, ceramic bonus increased on 4xx; and a new bonus added to 5xx.
— Update notes
  • Buff Mine: Each spike now triggers a smaller explosion
    • Radius: 20
    • Pierce: 10
    • Damage: 10
  • Nerf Base projectile lifespan reduced ― 70s → 50s
    • Note: Long Reach lifespan remains at 100s
Like a few other towers before it, the attack speed crosspath for Spike Factory has outshined the others. We have reworked the lower Spike Factory tiers to distribute this power more evenly while keeping high tier factories at a similar level of power.
— Update notes
  • Nerf Overall cost increased by $200 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
  • Buff Rate increased ― 4.4s → 3.5s (undocumented)
5-1-0
  • Nerf Rate reduced ― 2.64s → 2.8s (undocumented)
5-2-0
  • Buff Rate increased ― 1.98s → 1.96s (undocumented)
  • Buff Overall cost reduced by $900 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
  • Buff Overall cost reduced by $1,500 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
  • Nerf Pierce reduced ― 17 → 14
  • Buff Spike: Damage corrected ― 2 → 10 (bug fix)
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $162,000 → $150,000
  • Buff Small Explosion: Pierce increased ― 20 → 30
Super Mines gets damage - to stand it out in Bosses more.
— Update notes
  • Buff Spike: Damage increased ― 10 → 50
  • Buff Spike: Damage to Ceramic increased ― +6 → +20
  • Buff Spike: Damage to Fortified increased ― +1 → +15
  • Buff Small explosion: Damage increased ― 10 → 20
  • Buff Small explosion: Now deals +10 damage to Ceramic
  • Buff Small explosion: Now deals +5 damage to Fortified
  • Nerf Main explosion: No longer deals +2 damage to Ceramic
  • Nerf Main explosion: No longer deals +2 damage to MOAB-class
  • Buff Main explosion: Damage to Fortified increased ― +1 → +250
  • Buff Mini-explosion: no longer has single-layer damage (undocumented)
Super Mines DoT damage is entirely insignificant for the price range of this tower.
— Update notes
  • Buff Super Mines DoT damage per tic damage increased ― 1 → 500
Super Mines price is coming down a little to pull it slightly forward into more challenge viability. We also felt like a massive ceramic bonus on Super Mines could both help it annihilate super ceramics, and give it fun niche uses against ceramics in general for challenges and Bosses.
— Update notes
  • Buff Upgrade cost reduced ― $150,000 → $125,000
  • Buff Small explosion radius increased ― 20 → 30
  • Buff DoT damage increased ― 500 → 1000
  • Buff Spikes ceramic bonus increased ― +20 → +30
  • Buff Mini explode ceramic bonus ― +10 → +15
  • Buff Big explode ceramic bonus ― +0 → +500
Permaspike, while admittedly not often utilized to its max potential, has sat in a dominant high end position for a long time so we are shifting it away from such high pierce into more damage per pierce.
— Update notes
  • Nerf Spike: Pierce reduced ― 14 → 12
We’ve heard the feedback, so Spiked Mines get a tweak to get more mines exploding but with less pierce on each, to overall increase quality of life in more frequent use but less wasted pierce. This will help out with some of the problems it has scaling into late game super ceramics.
— Update notes
  • Buff DoT: damage increased ― 1000 → 2500
  • Buff Spike pierce increased ― 12 → 20
Further balance for 401 crosspath, while this does already see some niche use it made sense to include increased explosion radius with the larger tower range.
— Update notes
5-0-1, 5-0-2
  • Buff Large explosion: Radius increased ― 100 → 133
  • Buff Mini-explosion: Blast radius increased ― 30 → 40
  • Nerf Spike Factory no longer can shotgun spikes for exactly one frame after spawning (bug fix)
Small spike pierce reduction for the Spiked Mines as it’s finally coming into a strong spot on its own.
— Update notes
  • Nerf Spike pierce reduced ― 20 → 18
  • Buff Damage over time: Duration increased ― 6.0s → 6.05s (bug fix)
    • Note: This change solved an issue where the final tick of the damage was not being applied
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Assets

In other languages

Language Name / Description Notes
Arabic الألغام الفائقة
إنشاء ألغام ضخمة متفجرة بإمكانها القضاء على أي شيء تقريبًا.
Danish Superminer
Skaber gigantiske eksploderende sømminer, som kan udslette næsten hvad som helst.
German Superminen
Erzeugt gigantisch explodierende Nagelminen, die beinahe alles vernichten.
Spanish Superminas
Crea minas con clavos gigantes y explosivas que pueden eliminar casi todo.
Spanish (LA) Superminas
Crea minas con clavos gigantes y explosivas que pueden eliminar casi todo.
Finnish Supermiinat
Luo giganttisia räjähtäviä piikkimiinoja, jotka voivat pyyhkiä pois melkein mitä vain.
French Super mines
Crée des mines pointues gigantesques qui annihilent presque tout en explosant.
Italian Super mine
Crea gigantesche mine acuminate la cui esplosione è in grado di devastare ogni cosa.
Japanese スーパー地雷
ほぼ全てを破壊できる、巨大な爆破スパイク地雷を作る。
Korean 슈퍼 지뢰
거의 모든 걸 초토화할 수 있는 거대한 폭발성 스파이크 지뢰를 생산합니다.
Dutch Supermijnen
Maakt gigantische exploderende stekelmijnen die bijna alles kunnen wegvagen.
Norwegian Superminer
Skaper gigantiske eksploderende spikerminer som kan utslette nesten alt.
Polish Super miny
Wytwarza gigantyczne eksplodujące kolczaste miny, które zmiatają niemal wszystko.
Portuguese (Brazil) Minas Superiores
Cria gigantescas minas de espinho explosivas que podem detonar quase tudo.
Russian Супермины
Производит огромные взрывающиеся шипованные мины, которые сносят почти всё вокруг.
Swedish Superminor
Skapar gigantiska exploderande spikminor som kan utrota nästan allt.
Thai ซูเปอร์ไมน์
สร้างกับระเบิดตะปูขนาดมหึมาที่กำจัดได้แทบทุกอย่าง
Turkish Süper Mayınlar
Neredeyse her şeyi yok edebilen patlayan devasa çivili mayınlar oluşturur.
Chinese (simplified) 超级矿山
创造可以消灭几乎任何东西的巨型刺钉地雷。
Chinese (traditional) 超級地雷
創造出巨大的帶刺爆炸地雷,可以消滅幾乎任何東西。
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