Mortar Monkey (BTD6)

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Mortar Monkey

Launches an exploding mortar shell to a fixed location anywhere on the screen.

Unlock method(s)	Choose at levels 7–12
Category	Military
Cost	$510 — Easy $600 — Medium $650 — Hard $720 — Impoppable With Advanced Logistics: $485 — Easy $570 — Medium $615 — Hard $685 — Impoppable With Military Conscription: $340 — Easy $400 — Medium $435 — Hard $480 — Impoppable With Advanced Logistics and Military Conscription: $315 — Easy $370 — Medium $400 — Hard $445 — Impoppable
Hotkey	N
Introduced	Version 6.0

The Mortar Monkey is a Military tower in Bloons TD 6, introduced in Version 6.0. It slowly shoots mortar shells at the selected target, anywhere on the map, with random deviation around the target. After the mortar shot lands and expires, the shell creates a blast, dealing 2 damage to Bloons hit by the blast, up to a pierce cap by hitting 25 Bloons.

It can be upgraded to increase the size and damage of the explosion as well as creating a stunning effect, increase the attack speed, or gain support options, like burning Bloons and removing properties.

Upgrades

Path 1

Bigger Blast

Tier 1 — 180 XP to unlock

Bigger shells deliver a bigger blast radius.

$255 — Easy
$300 — Medium
$325 — Hard
$360 — Impoppable

This upgrade increases the pierce of Mortar Monkey's shells by +20 and increases the radius of all attacks by 1.4×. The main blast increases radius from 20 to 28.

Certain crosspaths receive additional benefits from Bigger Blast:

• Signal Flare: the decamo blast's pierce is increased by +40.
• Shattering Shells: pierce of the de-regrow and de-fortify by +20.
• Blooncineration: pierce of its walls of fire increase by +16 and each have a larger radius.

Bloon Buster

Tier 2 — 600 XP to unlock

Smash through 3 layers of Bloons at once!

$425 — Easy
$500 — Medium
$540 — Hard
$600 — Impoppable

This upgrade increases the damage of Mortar Monkey's shells from 2 to 3. Crosspaths also provide additional benefits for path 3, such as increasing the damage-over-time's tick damage:

• Shattering Shells: damage per tick increases from from 5 to 8, and the MOAB-Class Bloons damage per tick increases from 20 to 25.
• Blooncineration: damage per tick on MOAB-Class Bloons increases from 100 to 150, increases the damage of its walls of fire from 1 to 3.

Shell Shock

Tier 3 — 2,500 XP to unlock

Blast shockwave stuns Bloons at impact, pops bloons in a wider area, and increases Burny Stuff damage.

$700 — Easy
$825 — Medium
$890 — Hard
$990 — Impoppable

Shell Shock increases its blast radius by 10 (28 to 38) and creates additional explosions: a stunning blast that affects Bloons in a small area, and a shockwave that deals damage in a wider radius. The shockwave deals 1 damage (but cannot damage multiple layers, even if given damage buffs) within 57 radius, but can not hit Bloons within 50% of its blast radius, or DDTs. The stunning blast has 19 radius and stuns Bloons for 0.5 seconds except for Black and Zebra Bloons, even if given a Black-popping buff.

With the Burny Stuff crosspath Shell Shock gains the following improvements:

• +1 damage to burn (from 1 to 2)
• Tick cooldown decreased from 1.25 seconds to 0.625 seconds (0.375 seconds with Extra Burny Stuff)

The Big One

Tier 4 — 15,000 XP to unlock

Devastating explosions pop 10 layers. Increases Burny Stuff damage further.

$5,950 — Easy
$7,000 — Medium
$7,560 — Hard
$8,400 — Impoppable

This upgrade creates much larger explosions that do more damage, pop more Bloons, and stun longer. The outer shockwave's damage type is changed to Normal, popping all visible Bloon types, but the other explosions remain unable to pop Black Bloons.

• Main explosion: Radius is increased by 20 (38 to 58), pierce increased from 45 to 85, and damage from 3 to 10.
• Shockwave: Radius is increased by 30 (57 to 87), pierce increased from 45 to 85, and damage from 1 to 2 (with another +2 damage to Ceramics). Can also target visible DDTs.
• Stun blast: Radius increased by 10 (19 to 29), pierce increased from 45 to 85, and stun duration increased from 0.5 seconds to 0.75 seconds.

With the 4-0-2 crosspath, the Burny Stuff burn damage is increased from 2 to 12. It still burns every 0.625 seconds (0.375 seconds with Extra Burny Stuff) and lasts up to 3.85 seconds.

The Biggest One

Tier 5 — 29,000 XP to unlock

Blasts deeply through Bloons and layers over a huge area, plus powerful Burny Stuff damage.

$30,600 — Easy
$36,000 — Medium
$38,880 — Hard
$43,200 — Impoppable

All of its explosions have increased radius, the main explosion and shockwave deal more damage, and pierce is increased from 85 to 200. Additionally, the stun blast can affect blimps for a shorter duration.

• Main explosion: Damage from 10 to 25, plus an additional +30 bonus to Ceramics and MOAB-Class. Radius is increased by 16, from 58 to 74.
• Shockwave: Ceramic bonus damage from +2 to +20. Radius is increased by 24, from 87 to 111.
• Stun blast: MOABs are stunned for 0.4 seconds, BFBs and DDTs for 0.2 seconds, and ZOMGs for 0.1 seconds. Radius is increased by 8, from 29 to 37.

With the 5-0-2 crosspath, the Burny Stuff burn damage is increased from 12 to 65. It still burns every 0.625 seconds (0.375 seconds with Extra Burny Stuff) and lasts up to 3.85 seconds.

Path 2

Faster Reload

Tier 1 — 150 XP to unlock

Increases the attack speed of the Mortar.

$340 — Easy
$400 — Medium
$430 — Hard
$480 — Impoppable

The Mortar Monkey's attack cooldown decreases by 25%, increasing its attack speed by ~33%. It attacks every 1.5 seconds instead of 2 seconds.

Rapid Reload

Tier 2 — 600 XP to unlock

Even faster reload.

$425 — Easy
$500 — Medium
$540 — Hard
$600 — Impoppable

This upgrade further reduces its attack cooldown by 28% compared to Faster Reload, increasing the attack speed by approximately +38.89%. It attacks every 1.08 seconds instead of every 1.5 seconds. The total attack speed bonus compared to base Mortar is approximately +85.18%.

Heavy Shells

Tier 3 — 2,300 XP to unlock

Heavy shells do extra damage to Ceramic, Lead, Fortified, MOABs, and stunned Bloons. Attacks faster and can also pop Black Bloons.

$765 — Easy
$900 — Medium
$970 — Hard
$1,080 — Impoppable

This upgrade increases its attack speed by approximately 33% and deals Normal damage type, allowing each shot to damage all visible Bloons. Shots also gain +1 damage to Leads (including visible DDTs), MOAB-Class Bloons, and Fortified Bloons, +2 damage to all Bloons that are stunned, and +3 damage to Ceramics. These bonuses can stack.

With Burny Stuff, it deals 4 damage per tick instead of 1.

Artillery Battery

Tier 4 — 12,500 XP to unlock

Bombardment Ability: Unleashes a rapid fire attack in a slightly wider area. Upgrades to 3 barrels for incredibly fast attacks.

$5,525 — Easy
$6,500 — Medium
$7,020 — Hard
$7,800 — Impoppable

This upgrade gains triple attack speed (attacking every 0.27 seconds) and an ability that applies a further 4× attack speed bonus and +15% blast radius bonus for 8 seconds, with a cooldown of 60 seconds. With the ability active, it attacks every 0.0675 seconds.

With the Burny Stuff crosspath, the burn damage per tick increases from 4 to 6.

Pop and Awe

Tier 5 — 32,000 XP to unlock

Pop and Awe has permanent rapid attack speed. Pop and Awe Ability: rains explosions over the whole screen, damaging Bloons and stunning them periodically.

$32,300 — Easy
$38,000 — Medium
$41,040 — Hard
$45,600 — Impoppable

This upgrade replaces Artillery Battery's Bombardment ability with the Pop and Awe ability, which stuns all Bloons and blimps (excluding BADs and Bosses, while allowing all others to inch forward), does 20 damage per second to everything on the screen and immediately to any newly spawned Bloon, has a cooldown of 60 seconds, and lasts for 8 seconds. With the 0-5-2 crosspath, the ability also applies Burny Stuff that deals 36 damage per tick of every 1.25 seconds for up to 7.5 seconds.

Pop and Awe also gains a permanent 4× attack speed compared to Artillery Battery (with the ability inactive). In addition, bonus damage against stunned targets is increased (+2 → +8), and the blast radius is increased from 20 to 23 (28 to 32.2 with 1/2-5-0). With the 0-5-2 crosspath, the Burny Stuff's damage per tick is increased from 6 to 20 and its duration is increased from 3.75 seconds to 7.5 seconds. Pop and Awe also grants all Artillery Batteries +1 BAD/Boss damage but it does not give this buff to itself.

Path 3

Increased Accuracy

Tier 1 — 140 XP to unlock

Makes the shots more accurate, enough to hit Camo Bloons!

$170 — Easy
$200 — Medium
$215 — Hard
$240 — Impoppable

This upgrade lowers the spread of the Mortar Monkey's projectiles from 18 to 8, making them land closer to the target. The Mortar also gains camo detection.

Burny Stuff

Tier 2 — 650 XP to unlock

Damaged Bloons are set ablaze momentarily with each hit.

$340 — Easy
$400 — Medium
$430 — Hard
$480 — Impoppable

This upgrade lets the Mortar's attacks inflict a damage-over-time effect onto damaged Bloons, dealing 1 Fire-type damage once every 1.25 seconds (1 second with Extra Burny Stuff) and lasts for 3.85 seconds on each Bloon that they hit (triggering up to 3 times for this duration). Visually, Bloons are set on fire while affected by this effect. All Tier 3+ Mortars apply a stronger burn effect that can override weaker variants.

Signal Flare

Tier 3 — 2,200 XP to unlock

Camo Bloons popped by flares lose their camouflage permanently.

$935 — Easy
$1,100 — Medium
$1,190 — Hard
$1,320 — Impoppable

This upgrade adds a new wider explosion that removes the Camo property of any Bloon, including DDTs, that it hits, dealing zero damage. This secondary explosion has 50 pierce and 52 radius (90 pierce and 72.8 radius with 1-0-3).

Shattering Shells

Tier 4 — 12,000 XP to unlock

Shattering shells strip special Bloon properties off all but the biggest bloons. Burny stuff melts through 5 layers with each shot and burns MOAB-class Bloons for extra damage.

$8,075 — Easy
$9,500 — Medium
$10,260 — Hard
$11,400 — Impoppable

Each shot removes all Camo and Regrow modifiers (including from Boss Bloons), and all Fortified modifiers from up to BFB (plus DDT with Paint Stripper). Its main explosion strips Regrow and Fortified modifiers, and its secondary no-damage blast strips both Camo and Regrow.

The burn effect from Shattering Shells is improved to deal 5 damage per tick, and gains an additional burn that only targets MOAB-class, dealing 20 damage per tick. This blimp-only burn also affects DDTs. On any non-DDT blimp, it effectively does 25 damage per tick. Both the ordinary burn and blimp-only burn are affected by Extra Burny Stuff.

Crosspathing with 2-0-4 further increases the burn effect to 8 damage and its blimp-only burn to 25, totalling 33 per tick on any non-DDT.

Blooncineration

Tier 5 — 35,000 XP to unlock

Superhot burny stuff that incinerates MOAB-Class Bloons with ease.

$34,000 — Easy
$40,000 — Medium
$43,200 — Hard
$48,000 — Impoppable

Each explosion leaves a Wall of Fire that deals 1 damage, has 20 pierce, rehits every 0.1 seconds, and lasts 4.5 seconds. Additionally Blooncineration applies a much stronger burn effect that burns every 0.75 seconds (0.5 with Extra Burny Stuff). The burn effect deals 5 damage, and 100 MOAB-class damage. It can also defortify DDTs without the need for Paint Stripper.

Crosspathing with path 1 improves the Wall of Fire and burn effects:

• 1-0-5: Newly dropped walls of fire gain increased radius (15 to 21) and pierce (20 to 36).
• 2-0-5: Increases the damage per tick versus Bloons from 5 to 8, damage per tick versus MOAB-class damage from 100 to 150, and wall of fire damage from 1 to 3.

Stats

For a complete list of Mortar Monkey stats, see Stats:Mortar Monkey (BTD6).

This data was last updated for: version 55.1

Tower
Display range 30 units Footprint radius 11 units

Attack
Cooldown 2s Offset (X, Y, Z) -4.03, 2.5, 20 Spread 18 Targeting Depends on targeting option Targeting range ∞ units Rotation speed ∞ deg/s Filters Cannot target Camo
Ignores blockers
Explosion Pierce 25 Damage 2 Damage type Explosion Lifespan 0.05s Radius 20 units Filters Cannot hit Camo

Related Monkey Knowledge

This list does not include Monkey Knowledge that affects all Military towers.

Monkey Knowledge	Cost	Prerequisites	Introduced
Extra Burny Stuff Burny Stuff pops every second.	Free	4 invested	Version 6.0
Paint Stripper Mortar shattering shells removes Fortification from DDT Bloons.	250	8 invested Extra Burny Stuff	Version 6.0
Budget Battery Artillery Battery cost reduced by 600.	500	8 invested Paint Stripper	Version 6.0

Rogue Legends

Starter parties with Mortar Monkeys

Hero	Insta Monkey 1	Insta Monkey 2	Artifact
Striker Jones	0-1-0 Ninja Monkey	0-2-0 Mortar Monkey	Malicious Mauling Common (adds  0-1-1 Bomb Shooter)
Sentai Churchill	1-0-0 Monkey Ace	1-0-0 Mortar Monkey	Squadron Together Strong Common
Biker Bones	0-1-0 Wizard Monkey	0-0-2 Mortar Monkey	Pops Fired Common
Galaxili	2-0-0 Tack Shooter	0-0-2 Mortar Monkey	Quantum Leap Common

Related Artifacts

This list does not include Artifacts that affect all Military towers.

Artifact	Common effect	Rare effect	Legendary effect
Critical Impact	Tier 3 and higher Mortars have a 1 in 8 chance to Crit for 250% damage. Adds a 1-1-0 Mortar to your Party	Tier 3 and higher Mortars have a 1 in 8 chance to Crit for 350% damage. Adds a 2-1-0 Mortar to your Party	Tier 3 and higher Mortars have a 1 in 8 chance to Crit for 500% damage. Adds a 2-0-0 Mortar to your Party
Fish Nova	Tier 3 and higher Bomb Shooter, Mortar, Ice Monkey, Glue Gunner & Banana Farm attacks have a chance to release swarms of fish each dealing 1 damage to 2 Bloons	Tier 3 and higher Bomb Shooter, Mortar, Ice Monkey, Glue Gunner & Banana Farm attacks have a chance to release swarms of fish each dealing 2 damage to 3 Bloons	Tier 3 and higher Bomb Shooter, Mortar, Ice Monkey, Glue Gunner & Banana Farm attacks have a chance to release swarms of fish each dealing 4 damage to 4 Bloons

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
0-0-0	$510	$600	$650	$720	$357	$420	$455	$504
1-0-0	$765	$900	$975	$1,080	$536	$630	$683	$756
1-1-0	$1,105	$1,300	$1,405	$1,560	$774	$910	$984	$1,092
1-0-1	$935	$1,100	$1,190	$1,320	$655	$770	$833	$924
0-1-0	$850	$1,000	$1,080	$1,200	$595	$700	$756	$840
0-1-1	$1,020	$1,200	$1,295	$1,440	$714	$840	$907	$1,008
0-0-1	$680	$800	$865	$960	$476	$560	$606	$672
2-0-0	$1,190	$1,400	$1,515	$1,680	$833	$980	$1,061	$1,176
2-1-0	$1,530	$1,800	$1,945	$2,160	$1,071	$1,260	$1,362	$1,512
2-2-0	$1,955	$2,300	$2,485	$2,760	$1,369	$1,610	$1,740	$1,932
2-0-1	$1,360	$1,600	$1,730	$1,920	$952	$1,120	$1,211	$1,344
2-0-2	$1,700	$2,000	$2,160	$2,400	$1,190	$1,400	$1,512	$1,680
0-2-0	$1,275	$1,500	$1,620	$1,800	$893	$1,050	$1,134	$1,260
1-2-0	$1,530	$1,800	$1,945	$2,160	$1,071	$1,260	$1,362	$1,512
0-2-1	$1,445	$1,700	$1,835	$2,040	$1,012	$1,190	$1,285	$1,428
0-2-2	$1,785	$2,100	$2,265	$2,520	$1,250	$1,470	$1,586	$1,764
0-0-2	$1,020	$1,200	$1,295	$1,440	$714	$840	$907	$1,008
1-0-2	$1,275	$1,500	$1,620	$1,800	$893	$1,050	$1,134	$1,260
0-1-2	$1,360	$1,600	$1,725	$1,920	$952	$1,120	$1,208	$1,344
3-0-0	$1,890	$2,225	$2,405	$2,670	$1,323	$1,558	$1,684	$1,869
3-1-0	$2,230	$2,625	$2,835	$3,150	$1,561	$1,838	$1,985	$2,205
3-2-0	$2,655	$3,125	$3,375	$3,750	$1,859	$2,188	$2,363	$2,625
3-0-1	$2,060	$2,425	$2,620	$2,910	$1,442	$1,698	$1,834	$2,037
3-0-2	$2,400	$2,825	$3,050	$3,390	$1,680	$1,978	$2,135	$2,373
0-3-0	$2,040	$2,400	$2,590	$2,880	$1,428	$1,680	$1,813	$2,016
1-3-0	$2,295	$2,700	$2,915	$3,240	$1,607	$1,890	$2,041	$2,268
2-3-0	$2,720	$3,200	$3,455	$3,840	$1,904	$2,240	$2,419	$2,688
0-3-1	$2,210	$2,600	$2,805	$3,120	$1,547	$1,820	$1,964	$2,184
0-3-2	$2,550	$3,000	$3,235	$3,600	$1,785	$2,100	$2,265	$2,520
0-0-3	$1,955	$2,300	$2,485	$2,760	$1,369	$1,610	$1,740	$1,932
1-0-3	$2,210	$2,600	$2,810	$3,120	$1,547	$1,820	$1,967	$2,184
2-0-3	$2,635	$3,100	$3,350	$3,720	$1,845	$2,170	$2,345	$2,604
0-1-3	$2,295	$2,700	$2,915	$3,240	$1,607	$1,890	$2,041	$2,268
0-2-3	$2,720	$3,200	$3,455	$3,840	$1,904	$2,240	$2,419	$2,688
4-0-0	$7,840	$9,225	$9,965	$11,070	$5,488	$6,458	$6,976	$7,749
4-1-0	$8,180	$9,625	$10,395	$11,550	$5,726	$6,738	$7,277	$8,085
4-2-0	$8,605	$10,125	$10,935	$12,150	$6,024	$7,088	$7,655	$8,505
4-0-1	$8,010	$9,425	$10,180	$11,310	$5,607	$6,598	$7,126	$7,917
4-0-2	$8,350	$9,825	$10,610	$11,790	$5,845	$6,878	$7,427	$8,253
0-4-0	$7,565	$8,900	$9,610	$10,680	$5,296	$6,230	$6,727	$7,476
1-4-0	$7,820	$9,200	$9,935	$11,040	$5,474	$6,440	$6,955	$7,728
2-4-0	$8,245	$9,700	$10,475	$11,640	$5,772	$6,790	$7,333	$8,148
0-4-1	$7,735	$9,100	$9,825	$10,920	$5,415	$6,370	$6,878	$7,644
0-4-2	$8,075	$9,500	$10,255	$11,400	$5,653	$6,650	$7,179	$7,980
0-0-4	$10,030	$11,800	$12,745	$14,160	$7,021	$8,260	$8,922	$9,912
1-0-4	$10,285	$12,100	$13,070	$14,520	$7,200	$8,470	$9,149	$10,164
2-0-4	$10,710	$12,600	$13,610	$15,120	$7,497	$8,820	$9,527	$10,584
0-1-4	$10,370	$12,200	$13,175	$14,640	$7,259	$8,540	$9,223	$10,248
0-2-4	$10,795	$12,700	$13,715	$15,240	$7,557	$8,890	$9,601	$10,668
5-0-0	$38,440	$45,225	$48,845	$54,270	$26,908	$31,658	$34,192	$37,989
5-1-0	$38,780	$45,625	$49,275	$54,750	$27,146	$31,938	$34,493	$38,325
5-2-0	$39,205	$46,125	$49,815	$55,350	$27,444	$32,288	$34,871	$38,745
5-0-1	$38,610	$45,425	$49,060	$54,510	$27,027	$31,798	$34,342	$38,157
5-0-2	$38,950	$45,825	$49,490	$54,990	$27,265	$32,078	$34,643	$38,493
0-5-0	$39,865	$46,900	$50,650	$56,280	$27,906	$32,830	$35,455	$39,396
1-5-0	$40,120	$47,200	$50,975	$56,640	$28,084	$33,040	$35,683	$39,648
2-5-0	$40,545	$47,700	$51,515	$57,240	$28,382	$33,390	$36,061	$40,068
0-5-1	$40,035	$47,100	$50,865	$56,520	$28,025	$32,970	$35,606	$39,564
0-5-2	$40,375	$47,500	$51,295	$57,000	$28,263	$33,250	$35,907	$39,900
0-0-5	$44,030	$51,800	$55,945	$62,160	$30,821	$36,260	$39,162	$43,512
1-0-5	$44,285	$52,100	$56,270	$62,520	$31,000	$36,470	$39,389	$43,764
2-0-5	$44,710	$52,600	$56,810	$63,120	$31,297	$36,820	$39,767	$44,184
0-1-5	$44,370	$52,200	$56,375	$62,640	$31,059	$36,540	$39,463	$43,848
0-2-5	$44,795	$52,700	$56,915	$63,240	$31,357	$36,890	$39,841	$44,268

Strategy

For more in-depth strategies, see Strategy:Mortar Monkey (BTD6).

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Mortars are flexible at dealing grouped damage on a focused area anywhere on screen, but require micromanagement to fully take advantage of. Regularly adjust the position of the reticle ahead of Bloons, preferably around bends. Being able to be purchased at the start of standard CHIMPS allows it to be an early-game carry on maps with tight bends, such as Dark Path and Glacial Trail. Most of its power comes from its Tier 3 and above upgrades, as its lower-tiers are only okay. Striker Jones is its favored Hero for Mortar-centric defense, as he provides them with increased attack speed, black-popping, and other benefits that assist them.

Path 1 is focused on grouped damage and support via stuns. All of the higher-tiers on this path deal much more damage with Burny Stuff, so should be bought as crosspaths if the map has sufficient length or has wide bends, otherwise middle crosspath is better. They all have Black Bloon weaknesses, making Striker's black-popping buff vital.

Path 2 focuses on speed and synergies, and its higher-tiers lack Black Bloon weaknesses and excel against MOAB-class Bloons. Heavy Shells and above favor stun synergies to maximize damage. Artillery Battery is a powerful mid-game carry, and Pop and Awe has outstanding DPS and grouped damage against all Bloons below BAD.

Path 3 is mostly support-oriented, and its burning damage-over-time from Burny Stuff and above allow the Mortar to spread damage over multiple Bloons. Signal Flare is a reliable long-range decamo, and the blimp defortification from Shattering Shells assists against heavy Fortified rounds. Blooncineration does immense DoT damage and receives external buffs well, making it suitable as a late-game carry on CHIMPS.

Update history

For a complete list of Mortar Monkey changes, see Update history:Mortar Monkey (BTD6).

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Version 14.0

• "Mortars should no longer display line of sight as they can ignore all blockers"

Version 15.0

• "The mortar’s projectiles should no longer visually drop back down the barrel"

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

”

•  Mortar base rate of fire increased ― 2.2s → 2s
•  Random spread radius increased ― 18 → 30
  • Note: Random spread with X-X-1 Increased Accuracy is unchanged (8)

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.
— Update notes

”

•  Base accuracy increased ― 30 → 18

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.
— Update notes

”

•  Explosion: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
•  Explosion: Pierce reduced ― 40 → 25
  • Note: Bigger Blast and its subsequent upgrades unchanged

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.
— Update notes

”

•  Cost reduced ― $750 → $600

Cosmetic items

Item	Category	Unlock method(s)	Introduced
Mortar Monkey Snow Projectile	Monkeys — Projectiles	Trophy Store —  50	Version 29.0
Mortar Monkey Safety Mole Pet	Monkeys — Pets	Trophy Store —  120	Version 44.0

Gallery

For more Mortar Monkey images, see Gallery:Mortar Monkey.

Screenshots

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  000 Mortar Monkey placed in game
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  Mortar Monkey Safety Mole Pet cosmetic
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  000 Mortar Monkey explosion
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  000 Mortar Monkey explosion with Snow Projectile cosmetic enabled

Assets

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  Portrait
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  Insta Monkey icon

In other languages

This section was last updated for: version 49.2

Name

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	قرد مدفع هاون	—
Danish	Mortér-abe	—
German	Mörseraffe	—
Spanish	Mono mortero	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Mono mortero	—
Finnish	Mörssäriapina	—
French	Singe à mortier	—
Italian	Scimmia mortaio	—
Japanese	迫撃砲モンキー	—
Korean	박격포 원숭이	—
Dutch	Mortieraap	—
Norwegian	Morter-ape	—
Polish	Małpka z moździerzem	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Macaco Morteiro	—
Russian	Обезьяна с мортирой	—
Swedish	Granatkastarapa	—
Thai	ลิงปืนครก	—
Turkish	Havancı Maymun	—
Chinese (simplified)	迫击炮猴	—
Chinese (traditional)	迫擊砲猴	—

Description

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	يقوم بإطلاق قذيفة هاون متفجرة على موقع ثابت في أي مكان على الشاشة.	—
Danish	Affyrer en eksploderende mortérgranat mod et fast mål, hvor som helst på skærmen.	—
German	Verschießt eine Mörsergranate auf einen festgelegten Ort irgendwo auf dem Bildschirm.	—
Spanish	Lanza un proyectil de mortero explosivo a una ubicación determinada en cualquier parte de la pantalla.	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Lanza un proyectil de mortero explosivo a una ubicación determinada en cualquier parte de la pantalla.	—
Finnish	Ampuu räjähtävän kranaatin kiinteään kohtaan minne tahansa näytöllä.	—
French	Lance un obus de mortier explosif sur un lieu précis de l'écran.	—
Italian	È in grado di lanciare colpi di mortaio esplosivi verso un punto fisso casuale sullo schermo.	—
Japanese	画面上の任意の定位置めがけて、爆破する迫撃炸裂弾を発射する。	—
Korean	화면 내 어디든 고정된 지점에 폭발성 박격포탄을 발사합니다.	—
Dutch	Lanceert een exploderende mortierprojectiel naar een vaste plaats op het scherm.	—
Norwegian	Sender et eksploderende morterskjell til et satt sted hvor som helst på skjermen.	—
Polish	Strzela wybuchającymi pociskami moździerzowymi w wybraną lokalizację na ekranie.	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Lança uma cápsula explosiva de morteiro contra um ponto fixo em qualquer lugar da tela.	—
Russian	Запускает снаряд мортиры в любое указанное место на экране.	—
Swedish	Avfyrar en exploderande granat mot en bestämd plats var som helst på skärmen.	—
Thai	ยิงกระสุนปืนครกระเบิดไปยังตำแหน่งตายตัวที่กำหนดไว้บนหน้าจอ	—
Turkish	Ekranda herhangi bir sabit konuma patlayan havan mermileri fırlatır.	—
Chinese (simplified)	向屏幕上的任意固定位置发射高爆迫击炮弹。	—
Chinese (traditional)	向螢幕上任意固定位置發射爆炸迫擊砲彈。	—