Marketplace

"Generates money each round and adds it to your total. No fuss."

- BTD6 Description

 is the third upgrade of Path 3 for the Banana Farm in BTD6. It allows all of the farm's bananas to be automatically collected during the round rather than releasing banana bunches. It generates 16 groups of bananas worth $20, giving it a net income each round of $320. Marketplaces also sell for +10% more than normal due to inheriting the Banana Salvage upgrade.

It costs $2,465 on Easy, $2,900 on Medium, $3,130 on Hard, and $3,480 on Impoppable.

Appearance
The banana farm is replaced with a stereotypical market stall that has a red top. It has a cyan banana crate on its right hand side and 2 brown crate stack on top of each other on its left hand side. Next to the stall is a banana tree.It has a wooden floor/foundation.

With path 1 crosspath, the wooden floor/foundation is replaced with stone floor/foundation then golden floor/foundation.

With path 2 crosspath, the banana on the tree and the stall turns green and gains a wooden log/fence surrounding it. Then, with the Valuable Banana upgrade, the wooden log/fence are replaced with golden logs/fences surrounding it.

Summary
Marketplace strives for one overall goal in the lineage of Monkey Farm upgrades: string-free, hands-free income. Ultimately, this allows the player to manage towers, focus on the Bloons and timing of certain abilities, and thus makes this the easiest Banana Farm to place repeatedly throughout the map. If your strategy already requires heavy attention or micro-management, it may be best to consider purchasing Marketplaces to relieve you of the hassle.

Marketplaces can also generate additional lives outside Impoppable and CHIMPS mode with the "Healthy Bananas" Monkey Knowledge. With that MK Point active, Marketplaces become one of the cheapest options for life generation outside of naturally leveling up Benjamin.

Tips

 * Marketplace exceeds the return value of Banana Plantation by a lot. While both towers generate $320 per round, a 3-0-0 Banana Plantation costs $5,350 on Medium whereas a 0-0-3 Marketplace costs $4,600. Likewise, a 3-2-0 Banana Plantation costs $6,450 on Medium whereas a 2-0-3 or 0-2-3 Marketplace costs $5,700.
 * As of version 18.0, there is no favorable crosspath for the tower without Monkey Knowledge. Both crosspaths will result in $400 generated per round at the same cost ($1,100 on Medium). If Monkey Knowledge is enabled, then crosspathing with the mid-path upgrades is recommended, as the marketplace will generate an additional $16 per round.
 * Prior to this update, it was always recommended to crosspath with the top path, as there was no overall benefit from crosspathing with the mid-path.
 * Compared to Monkey Bank, Marketplace is far more profitable in the short-term.
 * Marketplaces gain the extra +10% sellback from their previous Banana Salvage upgrade, returning more money when sold.

Trivia

 * Marketplace, along with subsequent upgrades Central Market and Monkey Wall Street, take clear inspiration from the original versions of Banana Farms from Bloons TD 4.
 * Since the 18.0 buff Marketplace in terms of income became very similar to Banana Plantation.