Banana Farm (BTD5)

TBA

"Banana Farms grow bananas that you can collect to turn into cash. When your farm produces some bananas, collect them by moving your mouse over them. Don't leave them too long however, or they will spoil!"

- Bloons TD 5 Description

The Banana Farm is a tower in the Bloons TD series and it makes a return to Bloons TD 5. This time, instead of giving cash at the end of each round, it gives instead bananas to pickup during the round, wich give the money.

It costs $850 on Easy, $1000 on Medium, $1080 on Hard, and $1200 on Impoppable. In BTDB Mobile, it costs $1200.

Appearance
The base Banana Farm has a brown square of dirt at the bottom with a few brown spots, with a wooden box-like fence some way in. The tree has light-green leaves with a few bananas hidden underneath, just poking out. The picture has two bananas lying on the floor. The stem is beige, and split by thin black lines.

Upgrades
The tower was completely reworked in BTD5; now it drops banana pickups 4 times a round (2 times of $40 in BTD5 Mobile or $60 in BTDB Mobile) ($80 max, or $120 with 4 pickups once you obtain Valuable Bananas), collect them with your mouse before they disappear. They last 10 seconds (20 with Long Life Bananas) (15/25 in Mobile) and each banana pickup is worth $20 except for the Banana Research Facility which produces $200 (or $30 and $300 respectively with Valuable Bananas), ($600/$900). The only way to make Banana Farms capable of increasing the amount of money each round would be to upgrade one Banana Farm to x/3+, where you could easily withdraw the cash at any time.

Path 1

 * 1) More Bananas:
 * 2) *Generates 6 bananas per round. (3 in Mobile)
 * 3) * $120 per round without Valuable Bananas ($180 in BTDB Mobile)
 * 4) *$180 per round with Valuable Bananas. ($270 in BTDB Mobile)
 * 5) Banana Plantation:
 * 6) *Generates 13 bananas per round (7 in Mobile)
 * 7) * $260 per round without Valuable Bananas ($280 in BTD5 Mobile and BMC Mobile, $420 in BTDB Mobile)
 * 8) *$390 per round with Valuable Bananas. ($420 in BTD5 Mobile and BMC Mobile, $630 in BTDB Mobile)
 * 9) Banana Republic:
 * 10) *Generates 25 bananas per round (13 in BTD5 Mobile and BMC Mobile, 15 in BTDB Mobile)
 * 11) * $500 per round without Valuable Bananas ($520 in BTD5 Mobile and BMC Mobile, $900 in BTDB Mobile)
 * 12) *$750 per round with Valuable Bananas. ($780 in BTD5 Mobile and BMC Mobile, $1350 in BTDB Mobile)
 * 13) *Keep in mind, however, that buying this upgrade will prevent the purchase of Monkey Bank or Banana Investments Advisory for this tower.
 * 14) Banana Research Facility:
 * 15) *Generates 10 boxes of bananas every round. Each box is worth $200. Total $2000. (5 boxes of $400 each in BTD5 Mobile, 6 boxes of $600 each in BTDB Mobile)
 * 16) *$2000 per round without Valuable Bananas ($3600 in BTDB Mobile)
 * 17) *$3000 per round with Valuable Bananas ($5400 in BTDB Mobile)
 * 18) *This upgrade is unlocked at Rank 36 (or 70 and 500 in BTDB Mobile).

Due to the greater returns provided by the higher upgrades, it is wise to upgrade a Banana Farm as early into each game as possible.

Path 2

 * 1) Long Life Bananas:
 * 2) *Bananas will last 20 seconds before disappearing. (25 instead of 15 in Mobile versions)
 * 3) Valuable Bananas:
 * 4) *Increases the value of each banana/box of bananas by 50%. It is advisable to purchase this upgrade only if the player intends to pursue Path 2 or has already maxed out the Path 1 upgrade. This is so because it gives an additional $1000 income by using only $4500.
 * 5) Monkey Bank:
 * 6) * The Monkey Bank will no longer drop bananas, but instead generates money throughout the round, which is placed in your "bank account," separate from that of other Monkey Banks. Creates $450 per round plus 10% interest. You may withdraw this fund at any time, and the bank will hold up to $5000. This will also lock the purchase of Banana Republic or Banana Research Facility for this tower, however. Purchasing More Bananas/Banana Plantation will make the bank generate slightly more money (+ $40/$180 per round[+$40*/$200* in Mobile]).
 * 7) *In BTDB Mobile, increases eco by +$30 per round per Bank.
 * 8) Banana Investments Advisory:
 * 9) *Increases money generated to $1000 per round, increases interest to 20%, and increases the maximum held at a time to $20000. Purchasing More Bananas/Banana Plantation will make the bank generate slightly more money (+ $40/$180 per round[+$40*/$200* in Mobile]). This upgrade is unlocked at rank 36.
 * 10) *In BTDB Mobile, increases eco by +$80 per round per BIA.

Warning! The current game version on 23 February 2016 lacks the following: when you sell Banana Farms with Monkey Bank or Banana Investments Advisory, only values of the towers themselves are sold, while the money inside them is not withdrawn and simply disappears with the towers.

The following table shows how much money the Monkey Bank and the Banana Investments Advisory generate before the maximum is reached:


 * Note: the "Revenue" calculation assumes you wait the optimal number of rounds before withdrawing from the bank.
 * Note: Essentially, it's better to buy as many "Banana Plantations" as you can, only stopping to buy the "Banana Republic" upgrade when you run out of space. Only get "Valuable Bananas" after buying the "Banana Research Facility".

Bloons Monkey City
The Banana Farm has two forms in Monkey City. Initially, it is only available as a city building. It occupies a 2x2 space and provides City Cash over time, requiring one hour to fill to its capacity in Levels 1 and 2, or more if Level 3 or greater. In order to use banana farms in-game, the player must first build the Micro Agriculture Development Building (or rather the Banana Farm Lab on Mobile), available at level 15. Then, the number of farms is dependent on the amount of city farms that one has (upgrading them to level 2 will have no effect on the in-game farms). In Monkey City, the Banana Farm and each of its upgrades provide a 50% greater amount in rewards compared to past versions of Bloons TD. This means each banana provides $30, each box of bananas $300, the Monkey Bank 675 + 10% each round, and have a capacity of $7500 instead of $5000, and the Banana Investments Advisory $1500 + 20% each round, with a capacity of $30,000 instead of $20,000. The upgrade Valuable Bananas will increase the reward to $45 and $450 for bananas and boxes, respectively. On mobile, they act like their normal BTD5 counterparts.

As with most towers in Monkey City, the cost of building on non-hardcore difficulty is the same as medium difficulty in BTD5.

Differences Between BTD5 Flash and BTD5 Mobile
In Bloons TD 5 Mobile, the upgrades are the exact same as in the online version of Bloons TD 5, but each upgrade gives half the bananas they normally give with double income for each banana (or crate from Banana Research Facility). So More Bananas will only give you 3 bananas, but each banana is worth $40 rather than $20. The reason is probably that it is harder to tap bananas to collect them as opposed to simply dragging your mouse over them on the online version. This is worth it because for the Banana Plantation & Republic the number of bananas produced is rounded up.


 * Bananas now physically have to be tapped instead being drawn towards wherever is last tapped.
 * Bananas last longer (without Long Life Bananas: 10 seconds → 15; with Long Life Bananas: 20 seconds → 25).
 * Banana Farms are affected by Double Cash.
 * Banana Plantation gives more cash per round ($260 → $280).
 * Banana Republic gives more cash per round ($500 → $520).

Update History (Bloons TD Battles Mobile)
The Banana Farm has received a mix of buffs and nerfs via game updates, but has been buffed overall. It's arguably the most popular tower in the game, with a lot of tower loadouts using it. Popular loadouts include Dart Farm Ace/Bomb, Ninja Farm Wizard/Mortar/Bomb, Heli Farm Ace/Ice, and Dartling Farm Village.

Quotes
"Banana Farms grow bananas that you can collect to turn into cash. When your farm produces some bananas, collect them by moving your mouse over them. Don't leave them too long however, or they will spoil!"

- Bloons TD 5 Description

Trivia
[insert all that blimmin' Farm BTD5 trivias... a lot of the ones on the current Farm page aren't even real trivias; either just actually good info or just plain nonsense]


 * In a rare glitch, one can select the blank space and it will display "Target: None."
 * Players can do this glitch in BTD5 mobile by tapping one tower and pressing the info button and then when players switch to the Banana Farm it will say "Target: None." This can only be done on the iPhone and Android versions, however.
 * The Banana Farm is the only tower without an ability.
 * Due to Monkey Village's High Energy Beacon, this is the only tower that doesn't attack.
 * This also makes it the only tower (other than the COBRA, exclusive to BTD Battles Mobile) to not have an upgrade that allows it to pop Lead Bloons.
 * The Banana Farm is better in BTD5 than BTD4. This is because of the following reasons:
 * The upgrade Banana Plantation generates $250 cash every round in BTD4. In BTD5 the Banana Plantation generates $260 cash ($280 in iOS) per round.
 * With Valuable Bananas you can grow up the reward to 150%.
 * With Banana Investments Advisory, you can get to 20000 cash waiting 8-9 rounds (and 7 rounds to earn its cost), and buying 5 you can get 100000, enough to earn a Temple of the Monkey God. A Banana Research Facility will give you that money in 7 or 10 rounds (and 9 or 11 rounds to earn its cost).