Monkey Village (BTD6)

"Hub of Monkey industry, has a number of different benefits to aid all of your Monkeys. Increases range of all Monkeys in its radius by 10%."

- In-game Description

The Monkey Village is a Support-class tower that was released in the initial release of Bloons TD 6. The tower retains its role from the Bloons TD 5 generation as well as the Bloons TD 3 and 4 generations, where it was previously named the Monkey Beacon. It did not receive any teasers prior to release, but it was first shown when the game was available to select YouTubers several days before BTD6's official release date.

The base Monkey Village increases the range of all monkeys within its own range by 10%. However, the Monkey Village is usually purchased for its upgrades which provide a wider range of support, including discounts, buffs, and free towers. Like its BTD5 predecessor, the Monkey Village in BTD6 can not attack Bloons, except with the Primary Expertise upgrade.

It costs $1,020 on Easy, $1,200 on Medium, $1,295 on Hard, and $1,440 on Impoppable.

Description
Unlike its predecessor the Monkey Village increases range of nearby monkeys by 10% instead of discounting their costs.

The Monkey Village returns in BTD6, and it functions similarly to the Monkey Beacon back in BTD3 and BTD4. Its discount function now becomes upgrades on the third path and includes new upgrades such as Grow Blocker, which allows the Village to prevent Regrowth Bloons from regenerating when in range.

The paths are now split into new paths.

Path 1 focuses mostly on expanding bonus support for other towers, particularly towards support for Primary towers, starting with Primary Training.

Path 2 retains focus on adding defensive countermeasures, with completely new upgrades such as Grow Blocker and Homeland Defense.

Path 3 specializes in money-saving, with new discount upgrades being added to compensate for the change of the Monkey Village mechanics, as well as completely new upgrades that save money in the long-term.

The Monkey Village is a Support class tower.

Target Priorities
The Monkey Village doesn't have a set target priority, as it is buff-oriented, but it can be considered to have Close targeting due to its buffing passive "attack" act in a similar way to area-of-effect attacks. Grow Blocker is also locked on Close.

However, Primary Expertise's ballista attack will have target priorities like ordinary towers.

Monkey Knowledge
This section displays Monkey Knowledge that has effects on Monkey Village and its changes when compared to one by default:
 * FlatPackBuildingsIcon.png Flat Pack Buildings: Monkey Village costs 2% less and sells for 2% more.
 * Base cost reduced from $1,020, $1,200, $1,295, $1,440 to $1,000, $1,175, $1,270, $1,410 on each difficulty.
 * InsiderTradesIcon.png Insider Trades: Monkey Business discount increases by 2%.
 * Increases discount via the Monkey Business bonus from 10% to 12%.
 * MonkeyEducationIcon.png Monkey Education: All Monkeys XP earn rate increased by 8%.
 * InlandRevenueStreamsIcon.png Inland Revenue Streams: Monkey Town cash bonus increased by 10%.
 * Increases cash bonus for Bloon pops from 50% to 60%.
 * ToArmsIcon.png To Arms!: Call to Arms duration increased by 3 seconds.
 * Increases duration from 12 seconds to 15 seconds. Also applies to Homeland Defense, with a 23 seconds duration instead.
 * BetterSellDealsIcon.png Better Sell Deals: All Monkeys sell for 5% more.
 * Increases sell potency from 70% to 75%.
 * VeteranMonkeyTrainingIcon.png Veteran Monkey Training: All Monkeys reload time reduced by 3%.
 * GlobalAbilityCooldownsIcon.png Global Ability Cooldowns: All Ability cooldowns for all Monkeys reduced by 3%.

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Trivia

 * The Monkey Knowledge point Flat Pack Buildings, reducing the cost of Banana Farms and Monkey Villages by 2% and increasing their sell prices by 2% is disabled if a player leaves the game and returns at a later point, increasing the cost of each tower by $25 as a result. This was introduced as a bug in a later game, but has been fixed in Version 18.0.
 * According to Ninja Kiwi's 19th March 2021 blog, the Monkey Village was the most difficult tower to implement before the original release of BTD6, although most towers were worked at the same time.
 * In BTD6, if two Monkey Villages are placed barely out of each other's range, then temporarily upgrading the range of one tower will make them affect each other, and the effect will last even after the range buff expires.
 * According to Ninja Kiwi's August 6th 2021 blog, Villages get packed up and shipped home once they get sold.
 * The upgrades Monkey City and Monkeyopolis both show the device's time, just like the building in the main menu.