Monkey Knowledge Packs

 are items in Bloons Monkey City. They can be obtained by capturing Tiles, opening Treasure Chests, game events (such as Festival of Bloonstones) or from Contested Territory milestones and occupation. These special packages contain Cards which give XP to a Monkey Knowledge Book. If a card gives XP to a Monkey Knowledge Book to a tower that is maxed out, the rest of the cards XP will convert to coins equal to 100x times the amount of experience the card would normally give.

This is also available on mobile, being soft-released for Android on September 17, 2015 and fully released for iOS on September 21, 2015.

In December 2015, Bounty Cards were added on mobile devices, arriving on Early December 2015 and Late December 2015 to Android and iOS devices respectively.

Obtaining Monkey Knowledge Packs
To get Monkey Knowledge Packs the player's city must be at least Level 12. They can be obtained in both cities.

Tiles
There is a 33% chance of obtaining one common Monkey Knowledge Pack from completing a normal tile. Neither NLL nor Hardcore mode will affect this chance. During the Monkey Knowledge Madness event, the chance is boosted to 100%. During a Monkey Teams event that gives Knowledge Packs, you can gain another Pack in addition to the one earned by normal means or through the Monkey Knowledge madness event.

Bloon Beacon
When a player captures a Bloon Beacon tile, you will always obtain a Monkey Knowledge Pack. You can still obtain a normal Monkey Knowledge Pack from capturing tiles in addition to the forced Knowledge Pack. When certain events are active such as Monkey Teams or Monkey Knowledge Madness that give a Knowledge Pack upon completion of a tile and complying with the event's rules, you can gain an additional Knowledge Pack. A Bloon Beacon Tile only comes once every six hours but you can get one instantly if you pay 50. As of about 10th December 2015, every 6 minutes you wait for the Bloon Beacon to recharge will force you to pay one less Bloonstone if you want it to instantly recharge, up to a minimum of 1.

Treasure chests

 * Treasure chests will always give one Monkey Knowledge Pack.
 * Treasure chests have a 10% chance to give a Ancient Monkey Knowledge Pack.

Contested Territory Milestone Rewards (Varies for each week)

 * First milestone: 1 MKP
 * Second milestone: 1/0 MKP
 * Fourth milestone: 2/3 MKP
 * Sixth milestone: 3/4 MKP
 * Seventh milestone: 1/2 Ancient MKP
 * Eighth milestone: 3 Ancient MKP

Events
There are many events that can earn Monkey Knowledge Packs. These include Festival of Bloonstones, Boss Battle and many others.

Purchasing
Monkey Knowledge packs can be purchased for varying amounts of NK Coins. During MKP Sale event all prices are discounted by half, and occasionally Wild Packs can be purchased.

Packages
Packages always contains 4 Cards. * City cash rewarded after rank 15 is achieved in that book.
 * [Green] Common (10 XP, or 1000 city cash*)
 * [Red] Uncommon (30 XP, or 3000 city cash*)
 * [Purple] Rare (80 XP, or 8000 city cash*)
 * [Gold] Legendary (250 XP, or 25000 city cash*)
 * [Blue] Bounty Card (These cards give special items, see more information about them in 'Bounty Card' section down below)
 * [Black] Monkey Secret (250 XP for all books, no city cash reward even max out all tower*)

Monkey Knowledge Packs
These packs always contain one Rare card, the other three cards have a certain probability to occur:
 * 55% Common
 * 25% Uncommon
 * 9% Rare
 * 1% Legendary
 * 10% Bounty (max 1 card)

Average: 229.4 [224.17 non-mobile]

Ancient Monkey Knowledge Packs
These packs always contain one Legendary card inside, the other three cards have a certain probability to occur: Average: 592.8 [582.7 non-mobile]
 * 0% Common
 * 60% Uncommon
 * 30% Rare
 * 10% Legendary
 * 20% Bounty (max 1 card)

Note that Ancient Packs are effectively normal Monkey Knowledge Packs but with all cards boosted up one rank.

Wild Card Monkey Knowledge Packs
These packs contain one Rare wild-card, the other three wild-cards have a certain probability in which they occur: Average: 263.0
 * 57% Common
 * 30% Uncommon
 * 11% Rare
 * 2% Legendary
 * 10% Bounty (max 1 card)

Instead all 10 Bounty Cards possibilities, there can be only the 2 Wild Card Pack (90%) or the Monkey Secret (10%) option.

Bounty Cards
Bounty Cards were added in v150831, which was released on September 3rd 2015. There are 10 different rewards possible, all with the same chance appearing:
 * 1 Ancient Pack
 * 2 Wild Card Pack
 * 4 Monkey Knowledge Packs
 * 1 of each Boss Ability
 * 5 Crates
 * 5 Monkey Boosts
 * 10 Hot Spikes
 * 20000 City Cash
 * 30 (Minimum City Level 15)
 * 1 Monkey Secret - Gives 250 points all books (Minimum City Level 15)

Average XP Points in one Bounty Card (after City Level 15):
 * Normal/Ancient: 775.883 [725.41 non-mobile]
 * Wildcard: 998.488

In the mobile version, Bounty Cards arrived at Version 1.8.1 updates, at Early December 2015 for Android and Late December 2015 for iOS. Bounty Cards may give the following:

Bounty card 1) ???; Gives you random XP (Cost: 250) to random towers.

Bounty card 2) Ancient Knowledge packs; Gives you 3x Knowledge Packs.

Rank
Monkey Knowledge has 15 Levels which require a certain amount of points: 30,000 XP points are required to obtain all the upgrades for each book. 630,000 XP is required to obtain all the upgrades.

Dart Monkey

 * 1) Base cost and all upgrade costs (3%, 6%, 9%) cheaper
 * (5%, 10%, 15%) increased attack speed
 * (1, 2, 3) free dart monkey(s) each game
 * 1) (10%, 20%, 30%) increased pierce
 * (5%, 10%, 15%) increased range

Tack Shooter

 * (5%, 10%, 15%) increased attack speed
 * 1) Blade Shooter upgrade costs (100, 150, 200) less than normal
 * 2) Every 2nd tack has (+1, +2, +3) pierce
 * 3) Every tack has (+1, +2, +3) pierce
 * 4) Base price (15%, 30%, 45%) cheaper

Boomerang Thrower

 * 1) Base cost and all upgrade costs (3%, 6%, 9%) cheaper
 * (5%, 10%, 15%) increased attack speed
 * 1) (10%, 20%, 30%) increased projectile speed
 * 2) (10%, 20%, 30%) larger boomerang hit area
 * 3) (10%, 20%, 30%) increased damage to MOAB class

Sniper Monkey

 * 1) Base cost and all upgrade costs (3%, 6%, 9%) cheaper
 * (5%, 10%, 15%) increased attack speed
 * 1) Every 2nd shot pops (+1, +2, +3) layer(s)
 * 2) Every shot pops (+1, +2, +3) layer(s)
 * 3) Full metal jacket upgrade costs (80, 120, 140) less

Bomb Shooter

 * 1) Bigger bombs upgrade cost (100, 150, 200) less than normal
 * 2) (10%, 20%, 30%) increased projectile speed
 * 3) Footprint reduced by (5%, 10%, 15%)
 * 4) Frag and Cluster bombs have (+1, +2, +3) pierce
 * 5) Every (3rd, 2nd, all) shot pops Black and Zebra bloons

Ninja Monkey

 * (2%, 4%, 6%) increased range
 * 1) (25%, 50%, 75%) increased projectile lifespan
 * 2) Pierce increased by (1, 2, 3)
 * 3) Flash bomb cost reduced by (15%, 20%, 25%) (different on mobile)
 * 4) Bloonjitsu throws (6, 6 and 7 every 2nd throw, 7) shurikens instead of 5

Ice Monkey

 * 1) Base cost are (8%, 16%, 24%) cheaper
 * 2) Pierce increased by (1, 5, 6)
 * 3) Permafrost slows (5%, 10%, 15%) more than normal
 * 4) Arctic wind radius (+3%, +6%, +9%)
 * 5) Pierce increased by 4/+1 damage from Snap Freeze to Ceramic Bloons/Snap Freeze can pop White and Zebra bloons

Mortar Monkey

 * 1) Base cost and all upgrade costs (2%, 4%, 6%) cheaper
 * 2) Attack speed increased by (5%, 10%, 15%)
 * 3) Signal flare removes regrow off up to (3, 4, 5) bloons
 * 4) Burny stuff burns (+1, +3, +5) second(s)
 * 5) The Big One damage (+1, +2, +3)

Monkey Apprentice

 * 1) Base attack cooldown reduced by (5%,10%, 15%)
 * 2) Cooldown on fireball reduced by (5%, 10%, 15%)
 * 3) Whirlwind pierce increased by (2, 4, 6)
 * 4) (50%, 60%, 70%) chance that Regrow Bloons hit by a lightning are stripped of their regrow property
 * 5) Phoenix lasts (3, 6, 9) seconds longer

Dartling Gun

 * 1) Spread decreased by (5%, 10%, 15%)
 * 2) Pierce increased by (1, 2, 3)
 * 3) Base cost and all upgrade costs (3%, 6%, 9%) cheaper
 * 4) Attack speed increased by (5%, 10%, 15%)
 * 5) Depleted Bloontonium Darts cost (200, 300, 400) less

Super Monkey

 * 1) Base attack range increased by (5%, 10%, 15%)
 * 2) Laser blasts cost reduced by (300, 400, 500)
 * 3) Sun God cost reduced by (500, 750, 1000)
 * 4) Cool down on Annihilation ability reduced by (1, 2, 3) second(s)
 * 5) Temple sacrifice uses (+10%, +20%, +30%) more worth of each contributing monkey

Spike Factory

 * (+1, +2, +3) spike(s) per pile
 * 1) Base cost and all upgrade costs (3%, 6%, 9%) cheaper
 * 2) MOAB-SHREDR spikes deal (20%, 40%, 60%) more damage to MOAB class
 * 3) Spiked Balls deal (+3, +4, +5) damage to ceramic bloons
 * 4) Spike Storm cooldown decreased by (5, 7, 8) seconds

Monkey Ace

 * 1) Base cost (10%, 20%, 30%) cheaper
 * 2) Pierce increased by (1, 2, 3)
 * 3) Attack speed increased by (5%, 10%, 15%)
 * 4) Pineapples are dropped every (2.5, 2, explode immediately) seconds
 * 5) Spectre cost reduced by (2000, 3000, 3500)

Monkey Village

 * 1) Discount provided by Monkey Village increased by (1%, 2%, 3%)
 * 2) Influence radius increased by (4%, 8%, 12%)
 * 3) Jungle Drums increase attack speed (+1%, +2%, +3%)
 * 4) Monkey Town gives (10%, 20%, 30%) more cash from pops
 * 5) Call to Arms duration increased by (1, 2, 3) second(s)

Glue Gunner

 * 1) Base cost and all upgrade costs (3%, 6%, 9%) cheaper
 * 2) Glue Soak cost reduced by (30, 60, 90)
 * 3) Corrosive Glue cost reduced by (50, 100, 150)
 * 4) Glue Splatter hits (+1, +2, +3) bloon(s)
 * 5) Glue slows (3%, 6%, 9%) more

Banana Farm

 * 1) Base cost and all upgrade costs (2%, 4%, 6%) cheaper
 * 2) Cash from each Banana increased by (1, 2, 3)
 * 3) Banana Plantation grows (1, 2, 3) extra banana(s)
 * 4) Interest from banks increased by (1%, 2%, 3%)
 * 5) Player cash balance at end of round increased by (2%, 4%, 6%) interest when player has a Monkey Bank

Monkey Buccaneer

 * 1) Base cost and all upgrade costs (2%, 4%, 6%) cheaper
 * (+1, +2, +3) grape from Grape Shot attack
 * (5%, 10%, 15%) increased attack speed
 * 1) Monkey Pirates cost reduced by (500, 1000, 1500)
 * 2) Longer Cannons grant (5%, 10%, 15%) more range

Monkey Engineer

 * 1) Base cost and all upgrade costs (2%, 4%, 6%) cheaper
 * 2) Sentry range increased by (5%, 10%, 15%)
 * 3) Sentries can see Camo Bloons (Sentries increase pierce by 1/Every 3rd shot from sentries can pop Lead Bloons)
 * 4) Foam cooldown reduced by (0.5, 0.75, 1) second(s)
 * 5) Overclock and Bloon Trap cost reduced by (10%, 20%, 30%)

Bloon Sabotage

 * 1) MOAB class bloons have (2%, 17%, 27%) less health
 * 2) MOAB class bloons move (5%, 13%, 18%) slower
 * 3) MOAB class bloons have (5%, 20%, 30%) less health
 * 4) MOAB class bloons move (10%, 16%, 20%) slower
 * 5) MOAB class bloons have (15%, 25%, 35%) less health

Monkey Tycoon

 * 1) All base monkeys cost (2%, 4%, 6%) less
 * 2) All upgrades cost (1%, 2%, 3%) less
 * 3) Selling monkeys return (85%, 88%, 90%) of value
 * 4) Increases Monkey Village discount by (1%, 2%, 3%)
 * 5) All Bananas give (5%, 8%, 10%) extra cash

Activated Ability

 * 1) All activated ability cooldowns are reduced by (2%, 7%, 13%)
 * 2) All cooldowns reduced by (5%, 10%, 16%)
 * 3) Activating an ability has a 15% chance to grant bonus (5 lives, 100 cash, stun non-blimp bloons temporarily for 0.5 sec)
 * 4) Activating an ability grants +1 pierce to all Monkeys for (10, 15, 20) seconds
 * 5) Activating an ability grants (+5%, +8%, +10%) attack speed to all Monkeys for 10 sec

Monkey Sub

 * 1) Projectile speed increased by (15%, 30%, 45%)
 * 2) Range increased by (3%, 6%, 9%)
 * 3) Every (3rd, 2nd, all) shots from Airburst Darts have 4 projectiles
 * 4) Submerge mode has (10%, 20%, 30%) increased range and has (15%, 30%, 45%) increased pulse rate
 * 5) First Strike Capability cooldown reduced by (7, 14, 21) seconds

Bloonchipper

 * 1) Base cost and all upgrade costs (3%, 6%, 9%) cheaper
 * 2) Projectile speed* increased by (10%, 20%, 30%)
 * 3) Range increased by (5%, 10%, 15%)
 * 4) Triple Barrels cost (500, 1000, 1500) less
 * 5) Supa-vac duration increased by (1, 2, 3) seconds.
 * Projectile speed in this case is the speed at which the Bloonchipper sucks in the bloons.

Heli-Pilot

 * 1) Base cost (10%, 20%, 30%) cheaper
 * 2) Projectile speed increased by (10%, 20%, 30%)
 * 3) Razor Rotors pops bloons (25%, 50%, 75%) faster
 * 4) Downdraft blows (25%, 50%, 75%) more bloons
 * 5) Support Chinook ability gives (25%, 50%, 75%) more cash and lives per drop

Wildcard
A Wildcard has the same chance to occur as all other upgrades. It can be used to give XP to the Monkey Knowledge Book of your choosing. They have the same chance to appear as any other card, and are always granted in Wild Card Packs.

Upgrades that may prevent certain strategies

 * Boomerang: Increased projectile hit area/speed can prevent certain tactics from working.
 * Sniper: Increased layer damage can hinder Supply Drop Farming. This may reduce the amount of time of the round and hinder the number of chances to use the Supply Drop Ability.
 * Apprentices/Mortar Towers: Regrow removal can harm Supply Drop Farming (although you could aim the mortar away from track, and the Apprentice seems to still regrow farm).
 * Super Monkey: Increased base tower range can harm the players ability to place multiple temples close to each other (but you can only place up to six temples anyway).
 * Ice Monkey: Zebra/white popping could harm Supply Drop Farming if used as a regrow loop booster (especially as an Arctic Wind, although you could use Glue Hose).
 * Most towers & Monkey Tycoon: Discounts on base cost & upgrades may make more towers necessary for temple sacrifices. However, discounts may make players be able to buy towers and upgrades sooner. Fortunately, there is also the "Temple sacrifice uses (+10%, +20%, +30%) more worth of each contributing monkey" ranks, which may help counter the discount issue.
 * Monkey Buccaneer: the +1 grape from Grape Shot attack apparently causes a much higher miss rate for a single x/1+ Monkey Buccaneer on curved paths when attacking loosely packed bloons, especially if having to work solo when it is not a Destroyer. It works better with the extra grape on straight lines, though (Grape follows the dart, so two layers at a time). The main reason for the disadvantage is because the outer grapes go more angled when the +1 grape is unlocked.
 * Bloon Sabotage's reduction in MOAB-class bloon health may make Bloonarius spawn bloons sooner and not bring enough cash for the player to counter its spawned bloons. This may also hinder Monkey Pirate's strength of pulling down the MOAB or BFB children of Bloonarius. However, it does not too much matter too much as by the time the Bloon Sabotage goes up to Rank 5 (15% less MOAB-class health) from Rank 0, the player may have gone up at least fifteen levels up by then.

Trivia

 * It's possible to earn six Monkey Knowledge Packs on a single tile. To do this you have to have a Bloon Beacon spawn on a Treasure Chest (which have a chance of giving both a regular and ancient pack together), have a Monkey Teams event that gives Knowledge Packs, and get lucky and have a normally obtained Knowledge Pack be obtained as well. You can get a sixth one with Mini-Land-Grab.
 * The monkey's appearance on rare and legendary Activated Ability Monkey Knowledge cards is a reference to the Kaio-ken ability and Super Saiyans from the Dragon Ball manga and anime series.
 * The flames given out in the Common and Uncommon Activated Ability Cards are a reference to the fighting technique Kaio-ken, as seen in Dragon Ball manga and anime series.
 * Regrow removal from mortar works only for bloons it can pop (so no zebra/black regrow removal).
 * All Common cards associated with towers have images of the unupgraded towers.
 * All Uncommon cards associated with towers have images of either one of their first- or second-tier upgrades.
 * All Rare cards associated with towers have images of either one of their third-tier upgrades. (The only exceptions are the Tack Shooter, which gives a picture of the Even Faster Shooting upgrade, the Banana Farm, which gives the Banana Plantation artwork, and the Monkey Ace, which gives the Spy Plane artwork)
 * All Legendary cards associated with towers have images of either one of their fourth-tier upgrades. They may usually follow the same path as the tower's Rare Card, but there may be a few exceptions. One example is the Bomb Shooter's Legendary Card depicting a MOAB Assassin even though the Rare Card depicts the Cluster Bombs upgrade.
 * All Bounty Cards except the Monkey Secret turn blue with a black "Knowledge Card Face", including some diamond sort of shapes around, which also has some "bling bling bling" sounds. Such sounds are also heard when collecting the card.
 * The Monkey Secret Card turns black (not blue) and becomes animated in the way the Rare cards do, except the color scheme being black instead. It bulges much more.
 * Once collected, it will twist and turn around anti-clockwise faster and faster and showing a series of legendary card face covers in random order, also showing "+250" including or not including "Rank Up" (if a book ranks up). Black electricity also pulses from wild directions and at wild times, as well as sometimes the card turning blue, covering the tower faces. Once the last tower is done, the card disintegrates and its blue sparkles gets added to a special Monkey Secret Book (as the secret applies to all towers).
 * The BMC Mobile Monkey Knowledge Cards are always the same across every card.
 * All cards associated with towers are at the unupgraded stage.
 * The Wild Card is always the purple jester.
 * The Bloon Sabotage Card is always the doodled Red Bloon.
 * The Monkey Tycoon Card is always the Monopoly Monkey displaying flying dollar bills.
 * The Activated Ability Card is always the red-banded Kaio-ken monkey powering up a small red flame.
 * In BMC Mobile, if a player receives a Wild Card, the player may hold it until they decide to go to the Monkey Knowledge Books to drag a tower of that player's choice.
 * To open the packs quickly, go and open a box then press close, it adds xp to towers and can immediately open another pack after closing. This acts saves time, especially on wild cards when you do not want to use it yet.
 * In BMC Mobile there is a way to open up packs quickly. Tap to open a pack (tapping exactly on the pack is not neccesary, it's also possible to just tap somewhere nearby) and once all 4 cards are shown the player can swipe a finger from the left card to the right and vice versa to reveal the cards and swipe back to collect them immediatly. Swiping can be done really fast and this takes no more than 5 seconds.
 * On Mobile, several Ranks do not actually have the said effect during Tile captures, CTs and Boss fights:
 * Tack Shooters on Ranks 3/8/13 have a 50% chance of shooting a +1 pierce tack.
 * Snipers on Ranks 3/8/13 have a 50% chance to pop one extra layer.
 * Bomb Shooters on Ranks 5/10/15 have a 33%/66%/100% chance of popping Black and Zebra Bloons.
 * Rank 10 Ninja Monkeys have a 50% chance of throwing 7 shurikens instead of 6.
 * Each Sentry from a Rank 13 Monkey Engineer has a 33% chance of popping Lead Bloons.
 * Airburst Darts from a Monkey Sub on Ranks 3/8/13 have a 33%/66%/100% chance of releasing four darts.
 * In BMC Flash, each animation of each card rarity goes like this:
 * In Common Cards, it is a card turning green, some green poof, then turning the card over. Chirping of birds is heard.
 * In Uncommon Cards, it is a card turning red, some flames coming out and pushing forwards a little bit, then turning the card over. Flame burning sounds is heard.
 * In Rare Cards, it is a card turning purple, some pulses of purple electricity comes out and the card pushing forwards, then turning the card over. Electric pulse sound effects followed by what sounds like a laser is heard.
 * In Legendary Cards, it is a card turning moderately yellow, some pulses of bright yellow electricity and the card pushing forwards very much, then turning the card over. A more intense version of the Rare Card sound effects is heard, except the "laser" sound is replaced by a "hoh" choir sound effect.