“ | The collect radius of Bananas is larger and uncollected bananas auto-collect for half value. Monkey Banks will glow when full and ready to collect. | ” |
~ In-game description |
EZ Collect is the first upgrade on path 3 for the Banana Farm in Bloons TD 6. It increases the collection radius of bananas and banana crates by +100%, from 40 to 80. In addition, expired bananas will autocollect for 50% value instead of disappearing for nothing.
When upgraded as a crosspath to bank-related upgrades, this upgrade instead highlights Monkey Banks when they are full, including IMF Loans and Monkey-Nomics.
This upgrade costs $210 on Easy, $250 on Medium, $270 on Hard, and $300 on Impoppable.
Description[]
Overview[]
EZ Collect, as the name implies, focuses on easy collection of money from the Farm. Bananas have a bigger collection hitbox, and uncollected bananas compensate the player with 50% of the original value of these collectables.
Visually speaking, two brown crates are placed on each side of the Banana Farm; this also includes crosspaths with EZ Collect.
Targeting Priorities[]
EZ Collect produces bananas that are tossed erratically around its range. Like most Banana Farm upgrades, EZ Collect lacks any real targeting priority.
Full Popology[]
Statistics[]
- Updated as of Version 42.2
- Base stats
- Farm:
- Produces up to 4 Banana per round, summing to $80 per round if all collected, or $68 if all autocollected. Attempts to evenly distribute Banana between the duration of a round, boundary non-inclusive.
- Banana:
- Projectile, passive type, ignores obstacles but avoids the edges of the screen, 40 range, lifespan of 15s. If picked up within 80 range, earns $20. Upon expiry, autocollect Banana for $10.
- Crosspathing interactions
- 1-0-2: Farm production of Banana per round increased from 4 to 6. Total value per round becomes $120, $60 if all autocollected.
- 2-0-2: Farm production of Banana per round increased from 6 to 8. Total value per round becomes $160, $80 if all autocollected.
- 3-0-2: Farm production of Banana per round increased from 8 to 16. Total value per round becomes $320, $160 if all autocollected.
- 4-0-2: Changed Banana to Crate, Farm production of Crate per round decreased from 16 to 5, Banana value increased from $20 to $300, with expired value increased to $150. Total value per round becomes $1500, $750 if all autocollected.
- 5-0-2: Crate value increased from $300 to $1200, with expired value increased to $600. Total value per round becomes $6000, $3000 if all autocollected.
- 0-1-2: Banana lifespan increased from 15s to 30s.
- 0-2-2: Banana value increased from $20 to $25, with expired value increased to $12. Total value per round becomes $100, $84 if all autocollected.
- 0-3+-2: Bank Balance now causes the Monkey Bank to glow if income surpasses Bank Capacity.
- Monkey Knowledge interactions
- Flat Pack Buildings: Banana Farm costs 2% less and sells for 2% more.
- Base cost reduced from $1,060, $1,250, $1,350, $1,500 to $1,040, $1,225, $1,325, $1,470 on each difficulty.
- Farm Subsidy: First Banana Farm each game costs 100 less.
- Base cost reduced from $1,060, $1,250, $1,350, $1,500 to $960, $1,150, $1,250, $1,400 on each difficulty.
- If also enables Flat Pack Buildings, the final cost will be $940, $1,125, $1,225, $1,370.
- Base cost reduced from $1,060, $1,250, $1,350, $1,500 to $960, $1,150, $1,250, $1,400 on each difficulty.
- Monkey Education: All Monkeys XP earn rate increased by 8%.
- Better Sell Deals: All Monkeys sell for 5% more. Increases sell potency from 70% to 75%.
Attack Interactions[]
- See also: Attack Interactions/Bloons TD 6/Support
- Updated as of Version 36.0
WIP Will likely revamp how the interactions occur for this farm |
- Farm:
- Banana:
Costs[]
- Updated as of Version 44.0. Listed prices exclude external buffs, any sacrifices, and Monkey Knowledge.
[Module | Data] | Purchase | Sell | ||||||
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Costs | Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable |
Upgrade (X-X-1) | $210 | $250 | $270 | $300 | - | |||
Total (0-0-1) | $1,270 | $1,500 | $1,620 | $1,800 | $889 | $1,050 | $1,134 | $1,260 |
Crosspath (1-0-1) | $1,695 | $2,000 | $2,160 | $2,400 | $1,187 | $1,400 | $1,512 | $1,680 |
Crosspath (2-0-1) | $2,205 | $2,600 | $2,810 | $3,120 | $1,544 | $1,820 | $1,967 | $2,184 |
Crosspath (0-1-1) | $1,525 | $1,800 | $1,945 | $2,160 | $1,068 | $1,260 | $1,362 | $1,512 |
Crosspath (0-2-1) | $2,205 | $2,600 | $2,810 | $3,120 | $1,544 | $1,820 | $1,967 | $2,184 |
This upgrade's prices (or included crosspath's prices) are affected by the following MK: Flat Pack Buildings, Farm Subsidy, Better Sell Deals
Strategy[]
Summary[]
This upgrade allows for the easy collection of bananas by letting them be collected from a further range, which decreases the amount of manual movement required. In addition, it provides a cushion of convenience to banana farming, compensating unpicked bananas for a smaller income gain. The autocollect salvage portion is suitable for AFK and lazy strategies, but it is still more economical to pick up bananas. For Monkey Banks, this allows Banks to visually indicate when they are full, for greater visual convenience, although the succeeding upgrade after EZ Collect, Banana Salvage, is far more desirable for income convenience purposes.
Although worth keeping in mind to reduce micromanagement, the one major downside of EZ Collect is that it locks out one of the other paths, preventing Path 1 and Path 2 from crosspathing with each other. As such, besides going for Marketplace, EZ Collect in itself remains hardly useful as a crosspath option, leaving this upgrade usually untouched unless saving for its higher upgrades.
Tips[]
- EZ Collect is helpful for players who use touchscreen devices, especially smartphones, since often the radius for collecting bananas is too small compared to the size of one's fingers, often leading to the tiring inaccuracy of moving one's finger around to collect every banana on screen. With EZ Collect, one can simply hold their finger at the target Banana Farm(s) to easily collect all of the bananas easily.
- This upgrade is the prerequisite for Banana Salvage, and as such it is worth upgrading further in order to utilize even more extra utility benefits. This is because the EZ Collect upgrade is overall not very useful on its own, except if it is to allow Banana Farmers to pick up the Banana Farm's bananas from slightly further than the Farmer's own range.
- When crosspathed with 0-3+-1, the upper Path 3 Banana Farms will glow, providing a visual cue when the internal balance is full.
Version History[]
Balance Changes[]
Minor quality-of-life changes. EZ Collect now also uses the pre-28.0 Banana Salvage autocollection salvage benefit as well. Version 28.0 added this to give Path 3 crosspath some competition on expensive upgrades.
- 19.0
- [Undocumented] Monkey Bank with EZ Collect (or Banana Salvage) will now glow upon detecting full once it adds another pocket of cash, rather than just after the round it becomes full.
- 28.0
“ | Banana Farm's xx2 upgrade is the inferior crosspath, so we've amped up the utility with the lazy aspect so that if it's going to be inferior for production, it's at least going to be extra lazy & less far behind. [...] | ” |
~ Ninja Kiwi, referring to Path 3 Farm in general |
- EZ Collect now also salvages Bananas for 50% if uncollected
Bug Fixes and General Changes[]
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- 11.0 (?)
- Description changed from "The collect radius of taps around these Bananas is larger, making them easier to collect." to "The collect radius of Bananas is larger. For Monkey Banks, glows when bank is full and ready to collect."
- 28.0
- Description changed from "The collect radius of Bananas is larger. For Monkey Banks, glows when bank is full and ready to collect." to "The collect radius of Bananas is larger and uncollected bananas auto-collect for half value. Monkey Banks will glow when full and ready to collect."
Extra Notes (Version History)[]
Gallery[]
Official artwork[]
Trivia[]
- EZ Collect upgrade on Medium Difficulty costs as much as Long Life Bananas in BTDB Mobile, $250.
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