| “ | 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, increased attack speed and pierce, extra income per pop, extra income for all income generators, and free towers. Like its BTD5 predecessor, the Monkey Village in BTD6 cannot attack Bloons, except with the Primary Expertise upgrade, although Grow Blocker indirectly attacks bloons by preventing Regrow properties.
It costs $1,020 on Easy, $1,200 on Medium, $1,295 on Hard, and $1,440 on Impoppable.
Description[]
Monkey Village is a hut with a fireplace. The flame is ablaze as the Village sits in its location, sitting stationary. Unlike its predecessor, the base 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. The Monkey Village includes new upgrades such as Grow Blocker, which allows the Village to prevent Regrow Bloons from regenerating when in range.
Path 1 focuses mostly on expanding bonus support for other towers, particularly towards support for Primary towers, starting with Primary Training. The first upgrade is Bigger Radius, which improves influence radius of the Village, much like BTD3-BTD4 Monkey Beacon's Stronger Signal upgrade. Jungle Drums returns as a speed-boosting upgrade. The Upper Path 1 upgrades focus on buffing Primary Monkeys: Primary Training boosts the range, pierce, and projectile speed of all Primary Monkeys; Primary Mentoring gives free Tier 1 upgrades, reduces ability cooldowns, and even more range; and Primary Expertise gives free Tier 1 and 2 upgrades, further reduces ability cooldowns, and even more pierce. Additionally, Primary Expertise is the only directly damaging Village upgrade, hurling homing ballistas that ricochet onto targets.
Path 2 retains focus on adding defensive countermeasures, with completely new upgrades such as Grow Blocker and Homeland Defense. The first three upgrades focus on countermeasures against bloon properties: Grow Blocker blocks Regrow Bloon properties, Radar Scanner grants camo detection buffs to nearby towers, and Monkey Intelligence Bureau allows all towers to damage any bloon property. Call To Arms and Homeland Defense boost the pierce and attack speed of all towers on screen for a period of time at +50% and +100%, respectively.
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. Monkey Business returns that 10% discount functionality of BTD5 Village, albeit limited to Tier 3, and Monkey Commerce expands upon the discounting aspect by stacking further 5% discounts, up to three times. Monkey Town focuses on boosting cash per pop for nearby towers by 50%. Monkey City boosts nearby cash-generators alongside free Dart Monkeys. Monkeyopolis absorbs all nearby Farms to convert into its own cash generation.
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 targeting priorities like ordinary towers.
- First: Targets the first bloon visible within its range.
- Last: Targets the last bloon visible within its range.
- Close: Targets the closest bloon visible within its range.
- Strong: Targets the strongest bloon visible within its range.
Upgrades[]
Path 1[]
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Bigger Radius COST: $340 / $400 / $430 / $480 UNLOCK: 160 XP | |
| Description: Increases influence radius of the village.
Effect: Influence radius of the Monkey Village increases by +8, for a total of +20% when given to a base Village. | ||
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Jungle Drums COST: $1,275 / $1,500 / $1,620 / $1,800 UNLOCK: 1,000 XP | |
| Description: Increases attack speed of all Monkeys in the radius.
Effect: All towers in the radius of the Village attack +18% faster (0.85x attack cooldown). | ||
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Primary Training COST: $680 / $800 / $865 / $960 UNLOCK: 2,000 XP | |
| Description: All Primary Monkeys in radius get more range, pierce and projectile speed.
Effect: All Primary Monkeys in the radius of the Village gain +10% further range, +1 pierce, and around +25% projectile speed. | ||
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Primary Mentoring COST: $2,125 / $2,500 / $2,700 / $3,000 UNLOCK: 12,000 XP | |
| Description: All Primary Monkeys in radius get tier 1 upgrades for free, increased range and reduced ability cooldowns.
Effect: In addition to Primary Training buffs, all Primary Monkeys in the radius of the Village gain a further +5 additive range, reduces ability cooldowns by 10%, and free Tier 1 upgrades. | ||
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Primary Expertise COST: $21,250 / $25,000 / $27,000 / $30,000 UNLOCK: 32,000 XP | |
| Description: Adds Mega Ballista attack, plus all Primary Monkeys in radius get more popping power, ability cooldowns reduced further and tier 1 and 2 upgrades for free.
Effect: In addition to Primary Mentoring buffs, all Primary Monkeys in the radius of the Village gain +3 pierce instead of +1 pierce, free Tier 1 and 2 upgrades, and -20% ability cooldowns. Main Village gains a further +8 influence range and now regularly shoots homing Mega Ballista blades that deal 10 damage or 200 versus Ceramics and MOAB-class, and pierces up to 100 bloons. | ||
Path 2[]
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Grow Blocker COST: $210 / $250 / $270 / $300 UNLOCK: 150 XP | |
| Description: Prevents Regrow Bloons from working while in the radius of the Village.
Effect: All bloons within range of the Village have their Regrow properties grow-blocked. | ||
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Radar Scanner COST: $1,700 / $2,000 / $2,160 / $2,400 UNLOCK: 2,500 XP | |
| Description: Allows all Monkeys in the radius to attack Camo Bloons.
Effect: Grants all towers in range camo detection. | ||
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Monkey Intelligence Bureau COST: $6,375 / $7,500 / $8,100 / $9,000 UNLOCK: 3,500 XP | |
| Description: The Bureau grants special Bloon popping knowledge, allowing nearby Monkeys to pop all Bloon types.
Effect: In addition to camo detection, all towers in the radius of the Village gain the Normal damage type. Towers with a lack of targeting of bloon properties also gain the capability to target all bloon properties aside from Ceramics and above. | ||
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Call To Arms COST: $17,000 / $20,000 / $21,600 / $24,000 UNLOCK: 20,000 XP | |
| Description: Call to Arms ability: Gives all monkeys +50% attack speed and pops for a short time.
Effect: Ability causes all towers to gain +50% attack speed and +50% pierce for 15 seconds. | ||
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Homeland Defense COST: $34,000 / $40,000 / $43,200 / $48,000 UNLOCK: 30,000 XP | |
| Description: Ability now increases attack speed and pops by 100% for all Monkeys for 20 seconds.
Effect: Ability now increases attack speed by +100% and pierce by +100% for 20 seconds. | ||
Path 3[]
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Monkey Business COST: $425 / $500 / $540 / $600 UNLOCK: 250 XP | |
| Description: Provides 10% discount on all Monkeys and upgrades tier 3 or less purchased in the radius of the Village.
Effect: Reduces the cost of all towers and upgrades tier 3 or less bought within range of the village by 10%. Does not affect hero leveling costs. | ||
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Monkey Commerce COST: $425 / $500 / $540 / $600 UNLOCK: 750 XP | |
| Description: An additional 5% discount that can stack with up to 2 other Villages with this upgrade.
Effect: Further reduces the cost of all towers and upgrades tier 3 or below bought within range of the village by another 5%, for a total cost reduction of 15%. This 5% can stack up to 3 times on any one tower, if that tower is in range of multiple villages with this upgrade, for a total price reduction of 25%. | ||
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Monkey Town COST: $8,500 / $10,000 / $10,800 / $12,000 UNLOCK: 3,000 XP | |
| Description: All Monkeys within the radius of the Monkey Town get extra cash per Bloon pop.
Effect: All towers within range of the Village gain +50% more cash per pop. | ||
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Monkey City COST: $2,550 / $3,000 / $3,240 / $3,600 UNLOCK: 15,000 XP | |
| Description: Increases influence radius, cash generation in radius, and gives you a free Dart Monkey every round.
Effect: Increases influence radius by +10, direct cash generation by +20%, and gives a free Dart Monkey every round. | ||
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Monkeyopolis COST: $5,000 / Banana Farm UNLOCK: 28,000 XP | |
| Description: Absorbs all nearby Banana Farms and their income, freeing up space for new Monkeys.
Effect: All Banana Farms within range up to Tier 4 are sacrificed to generate more income based on the monetary cost of the Banana Farm sacrifices, rounded up, at a rate of $200 per $2000 worth of sacrifices. Cost of the upgrade increases additively (+5,000) per Banana Farm within range. Gives a base $1000 per round, resulting in a minimum of $1200 per round. | ||
Total Costs[]
| Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 | Tier 5 | ||
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| Base Cost | $400 | $1500 | $800 | $2500 | $25000 | |
| Cumulative Cost | $1600 | $3100 | $3900 | $6400 | $31400 | |
| Base Sell | $280 | $1050 | $560 | $4480 | $17500 | |
| Cumulative Sell | $1120 | $2170 | $2730 | $4480 | $21980 | |
| Path 2 | ||||||
| Base Cost | $250 | $2000 | $7500 | $20000 | $40000 | |
| Cumulative Cost | $1450 | $3450 | $10950 | $30950 | $70950 | |
| Base Sell | $175 | $1400 | $5250 | $14000 | $28000 | |
| Cumulative Sell | $1015 | $2415 | $7665 | $21665 | $49665 | |
| Path 3 | ||||||
| Base Cost | $500 | $500 | $10000 | $3000 | $5000 / Banana Farm | |
| Cumulative Cost | $1700 | $2200 | $12200 | $15200 | $20200+ | |
| Base Sell | $350 | $350 | $700 | $2100 | $3500 / Banana Farm | |
| Cumulative Sell | $1190 | $1540 | $8540 | $10640 | $15015+ |
Strategy[]
- See also: Monkey Village (BTD6)/Strategies
Summary[]
Monkey Villages have almost no offensive capabilities (except Primary Expertise's mega ballista attack), instead providing nearby towers with ranged buffs that empower affected towers. Since most of its buffs are local, it is best to compress as many towers within a Monkey Village's influence range as possible to obtain the optimal benefits from the Monkey Village. The Village can also synergize with other Villages, such as buffing influence ranges of each other. Multiple buffs can be applied to most of the affected towers, including some exclusive buffs that only affect Primary Monkeys (such as Primary Training).
Tips[]
- Multiple nearby Monkey Commerce Villages can be utilized for a bigger discount to base towers and upgrades up to Tier 3. These can self-synergize with other Villages, making their upgrades cheaper and increasing range.
Monkey Knowledge[]
This section displays Monkey Knowledge that has effects on Monkey Village and its changes when compared to one by default:
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.
- Insider Trades: Monkey Business discount increases by 2%.
- Increases discount via the Monkey Business bonus from 10% to 12%.
- Monkey Education: All Monkeys XP earn rate increased by 8%.
- Inland Revenue Streams: Monkey Town cash bonus increased by 10%.
- Increases cash bonus for Bloon pops from 50% to 60%.
- 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 of 20.
- Better Sell Deals: All Monkeys sell for 5% more.
- Increases sell potency from 70% to 75%, 77% with Flat Pack Buildings.
- Veteran Monkey Training: All Monkeys reload time reduced by 3%.
- Global Ability Cooldowns: All Ability cooldowns for all Monkeys reduced by 3%.
Version History[]
Differences Between BTD5 and BTD6[]
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Listed are comparisons of the Banana Farm in BTD6 compared to BTD5. Takes into account Flash and Mobile versions.
- Cost of Monkey Village decreased ($1,600 → $1,200)
- Monkey Village no longer discounts nearby towers by 10%, and now requires the Monkey Business upgrade in order to do so. Additionally, discount benefits no longer affect Tier 4 or above.
- Monkey Village now buffs nearby tower range by 10% as a 0-0-0 instead of requiring the Monkey Beacon upgrade.
- The range buff is slightly smaller, from 15% to 10%.
- Monkey Fort and High Energy Beacon upgrades have been removed.
- Several adjustments to crosspathing, including Jungle Drums, Monkey Town, and Radar Scanner. As such, some of these upgrades are now mutually exclusive.
- Call to Arms (former M.I.B. Call to Arms) now only adds +50% attack speed and +50% pierce instead of +100% for both.
- Monkey Intelligence Bureau now costs more ($4,300 → $7,500).
Balance Changes[]
- Initial release (compared to BTD5)
Note: Lists all balance changes implemented for the Monkey Village when it was first released in Bloons TD 6 (June 14th 2018) in comparison to Bloons TD 5. Takes into account Flash and Mobile versions of Bloons TD 5.
- Cost of Monkey Village decreased ($1,600 → $1,200)
- Monkey Village no longer discounts nearby towers by 10%, and now requires the Monkey Business upgrade in order to do so. Additionally, discount benefits no longer affect Tier 4 or above.
- Monkey Village now buffs nearby tower range by 10% as a 0-0-0 instead of requiring the Monkey Beacon upgrade.
- The range buff is slightly smaller, from 15% to 10%.
- Monkey Fort and High Energy Beacon upgrades have been removed.
- Several adjustments to crosspathing, including Jungle Drums, Monkey Town, and Radar Scanner. As such, some of these upgrades are now mutually exclusive.
- Call to Arms (former M.I.B. Call to Arms) now only adds +50% attack speed and +50% pierce instead of +100% for both.
- Monkey Intelligence Bureau now costs more ($4,300 → $7,500).
- 2.0
- Alchemist's Acidic Mixture Dip and Berserker Brew upgrades (and by extension Stronger Stimulant) will now target Primary Expertise.
- 5.0
- Alchemist's Acidic Mixture Dip no longer targets Villages without Primary Expertise.
- 8.0
- Primary Expertise now increases pierce of Primary Monkeys even more (+1 → +3).
- Primary Expertise's ballista attack increased damage to MOAB-class (100 → 200) and now deals more damage to Ceramics (10 → 200).
- Call to Arms price reduced ($24,000 → $20,000).
- Homeland Defense duration increased (15s → 20s).
- Homeland Defense attack speed bonus from ability increased (+50% → +100%).
- Monkeyopolis no longer deducts the counter total in Daily Challenges.
- 11.0
- x-x-5 Monkeyopolis will now produce a maximum of 10 crates per round, and each of these crates will produce a scaling amount of cash based on the farms consumed.
- 17.0
- When placing a village, towers that are in its radius will now highlight.
- Primary Mentoring now reduces ability cooldowns of primary monkeys in radius by 10%.
- Primary Mentoring now adds +5 range to primary towers in range.
- Monkey City now increases all income generated from towers within radius by +10%.
- 17.1
- Primary Expertise now (correctly) receives the new Primary Mentoring buff benefits.
- 22.0
| “ | Call to Arms has never had enough uptime for the small amount of space that it benefits. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Call to Arms ability cooldown reduced from 60 to 45s. Also affects Homeland Defense.
- 23.0
| “ | Call to Arms didn't last enough in some critical situations where it could have made the difference, so this duration has been increased slightly. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Call To Arms duration increased (10s → 12s). Does not affect Homeland Defense.
- 25.0
| “ | Monkey Village's range at Primary Expertise has been increased slightly to open up downstream strategies by fitting additional Primary towers within range. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Primary Expertise Village influence radius increased from 48 → 55.
- 26.0
| “ | As currently it doesn't feel as valuable to use the City buff versus other cash producing towers, the buff Monkey City applies to other cash producing towers in radius has been increased. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Monkey City cash production bonus to towers in radius increased from 10% to 15%.
- 28.0
| “ | Further enhancing the cooldown buff that is initially added by the T4 | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Primary Expertise cooldown buff for primaries increased from 10% -> 20%
- 30.0
| “ | To improve the consistency of Primary Expertise as a long range cleanup the attack rate has been increased. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Primary Expertise attack cooldown reduced (3s -> 2.5s)
- 31.0
| “ | Call to Arms ability suffers from uptime, for such an expensive upgrade which is such low range and purely support this makes it hard to use, so duration has now been increased to push it up to a 1/3rd uptime threshold | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Call To Arms ability duration increased 12 -> 15, Homeland duration remains unchanged
- 32.0
| “ | The Monkeyopolis ‘space saving’ farm absorption shows to be far too much more efficient than the absorbed farms. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Monkeyopolis generation per $2000 reduced $300 -> $200
- 35.0
| “ | Village Call To Arms doesn't have a place in current high level meta gameplay as grouped clusters of equal towers are never really ideal. As it stands, the village radius is not a large enough area to get lots of benefit to all of the towers that you would be spreading out and maintain any uptime on them. A seemingly huge change but perhaps not in practical use, so we will be looking for feedback on this and whether this reduces placement skill or the need for multiple Villages. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Call to Arms ability influence increased Radius -> Map
- 36.0
| “ | Last update included a change to the x2x Banana Farm which allowed Banks to finally receive external cash production buffs (previously none of these applied to bank path). This didn’t affect base level unbuffed farm balance, but some players noticed slight reductions in how effective buffs were when applied to other farms (320 and 023 crosspaths) due to this change, overall we’re positive about what the change means but to push back past that nerf to endgame farm synergy we balanced it out with a stronger synergy buff from villages | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Monkey City's income buff to cash producers increased from +15% → +20%
- 37.0
| “ | A minor QoL for cheap Monkeyopolis creation, we included a small base amount of cash production to the generation formula. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Monkeyopolis income formula now includes a base +$2500 minimum
- 38.0
| “ | As a 1 per player T5 we didn’t mind this being excessively powerful at a base level, however the base level became so powerful people stopped investing into the actual farm sacrificing aspect, so we’re dropping this base value down to not skip massively ahead of the normal farm curve. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Monkeyopolis base cash amount reduced $2500 → $1250
- 43.0
| “ | Primary Expertise’s own attack is unreliable due partly to low bounce distance, so this is being increased. Base level Monkeyopolis continues to over perform, so the baseline cash generation is reducing. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Primary Expertise max bounce distance increased from 50 to 90
- Monkeyopolis base cash amount reduced from $1250 to $1000, minimum cash amount reduced from $1450 to $1200.
- 46.0
| “ | Primary Expertise is gaining enough damage to allow it to continue to 1 shot MOABs until round 100, but in exchange it will attack slower for an overall power increase. | ” |
| ~ Ninja Kiwi |
- Primary Expertise ballista bonus damage to Ceramic and above increased from +190 to +270, total damage to Ceramic and above increased from 200 to 280
- Primary Expertise ballista attack cooldown increased from 2.5s to 3.0s
Bug Fixes and General Changes[]
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- 4.0
- Monkeytropolis upgrade button will display "Requires Banana Farm" if there are no Banana Farms in range instead of simply displaying "Upgrade Locked".
- 5.0
- Monkey Commerce no longer occasionally makes itself cheaper.
- 7.0
- Monkey City description modification.
- 9.0
- Homeland Defense description has been upgraded to reflect the new duration.
- 11.0
- Resolved an issue with placing multiple Villages nearby each other that could cancel out the Jungle Drums bonus with certain crosspaths.
- Monkeyopolis can no longer be given so little investment that it does not ever produce any cash.
- 17.0
- 0-0-0 Village fire asset updated.
- Radar Scanner should no longer block the Energizer from applying buff icons.
- Primary Expertise Slingshot now rotates correctly again.
- 18.0
- Primary Training, Mentoring and Expertise now all have different buff icons.
- Primary Mentoring/Expertise should no longer fail to apply their buffs sometimes when towers in range are on lower heights.
- (unlisted) The Monkey Knowledge point Flat Pack Buildings is no longer disabled if a player leaves the game and returns at a later point.
- 20.0
- x-x-4 Monkey City description updated to include increased cash production in radius.
- x-x-5 Monkeyopolis no longer takes buffs from Alchemist.
- 22.0
- x-1-x Regrow Blocker should work more reliably.
- 23.0
- x1x Regrow Blocker has had some inconsistencies fixed.
- 24.0
- x-4-x Call to Arms description has been corrected.
- 25.0
- 1-0-1 and higher upgrades should correctly play sound again.
- 38.0
- xx5 Monkeyopolis now gives the correct cash amount in Half Cash mode
- xx5 Monkeyopolis resolved an issue with wrong purchase cost being shown until reselecting the tower
Sounds[]
When placing a Monkey Village:
- [Crate placement]
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Gallery[]
Official artwork[]
Videos[]
TBA
Other languages[]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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| English | Monkey Village | |
| Arabic | قرية القرود | |
| Simplified Chinese | 猴子村 | |
| Traditional Chinese | 猴村 | |
| Danish | Abelandsby | Monkey Village |
| Finnish | Apinakylä | |
| French | Village de singes | |
| German | Affendorf | |
| Italian | Villaggio delle scimmie | |
| Japanese | モンキー村 | |
| Korean | 원숭이 마을 | |
| Norwegian | Apelandsby | |
| Polish | Małpia wioska | |
| Portuguese | Vila Macaco | |
| Russian | Обезьянья деревня | |
| Spanish | Monoaldea | Monkey Village |
| Swedish | Apby | |
| Thai | หมู่บ้านลิง | |
| Turkish | Maymun Köyü |
Trivia[]
- 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.
- Monkey Village was the last non-hero tower in Bloons TD 6 to receive a nerf. Version 32.0 ended this streak by nerfing Monkeyopolis.
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