Engineer Monkey is a tower in Bloons Tower Defense 5 Deluxe, Bloons Tower Defense Battles Mobile, Bloons Tower Defense 5 Mobile, Bloons Monkey City, and Bloons Tower Defense 6 originally debuting under the name Monkey Engineer. It wields a nail gun that shoots at a quick speed, popping three bloons per shot. With upgrades, the Monkey Engineer can spawn sentries, assisting it with popping power. This is one of the most reliable starting towers in the game and with the help of its sentries, it can solo multiple rounds early on. The Engineer Monkey was added to Bloons Tower Defense 6 on September 17, 2019 as part of the 12.0 update.

Contents show]

An update on Bloons Monkey City on 15th October 2014 added Monkey Engineers and Second City simultaneously. Engineers are unlocked once you reach level 5 on your second city.







Bloons Tower Defense 5 Edit

In BTD5, it was first released on BTD5 Deluxe on first release, along with Bloonchipper. It was later added to Bloons Monkey City Flash on September 2014 (?). Later, it was released on all mobile versions of the game. It was never added to BTD5 Flash or Bloons TD Battles Flash.



Path 1 Edit

Easy Medium Hard Impoppable Sentry Gun

Automatically creates sentry guns and deploys them on the ground nearby. Sentries shoot sharp steel pins at the bloons but only last a short time. $425 $500 $540 $600 Fast Engineering

Engineer increases his build speed, producing sentry guns more often. $340 $400 $430 $480 Cleansing Foam

Engineer uses a special dispenser to spray down the track with a cleansing foam that removes camo and regen properties. Also pops lead bloons. $680 $800 $865 $960 Bloon Trap Creates a powerful bloon trap that destroys all the bloons caught in it. Once full, trap will destroy itself after a short time. If emptied manually, gives you extra cash. Only one trap can be active at a time. $2975 $3500 $3780 $4200 Total Sell Amount $3844 $4520 $4880 $5424 ($6480 with path 2 upgrades) Total Cost $4805 $5650 $6100 $6780 ($8100 with path 2 upgrades)





Path 2 Edit

Easy Medium Hard Impoppable 9-Inch Nails

Engineer's nailgun upgrades to shoot massive 9-inch nails that can pop 8 bloons at once including frozen bloons (does not affect sentries) $385 $450 $485 $540 Larger Service Area

Engineer can shoot further and deploy sentries in a larger area. $555 $650 $700 $780 Sprockets

Adding sprockets to sentries and the nailgun increase their fire rate appreciably. $470 $550 $595 $660 Overclock

Activated Ability: Overclock - target tower becomes super powered for 60 seconds. $11475 $13500 $14580 $16200 Total Sell Amount $10616 $12480 $13476 $14976 ($15840 with path 1 upgrades) Total Cost $13270 $15600 $16845 $18720 ($19800 with path 1 upgrades)





Tower XP Edit

Level Upgrade at next level Total XP XP to next level 1 Sentry Gun 0 150 2 9-inch Nails 150 400 3 Fast Engineering 550 950 4 Larger Service Area 1,500 1,000 5 Cleansing Foam 2,500 3,200 6 Sprockets 5,700 3,300 7 Bloon Trap 9,000 8,000 8 Overclock 17,000 11,000

Differences Between BTD5 Flash and BTD5 Mobile Edit

Technically speaking, Monkey Engineer only appears in Bloons Tower Defense 5 Deluxe, Bloons Monkey City, and all mobile versions of the Bloons TD franchise. However, there are several differences between the Engineer in Flash games (i.e. BTD5 Deluxe and BMC Flash) than in mobile versions of the games.

Bloon Trap no longer loses collection value in later rounds.

The Monkey Engineer is unlocked at Rank 21 instead of Rank 20.

Sentry Gun costs more ($450 → $500).

Faster Engineering costs more ($350 → $400).

Cleansing Foam costs more ($750 → $800) and no longer has unlimited pierce.

Bloon Trap costs more ($3000 → $3500) and Monkey Farmers cannot collect full traps.

If an Overclock is sold, the tower boosted by that Engineer will lose the boost effect while still showing the aura.

Pops from the Monkey Engineer's Sentries, Cleansing Foam, and Bloon Traps now count towards the total pop count of the Engineer.

Bloon Traps now are emptiable after each round, even when Non-Stop Mode is on. This is not the case in BTDB Mobile, Apopalypse Mode, and Monkey vs Monkey.

Bloon Traps no longer detect Camo unless the tower is granted Camo detection.

Sentries made by an Engineer automatically disappear when the Engineer is sold.

In desktop versions of the games, Bloon Traps only have to be hovered over to be collected, rather than having to manually click on them.

Engineer is a pretty balanced tower, not too overpowered or underpowered. Sometimes, however, it's given a few buffs to be more suitable for use in Bloons TD Battles Mobile.

Engineer is generally not very popular in normal games (the only semi popular loadouts that use it are Engineer Farm Ninja and Engineer COBRA Apprentice), but it is a quite popular tower in Play With Fire. This is especially the case when utilising the Bloon Trap upgrade for effectively increasing income two-fold (both by bloon income, and from filling up Bloon Traps from sending bloons that will go back to you).

3.4

Bloon Traps no longer spawn on unused track in Defend Mode.

3.7

Overclock price decreased ($13500 → $11000).

4.1

Overclock price decreased ($11000 → $7500).

4.3.1

Double-speed-tower ability cooldown timer of Overclock now starts upon tower selection, rather than as soon as the screen opens.

4.6

Larger Service Area price decreased ($650 → $500).

Cleansing Foam price decreased ($800 → $650).

Larger Service Area additional range decreased by 50% (debatable buff/nerf among fans, since Larger Service Area usually does worse for them than it helps to them).

4.9

Tower price decreased ($450 → $400).

Larger Service Area price decreased ($500 → $475).

Overclock price decreased ($7500 → $6000).

6.6

Bloon Trap costs more ($3500 --> $3800)

6.7

Bloon Trap now earns only 1.8x more for manual collection. Automatic collection income remains the same.

Bloons Tower Defense 6 Edit

Engineer Monkey was first released in Version 12.0, on September 17th 2019. It was teased a few days earlier on Reddit, on September 15th 2019.

Engineer is a Support-class tower.



Path 1 Edit

Easy Medium Hard Impoppable Unlock XP Sentry Gun

Creates temporary sentry guns and deploys them nearby. $425 $500 $540 $600 160 Faster Engineering

Increased build speed produces sentries more often. $340 $400 $430 $480 550 Sprockets

Increased sentry gun and Engineer attack speed. $445 $525 $565 $660 1850 Sentry Expert Sentries deploy with different damage types based on your need. $2380 $2800 $3025 $4200 9500 Sentry Paragon Creates super-powerful but highly unstable sentries. $27200 $32000 $34560 $38400 30000

Path 2 Edit

Easy Medium Hard Impoppable Unlock XP Larger Service Area

Shoots further and deploys sentries in a much larger area. $465 $550 $595 $720 170 Deconstruction

Nail gun shots do extra damage to MOAB-Class and Fortified Bloons. $170 $200 $215 $240 500 Cleansing Foam Sprays foam that removes Regrow and Camo and pops Lead Bloons. $680 $800 $865 $960 2000 Overclock

Overclock Ability: Target Monkey becomes super powered for a short time. $11475 $13500 $14580 $16200 14000 Ultraboost Overclocked Monkeys gain a small but permanent boost each time overclock wears off. $102000 $120000 $129600 $144000 35000

Path 3 Edit

Easy Medium Hard Impoppable Unlock XP Oversize Nails

Massive nails pop 8 bloons at once, and Frozen Bloons. $380 $450 $485 $540 150 Pin

Pins Bloons in place for a short time when struck. $185 $220 $235 $240 500 Double Gun Two guns for twice the fun. $425 $500 $540 $600 1800 Bloon Trap

Bloon Trap captures Bloons until full. Select to empty full trap for cash. $2975 $3500 $3780 $4200 11000 XXXL Trap Huge Bloon Traps can trap some of the largest Bloons in them... $51000 $60000 $64800 $72000 40000





Version History (BTD6) Edit

12.0 (compared to BTD5 Mobile)



Footprint.

Footprint.



Sprockets is now a Path 1 Tier 3 upgrade, Cleansing Foam is now a Path 2 Tier 3 upgrade, Bloon Trap is now a Path 3 Tier 4 upgrade, and none of these upgrades may be bought on the same tower.

Sprockets is now a Path 1 Tier 3 upgrade, Cleansing Foam is now a Path 2 Tier 3 upgrade, Bloon Trap is now a Path 3 Tier 4 upgrade, and none of these upgrades may be bought on the same tower.





















Balance Changes Edit

14.0

















15.0







18.0





20.0

















Ninja Kiwi provided a write-up in the 20.0 Patch Notes for the balance changes.

“ Continuing our efforts to make crosspaths meaningful and fit the style of each path more solidly, a number of crosspath and base level balance shifts were made. ”

Bug fixes and other changes Edit

12.1

Larger Service Area now increases Sentry deploy range.

Larger Service Area now increases Sentry deploy range. Deconstruction buff.

Deconstruction buff.



13.0

xx4 Bloon Trap no longer collects for reduced cash when under a Monkey Town

Acquisition range is correctly blocked by obstacles on High Finance

xx4 Bloon Trap should collect for the correct amounts after resuming save

xx4 Bloon Trap will no longer allow bonus traps to be placed when reloading save

16.0

x4x Overclock can now be targeted by Techbot

x5x Ultraboost will no longer trigger while techbotted if no target was previously set

17.0

1xx Sentry Gun sentries no longer gain camo detection when a save is loaded

1xx Sentry Gun sentry placement will no longer ignore ‘smart placement’ if the Engineer cannot reach the track

20.0

5xx Sentry Paragon should no longer cause a secondary explosion when manually sold

xx4 Bloontrap, resolved collection sometimes displaying less cash than it should

Gallery Edit

Trivia Edit