Banana Tree

## Overview

The Banana Tree doesn't pop bloons, but generates money and lives. Costs $900, and starts out generating 3 bananas per round that give $20 each.

## **Upgrades**

Banana Farm
Generates 5 bananas

$600

Total cost: $1,500

Banana Plantation
Grows 9 bananas

$1,200

Total cost: $2,700

Healthy Bananas
Gives +1 lives per banana

$1,400

Total cost: $4,100

Banana Republic
20 Bananas per round

$2,800

Total cost: $5,500

Passive Income
Gives extra money over time

$1,700

Total cost: $4,400

Rubberlust Farm
Bloons popped around it spawn bananas

$3,000

Tier 3S
Total cost: $5,700

Rank 33 x4

Healthier Bananas
+3 Lives per banana

$2,600

Total cost: $6,700

Rank 33 x5

Super Banana Factory
12 super bananas that give $100 each

$9,000

Total cost: $14,500

Rank 33 x4

Life Insurance
Creates a revenge banana for each life lost!

$2,500

Total cost: $6,900

Rank 33 x15

Rubberfuel Farms
Duplicates bloons, but gives much more bananas

$3,000

Tier 4S
Total cost: $8,700

Rank 57 x9

Golden Fruit
Ability grants +100 lives

$6,000

Total cost: $12,700

Rank 57 x13

Banana Replicator
35 Super Bananas

$27,000

Total cost: $41,500

Rank 57 x9

Insurance Fraud
Sacrifice 75 lives for $1500

$7,800

Total cost: $14,700

Rank 57 x25

Bananabeam Farm
Shoots a beam that destroys all, but costs money

$15,000

Tier 5S
Total cost: $23,700

Total  to fully unlock: 84

### **Efficiency**

Every upgrade will ultimately pay for itself, but some upgrades pay for themselves faster.

This table shows the efficiency of the upgrade itself in the first row of each cell and the efficiency of the tower including that upgrade in the second row. The efficiency is how many rounds it will take until the tower pays for itself. In short, the lower the numbers are, the better.

Please note that the left side gives lives per round and lives per ability use that have their own efficiency (dollars per life per round/use; smaller is better); the right side can pay for itself over time alongside normal banana income, 4R+ can also pay for itself with an amount of lives lost, and 5R can pay for itself with ability activations. Infinity symbols (∞) in the first rows are because that upgrade does nothing to improve that aspect of the tower.

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## **Tips**

* Bananas never expire, and can stay on-screen indefinitely.
* Bananas auto-collect when a high number of them are on-screen.
* Passive Income provides a constant stream of income that can generate lots of additional income for a small cost during longer rounds.
* Rubberfruit farms can be used to regrow farm even without Regrow bloons.
* While expensive, the 5S ability is extremely powerful and an excellent late game tool for wasting excess cash.

## **Advantages/Disadvantages**

### **Advantages**

* After enough rounds have passed, it earns you significantly more than it cost.
* Can give extra lives.

### **Disadvantages**

* Cannot attack bloons, except with the 5S ability, which costs a hefty amount of money to use.
* Banana generation becomes ineffective during longer rounds in freeplay.

## Known Bugs

* Sometimes, only the farms which are upgraded at last round will produce bananas.
* Farms sometimes do not produce the correct amount of bananas.