Technology- and exploration-focused mod based on the popular game franchise, Bloons.

Using JEI is highly recommended for this mod.

Radioactive is recommended, but optional [Only for 1.11.0+].

Newer WIP rewrite: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/bloons-reinflated

Features List:

Removed features present in older versions will be in italics.

Bloons:

Red

Health: 1
Speed: Slow
Contains: Nothing
Drops: 1 Red Bloon Rubber

Blue

Health: 1
Speed: Medium
Contains: 1 Red Bloon
Drops: 1 Blue Bloon Rubber

Green

Health: 1
Speed: Medium
Contains: 1 Blue Bloon
Drops: 1 Green Bloon Rubber

Yellow

Health: 1
Speed: Fast
Contains: 1 Green Bloon
Drops: 1 Yellow Bloon Rubber

Sun

Health: 1
Speed: Fast
Contains: 4 Yellow Bloons
Drops: 1 Solar Essence
Special: Blinds nearby entities when popped

Pink

Health: 1
Speed: Very Fast
Contains: 1 Yellow Bloon
Drops: 1 Pink Bloon Rubber

Black

Health: 1
Speed: Medium
Contains: 2 Pink Bloons
Drops: 1 Black Bloon Rubber
Immunities: Explosions

Bomb

Health: 1
Speed: Medium
Contains: 2 Black Bloons
Drops: Nothing
Special: Explodes when popped

White

Health: 1
Speed: Medium
Contains: 2 Pink Bloons
Drops: 1 White Bloon Rubber
Immunities: Ice

Purple

Health: 1
Speed: Fast
Contains: 2 Pink Bloons
Drops: 1 Purple Bloon Rubber
Immunities: Magic and Energy

Orange

Health: 1
Speed: Medium
Contains: 2 Pink Bloons
Drops: 1 Orange Bloon Rubber
Immunities: Fire

Zebra

Health: 1
Speed: Medium
Contains: 1 Black Bloon, 1 White Bloon
Drops: 1 Zebra Bloon Rubber
Immunities: Explosions, Ice

Lead

Health: 1
Speed: Slow
Contains: 2 Black Bloons
Drops: 1 Bloon Lead Ingot
Immunities: Sharp

Rainbow

Health: 1
Speed: Fast
Contains: 2 Zebra Bloons
Drops: 1 Rainbow Bloon Rubber

Ceramic

Health: 10
Speed: Fast
Contains: 2 Rainbow Bloons
Drops: 1 Bloon Ceramic Shard
Multilayer Blocking

MOAB

Health: 200
Speed: Slow
Contains: 4 Ceramic Bloons
Drops: 20 Blue Bloon Rubber, 5 White Bloon Rubber, 4 Lead Supports, 1 Propeller
Multilayer Blocking

Sun MOAB

Health: 200
Speed: Slow
Contains: 4 Ceramic Bloons
Drops: 10 Yellow Bloon Rubber, 5 White Bloon Rubber, 4 Lead Supports, 5 Solar Essence, 1 Radiant Propeller
Multilayer Blocking

BFB

Health: 700
Speed: Slower
Contains: 4 MOABs
Drops: 20 Red Bloon Rubber, 5 White Bloon Rubber, 4 Lead Supports, 1 BFB Engine
Multilayer Blocking

ZOMG

Health: 4000
Speed: Very Slow
Contains: 4 BFBs
Drops: 20 Black Bloon Rubber, 5 Green Bloon Rubber, 5 White Bloon Rubber, 4 Lead Supports, 1 ZOMG Engine
Multilayer Blocking

DDT

Health: 400
Speed: Fast
Contains: 4 Ceramic Bloons
Drops: 20 Black Bloon Rubber, 5 Bloon Lead Ingots, 4 Lead Supports, 1 Propeller
Multilayer Blocking
Special: Is camo by default
Immunities: Sharp, Explosions

Shark DDT [removed]

Identical stats to DDT
Neutral
Tameable with fish
Rideable

BAD

Health: 20000
Speed: Extremely Slow
Contains: 2 ZOMGs, 3 DDTs
Drops: 70 Desaturated Purple Bloon Rubber, 10 White Bloon Rubber, 20 Lead Supports, 1 BAD Engine
Multilayer Blocking

and 5 bosses:

Solis the Creator

Bossbar: Continuous yellow
Stages: 3
- Stage 1:
  - Health: 10000
  - Speed: Slower
  - Abilities:
    - Ignition
      - Effect: Set nearby entities on fire for 5 seconds.
      - Cooldown: 7.35s
    - Blinding Flash
      - Effect: Partially obscures nearby players' screens for 12 seconds
      - Cooldown: 26.7s
- Stage 2:
  - Health: 20000
  - Speed: Slow
  - Abilities:
    - [All stage 1 abilities]
    - Solar Summon
      - Effect: Spawns 5 Sun Bloons and 18 Yellow Bloons at Solis' current location
      - Cooldown: 23.25s
- Stage 3:
  - Health: 40000
  - Speed: Slow
  - Drops: 32-64 Solar Essence, 1 Radiant Propeller, 1 Sun
  - Abilities:
    - [All stage 1 and 2 abilities]
    - [All previous ability cooldowns halved]
    - Solar Summon II
      - Replaces Solar Summon
      - Effect: Spawns 8 Sun Bloons and 2 Sun MOABs at Solis' current location
      - Cooldown: 11.625s
    - Sun Beams
      - Effect: Fires 15 lasers in random directions which create yellow ghost blocks which can be reverted by interacting with them
      - Cooldown: 20s
    - Projectile Denial
      - Effect: Destroys any projectile within 20 blocks of Solis
      - Cooldown: 1s

Vortex: Deadly Master of Air

Bossbar: Continuous light blue
Stages: 1
- Stage 1
  - Health: 40000
  - Speed: Slow
  - Drops: 1 Charged Propeller
  - Contains: 3 DDTs, 50 Blue Bloons, 25 Black Bloons
  - Abilities:
    - Wind Burst (not the 1.21 enchantment)
      - Effect: Gives entities within 10 blocks Slowness V
      - Cooldown: 10s
    - Air Stream
      - Effect: Fires many high-knockback piercing projectiles over 4.5 seconds
      - Cooldown: 15.6s
    - Lightning Shield
      - Effect: Explodes with electricity, stunning nearby entities for 10s and becoming invulnerable to most damage for 15. Also reveals nearby camo bloons.
      - Cooldown: 41.25s

Omega [removed]

I actually don't remember Omega's stats at all, just that red and blue colored lasers were involved, leading to the addition of the Blue Laser item.

Bloonarius the Inflator

Bossbar: Continuous green
Stages: 1
- Stage 1
  - Health: yes
  - Speed: Extremely slow
  - Drops: 4 Propellers, 100 Green Bloon Rubber, 20 Orange Bloon Rubber, 6 White Bloon Rubber, 25 Bloon Lead Ingots, 50 Lead Supports
  - Abilities:
    - Ceramic Creation
      - Effect: Spawns a swamp-water-covered Ceramic Bloon.
      - Cooldown: 2s
    - Blimp Vomit
      - Effect: Spawns 10 swampy MOABs at once.
      - Cooldown: 50s
    - Massive Inflation
      - Effect: Spawns 2 BADs and 3 DDTs at once. Oh no.
      - Cooldown: 250s

and a secret one… (spawns DDTD Acid, in case you wanted to know what that was)

Towers:

Bloon targeting priority is fastest to slowest, as faster Bloons pose a larger threat. The closest of these is then targeted.

"Upgrades" here are not applied to the original, but rather are variants that behave differently, in a way that improves the tower in some form.

Dartling Gun

Normal
- Health: 40
- Attack: Rapidly fires darts forwards.
- Special: Can be aimed manually, either with a Target Designator or by riding it.
Faster Barrel Spin [removed]
Upgrade: Advanced Targeting
- Effect: Shoots at the nearest Bloon instead of just forwards.
Upgrade: Laser Cannon
- Effect: Fires lasers instead of darts.

Sentries

Normal
- Health: 10
- Attack: Shoots tacks at the nearest Bloon.
Upgrade: Fire
- Effect: Shoots flaming tacks that ignite hit Bloons.
Upgrade: Laser ["Energy"]
- Effect: Shoots lasers instead of tacks.

Dart Monkey

Throws darts at Bloons. Simple, yet (mostly) effective.

Banana Farms: up to BTD6 Tier 2s, plus Marketplace

Make bananas, which can then be picked up and converted to money.

Weapons and Ammunition:

For weapons using the 'new ammo system' (indicated with [N]), ammunition must be manually loaded. This is done by sneak-using the weapon in mainhand with the ammunition you wish to load in the offhand. Ammo type can only be changed if the weapon is empty.

Weapons:

Dart Shotgun [removed]

Dart Gun

Sun Controller

Glue: Normal, Corrosive, MOAB

Air Gun

Bloon Gun

[N] Blade Gun

Handheld Dartling Gun

Static Plasma Accelerators

Lasers can be reflected [upcoming - 1.12.0 pre1]

Lead Sword

Bladed Swords

Sun Helmet

[N] Acid Gun

[N] Sniper Rifle

[N] Shotgun

[N] Rocket Launcher

Spellcaster Ray

Casts magic spells with liquids

Ammo:

Some weapons have been changed into ammo types:

Dart
Tack
Fire Tack
Magic Dart
Blades

Bullets

Iron
Bloon Lead
Bloon Gold
Netherite
Fusion Alloy
Bloon Ceramic
Bloontonium
Depleted Bloontonium

Shotgun Shells (Buckshot)

Iron
Bloon Lead
Bloon Gold
Netherite

Blades

Iron
Bloon Lead
Bloon Gold
Ice
Fusion Alloy
Auroradium
Death (Doomsteel)

Support and Utility

Radar Scanner

Normal
- Reveals nearby Camo Bloons while in range
- Data: Outputs logic 1 if a bloon was revealed, logic 0 if not.
Upgraded
- Effect: Increased range
- Data: Outputs the number of Bloons revealed

Radar Locator

Displays entities in range on a map of configurable size.
Key:
- Red: Hostile or Neutral
- Green: Passive
- Yellow: Miscellaneous (items, minecarts, etc)
- Purple: Players
- Orange: Anything with the Camo status effect

Bloon Information Center

Gives information about the number of spawned Bloons in the current world.
Data: Outputs the statistic selected as number data.
Settings:
- Total Bloons
- Total Blimps
- MOABs
- BFBs
- ZOMGs
- DDTs
- BADs

Bloon Analyser

Gives information about a Bloon then attacked with it
Displays:
- Display Name
- Bloon class (blimp or not)
- Current health
- Immunities

Bloon Editor [removed]

Allowed the player to manually change:
- Health
- Name
- Glue ticks
- Fire ticks
- Camo ticks

Bio-Upgrades

Placed in special slots, these give permanent status effects or abilities to the player.

Belt Autoloader

Automatically reloads weapons when fired, if possible.

Blockzapper

Places blocks from the player's offhand, or destroys them and drops the item at the player's feet.

Custom Rounds:

Custom Round Editor and Storage

Allows the player to put (normally useless) Bloon items into storage, for inflation with...

Inflators

Inflate 1-3 custom rounds, with customisable delays.

Inflator Bomb

Can replace a custom round in an Inflator to make it explode.
This item exists solely to prank friends and enemies.

Round 1 (yes, that's the only round. Yes, that's annoying me too.)

Configuration:

Includes a Multilayer gamerule (config option in 1.11.0+) to allow conventional weapons to pop multiple layers, but decrease the loot and XP collected

Includes experimental damage and track systems - may work better, may not work at all.

Production Blocks:

Drill Rig

Infinite output from ores
Uses large amounts of energy

Electric Press

Custom crafter using energy to make plates, bullets, blades and more

Recycler

Salvages some materials from unwanted blocks/items

Bloontonium Reactor

Deplete Bloontonium, and get energy for it.

Charger

Moves energy between any 2 compatible items.

Solar Charger

Charges batteries based on light level
Only works if it is day, and the sky can be seen

Combustion Generator

Charges batteries using combustible material
Accepts any furnace fuel, even modded ones.

Bloon and MOAB Factories

Allows production of Bloon items with rubber and Bloontonium.
Can create hostile Bloons, or friendly ones.

MultiProcessor

3x3x3 modular multiblock crafter to produce things that cannot be made in the crafting table.
Can:
- Assemble items out of up to 12 stacks of items
- Craft using liquid cells, with 4 inputs and 4 outputs
- Recycle [upcoming - 1.12.0 pre2]
- Smelt with Heating Coils [upcoming - 1.12.0 pre1]
Has internal power storage, which can be extended with Battery Blocks.
Recipes don't show up in JEI, due to their unconventional nature, but blueprints show a full list when the selector is opened.

Data:

Transmitter and Redirector for lasers

Transmits data orthogonally through air.
Data types: Logic, Number, Text.

Data Cable

Transmits data linearly.
Data types: Logic, Number, Text.

Logic, Number and Text Displays

Displays received data on player interaction.

Binary and Digit Displays

Displays received data on the front face of the block texture.
Data types:
- Binary: Logic
- Digit: Number

Button, Switch, Keypad and Keyboard

Manual input of constant data values
Data Types:
- Button, Switch: Logic
- Keypad: Number
- Keyboard: Text

Data Probe for debugging

Outputs all stored-, transmitted- and metadata of the block it is used on.

Memory Cells [WIP]

Do not use.

Redstone Toggle and Switch for interfacing with redstone

Redstone Toggle outputs logic 1 if powered by redstone, logic 0 if not.
Redstone Switch outputs redstone signal strength 15 with logic 1 input, no redstone output if logic 0.
- Data types: Logic

Transmitter/Receiver

Instant wireless data transfer, without range limitation.
1 receiver can connect to infinite transmitters
Link showing functionality
Data types: Logic, Number, Text

Digit Splitter

Outputs the last digit in a number to one side, and passes the rest forward. For use with Digit Displays to show arbitrary numbers in-world.
Data types: Number

Misc.:

Rubber Blocks can be fortified

Bloon Structures will spawn, with different bloons for different biomes

Larger Blimp Structures spawn, exceptionally rare, but lots of loot and space

Leatherworker Villagers will trade emeralds for rubber

Bloon Transport System for moving small bloons around your world, with windows and filters

Bloon Start, Bloon Track, Bloon End

For creative mode and mapmakers - Bloon Start makes Bloons, Bloon Tracks move them and Bloon Ends delete them, and damage the owner player.

Support Track, Tower Deconstructor [Removed]

Banana trees and wood (will be turned into custom trees eventually)

Integration:

Support for Dynamic Lighting with Optifine

~~All~~ Most (looking at you, MultiProcessor) crafters have JEI integration

Uses Radioactive for some blocks/items

Mod Info:

This mod will not be updated to anything above 1.20.1, since some of the plugins I use are now discontinued.

I'm working on a remake for 1.21.8, but this will take some time, as it's a large mod.

Tutorials/Guides:

Some recipes are shown in the Images section, the rest in JEI and the in-game Minecraft Recipe Book.

These tutorials assume the latest Bloons mod version.

Basic Weaponry

The first material you will need for the mod is Iron Ingots. You're going to need a lot of these later, so stock up on them. Once you have these, you can then craft Darts or Tacks to pop the bloons from long range. Also craft a few Iron Tubes for later use. Use the recipe book or JEI to find the recipes for these.

Please note that conventional Minecraft weapons work on Bloons too.

Now, to get a weapon. The first actual weapon in the mod is the Dart Gun, crafted with 2 Iron Gun Barrels, 1 Redstone Dust and 1 Iron Ingot. Again, use the recipe book or JEI to find the recipes for this.

You will need ammunition for the dart gun, so craft more Darts to use as ammo. The gun works in the same way as a bow, so you only need the darts in your inventory to use the gun.

If this is your first time playing, or if you find it hard, I would suggest turning the Multilayer option on. This makes normal Minecraft weapons more effective against Bloons by allowing them to pop multiple layers at once.

Once you have this, you can start on getting better tools and armour. You're going to need it.

Since Darts and Tacks do not work on Lead Bloons, you will need to craft some kind of weapon for that, whether it is a sword, a Fire Tack (obtained by smelting a normal tack in a furnace), or something else.

Once you find and pop these bloons, you will get Bloon Lead Ingots, the main crafting material for this mod's weapons.

Using these you can craft more advanced weapons and upgrades, like the Shotgun, or the Sniper Rifle, detailed in the next section.

After that, you may want to continue with the technology and weapons development or go and explore, try to find the Bloon Structures, which contain Bloon-related loot.

Advanced Weaponry and Energy

[ Warning: a LOT of crafting ahead! Install JEI if you don't want to lose your mind figuring out and remembering crafting recipes. ]

After adventuring for a while, you may find you prefer to use longer range weapons. Fortunately, the mod provides many such weapons, including a Sniper Rifle.

Getting the Weapon

The Sniper Rifle is a more advanced weapon, requiring:

3 Iron Tubes
2 Glass Panes
1 Lead Supports
1 Lead Pellet, which is crafted with 6 Lead Nuggets.

Ammunition

Once crafted, you will need Bullets as ammunition. There are more than 8 different types, but try starting with the Iron or Lead Bullets. To craft these, you will need an Electric Press. This is crafted with:

4 Iron Ingots
2 Lead Supports
a Bloon Lead Block (which can be found in Lead Bloon Structures and Lead Crates, or crafted in a crafting table)
1 Machine Casing
1 Piston, but not the normal kind.

To get a Piston, you will need:

1 Iron Tube
1 Iron Pellet
3 Copper Coils

And Machine Casing is made with:

4 Lead Supports
4 Iron Ingots

Copper Coils are crafted with 8 Copper Wires around an Iron Bar.

Copper Wires are made in the crafting table, 3 ingots in a line yields 16.

An Iron Bar is made with 3 Iron Pellets in a vertical line.

See why JEI is recommended?

The Press will need 3 things: 2 items to craft with, and a battery for energy.

What's a Battery?

Batteries are items used for storing energy, and have several tiers. The first tier, which is used here, is crafted with:

4 Iron Nuggets
1 Iron Pellet
1 Orange Rubber
1 Purple Rubber.

Later tiers store more energy, but require materials such as Gold Plates and blimp Propellers.

Getting Energy

Batteries can be charged in many ways, but a Solar Charger is the cheapest. This is crafted with a Charger and a Photovoltaic Cell. The cell is crafted with:

5 Lead Nuggets
1 Glass Pane
3 Silicon, obtained by smelting Nether Quartz in a furnace,

and the Charger is crafted with:

4 Redstone Dust
2 Lead Pellets
2 Lead Supports
1 Machine Casing.

Place this down during the day, in a position where it can see the sky. It will passively generate energy, passing it into a battery in its battery slot. The actual amount generated varies based on light level (15 gives ~60 energy/s)

Ammunition Acquisition

To make an Iron Bullet, place a Gunpowder in the bottom slot, an Iron Pellet in the top slot, and a battery with at least 250 energy into the battery slot, and wait for the operation to complete. This will partially drain the battery, and yield 8 bullets.

To load these into the gun, hold the bullets in your offhand, the gun in your main hand, sneak and use (usually the right or secondary mouse button).

Now, the gun can be fired.

Different bullets have different effects, so I recommend trying them out. For example, the Purple Bullet has a homing effect, and the Fusion Alloy Bullet is not affected by gravity. These others can be made by using a different pellet in the top slot, except for the Purple Bullet, which uses Purple Rubber.

Autoloaders

Loading the gun manually can be tedious, but fortunately, the Belt Autoloader exists! It will automatically replace used ammunition, but only if the weapon and the autoloader have the same ammunition inside them.

It's crafted with:

3 Leather
2 Copper Wires
2 Motors.

Motors are crafted with an Iron Tube, a Copper Ring Coil and a undefinedCopper Coil. 4 Copper coils in a circle makes 2 Copper Ring Coils.

Right-click with the autoloader to open its GUI, which has only one slot - the ammo to load.

Press the 'Open Special Slots' keybinding (default F4) and place it in the 'Belt' slot. Close the GUI, and the autoloader will immediately be ready for use.

Custom Rounds and Inflators

Custom Rounds are a way of storing many Bloons in a single item, and releasing them with specific timings.

They require a Custom Round Editor to make, and an Inflator to use.

Custom Round Editor & Storage

The Editor is a handheld tool used to fill a Custom Round Storage with Bloons. A storage item is made in the press with an Iron Nugget and a Lead Pellet. These items are single-use, so use them wisely.

The Editor itself is made with 1 of each of these:

Copper Coil
Screen
Improved Battery (Fully charged)
Lead Supports
Machine Casing

and 4 Ceramic Capacitors.

Materials

A Screen is crafted with a Lead Plate, a Glass block and a Battery (Fully charged).

An Improved battery can hold 10000 energy, and is crafted with:

2 Batteries
1 Gold Plate
1 Lead Plate
1 Propeller
4 Copper Wires

Note: stored energy is not carried over during a battery upgrade, it is recommended to use newly crafted or otherwise empty batteries in crafting, as the charge doesn't matter.

All plates are made in the press with their respective ingots, and a blank top slot.

Ceramic Capacitors are crafted with:

2 Iron Pellets
2 Bloon Ceramic Shards
3 Copper Wires

which yields 4 capacitors.

Filling the round

Open the Editor's GUI by right-clicking, and place your Bloons into the left slot. Place an empty round container into the slot with the outline of one, and add a spacing in the text box. Then, as long as there are no errors (See Images section for visual info), press the 'Save' button, and remove your filled round. The tooltip tells you what's inside, which is helpful when distinguishing between rounds.

Inflators

There are 3 tiers of Inflator, each one adding another slot to add a round to.

The first tier of Inflator is crafted with:

2 Iron Plates
2 Lead Supports
1 Machine Casing
1 Propeller
1 Button, of any kind
2 Circuits

A Directional Inflator, which can be placed facing any direction is crafted similarly, but sideways.

~~and with an Improved Battery (Fully charged) in place of a Propeller~~

Ah yes, Electronics.

Circuits and Capacitors are used in almost every single energy or Data block, so make sure you have a lot of these. Normal Circuits are crafted with:

4 Transistors
4 Copper Wires
1 Circuit Base

Fully charged batteries are common in recipes too.

Transistors are used extensively in circuit crafting, and are made with:

3 Silicon
1 Circuit Base
3 Copper Wire

yielding 4.

Circuit Bases are made with a Bloon Lead Pellet, 1 Fiberglass Bar and either a Green Dye (for a normal base) or 1 Yellow and 1 Brown Dye (for an interface one) For this, you will want the normal base. Each craft makes 3.

Fiberglass Bars are made in the Stonecutter - 1 glass block makes 1 bar.

Inflation

Each slot of an Inflator has its own delay box, and error bar (see Images for more info). Place your round(s) into the slot(s) and input delays. Press 'Inflate' and run, as when the timer runs out, the Bloons will start being expelled with force.

What if I don't want to craft all those items?

If you find crafting a lot of intermediary items annoying, or don't feel like mining for resources, there is another option. By exploring the world, different structures can be found containing loot in the form of loot crates or loot blocks, which can be opened/broken to reveal useful items. These empty crates can even be recycled back into their materials, which can then be re-used.

A note about versioning:

Bloons mod release (displayed) versions were several versions behind development versions. If your file said '1.6.0', it was actually curseforge release 1.2.0.

I apologise for the inconvenience this has caused, and I have updated the displayed versions to match development ones.

This will result in version gaps, which are, unfortunately, unavoidable.

With this change, the version numbers on features will have to be removed, as the gaps could cause too much confusion, and it is very difficult to pinpoint exactly when a feature was added in development versions.

Bloons!