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Steeley

Steeley

Pop 250,000 Lead bloons

2,000 XP

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How to unlock the Steeley achievement in Bloons TD 5 - Definitive Guide

This achievement may seem like a ridiculous grind at first and well, it actually kind of is. But there's a trick you can do to earn this much faster than you might realize.

UPDATE: If you have all power ups and this just isn't working, deactivate everything except Double Money and Sell.

Below is a video by Angel Krienstovich who shows exactly how to get this. It is the PC version so some things will look differently, but there's not much of a difference when it comes to the gameplay.

Step 0 - Purchase Double Cash for $7,500 MM
Step 1 - Load up the Wizard Lord Special Mission
Step 2 - Pause the game and make sure auto start rounds is turned off
Step 3 - Place Dart Monkeys all around near the track upgrading them 3 to the right
Step 4 - Once you complete Wave 23, sell all of your Dart Monkeys
Step 5 - Place Monkey village in the correct spot shown in the video
Step 6 - Place Boomerang Monkey upgrading 4 to the left and once to the right
Step 7 - Place Ice Tower next to Boomerang Monkey upgrading 3 to the left and 2 to the right
Step 8 - Sell Monkey Village
Step 9 - Do Steps 5-8 on the other side (shown in video).
Step 10 - Place Glue Gunner at the top so it hits the enemies right away. Upgrade it 3 to the right and 1 to the left.
Step 11 - Place Dartling Gun above the path on the right, making sure it is facing down that path. If you don't have it facing down the correct path (shown in video) it will end the trick. Upgrade it 4 to the left and 2 to the right.
Step 12 - Start round 24 making sure you are NOT fast forwarding until you have your Dartling Gun fully upgraded. (If you don't have it fully upgraded and are Fast Forwarding, it will lag the game horribly).
Step 13 - Once you're ready, use your Dartling Gun and move it over all the balloons popping them all. Then sell everything and let the game end. This is the only way for your progress to get tracked. Worst case scenario, you have to do it again to get the remaining Lead balloon pops. I ended my game at 1,800,000 money and went from 24% to about 87% achievement progress.

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Thanks for sharing! I went from 29% to 83% when I quit at about 2,500,000.
Not sure if I had something different in my set up but this makes the achievement a lot faster than it would be normally.
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By Jappe on 29 Apr 2017 12:24
You're welcome. :)
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By VRETENAR 906 on 29 Apr 2017 23:26
This makes no sense to me. Why does round 24 continue endlessly for you?
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By Phenom1 T SMITH on 08 Jun 2017 20:02
Figured out what I was doing wrong, thanks.
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By Phenom1 T SMITH on 10 Jun 2017 12:56
Started at 25%, ended after I hit 3,750,000 and it popped right away. Thanks for the guide!
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By quiettime3 on 20 Jul 2017 00:39
No problem. Glad you guys got it. smile
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By VRETENAR 906 on 20 Jul 2017 00:52
i had all my abilities upgraded to 13/13 when trying this and the round ended almost instantly for me, you may have to deactivate Popping Power and Attack Speed for this to work

edit: didn't work, lasted a little longer but still finished the round after a while :(
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By liviaro on 23 Jul 2017 13:58
Hmm, you do make a good point. If you're not able to figure out a way to do it, I may have to mention that this can only be done before fully upgrading Popping Power and Attack Speed.
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By VRETENAR 906 on 23 Jul 2017 15:18
i finally got the farm to work after i deactivated all power ups except double money and sell back, now i just have to wait for the farm to kill enough :)
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By liviaro on 23 Jul 2017 19:32
Alright, glad to hear. I will make sure to mention that in the guide. Thanks
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By VRETENAR 906 on 23 Jul 2017 23:44
@liviaro: Excellent hint ... helped me solve the problem. Thank you also for sharing this.
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By Clowny on 24 Jul 2017 19:12
This still works, thank you
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By Legit Spam on 31 Dec 2017 09:23
Don't understand why people are giving this negative votes, it's a great solution. That being said I did mess up the first time. You do have to let wave 24 run for a bit without the dartling monkey so the steel hearts have time to bunch up. Pretty much exactly once the game starts lagging you can plop down the dartling monkey and walk away while the kills farm themselves. Cheers!
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By BAD T0AST on 26 Feb 2018 20:17
Thanks. Maybe they just don't want people knowing about the trick so the ratio stays high. That's how I got most of the dislikes is when I first put it up and only a few people knew about this.
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By VRETENAR 906 on 26 Feb 2018 22:38
I had 4 when I first put it up and I'm pretty sure I got the dislikes first before any likes. lol
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By VRETENAR 906 on 26 Feb 2018 22:38
Really lagging ! Follow this and pthers guide. Have 40b cash and round wont finish:p lol
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By pongulf92 on 16 Jun 2019 12:36
Nice solution! I went from 17% to 96% (annoyingly) I ended at 3.2m my power ups were at lvl 9.
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By LazyPunk on 30 Jun 2019 14:41
Small 2022 update:

Solution still works!
As an addition to the great solution:
Force quit the game when you finish level 23, and start the game up 1-3 times after that.

This way, if you mess something up, you can just delete your local savegame, and your cloud save will still be at the end of level 23*.

(*Based on how Xbox Cloud saving currently works)
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By Crazy Dutchman on 09 Jun 2022 08:26
Could you add BAD T0AST's comment to the guide? It's somewhat critical for this to work. Great guide otherwise
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By Gamerjnb925 on 02 Mar 2023 18:43
Ok so the point is to pop the regrowth lead bloons, which continuously heal and the lead layer is popped all over again. I just followed the guide so I know it works, but I'm not sure how the 4-2 dartling (Ray of Doom) doesn't tear through all the layers and fully pop the bloons.
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By TetraVega on 18 Jun 2023 23:37
@xs Silence sx: According to the wiki, the Ray of Doom only pops 1 layer per frame despite having a max pierce of 100 on consoles and Flash (infinite on Mobile/Steam). With the Ray of Doom being setup as shown in the video, it gives the bloons time to regrow layers.

Source of info: https://bloons.fandom.com/wiki/Ray_of_Doom_(BTD5)
Note: For some reason the ) in the link isn't being pasted as part of the link and as such is taking me to a page that doesn't exist. For Anyone that uses this link please add ) in the link if it is missing and it'll take you to the correct page.
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By AthleticMist759 on 01 Nov 2023 10:35
Not sure if the solution still works. I followed exactly (except I used a single village in middle and didn't sell it, fail to see how this would affect it though) and found the wizard lord is destroying too many hearts rather than pushing back.

Edit: tried again with ZERO deviation from the video, same results.

I quit out and reloaded to restart the round, sold the darling gunner and placed ten 1/1 ice monkeys on the first stretch of track by the glue gunner leading towards wizard, to help slow the bloons without popping.
This worked! Quite a bit of lag on series X but not game breakingly so. When ready I summonned the Phoenix and put down a 4/2 monkey ace for good measure to finish the round. Achievement popped on round 27
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By Scoochi2 on 08 Nov 2023 09:18
Round 24 is when the lead Bloons come in. Placing the towers down like shown in the video, will continue to shoot the bloons making them unable to advance. Since they're hearts they will keep spawning more and more bloons. Having a minigun is also needed. Everything is there, just need to follow the steps. :) Let me know if you need anything.
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By VRETENAR 906 on 09 Jun 2017 03:00
great guide/video! i didnt get any lag like BAD T0AST mentioned (most likely due to playing on a series x), so i just let round 24 run for a minute/to the point where the bloons were just starting to pass the Boomerang Monkey on the right side of the screen. finally, i let the game run for about 35 minutes and popped the achievement, when i started at 43%. i dont know if i went way overboard or just barely made it, but i think that should give you a rough idea of how long youre looking to let the game run
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By An Alphy on 10 May 2023 05:55
Do you have the dart training facility active during this? I seem to recall that dart monkeys can pop leads with this active at level 4 without having to go down the left path.

Update: Dart Monkeys can pop leads with 4 upgrades on the left path without the dart training facility. If you do have the dart training facility active and maxed out then Dart Monkeys don't even need upgrades to pop lead, am I right to assume that this solution doesn't need the dart training facility active or any other specialty building active?

Update 2: After watching like the first minute of the video I have determined that no specialty buildings are being used so yeah I answered my own question.
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By AthleticMist759 on 02 Jun 2023 12:21
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This achievement might take about an hour to unlock. 10 minutes of that is setup time, the rest is waiting for 250k bloons to be popped.

Load up the special mission 'Wizard Lord' and get to round 23 (easiest way to do this is to spam 1/1 dart monkeys until round 16, using the wizard lord's ability when needed, and then upgrading to 2/3). On round 23 sell all of your towers, which should leave you with about 40k to work with. Buy 3 1/3 glue gunners near the front of the map, with one of them able to reach the first corner (image of setup below). Then buy a 4/1 boomerang monkey on both the left and right exit paths. If you still have enough money, buy a 3/2 ice tower next to each boomerang monkey. This setup gives you infinite popping power, meaning it's impossible for any bloons to get past.

Image of setup:
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Order of priority:
Glue gunners, Boomerang throwers, Ice towers.

If everything goes correctly, you should now have an infinite lead regrow farm. I would recommend getting a 4/X dartling gunner as soon as possible, as the ice/boomerang method is extremely laggy. If you're using the dartling gunner specialist building then you can lock the dartling gunner to the right path and play another game while you wait (the lead bloons only move along the right path).

Cheers lads
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Tried this out and had a difficult time for it to register at first. The achievements only update when you die or win. Quitting out doesn't work.
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By Trialpears on 04 Oct 2023 10:56

This will take a very long time to get naturally. A normal game from wave 1 to wave 85 has 277 Leads and there are no Leads after wave 85 so you would have to play about 1,000 games. Please note that there is no visible counter which shows your progress towards this and the other 'pop x bloons' trophies so I can't tell if restarting a mission or exiting mid-wave has any impact on progress. The game saves after every wave so my best guess would be that after every wave, your progress towards these trophies is saved as well.

There are multiple methods to make progress faster than just replaying maps:

1: You can replay the Wizard Lord Special Missions which has about 700 leads. You can play the Special Mission as often as you want and once you've gotten all the upgrades it shouldn't be challenging.

2: Once you have finished all 250 random missions, you can alternatively replay the random mission "Chemical Warfare". In this mission, all bloons with an RBE of less than a lead (i.e. black, Ice, Pink, Yellow, Green, Blue and Red) are Leads. This method is probably more pleasant than the Wizard Lord Special Mission since you don't have to rebuild towers constantly and once your setup is powerful enough you can leave the game run by itself. "RBE" means "Red Bloon Equivalent" and tells you how many Red bloons (which are the weakest kind) the next wave is equal to.

Below, I will show you how to play Chemical Warfare after finishing all 250 random missions. You can also play it multiple times once it first shows up but as explained in the walkthrough for Entirely Random, it's gone once you exit the menu until you all the random missions are complete.

3: This is by far the fastest but also the most difficult method. You can Regen farm wave 14 in the Wizard Lord Special Missions. This wave has Regen Lead bloons and if you manage to keep them multiplying the trophy will pop after an hour or two. In order to efficiently farm you must keep the balance. If you eliminate too many bloons you will eventually finish the level and your farming is over. If your setup is unbalanced, this usually happens within the first ten minutes. You must also avoid the opposite because the game becomes extremely slow if too many bloons are on screen and eventually you won't be able to move the cursor anymore or execute any actions.

I have used a method similar to Angel Krienstovich's but I couldn't get his setup working so I made some modifications and ended up with a 4/2 Dartling Gun, a 1/3 Glue Gunner and two 3/0 Ice Towers. Until I was able to afford a 4/2 Dartling Gun I used two 3/1 Boomerang Throwers which I upgraded to 4/1 once I could afford it. I recommend to fully upgrade the Dartling Gun speciality building and activate it when trying this method since you can then lock your Dartling Gun to a target, otherwise it'll follow the cursor.

The purpose of the Ice Towers is to slow down the bloons near the Wizard Lord so he always has enough bloons available to push back to the beginning of the map where they get glued (no corrosive glue!). The Dartling Gun makes sure no bloon gets through to the end of the map. The positions of the Ice Towers and the Dartling Gun's ray are important because the slow down area must be just big enough to keep the pool of bloons healthy (or else the Wizard Lord will destroy them too quickly and finish the wave) but not too big or otherwise the game gets too slow.

The trophy will only pop once you finish the level so you must find a way to finish farming. I just placed a second 4/2 Dartling Gun and aimed it at the entrance. The trophy popped for me after wave 15 so don't be surprised if it takes a little while.

You can see in the following video how I survived the first 12 waves but I setup my towers in wave 13 and started farming in wave 14. I have recorded the first 30 minutes as proof that this setup is stable but there is no need to watch more than the first 5 minutes otherwise.

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