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"Zombie Obliteration Device: Spawns OP gunner walkers with (big number) damage and (high hp) to destroy zombie waves! This is truly a threat defense strategy."

―Inventory Description

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"Send out a mecha every couple of seconds to run over and shoot zombies."

―Former Inventory Description

Description

The Mecha Base is currently a tower exclusive to anyone who is an administrator or higher in the Tower Defense Simulator Discord server, though on rare occasions it has been given to other people. It is planned to become an evolved version of the Military Base in the fourth quarter of 2026. It spawns futuristic units which can attack enemies as it moves. Each vehicle spawns at the end of the path, with regular intervals between each spawn. It heads towards the start of the path until it is destroyed. If it reaches the start of the map, it will naturally be destroyed.

The Mecha Base spawns several mechanized walkers called Marks that upgrade in stats depending on the level of the Mecha Base. The units can shoot bullets from afar, and upgraded variations can also shoot missiles which deal splash damage.

The Mecha Base has a placement limit of 3 per player.

Upgrades

ROCKET MECHA

Level 1 • Cost: Cash$1,200

45 > 30 Spawnrate Spawnrate

Adds Missile Launcher to Mark I

•25 Missile Damage Splash Damage

•7 Missile Cooldown Missile Cooldown

•5 Missile Explosion Range Explosion Range

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Sell Price changes to Cash$1,800

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EPIC MECHA

Level 2 • Cost: Cash$2,000

Spawns Mark II Mech Spawn

•1,000 Health Health

•12 Damage Damage

•0.15 Firerate Firerate

•35 Range Range

•40 Missile Damage Splash Damage

•7 Missile Cooldown Missile Cooldown

•Hidden Detection Hidden Detection

Mikey Boss

Sell Price changes to Cash$3,066

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SIGMA MECHA

Level 3 • Cost: Cash$4,000

Spawns Mark III Mech Spawn

•1,500 Health Health

•10 Damage Damage

•0.1 Firerate Firerate

•35 Range Range

•60 Missile Damage Splash Damage

•3.5 Missile Cooldown Missile Cooldown

•Hidden Detection Hidden Detection

Mikey Boss

Sell Price changes to Cash$4,400

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OMEGA MECHA

Level 4 • Cost: Cash$8,000

Spawns Mark IV Mech Spawn

•2,500 Health Health

•22 Damage Damage

•0.1 Firerate Firerate

•50 Range Range

•60x4 Missile Damage Splash Damage

•5 Missile Cooldown Missile Cooldown

•Hidden Detection Hidden Detection

Mikey Boss

Sell Price changes to Cash$7,066

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Z.O.D. MACHINE

Level 5 • Cost: Cash$80,000

Spawns Mark V Mech Spawn

•10,000 Health Health

•30% Defense Defense

•34 Damage Damage

•0.1 Firerate Firerate

•50 Range Range

•50x4 Missile Damage Splash Damage

•2 Missile Cooldown Missile Cooldown

•Hidden Detection Hidden Detection

•Flying Detection Flying Detection

Mikey Boss

Sell Price changes to Cash$33,733

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Statistics

To see all the previous statistics of this tower, see the history page, while for the statistics without the Firerate Bug, visit the Firerate Bug page.

Open in Statistics Editor

Level	Cost	Total Cost	Health	Defense	Spawnrate	Normal Damage	Missile Damage	Missile Count	Firerate	Missile Cooldown	Range	Explosion Range	DPS	Ram DPS	Cost Efficiency
0	Cash$6,000	Cash$6,000	500	N/A	45	10	N/A	N/A	0.2	N/A	30	N/A	50	11.11	Cash$98.18
1	Cash$1,200	Cash$7,200	500	N/A	30	10	25	1	0.2	7	30	5	53.57	16.67	Cash$102.51
2	Cash$2,000	Cash$9,200	1,000	N/A	30	12	40	1	0.15	7	35	5	85.71	33.33	Cash$77.28
3	Cash$4,000	Cash$13,200	1,500	N/A	30	10	60	1	0.1	3.5	35	5	117.14	50	Cash$78.98
4	Cash$8,000	Cash$21,200	2,500	N/A	30	22	60	4	0.1	5	50	5	268	83.33	Cash$60.34
5	Cash$80,000	Cash$101,200	10,000	30%	30	34	50	4	0.1	2	50	5	440	333.33	Cash$130.86

Strategy

• The Mecha Base is extremely useful for large maps, like Tropical Isles and Polluted Wasteland II, due to its units having long range.
  • It is not as effective on shorter maps like Dead Ahead, but still remains highly impactful due to its high ram damage and relatively low spawnrate.
  • In maps with multiple paths, only one unit spawns as opposed to two. This unit will go down a random path.
• The Mecha Base can be an effective counter against enemies with defense, such as the Warden or Fallen Guardian, as they deal full damage when colliding with enemies.
  • The missiles can also deal full damage to defense enemies.
  • The gun is still affected by defense.
• The Mecha Base is particularly powerful against fast and tanky enemies, such as the Bloated and Nimble Fallen Tank you would see in Hidden Wave.
  • This is even more effective when considering Mecha Base's slow movement speed on a longer map.

• The Mecha Base is useful against bosses, as it cannot be stunned or have debuffs applied to it.
  • However, some enemies can deal damage to units with their attacks. For example, the Fallen King deals 150 damage to units with its Sword Swing ability.
    • This generally should not be a problem, due to the Mecha Base's units high health at later levels. At max level, mecha base has enough HP to survive two of Void Reaver's attacks, which used to destroy any unit tower.
• It is best advised to place the tower away from the main path as it has no use close to it.
• DJ Booth and the Commander cannot increase range or decrease firerate of the any of the units, respectively.
  • DJ Booth can still provide a substantial discount to upgrades.
• The Mecha Base at max is capable of any defending every kind of detection.
• The Mecha Base is a powerful Hacker clone candidate.

Trivia

• During Hardcore Testing BETA, the Mecha Base was obtainable through the Hardcore Lobby at the cost of Gem 3,500. However, when the Overhaul Update released, it was no longer obtainable and became exclusive again.
  • The Mecha Base was only added to the game as a public tower to test units in the Overhaul Update.
  • This also makes it the first exclusive tower to be publicly used.
• The Mecha Base was originally based on the Zed from Tower Battles. However, after Hardcore testing, the Mecha Base significantly deviated from it design wise.
• There was a bug where the Mecha Base did not spawn Mark Vs at Level 5, instead spawning Mark IVs.
  • Additionally, the Mark IV and Mark V were both mislabeled as Mark III.
    • All of these bugs were fixed in the Entity System Update.
• The Mecha Base used to use Medic upgrade icons, instead of using its own unique ones.
  • Before the Overhaul Update, it used Military Base icons.
  • It is likely the Mecha Base used the Medic upgrade icons as it was the next tower alphabetically.
  • The upgrade prices were also the same as Medic upgrade prices, with the exception of base cost.
  • In addition, the Mecha Bases upgrade stats during Hardcore Testing BETA were labelled as "REMIND TO REMAKE STATS", hinting that the tower was not fully complete.
    • The Medic also had stats labelled as "REMIND TO REMAKE STATS" during Hardcore Testing BETA, though the Medic's stats were never remade.
• The Mark IV and Mark V had the highest range of any unit or tower in the game, totaling at 100.
• Some of the XR units, like the XR900, XR700 and XR600 were added in to the game a few weeks before the actual tower, though they would receive some changes before the actual tower came out.

Update History

For previous cosmetic variations, see the gallery page.

• 26 January 2020 - Release v1.6.1
  • Mecha Base added.
• 4 March 2020 - Release v1.8.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 4
      • Health increased from 800 to 1,250.
    • Level 5
      • Health increased from 1,250 to 4,500.
• 29 October 2020 - Overhaul v1.0.0
  • Mecha Base is now an exclusive tower again.
  • Firerate decreased due to the Firerate Bug being made less severe.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Now spawns Mark I instead of XR600.
        • Health increased from 100 to 400.
        • Firerate decreased from 0.45 to 0.23.
        • Range decreased from 32 to 30.
    • Level 1
      • Cost decreased from Cash$750 to Cash$400.
      • Now adds a missile launcher that fires missiles with 8 damage, 10 explosion range and a 5 second reload.
      • Spawnrate changed from 60 > 45 to 60.
    • Level 2
      • Cost decreased from Cash$3,000 to Cash$900.
      • Now spawns Mark II instead of Armored XR600.
        • Health increased from 250 to 750.
        • Damage increased from 8 to 12.
        • Firerate increased from 0.15 to 0.18.
        • Range decreased from 32 to 25.
      • Renamed from Armored Plates to Missile Launcher.
    • Level 3
      • Cost decreased from Cash$6,000 to Cash$2,400.
      • Now spawns Mark III instead of XR700.
        • Health increased from 500 to 1,200.
        • Damage increased from 8 to 10.
        • Firerate decreased from 0.15 to 0.11.
        • Range decreased from 32 to 25.
      • Renamed from Minigun to Minigun Mech.
    • Level 4
      • Cost decreased from Cash$25,000 to Cash$4,500.
      • Now spawns Mark IV instead of XR900.
        • Health increased from 1,500 to 2,000.
        • Firerate decreased from 0.1 to 0.08.
        • Range increased from 32 to 100.
        • Now increases the amount of missiles fired from 1 to 4.
      • Renamed from DESTROYER to Destroyer Mech.
    • Level 5
      • Cost decreased from Cash$75,000 to Cash$6,500.
      • Now is meant to spawn Mark V instead of XR901, though due to bugs it spawned the Mark IV instead.
        • Health increased from 4,500 to 5,000.
        • Damage increased from 15 to 20.
        • Firerate decreased from 0.1 to 0.08.
        • Range increased from 32 to 100.
      • Renamed from MOAR DAMAGE to Void Walker.
    • All units can now be damaged by abilities, if that ability deals damage.
    • All units are not affected by debuffs.
  • Bug: Level 5 Mecha Base does not spawn the Mark V.
  • Bug: Mark IV and Mark V mislabelled as Mark III.
  • Bug: Unit ranged damage does not increase the Total Damage counter.
  • Bug: Unit collision damage does not increase the Total Damage counter.
• 8 May 2021 - Overhaul v1.3.0
  • Mecha Base units missiles now deal full damage to defense enemies.
  • Splash damage reworked. Now the explosion is separated into two spheres. Inner sphere deals 100% of the stated damage while the damage in the outer sphere decreases linearly.
• 22 July 2021 - Overhaul v1.4.0d
  • Units now spawn in a queue.
• 12 March 2022 - v1.1.0
  • Mecha Base tower is now immune to debuffs.
    • Units were already immune before this update.
  • Firerate decreased due to the Firerate Bug being made less severe.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Firerate decreased from 0.23 to 0.225.
    • Level 2
      • Firerate decreased from 0.18 to 0.175.
    • Level 3.
      • Firerate decreased from 0.11 to 0.1.
    • Level 4
      • Firerate decreased from 0.08 to 0.075.
    • Level 5
      • Firerate decreased from 0.08 to 0.075.
  • Bugfix: Mark IV and Mark V are no longer misalabelled as Mark III.
  • Bugfix: Level 5 Mecha Base now spawns the Mark V.
• 17 April 2022 - v1.2.0
  • Bug: Mecha Base's units range can be increased by the DJ Booth.
• 23 April 2022 - v1.2.1
  • Bugfix: Unit ranged damage now increases the Total Damage counter.
• 13 May 2022 - v1.2.2
  • Bugfix: Unit collision damage now increases the Total Damage counter.
• 21 May 2022 - v1.2.3
  • Bug: Mecha Base units can be damaged by towers that use hitboxes.
• 22 May 2022 - v1.2.3b
  • Bugfix: Mecha Base units can no longer be damaged by towers that use hitboxes.
• 5 August 2022 - v1.3.1
  • Bugfix: Mecha Base's units range can no longer be increased by the DJ Booth.
• 21 December 2022 - v1.6.0
  • Units no longer spawn in a queue.
  • Skin rarity added to the Default skin.
  • Spawnrate now resets when the Mecha Base is upgraded to a Level that spawns a different unit.
  • Firerate increased for units due to Firerate Bug getting more severe for units.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Firerate increased from 0.225 to 0.23.
      • Starting spawnrate increased from 5 to 10.
    • Level 2
      • Firerate increased from 0.175 to 0.18.
    • Level 3.
      • Firerate increased from 0.1 to 0.11.
    • Level 4
      • Firerate increased from 0.075 to 0.08.
    • Level 5
      • Firerate increased from 0.075 to 0.08.
• 9 January 2023 - v1.6.0f
  • Firerate decreased for units due to Firerate Bug getting less severe for units.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Firerate decreased from 0.23 to 0.225.
    • Level 2
      • Firerate increased from 0.18 to 0.175.
    • Level 3.
      • Firerate decreased from 0.11 to 0.1.
    • Level 4
      • Firerate decreased from 0.08 to 0.075.
    • Level 5
      • Firerate decreased from 0.08 to 0.075.
• 21 March 2023 - v1.6.3e
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Starting spawnrate increased from 10 to 30.
    • Level 1
      • Spawnrate decreased from 60 to 60 > 40.
• 12 November 2023 - v1.9.0l
  • Bug: Mecha Base units start going backwards after reaching the entrance, disappearing after reaching the exit.
• 1 December 2023
  • Bugfix: Mecha Base units no longer move backwards after reaching the entrance, they now disappear there instead.
• 10 February 2024 - v1.13.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Mark I now has hidden detection.
    • Level 2
      • Mark II now has hidden detection.
    • Level 3
      • Mark III now has hidden detection.
    • Level 4
      • Mark IV now has hidden detection.
    • Level 5
      • Mark V now has hidden detection.
• 8 March 2024 - v1.15.0
  • Bug: First spawn's spawnrate appears as random when placed down, despite actually being the full duration, which is fixed upon deselecting and selecting the tower again.
  • Bug: First spawn's spawnrate is no longer reduced to 30 seconds.
  • Bug: Level 1 spawnrate decrease visually resets the spawnrate.
• 29 March 2024 - v1.17.0
  • Placement footprint size increased from 1.5 to 2.25.
• 19 April 2024 - v1.19.0
  • Bugfix: First spawn's firerate is now displayed correctly.
• 31 May 2024 - v1.23.5
  • Bug: Splash damage no longer bypasses defense.
• 9 April 2025 - v1.60.0
  • Defense role added.
• 28 January 2026 - v1.84.0
  • Placement limit decreased from 4 to 3.
  • Description changed.
  • Second tooltip changed. Original tooltip:
    • "Units are capable of detecting hidden enemies."
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Cost increased from Cash$5,000 to Cash$6,000.
      • Spawnrate decreased from 60 to 45.
      • Mark I health increased from 400 to 500.
      • Mark I damage increased from 8 to 10.
    • Level 1
      • Cost increased from Cash$400 to Cash$1,200.
      • Spawnrate changed from 60 > 40 to 45 > 30.
      • Mark I missile damage increased from 10 to 25.
      • Upgrade changes extra text added.
      • Name changed from Mechanics to ROCKET MECHA.
    • Level 2
      • Cost increased from Cash$900 to Cash$2,000.
      • Mark II health increased from 750 to 1,000.
      • Mark II damage increased from 12 to 14.
      • Mark II range increased from 25 to 30.
      • Mark II missile damage increased from 10 to 40.
      • Lie extra text added.
      • Name changed from Missile Launcher to EPIC MECHA.
    • Level 3
      • Cost increased from Cash$2,400 to Cash$4,000.
      • Mark III health increased from 1,200 to 1,500.
      • Mark III damage increased from 10 to 14.
      • Mark III firerate increased from 0.1 to 0.125.
      • Mark III range increased from 25 to 35.
      • Mark III missile damage increased from 10 to 60.
      • Sigma extra text added.
      • Name changed from Minigun Mech to SIGMA MECHA.
    • Level 4
      • Cost increased from Cash$4,500 to Cash$8,000.
      • Mark IV health increased from 2,000 to 2,500.
      • Mark IV damage increased from 10 to 28.
      • Mark IV firerate increased from 0.075 to 0.125.
      • Mark IV range decreased from 100 to 50.
      • Mark IV missile damage decreased from 10x4 to 0x4.
      • Cat extra text added.
      • Name changed from Destroyer Mech to OMEGA MECHA.
    • Level 5
      • Cost increased from Cash$6,500 to Cash$80,000.
      • Mark V health increased from 5,000 to 10,000.
      • Mark V Defense of 30% added.
      • Mark V damage increased from 20 to 42.
      • Mark V firerate increased from 0.075 to 0.125.
      • Mark V range decreased from 100 to 50.
      • Mark V missile damage increased from 10x4 to 50x4.
      • Mark V missile cooldown decreased from 5 to 3.
      • Mark V flying detection added.
      • Pizza order extra text added.
      • Name changed from Void Walker to Z.O.D. MACHINE.
• 5 June 2026 - v2.0.0
  • Firerate decreased due to the Firerate Bug being fixed.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Mark I firerate decreased from 0.225 to 0.2.
      • Extra text changed.
    • Level 2
      • Mark II damage decreased from 14 to 12.
      • Mark II firerate decreased from 0.175 to 0.15.
      • Extra text changed.
    • Level 3
      • Mark III damage decreased from 14 to 10.
      • Mark III firerate decreased from 0.125 to 0.1.
      • Extra text changed.
    • Level 4
      • Mark IV damage decreased from 28 to 22.
      • Mark IV firerate decreased from 0.125 to 0.1.
      • Mark IV missile damage increased from 0 to 60.
      • Extra text changed.
    • Level 5
      • Mark IV damage decreased from 42 to 34.
      • Mark IV firerate decreased from 0.125 to 0.1.
      • Extra text changed.

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