I will start with the hotkeys that are not for placing towers or for sending bloons in Sandbox mode

Note to use most hotkeys in the game you need to have the controls set at Click & Drop.

Tab - Changes the targeting of the currently selected tower. Targeting always cycles to the right ie. first>last>close>strong>first ext.

Backspace - pressing backspace will sell the currently selected tower

, - will upgrade the left path of the currently selected tower

. - will upgrade the right path of the currently selected tower

spacebar - will start the next round or cycle between fast forward and regular game speed

1-9 - Activate tower ability (there may be more keys to activate tower abilities but i have never had that many to test that out)

Esc - Brings up the in game menu

Shift - Holding shift while placing any tower will allow you to place that tower down multiple times

Q - Dart Monkey

W - Tack Shooter

E - Sniper Monkey

R - Boomerang Thrower

T- Ninja Monkey

Y - Bomb Tower

A - Ice Tower

S - Glue Gunner

D - Monkey Buccaneer

F - Monkey Ace

G - Super Monkey

H - Monkey Apprentice

C - Monkey Village

V - Banana Farm

B - Mortar Tower

N - Dartling Gun

M - Spike factory

J - Heli Pilot

L - Monkey Engineer

; - Bloonchipper

K - Monkey Sub

Z - Road Spikes

X - Exploding Pineapple

These hotkeys send out bloons while in sandbox mode

1 - Red Bloon

2 - Blue Bloon

3 - Green Bloon

4 - Yellow Bloon

5 - Pink Bloon

6 - Black Blooon

7 - White Bloon

8 - Lead Bloon

9 - Zebra Bloon

0 - Rainbow Bloon

U - Ceramic Bloon

I - Massive Ornary Air Blimp (M.O.A.B.)

O - Brutal Floating Behemoth (B.F.B.)

P - Zeppelin Of Mighty Gargantuaness (Z.O.M.G.)

In most buildings on the home screen you can use the left and right arrows to cycle through them and hit spacebar to bring up the screen like you clicked on them. Esc will exit the building and bring you back to the home screen if hit while on the home screen Esc will bring up the Quit Bloons TD 5 menu

For example: If i am on dart training facility in the Specialist building hitting spacebar will bring up the tower upgrades and if i hit spacebar again it will take me out of the tower upgrades and back to the rest of the specialist building.


If i have missed any hotkeys for any section please let me know and i will add them.