Overview

Maps are locations that players can play gamemodes on. Players can access these in the lobby via the map queue areas. Maps can have obstructions that hinder your tower's line of sight, and these obstructions become more frequent the harder the difficulty of the map. Depending on the difficulty a map is rated as, players will either be rewarded more or less Gold and XP upon completing the mode. Completing a map on any core gamemode^[1] for the first time will award you a medal.

Medals

A player's profile card.

Map List

• Regular Maps
• Nightmare Maps
• Event Maps
• Removed
• Unreleased

• Simple
• Easy
• Normal
• Hard
• Impossible
• Other

Map	Anchor	Coastal Defense	Fort Summit	Highrise
Map	Oil Field	Oil Rig	Outpost Forge	Research Base

Map	Ancient Sky Island	Apocalypse	Blox Out	Junction
Map	Moon Outpost	R&D	Singularity	Treasure Cove

Map	Assembly Line	Castle Valley	Chalet	Danger Beach
Map	GDI Port City	Hakurei Shrine	Limbo	Military Harbor
Map	Purgatory	Route	Vapor City	Vinland

Map	Cathedral	Cow Annoyance	Dead End Valley	Gas Station
Map	Misleading Pond	Obscure Island	Scorched Passage	Secret Forest
Map	SFOTH	Simulation	Sorrows Harbor	Survival 202
Map	Unforgiving Winter	Volcanic Mishap	Winter Fort

Map	Asteroid	Baseplate	Blade Works	Deserted Island

Map	Tutorial
Difficulty	Easy

Map	Castellan Reach	Finality	Supremacy Prime	Pacifica Ruins
Difficulty	Simple	Easy	Normal	Normal
Map	G.U.N. Facility
Difficulty	Hard

• XMAS 2023
• April Fools 2024
• Tower Battles
• Halloween 2024
• XMAS 2024
• April Fools 2025
• The Takeover
• Shattered Moon
• Man vs. Steel

Map	Santa's Stronghold
Difficulty	Easy

Map	Baseplate Toilet	Lava World	Super Secret Forest	Toilet City
Difficulty	Simple	Easy	Simple	Hard
Map	The Really Long Map
Difficulty	Hard

Map	Western	Borderlands	Military Base	Pond
Difficulty	Simple	Easy	Normal	Normal
Map	Grasslands
Difficulty	Hard

Map	Calamity	Factorium	Hellspire	Ragnarok
Difficulty	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal

Map	Arctic Research Base	Fortress Snowlyn
Difficulty	Normal	Normal

Map	Retro Road	Cart Ride Into A Zombie	Evil Obby
Difficulty	Easy	Hard	Impossible

Map	Slime City
Difficulty	Easy

Map	Shattered Moon
Difficulty	Easy

Map	Robot Contingency	Northforge
Difficulty	Normal	Normal

Map	Carrier
Difficulty	Hard

Map	D-Day	Wake Island

Map Bonuses

• Normal Maps
• Nightmare Maps
• Tower Battles Maps
• 2025 April Fools' Event Maps

Map Difficulty	Map Award Bonus (%)	Reward upon winning
Simple	-5% & -10% XP	309 & 1,754 XP (Easy) 665 & 3,284 XP (Intermediate) 1,876 & 6,210 XP (Elite) 2,660 & 8,995 XP (Expert)
Easy	+0% & +0% XP	325 & 1,949 XP (Easy) 700 & 3,650 XP (Intermediate) 1,975 & 6,900 XP (Elite) 2,800 & 9,950 XP (Expert)
Normal	+15% & +15% XP	374 & 2,241 XP (Easy) 805 & 4,197 XP (Intermediate) 2,271 & 7,935 XP (Elite) 3,226 & 11,442 XP (Expert)
Hard	+35% & +30% XP	439 & 2,534 XP (Easy) 945 & 4,745 XP (Intermediate) 2,667 & 8,970 XP (Elite) 3,780 & 106 & 11,765 XP & 270 (Expert)
Impossible	+65% & +50% XP	536 & 2,924 XP (Easy) 1,155 & 5,475 XP (Intermediate) 3,259 & 10,350 XP (Elite) 4,620 & 14,925 XP (Expert)

Map Difficulty	Map Award Bonus (%)	Reward upon winning
Simple	-5% & -10% XP	879 & 28,530 XP & 450 (Nightmare) 5,938 & 1,425 & 34,605 XP & 630 (Ultra Nightmare)
Easy	+0% & +0% XP	925 & 31,700 XP & 500 (Nightmare) 6,250 & 1,500 & 38,450 XP & 700 (Ultra Nightmare)
Normal	+10% & +15% XP	1,018 & 36,455 XP & 550 (Nightmare) 7,187 & 1,650 & 44,218 XP & 770 (Ultra Nightmare)
Hard	+25% & +30% XP	1,156 & 41210 XP & 600 (Nightmare) 8,438 & 1,875 & 49,985 XP & 840 (Ultra Nightmare)

Map Difficulty	Map Award Bonus (%)	Reward upon winning
Simple	-5% & -10% XP & -10%	1,568, 5,302 XP, & 131 (Tower Battles) 2,375, 2,520 XP, & 162 (Tower Battles Nightmare)
Easy	+0% & +0% XP & +0%	1,650, 5,892 XP, & 145 (Tower Battles) 2,500, 2,800 XP, & 180 (Tower Battles Nightmare)
Normal	+15% & +15% XP & +15%	1,897, 6,776 XP, & 160 (Tower Battles) 2,875, 3,220 XP, & 198 (Tower Battles Nightmare)
Hard	+35% & +20% XP % +20%	2,228, 7,660 XP, & 174 (Tower Battles) 3,375, 3,640 XP, & 216 (Tower Battles Nightmare)

Map Difficulty	Map Award Bonus (%)	Reward upon winning
Easy	+0% & +0% XP	1,800 & 4,550 XP (+455 XP with VIP)
Hard	+35% & +30% XP	2,430 & 5,915 XP (+591 XP with VIP)
Impossible	+65% & +50% XP	2,970 & 6.825 XP (+682 XP with VIP)

Trivia

• Blox Out is the oldest released map in Tower Defense X.
• Carrier and Cow Annoyance are currently the only non-Event maps to ever be removed from the game.
  • Also Cow Annoyance are currently the only non-Event maps to ever be removed and added again.
• The Simple map difficulty is currently the only difficulty to be added after the launch of the game.
  • It was created for the sole purpose of nerfing Ancient Sky Island due to the Barracks' Units being able to see about 95% of the whole map upon spawning, making it effective for grinding.
  • Although eventually, Oil Rig and Fort Summit were nerfed from Easy to Simple, along with the introduction of Research Base and Highrise as new Simple maps.
• Cow Annoyance was temporarily removed and replaced with a different map in the 2023 Christmas event update which was due to the layout of the map being extremely good to grind Elite Mode when playing with Barracks.
  • During the 2023 XMAS Event, in Santa's Stronghold, cows could be seen trapped in cages, referring to the temporary removal of Cow Annoyance. (said cows are now no longer inside the cages)
  • The same reason can be used for Carrier, as it was removed due to being a fantastic Expert Mode grinding map.
• For now, Oil Rig, Misleading Pond, Secret Forest, Obscure Island, Fort Summit, Deserted Island, Research Base, Treasure Cove, Military Harbor, GDI Port City, Coastal Defense, Danger Beach and Survival 202 are the only maps to include useful locations in water where naval towers can be placed at, such as the Patrol Boat and Warship. While there are maps like Chalet, which do have naval space, it is too far away or too small of a space to be of any use.

Update History

Notes

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