Melee Tower

Melee Tower is a type of Tower. It's different compared to other towers because it can only aim in one direction & has the shortest range. It doesn't shoot projectiles, but it stabs nearby zombies, dealing the highest damage of any tower. To rotate a Melee, click R.

Tier 1 Melee Tower

Overview

• Description: "High damage, single target, close-range directional tower."
• They can be rotated with R.
• They have the size of 2x2 in-game cells.
• Requires 10 Wood and 10 Stone to place.
• You can place 6 Melees (per party member, 8 total).
• Deals the highest damage of any towers.

Stats

Tier	Image	Cost Wood	Cost Stone	Cost Gold	Health Max HP	Health Time before HP regeneration	Health HP/s	Damage to Zombies	Damage to Players	Damage to Pets	Damage to Neutral	Others Range	Others Firerate	Others Max Yaw Deviation
1		10	10	-	200	5s	2	80	5	5	250	110	2.5/s	30
2		25	20	100	400	5s	5	120	6	5	350	110	3.0/s	30
3		30	30	200	800	5s	10	200	7	5	450	110	3.5/s	30
4		40	40	600	1200	5s	20	280	8	5	550	110	4.0/s	30
5		50	60	1200	1600	5s	40	510	9	5	650	110	4.0/s	30
6		70	80	2000	2200	5s	100	1200	10	5	750	110	4.0/s	30
7		300	300	8000	4000	5s	280	2200	11	6	850	110	4.0/s	30
8		800	800	35000	9000	5s	500	3500	12	6	1000	110	5.0/s	30

Trivia

The melee-tower-t1-middle.svg is the only asset that contains the original brown colour

Different brown colour.

The base & other buildings have the new brown colour.

Changelog

December 11, 2023 - Minor Update

- Magic towers now fire 4 projectiles at max tier
- Local bans are now cleared every hour (global bans still clear monthly)
- Bomb tower and melee tower received a buff

November 20, 2021 - Minor Update

- Decrease spear damage to buildings from [3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5, 5.5] to [0.75, 1.50, 2.25, 3, 3.75, 4.5, 5.25]
- Increase spear gold costs from [100, 400, 3000, 5000, 25000, 35000, 90000] to [1400, 2800, 5600, 11200, 22500, 45000, 90000]
- Cannon tower damage to players increased from [5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 8] to [5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8]
- Arrow tower damage to players increased from [5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6] to [5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8]
- Bomb tower damage to players increased from [10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10] to [9, 9, 10, 10, 11, 11, 12, 12]
- Magic tower damage to players increased from [5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5] to [5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7]
- Melee tower damage to players increased from [5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6] to [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
- Increase distance between bases slightly because bomb towers can reach into other players bases
- Disallow damage to player objects if no gold stash is owned
- Minor security fixes

May 30, 2017 - Minor Update

- NEW TOWER - A new tower arrives! The spiky melee tower packs a punch, but it can only shoot in 1 direction. Press R when placing to determine which direction it will face. Choose it's position wisely, and this tower can do some serious damage to enemy zombies
- On-Hit Effects - When a zombie is damaged, you will now see an on-hit indicator showing that your towers have hit them!
- Waves - Boss waves were buffed, normal waves above level 100 were made more difficult, and bosses have started giving much more gold when you kill them
- Major Update coming soon