Useful Utilities

Adds in an assortment of quality of life features to BTD6

Combines many new features with an assortment of my other standalone QoL mods bundled together to become a one-stop shop for BTD6 utilities.

Brand New Features

• Upgrade Queueing
  • Allows you to queue upgrades to be automatically purchased later once you have the cash.
    • Default mode is 'Shift', which means holding the Shift key while trying to upgrade a tower will queue the upgrade.
    • Or, the 'Any' mode makes any upgrade attempt queue the upgrade if you don't have the cash for it.
    • Or it can be turned 'Off' entirely
  • A list of currently queued upgrades is visible in the top left by the Cash display
    • Additionally, in the tower selection menu, the upgrade pips will be labeled with their position in queue
    • Clicking on the visual indicators in either place will cancel that queued upgrade
  • If you try to Paste a tower when you don't have enough money, you'll now
• In Game Charts
  • "Meters" - Damage dealt / Cash Generation meters for your towers
  • "Bloons" - Shows the Bloons currently inbound for the round, or view other rounds' bloons
• Jukebox Folder
  • Creates a folder where any .mp3 and .wav file added will be loaded into the Jukebox automatically
• Quick Sell
  • If you're holding down the Sell hotkey, selecting a tower will immediately sell it
  • Additionally, when you do click the Sell button in the Tower Selection Menu UI, using modifier keys will make it sell other others of that type
    • Shift: Sell others of the same exact crosspath
    • Control: Sell others of the same tier
    • Alt: Sell others of the same tier or less
• Multi Place
  • Holding Shift can multi place for anything: Towers, Powers, Instas, Geraldo Items
• UI Transparency
  • New slider within the mod settings page that can make UI like the tower select menu partially transparent
• Hotkey Display
  • Display the hotkeys for towers in the Shop Menu
• Wiki Links
  • Turns names of Towers/Heroes/Upgrades in certain places of the UI into links that will show you their wiki page when clicked
• Clear Alerts
  • Right click on Powers / Instas / Hero buttons throughout the UI to clear the red info alerts for them
• Full Screen Hotkey
  • Hotkey to toggle Full Screen mode. Will remember your preferred screen resolution for each mode
• Tower Selection Hotkeys
  • Hotkeys for cycling through which tower you have selected
• Cursor Size Hotkeys
  • Hotkeys for changing the Cursor Size
• Keep Default Upgrade Sounds
  • For if you want to use the Firework Upgrade effect while maintaining your sanity

Other Mod Features Fully Included

• Auto Nudge
  • Press a hotkey while placing a tower to move your mouse to the nearest position where it could be placed
• Better Auto Start
  • Right click the Play / Fast Forward button toggle auto start, and it has a new visual indicator
• Copy/Paste Towers
  • Ctrl + C to copy towers, Ctrl + V to paste towers (calculates full upgrade costs)
• In-Game Hero Switch
  • Hotkeys to switch which hero you're using if you haven't placed one down yet

Other Mod Features Partially Included

• Temple and Paragon Sacrifice UI from Sacrifice Helper
  • Use the full mod for sacrifice effect customization

If any of these other mods is used at the same time, Useful Utilities will defer to their implementations and not clash with them.

Features Ported From Helpful Additions (RIP)

• Sandbox Clear Projectiles Button
• Showing Blons in Challenge Editor
• Single Player Co-Op

Lite Version

If you would like to only use the features that aren't from any other mods, you can download UsefulUtilities.Lite.dll from the release instead.