About Headless IV

Headless IV is a tower in Retro Tower Defense. It trades for about 10K, with offers usually between 9K and 12K. Demand is high and the price is overpaid.

Price History

Stats

Fully upgraded, Headless IV hits for 220 every 3.5s, about 63 damage a second. Each attack hits up to 3 enemies. Placing it costs 600 cash and all 4 upgrades bring the total to 28,350. You can place 1 at a time.

Damage a second at max level63

Cash to place and max one28,350

Placement limit1

Level	Cost	Damage	Cooldown	Blast radius	Targets	Accuracy	DPS
Place	600	24	4.5s	3.5	1	75%	5
Lv 2	2,000	75	4.5s	4	1	75%	17
Lv 3	4,500	120	3.5s	5	2	80%	34
Lv 4	7,750	120	3.5s	5	2	85%	34
Lv 5	13,500	220	3.5s	5.5	3	90%	63

Damage a second is damage divided by cooldown, and for magazine towers the reload is spread over each magazine. Abilities and summons are listed under the level that unlocks or changes them. Try other traits in the damage calculator.

How to get Headless IV

Headless IV isn't in the summon pool, on a banner, on a tower path or in a reward table in the game files, so trading is the way to get one now.

Traits it can roll

Headless IV can roll 19 of the game's 45 traits; the rest need a stat it doesn't have. Rarest first, with the chance on one reroll. A traited copy with its own trade value links to its page.

Trait	Chance	Effect
Twinning	0.174%	Placement limit x2, but price increases by +30%.
Overclocked	0.209%	Cooldown -40%, but damage -10% and increases price +30%.
Midas Touch	0.244%	Kill income x3, but cooldown +10%.
Strength III	1.05%	Increases damage by +20%.
Cooldown III	1.39%	Reduces cooldown by -15%.
Tank	1.39%	Damage +62.5%, but cooldown +30%.
Danger Close III	1.39%	Increases explosive radius by +35%.
Gold Rush III	1.74%	Earn +75% more cash from killing enemies.
Bargain III	1.74%	Reduces placement and upgrade costs by -35%.
Danger Close II	4.18%	Increases explosive radius by +20%.
Strength II	5.58%	Increases damage by +10%.
Gold Rush II	5.58%	Earn +45% more cash from killing enemies.
Bargain II	5.58%	Reduces placement and upgrade costs by -15%.
Cooldown II	5.58%	Reduces cooldown by -10%.
Danger Close I	10.46%	Increases explosive radius by +10%.
Gold Rush I	11.85%	Earn +25% more cash from killing enemies.
Strength I	12.55%	Increases damage by +5%.
Cooldown I	13.95%	Reduces cooldown by -5%.
Bargain I	15.34%	Reduces placement and upgrade costs by -5%.