Plants vs. Zombies Guide
- Read our Plants vs. Zombies Review
- Download the Windows demo
- Download the Mac OS X (Intel) demo
The Plants
* Plants with a * are single use plants and will disappear after their function is complete.
Peashooter - This is the most basic plant in your arsenal, and the backbone of any strong defense throughout the early stages of the game.
Sunflower - Plant these to increase the amount of sun you will get. Sun is vital to plants and to your survival! Two columns of these should be built in each stage.
Cherry Bomb* - Plant these to get an explosive reaction from the zombies nearby. Great for taking out groups of enemies, works in a 3x3 grid centered around where you place it.
Wall-Nut - a great defensive plant, that will hold the zombie hoards at bay while your other plants pick them off.
Potato Mine* - Great for taking out strong enemies in lanes where you don't have a wall-nut up yet, or to take care of pole vaulting zombies that make it over your wall-nut. SPUDOW!
Snow Pea - Snow Peas will freeze zombies and make them walk and eat slower. Great for holding back strong units while your stronger plants take them out. If a snow pea bullet passes through a Torchwood it will melt the ice turning it into a regular pea, losing the freezing effect.
Chomper - Chompers work great in combination with your wall-nuts and tall-nuts. They will devour most zombies in one bite, but it takes some time for them to swallow.
Repeater - These are a great addition to your arsenal. They cost twice as much as a peashooter, but do twice as much damage, and still only take up one space.
Puff-shroom - These are a staple for any night time level, they may be weak, but they can still take out a zombie. What's even better is they're free!
Sun-shroom - These little guys cost half as much as a sunflower, but only give you 15 sun to start with. After a while they will grow to full size and give you 25 sun. I still prefer sunflowers over these, even in night levels.
Fume-shroom - These work great on the early night levels, and their attacks pass right through the screen door zombies!
Grave Buster* - These plants will eat the graves you see in the night levels, and will even pop out a coin when you they are done!
Hypno-shroom* - These will turn any zombie that tries to eat them into a zombie that works for you. Great against football zombies! The zombie will fight backwards until it walks right off your lawn.
Scaredy-shroom - these long-range plants are cheap, but they will hide if a zombie gets too close. Not very effective alone.
Ice-Shroom* - This mushroom will freeze every zombie on screen and do a little bit of damage to each of them.
Doom-shroom* - These bad boys will blow up a huge area on your lawn and destroy all zombies within range, however the tile you planted them on will need some time to recover before it can be used again.
Lily pad - Not much to say about these other than they allow you to build on the water.
Squash* - These guys will crush enemies that get too close. if there are multiple zombies in a small area it will crush all of them.
Threepeater - Threepeaters will fire across 3 lanes, each pea is slightly stronger than a peashooters. Great for the three center lanes but there is no point in putting them on out outer lanes.
Tangle Kelp* These work like potato mines, but are to be placed in the water.
Jalapeno* - These guys are just bursting to get into the action. Placing one of these will destroy all the zombies in the lane they are in.
Spikeweed - The spikeweed will attack any zombie that walks over it, as well as popping tires on zombonies and Catapult zombies. Popping a tire will destroy the spikeweed and you'll need to plant a new one.
Torchwood - Placing these in front of plants that shoot peas will set the peas on fire and do triple damage! Snow peas will melt and lose their freezing effect though. Also drives away fog for a few tiles around itself.
Tall-Nut - Harder, better, taller, stronger than the wall-nut. The tall-nut will keep enemies at bay for a long time, as well as preventing pole vaulting or dolphin riding zombies from jumping over them.
Sea-shroom These water based fungi work much like the puff-shrooms only they can be placed in water, however their recharge rate is quite slow.
Plantern - Plant these in the fog to drive it back, so you can see whats happening on your lawn. They are pretty weak and don't do any damage though, so put a Tall-Nut in front of one so it doesn't get demolished.
Cactus - The cactus will pop balloons, as well as attacking zombies on the ground.
Blover* - Blover will blow away any air zombies, and temporarily blow away all the fog. Decent substitute for planterns and cacti, while only taking up one seed slot.
Split Pea - Split peas will shoot forward and backwards, however they shoot twice as fast backwards and they do forwards. Good for tunneling zombies, and not much more expensive than peashooters.
Starfruit - Starfruit shoot in 5 directions. None of them are forward. Works well in groups, though.
Pumpkin - Pumpkins surround another plant protecting them from zombies. Even works on Tall-nuts adding a much stronger layer to your defensive lines.
Magnet-shroom - This mushroom will steal metal objects from zombies, such as buckets, helmets, ladders, and pickaxes. Great to have a few of these behind Tall-nuts, even during the day, although you'll have to wake one up using the Coffee bean.
Cabbage-pult - Plant these on the roof to lob cabbages at the zombies, where peashooters can't reach due to the roofs incline.
Flower Pot - This plant lets you plant plants on your roof! Sounds crazy but it works! Just like a lily pad but for your roof.
Kernel-pult - These guys will lob corn, and occasionally butter at the zombies. The corn is a bit weaker than cabbage, but the butter is just as strong as cabbage and will also stop zombies in their tracks.
Coffee Bean* - Plant this on your mushrooms during the day to wake them up!
Garlic - These guys smell bad, but work great! Zombie will take one bit of these and move into another lane!
Umbrella Leaf - Umbrella Leafs will protect nearby plants from bungee zombies, and from catapult zombies.
Marigold - While she won't attack, the marigold will spit out cash for you to collect. A few of these with the Gold magnet-shroom will do wonders for your bank account.
Melon-pult. - The Melon-pult lob watermelons at zombies doing large amounts of damage to groups of zombies! Great addition to your lineup.- Imitater - The imitater works just like your other plants. In fact it works EXACTLY like your other plants. Pick the imitater and it will give you the option to pick a plant. This way you can have two of the same plant in your arsenal. This will reduce the waiting time to build plants by half!
Plant Upgrades
These upgrades are one time upgrades to the plants that you already have in your arsenal.
Gatling Pea - Upgrade for the Repeater, shoots 4 peas instead of two for a relentless, fierce attack. Add a Torchwood into the mix for a Zombie barbecue.
Twin Sunflower - Upgraded version of the sunflower, producing two sun each time. Great for long levels, survival mode, and for maximizing spots available for offensive plants.
Gloom-ShroomAn upgraded version of the Puff-Shroom, this plant will release toxic fumes in an small area around itself. Attacks quickly, but short range.
Cattail - Upgraded Lily Pad. The Cattail can attack on any lane, and it also pops balloon zombies. Having at least one of these in longer pool levels instead of cacti is a great way to save space and money.
Winter Melon - Upgrade of the Melon-Pult. Adds a freezing attack to the Melon-Pult, but fires at a slower speed. Adding one or two of these is a great way to slow down zombies when you are using Spikerocks. Frozen zombies will thaw if hit with a flaming pea.
Gold Magnet-shroom - Inexpensive upgrade to the Magnet-shroom. Removes the magnet ability but it will collect coins and diamonds for you. Great if you have a lot of marigolds, but not really essential.
Spiderock - This upgrade to the Spikeweed can pop multiple tires before giving out and does more damage to zombies walking over it.
Cob Cannon - This is the strongest plant you can get. You must build it over two Kernel Pults, and click it to activate its massive attack.
The Zombies
Regular Zombie - The most basic zombie out there. Very easy to dispatch, but watch out if there are a lot of them!
Flag Zombie - Just because he has a flag doesn't mean he doesn't want your brains! Leads every "Huge wave of zombies".
Conehead Zombie - Regular Zombie with a traffic cone that helps with defense. Takes about twice as much damage as a Regular Zombie.
Pole Vaulting Zombie - He moves fast until he meets the first plant, which he will vault over (unless it's a Tall-Nut), and then he moves slow.
Buckethead Zombie - Takes about 5x as much damage as a regular zombie, but a magnet-shroom will steal his bucket.
Newspaper zombie - This zombie will charge at you once you destroy his newspaper.
Screen Door Zombie - This zombie protects himself with his screen door, however fume-shrooms will pass right through the screen and attack him directly.
Football Zombie - This zombie is extra protected with a helmet and padding, so it will take a bit more to bring him down. His helmet has metal on it that reacts to Magnet-shrooms.
Dancing zombie - Will summon a backup dancer in four directions. A real thriller!
Backup Dancer - This zombie is really weak but will get in your way if there are too many of them.
Ducky Tube Zombie - This zombie is really weak, and only appears in the pool lanes.
Snorkel Zombie - This zombie stays underwater until he attacks. Place lily pads near the from of the pool to draw him out. Kelp works too.
Zomboni - The Zomboni crushes plants and leaves a trail of ice behind him. You can't build on the ice and bobsled zombies will appear if there is ice. Use Spikeweeds to pop his tires.
Zombie Bobsled Team - These guys will ride in on ice, and go fast until they run out of ice. They are pretty weak but there are four of them.
Dolphin Rider Zombie - Similar to the Pole Vaulting Zombie only in water. Tall-Nuts will be effective against him. The dolphin is also a zombie.
Jack-in-the-Box Zombie - This zombie moves pretty fast and will randomly explode. Magnet-shrooms will take his toy away and prevent him from exploding.
Balloon Zombie - This zombie will float over all your defenses unless you pop his balloon. Other than that he is very weak.
Digger Zombie - This zombie will dig under your plants and attack from the back. Use magnet-shrooms or split-peas to take care of him.
Pogo Zombie - this guy will hop over all your plants until you have a magnet-shroom to take his pogo away.
Zombie Yeti - This zombie rarely appears, and will run away after a short time. Only appears at night.
Bungee Zombie - He will drop down from the sky and either steal a plant, or drop a zombie down on your roof/lawn.
Ladder zombie - This zombie will place a ladder down on the first plant he meets allowing zombies to simple climb over that plant. Bad if he puts one on a Tall-nut. Magnet-shrooms will take his ladder away, and cherry bombs will dislodge ladders that he managed to place.
Catapult Zombie - This zombie will sit at the back of your roof or lawn and launch basketballs at your plants. Use spikeweeds to pop his tires, and get rid of him easily.
Gargantuar - This giant will crush your plants, and extremely strong. Try to take him out using bombs, jalapeños, Squashes or anything you can before he destroys your plants. He will lob the imp zombie when he is low on health.
Imp zombie - Although he is very weak often times he will be launched past your plants and right to your sunflowers, or your lawnmowers or roof/pool cleaners.
Dr. Zomboss - Here he is. The leader of the zombies. Use Ice-shrooms to freeze him when he is down, and let your other plants attack him. Keep an ice-shroom and a jalapeño for when he throws a fire ball or ice ball at you.
General Hints and Tips
- For the most part in adventure mode, and survival mode you will want to start by getting two rows of sunflowers as fast as you can, at the back of your lawn
- While you are trying to get your sunflowers up, try to only build plants that you will need immediately. Such as a peashooter only in a lane where a zombie is approching.
- Once you've got your sunflowers up, start focusing on your defences. You will need to use different strategies depending on what level you are on.
- Try to keep at least one bomb type plant in your inventory on each level just in case things get bad.
- If there is a lull in zombies use the break to dig up and replace badly damaged wall-nuts or tall-nuts.
- It may be worth it in later levels to bring coffee beans and magnet-shrooms with you in daytime battles. to help deal with metal weilding zombies.
- If a snow pea shoots through a torchwood then it will cancel out the freezing effect.
Adventure
Adventure mode isn't terribly difficult and shouldn't give you too much trouble so I've just listed off a few tips for each of the five level types.
Daytime:
- These levels are fairly straightforward. Just build a few peashooters in each lane and you should be okay for most of these levels.
- Build wall-nuts, and repeaters once you unlock them
- Not much to these levels except for learning the basics
- Night time has arrived! No more free sunshine for you!
- Dont underestimate the power of free things. Although the puff-shrooms are pretty weak, they are essential to your defenses at night time, especially when the amount of sun you get is lower.
- Make sure the first plant you buy is one of the two that will give you sun, otherwise you wont be able to afford better plants as the level progresses.
- If you keep these two things in mind the night level shouldn't give you too much trouble
- Ah now its getting interesting. Zombies will usually ignore the two pool lanes in the beginning, so you should too.
- Make sure to build at least a peashooter and a repeater in the pool lanes by the first huge wave of zombies, as there will be extra zombies that pop out of the water part way down the lane already on top of the ones that come from the back.
- As long as you remember to have some defences in the pool lanes by the first wave you should be alright.
- Remember you can place wall-nuts and tall-nuts on the lily pads.
- You should put spikeweeds at the right of your lawn in case zambonies show up.
- Starting to get tricky now. Pool, night, and now fog! Keep your head on your shoulders (har har), and you will do fine.
- Although you can't see in the fog you can still build in it.
- Build up a solid defense by combining what you did in the night stage with the pool stage.
- If you really need too you can build a lantern to help you see, but its not too much of a big deal.
- Just build up a solid defense and you should be alright.
- Its going to get a little tricky now. Peashooters and repeaters don't work well on this level, unless you build them at the top of the slope.
- You can get away with building them on the first column after the slope on the roof starts but after that they will be useless.
- Basically for this part you will need to replace peashooters and repeaters with Cabbage-Pults and Kernel-Pults.
- Other than that theres not too much to this one, other than keeping an eye on what zombies you will have to fight.
- It might be worth your effort to build a magnet-shroom and use a coffee bean on it in later levels.
Mini-games
Zombotony
- In this one the zombies are also plants! But they still want your brain.
- Guard your sunflowers because you will need all the sun you can get.
- Zombies act like the plants on their heads act. Peashooters will shoot at your plants, wall-nuts take a lot of hits. Keep this in mind while building your defenses
- Just like the wall-nut bowling you had to do in adventure mode.
- Higher combos earn you more gold
- Save a bomb or two for emergencies.
- Use then sun you collect to play the slot machine at the top
- Try and keep the slot machine going as often as you can to earn extra plants and sun.
- Shouldn't be hard to get this with a little luck.
- This one is just like the kind of level in adventure mode where the seeds come on a conveyor belt at the top, only you need to use them almost right away
- Just like bejeweled! You fought zombies in bejeweled right?
- Make matches to earn sun and upgrade your plants
- Start with your offensive plants first
- Combo's earn you extra sun
- Its pretty basic, other than the fact that the zombies are invisible. So build evenly in the lanes since you can't tell where they are coming from!
- This one is pretty basic too, You just need to fill in the stars on the lawn with the starfruit
- Might be a bit tricky to get "Star"ted (haha!), but once you get some basic defenses up you should fill in the star as soon as possible.
- This one is a basic clone of insaniquarium. Just save up and buy 5 or 6 zombies then let the sun roll in. Don't forget to feed them!
- Just like bejeweled twist! Same concept as beghouled
- All of the zombies are tiny, but they still have big appetites! Use the basic pool defense here and you'll do just fine.
- This ones a bit tricky. Keep an eye on where the portals are but still build evenly as the portals will move around the map.
- Make good use of your wall-nuts, and make sure to have a Cactus in each lane, and you should be alright
- Save a bomb or two in case things get a little tight.
- This one can be a bit tricky. For the most part you will start with the same few plants each time.
- Potato mines should go one column from the right, and your tall-nuts right behind them.
- After that leave a space then put your magnet-shrooms down.
- If/when you get chompers put them right behind your tall nuts.
- Try to have at least one clear column somewhere for placing bombs. Save the bombs you get for ladder zombies, Gargantuars.
- As long as you don't let the ladder zombies bypass your tall nuts, and you put lots of pumpkins down you shouldn't do too badly here. Might take a few trys to get it just right though, since you don't always get the same plants each round.
- Build spikeweeds to pop the tires of the zombonies. If they can't make ice the bobsled zombies can't show up!
- You can also use jalapeños to melt the ice.
- No crazy tricks here, everything is just faster
- Use your basic pool level strategy and you'll do just fine here, just make sure to keep collecting the sun, even though it might seem hard since it shows up so fast.
- This one is pretty simple. Just hit the zombies with the hammer as they pop out of the graves
- Once in a while a zombie will drop some sun, use it to buy Grave Busters and eat the graves closest to your brains.
- Build your defenses like this.
Use the money you get in between rounds to first add a second pumpkin to the other torchwood in the water. Refresh your garlic. And add a repeater to the spaces above and below the cattails. - Build a nice solid pool style defense and you should be okay. Remember to save some money for buying new tall-nuts in case things go sour.
- Just like zombotany only harder.
- Just like Wall-nut bowling only harder.
- Sunflowers, cabbagepults and tall-nuts will be your friend here. If you have the imitator, use it to get a second tall-nut
- Just like the final level of the game so you should be okay here. Just remember to always keep at least one jalapeño and one ice-shroom on you at all times for when he throws fireballs or iceballs at you.
Puzzle
There are really only two puzzles here, one is vases and the other you play as the zombies.
Vasebreaker style:
- Start with the vases that have plants in them
- After that start at the back and work on one lane at a time.
- Don't put too many plants in one lane, you will need to make sure you have at least one offensive plant in each lane or its impossible to win.
- In the later levels keep some squash for Gargantuars.
- In this one you get to play the zombies and try to eat the brains.
- There is no time limit so sit back and think a bit before you start throwing zombies at the plants.
- Try to find the spot where you can send one or two cheap zombies and still manage to get a sunflower, or two.
- Once you get some sun use stronger zombies in combination with the weaker ones to get to the harder brains.
Survival
In survival you will get a chance to change up the plants you picked at the start between each level so start with the basics on each one, and go from there. Don't get ahead of yourself. If you start with all the expensive plants you won't be able to afford a good defense and will leave your brains venurable. Use the same basic defense skills you developed for each of the adventure levels, but after a few waves upgrade your plants to be able to deal with the later levels. There isn't much new here it's just harder.
Dave's shop
- Slot upgradesBuying these will allow you to take more plants into each round with you
- Pool CleanersThese work just like lawn mowers, only they are for the pool lanes.
- Garden RakeThe rake will randomly start in one lane for 3 levels after purchase. Will kill the first zombie to walk on it in each level
- Roof CleanersRoof cleaners are your last line of defense on the rooftop levels, good idea to purchase these.
- Wall-Nut First-AidThis upgrade lets you replace Wall-Nuts, Tall-Nuts, and Pumpkins without having to wait for them to die, or dig them up first.
Easter eggs
Type the following codes during gameplay to enable the 'cheats', type them again to disable.
- daisies - zombies push up daisies when they die. (You need to have a tree of wisdom that's at least 100 feet tall for this code to work)
- future - zombies sport cool, futuristic shades.
- mustache - zombies grow a 'stache.
- pinata - zombies cause a shower of candy when they die. (Your tree of wisdom needs to be 1000 feet tall for this to work.)
- trickedout - for tricked out lawnmowers.
- sukhbir - activates zombie "THEIR BRAIIINS" call.
- dance - Makes the zombies dance! enabled at 500 feet.
Thanks! :)
One more Easter Egg from the Wisdom Tree.
At 500 feet, the Wisdom Tree enables the command dance - Makes zombies boogie, like in the endgame credits
pinata is given at 1000 feet, and is the last piece of wisdom. After this point, the Tree says
"Thank you for feeding me! I've given you all my wisdom, but you can still grow me taller!
[Awesome! I'll update the guide :D Thanks! ~Kero]
there's another plant upgrade...the imitator, which lets you have two of the same plant in the level. not sure how it works yet.
Question? How do I wake up the sleeping mushroom in my zen garden? All it does is sleep and not give me coins.. help!
Shrooms need the night garden to wake up, similar to the aquatic plants needing the aquarium. You need to purchase those at the shop, but they're expensive.
Both types will do nothing but sleep in the regular Zen garden.
Yeah! I spent $30,000 on the Imitator and I can't for the life of me figure out how it works! Please advise!
Oh sorry I missed that!
The imitater works just like your other plants. In fact it works EXACTLY like your other plants. Pick the imitater and it will give you the option to pick a plant. This way you can have two of the same plant in your arsenal. This will reduce the waiting time to build plants by half!
I like to use pumpkin imitaters, so I've always got a pumpkin shell ready to throw on any plant that happens to be in danger!
Also, there is a slight difference between the imitater and the plant it's cloning. The imitater takes an extra second or two to transform, so it makes a poor cherry bomb in emergency situations.
After purchasing the night garden, how are you supposed to move the sleeping mushrooms there? The glove doesn't work :\
Crazy Dave has a wheelbarrow he'd like to sell you!
@sabbit, it basicly lets you have 2 of the same plant so while one recharges you can plant the other
Question, my tree of wisdom said somthing like "try clicking on the plants in the main menu", But there arnt any, what does it mean?
benjabby,
There are some flowers near the grave (in vases)
On the vases writes Help.quit and options
Click on the petals of the plants and you will see
This game is amazing. I have been playing it for a week or so and I am not bored with it at all. I have managed to beat the adventure mode and puzzle mode. I am currently working on the survival mode but I am stuck I can't seem to get pass the 4th flag on the Hard Roof. I have tried most everything and still getting my butt handed to me. If anyone has any ideas on how to beat this please help and addict out hehehe
Thanks
Connie: Melon-pults. As many as you can buy. Also jalapeños, squash, and cherry bombs.
A Few tricks I have discovered in Plants vs. Zombies for continual automated money that I will share
The growth of Nursery plants along with the purchasing of marigolds in Dave's shop are refreshed on a daily basis. This can easily be manipulated by changing the day on your windows calendar and clock. Your plants grow in a matter of minutes rather than days.
The ability of the snail to collect is also based on time using the windows clock. Chocolate allows him to auto collect at full speed for 1hr (rather than slowly for 3 min) before he goes to sleep. After all my plants are happy, glowing and producing money (and the snail fed with chocolate) I check the time and then loop the time every 20 min to 1 min after my little ritual was complete.
To automate this process I created a bat file with the following code
:begin
echo 7:04|time
ping 1.0.0.0 -n 300 -w 9999 >NUL
goto begin
To make a bat file simply open notepad, save with the code and rename the extension from .txt to .bat , then execute. Also remember to change the time (I used 7:04) to the appropriate time you wish the program to loop to. Leave the computer running over night and enjoy (with a full nursery) ~$40,000 every hour.
Connie: I find winter melons do the trick everywhere, every time.
Last Stand minigame: mad money
Try this layout for Last Stand. Works well and gets you about $7,000 each time. You'll need 9 slots, and the gold magnet and gloom-shroom upgrades.
First four columns on every row has marigolds (w/lilypads in the water)after that as follows:
rows 1 & 6: fume-shroom with pumpkin shell, 4 blank spaces.
rows 2 & 5: magnet, 2 gloom-shrooms, 2 garlic
rows 3 & 4: magnet, gold magnet, both with pumpkins shells, 3 blank spaces.
http://i43.tinypic.com/34in315.jpg
After each flag replace the right most garlic, replace the left ones as needed.
Thanks to my daughter's boyfriend for this one.
Hey Abbadon,
I don't have chocolate and I want to try making a bat file that will loop every two minutes because if the snail only owrks 3 min, I need two restart the thing after two min.. How would you suggest I do that?
Hello, LatexSpikes. I made it about half way through the third flag, then a pole vaulter jumped my fume in the lowest lane. Managed to get ~ 4000.
Surcouf:
Adjust the -n 300
Actually I think 300 loops every 5 min. I think... just try -n 1 and time it see how long that takes till the loop and adjust accordingly... Seriously though get the chocolate because a slow snail doesn't pick up and misses alot of coins.
Giving a chocolate bar to a fully grown marigold makes it "dance" faster and produce coins faster. I have a full garden of marigolds. Is there a fast way to get candy bars? If i were to feed all my marigolds chocolate and give the snail some choco, it would be fun to see how much coinage you could get!
Abbadon,
I tried your bat file this morning and my game shut down for no reason and wont run at all now. Is there anyway to fix it?
Hey LatexSpikes, thanks for the tip on Last Stand - it worked wonderfully! Your daughter's boyfriend is a genius.
Lily - are you sure that you're following Latex Spikes' layout perfectly? Because if you are, then any pole-vaulters should die long before they get to the fume-shroom.
Did anyone notice that right before the final boss, Dave says says the 1st part of the konami code?
Thing is, if you do it (up up down down left right left right a b (or b a i don't remember) you will have a sound, just as using "daisies" or other codes.
Anyone knows what will it do? Or I'm just hearing stuff?
I believe that the hypnoshroom is actually a really good tool against the Dancing Zombie. After you transform it to a good zombie, any other zombies it summons are good as well.
Here's a random tip:
1: When you start out on the first level, always start out with two sunflowers then when the first zombie comes you will soon have enough sun to buy a pea shooter in the spot where the first zombie is. Then just build more sunflowers as you go (you only need one row of sunflowers even though most people tell you to use two, it saves space but it might slow up your sun flow but you will survive fine) and also as more zombies come plant pea shooters where they are in the next row then follow up on whatever strategy you think is best, if you're not sure what strategy you should use then just ask me. Also you can ask me for tips on all the other stages.
Is there any trick to get free garden plant gifts faster?
Your guide didn't mention about the wall nut first-aid which Crazy Dave is selling for $2000.
[Edit: Thanks for pointing that out. We'll fix that omission straight away. :) -Jay]
hi, I've beaten the adventure mode and now I am trying to beat the other modes as well
In mini game, I only have Bobsled bonanza left and I can't get through it, the zombies show up so fast and I don't have enough sun for peashooter yet, can you help me here please?
Also, in puzzle, I got to 10 streaks in Vasebreaker and 7 streaks in I, zombie, do they have an end at some point or they're just really "endless"?
liz - For bobsled bonanza,
I only used the road spikes and things like squash, mines, and peppers. It worked for me to line up as much of the path as possible with spikes and have a squash or mine right at the end to catch any stragglers. Hope this helps!
Liz, use the spike to destroy the sleds & bobsledding zombies. Also, upgrade them so they do more damage & dont disappear when they destroy a sled.
I'm having trouble with survival endless I can't get past 21 flags. What successful defense setups are you guys using?
Thanks for the tip, I've finally got through it and got a golden sunflower trophy!
I also tried the time looping thing from Abbadon and it worked WONDERFULLY! You're genius!
@Abbadon
What do you do with the .bat file once it is created? Does this work for Macs?
Is anyone else having huge problems with Whack-A-Zombie?
The guide says that it is "pretty easy", but I cannot beat it. It's the only mini-game I can't beat! There are too many zombies and they end up eating my brains....ALWAYS. What am I doing wrong?
Two questions:
1) How do I enter the codes? I have a few from my Tree, but I don't know when/how to enter them.
2) Can you get aquatic plants and mushrooms on Endless Survival, or just day and aquatic ones?
Please let me know. Thanks!
To NameofRain:
I tried one of the codes and just typed it on my keyboard while the game was running, just as some zombies stepped onto my lawn.
I think you'll get mushrooms on Endless Survival if the levels are at night.
Endless survival drops every type of plant, it's random.
just had a zombie yeti appear on zombie nimble zombie quick, which is a daytime level.. so they don't just appear at night!
also, tip for wallnut bowling 2 - screen door zombies can be killed in one hit, if you get them by bouncing off another zombie rather than hitting them head on.
managed to go up to 24 flags at survival endless. as of now, i realise that my survival ended the moment 2 gigantaurs (the normal one and the super red eyed ones) showed up.
basically its 2 rows of spike rocks with 1 row of tall nut, one row of magnet shrooms, one row of fire tree, and lot of machineguns. keep the pool filled with cat tails to help out.
27 flags in endless survival with just tons of mellonpults.
@ Skyanjel
That shouldn't happen, all the bat does is reset your clock every -n X seconds to the time you allocate it.
You don't have to run the bat, you can reset the clock manually every however minutes you want. I simply created the bat to automate the process.
I tested it again it runs fine.
@ Alexandre
I'm sure macs would have some similar programming capabilities. You just need to create a program that does the same thing with the mac clock. But mac is often anal about allowing that level of user control.
Also JIGuest has some great tips over in the PvZ review section.
Nicely done. The Gloom Shroom deserves a section but otherwise a very solid guide
I typically buy the rake from Crazy Dave just so I can get the jump on sun and have more of a chance to set up defenses
For the bobsled bonanza, it was a huge challenge for me until I found this strategy in one of the website.
pick sunflower, twin sunflower, wall nut, squash, star, cattail, lilypad, jalapeno
1st row
twin sunflower, space, space, wall nut
2nd row
sunflower, space, space, wall nut
3rd row (water)
space, stars, stars, stars, cattail, space, wall nut
4th row (water)
space, cattail, stars, stars, stars, space, wall nut
5th row
sunflower, space, space, wall nut
6th row
twin sunflower, space, space, wall nut
squash is prefered to squash the zomboni while jalapeno to take out ice, sledge team and zomboni. Fill up the space with stars or cattails. I have the snapshot but unable to load it up here.
[Spoiler tags added. You can upload your screenshot to a photo hosting service such as Photobucket or Flickr and just post the link here. -Pam]
thanks for the help with the bobsled
The guide says that yeti zombies only appear at night, yet I once saw one of the roof! So, I guess they appear whenever they want to! No darkness can hold yeti zombies back!
I am trying to find out what the best levels are for getting water plants. also I have made it 26 flags in endless
The best levels to try and get water plants on are pool levels.
you will always be most likely to get plants form the type of level you are on, Water plants on pool levels, and night plants on night levels.
Survival endless gives you and equal chance to get all types of plants.
abbadon - great ideas. i was trying to find a way to manipulate that, that works perfectly.
stockpile some chocolate and feed it to all your plants and you'll double your money even faster (with a faster time repeat).
using the imitator
once purchased he will sit at the side of your menu. simply click on him and a menu of plants pops up in gray. click the plant you want him to be and he will transform into it when you place him down. be aware he takes a few seconds to become the item you have chosen when you are placing him.
mushrooms in zen garden
to wake mushrooms you need to own the night garden and move them using the wheelbarrow into it, the same goes for water plants.
my notepad won't save as a .bat file. It's either .txt or "All files."
yeah, what does the "contra" code do? up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a? I hear a "pop" sound when I do it, too
Hello, Kero... your guide doesn't have a * for the Grave Buster, its gone after one use.
[Edit: Thanks! Fixed. :) -Kero]
AWSOME! Cat-tail is so CUTE!!! But can I ask for you to update this with the items you can buy at crazy-daves shop? Like the water-version of a lawnmower? And some pictures. I love pictures.
I love the coffee bean, its effects is so obvious XD.
BTW: For plant upgrades, its missing Gloom-Shroom.
Jay,
Was looking over the strategy guide and noticed that, in plant upgrades, the gloom-shroom has been left out.
Also, I'm wondering if anyone has done a comparison of the power of each plant. In other words, will a gloom-shroom or a cattail kill a zombie faster? Or does one work better for certain types of zombies, etc?
PvZ is a great game. Thanks for the strategy hints,
ryo
Ryo
In the plants almanac it will tell you the damage that a plant does, also any special details about the plant.
Gloom-shroom has been added to the guide as well as the items from Dave's shop :)
The potato mine can be used against the tunnelling zombie. It will explode as the zombie tunels under it.
i tried clicking on the flowers on the main menu screen like the tree of wisdom told me to, but nothing much happens... am i missing something? thanks!
Alexandria:
The flowers in the vases on the lower right corner of the main menu are clickable. the petals just fall off nothing too spectacular.
Hey, I was wondering... there is an empty spot which the plant calls the yeti zombie. How do we encounter it?
Thanks.
Don
To get the 'yeti zombie' you have to play adventure mode for the second time. get all the way up to the end of the fog level. In this level it is raining and it's pretty dark, so look real carefully for it. It will go into any lane and go back out of it so defeat it as quickly as possible.
Yours sincerely
Tao
If you can kill the Yeti Zombi quickly, you get...
like 4 grand!
Also, when planting Sun and trying to build defenses I love to use the potato mine and plant it right next to the Sun flower. It's cheap, and by the time the zombie gets there you have planted more sun and the potato mine is almost recharged to kill the next one coming.
I have a MiniGames tip:
they get easier after you lose. I played Last Stand twice and lost, then finally won on the third try. Same with Column Like You See 'Em.
In Last Stand, I used an entire back row of melon pults, with every other one frozen, Tall Nuts in the front with Magnet shrooms, then with the sun I earned I replaced Tall Nuts or a magnet shroom.
Does anyone know what program to use to save screen shots? I know to click Control, Print Screen, but then where do I paste the pic? I used to put it into an email then right click save, but that doesn't work anymore. Thanks, rat
To Rat:
If you have Microsoft, you can use Paint to save your screenshots. After you capture the screenshot, just open Paint, click Edit, then click Paste. Save it as a .jpeg file and you're all set!
39 flags in survival endless!
Filled the front half of the pool with pumpkin covered gloom shrooms and the back half with cattails. Never had to worry about the water or lanes next to the water. Outer lanes were gatling peas with torchwoods and 2 spikerocks on the end. The outer lanes are the weak point, haven't found a solution yet.
Oh, the back columns; first column pumpkin covered double sunflowers; second column a gloom shroom and an umbrella leaf on land and just more cattails in the water.
Anyone manage to get farther than 39 flags?
Survival Endless Wintermelons help keep zombies back at the first two squares
to Flyinfree use 2 wintermellons instead of the Gatling and Torchwood and you can make it further
So far this is the best defensive layout I have come up with for survival endless. It can easily deal with anything except jack in the box zombies occassionally blow everything apart.
http://i43.tinypic.com/313i2qw.jpg
how do you tell how high your tree of wisdom is?
To Borntorule:
Once you reach 50 feet, the height of the tree will be seen at the top of the screen. Until then, you don't know the height.
ok thanks
45 flags on survival endless with the same defenses shown above. Same result can handle limitless waves of anything but a few badly timed jack in the box zombies and it's all over. Just comes down to luck at that point.
49 flags using the same method of defense. I think that's the only way of defending to reach above 25. Yup, it's all about luck at the end... red eyed monster with jack in the box usually means end of game. =(
I need help with the Cob Cannon. It says you have to plant it over two kernel pults, but I have no idea what that means.... I have five kernel pults in pots, but it wont allow me to choose the Cob Cannon. How do you use it??
To Patrick:
You have to plant two kernel pults next to each other on the same row. Then you put the Cob Cannon on top of them. :)
To Patrick,
Also, neither of the two kernel pults can have a pumpkin protecting it in order to place a Cob Cannon over them.
OK final revision of the survival endless layout.
http://i44.tinypic.com/10nz7nb.jpg
Start out with the entire back column double sunflowers then put those back 4 winter melons down last. You should be able to have it all up in 8 flags. This layout can take out everything without you having to do anything. Just replace spikerocks and pumpkins as they wear out. The cob cannons are to pick off jack in the box zombies in the outter 2 lanes and to put one hit into giga-gigantors to soften them up so they don't chew up your spikerocks. Keep the plants in the toolbar as shown, use the jalapenos to clear the outter lanes of jack in the box zombies if your cob cannons aren't ready. Basically you will last forever until you get unlucky with a few bad jack in the box zombies.
If anyone has a suggestion to better deal with the jack in the box zombies in the outter lanes let me know.
i don't understand ,can anyone tell me what's a BAT?
i know this is going to sound lame i already passed the minigames and bought everything from daves shop my gardens are full my tree is frkin tall as heck but i cant pass the whack a zombie any tips plz
I've gotten my tree to a little over 200 feet, but it's tiring and expensive as heck to continue growing it one. stupid. foot. at a time. Does anyone know if it "magically" skips 50 feet at a certain point or whatnot?
@Kira
Nope just 1000 long, boring, tedious feet of pure mind-numbing hell.
65 flags and going strong when the POWER GOES OUT! ARGH!
65 Flags Screenshot
Here's the layout I used.
That reminds me of an earlier one, except with an extra wintermelon.
By the way, I have a simple way of beating last stand, though you need cob cannons. It isn't what I would call the best way though.
Just build six cob cannons and a row of tallnuts at the fourth column. Also, build two cattails and use the rest of the sun to maintain your tallnuts. Very simple.
By the way, gloom shrooms go well with garlic (put this on the guide please). You put the garlic in front of a row of gloom shrooms, and the shrooms kill the zombies when they pass by.
And for whack a zombie, you just need to click really quickly. Not much more to say there.
I'd love some tips for adventure level 5-5 (second time through adventure mode)...the conveyor belt only drops Chompers and (very rarely) cherry bombs and pumpkins.
I've come close to finishing it, but every time just before the end, I either run out of offensive seeds, or a backlog of zombies cuts right through my flower pot the moment I set it down, so I can't even put anything in front of the
is there a layout for endless survival to earn money and survive at the same time?
Hi am I missing something about Bobsled bonanza? Its great that people have posted strategies but I simply cannot get enough suns to build enough defences before I am overrun with zombies! Please help it is driving me mad! Could someone post a "walkthrough" maybe?
Cheers
To T1ger:
I've been able to beat Bobsled Bonanza a couple of times. I'll play it again and try to write a walkthrough for you. :)
To Chad:
I just went through that level today. The thing that saved me was that I held onto as many cherry bombs as I could. At the end when the swarm of zombies came, I dropped three cherry bombs in the sea of zombies and cleared them out enough that I could finish the level.
Just a heads up on the Bobsled level, bobsleds can be eaten in their entirety (all four zombies and the sled) by a Chomper if they are still inside it when it snaps.
Heyy, just felt like helping out a little :D
Use a mouse for whack a zombie :D
And just click. If you all are using mouse pads it would take some time :D If you already are using a mouse just play it a few times, you'll get better :]
This guide is really great, and I love the comments too xD Really alot of extra information, esp about the Zen Garden! Never thought of scamming the game liek that :D thanks!
Hoho my record for survival is only 25 flags ._. how long did you all take to reach 65? and doesnt the gloom shrooms cost like a hell lot aft a while ._.
To FlyinFree :
thx for the layout tips, its great !
46 flags at first try :)
I'll echo the person who can't get past Whack A Zombie. It's the last thing I need to beat to get my gold trophy, and it's just bloody impossible. Any tips very welcome.
I see all these screen shots for the survival level and yet I don't know how to get the seemingly unlimited suns you guys have.
Whenever I start that level I have the standard 50.
(Before you ask I have beaten the game.)
OK 116 flags. This is my last revision for survival endless(I know I said that before but I lied). As you can see by the screenshot I'm at 100 flags with full sun and all my plants in perfect condition.
116 Flags Screenshot
To the user asking how long it takes to get to 65 flags - hours, get comfortable.
To the user asking how I get so much sunlight - double sunflowers in the entire back column (I later replace 2 when I don't need as much sunlight).
To the user asking if the gloomshrooms get expensive - as you can see in the screenshot they are up to 950 sunlight.
PS: The almanac is wrong, winter melons have the same firing rate as melonpults.
how do you get unlimited sun? do i really just type in the word "TOHOT"? Can someone please let me know how tall my tree of wisdom needs to be. thanks. oh and another way of getting lot's of cash is
to simply change the clock on your PC, then go back to the game and check out your zen garden cause all of your plants will need water. simply do it all over again after every feed. well that's it for now..
[Edit: The spoiler above contans a tip that includes changing the clock on your pc. Please be aware that this can harm your pc. You should only do this if you know exactly what you are doing. ~ Kayleigh]
wow 116 flags ? awesome !
I can only beat 84 flags, using similiar layot but with 4 cob cannon.
One thing that I've not notice mentioned is that after you beat Dr Zomboss and you get the end credits, you can go back and play the same Adventure game again. But this time round, although you have all the plants you had accummulated, Crazy Dave randomly selects 3 plants for you at each level which you cannot deselect. Just makes things a little more interesting when you find that he's pick 3 totally useless items for you! =P
Regarding the sunlight thing, one thing i do is just spam sunflowers for the first level. By spamming means at the end of the first 2 flags only the last 3 columns dun have sunflowers :D and then slowly replace the sunflowers with plants. Its good to start out with 9000+ sunlight.
Well thats what i learnt from watching youtube vids ._.
@ Connie (re: Survivor Roof):
I had a very hard time getting through the Survivor Roof level. What ended up working for me was to concentrate almost entirely on offense and avoid planting Wall- or Tall-Nuts.
I had 10 slots, which was very helpful.
I started with two rows of sunflowers, two rows of cabbage, and a row of magnets. I pumpkined the magnets when I could. I also replaced cabbage with melon-pults when I could.
And then I basically kept moving my offensive line forward and putting pumpkins on them. I replaced some sunflowers with those umbrella leaves and put in a line of cactuses close to the top of the roof so that they would fire at zombies instead of into the slope. Next I used frozen peas since it was on the top of roof. I alternated between planting frozen peas (and pumpkining) and putting in melon-pults and winter-melons.
I tried to keep a jalapeno and cherry bomb on hand. At the end, I was hit with gargantors and if it hadn't been for the roof cleaners/mowers things I wouldn't have made it through.
I hope that helps. Keep trying different combinations of offenses and defense--something's gonna work for you eventually.
re: Whack-a-Zombie
This was one of the hardest mini-games for me to beat. I think part of it has to do with luck of the draw--sometimes you get a crap hand, ya know?
1 or 2 clicks is usually enough to nail a zombie. Don't waste your time over-clicking.
Use those gravebusters to eat the graves closest to your house!
Also, there's no shame in using those lawn mowers! You should consider them as part of your overall strategy.
Good luck!
re: Bobsled Bonanza
Spikeweed and jalapenos. Spiderock if you can, too. Lots and lots of spikeweed.
WHACK-A-ZOMBIE - I've found that the Coneheads need 2 hits of the hammer & the Bucketheads - 3 hits sometimes.i.e. The stronger the zombie, the more hits.
The Squash kills the Zomboni.
Can anyone give me more info on the Zen Garden?
How do you get more chocolate? Do you get it only by playing certain games on certain levels? Does it eventually show up in Dave's shop?
Does the snail collect coins for all 3 gardens or do you have to buy a snail for each? I've bought one and it is sold out at Dave's. I won 1 chocolate & fed it to him, but I don't think he lasted an hour. He's sleeping now.
Is there more to the gold watering can & the gardening glove, other than what the description for them says. How necessary are they?
Another question on the chocolate. If you feed the snail more than one, are they all used, therefore having him collect coins for longer, or do you have to feed him chocolate one at a time for each to be effective?
To SueKY:
About the Zen Garden -
Once you buy the snail, the chocolate starts showing up randomly on the levels and mini-games. It's not for sale in Dave's store, I easly have 10 chocolates in my inventory at a time. I think you have to give the snail a chocolate every time you open the Zen Garden, but he should be awake for a good while. I've left the Zen Garden open on my computer while I walk away to do other things and when I come back, the snail is still collecting coins. He does it until I close the garden. And the snail only collects coins from the regular daylight plants, not the mushrooms or water plants.
The gold watering can and the glove are nice, but not necessary. You can water 4 plants at a time with the gold can and the glove lets you move the plants around.
Thanks, Pam. My next question: I have all 3 gardens with plants in all. Sometimes when I go into the night or water garden, I see coins to collect. Are coins continually producing whether you are in a particular garden or not (while playing a game, for instance)? Do the coins only appear when you enter the garden? There don't seem to be many in the latter gardens, so what is the purpose of those two -- just to grow & sell to Dave?
195 flags with this setup and only died because I wasn't paying attention I really think this one could go forever if played right. Advantage to this one is you can completely ignore diggers so can concentrate on the front lines.
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TREE of WISDOM
How do you grow your tree to 1000 feet tall?
Mine is 60 feet tall right now and it only grows a foot at a time when adding fertilizer.
1000 feet would cost a fortune!!
I saw your posting about the 195 flag in endless. That's impressive. Questions- 1) How did you get the white pumpkin? I don't see that as an option to buy? 2) you don't have any spikes, what do you do about the Zambonies?
Wait, were the pumkins white because you used an imitator for a second pumpkin? I think I figured it out but let me know for sure : ) I still want to know how you dealt with the zambonies without spikes
@JLGuest
Yes the white pumpkins were from imatators.
The gloom-shrooms will take out the zombonies no problem you can just ignore them.
Something that might help in the "Whack a Zombie" level is to go into the mouse control portion of Windows and speed up how fast the cursor moves across the screen. Hope this helps
On the gardening glove:
I'm not 100% sure, but I think you can use the wheelbarrow as a makeshift gardening glove if you really don't want to spend that 1000. The glove is easier to work with. Also, I've confirmed that when mushrooms are happy they will stay awake in the normal zen garden, and I think this works with aquatic plants, too. Aquatic plants don't need watering :)
Oh, and Stinky refuses to take another chocolate after you give him one until the effects wear off. You can also give them to zen garden plants, but only if they are happy. It makes them drop more coins and more quickly, for a short time.
On the tree of wisdom:
Yes, the tree grows one foot at a time...per bag of fertilizer...and the worst part is, you can only have 10 bags at a time so you have to keep going back to the shop.
On bobsled bonanza:
I failed at that. It took me all the instant except squash (should have used that) and the chomper, and I used a tallnut, and I believe repeaters...wasn't pretty. Pogo party was really easy though, not sure why anyone would have problems with it.
Survival Endless:
I hope I don't sound jealous or anything here, but a basic need for a large number of flags here would be luck. If a short fuse jack in the box detonates, it can easily wipe out your gloom-shrooms...add a few more, and some gargantuars, and you're dead. Unless, of course, you use your cob cannons on them and take them all out, but I don't see how you can do that with just two cannons...
Any idea how to back up the survival endless save information? Sick of having the game crash and losing hours of work.
195 flags?! WOW, I'll definitely try that, thanks for posting.
Also, I tried the bat file posted here to loop the time and get more coins from the zen garden, it really does work. The problem is that I'm getting errors when I try to synchronize back to the internet time. I presume that the bat file is still working, how do I disable it? Please help. Thanks!
Coin Making: marigolds, walnuts, and zombotony 1
Once you have the marigold, play the first zombotony course. Make sure you have the regular walnuts and the marigolds with you, and whatever else you feel you need.
during the last wave, pick a lane where there is one walnut-zombie at the back, and line up a bunch of walnuts to block it. leave only the walnut-zombie in the lane and then quickly dig up all your damage causing plants, so that it will take no damage.
When the walnut recharges, pick it up and spam-click the one that the zombie is currently eating. it'll only be able to move a few pixels before the new one is planted.
start replacing everything in every other lane with marigolds. at about 1000 sun you'll be able to dig up your sunflowers and survive off falling sun. this will let you harvest coins from the marigolds almost indefinitely.
End it with a one hit kill plant, or when it FINALLY makes it to the lawnmower, either or.
a bit boring, but if need gold and haven't unlocked the better paying minigames and puzzles, it's useful.
349 flags with the same setup as before.
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Zen garden help? After purchasing the snail, all I get is chocolate. I played all weekend long all different levels, mini games, survival, etc. and only received 4 plants which were duplicates of what I already have. How do I get more or all of the plants?
480 flags so far and still going strong
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2 slight modifications, moved the cattails further forward so they deal damage a little quicker and replaced the melonpults and wintermelons in the toolbar with squash and freezeshroom. Use the freezeshroom to stop bungees from nabbing your wintermelons and the squashes for those emergencies when everything else is still on cooldown.
You can't get more than 10 chocolate bars at a time.
I'm not quite sure why some of you are having trouble getting past Whack`a`Zombie, I find it easy.
@FlyinFree: You are a LEGEND!
750 flags and still going with the same build as above, just lost one lawn mower to a balloon zombie that slipped through.
Plant Upgrade Question - I have purchased several plant upgrades, but they don't all show up in my arsenal. Out of the seven I have bought, I can only see four. Has anybody else had this problem? If so, how did you resolve it?
1000 flags
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Hi, so my question is, has anyone collected one of every plant yet? (NOT counting the ones turned left vs. right, I mean and not counting the various colored marigolds) I would like to have gotten one of each but I'm still missing 2 of 4 water plants, 4 of 12 night plants (counting the sea-shroom as water, not night) and then 8 of the remaining 31. I mean, I know there aren't enough spaces in the gardens for them all at once, but certain ones have never shown up. Any way to speed up that process or any cheats for it?
Also, I would like to know how many colors the marigolds come in. Here are the ones I have:
red, orange, yellow, light blue, blue, pink, magenta, purple
Anyone know of others, or is that it? And I can't seem to get the white marigold that's available in play ever.
Thanks for any help! Oh, and by the way, here's my tip: I think cattails are far more useful than almost any other plant, on any level. You get about six of those suckers going, protected by tall nuts, and you're pretty much certain to kill off anything (except the miners).
In reply to comments above:
Filled a whole lawn with marigolds in Zombotony when only one Walnut-zombie left and blocked by a tall nut. Very very slow production of coins! Does having a lot of marigolds really make a difference? It seems that it does not! Coins only appeared once every 20 seconds or more.
In the Zen Garden it doesn't seem true that chocolate can be feed to a marigold - at least not a young one blooming on.
As for marigolds:
I've found 11 so far, I suspect there's at least twelve, as I remember a weird one with a green center from my old computer before it crashed.
Here's the colors so far:
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You can't feed plants chocolate until they are capable of producing coins (i.e. with gold sparklies). AFAIK.
Heather R, thanks so much. That helps. I think I'm missing one or two of the colors you show there.
Also, to all, I did figure out that you can't collect the plant upgrades (which I hadn't realized before) for Zen garden, so now I'm only missing two or so; I figure they'll show up eventually.
I have tried your Survival Endless set-up, FlyinFree, and it worked great! I am over 60 flags and still in good shape. I did find that I lost the front-most fumes in rows 1 & 6 several times, but was able to quickly replace them and keep the level going.
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Also:
When fighting Dr. Zomboss. I think that the robot's eyes will give you a hint right before he lets go of either an ice or fire-ball. Has anyone else noticed this?
Hey everyone! I just purchased the wall-nut first aid, but I can't seem to find him! He's not in my list of plants. Is it somewhere else? Please and thank you!
To Paulina:
The way the wall-nut first aid works is -
It doesn't show up as a plant you can put in your line up. Rather, when you have the wall-nuts or tall-nuts, you click as if you're going to plant a new one, but you just place it over an existing damaged one and it's brand new again.
Help! I can't manage to get ANY aquarium garden plants. I've played through adventure mode three times, played endless survival several times. I have just about every plant, every color marigold, and of course, have already purchased the aquarium garden. Any hints, clues? No one else seems to have problems?
FlyinFree - you're my hero!
Whack-a-zombie is my favourite mini-game -- and a great way to pick up plants.
As soon as you pick up some sun, start buying gravebusters. Don't worry about getting rid of the graves closes to the house (not yet). Use them to clear out either the top or bottom row (whichever one has fewer graves).
Then clear out a row adjacent to the empty one. Continue with the next row. By the time the zombies start going really quickly, they should all be confined to 1 or 2 rows. That way, you can hold your mouse pointer almost motionless and just click like mad. If you want, when the zombies are at their fastest, take a break, shake out your wrist, and let the lawnmowers take care of them.
The final wave consists of exactly 1 zombie per grave, so it's not too difficult -- as long as you've gotten rid of most of the graves.
You should be able to get it down to 3-4 graves. Then all the dozens of zombies will have to pour out of those few graves. It's like shooting zombies in a barrel.
By the way, when you are about to kill the last zombie, take your time and do it slowly, so you don't automatically click on the prize (moneybag). Let the moneybag sit there -- it's not going anywhere. If you have suns left, use them to destroy the remaining graves. You never know, there might be plants (or at least money) in there!
Hope that helps!
This forum have helped me a lot so i`ll attempth to guide the people who cant pass the "wack a zombie". Most player find it easy because most of us are computer gamers who have no trouble moving our mouse to where we wan and clicking really fast. so anyway, here is some advice
- Put ur mouse at the center of the graveyards(not the screen) when there is no zombie.
- Only use the grave buster at beginning, mid game. Aim for the graveyard thats furthest from the rest of the graveyard. instead of the most front. That mean ur mouse have to move less to wack them.
-Buy a mouse if ur using keypad
-Practise.
-Try to click on every zombie two time, Buckethead should be fairly obvious to click more
-Always aim for the nearest zombie from ur mouse instead of the most front zombie.
I hope those help, in the worst situation where u cant do it no matter how hard u try. Ask ur nearest computer geek for help. Its ok, being not being able to do this mission mean u prolly have a better outdoor life.
1400 flags and still going on survival endless with same setup as above.
How am I supposed to grow my tree of wisdom to a thousand feet? I`m just at 78, and even that took me forever!
Bobsled Bonanza is simple if you use the spike strips. Set up your suns and shooters (you don't need many!) followed by a row of tallnuts then your spike strips. Leave 2 spaces on the right side for your spikes.
Hey, I tried to do the layout on survival endless that FlyinFree did, and I only got to 24 flags! I just had this huge wave of gargantuar's and football zombies, along with the jack in the box zombies and I was wasted. What am I doing wrong?
How do i finish bobsled bonanza? I've tried it everyday, still no luck when I used the setup above, I still can't do it.
Please help, I'm desperate!
1500 flags on survival endless and still going
@Kirsty: Make sure you have the same toolbar loadout as I do, use the cob cannons, cherry bomb, jalapeno, squash and freeze shroom to keep pounding the giga-gigantaurs and keep replacing your pumpkins, if you get a bad jack-in-the-box accident just rebuild as fast as you can and concentrate extra firepower on the weakened area. Some bad jack accidents have left me desperately scrambling but I've always managed to recover.
Where do you find the tree of wisdom i've bought it but now i can't find it anywhere please help!
bob - tree of wisdom
In main menu you see a watering can with "Zen Garden" on it. You will be brought to the Zen-Garden, where you have first the normal Zen-Garden. Use the yellow arrow right top of the scene to come to the night- and water garden, use it in the water garden and you will come to the tree of wisdom. There is no short cut for it
Greetings, Kayleigh
re:whack a zombie
The best advice I can give anyone who is struggling with this game is to use the grave buster and get rid of as many gravestones as you can also use the ice-shrooms when it gets a little crazy although this is one I dont use much because it only freezes the zombies that are on the screen at the time of use. Using the grave buster keeps the number of zombies down a little and keeps them farther back from the lawn mowers. Not sure how much this will help but I hope it helps a little... works for me!
Hello! Can anyone explain why my tree won't accept any food anymore? It's not even showing the height yet.
justin - tree of wisdom
Did you try to feed it at the lower part? Have you been able at all to feed it, maybe it reached it's total high (I don't know how high it can go)? Did you buy the special food for the tree? Not the stuff for the plants, that is diffrent.
Greetings, Kayleigh
I need help with the front lawn night time! I just encountered football zombies, and I always die! I need help! P.S. can you redo previous levels before you finish the game?
where can I find the flower that says help or quit in vasebreaker? I can't find it!
HELP!!! I didn't buy my 8th slot when Dave offered. How I get it back without starting the game from the beginning?!
Sunbo - Dave's Shop
There is a car key laying on the ground in the main menu, in front of the grave stone. Click it and it will bring you do Dave's Shop, where you can buy the additional slot and more
Greetings, Kayleigh
Thanks for prompt reply Kayleigh.
I don't see the car key, I only see the almanac in front of the grave stone which only appear later on. Perhaps my level is not high enough? It says I am level 2-7. What level would I expect the car key?
Sunbo - Dave's Shop
Sorry, didn't thought about this - the key car will be a gift after level 3-5. I'm afraid you will have to wait till then :(
Greetings, Kayleigh
Tip for Last Stand in Mini Games, for better survival rate than the configuration posted above:
* 6 tall-nut on the front row (starting from the fourth row/column from the right)
* 6 magnet-shroom (+ coffee bean) on the second row
* 6 torchwood on the third row
* 6 repeater on the fourth row
* 2 cat tail on the next row (center pool)
for pool area, remember to place lily pads
* add more repeater on each row after obtaining more sun.
this configuration never fails me so far..
how to avail spouts when it was sold out in crazy dave's?
Sold out in Dave's shop
Stuff for the flowers or the tree of wisdom is only temporarly sold out. A few hours later (or when you open the game again) the stuff will be avaible again.
Greetings, Kayleigh
For the Gloom-Shroom,
It says it is an upgraded version of the Puff-Shroom, but it is meant to be Fume-Shroom, not Puff-Shroom!Plz change. Thx!
Hi.
How do I get the chocolate? I've finished everything else.
Thanks.
How do I save a game without having to play all the levels every single time? It takes me all day to get to the final showdown before all the other games open up. I would like to save my progress.
Zombina: It should save your progress after each level automatically.
HOW TO EARN MONEY layout for the "Last Stand"
i earned a little over $5000 using this technique.
http://jayisgames.com/images/jellydonut_hs_laststandMoney.jpg
you might want to use four garlic cloves on the side.
as you get more sunlight, use them to strengthen your second row of magnet-shrooms with Pumpkin Shells, replenish your garlic and existing pumpkin shells.
happy collecting!
@Flyinfree
I tried your build, but i'm wondring how you could reach 1000 flags? I mean your Top and bottom lane are just Fume-shrooms and melonpults, how can it survive an onslaught of giga gargantuars? @-)
I waw wondering if anyone can help me, I am still on the roof the second time playing, how do you beat the roof level the second time, I cant seem to get past it, and what happens if you pass it the second time, do you get anything more to buy from Dave, Thanks Mike C.
black-wyvern2
There will be no more new articles at Dave's shop. You can try to see, if you can solve alle the mini-games and play then the endles mode, which will make you need flowers, you might not have used before.
The choices, Dave does for you in the second time around are random, so it is hard to give advise. Most important there is to have all empty slots avaible at Dave.
Greetings, Kayleigh
Thanks Kayleigh, so if you play the enless mode you get more plants, I niticed that the aquagarden has 8 places to put plants, but I only count 3 aqua plants so far. what are the flowers you need for the enless mode? Mike C.
Mike C. - Endless Mode
The room in the aqua-garden is for having 8 plants, no matter how many of one kind you have :). There are no more plants given after finishing the first adventure mode.
For the endless mode you will need more the upgrades of your plants as the corn cob or the cattail or the one for the mushroom, eventhough you play daytime.
In my opinion, this is the most challenging level at all - after the first 10 - 20 waves you will be really busy ;)
Greetings, Kayleigh
Dude, I tried your set up in bobsled bonanza, and I could not do it, They come at me before I had enough time to set up my sun. It is making me crazy. What am I doing wrong?
I will soon be heading into survival endless stage, I know it takes two kills to take out a Gargantua, but how many does it take to kill a Giga Gargantua (Red eyed ones)?
Finally died at 1678 flags.
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hello... how to win ten flags for survival hard at night (fog). any tips. please help
The person who noted Dr.Zomboss's eye color change was right. Also, it would help to notice catails appear to be weaker than a peashooter, and are mostly useful for ballon zombies. Also, in my opinion, FlyingFree survived thanks to his arsenal of mostly explosive plants, defensive plants, and fume-shroom replacements.
P.s., imitator sea-shrooms and puff-shrooms help in the early fog survival stages.
I'm not sure if anyone has noticed but when the Shrooms have been fully grown
you can transport them back to the Zen garden where they will give off coins like the other flowers and plants. They will only fall asleep if they are not fully grown or if they need a spray top up or music.
Also,
feed your fully grown plants chocolate!! It speeds them up much like it works on the snail... they speed up and give you coins!!
Hi, all. LOVE this game. I think I've replayed it 10 times at least, with two different player names going. I am trying to collect all the Zen plants, and I want to know, has ANYONE ever collected the cactus, a plantern or a torchwood? Those are the three I don't have. But I admit I haven't played Survival Endless much because well, even with FlyinFree's help, it just seems so daunting. But is that what I need to do to get those last three? Or are those three just ones you never get? That's why I wonder if anyone has those in Zen.
Also, anyone ever collected more than 11 colors of marigold? Just checking! :)
rascalmom. Hello, I have collected those plants, I have several games I have played, to get them, I can sen you a pic of them as soon as I figure out how, and No, there are only 11 plants of one color, however, 22 if they are looking the oposite direction, but now more, to get more plants, get all of the chocolate you can, 10. and the plants for your Zen garden will start rolling in, I just got 3 plants when I was playing Bobsled B. Good luck with Survivor Endless, I just started it my self, I am up to 10 tiers so far, had to take a break, so I stoped there. Mike
Black Wyvern, thanks so much! Okay, so I will just cross fingers on those three I'm missing and stop worrying about the colors of marigold then!
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