Friday, May 17, 2013

Plants vs Zombies Adventures Game Guide

The following guide is based on the beta version released on 10 May 2013 and subsequent updates.

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Updated: 12 September 2013
 For Level by Level play details, including video clips click here
For a list of Quests click here.
For link(s) to free Coins/Gems/Sunflowers/Wall-nuts, click here.

Overview
Plants vs Zombies Adventures is a Facebook game.

You start off with a Lot (plot of land), on which is your erected House. You acquire adjacent Lots, as each is unlocked and made available, which will form your Town, as you progress through your game. You place Plants on each Lot to defend against random Zombies Attacks on your Town.

When you are in the mood, you can renovate your Town, by upgrading your House and other buildings, buy Decorations (Fences, Paths, even a Scarecrow) and move them around to enhance your Town aesthetically.

You go on Road Trips (levels) across different road Maps (stages), hence the “Adventures”, to, amongst other things, get special plants and unlock Lots for you to acquire. You have to defend yourself against zombies on each Road Trip (level) before progressing to the next.

Throughout the game, you will be given Quests to be completed. Each Quest can consist of more than one task. After completing the series of tasks detailed, you would have completed the Quest and get the reward associated with the Quest. For a list of Quests, click here.

You can invite your Friends. As Friends, you can visit each other Towns, send Gifts, and even send a wave of Zombies to attack them (more on this later).

There are three currencies used in this game: Coins, Zombucks and Gems. You are given a small amount of each when you commenced your game.

Coins are mainly used to buy Plants for you to grow. When they are grown, you can placed them on your Lots or bring them along on your Road Trips. Coins are generated by your House and other subsequent Buildings you acquired and built.

You use Zombucks (ZB) to buy stuff for your Town, such as Buildings, Paths, Fences, etc. You earn Zombucks by successfully completing each Road Trip or surviving a Zombies Attack on your Town, successful completion of Quests and Level-Ups.

Gems are used to speed up and hence lessen the time a Building needs to be constructed/repaired, to skip tasks and to buy Plants. One hundred Gems are given free. You have to buy Gems which are offered for sales at progressive lower rates, starting at 100 Gems for US$2.00.

There is also the XP indicator. You gained Xperience Points through simple things like planting a plant, moving plants or objects, completing Quests, successful defeat of zombies in town or on Road Trips, etc. With each level-up, you receive Coins and Zombucks in increasing portions.  For examples:

Level Up to 2 – you get 50 Coins, 150 ZB
Level Up to 3 – 60 Coins, 175 ZB
Level Up to 4 – 70 Coins, 200 ZB
Level Up to 5 – 80 Coins, 225 ZB
Level Up to 6 – 90 Coins, 250 ZB
Level Up to 10 – 130 Coins 350 ZB
Level Up to 15 – 180 Coins 475 ZB
Level Up to 20 – 230 Coins 600 ZB
Level Up to 30 – 330 Coins 850 ZB

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Plants
Plants will be unlocked and made available for purchase as you progress through your game.

You purchase plants with Coins and placed them on each Planter Box to grow. Your House comes with 8 Planter Boxes which means you can only grow a maximum of 8 plants at a time. Subsequent Lots you unlocked and acquired might come with different number of Planter Boxes. Additional Planter Boxes can be bought at 125 Gems each.

Excluding those Plants you have placed on your Town, you can only have a maximum of 15 plants each, grown or still growing in the Planter Box.

When sprayed with Plant Perk, which costs 25 Suns per spray, during your defence, whether in Town or on Road Trips, it enhances the plants strength and capabilities.

Basic Plants

peashooterPeashooter – Shoots peas at zombies (Damage = Low; Range = Medium; Perk = Increases range & damage) – costs 25 Coins or 5 Gems, takes 1 minute to grow, gain 3 XP
Effective Area: 5 x 5 tiles
Sunflower – Makes extra Sun for placing plants and buying Plank Perks (Damage = NA; Range = Short; Perk = Stuns nearby zombies) - costs 50 Coins or 8 Gems, takes 2 minutes to grow, gain 5 XP
Aspearagus – Shoots stalks from a healthy distance (Damage = Low; Range = Huge; Perk = Increases range & damage) - costs 50 Coins or 10 Gems, takes 10 minutes to grow, gain 5 XP
Effective Area: 11 x 11 tiles
Wall-nut – Stops zombies with its chewy shell (Damage = NA; Range = Short; Perk = Increases defence) - costs 100 Coins or 30 Gems, takes 1 hour to grow, gain 10 XP
Popcorn – Explodes on contact; takes time to arml (Damage = Massive; Range = Short) - costs 150 Coins or 35 Gems, takes 2 hours to grow; gain 15 XP
Snow Pea – Slows down zombies with cold precision (Damage = Medium; Range = Medium; Perk = Increases range & damage) - costs 200 Coins or 35 Gems, takes 2 hours to grow, gain 20 XP
Can remove Rocket Zombie's rocket and Gas Can Zombie's gas can.
Effective Area: 5 x 5 tiles
Beet – Headbutts zombies into submission (Damage = Medium; Range = Short; Perk = Increases damage) - costs 200 Coins or 60 Gems, takes 4 hours to grow, gain 20 XP Effective Area: 3 x 3 tiles
Cherry Bomb – Blows up all nearby zombies (Damage = Massive; Range = Long; Perk = NA) - costs 150 Coins or 65 Gems, takes 6 hours to grow, gain 15 XP.
Effective Area: 7 x 7 tiles
Jalapeno - Destroys an entire path of zombies - costs 300 Coins or 60 Gems, takes 6 hours to grow, gain 30 XP
Effective Area: whole path
Magnet Plant - Grabs metallic objects from zombies but it is by far the weakest plant as it dies easily - costs 400 Coins or 60 Gems, takes 4 hours to grow, gain 40 XP.  When Perk, it releases whatever it had grabbed and attracts the next metallic object immediately from the zombies. Good against Buckethead, DJ, Football and Weightlifter Zombies.
Effective Area: 5 x 5 tiles
Flaming Pea - Shoots fiery peas which burn so good - costs 500 Coins or 65 Gems, takes 6 hours to grow, gain 50 XP. Can remove the ice block and the barrel from the Ice Block Zombie and Barrel Zombie respectively with one hit.
Effective Area: 5 x 5 tiles
Shamrock - Shoots far. Hides when zombies are nearby - costs 600 Coins or 75 Gems, takes 8 hours to grow, gain 60 XP
Effective Area: 11 x 11 tiles
Bamboo Shoot - Lobs explosive shells at multiple zombies - costs 800 Coins or 90 Gems, takes 12 hours to grow
Effective Area: 5 x 5 tiles
Repeater - Fires two peas at a time - costs 1,000 Coins or 65 Gems, takes 6 hours to grow
Effective Area: 5 x 5 tiles
Chilly Pepper - Blasts and freezes an entire path of zombies - costs 1,500 Coins or 90 Gems, takes 8 hours to grow
Effective Area: whole path
Twin Sunflower - Makes twice the Sun of a regular Sunflower - costs 3,000 Coins or 20 Gems, takes 5 minutes to grow; gain 300 XP
VIP Plants
These are plants given out as rewards as you progress through the game. You can purchased them one at a time using Gems or you can buy the Seed to "unlock" it so that, just like the above Basic Plants, you can plant them as and when you like by paying the associated number of Coins to grow them for combat use.

Sweet Pea - Shoots candy at zombies (Damage = Medium; Range = Medium; Perk = Increases range & damage) - costs 300 Gems or you can ask 5 Friends to help you unlock it so that you own the Seed.  Cost 50 Coins to purchase thereafter; takes 1 hour to grow.
Effective Area: 5 x 5 tiles

Beeshooter – Shoots bees butt-first at zombies (Damage = Medium; Range = Long; Perk = Increases range & damage) - twice the damage of the Peashooter with longer range - costs 20 Gems.
Seed costs 1,000 Gems; 100 Coins to purchase thereafter; takes 4 hours to grow
Effective Area: 7 x 7 tiles

Hard-nut - Stops zombies with its hard, crunchy shell - twice the strength of the Wall-nut - costs 60 Gems.
Seed costs 1,250 Gems; 400 Coins to purchase thereafter; takes 4 hours to grow
Acespearagus - Delivers long-range precision strikes - twice the damage of Aspearagus with longer range - costs 50 Gems
Seed costs 1,250 Gems; 200 Coins to purchase thereafter; takes 4 hours to grow
Power Sunflower – Makes 3 Suns at a time (Damage = NA; Range = Short; Perk = Stuns nearby zombies) - costs 30 Gems.
Seed costs 1,500 Gems; 200 Coins to purchase thereafter; takes 12 hours to grow
Ice Queen Pea – Slows down zombies with cold precision (Damage = High; Range = Long; Perk = Increases range & damage) - twice the damage of the Snow Pea with longer range - costs 70 Gems.
Seed costs 1,000 Gems; 600 Coins to purchase thereafter; takes 8 hours to grow
Effective Area: 7 x 7 tiles
BeetBoxer - Pummels zombies for a total beetdown.  Twice the damage of the Beet - costs 90 Gems
Seed costs 1,250 Gems; 600 Coins to purchase thereafter; takes 16 hours to grow
Effective Area: 3 x 3 tiles
Shamrockstar - Shoots very far and rarely hides - twice the damage of Shamrock and hide less often - costs 150 Gems.
Seed costs 1,500 Gems; 1,200 Coins to purchase thereafter; takes 12 hours to grow
Effective Area: 13 x 13 tiles
Bamboom - Packs a massive punch at close range. Twice the damage of the Bamboo Shoot with longer range - costs 180 Gems.
Seed costs 1,750 Gems; 1,600 Coins to purchase thereafter; takes 18 hours to grow
Effective Area: 7 x 7 tiles

Lots and Buildings
You start off with a Lot (plot of land), on which is your erected House. You acquire adjacent Lots, as each is unlocked and made available, which will form your Town, as you progress through your game.

Your House will produce a maximum of 210 Coins in 3 hours at the rate of 70 Coins per hour. When it reaches its maximum capacity, you will need to Collect the Coins before Your House re-starts its production of Coins.

You can buy different types of House or Buildings, as each is unlocked, to be erected on your Lots. Examples:

Small House – costs 500 Zombucks, takes 5 minutes to build (Build Time), and holds Maximum 210 Coins.

Summer House – costs 850 Zombucks, Build Time 15 minutes, Maximum 280 Coins.

The others are: School, Town Hall, Library, Public Pool, Play House and Bus Station.

After purchasing your Building and placing it on your desired Lot, the Building will need to be built, the duration will depend on its Build Time, ranging from 5 minutes to 12 hours.  There are two to three spots on each Lot that you can build on.  After it is built, you will need to lay Paths from the Building to the road.  Only when the Paths are been laid properly will that Building starts to produce what it is supposed to produce.

You have a choice of more than 30 types of Paths to purchase, at varying Zombucks, and lay.  The type you choose have no game play significance other than aesthetics.

Take note that the Path you lay is the Path the Zombies will take to enter your Building and eat your brains.  Hence the longer it is, the better it will be.  However do plan your Paths in such a way that should you have another one or two Buildings in the same Lot, the Paths will also be as long as possible for them.

You can upgrade your House/Buildings, with Zombucks of course, to produce Coins at a faster rate and higher maximum capacity.

When you unlocked the Second Lot, you get a Building, the Plantagon. This Building does not produce Coins but Lawnmowers at a slow rate of one every 9 hours.

The Third Lot will give you the Workshop which produces Zombie Zappers at an even slower rate of one every 10 hours.

You will get Dave’s Car, which produces Gardening Gloves at 4 hours interval, when you unlocked your Fourth Lot.

When you get the 6th Lot, the Cafe will produce Mega-Perks at 6 hours interval.

The Police Station at the 9th Lot will produce Dynamites at 4 hours interval.

The Lawnmowers, Zombie Zappers, Gardening Gloves, Mega-Perks and Dynamites, are collectively called Boosts, which you can choose anyone, but one only, to defend yourself against zombies on your Road Trips (more on this later).

When these Boosts are produced and ready to be Collected, just click on it to Collect and it will be stored in the Inventory. Only when you have collected one will the production starts over again.

There is a maximum holding capacity of 5 each. Once you have reached 5, your 6th will be ready for Collection, but you won’t be able to Collect (because the Inventory is full) and it will be left hanging there till you have the capacity to Collect. Of course production stops till you have Collected it.

You will get two Taco Trucks as you progress through the game.  When you unlock one it will go into the Inventory.  Place and build it on an available spot and after its Build Time, the Taco Trucks will producce a random Boost every 20 hours.

When you are in the mood, you can renovate your Town, by upgrading your House and other buildings, buy Decorations (Fences, Paths, even a Scarecrow) and move them around to enhance your Town aesthetically (more on this later).

Maps and Road Trips
You go on Road Trips (levels) across different road Maps (stages), to, amongst other things, get special plants and unlock Lots for you to acquire. You have to defend yourself against zombies on each Road Trip (level) before progressing to the next.

There are currently 13 Maps (stages):

Map 1 (named as Boonies) has 5 Levels  (for level-by-level details on this Map, click here)
Map 2 (Dires Spires) has 7 Levels  (for level-by-level details on this Map, click here)
Map 3 (Cadaver Cavern) has 10 Levels  (for level-by-level details on this Map, click here)
Map 4 (Park-n-Perish) has 21 Levels  (for level-by-level details on this Map, click here)
Map 5 (Killjoy Park) has 22 Levels  (for level-by-level details on this Map, click here)
Map 6 (Sweaty Palms) has 23 Levels  (for level-by-level details on this Map, click here)
Map 7 (U of Z) has 24 Levels  (for level-by-level details on this Map, click here)
Map 8 (Frostbite Falls) has 25 Levels  (for level-by-level details on this Map, click here)
Map 9 (Mildew Meadow) has 26 Levels  (for level-by-level details on this Map, click here)
Map 10 (Grey Matter Gardens) has 26 Levels  (for level-by-level details on this Map, click here)
Map 11 (The Sever Glades) has 26 Levels  (for level-by-level details on this Map, click here)
Map 12 (The Sand Dooms) has 26 Levels  (for level-by-level details on this Map, click here)
Map 13 (Zombitorium Manor) has 30 Levels  (for level-by-level details on this Map, click here)


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At the start of each Level, you will be shown the types of Zombies and the paths that they will take for the attack. You will be prompted to select the types of Plants you want for your defence. As you can see from the picture below, the number of Brown Pots will indicate how many Plants you can choose. The Golden Pot is only meant for VIP Plants.

Side Note: You start off the game with only 4 Brown Pots. Additional Brown Pots will be unlocked and made available for you to purchase with Zombucks.


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You can only use a maximum of 5 numbers of each Plant at any one time. You can then choose one of the Boosts to use; in this case it is the Lawnmower, which you can use to replace the free ones provided at the beginning of each defence when they are used, thereby adding another line of strong defence.

The Zombie Zappers will freeze all zombies for 10 seconds whilst you can use the Gardening Gloves to move a Plant from one location to another.  Mega-Perks boost all of your Plants for 5 seconds. Dynamites blow away debris to clear and reveal more appropriately strategic spots to place your Plants.

When you have used up 5 numbers of a particular Plant, a 6th and more will be made available by paying the number of Gems indicated on the Pot. You need to be careful here as we are used to choosing a Plant many times as long as the required Suns are available and it is fully re-charged without concern of further costs.

Defence on Road Trips are played in the same manner as in Plants vs Zombies.

However, besides Boosts, you have two other weapons, the ZombiFreeze and Plant Perk.  Both of these are sprays which cost 25 Suns each time you use it.  When sprayed on a zombie, the ZombiFreeze will immobilise the zombie for 3 seconds.  When sprayed on a plant, the Plant Perk will increase the range and damage of the plant for 5 seconds.  To apply these sprays, simply click on the selected plant or zombie.

When a Plant is chewed up by a zombie, it does not disappear.  It remains at the same spot and will take some time to Recover.  Once it has recovered and you have the necessary number of Suns, you can revive it by clicking on it.

Once you have completed all the Levels on a Map, you will need to take Officer Ron's Car to drive to the next Map.  You will need at least 3 other persons to come along.  You can request your Friends to join you or pay for 3 persons to complete the drive.  They cost no less than 600 Zombucks per person.  (There is a change at the moment where you have to use Gems instead of Zombucks to get across.)

You can re-play any Levels you have cleared and receive the associated Zombucks and XP.  However, you won't get the free Lawnmovers for subsequent re-plays.

What follows is a defence clip of Map 5 (KillJoy Park) Level 9.



For more defence video clips, please click here.

Town Defence
You used to get 30 seconds’ notice of an impending zombies attack on your Town. Now you have a choice of whether to accept the attack.  However you won’t know which Lot the attack is on till it starts. Once the attack starts, you will not be able to add, place or move any Plants. You will be allotted whatever Cherry Bombs, Jalapenos and Chilly Peppers you have up to a maximum of 5 each.

You need 150 Suns to use each Cherry Bomb, Jalapeno or Chilly Peppers and 25 Suns for every ZombiFreeze and Plant Perk. Hence you need to place at least one Sunflower on each Lot.

You can only place a maximum of 10 Basic and 2 VIP Plants on each of your Lots. Once you reach that limit, your Plants will be Locked and the option to Place will be greyed out.

Once the attack starts, your fate is dependent on your defence placement strategy and you cannot do much other than collect the Suns generated and keep using the ZombiFreeze and Plant Perk to increase your chance of success against the attack.

You get at least 175 Zombucks plus XPs for every success.

If the Zombies managed to successfully attack you and enter your Building, your Building will need time to be repaired.  Just click on the Building to start the Repair process, which could take as short as 15 minutes to as long as 8 hours, depending on its Build Time.  Nothing will be produced whilst your Building is been repaired. (At the moment, because of some technical glitches, the Repair Time is 2 minutes.)

Zombie Mess (debris), such as fallen cones, buckets and hats, will be left behind after each attack.  Previously you need 5 Zombucks to clear and remove each piece from your Lot.  Now it is free.

Friends
You can invite your Facebook friends to join you as Friends (previously Neighbours) though the benefits are quite limited compared to other games.

As Friends, you can send each other Gifts, such as Coins and Mystery Plants (at random and limited to Sunflowers, Peashooters, Aspearagus and Wall--nut) once a day (OK, cool).


If your Mystery Plant (Sunflower, Peashooter, Aspearagus or Wall-nut) Inventory is at its maximum of 15, you can delay accepting the Mystery Plant Gift from your Friends by not clicking on the Accept Button.  The Mystery Plant will remain there till you Accept it.  However one can only hold a maximum of 30 such Messages.

If you accept the Mystery Plant when you already have 15 of it, you will receive only 5 Coins instead of the Plant, which not only cost more but need time and effort to grow.  Hence it is a waste.  It would be better for you to sell off the excess in your Inventory first (move them onto your Lot, click and select Sell) before Accepting your Mystery Plant as selling off a Peashooter will yield 13 Coins, an Aspearagus 25 Coins Wall-nut 25 Coins, in other words 50% of what the Plants cost, which is better than the otherwise 5 Coins per Plant.

You can visit each other’s Town (and maybe get jealous?).

You can Send Zombies to attack any of your Friend’s Lots and if you succeed, you get Coins and your Friend’s Building goes into Repair mode (you would do that to a Friend!?).

The only meaningful benefit is to be one of the two to four passengers required to travel in Officer Ron’s Car so that your Friend can progress to the next Map without having to spend valuable Zombucks/Gems hiring other people to do so.

Besides being cruel, it is not worth to Send Zombies to attack your Friends, though you probably have to do it a number of times as that is part of at least two of the Quests to be completed.  You can choose to attack Crazy Dave's Town.  However you can do so only once every 18 hours.

It costs 200 Zombucks to send just Zombies; 400 Zombucks to send Conehead Zombies; 600 Zombucks for Conehead Zombies; 1,000 Zombucks for Buckethead Zombies; and progressively more expensive for tougher ones.

If you are successful in attacking your Friend’s Lot, you get 100 Coins if you have spent 200 Zombucks or 150 Coins if you have spent 600 Zombucks. Do the math, it is not worthwhile.  Plus your Friends will probably hate you!

Zombies
Here are the Zombies:

Zombie – your regular garden-variety zombie.
Speed: normal (walks 1 tile every 3 seconds)
Death: 4 Peashooter peas; 3 Aspearagaus pears; 2 Beet headbutts
Conehead Zombie – traffic cone makes him twice as tough.
Speed: normal (walks 1 tile every 3 seconds)
Death: 12 Peashooter peas (8 to remove cone); 10 Aspearagus pears; 6 Beet headbutts; 10 Snow Pea peas; 4 Shamrock hits
Barrel Zombie – wears a barrel round him to protect himself.
Will stops to eat Plants but once the barrel is blown off, it runs straight to the end.
Speed: normal with barrel; double-speed without barrel
Death: 22 Peashooter peas (16 to remove barrel)
Nemesis: Flaming Pea - just one shot and its dead
Buckethead Zombie – the bucket makes him super tough.
Speed: normal
Death: 24 Peashooter peas (20 to remove bucket)
Nemesis: Magnet Plant - will attract and remove the bucket
DJ Zom-B (previously Mad Hatter Zombie) – wears 5 hats, which comes off one at a time, and a skull medallion.
Speed: normal
Death: 32 Peashooter peas (3 for each hat, 9 to remove medallion & 8 more to kill)
Nemesis: Magnet Plant - will attract and remove the skull medallion
Rocket Zombie (previously Zoombie) – on roller-skates and carries a rocket on his head; yes the rocket will shoot off.  Ignores plants, except non-adjacent Wall-nuts, while rocket is still attached.
Speed: Triple speed with rocket attached.
Death: 22 Peashooter peas (16 to remove rocket)
Nemesis: Snow Pea or Ice Queen Pea - one shot to neutralise the rocket
  Conga Line Leader & Dancer Zombies – Conga Dancers continuously spawn till their Leader is killed.
Speed: with Leader - 1 tile every 5 seconds; without Leader - normal (1 tile every 3 seconds)
Death: 20 Peashooter peas (14 to remove hat)
Nemesis: Jalapeno or Chilly Pepper - one to wipe out the entire line
Football Zombie – Extremely tough and runs twice as fast; becomes a regular zombie when helmet is removed.
Speed: with helmet - double; normal without helmet
Death: 40 Peashooter peas (32 for helmetl)
Nemesis: Magnet Plant will attract and remove the helmet.
Ice Block Zombie – Does extra damage to plants with ice block on.
Speed: normal
Death: 36 Peashooter peas (32 to ice block)
Nemesis: Flaming Pea will shattered the ice block.
  Imposter Zombie & Imp – One Imp carrying another on his shoulder.  When coat is knocked off the two imps will appear and move at double speed.
Speed: with coat - normal; without coat - double
Death: 40 Peashooter peas (32 to remove coat)
Mall Cop Zombie – EWhile on the segway, he will not eat any plants.  The segway will be destroyed once it hits a Wall-nut or Hard-nut and he will vaults past the nuts and starts eating plants.
Death: 64 Peashooter peas (48 for segway, 8 for helmet, 8 for zombie); takes 2 blasts to kill it.
Weightlifter Zombie – The first plant, even if it is a Wall-nut or Hard-nut, he encounters dies with one bite.  After that he loses his dumbbell and eats normally.
Speed: normal
Death: 52 Peashooter peas; takes 2 blasts to kill it
Nemesis: Magnet Plant will attract and remove the dumbbell.
Gas Can Zombie – When he dies, he will explode killing all plants within an area of 3 x 3 tiles.
Speed: normal
Nemesis/Death: Snow Pea or Ice Queen Pea will put out its cigar and gas can so it won't explode.  Chilly Pepper will instantly kill it.
Gargantuar – Smashes Plants instantly killing them.
Hard to kill.

Landscaping
This game allows you to be a Landscape Architect or a Town Planner.

Decorations (Fences, Bushes, Signs, Garbage Can, etc) can be purchased to enhance your Town.

You can Move practically any objects (House, Buildings, Decorations, Trees, Vehicles, etc) to any where you so desire within your own Town. Don’t like the back door facing the road, Rotate the Building.

You can Sell any objects (caution: read next section) or Put it Away In The Inventory (warehouse), except Your House and Buildings producing Boosts, to either to free up space or store there for future use.

The simplest way to do the above is to click on the object and the Options will be made available to you. However this does not work with objects such as Trees, Paths or Vehicles.

To move these and ALL objects, click on the Move Stuff Around In Town! button (looks like a 4-arrow directional symbol) and select the object.

You should not be too concern about landscaping till you have acquired, perhaps at least 5 Lots, so that you have more spots and possibilities.  I did it only when I had 9 Lots.

When you do, take the opportunity to review your Paths and see whether you can lengthened and improved them so that together with a similar Plant placement review, you can better defend your properties.

Note that some Plants have a wide range and placing such Plants near the border of one Lot can mean its range can reach another adjacent Lot thereby increasing your defence; killing two birds with one stone.

Selling
Presently when you click on the Sell button, the object you have selected will be sold stunningly fast. There is no indication of how much your item is worth and how much Zombucks you will get but I believe it is much less than what you would have paid for. For example, a Road Sign I wanted to check on its worth, was sold for 35 Zombucks when you would need to pay 350 Zombucks for it; that’s only 10% returns.

Requests have been made to the game developer to include the Selling Price first, much like when you click Upgrade, you are told how much it will cost to do so, so that you can make an informed decision whether to go ahead to Sell.

If you want to test whether they have included this option, I suggest you click on a least fancy Fence or Path to be certain. Do not try this on any of Building.

Note: There is still no pre-warning of the price you would get for selling an object.  It is still 10%.

You can also sell your Plants that are placed on your Lots.  They are sold for 50% of what they cost you.  For example, you will get 13 Coins for selling a Peashooter, 25 Coins for a Aspearagus, and 50 Coins for a Wall-nut.

Secret Achievements

Well they are neither secret nor achievements per se.  You don't get any rewards or XP for "achieving" any of them and it is not possible to get all of them at one go as many contradict each other.

Below are 33 of the 35 Secret Achievements:

Bombs Away – Placed a Cherry Bomb!
Bully – Stunned the same zombie 3 or more times!
Burn Out – Won with zero sun remaining!
Cheater! Cheater! - Used a debug cheat button during combat.  For shame!
Dynamic Duo – Won using exactly 2 plants!
Feel the Beet – Used only Sunflowers and Beets!
Fire Works – Used only Sunflowers and explosive plants!
Focused - Did not pause the battle!
Freezer Burn - Used a Chilly Pepper!
Gimme A Break! - Paused the battle more than three times!
Great Wall - Placed a Wall-nut!
Happy Planter – Placed at least 10 plants in one level!
iCaliente! – Wiped out a Conga Line with a Jalapeno!
I Walk Alone – Used only one plant!
Light Artillery – Won only using Sunflowers and Peashooters!
Look Ma, No Hands! – Didn’t power up any plants or stun any zombies!
Master Blaster – Used a Snow Pea to defeat a Rocket Zombie!
Old School – Didn’t revive any plants!
One-Trick Pony – Used only one plant type!
Overconfident – Went into combat without taking all the plants you could!
Peppy - Used a boost to get through!
Perfection – Won without any plants taking any damage!
Playing With Fire – Placed a Jalapeno!
Power Surge – Never let Sun go over 200!
Safety First – Placed a Wall-nut before placing any other plant!
Saved by the Blade – Defeated a zombie with a lawnmover!
Scouter – Placed an Aspearagus before placing any other plant!
Solar Saver – Won with at least 500 Suns remaining!
Sniper Squad – Won only using Sunflowers and Aspearaguses!
Sunny Day - Used 3 Sunflowers in combat!
Synergy! - Used at least 5 different types of plants!
Teacher’s Pet – Powered up the same plant 3 or more times!
Traditionalist – Started the battle by placing a Sunflower!

For Level by Level play details, including video clips, click here.


18 comments:

  1. my plants has less growing up time for example the nut-wall = 15 min
    beet - 1 hour
    and similar to all other plants which they are less than usual
    any idea why mine is different than others or that because of i got the beta version which they publish on official website ?

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    1. From what I know they are still "testing" different parameters, such as growth time, etc before "normalising" them. Why and when I don't know. Some people can grow up to 25 plants each whilst most can do so up to 15 plants each. Whilst most can only use 5 of each plants on Road Trips, some can bring and use ALL their plants.

      You should be glad that your plant growth time is so much shorter than others. Wish I have your plant growth time :-)

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    2. i noticed the 25 limit in a planter box, is there something i can dot to get the 25 limit in a planter box?

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  2. No you can't. Those who got the 25-limit are beta players from the earlier batches. Whilst there are still differences in certain parameters, my check with current players suggests that the 15-limit seems be the default henceforth.

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  3. sir how do i get to map u to z when cop ron asking me for a 250gems not a zombucks for a payment to move to the u to z map???

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    1. This is something that a lot of gamers are now unhappy about. Some of them have said they would stop playing the game because of this change.

      At this point there is nothing you can do except buy and pay the required Gems or get enough Friends to join you as Car Buddies to get to the next Map.

      You could create more Facebook accounts to play the game and then "friend" each other as Neighbours and "help" each other to get through the Maps. Hope this helps.

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  4. I've unlocked 3 subsequent lots, but they didn't come with more planter boxes. What do I do to get them? All of my friends have 15 of them or more, and i have just 8 boxes yet ):

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    1. This game is still in beta (testing). Besides "playing" around with different plant growth time and so forth, the game developers are also "testing" different game plays with players receiving different number of planter boxes at different times. They did mention that eventually all players will get 15 planter boxes. If what they say is true then you should be getting some maybe later than others.

      I got 8 when the game starts and I got 2 more each time after completing Map 2 Level 7; Map 3 Level 10 and Map 6 Level 23; making a total of 14 so far.

      A lot of people are frustrated that different players, especially among one's own friends, have different game parameters.

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    2. same here.. i only got 8 planter boxes.. im on my lvl 10 and have opened 4 lots.. so sad!

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  5. I've never played PvsZ before, so when connecting my buildings I laid some very suboptimal paths. There doesn't seem to be any way of removing paths that have already been laid. I can move buildings and plants and fences and stuff, but paths are locked in. Am I missing something?

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    1. I have wrote the following in the section under Landscaping:

      "The simplest way to do the above is to click on the object and the Options will be made available to you. However this does not work with objects such as Trees, Paths or Vehicles.

      To move these and ALL objects, click on the Move Stuff Around In Town! button (looks like a 4-arrow directional symbol on the bottom right hand corner underneath the Road Trip button) and select the object."

      The click on the first X button to move the paths around.

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  6. Hello, its posible when the game will be a final version they go to gift some planter box for every player? or quit it? and normalize the parameters for everyone?

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    1. Going by what had transpired so far I doubt so. Earlier batches of players, before it was opened to everyone, were given the choice to continue with their games or reset and start all over again from Map 1 Level 1. I don't know whether they will do so when the "final" version is out.

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  7. I have only 8 planter box, and in the new lots there is no more planter box. however if i visit my town from a friend's facebook there are a lot af planter box in my town that i can't see from my facebook.

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  8. Excellent. Thanks for the help.

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  9. I have attempted level 23 in U of Z probably 15 or 20 times and I cannot beat it. Could someone please tell me how to beat this level? I would be so grateful!

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  10. please tell : time required for a magnet plant to grab another metallic object

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  11. It takes about 12 seconds for the Magnet Plant to recharge itself; that is, it takes about 12 seconds for it to release what it has previously grabbed and then grab another. You can use Plant Perk on the Magnet Plant to make it instantly release what it has grabbed and instantly grab another metallic object.

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