Home News Downloads Videos Cheats Casual Games Feedback. PC Wii Wii-U PS3 PS4 X X-One NDS iPhone Android. Table of Contents '' To jump to a section, search for its section number followed by a colon instead of a period. Table of Contents About this Guide Game and Guide Introduction Growing and Selling Marigolds Collecting Gold from Happy Plants How to Use the Setup Hex Editing ,, About this Guide '' Availability Whether you found this guide on the Internet or through email, please know the latest version is always available for free from my site [1] and GameFAQs [2].

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If there were a section numbered , you'd search for " For example, see the links in the Copyright section above. Game and Guide Introduction '' Plants Vs Zombies [5] is a tower defense [6] game in which you defend your house from a horde of zombies by placing plants in areas around your house. This guide describes gold farming strategies for easily earning money after completing the main game modes.

Gold is then used to buy items from Crazy Dave and earn a Golden Trophy. For a more general walkthrough and game guide, see my guide posted on GameFAQs [7].

Zen Garden '' The Zen Garden is unlocked in stage five of the Adventure mode. You can use the garden to collect and grow plants, and also to earn money in two ways. Plants in the garden start as sprouts, but can be grown with water and fertilizer. Sprouts grow into young plants, then medium plants, and finally mature plants. While it takes fertilizer to grow plants, each stage of development grants you a reward, culminating in a diamond for each Marigold reaching adulthood. Collecting Gold from Happy Plants If you're leaving the computer unattended for a while, you can also earn money from happy plants.

Making happy plants is similar to growing them, but instead of fertilizer they want music from a phonograph or a spritz of bug spray. Both the phonograph and bug spray can be purchased from Crazy Dave. When a plant is satisfied, its base will be glowing and it will produce coins for about a day. Once you make your plants happy, you still need to collect the coins. Doing so manually is rather dull, so we enlist the help of Stinky the Snail.

You can purchase Stinky the Snail from Crazy Dave. Stinky helps you by collecting the coins that drop from plants. Unfortunately he falls asleep after a couple of minutes, so you need to feed him chocolate to keep him awake and working. Chocolate is a reward item that occasionally drops from Zombies in the other game modes.

Once fed chocolate, Stinky will work for about an hour, collecting coins from your happy plants. Chocolate can also be fed to happy plants to make them more productive. You can save up to ten pieces of chocolate from other levels, so make the most of your time by feeding nine of them to plants!

Last Stand '' Last Stand is the sixteenth Mini-Game and is unlocked after finishing Adventure mode and winning thirteen other Mini-Games. In Last Stand, you are given sun to defend the back yard and pool against five waves of Zombies. After every wave you receive sun to repair and bolster your defenses. However, you don't get sun from the sky and you cannot use sun-generating plants. This Mini-Game is popular for gold farming because you only need to set it up once and let it run almost completely unattended.

Because of the extra inter- activity required, the rewards are greater as well. The key to earning money in Last Stand is creating efficient, compact defenses at the front lines so you can use the left side for gold farming with Marigolds and Gold Magnets. There is a balance between sturdier defenses and a larger Marigold field. Both require physical space on the field, so you will need to consider your priori- ties.

In the beginning, when you have fewer slots in your seed tray, you may wish to use a more conservative strategy. The rest of this guide assumes you are in the later stages of the game and have access to the full 10 slots.

Threats There are four main classes of threats to consider. Hordes of Zombies - Buckethead, Screen Door, Newspaper, Football, etc. Vaulting Zombies - Pole Vaulting and Dolphing Rider Jack-in-the-Box Zombies - the biggest threat to your compact defenses Resurfacing Zombies - require defenses in the water in columns Destroying Zombies In order to leave room for a large Marigold field, we need to kill as many Zombies as possible with few spaces on the field.

First of all, we'll use the Gloom-shroom exclusively for attacking.

Each Gloom-shroom can cover a 3x3 area, so you'll need fewer plants to defend a full six rows. Also, the fast attack speed and ability to hit every Zombie in a group all at once makes it by far the most efficient attacker.

Though some people use three pairs of Gloom- shrooms, appropriate defenses will allow you to scale down to two pairs and leave more room to the left for Marigolds.

The most effective defense for Gloom-shrooms themselves is Garlic. It forces Zombies into the first and last rows of the field, where they walk along while constantly taking damage. However, Pole Vaulting Zombies can jump over one Garlic, so some players use a second column of them: Unfortunately, this is a horrible waste of space.

We want every area of the field to be used for either making money or killing Zombies. An extra column of Garlic pushes your defenses to the left, making your Marigold field smaller. Additionally, the 3x3 range of the Gloom-shrooms cannot reach the very right of the above diagram, meaning Zombies are free to wander.

Instead of using up an entire column to defend against the reasonably small number of Pole Vaulters, we'll use Pumpkins instead. This has the additional benefit of providing some buffer if your Garlic gets eaten up and a few Zombies make it to your first Gloom-Shrooms. G [G] g g Garlic. We'll now tackle other rows, other threats, and particularly tough Zombies that make it beyond column 7. Defenses There are two options to stall jumping Zombies.

The first is to use pairs of Pumpkins, and the other is to use Tall-nuts. Tall-nuts are very sturdy, but Pumpkins allow you to use the space for both defense and other uses, be it Magnet-shrooms, Marigolds, etc. Unfortunately, each dual purpose space takes more sun to set up, and we only have total sun to work with throughout the 5 waves.

For this reason, we set up a system of hybrid defenses. Since our defenses are so compact, we are particularly vulnerable to Jack-in-the-box Zombies and heavily-armored Zombies such as Buckethead Zombies. For this reason, we'll also employ Magnet-shrooms to weaken these threats.

In the interest of keeping a wide open field for Marigolds, we must make some concessions. In play-testing, Jack-in-the-box Zombies can sometimes ruin your day, but the 4 Magnet-shrooms take care of most situations. During the flag waves, Zombies will resurface in the last four columns, so they could appear behind the Tall-nuts in column 7. The Pumpkins exist to stall such Zombies within the Gloom-shrooms' area of effect.

That will certainly work, but this setup gives two more open slots in column 6 for Marigolds. Additionally, by keeping Zombies in column 7, all Gloom-shrooms can damage Zombies that reach the Tall-nuts.

In my testing, defenses in rows 3 and 4 consistently received more damage than those in 1 or 6. When I tried 4 Pumpkins in the water, I was having to constantly replace the Pumpkins there.

The Tall-nuts not only absorb more damage, but they also protect the column 6 Pumpkins from jumpers, so they should not need to be replaced. Plus, there's simply too little sun available in the level to regenerate the Garlics, replace so many Pumpkins, and plant 34 Marigolds. Pumpkins in rows 1 and 6 were sufficient defense during my testing, and they won't need to be replaced.

Since we don't need anything stronger, we might as well use Pumpkins and also use the space for another purpose. I use Magnet-shrooms there as they provide an additional benefit.

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Magnet-shrooms in the 7th column can grab some Jack-in-the-boxes before they explode. If they were in column 6 behind Wall-nuts, the Zombies would be able to walk and perhaps explode before being within range of the Magnet-shrooms. Marigold Field Now that we have defenses taken care of, we can plant Marigolds and Gold Magnets in the remaining space. Here's how it looks when we start the game: They have a range of roughly 4. How to Use the Setup First you'll need to choose your 10 plants: Lily Pad, Marigold, Magnet-shroom, Gold Magnet, Coffee Bean, Fume-shroom, Gloom-shroom, Tall-nut, Pumpkin, Garlic.

Then build the setup shown in the step 3 diagram above and start the game. After the first flag, plant 4 more Lily Pads and 3 more Marigolds.

After the second, you can plant 2 more Lily Pads, 2 more Marigolds, and replace your Garlics. After the third, you can plant your last 2 Marigolds and replace your Garlics, leaving 50 sun floating. For the last segment, you'll have sun left after replacing your Garlics, so you can replace a Tall-nut or Pumpkin if it's compromised. The final field after 5 flags is shown below: Last Stand Final Layout M M M M M [M][u]. Alternate Setups There are two problems with the above setup. First, you start with only 25 Marigolds.

Second, the final 32 Marigolds produce more gold than two Gold Magnets can collect. Not only do you start slow, but the increased late-game production is partially wasted as the Magnets can't keep up. While this setup gives an impressive final layout, it is not optimized for gold mining.

The way to improve upon this design is to try to decrease the amount of sun used in constructing the defense so that a full 30 Marigolds can be planted at the beginning. Such a design was suggested by Anraiki [8] and further tweaked to give: The only difficulty this setup has, besides Jack-in-the-Box Zombies, is Football Zombies that may reach column 5 and start eating your Pumpkins.

Another plan is to put the Gloom-shrooms in the water, as shown by Dijagra on YouTube [9]. This build only allows for 29 Marigolds in the beginning and requires 10 slots in the seed tray, but upwards of 32 Marigolds can be up and running by the second stage. Survival Endless '' Survival Endless is the eleventh level of the Survival mode, unlocked after completing Adventure mode and the other Survival mode levels. In Survival Endless, you try to survive as many increasingly-difficult waves of Zombies as possible.

Since the types of enemies you'll face in this mode vary wildly, it is less appealing for Marigold fields. However, this mode can drop all types of plants for your Zen Garden, and plants acquired from levels can be sold to Crazy Dave for 8k or 10k gold. For strategies relating to Survival Endless mode, see my general guide [10].

Questionable Practices '' People have found ways to use external means to influence the game and thereby gain an advantage. In short, they cheat. These techniques are placed here at the end for the sake of completeness, but I do consider these cheats as they involve going outside of the game and its normal rules.

Please don't write just to argue what constitutes cheating; you're free to disagree with me, but that won't change MY mind. Time Travel As noted above, Crazy Dave restocks his shop with fresh Marigolds whenever the date changes. By manipulating the system date, we can restock his shop on command. The process on Windows XP is as follows: Buy three Marigolds from Crazy Dave's shop to make sure he's out of stock.

Make sure all of your plants are fully watered and fertilized.

Press the Windows key on the keyboard to return to the Windows desktop if needed only if playing full-screen. Adjust the date forward by one day. Return to the game and buy the three newly-restocked Marigolds. If you want to repeat the process, return to step 1.

Return the date to the correct value. This can either be used to quickly buy Marigolds for section 's buy and sell strategy, or as a way to quickly build a Marigold farm for section 's away- from-keyboard strategy.

Hex Editing Warning: Technical jargon ahead, but it's a 5 second cheat for massive amounts of money. Hex editors [11] allow users to easily manipulate the binary data of a file by displaying file contents in a hexadecimal [12] representation. Using a hex editor, we can quickly change an account's gold total. The following is the first 16 bytes of my savegame user1. The first eight 0s show the hexademical address of the data. The data is at the beginning of the file, where the address is all 0s.

Then there are 16 pairs of hexadecimal characters, each pair corresponding to a byte of data. Lastly there is a "plaintext" representation of the 16 bytes, but most of them are nonprintable characters and therefore represented with a dot.

These represent the gold total divided by ten, with the most significant bytes to the right. So "CA 20 00 00" is actually 0x20CA in hex and in decimal. As you may guess, 83, is my in-game gold total.

To get more gold, replace some or all of those characters with Fs. Note that changing too much will actually cause your gold total to go negative. To be safe, apply the "four Fs" change above, spend the money as you wish, and apply it again if you need more.

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