Plants vs Zombies: All Achievements Guide

I wanted to get all of the Steam Achievements myself and the only convenient guide I could find was in French. So here is a translation with some minor improvements I hope to make the life easier for the English speakers that want to keep the zombies out of the house.

Introduction

I wanted to get all of the Steam Achievements myself and the only convenient guide I could find was in French. So here is a translation with some minor improvements I hope to make the life easier for the English speakers that want to keep the zombies out of the house.

Sort Order

The biggest improvement in my translation is sorting things from easiest to hardest. My metric for difficulty is the percentage of achievement completion on Steam. This number is in italics in front of the description of each achievement below. I expect these numbers to change through time, but over the last few months they have been completely stable. The main negative of this sort order is that trivial achievements like Ask Me About Mustache Mode is lower in the list than Home Lawn Security which requires beating the game.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Célestine Alys for a fabulous French achievements guide which was the only complete collection of PvZ achievements I could find.

SPUDOW!

75% Blow up a zombie using a potato mine Success is very simple, you just need to blow up any zombie with a potato mine. It costs only 25 suns and kills a zombie in one shot.

Explodonator

60% Blow up 10 zombies with a single cherry bomb Wait for the difficulty to increase and with it the number of zombies, because at the beginning of the game it is almost impossible to find 10 zombies at once. The survival mode is another way to unlock this achievement.

Penny Pincher

47% Pick up 30 coins in a row on a single level without letting any disappear. This achievement is quite simple. Indeed coins appear often enough and it will be easy to recover 30 in a level, without missing any. Get a few plants in your Zen Garden and this shouldn't take long.

Disco is undead

43% Hypnotize the lead dancer zombie For success you need to hypnotize a Dancing Zombie with the Hypno-shroom. The main problem you will encounter is that the Dancing Zombie invokes other zombies that are placed before him and those zombies eat your Hypno-shroom instead of the leader. One way to deal with this is to wait for the subzombies to spawn and then put the hypnoshroom in between them.

Home Lawn Security

41% Complete Adventure Mode You must complete the main mode of play (aka adventure mode), essentially finish all levels including level 5-10.

Roll Some Heads

34% Bowl over 5 zombies with a single Wall-Nut For success you need to play a level of bowling and you need to touch (not necessarily kill) 5 zombies in one throw. The more zombies the easier it will be

Morticulturalist

18% Collect all 49 plants The 49 plants are those unlocked via the adventure mode. Add to that the improvement of some plants to buy from Crazy Dave and don't forget the Imitater: the plant that allows you to pick the same plant twice on one level to get two cool downs.

Ask Me About Mustache Mode

18% Enable Mustache Mode Nothing more simple: during a game, type out on your keyboard the word "mustache", you will unlock success and all the zombies will have mustaches! (Also try "future")

Do not Pea in the Pool

17% Complete a daytime pool level without using pea shooters An easy success, replace shooters with basic pea catapults, they cost the same number of suns and do the same damage.

Beyond the Grave

15% Beat all 20 mini games The mini-games are unlocked at some point in the adventure mode and then as you succeed in those mini-games you unlock the rest. Some suggestions for some of the harder mini-games are:

• Last Stand -- As suggested by another game guide you can do this with a first row of Tall-nuts followed by a row of Torchwoods backed by at least a row of Repeaters. The Magnet-Shrooms are not needed if you have two rows of Repeaters as seen in this youtube video.
  
• Bobsled Bonanza -- Wikia[plantsvszombies.wikia.com] has a few suggestions. I like #8 - The Starfruit method.
  
• ZomBotany 2 -- Wikia[plantsvszombies.wikia.com] again
  
• Pogo Party -- recently discussed on Arqade[gaming.stackexchange.com]

There is a bug where it may not give you the achievement after you have beaten all 20 mini-games. I was able to work around this on MacOS by creating a new profile in-game. I did not have to replay anything.

Sunny Days

14% Get 8000 sun during a single level. In a single level your sunshine meter must display the number 8000. A very simple technicality will help you gain this achievement: playing a game of Zombiequarium (in mini-games) and reap your 8000 suns! Be patient, however one should not buy the trophy of victory for 1000 suns or the game ends.

Nobel Peas Prize

14% Get the golden sunflower trophy For this achievement, you must complete the adventure mode at least once and win 20 trophies in mini-games, 18 in Puzzle Mode and 10 in Survival Mode.

Cryptozombologist

13% Discover the top secret zombie To find this zombie you need to have already completed the adventure mode once and repeat it to reach level 4-10 where the mysterious zombie will be. Don't blink.

No Fungus Among Us

11% Complete a nighttime level without planting any mushrooms. Success is a little easier than Good Morning. Choose still a short and simple level. Sun production suns will be slower but you should be able to work this out.

Towering Wisdom

10% Grow the Tree of Wisdom to 100 feet You have to buy the tree for $10,000 then you have to feed it with 100 packages of fertilizers (those $2,500 each). Dave offers 5 when you buy the tree, so you will spend the remaining $237,500! At 50ft you still need $125,000 for 50 more fertilizers, but at least it will show the height as number at that point. For farming money play endless survival mode and raise the plants in the Zen Garden.

Grounded

9% Defeat a normal roof level without using Any catapult plants To succeed you will need to use conventional pea launchers (peashooter), but so that they can reach the zombies, that is to say not at the bottom but advanced to the zombies. Defend yourself well with Wall-Nut and use bombs and mines!

Immortal

9% Get to 20 flags in Survival Endless Like the China Shop and Better Off Dead achievements you need to unlock the Endless mode by completing all of the previous levels. Surviving 20 waves means you must successfully pass 20 flags that announce the arrival of a wave of zombies. You see those flags in the rising standard bar at the bottom right. There are 2 flags by level so you have to complete 10 levels of increasing difficulty. Good luck.

Good Morning

9% Complete a daytime level by planting only Mushrooms and Coffee Beans Success is a little complicated, so choose a short and simple level, like the first level Survival mode. Please do pick mushrooms and coffee beans to wake these fungi and no sunflowers.

Popcorn Party

9% Defeat 2 Gargantuars with Corn Cob missiles in a single level The gargantuars are zombies and giant corn cob missiles projectiles sent by the merger of two catapults through improved corn. These missiles are great except that they are one shot only. If you want a backup plan then you need two more catapults and another improvement to make a missile launcher. To achieve this successfully play survival mode and wait for gargantuars arrive (sometimes 2 or 3 together in hard mode) and focus your missiles on them! Success is realised as soon as the two are dead and not to the end of the level.

China Shop

6% Get to a streak of 15 in Endless Vasebreaker You must complete all levels of the Vasebreaker mode to unlock the Endless Mode. Take your time. Think before playing and breaking vases. Start with the rightmost possible in order to anticipate the progression of zombies. As you clear the rightmost column fill it with the left-firing peashooters. The zombie that goes boom will wipe out your guns so clear out two rows before placing your right-side guns if you can.

Better Off Dead

6% Get to a streak of 10 in I, Zombie Endless You need to unlock the mode without end finish all the levels I, Zombie. Then you're going to win 10 games in a row. Your suns persist from one party to another, so save up and think carefully before you play because you have the time.

Guide ChangeLog

• v0.1 2015-2-22 - first draft
  
• v0.3 2015-7-10 - added tips for specific mini-games
  
• v0.4 2015-8-17 - add link to Pogo Party tips and mention Zen Garden for Penny Pincher

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[WoodburyFamily]

you dont have all the achievements tho
and it says all achievwments

[soot]

Does Pogo Party count to the Grounded achievement? Like how Survival mode Day and Night count to Good Morning and No Fungus Among Us.

[Mother]

How can I retry for my achievements when I start a new game?

[ItsCacho]

pls help me i cannot play it

[ItsCacho]

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[ItsCacho]

pls help me i cannot play

[YLSYX]

Why can't I get in when I quit a level, and I can't do it again

[Qure]

I have 100% of achievements, but I did some of them offline and now it buged, so I can't get 100% on steam. Some idea how to fix it?

[Willo2ty]

you can save scum without editing game files in better off dead and china shop. To do this, you simply have to quit to the menu, then go back into the game and continue. This will let you return to the saved state at any time, even after you loose, meaning you won't have to loose your streak and can have an unlimited amount of attempts at a level. watch out though, as if you quit during a level and you didn't loose, that will become the new save state, and you will be reset to it next time you enter the level again. Hope this helped