26 Jul 2025

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Plants vs Zombies

Get ready to soil your plants! Experience the classic tower defense gameplay of Plants vs. Zombies, reimagined in Minecraft, and defend your home from waves of zombies.

Place your plants, collect falling Sun, and fight through waves of zombies across multiple levels. Each victory unlocks new, powerful plants to help you on your journey. With a variety of plants to master and increasingly challenging zombies to defeat, you'll have to think fast and plant faster to protect your lawn. Are you ready to defend your home from the zombie horde?

How to Play Guide

Welcome to Plants vs. Zombies in Minecraft! This guide will walk you through the basics of defending your lawn.

Getting Started

To begin your adventure, find Crazy Dave in the world. When you first join, a message will appear on your screen prompting you to speak with him. Simply interact with (or hit) Crazy Dave to open the main menu and start playing.

The Basics of Lawn Defense

Sun: This is the most important resource in the game. Sun falls from the sky periodically, and you can also get it from Sunflowers. To collect it, simply walk up to it or look at it and swing your arm. Each Sun is worth 25 points.

Planting: To plant, select a plant from your hotbar and use the item on a valid planting tile. A valid tile is a 3x2 area of grass. A particle outline will appear to show you where you can plant.

The Shovel: If you need to remove a plant, select the shovel from your hotbar and use it on the plant you wish to dig up.

The Plants

As you complete levels, you will unlock a variety of plants to help you fight the zombies.

Sunflower

Pixelated sunflower with game stats displayed

Cost: 50 Sun
Cooldown: 5 seconds
Function: Produces additional Sun for you to collect. An essential part of any defense!

Peashooter

Blocky Peashooter plant with stats display

Cost: 100 Sun
Cooldown: 7.5 seconds
Function: Your first line of defense. The Peashooter shoots peas at zombies in its lane.

Cherry Bomb

Two blocky red cherries with angry faces

Cost: 150 Sun
Cooldown: 25 seconds
Function: When you need to clear a group of zombies in a hurry, the Cherry Bomb explodes, taking out all zombies in a small area.

Wall-nut

Blocky Wall-nut with stats and description

Cost: 50 Sun
Cooldown: 30 seconds
Function: A tough defensive plant that can block zombies and protect your other plants.

Potato Mine

Potato Mine stats and description card

Cost: 25 Sun
Cooldown: 30 seconds
Function: After being planted, the Potato Mine arms itself and will explode when a zombie gets too close.

Snow Pea

Pixelated snow pea plant with stats displayed.

Cost: 175 Sun
Cooldown: 7.5 seconds
Function: Shoots freezing peas that not only damage zombies but also slow them down.

The Zombies

You'll face a variety of zombies trying to get to your house.

Zombie: The standard, slow-moving zombie. Weak on its own, but dangerous in large numbers.
Conehead Zombie: This zombie is tougher than the standard version thanks to the traffic cone on its head.
Buckethead Zombie: The toughest of the basic zombies, the bucket on its head provides a great deal of protection.

Levels & Progression

The map features 8 levels of increasing difficulty.
Level 1: Tutorial - Learn the basics and unlock the Sunflower.
Level 2: The Bigger Lawn - Unlock the Cherry Bomb.
Level 3: Conehead Kerfuffle - Unlock the Wall-nut.
Level 4: Buckethead Brigade - Unlock the Potato Mine.
Level 5: Potato Power - Unlock the Snow Pea.
Level 6: The Bucketheads are Back
Level 7: Zombie Tsunami
Level 8: The Final Stand

Settings

From the main menu, you can access the settings to customize your experience. Here, you can toggle the visibility of plant and zombie health bars, turn Crazy Dave's dialogue on or off, and change the game's language.