Plants vs. Zombies: Lost World

Plants vs. Zombies: Lost World (abbreviated as PvZ:LW) is a fan-made game based off the Plants vs. Zombies franchise. Just like the games in the main series, Lost World is a tower defense game that involves the player having to strategize a defense utilizing variety of plants to defeat waves of zombies. In this game, however, the setting is based on a secluded island where the player journeys to a plant sanctuary in order to save it from zombie threats, all while discovering more of the secrets of the island and the sanctuary itself.
NOTE: This fan-game is not real. All content relating to PvZ:LW does not exist in a playable game.
==Synopsis==
After defeating yet another wave of zombies, you and Crazy Dave find a map (called the Lost Map) that happens to have been kept by one of the zombies you just fought. Behind it you find a note which hints that Dr. Zomboss has recently found a small island somewhere in the Atlantic, currently used as a sanctuary for plants to take shelter from zombies, and Dr. Zomboss plans to take down the sanctuary, because he fears that the sanctuary would pose a severe threat to him and his fellow zombies, and you have yet to know why. You and Crazy Dave plan to travel to this island, and save the sanctuary from being destroyed.
==Developer's notes==
For new readers that have just discovered this fangame, I'd like to recommend that while you read, keep in mind that this game acted as a really important stepping stone for me in honing a lot of skills that had to do with game-developing. That includes stuff like drawing and animating as well as simple stuff like brainstorming ideas. As such, many of the early pages and ideas I've written for the game may feel a little lackluster (even questionable) in some aspects compared to my more recent pages and concepts. However, I do not intend to improve said aspects, as this project wasn't meant to be a serious one in the first place, but more of something that would give me the opportunity to mess around and experiment with new things. Now that the game is complete, I would like to put it to rest and move on to other projects, where I can actually start taking things down the serious route and utilize the lessons I've learned while I worked on this fangame. Regardless, hopefully this game still shows how I've evolved as I continued working on it, because I think that in itself makes the game a little more interesting as you read further!
And for those who have been reading and catching up with Lost World updates, whether or not you started reading since the day it was released or even since the day before it released its final update, thank you for sticking with this fangame for as long as you did, and I hope you enjoyed reading this fangame's pages as much as I enjoyed working on them!
- Nuttin'
== Art credits ==
Thanks to all of these users who supplied some of their art for the game when the creator couldn't!
*Lira
*Bean
*Unnamed user who worked on Thundercloudberry's final art
*Rugbi
*Chicken
*Rocky
*Melvin
*DM
*Sharky
*Endy
*Darten
== Audio ==
This game has its own intro music that plays in the menu screen when the game is opened, which you can listen to here (credit to 404 for making it).
==Areas==
Icon	Name 	Difficulty*	No. of levels	Plants unlocked here	New zombies (and bosses) encountered here
 	Player's House 	 	5 	
*Peashooter
*Sunflower
*Wall-nut
*Potato Mine
*Cherry Bomb	
*Basic Zombie
*Flag Zombie
* Conehead Zombie
*Buckethead Zombie
 	Rock Beach 	 	30 	
*Bloomerang
*Snow Pea
*Moss-quito
*Repeater
*Spikeweed
*Loudspeaker
*Spikerock
*Bonk Choy
*Havocado
*Explode-O-Nut	
*Hang Glider Zombie
*Newspaper Zombie
*Zombot Drone Engineer
*Zombot Drone
*Buggy Zombie
*Frisbee Zombie
*Gargantuar
*Imp
*Zombot Rock Crab
 	Shroom Moors 	 	30 	
*Puff-shroom
*Sun-shroom
*Fume-shroom
*Magnet-shroom
*Scaredy-shroom
*Death Cap
*Huff-shroom
*Hypno-shroom
*Ice-shroom
*Mushroof
*Doom-shroom	
*Screen Door Zombie
*Jack-in-the-Box Zombie
*Impfinity Clone
*Mortician Zombie 
*Landscaper Zombie
*Mycologist Zombie 
*Dancing Zombie
*Backup Dancer
* Zombot Shroom Harvester
 	Plunging Rapids 	 	35 	
*Lily Pad
*Chomper
*Tangle Kelp
*Coral
*Twin Sunflower
*Brocodile 
*Tall-nut
*Guacodile
*Marigold
*Bloatus
*Gold Bloom	
* Ducky Tube Zombie (includes Basic, Conehead, Buckethead and Brickhead variants)
*Snorkel Zombie
*Brickhead Zombie
*Hovercraft Zombie
*Octo-Pet
*Balloon Zombie
*Zombie Croc
*Lifeguard Zombie
*Zombot River Hydra
 	Grove of Gloom 	 	35 	
*Plantern
*Dusk-shroom
*Garlic
*Split Pea
*Zzz Plant
*Starfruit
*Pumpkin
*Life Cap
*Gloom-shroom
* Weeping Willow
*Ghost Fungus	
*Sleepwalker Zombie
*Bandit Zombie
*Vimpire
*Zombat 
*Digger Zombie
* Immorticia
*Arachnologist Zombie
*Cursed Zombie
*White Sheet Zombie
*Zombot Grove Ghoul
 	Magma Marshlands	 	40 	
*Blover
*Fire Peashooter
*Spring Bean
*Rotobaga
*Snapdragon
*Fanilla
*Pine Drone
*Jalapeño
*Lava Guava
*Thrash Thrush
*Morning Glory 
*Torchwood
*Phlox Phoenix	
*Pogo Zombie
*Smoke Grenade Zombie
*Rock-lifting Zombie
*Professor Brainstorm
*Paraglider Zombie
*Stowaway Imp
*Carpet Roller Zombie 
*Pepper Spray Zombie
*Firefighter Zombie
*Zombot Magma Drake
 	Lightning Ridge 	 	40 	
*Electric Peashooter
*Lightning Reed
*Laser Bean
*Shockleberries
*Electric Currant
*ACkee
*Ironwood
*Bransformer
*Electricitron (a.k.a. Citron from PvZ2)
*Battree
*Electric Blueberry
*Electrici-tea
*Thundercloudberry	
*Toaster Imp
*Kite Zombie
*Ladder Zombie
*Piranha Catcher Zombie
*Rain Dancer Zombie 
*Excavator Zombie
*Froggo Zombie 
*Electric Cage Zombie
*Electric Boogaloo
*Flywheel Zombie
*Zombot Electric Leviathan
 	Blizzard Peaks 	 	45 	
*Living Stone
*Hot Potato
*Cold Snapdragon
*Iceweed
*Icy Currant
*Bur Coat
*Hurrikale
*Sneezewort
*Treeze
*Chillily
*Chilly Pepper
*Ice Sage
*Rhudolph, the Red-Nosed Veggie
*Feverfew	
*Frostbitten Zombie
*Snowball Imps
*Zomboni
*Ice Skater Trio
*Zombie Bobsled Team
*Brain Freeze
*Zombie Yeti
*Mountain Goat Zombie
*Reindeer Rider Zombie
*Giga-gargantuar
*Zombot Frost Wanderer
 	The Sanctuary 	 	80 	PART 1:
*Moonflower
*Nightshade
*Evergreen
*Dusk Lobber
*Aloe
*Undeadnettle
*Karatea
*Master Fung Shui
*Earthstar
*The Great Aloekazam
PART 2:
*Cramberry
*Grimrose
*Skullcap
*Firecrackee
*Tare
*Touch-me-not
*Nuttin' to see here
*Buttercupcake
*Death Rayflower
*Anti-Zombot Arbutus	PART 1:
*Compost Bin Zombie
*Vibing Zombie
*Rally Zombie
*Rustbolt
*Harvester Zombie
*All-Star Zombie
*Sunday Edition Zombie
*Z-Mech
*Zombot Amalgamatronic Abomination
PART 2:
*Bodyguard Zombie
*Very Important Person
*Explodonator Zombie
*Huge-Gigantacus
*Super Fan Imp
*Revenant Zombie
*The Smash
*The Root of All Evil
*Corrupted Mother Nature
*The difficulty is relatively slightly higher than in Plants vs. Zombies 2.
==Plants==
===Returning=== 
* Peashooter
* Sunflower
* Wall-nut
* Potato Mine`
* Cherry Bomb
* Bloomerang`
* Snow Pea`
* Repeater
* Spikeweed
* Spikerock
* Bonk Choy
* Explode-O-Nut*`
* Squash**
* Cactus**`
* Cabbage-pult**`
* Umbrella Leaf**`
* Threepeater**
* Gatling Pea**`
* Puff-shroom
* Sun-shroom
* Fume-shroom`
* Magnet-shroom
* Scaredy-shroom`
* Hypno-shroom`
* Ice-shroom`
* Doom-shroom*`
* Lily Pad
* Chomper`
* Tangle Kelp
* Twin Sunflower
* Tall-nut
* Guacodile`
* Marigold`
* Gold Bloom*`
* Sea-shroom**`
* Cattail**`
* Melon-pult**
* Winter Melon**
* Plantern`
* Garlic`
* Split Pea
* Starfruit`
* Pumpkin`
* Gloom-shroom`
* Blover`
* Fire Peashooter`
* Spring Bean`
* Rotobaga
* Snapdragon`
* Fanilla (from PvZ2C)`
* Jalapeño
* Lava Guava`
* Torchwood*
* Kernel-pult**
* Cob Cannon**`
* Imitater**
* Electric Peashooter`
* Lightning Reed`
* Laser Bean`
* Electric Currant`
* Citron (as Electricitron)`
* Electric Blueberry*`
* Electrici-tea*`
* Hot Potato`
* Cold Snapdragon`
* Iceweed`
* Icy Currant`
* Hurrikale
* Chilly Pepper`
* Moonflower`
* Nightshade`
* Dusk Lobber`
* Aloe`
* Grimrose`
===New===
* Moss-quito
* Loudspeaker
* Havocado*
* Death Cap
* Huff-shroom
* Mushroof*
* Coral
* Brocodile
* Bloatus*
* Dusk-shroom
* Zzz Plant
* Life Cap
* Weeping Willow*
* Ghost Fungus*
* Pine Drone
* Thrash Thrush
* Morning Glory*
* Phlox Phoenix^
* Shockleberries
* ACkee
* Ironwood
* Bransformer
* Battree
* Thundercloudberry^
* Living Stone
* Bur Coat
* Sneezewort
* Treeze
* Chillily
* Ice Sage*
* Rhudolph, the Red-Nosed Veggie*
* Feverfew^
* Evergreen
* Undeadnettle
* Karatea
* Master Fung Shui*
* Earthstar*
* The Great Aloekazam^
* Cramberry
* Skullcap
* Firecrackee
* Tare
* Touch-me-not
* Nuttin' to see here
* Buttercupcake*
* Death Rayflower*
* Anti-Zombot Arbutus^
Plants marked with an asterisk (*) are premium plants.
Plants marked with two asterisks (**) are unlocked from Crazy Dave’s Twiddydinkies.
Plants marked with a caret (^) are upgrade plants.
==Zombies (and bosses)==
===Returning===
* Basic Zombie
* Flag Zombie~
* Conehead Zombie
* Buckethead Zombie
* Newspaper Zombie~
* Gargantuar
* Imp`
* Dr. Zomboss (excluding Zombots)
* Screen Door Zombie
* Jack-in-the-Box Zombie
* Dancing Zombie
* Backup Dancer
* Ducky Tube Zombie`
* Snorkel Zombie`
* Brickhead Zombie
* Balloon Zombie`
* Bandit Zombie (from PvZ2C)`
* Digger Zombie`
* Pogo Zombie`
* Ladder Zombie
* Excavator Zombie`
* Zomboni
* Zombie Bobsled Team
* Zombie Yeti`
* Giga-gargantuar`
* Rally Zombie`
* All-Star Zombie
* Sunday Edition Zombie`
* Z-Mech
* Super Fan Imp
===New===
* Hang Glider Zombie
* Zombot Drone Engineer
* Zombot Drone
* Buggy Zombie
* Frisbee Zombie
* Zombot Rock Crab
* Impfinity Clone
* Mortician Zombie
* Landscaper Zombie
* Mycologist Zombie
* Zombot Shroom Harvester
* Hovercraft Zombie
* Octo-Pet
* Zombie Croc
* Lifeguard Zombie
* Zombot River Hydra
* Sleepwalker Zombie
* Vimpire
* Zombat
* Immorticia
* Arachnologist Zombie
* Cursed Zombie
* White Sheet Zombie
* Zombot Grove Ghoul
* Smoke Grenade Zombie
* Rock-lifting Zombie
* Professor Brainstorm
* Paraglider Zombie
* Stowaway Imp
* Carpet Roller Zombie
* Pepper Spray Zombie
* Firefighter Zombie
* Zombot Magma Drake
* Toaster Imp
* Kite Zombie
* Piranha Catcher Zombie
* Rain Dancer Zombie
* Froggo Zombie
* Electric Cage Zombie
* Electric Boogaloo
* Flywheel Zombie
* Zombot Electric Leviathan
* Frostbitten Zombie
* Snowball Imps
* Ice Skater Trio
* Brain Freeze
* Mountain Goat Zombie
* Reindeer Rider Zombie
* Zombot Frost Wanderer
* Compost Bin Zombie
* Vibing Zombie
* Rustbolt
* Harvester Zombie
* Zombot Amalgamatronic Abomination
* Bodyguard Zombie
* Very Important Person
* Explodonator Zombie
* Huge-Gigantacus
* Revenant Zombie
* The Smash
* The Root of All Evil
* Corrupted Mother Nature
~These plants and zombies, if are found in both PvZ1 and PvZ2, retain their stats and/or abilities in PvZ1 (assume that other plants and zombies not marked with this retain theirs' from PvZ2).
`These plants and zombies have stats and/or abilities that differ from both PvZ1 and PvZ2. Refer to the tabber below to see the differences (assume the relative changes are being compared to PvZ2's plants and zombies if they are found in PvZ2).
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=== Plants ===
*Potato Mine - Can be planted on scorched tiles (like those in Magma Marshlands) to turn into Hotheads, dealing an additional 900 damage to the zombie that touches it and also covers all zombies in a 3×3 area with mashed potato, stunning them for 8 seconds.
*Bloomerang - Sun cost increased to 200. Attack pattern is now different: boomerangs now ricochet off zombies rather than pierce them (similarly to Bowling Bulbs in PvZ2), and do not return back to Bloomerang.
*Snow Pea - Sun cost increased to 175.
*Explode-O-Nut - Recharge increased to 35 seconds (Slow), sun cost increased to 150 sun.
*Cactus - Recharge increased to 10 seconds (Mediocre).
*Cabbage-pult - Sun cost increased to 150 and damage increased to 60 DPS for each cabbage projectile.
*Umbrella Leaf - Now deflects zombies falling from the sky (e.g. Hang Glider Zombie entering the lawn, Imps thrown by Gargantuars) by bouncing them three tiles back, and is also now able to protect surrounding plants from debuffs and other negative status effects (e.g. Frisbee Zombie's stunning ability, Landscaper Zombie's poisoning herbicide clouds. Recharge is now Sluggish (20 seconds).
*Gatling Pea - Retains original abilities from PvZ1, albeit is now a regular plant instead of an upgrade plant. Sun cost is now 425 and recharge is now Fast (5 seconds).
*Fume-shroom - Damage reduced to Normal (20 DPS) and sun cost increased to 175.
*Scaredy-shroom - Sun cost increased to 50.
*Hypno-shroom - Sun cost decreased to 75.
*Ice-shroom - Sun cost increased to 150.
*Doom-shroom - Explosion area decreased to 5×5, sun cost increased to 225.
*Guacodile - Sun cost increased to 150.
*Marigold - Now an instant-use that gives an instant burst of coins. Recharge is now Slow (40 seconds).
*Chomper - Time required to finish chewing on a zombie is reduced to 20 seconds.
*Gold Bloom - The amount of sun it produces at night is halved.
*Sea-shroom - Has the same limited lifespan trait as Puff-shroom does, albeit the lifespan is 1.5 times longer. Recharge is now Fast (5 seconds).
*Cattail - Retains original abilities from PvZ1, albeit is now a regular plant instead of an upgrade plant. Sun cost is now 250 and recharge is now Mediocre (10 seconds).
*Plantern - Lights up a 3×5 area and only lasts for 30 seconds before disappearing.
*Garlic - Unlike in PvZ2, one bite is enough to divert zombies. Kills Vimpires that bite it and wards off Zombats in a 3×3 area.
*Starfruit - It and its projectiles now light up a tile area. Its projectile velocity is the same as in PvZ1.
*Pumpkin - Can be combined with a Plantern to create a jack-o'-lantern, which causes Plantern to have a permanent lifetime, scares zombies in a 3×5 area upon planting (pushing them back a tile), and repels the Sasquash in the Grove of Gloom.
*Gloom-shroom - Firing rate is halved.
*Blover - Sun cost increased to 100 and recharge increased to 20 seconds (Sluggish). Can cause Pogo Zombie to lose balance and fall off his pogo.
*Fire Peashooter - Fire Peashooter's flame perishes and turns into a regular Peashooter after 30 seconds. Planting it on a scorched tile (like those in Magma Marshlands) prevents the flame from perishing. Sun cost decreased to 125. Seed packet can be planted on other (regular) Peashooters to ignite them at the reduced cost of 25 sun, but the flame will still perish.
*Spring Bean - Bounces zombies into nearby lava tiles rather than water. If there are no lava tiles nearby, it'll bounce zombies four tiles back (unless the zombie is a vehicle zombie or a Gargantuar, in which they will be bounced back only two tiles).
*Snapdragon - Sun cost increased to 200 and damage for each attack increased to 40 DPS (Moderate).
*Fanilla - Now attacks in a 3×2 area in front of him rather than his whole lane (same range as Snapdragon). Fanilla now only attacks once every 4 seconds (for 1 second), does not do any damage, holds back zombies for the duration of its attack (preventing them from moving) and also blows away any flying zombies in his range. Can cause Pogo Zombie to lose balance and fall off his pogo.
*Lava Guava - Recharge increased to 25 seconds (Sluggish).
*Cob Cannon - Retains original abilities from PvZ1, albeit is now a regular plant instead of an upgrade plant. Sun cost is now 750 and recharge is now Very Slow (60 seconds).
*Electric Peashooter - Peas no longer strikethrough zombies, but explode in a 3×3 area upon hitting a zombie, which releases sparks that do the same damage as normally to all zombies caught in the blast.
*Lightning Reed - Is now short-ranged (can attack up to 4 tiles, but still able to attack in the lanes above and below), recharge increased to 10 seconds (Mediocre), damage increased by double (20 DPS) and can attract lightning in a 3×3 area around it to strike themselves rather than other plants, activating their own Plant Food ability.
*Laser Bean - Sun cost is increased to 350 and recharge increased to 10 seconds (Mediocre) and attacks now supercharge zombies for 5 seconds, which make them twice as vulnerable to electric attacks.
*Electric Currant - Now able to make diagonal electric fences.
*Electricitron (a.k.a. Citron) - Name changed to Electricitron to avoid confusion with the plant hero Citron, recharge increased to 10 seconds (Mediocre) and attack now stuns (for 2.5 seconds) and supercharges (for 5 seconds) zombies in a 3×3 area (but does no damage apart from the zombie hit by the attack), making them twice as vulnerable to electric damage.
*Electric Blueberry - Damage decreased to 1800 DPS and now prioritises attacking the zombie closest to them.
*Electrici-tea - Range and damage of regular attacks is now the same as Lightning Reed in PvZ2, except it arcs much more than usual, and can be assigned an unlimited number of tea plants.
*Hot Potato - Sun cost increased to 25.
*Cold Snapdragon - Sun cost increased to 250 and recharge increased to 10 seconds (Mediocre).
*Iceweed - Sun cost increased to 175 and recharge increased to 10 seconds (Mediocre).
*Icy Currant - Sun cost increased to 200. Now able to make diagonal fences. Can be clicked/tapped on to hide in ice, making them unable to be eaten (they can still slow zombies but they won't be able to damage them). 
*Chilly Pepper - Recharge increased to 25 seconds (Sluggish). Does the exact same thing as Ice-shroom except only affecting zombies in a lane and can also inflict zombies with frost that last as long as Ice-shroom's chilling time (frost reduces zombie speeds by 75% and causes them to take 100% more damage from ice attacks).
*Moonflower - Sun cost increased to 75 sun. Moonflower can now be used in Last Stand levels but their sun production will be deactivated.
*Nightshade - Recharge increased to 10 seconds (Mediocre). Has Tile area splash damage (same DPS as direct damage), time taken to restore a leaf increased to 6 seconds and, when powered, leaves grow longer to increase range by a tile and can knock zombies back by 0.75 tiles (attacks are no longer ranged).
*Dusk Lobber - Sun cost increased to 175 sun. Splash damage reduced to 15 DPS and, when powered, direct and splash damage done by bud projectiles reduces to 33.3%.
*Aloe - Aloe will start healing plants when their health is below 100%.
*Grimrose - Sun cost increased to 125 sun. Already has three stamens (charges) ready to use, and the holes Grimrose creates can drag down zombies in a tile area. When powered, Grimrose's attacks go back to targeting one zombie at a time (instead of a tile area), but after Grimrose has used all their charges, he makes one final hole in his position that spawns all the zombies he dragged down but hypnotized before he disappears.
=== Zombies ===
* Imp - Toughness reduced to 150 DPS (Average).
* Ducky Tube Zombie - Has Hungry speed on water (thanks to ducky tube) and Basic speed on land.
* Snorkel Zombie - Has Flighty speed until it reaches a body of water (in which he will jump in and hide underwater as usual).
* Balloon Zombie - Zombie's health is now 200 DPS and balloon's health is 250 DPS (450 DPS in total, with Protected toughness).
* Bandit Zombie - Cannot be targeted by plants while hiding in the dark.
* Digger Zombie - His hard hat now lights up a tile area in front of him. Health is same as in PvZ.
* Pogo Zombie - While on his pogo, he is immune to damage from scorched tiles (such as those in Magma Marshlands). He is now susceptible to strong winds and stuns, both of them causing him to fall off his pogo stick.
* Excavator Zombie - Shovel can now be destroyed and has 500 DPS worth of health, and can also be attracted by Magnet-shroom, and, instead of shoving plants behind him, he now eats plants normally and digs below defensive plants or water puddles whenever encountering them, leaving craters directly in front of and behind said defensive plant/water puddle, destroying plants that may have been in those positions (these craters despawn after 45 seconds).
* Zombie Yeti - See Brain Freeze.
* Giga-gargantuar - Has Hungry speed and now cannot be moved by external forces.
* Rally Zombie - Has a chance to replace Flag Zombies if both of them appear in the same level (if Flag Zombies aren't present in the level, Rally Zombies will always appear during huge waves), and will sound a horn upon entrance that doubles the speed of all other incoming zombies in the wave (zombies will lose the speed boost upon reaching a plant or other obstacle).
* Sunday Edition Zombie - His newspaper now only has 900 DPS worth of health.
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==Achievements==
To see all achievements for this game, click here.
==Game modes==
The game modes for Plants vs. Zombies: Lost World are as follows:
*Adventure
*Brain Busters
*Endless
*Zen Garden
To read about them in-depth, click here.
==Currencies==
The following are the main currencies used in the game.
===Money===
Money is the general-use currency (mainly used to buy stuff from Crazy Dave’s Twiddydinkies), and is also known as Coins. Money can be collected in the form of:
*Silver coins (worth $10)
*Gold coins (worth $50)
*Diamonds (worth $1000)
*Money bags (normally contains 5 gold coins)
It can be earned in the following ways:
* Zombies that are killed have a random chance to drop coins, or even diamonds on rare occasions.
*Unused lawn mowers after finishing a level will be converted into silver coins (one coin each).
*Completing some levels reward money bags.
*Zen Garden plants can give coins upon going through different growth stages.
*Zen Garden plants can be sold for money, where the more mature a plant is, the higher the selling price.
===Sprouts===
Sprouts are used to plant more plants in Zen Garden. Sprouts can be gained either by from zombies that randomly drop them, or they can be bought from Crazy Dave’s Twiddydinkies.
===Tokens===
Tokens are used in unlocking higher tiers of plants' stats. Many variants of Tokens exist, each unlocking tiers of a certain stat. They can be earned from zombies that may randomly drop them, obtaining them from treasure chests, or by buying them from Crazy Dave’s Twiddydinkies. Below is a list of all Token variants (and what stat they upgrade, and how relatively common they can be found):
*Strength Token – Unlocks tiers that allow a plant to do more damage, a common Token
*Toughness Token – Unlocks tiers that allow a plant to withstand more damage, a common Token
*Recharge Token – Unlocks tiers that allow a plant’s seed packet to take less time to recharge, an uncommon Token
*Sun cost Token – Unlocks tiers that allow a plant to consume less sun to plant, a rare Token
*Sun production Token – Unlocks tiers that allow a plant to produce more sun at once, a very rare Token
*Firing rate Token – Unlocks tiers that allow a plant to fire projectiles at a faster rate, a rare Token
==== Gallery of Tokens ====
Strength Token.png|A Strength Token
Toughness Token.png|A Toughness Token
Recharge Token.png|A Recharge Token
Sun cost Token.png|A Sun cost Token
Sun production Token.png|A Sun production Token
Firing rate Token.png|A Firing rate Token
==Upgrading system==
The upgrading system in Plants vs. Zombies: Lost World differs a lot from the one in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Plants are upgraded by tiers, but unlike individual tiers where one tier affects multiple stats, there are individual tiers for each stat for each plant. In this game, you are free to tweak your plants as you like, by making a certain stat better in exchange for making another stat worse, allowing you to use your plants in a greater variety of strategies.
A new currency, called Tokens, is used in the upgrading system, and allows you to have more freedom over tweaking your plants by unlocking higher stat tiers. Depending on the plant, there are certain stats that the plant can have tweaked to certain extents. Each stats' tiers are also unlocked using a certain variant of Tokens, and there are many variants that exist (e.g. the Strength token variant can be used to unlock higher tiers for the Damage stat of a plant).
Taking an example from Havocado:
This interface is shown in the almanac entry of each plant, and is positioned at the top of each entry. Here it shows that Havocado has 5 stats that can be tweaked. Initially, plants will start off with having all their stats at the third tier, and the fourth and fifth tiers will be locked, requiring Tokens to unlock (the fourth tier usually requires one Token, and the fifth two).
Once you have unlocked some of the tiers, only then would you be able to tweak your plants. This upgrading system works in such way that upgrading one stat by one tier requires another to degrade by one tier.
In order to do this you'll need to press the minus button of the stat you want to degrade, then the plus button of the stat you want to upgrade (the yellow box in Havocado's sun cost stat indicates that this stat is going to be degraded since the minus button has been pressed). You can see that Havocado's damage stat has already been raised to its fifth tier and gained 500 DPS, in exchange for decreasing Havocado's toughness by 250 DPS.
You can also see that some of the stats' tiers are still locked and so these require a certain number of the respective Tokens to unlock (the padlock indicates that the previous tier needs to be unlocked before unlocking this tier).
The yellow box in the firing rate stat indicates that the fourth tier can be unlocked, since the player already has the required number and type of Token to unlock it (pressing the box will unlock it). The 'no' symbol on the firing rate stat's 'fifth tier' indicates that this stat's tier does not exist, and cannot be unlocked through any means (some plants may have these for balancing purposes).
==Mystery Gift Boxes==
Mystery Gift Boxes make a return in Plants vs. Zombies: Lost World, with functions similar in Plants vs. Zombies 2. They can give costumes for plants to have as an accessory, and also has a rare chance to give 3 random Tokens along with the costume.
==Level mechanics==
Most of the level mechanics in Plants vs. Zombies 2 are retained in Plants vs. Zombies: Lost World. These include:
*Plant Food
*Fast-forward button
*Shovel
Level objectives also return in Plants vs. Zombies: Lost World. The following are the level objectives that could potentially appear in some levels:
*Don’t let the zombies trample the flowers
*Survive without planting on Dave’s mold colonies
*Survive without any lawn mowers
*Produce at least x sun
*Spend no more than x sun
*Never have more than x plants
*Don’t lose more than x plants
==Additional features and mechanics==
===Moon===
Some night time areas exposed to the moon (e.g. Shroom Moors) act differently from normal night time areas in the original PvZ games. At night time, moons fall from the sky instead of sun (at the same rate as sun would fall in day time). These moons can’t be used to grow any plants directly, but they can be converted into actual sun for usage. A moon icon next to your sun counter will show a certain phase (either new moon, waxing crescent, quarter moon, waning crescent or full moon).
As you collect more moon, the moon icon advances into the next phase (e.g. collecting one moon makes the icon become a waxing crescent from a new moon). It takes 4 moon in total to create a full moon, and, when that happens, the full moon becomes a new moon again and you earn 50 sun. This new mechanic will give players a chance to earn more sun on a night time level.
===Heroes===
Throughout the game, the player will meet more Plant and Zombie heroes joining in the battle in order to aid their own sides. These heroes are the heroes you can find in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes. Formerly, it was planned that when more Plant Heroes join in, the player would learn more about why this mission is so important that Dr. Zomboss can't reach the sanctuary, but then the creator forgot about this plan all the way up till they were working on the final area itself so the idea got unintentionally scrapped. Zombie Heroes will aid the zombie horde like a normal zombie (except with unique abilities), excluding Super Brainz, where he will act as a mini-boss in the brain buster Hero Time (more about this here). Plant Heroes, on the other hand, act like abilities, and only one can be brought in at a time for each level (excluding Hero Time levels, where you can bring in up to three). Plant Heroes also have a cooldown of 60 seconds after being used. The following is the list of Plant Heroes:
*Green Shadow
First unlocked: Shroom Moors - Level 6A
Ability: Shoot a super pea in a chosen lane, clearing out all zombies in that lane (vehicles and Gargantuars can stop the pea from going further down the lane, and Gargantuars will take 1800DPS instead).
*Wall-Knight
First unlocked: Shroom Moors - Level 3B
Ability: Can be planted on a tile (including tiles that cannot be planted on (e.g. rocks and water)) and act like a Wall-nut, except completely indestructible. Will leave the lawn after 15 seconds.
*Nightcap
First unlocked: Shroom Moors - Level 2C
Ability: Create 3 Death Caps in random locations near zombies (these Death Caps retain any upgrades you have purchased for them (e.g. Damage upgrades)).
*Chompzilla
First unlocked: Plunging Rapids - Level 13A
Ability: Clears out a 2×2 area of zombies (Gargantuars take 1800 DPS of damage instead).
*Rose
First unlocked: Grove of Gloom - Level 12A
Ability: Transform all zombies with Hardened toughness and above into a goat zombie with Average toughness, Basic speed and no special abilities.
*Spudow
First unlocked: Magma Marshlands - Level 12A
Ability: Spawn 5 (already-armed) Hotheads (check Potato Mine's ability change in the tabber on this page for more info) at random locations on the lawn (Hotheads can also spawn on rocky tiles, spawning with a scorched tile beneath them which disappears after it explodes).
*Citron
First unlocked: Lightning Ridge - Level 11A
Ability: Protect a 2×2 area of plants by creating a force field around them (front and back, like Moonflower's). The force field can absorb 3000 DPS (Gargantuar smashes are reduced to 1000 DPS for the force field). It will automatically disable after 15 seconds.
*Solar Flare
First unlocked: Blizzard Peaks - Level 12A
Ability: Solar Flare will cause a large amount of fiery sun (depending on the number of zombies currently present) to fall from the sky. You can either collect this sun for your own use or let them drop on obstacles and the zombies to deal fire damage to them (one sun is designated to drop on each obstacle and zombie, instantly melting ice blocks while dealing 400 DPS worth of fire damage to anything else).
*Grass Knuckles
First unlocked: The Sanctuary - Level 12A
Ability: Instantly defeat all zombies with less than 30% max. health.
*Captain Combustible
First unlocked: The Sanctuary - Level 2B
Ability: Double a plant's damage output and firing rate.
*Beta-Carrotina
First unlocked: The Sanctuary - Level 36A
Ability: Create three free seed packets of random non-upgrade, non-instant-use plants from the entire game. Those plants activate their Plant Food effect the moment they're planted.
===Tea plants===
Tea plants can be applied to different seed packets of plants to grant them special effects. Go to the main article here to learn more.
===Reality rifts===
Reality rifts are game-reality affecting mechanics that take place in certain levels (namely those in level path E and the late-game boss fights), and is directly related to the storyline of the game. Starting from Blizzard Peaks, some levels in level path A may also have some reality rifts. To read more about them, start by reading the description on level path E's here.
===Supercharger===
During Level 2A of The Sanctuary, Dr. Zomboss gives the team the Supercharger, a device that can empower a single seed packet of the player's choice in each level (you can also choose not to use it). The way this works is that it utilizes corrupted energy from the surroundings to enhance a plant's abilities by extreme amounts, at the cost of a much more expensive sun cost. Essentially, the sun cost of a plant gets multiplied by 12 times (plants that cost 0 sun will have their sun cost set to 200). You can then choose 1 out of 3 applicable buffs to apply to the plant:
* The amount of damage the plant does is multiplied by 10
* Their toughness is multiplied by 10
* Their firing rate is 10 times faster
==Trivia==
*Originally this fan-game was going to be a playable game, but due to the amount of other projects the creator has, this idea has been scrapped.
*The game originally was going to have 10 areas rather than 8, but due to time constraints, the creator has removed one of the areas and merged another one with The Sanctuary.
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