Cave Kingdom

Cave Kingdom is the third area in Plants vs. Zombies: Kingdom of Taco. There are two major gimmicks from this world, being nighttime and falling stalactites.
Due to taking place within a cave with no light, sun will not fall from the sky, which means the player has a lot less sun to work with, especially in the early game.
Sometimes during a level, falling stalactites will drop from the ceiling and destroy plants and zombies within that tile, then they become obstacles that block straight-shot projectiles. This can be prevented with Umbrella Leaf. Stalacbites will sometimes fall along with other stalactites, allowing them to advance through your lawn.
This world has an ambush called "Shaking Cave", which drops multiple stalactites and Stalacbites from the sky. Zombot Drill Sergeant can summon this ambush as well.
==Plants==
* : Shoot close range puff and only last for limited time.
* : Give more sun as time goes on.
* : Shoot from afar, but hides when zombies are close.
* : Shoot fume that damage all zombie within 4 tiles in front and ignore shields.
* : Protect plants from overhead projectiles like thrown imps and stalactites.
* : Shoot peas forward and twice as much backward.
* : Remove metellic objects like helmets and others from zombies.
* : Defend against zombies, then poison zombies that ate it when the armor is destroyed and they get eaten.
* : Lob projectiles that when they killed a zombie, that zombie transform into a free seed packet of Spore-Shroom.
* : Freeze all zombies on screen when planted.
=== Expansion ===
* : Slow down zombies in the lane, before releasing air that can push zombies back and even further for small zombies.
* : Lob hearts that infatuate zombies, causing them to take more damage from anything every time they get hit.
* : Can be planted on an defensive plant to boost all copy of that plant by giving them a shield temporarily that can withstand attacks and one instant-killing attack.
==Zombies == 
* : Transform into a dense pile of bones when killed, but will move again after 10 seconds if they're not destroyed.
* : Use the pillar as a shield, and deal more damage by smashing them into your plants.
* : Fall down with other stalactites, but contain a zombie as well.
* : Walk a bit before digging with his metallic pickaxe into the backline of your defense, then walk backward.
* : Has 2 pieces of metallic armor, both providing protections.
* : Explode in 3x3 after touching a plant, ice attack will decrease the radius to 1 tile and fire attacks will increase the radius to 5x5.
* : General Zombie; Stay in the first column to smash nearby plants, run up to other plants to destroy them, stomp the ground to summon more Skeleton Zombies and scream to stun a line of plants unless there's an armored plant to protect them.
* : Boss of this world, Drill towards a line of plants, shoot mini-drills from between the drills to damage plants and explode, spill oil and ignites them to burn plants unless a freezing plant is used.
===Expansion===
* : Appear from the ground behind your defense and quickly attack to the right side in order to damage plants.
* : Carry a column to smash your plants and have even more health than Pillar Zombie. Carry the old pillars on their back to resist damage from behind, as well as dropping it when killed as obstacles.
==Levels==
Night	Plant 	Zombie	Flag 	Note 	Prize
1 	Choose with 	 	1 	 	
2 	Choose with 	 	1 	 	
3 	Choose 	 	2 	Stalactites start falling. 	Dave's Car Key
4 	1 moveable 	 	1 	Flower Emblem Brain Buster 	
A1 	1 moveable 	 	1 	Flower Emblem Brain Buster, extra level after Night 4 	
A2 	1 moveable 	 	2 	Flower Emblem Brain Buster 	
A3 	1 moveable , 5 pre-planted 	 	2 	Flower Emblem Brain Buster 	
5 	Choose with 	 	1 	 	
6 	Choose 	 	2 	 	
7 	Choose with 	 	1 	Shaking Cave ambush starts to appear. 	
8 	1 moveable , 5 pre-planted and 5 pre-planted	 	1 	Flower Emblem Brain Buster 	
9 	Choose, 2 endangered 	 	2 	 	
10 	 	 	3 	Locked and Loaded level. 	
11 	Choose with 	 	1 	 	
12 	Choose 	 	2 	 	
13 	Choose 	 	3 	General Zombie battle. 	
B1 	Choose 	 	3 	General Zombie battle, extra level after Night 13. 	
B2 	Choose 	 	3 	General Zombie battle. 	
B3 	Choose 	 	3 	General Zombie battle. 	Taco Holder 1
14 	Choose 	 	2 	 	
15 	Choose, 1 pre-planted 	 	2 	 	
16 	Choose 	 	2 	Objectives: Spend no more than 2000 sun. 	
17 	Choose 	 	3 	Except for Flag Zombie, all other zombies appear from falling stalactites.	
18 	 	 	2 	Locked and Loaded level. 	Endless Rock
C1 	 	 	2 	Locked and Loaded level, Extra Level after Night 18. 	
C2 	 	 	1 	Locked and Loaded level, starts with 3 tacos. 	
C3 	 	 	2 	Locked and Loaded level. 	
19 	Choose with 	 	2 	 	
20 	Choose 	 	3 	 	
21 	Choose 	 	2 	 	
22 	Choose, 4 endangered 	 	3 	 	Zen Garden & Zen Graveyard
23 	Choose 	 	3 	Objectives: Spend no more than 1500 sun. 	
24 	Choose 	 	3 	 	
25 	Conveyor belt; 	 	Replaced with Boss health	Boss battle. 	
== Expansion Levels ==
Night	Plant 	Zombie	Flag	Note 	Prize
EX1 	Choose 	 	1 	 	
EX2 	Choose, 1 pre-planted 	 	2 	 	
EX3 	 	 	2 	Locked and Loaded level. 	
EX4 	Choose with 	 	2 	 	
EX5 	Choose with 	 	3 	 	
EX6 	1 moveable , 5 pre-planted and 5 pre-planted 	 	2 	Flower Emblem Brain Buster 	
EX7 	Choose, 3 endangered 	 	3 	Digger Zombies and Zombie Moles are very common in this level. 	
EX8 	Choose 	 	2 	 	
EX9 	Choose without or any instant-killing plants.	 	3 	 	
EX10 	Choose 	 	3 	Objectives: Spend no more than 1650 sun. 	
EX11 	Choose with extra preparation time. 	 	3 	Except for Flag Zombie and Gargantuar at the final wave, all other zombies appear from falling stalactites.	
EX12 	Conveyor belt; 	 	3 	 	
==Brain Buster==
This world's exclusive brain buster is "Flower Emblem", in this brain buster, the player controls a plant on a minecart, and is able to move in any direction as long as there's no other plants or obstacles. Your goal is to finish the level without the moveable plant getting eaten. You can't plant other plants within the level so you must avoid getting your plant killed while killing the zombies in the same time.
==Endless Rock==
Endless Rock is unlocked after beating Day 22, it unlocks both Survival Mode and Endless Mode of this world. For both Survival Mode and Endless Mode, There will be randonly falling stalactites during the level.
For Endless Mode, you unlock these plants at the start:
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==Dialogue==
=== Regular ===
Before starting Night 1:
*Crazy Dave: We're in a cave! Spooky!
*Penny: This appears to be the Cave Kingdom.
* Crazy Dave: Cave Kingdom, why is there a kingdom in a cave?
*Penny: This kingdom is built by the zombies, they appeared to use the cave as a trap for us.
*Crazy Dave: A trap!? We have to get out of here
*(Zomboss appears)
* Dr. Zomboss: Hahaha, the cave exit have been closed! You will never leave!
*(Zomboss leaves)
*Crazy Dave: What are we going to do now? There's no sun here!
*Penny: Perhaps we can get help from the mushrooms here.
Before starting Night 3:
*Crazy Dave: Did you hear that?
*Crazy Dave: Its the sound of falling rocks.
*Crazy Dave: Be careful not to get crushed!
Before starting Night 4:
*Penny: We found this minecart we can use.
*Crazy Dave: And we planted a plant on it.
*Crazy Dave: Why, Because I'm CRAAAZY!!!!!
*Penny: You can move them around in this level.
Before starting Night 10:
*Crazy Dave: Hi neighbour.
*Crazy Dave: I wanna pick some seeds for you!
*Crazy Dave: Just like old times!
*Crazy Dave: I'll pick... these four!
Before starting Night 13:
*Crazy Dave: There's a strange zombie over there.
*Penny: That is the Cave Troll Zombie, they are extremely tough.
*Crazy Dave: Troll? Does that mean we will get bamboozled?
* Penny: He doesn't seem to like to move towards the house.
*Penny: But he will summon zombies to get the brain for him.
Before starting Night 23:
*Penny: Our sun supply are going low.
*Penny: You have to limit your sun usage a lot this time.
*Crazy Dave: Don't forget to use free plants!
Before starting Night 25:
*Dr. Zomboss: You fool, don't you realize its stupid to fight against me!
*Dr. Zomboss: Even if you get out of here unharmed, you will still never reached the Taco Kingdom!
*Dr. Zomboss: Now instead of tacos, taste the power of my newest invention!
*(Zomboss leaves)
*Crazy Dave: Looks like he has a drill of some sort!
*Penny: After we beat him, we can use this to escape.
After beating Night 25:
*Dr. Zomboss: Darn it, those Engineers told me it would be invincible!
*Dr. Zomboss: Just you wait, I will tear you apart... next time!
*(Zomboss leaves)
*Crazy Dave: Looks like he drilled his way out of here.
*Penny: But that also means we can leave with that giant hole he created.
*Crazy Dave: Let's move on!
=== Expansion ===
Before starting Expansion Night 1:
* Crazy Dave: The cave seems... unusual.
* Crazy Dave: It looks like it got bigger since the last time we were here!
* Penny: Dr. Zomboss drilling the cave had cause some side effect.
* Penny: Such as more zombies coming from different kingdoms to invade here.
* Penny: And some plants are still here, too!
* Crazy Dave: It seems like we will have to go mining for those hidden gems!
Before starting Expansion Night 4:
* Crazy Dave: Awww, Penny look! There's some cute moles around!
* Penny: User Dave, those are Zombie Moles!
* Crazy Dave: What do you mean, I thought animal zombies were in the Animal Kingdom!
* Penny: These moles live in Cave Kingdom, while they don't eat brains, they certainly loves munching your plants.
* Penny: And did you forget that zombies from other kingdom also shows up here.
* Crazy Dave: Maybe, but at least the moles don't eat my brain!
* Penny: *whisper* If there is any.
* Crazy Dave: I heard that!
Before starting Expansion Night 7:
* Crazy Dave: It is oddly calm around here...
* Crazy Dave: But I can still hear them...
* Crazy Dave: Maybe it is just an illusion...
* Crazy Dave: Or maybe they're coming from the ground!
Before starting Expansion Night 8:
* Penny: Pillar Zombies had evolve since we last been here.
* Crazy Dave: They can carry... ONE PILLAR MORE NOW!
* Penny: Column Carrier can protect themselves from multiple directions, as well as dropping them when killed.
Before starting Expansion Night 11:
* Penny: While it may not seems like it.
* Penny: That Gargantuar is not fighting alone.
* Crazy Dave: Of course, there's the Imp on his back as well!
* Penny: Not just that.
* Penny: All I can say is "Look up".
* Crazy Dave: I am not falling for that, I am not gullible!
==Trivia==
*Flower Emblem is a reference to Fire Emblem, a strategy game franchise where the player move units around in the stage.
*This world can be seen as a counterpart to Strikes Back's Mushroom Grotto and The Lost Gold Mine, as it is the first night world with a lot of mushroom plants but is also taking place within a cave.
*Pillar Zombie can be seen as a counterpart to Screen Door Zombie, as they are both weak to Fume-Shroom due to using shields as defense.
*Umbrella Leaf wasn't originally in this world, it replaced Hypno-Shroom to counter the world gimmick of falling stalactites.
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