Grid Item

**Grid Items** are objects that appear in *Alternate UniverZ*. Some grid items benefit the player, while others may be a nuisance instead.

## Grid Items

### Player's House

In Player's House, there are tombstones. It can block straight-shot projectiles from hitting the zombies. It can also occupy a tile, preventing any plants to be planted there (though Grave Buster can be planted to remove the tombstone). Tombstones can appear naturally in Player's House and some holidays. It can also sometimes summon zombies via the Necromancy ambush.

### Ancient Egypt

In Ancient Egypt, there are Egyptian tombstones. They function similarly to the tombstones in Player's House. Furthermore, these tombstones can be created by Tomb Raiser Zombie's and Tomb Fest Raiser's bones, meaning it is possible for these tombstones to appear in other worlds as well, such as Far Future (FFX-IV), Dark Ages (DAX-VI), and The Springscapade (TS-V). Grave Buster can remove these tombstones too.

In Ancient Egypt's minigame, Tombstone Hunt, more grid items are presented, such as the reinforced tombstone, a tombstone with double the toughness, the plant tombstone which will release a random plant upon destruction, and the zombie tombstone which will release a zombie (fixed to only one type per level) upon destruction. Grave Buster can remove all of the aforementioned tombstones.

### Pirate Seas

In Pirate Seas, there are planks. They connect the zombies' ship to the player's, allowing zombies to passage normally onto your lawn. While some rows do not have any planks, they can still be attacked by zombies traveling halfway across the lawn.

In PS-IX, craters can be observed. Craters are unplantable, acting similarly to Dave's mold colonies.

### Wild West

In Wild West, there are minecarts and rails. While most plants cannot be placed on a minecart rail except for flying plants like Rotobaga or Void Orchid, plants can be placed into a minecart and moved along the rail at will.

In Netronome, a Timeless Avenue community level, there are western tombstones. They behave similarly to the aforementioned tombstones, except being more fragile and also summoning zombies in a rhythmic fashion. Grave Buster can remove these tombstones as well.

### Far Future

In Far Future, there are Power Tiles. Power Tiles come in different colors, with different symbols corresponding to each color. Power Tiles link Plant Food to any plant on a Power Tile of the same color. After Plant Food has been given to a plant on a Power Tile and it has finished its Plant Food effect, it will also activate Plant Food effects on plants of the same color as the previous Power Tile. This gives a distinct advantage to the player, as Power Tiles do not hinder the player.

Certain levels that take place in Far Future (like TB-IV and Cycles) contains futuristic minecarts and rails, which acts similarly to its western counterpart. Furthermore, in Shields Up!, a Timeless Avenue community level, there are futuristic tombstones, which behave like normal tombstones, except that they can also spawn shields similar to those of Shield Zombie's.

### Dark Ages

In Dark Ages, there are medieval tombstones. Just like the ones in Ancient Egypt, they are obstacles that block projectiles. However, they can now occasionally spawn by themselves, and have two other variants of itself marked with a sun and Plant Food, which spawn 50 sun or a Plant Food when destroyed respectively. If a medieval tombstone spawns in a tile occupied with a plant, the plants will be pushed to another empty tile. If there are no empty tiles on the lawn, the plant will be flung out of the lawn.

Reanimator Zombie, upon defeated, drops a Summoning Tomb on the tile he is on. It crushes the plant it is on and summons Plagued Peasants after a while, exploding into even more Plagued Peasants when left unattended to. Summoning Tomb cannot be consumed by Grave Buster.

In Dark Ages' minigame, Dark Alchemy, there are various types of potions. Potions will grant zombies with either a speed boost, toughness boost, slowing effect, buttering effect, or freezing effect on them, depending on the potion type. The player cannot plant anything on the potions.

### Lost City

In Lost City, there are Gold Tiles. When a plant is placed on a Gold Tile, it will produce 25 sun every 20 seconds until the plant is eaten, crushed, or moved by the zombies. Replanting a plant on a Gold Tile generates initial sun. Nothing special happens when the player uses Plant Food on a plant located on a Gold Tile.

When Imp Porter comes across a Gold Tile, he will fall and disappear, with his backpack crushing him and any grounded plants on the Gold Tile such as Spikeweed, and drops a tent that blocks projectiles and spawns either a Adventurer Zombie or a Conehead Adventurer Zombie every 12-18 seconds. If Imp Porter is defeated before reaching a Gold Tile, he will drop his backpack, which blocks projectiles and crushes any plant in the tile behind him.

There are also Flame Traps, in which when planted on or stepped on by a zombie, release green flames across a medium area that burns all plants and zombies in its row, with enough damage to kill off a Conehead Zombie. After that, they enter a cooldown before being able to release green flames again.

### Frostbite Caves

In Frostbite Caves, there are frozen blocks. It can appear at the start of the level containing plants or zombies. It can also be formed when a plant froze from Hunter Zombies or frost winds. Troglobites can also push frozen blocks (usually containing Yeti Imps or Sasquatch Imps) into the lawn, as well as pushing other ice blocks on the lawn. These frozen blocks will also block projectiles similar to tombstones. Hot Potato can melt frozen blocks.

There are also ice floes, which are ice blocks that float on tiles with water, and have a zombie hand frozen inside with its index finger pointing either up or down. This finger determines the lane the zombies that get in contact with it will go towards. Plants cannot be planted on ice floes.

In A Small Ray of Light, a Timeless Avenue community level, there are prisms. Prisms are custom grid items that deflect projectile to a certain direction indicated by the arrow on them.

### Neon Mixtape Tour

In Neon Mixtape Tour, Arcade Zombie will push their arcade cabinets into the lawn. When the 8-bit jam plays, arcade cabinets will spawn either a 8-Bit Zombie, 8-Bit Conehead Zombie, or 8-Bit Buckethead Zombie every 15-20 seconds until destroyed.

### Holiday Cheer

In HC-III, Sap-fling's sap will summon zombies via the Sap Spawn ambush.

### Hearts of Flesh

There are no grid items in Hearts of Flesh.

### The Springscapade

When a Mystery Egg is destroyed, it will act as a grid item, blocking projectiles similarly to tombstones, albeit more fragile. They will also summon one zombie from The Springscapade (usually a Chick Imp) and will stay on that tile until it absorbs enough damage and break.

### Summer Splashdown

In Summer Splashdown, there are fireworks, which deal damage to both plants and zombies in a 3x3 area, but can only be destroyed by zombies.

Tombstones also make an appearance in Summer Splashdown and will summon zombies every flag wave.

### Lawn of Doom

In Lawn of Doom, tombstones are present. However, compared to both Dark Ages and Summer Splashdown, zombie will be summoned silently without any warnings. There will be sudden tombstone spawns throughout the level too.

### Cheerful Return

In Cheerful Return, there are present boxes. They act similar to frozen blocks from Frostbite Caves, but plants can be planted on them, their surprises cannot be seen, and cannot be melted by Hot Potato. Toymaker Troglobite can push present boxes into the lawn which contains various zombies.

### Green Gold Rush

Replicator Reanimator, upon defeated, drops a Replicating Grave on the tile he is on. It crushes the plant it is on and releases multiple smaller Replicator Reanimators after a long while. These smaller Replicator Reanimators also drop smaller Replicating Graves upon defeat, crushing tiles and releasing multiple Leprechaun Imps after a while. Grave Buster can consume small Replicating Graves, but takes three times longer than usual to bust.

### Birthday Bashers

Birthday Bashers has portals. They appear on any tile of the lawn and spawn various zombies. The types of zombies spawned is indicated with the portrait of their respective world they are showing. The zombies spawned are usually fixed but customizable and spawn zombies in a randomized order. There is never any indication on whether they are going to appear on a level, nor the zombies they will spawn. Portals will close after a definite period of time.

Birthday Delivery Roller will roll a barrel containing a reinforced tombstone into the lawn.

The Arch-Magician can summon portals and Wrapping Potions, which wrap zombies in present boxes upon being stepped on. They cannot be planted on as well.

### Heroic Showdown

In Heroic Showdown, there are Neptuna Sewers. Special holiday zombies that step onto them get washed off into their normal counterparts. The table below shows the full list of holiday zombies that can be transformed:

## Gallery

Player's House TombstoneAncient Egypt TombstoneReinforced TombstonePlant GraveZombie GravePlankCraterWild West Minecart and RailsPlayer's House Minecart and RailsWild West TombstonesGreen Cross Power TileRed Square Power TileYellow Triangle Power TileCyan Plus Power TilePurple Circle Power TileFar Future Minecart and RailsFar Future TombstoneDark Ages TombstoneDark Ages Sun TombstoneDark Ages Plant Food TombstoneSummoning TombToughness PotionSpeed PotionButter PotionFreeze PotionGold TileTentBackpackFlame TrapFrozen Block PlantFrozen Block ZombieIce Floe UpIce Floe DownPrism UpPrism RightPrism DownPrism LeftArcade CabinetSapMystery EggFireworks (Old)Fireworks (New)Present BoxReplicating GraveHoliday Cheer PortalHearts of Flesh PortalThe Springscapade PortalSummer Splashdown PortalLawn of Doom PortalGreen Gold Rush PortalBirthday Bashers PortalChilifest PortalLunar Zoo Year PortalHeroic Showdown PortalBackyard Brain Bowl PortalHoliday PortalNeptuna Sewer