Piñata Party

*A Piñata Party in Reflourished*

**Piñata Party** is a gamemode in *Reflourished* that is accessible once per day, featuring a specific level accessible via the world map where the plants at the player's disposal are always different and set for each party. Piñata Parties usually take place in the Player's House, but can occassionally take place in other worlds, usually containing zombies from various eras. They also act as a daily Brain Buster, usually being a Special Delivery level but can also be a Locked and Loaded level alongside various other objectives such as the inclusion of mold colonies. Once the player has played the Piñata Party of the day, they are no longer able to replay them unless it's a recurring party. Sometimes, Piñata Parties will be themed around a special event or holiday such as Lawn of Doom, Food Fight and Feastivus, usually featuring their respective holiday zombies as well as their respective lawns. Piñata Parties refresh around 12:00 AM GMT-8, featuring a new party for the player to access. To access a Piñata Party, the player needs to have a strong internet connection.

## Rewards

Winning Piñata Parties rewards the player by giving them the option to smash three piñatas from a group of 16 piñatas. Each piñata may contain coins with varying amount, gems of varying amount, a power up (excluding Power Flame), a sprout, or a random costume excluding ones bought exclusively from the store, with the third piñata usually having the best rewards. The player also gets a chance to smash Señor Piñata for every 5 parties the player has won, which contains a new costume for the player to have. However, once the player has obtained most costumes, they will instead get a huge sum of coins instead of costumes.

## Levels

As stated earlier, Piñata Parties are different and change from day to day, typically being completely unique from one another.

Before the 1.1.4 update (September 19th, 2023), Vanilla parties also appeared in the game alongside rare instances of new parties exclusive to the mod.

Here are all the intended Piñata Parties that have been playable at some point since *Reflourished's* launch:

* 2024
* 2023
* 2022

* January

* December
* November
* October
* September
* August
* July
* June
* May
* April
* March
* February
* January

* December
* November
* October

## Trivia

* The January 16, 2023 Piñata Party would often crash at random due to having only three types of plants in the level; a data push was done later that day that added a 4th plant type to prevent crashing.
* The April 1, 2023 Piñata Party has unique music playing throughout the level, which is basically just the Holiday Mashup OST but played with a kazoo.
	+ This party also contains the most custom content that usually isn't seen anywhere else, due to it being an April Fools party.
* According to PvZABFan, the May 16, 2023 Piñata Party was never meant to be in rotation, and was planned to be removed since before launch.
* In event parties that feature Camel Zombies, such as the September 21, 2023 Piñata Party, they would expose the event's respective Basic Zombie variant instead of Mummy Zombies.
	+ This is due to party swaplists affecting other basic zombies, turning them into the event's own zombie variants.

### References

* The October 20, 2022 party is the old version of Steam Ages - Day 3.
* The October 21, 2022 and October 13, 2023 parties are based on the *Reflourished* Launch Trailer.
* The February 8, 2023 party is based on the level GGR-II: Air Vaulter from *Alternate UniverZ*.
* The February 11, 2023 party is based on the level HOF-IV: Team Effort from *Alternate UniverZ*.
* The October 4, 2023 party is based on a level in an infamous custom level pack for Vanilla called Prismatic Hell, specifically Day 7.
* The October 5, 2023 party is based on the *Reflourished* custom level called Grim Situation by Volcanic Jay, a level designer for the mod and active editor for the wiki.
	+ Additionally, Grim Situation is also referenced in They're Trying Their Best - Step 8.
* The October 8, 2023 party is based on the level AEX-III: Close Encounters from *Alternate UniverZ*.
* The October 12, 2023 party is based on an infamous Vanilla Piñata Party, specifically the one with Winter Melons, Peashooters going against a horde of Poncho Zombies, Knight Zombies and Zombie Bulls.
	+ Additionally, the original Vanilla party aired during August 12, 2023.
* The October 14, 2023 party is based on the *Reflourished* Launch Poster, showcasing a hectic brawl between various holiday plants and zombies.
* The October 15, 2023 party has various references from Spongebob Age levels which are as follows:
	+ The Goo tiles references Day 1.
	+ Laser Bean, Fume-shroom and Primal Wall-nut being in the conveyor references Day 3.
	+ The "FINAL WAVE" texts during every flag references Day 5.
	+ The appearance of Brap Pianist references Day 6.
	+ The pre-game Zombob eating an endangered plant and the Foreman Gargantuars spawning from surfboards alongside spawning Flame Traps references Day 11.
	+ Petoria Flag Zombies spawning from sewers references Level 13.
	+ The tide present in the level references Day 14.
	+ The appearance of Luan Jesters alongside Jester Zombies references Day 18.
	+ Pea Vine, Escape Root and Murkadamia Nut appearing in the conveyor alongside deceptive Hippity-Hop Gargantuars references Vasebreaker - II.
	+ The appearance of Max Level plants references both Days 22 and 23.
* Z-Mech's appearance in the October 16, 2023 party is a callback to his appearance in When Worlds Flourish - Level 15 from *Alternate UniverZ*.
* The October 25, 2023 party is based on the level LOD-II: Great Wall Edition from *Alternate UniverZ*.
* The November 13, 2023 party is based on Vanilla's version of Modern Day - Day 42.
* The Power Tile layout for the December 6, 2023 party is similar to those seen in the World Cup event from the Chinese version of *Plants vs. Zombies 2*.
* The January 2, 2024 party is based on the level HC-VIII: Food Feud from *Alternate UniverZ*.
* The January 20, 2024 party's sun drop mechanic, as well as plant and zombie selection is mostly based on the pre-2021 version of Plants vs. Zombies 3 .

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