Pumpkin

*Pumpkins can be planted on top of other plants to provide a tough additional layer of armor.*

## Almanac statistics

### Special

Won't get shoved by a Possessed Excavator if it surrounds a plant that isn't a wall

### Price from shop

20,000  (10 copies of seed packets)

**Pumpkin may be a hollowed-out shell, but he still has a rich inner life filled with feelings, fantasies and surprisingly disappointing opinions.**

**Pumpkin** is the event seedium of Lawn of Doom in *Alternate UniverZ*. He is a defensive plant that can be planted on top on another plant, giving them extra toughness.

Pumpkin can be unlocked through its seed packets, which are obtained through beating Lawn of Doom and completing world quests, or purchasing directly from the store.

## Almanac entry

* Normal
* Pro

**Pumpkin**

SUN COST: 100

RECHARGE: 45

TOUGHNESS: 4000

Pumpkins can be planted on top of other plants to provide a tough additional layer of armor.
Special: won't get shoveled by a Possessed Excavator if it surrounds a plant that isn't a wall
Pro Status: +1000 toughness, doesn't work at nighttime

Pumpkin may be a hollowed-out shell, but he still has a rich inner life filled with feelings, fantasies and surprisingly disappointing opinions.

**Pumpkin**

SUN COST: 100

RECHARGE: 30

TOUGHNESS: 5000

Pumpkins can be planted on top of other plants to provide a tough additional layer of armor.
Special: won't get shoveled by a Possessed Excavator if it surrounds a plant that isn't a wall
Pro Status: +1000 toughness, doesn't work at nighttime

Pumpkin may be a hollowed-out shell, but he still has a rich inner life filled with feelings, fantasies and surprisingly disappointing opinions.

## Plant Food effect

When given Plant Food, Pumpkin gains a protective shell of metal capable of absorbing 6000 damage or one Gargantuar smash. Additionally, when a plant is planted on top of Pumpkin when you activate his Plant Food effect, the plant on top will also activate its Plant Food effect.

## Costumes

* Current
* Skins
* Pre 1.5

## Strategies

Because Pumpkin doesn't take up any space ahead, plants having a limited range makes a viable choice to pair with him. Three columns of Snapdragons and two columns of Bonk Choys could be used because Pumpkin can protect the front column of them and this effectively increases the amount of damage done against the zombies.

Pumpkins also make a viable choice in Endless Zones. Partnering him with plants at the third or fourth column from the left protects them from Imps thrown by Gargantuars, thus minimizing their threat. Pumpkin also protects plants from zombies spawned during ambushes, as well as laser attacks from Gargantuar Primes.

Like in the first game, Pumpkin can be used all of your plants to offer maximum defense. However, there are two main flaws with this strategy: one is Pumpkin's sluggish recharge, which means that this strategy can only be achieved on exceptionally long levels, and the second is the presence of other vine plants, which means that the Pumpkins behind the first row could be replaced with more functional vines, like Power Vine or Blastberry Vine, which may potentially see more use in the game.

Pumpkin is extremely helpful in many Save Our Seeds levels as he can be planted on the endangered plants to protect them from most zombies. Just be careful of certain zombies that bypass Pumpkin, or certain levels where his protection isn't helpful to the endangered plants.

**Note**: Pumpkins do not stop Explorer Zombies, Troglobites, Turquoise Skull Zombies and Arcade Zombies from burning or crushing them instantly, along with the plant inside, so avoid placing them near the front when these zombies appear.

## Balance Changes

### Version 1.6.2

* Sun cost: 150 -> 100
* Recharge: 30s -> 45s
* Pro status recharge: 45s -> 30s
	+ Dev Note: This rework should make Pumpkin a plant that more easily fits into decks as a versatile defensive plant.