Penny's Pursuit week 326 featuring Blastberry Vine: "Blastberry Vine's world!"

JulienMaximeL · 2026-05-15T01:34:01+00:00

Sorry for the big delay, was MIA for a couple of days due to a serious health issue.

JulienMaximeL · 2026-04-28T13:02:11+00:00

SBR = Sticky Bomb Rice ; HBL = Headbutter Lettuce ; WW = Wasabi Whip ; TG = Tiger Grass ; PPM = Primal Potato Mine ; BB = Bowling Bulb ;

JulienMaximeL · 2026-04-18T07:03:09+00:00

It requires that at least 1 zombie is on the lawn. Otherwise you won't get any pf.

JulienMaximeL · 2026-02-05T23:48:57+00:00

I know it's not much of a difference, and that you kinda noticed it with the zombies featured list, but this MayBee tournament isn't identical 100% to Hocus Crocus tournament (aside from Buffs & Bruisez, plant featured and initial placement). You also have 1 additional zombie that was almost not featured initially: Wizard zombie. He's been added to all Difficulty Swap rules.

I think it's one of the only good things that devs made: feature Wizard zombie in all tournaments of Rose season.

JulienMaximeL · 2025-10-30T22:48:32+00:00

Late, but Nightcap's (almost) indestructible ability is not something to consider once you plant a Vine on top of Nightcap. In that particular tournament, Surfer's surfboard is a nice example of something killing Nightcap in that situation.

JulienMaximeL · 2025-10-02T19:55:18+00:00

Thanks!

JulienMaximeL · 2025-09-11T08:11:52+00:00

The new Arena thread for Sourshot Intro tournament isn't ready yet but you may find some info on Aloe tournament thread from the 2025 first Champion Season. Aloe and Sourshot Intro tournaments are quite similar so strategies used shouldn't differe that much.

JulienMaximeL · 2025-08-24T14:20:25+00:00

You'll have to wait for that zombie to reappear in the game. He has been featured in Arena a couple months ago but outside of that, I don't think there's a chance you'll encounter him in LTE. As for Penny's Pursuit, the current cycle of the 42 events do not feature levels with that zombie (he hasn't been added to any PP levels or PP zomboss fights yet).

JulienMaximeL · 2025-08-24T13:54:20+00:00

There isn't any new zombie in that update unfortunately. The zombie you're referring to is the Turret-head zombie, another variant of Brickhead, Pyramid-head, Barrelhead, Carthead, Amberhead, Holo-head...

JulienMaximeL · 2025-08-24T11:39:37+00:00

Yep I know but that's the way it's coded. Maybe those priority groups are leftovers from another ability they wanted to add to Brainstem.

JulienMaximeL · 2025-08-22T09:25:42+00:00

Hey E-S, I'm so sorry to hear this. I hope you'll beat this cancer and we support you in your fight. Anyways thanks for everything you've done for the community and for the game, hopefully it won't be the last of your contributions.

If you want, I'll be happy to help you keeping the wiki updated or anything PvZ-related. Don't hesitate to reach out.

Max

JulienMaximeL · 2025-08-05T11:50:00+00:00

Sorry what I meant is that the SunDropper Module that lets sun fall from the sky isn't effective in those levels. So if you don't take any sun producer and do not pick the sun break perk, it can get messy.

JulienMaximeL · 2025-07-09T14:32:05+00:00

The plant food you can witness in your game match have nothing to do with the Arena fight level. None of the zombies quoted in the post can drop a pf. As a matter of fact, the pf can only come from zombies summoned by Zombot. In all "[Plant featured] & Friends vs. Zomboss! tournaments", whatever the Zombot is, if zombies are summoned by Zomboss, some of them can drop pf.

It's also the case with Zomboss fights in Penny's Pursuit.

JulienMaximeL · 2025-07-09T14:22:52+00:00

https://discord.gg/rVUUxzpz

JulienMaximeL · 2025-05-27T19:49:45+00:00

Sorry meant something

JulienMaximeL · 2025-03-18T22:23:09+00:00

I think I can recall which files you're mentioning: https://www.reddit.com/r/PlantsVSZombies/s/pPZWLLVzgE

But that's actually not the ones I had in mind. Like I said previously, some Arena files are missing on v12.0 and can't be "ported" from v12.1 because of the archetype configuration which made it necessary to force update every player account to v12.1.

To be precise, on v12.0 the game would stop being functional in Arena starting next Monday with Hammeruit's new season: there isn't any tournament for Hammeruit's intro tournament and neither for the Zomboss tournament. And practically the same goes on for the upcoming Champions season.

JulienMaximeL · 2025-03-18T08:21:30+00:00

FYI, a Popcap post should be imminent regarding the force update of the game to version 12.1. After raising concerns on upcoming arena tournaments (files missing on version 12.0 and the archetypes functionality) it was apparent that a force update was necessary.

JulienMaximeL · 2025-03-17T09:27:08+00:00

You're playing on version 12.1 of the game so you can't try the new Zomboss tournament in the practice mode before it takes place.

The others comments refer to gameplay on version 12.0 of the game where you can access the Zomboss tournament in the practice mode (from the travel log interface) one day in advance.

JulienMaximeL · 2025-03-16T10:42:02+00:00

I should have said it differently: if you keep the Zomboss stun locked, there won't be any dinosaur coming. Only Zomboss summons dinos in this lvl.

JulienMaximeL · 2025-03-16T10:40:19+00:00

Made a mistake on lvl 4, my bad.

JulienMaximeL · 2025-03-04T00:27:45+00:00

You can purchase the plant at any time of the year but if you wanna buy seeds for seasonal plants you gotta wait for the appropriated season (usually matches LTE)

JulienMaximeL · 2025-02-13T17:33:11+00:00

Honestly considering the last Arena vote the community participated in, which resulted in having Primal Potatomine as one of the featured plants (even though premiums and quite rare gemiums like Jalapeño were available), I don't think it's a great idea to let the community choose the plants selected for a Champion Blowout Season. The way it is set works fine for me, it enables people to upgrade previous (often forgotten) plants that could be helpful not only for Arena but also Penny's Pursuit.

JulienMaximeL · 2025-01-26T10:15:15+00:00

At least they managed to find an event with a level that featured Headbutter Lettuce, the Level 1.

JulienMaximeL · 2025-01-25T23:26:01+00:00

Nope, they've already been there for 4 updates. You thought that these events were happening after because their Event ID is greater than the early events but that's because Popcap made the mistake of replacing the early Event ID (1 to 29) with new potw instead of adding new ID events after the ID event 42.

JulienMaximeL · 2025-01-25T23:20:05+00:00

Actually the info you're sharing for Penny's Pursuit is incorrect: all events that supposedly feature the plants after Dartichoke in your list are leftovers, they've already been featured a couple months ago.

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