Suburban Almanac



The Suburban Almanac is a book containing data on all the plants the player owns and all the zombies that the player has encountered. Each time a new zombie appears in the seed choosing menu at the start of a level, a new card appears with the zombie name and picture but instead of a description there is a message. The Suburban Almanac is unlocked upon the completion of level 2-4 in Adventure Mode.

Although important information like damage, recharge, and cost are shown for each plant and similar statistics is included for each zombie, some information is wrong or misleading and some is missing altogether. The flavor text for each entry is fairly humorous and may include jokes or references to other parts of the game.

It can be acessed from the main menu, in the plant selection screen by clicking on the Almanac button, in the pause menu, or on a specific zombie. Almanac entries for zombies and plants do not appear until they have been encountered.



Trivia

 * The name is likely a reference to the Suburban Book of the Dead a novel by Robert Rankin.
 * The Giga-Gargantuar, Giga-Imp, Trash Can Zombie, Giga Football Zombie, the Target Zombie, and the plant/zombie hybrids in ZomBotany mini-games do not show up in the Suburban Almanac.
 * In the Pumpkin description, Renfield, a character from Popcap's Peggle is mentioned.
 * Only 48 seed packets can be seen in the Almanac. To access the Imitater's entry, the player must click the image in the top left corner of the Plant section.
 * However, in the iPad edition, the Imitater has its own seed packet.
 * The background for the card for the Plants are coloured like brown dirt, and the background for the card for the Zombies is colored like blue stone, much like a gravestone texture.
 * The Sunflower's and the regular Zombie's outlines are seen in the background of the Almanac.