Star (item)


 * For the projectile fired by Starfruit, see Star.

"Awesome! I've always wanted to eat one of those. Wait... that's not a starfish. It's an actual star. Ugh, you can have it."

- Crazy Dave

Stars are items collected from levels or Brain Busters in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 and Plants vs. Zombies Online. They can be collected by playing star challenges with specific objectives to differentiate the level.

Stars were formerly in the international version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 as well, but they were removed in the 1.7 update. Because of how Plants vs. Zombies 2 used to work, stars were necessary for traveling to other worlds and obtain certain achievements. Star gates were unlocked after beating the final level of a world, and the player needed 15 stars to continue into Pirate Seas and another 15 (or 30 in earlier versions) stars to Wild West. They were replaced by World Keys in the 1.7 update.

In the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, stars are only used for unlocking certain plants, as World Keys are also in this version, they serve as the means of traveling to other worlds.



List of star challenge types
*= Special objectives used only in bonus levels
 * Defeat X zombies in Y seconds
 * Don't let the zombies trample the flowers
 * Don't lose more than X plant(s)
 * Don't plant on Dave's mold colonies
 * Don't spend any sun for X seconds
 * Never have more than X plants
 * Produce at least X sun
 * Spend no more than X sun
 * Don't lose any lawn mowers
 * Survive a massive attack in the (current time period)*
 * Plan your defense and defeat the zombies*
 * Survive the attack with the given plants*
 * Survive and protect the endangered plants*

Trivia

 * Since these no longer exist in version 1.7 or newer versions of Plants vs. Zombies 2, when the player updates to that version and goes to their saved game, they will receive plant costumes in exchange for all their stars.
 * The same thing happens on their total amount of keys of all areas, except they are exchanged for coins.