Coffee Bean (PvZ)

For other uses, see bean.

Coffee Bean
Plants vs. Zombies
Use Coffee Beans to wake up sleeping mushrooms.
Sun cost	75 sun 25 sun (Versus Mode)
Recharge	Fast
Usage	Single use, instant
Special	Can be planted over another plant, wakes up mushrooms
Planted on	Nocturnal plants during the day
Unlocked	After beating Level 5-3
"Hey, guys, hey!" says Coffee Bean. "Hey! What's up? Who's that? Hey! Didja see that thing? What thing? Whoa! Lions!" Yep, Coffee Bean sure does get excited.
Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version)
咖啡豆(translation: Coffee Bean (PvZ))
Wakes up sleeping plants and slightly increases their attack.
Sun cost	75 sun
Recharge	Mediocre
Area	3x3
Rarity	Common
Unlocked	After beating Dark Ages - Night 13
“伙计伙计，快起来看上帝啊！”咖啡豆每次都喜欢用这句他最喜欢的电影台词来叫别人起床。还真别说，这法儿挺有效的，至少他的小伙伴每次睁眼都能看到一个鸟人的身影。 "Hey guys, get up to see God! " Coffee Bean likes to use the phrase of his favorite movie lines to ask them to wake people up. Not to mention really, this method is quite effective, at least each time his little friend opens his eyes to see the figure of a bird.

Coffee Bean is a plant that allows the player to use mushrooms during the Day, Pool, and Roof levels by waking them up. To use it, the player must plant the Coffee Bean on a sleeping mushroom. This wakes them up.

He returns in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 as a common plant unlocked after completing Dark Ages - Night 13. Because mushrooms are awake in the day, he is instead used to wake plants after Archmage Zombie affects them. He also now has a range of 3x3.

Audio

Origins

Coffee Bean is based on the real coffee bean fruit from the coffee tree, Coffea arabica. It is a perennial plant cultivated to make various coffee drinks containing caffeine. It is usually drank in the morning, and it is used to make the drinker active and awake, just like the mushrooms in the game, who wake up during daytime after using Coffee Bean.

A real-life example of the actual coffee bean fruit, the plant Coffee Bean is based on

Almanac entry

In Plants vs. Zombies

Almanac entry of the Coffee Bean

Coffee Bean

Use Coffee Beans to wake up sleeping mushrooms.

Usage: single use, instant
Special: can be planted over another plant, wakes up mushrooms

"Hey, guys, hey!" says Coffee Bean. "Hey! What's up? Who's that? Hey! Didja see that thing? What thing? Whoa! Lions!" Yep, Coffee Bean sure does get excited.

Cost: 75

Recharge: fast

In Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version) (China only)

咖啡豆 Coffee Bean		AREA 3x3 RECHARGE Slow
		咖啡豆可以唤醒范围内沉睡的植物并为他们增加少许攻击力。 植物特征：矮个子 “伙计伙计，快起来看上帝啊！”咖啡豆每次都喜欢用这句他最喜欢的电影台词来叫别人起床。还真别说，这法儿挺有效的，至少他的小伙伴每次睁眼都能看到一个鸟人的身影。

咖啡豆 (Coffee Bean)
Sun cost: 75

AREA: 3x3
RECHARGE: Slow

咖啡豆可以唤醒范围内沉睡的植物并为他们增加少许攻击力。

植物特征：矮个子
“伙计伙计，快起来看上帝啊！”咖啡豆每次都喜欢用这句他最喜欢的电影台词来叫别人起床。还真别说，这法儿挺有效的，至少他的小伙伴每次睁眼都能看到一个鸟人的身影。

In English: Coffee Bean (PvZ) wakes up sleeping plants and slightly increases their attack. Plant feature: short "Hey guys, get up to see God! " Coffee Bean likes to use the phrase of his favorite movie lines to ask them to wake people up. Not to mention really, this method is quite effective, at least each time his little friend opens his eyes to see the figure of a bird.

Strategies

Plants vs. Zombies

General

The mushrooms are very cheap, but 75 sun is a lot to pay to wake them up. He only useful with special mushrooms, like the Magnet-shroom, Gloom-shroom, Hypno-shroom, Ice-shroom, or Doom-shroom. Another useful tactic is to plant a couple of instant-use mushrooms if you know you will need them later. When you are ready to use them, just plant a Coffee Bean on them when you need the effect. This successfully eliminates the packet recharge because if you plan it right, you can use a pre-planted mushroom and a current mushroom back-to-back. Some combinations with Coffee Beans are only useful for getting achievements, like the Sun-shroom and Scaredy-shroom. On the contrary, Ice-shrooms and Doom-shrooms can be pre-planted and activated with a Coffee Bean later.

Versus Mode

Coffee Beans are extra helpful during the Versus Mode, as he only costs 25 sun to use them. Thus, you can get cheap shooters like Scaredy-shrooms for only 50 sun, much less than other shooters.

Good Morning achievement

In order to get the achievement Good Morning, you need to beat a Day, Pool, or Roof level using only mushrooms. Coffee Beans are essential, as it is the only way to make mushrooms wake up. The falling sun from the sky helps to plant the Coffee Beans, and once you have a sufficient amount of Sun-shrooms, they will help generate the sun to wake up the Scaredy-shrooms, Fume-shrooms, or any other mushrooms you will use.

Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 (China only)

Only select Coffee Beans when you see the Archmage Zombie on the seed selection in Dark Ages levels. If you do not bring the Coffee Bean with you against Archmage Zombies, you must use Plant Food to wake up your plants. After that, remember to kill the Archmage Zombie as quickly as possible, as Coffee Bean has a slow recharge. However, imitating him can help wake up your stabilized plants quickly, so you do not have to wait for the original Coffee Bean timer to recharge.

Related achievements

	Good Morning Complete a daytime level by planting mushrooms and Coffee Beans only.

	Morticulturalist Collect all 49 plants.

	Book Learner Fill out the Suburban Almanac.

	The Complete Zombie You've won every trophy, climbed every mountain, defeated every zombie, planted every plant. Congratulations!

Gallery

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Trivia

General

• Coffee Bean, Tangle Kelp, Spikeweed, Spikerock, are the only plants that cannot be eaten, but can be destroyed by zombies.
• Coffee Bean is mentioned in Morning Glory's description in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, despite not appearing in the game.

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies

• Coffee Bean is the only plant that zombies will never directly attempt to interfere with.
• As can be seen by looking at the Coffee Bean's Suburban Almanac entry, the Coffee Bean levitates. This is likely because it is planted on top of a mushroom, so it should be above the ground.
  • If the player reads its entry in the Suburban Almanac, they may notice that the hyperactivity may come from the fact that it is jittery, as it is a coffee bean. This effect is sometimes called the Caffeine Kick.
  • Coffee Bean also levitates in the Zen Garden.
• In the Game of the Year Edition box cover and online version of Plants vs. Zombies, the Coffee Bean's mouth is closed, missing its leaf, has wider eyes, and has wings.
• When the Coffee Bean is used, it will turn into coffee powder.
• In ZomBotany, the player can sometimes see a pea hitting where a powdered Coffee Bean used to be above a Puff-shroom and the Sun-shroom. It will look as if the pea hits nothing.
• If a mushroom is eaten while in the process of being woken up by a Coffee Bean, the Coffee Bean will remain floating and uneaten. It will just turn into red powder and wake up nothing, wasting 75 sun in the process.
• The sound of an awakened mushroom is the same sound of a Digger Zombie rising from the ground.
• Bungee Zombies can steal Coffee Bean before it activates. This results the mushroom to be not awaken and wasting 75 sun in the process.
• There is a glitch on the PS Vita version where Coffee Bean's seed packet will be only display half the bean or only the sprout. It shares this trait with Winter Melon.
• It is the only plant to be floating in the Suburban Almanac.
• It and Grave Buster are the only plants that can be selected but can't be planted in Fog levels.

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version)  (China only)

• Unlike the first game, it does not float in place in its idle animation. Instead, it rocks back and forth, moving its wings in and out.
• Although he can float in midair, he cannot be planted on water on Big Wave Beach nor Sky City without Lily Pads.
• In this game, its design is based on its artwork from Plants vs. Zombies with the wings, closed mouth and no leaf.
• He, Gatling Pea, Plantern, Cattail, and Cob Cannon are the five returning plants from the first game exclusive to this version (and not the international one).

See also

• Mushrooms
• Good Morning
• Archmage Zombie

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