Gold Magnet

Gold Magnet
Gold Magnets collect coins and diamonds for you.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	50 (+100)
Recharge	Very slow
Special	Collects coins and diamonds for you
In-game statistics
Planted on	Ground, Lily Pad or Flower Pot
Upgrade of
Unlocked	Beating Level 5-1 for $3000
"How did I end up here?" asks Gold Magnet. "I was on the fast track - corner office, full benefits, stock options. I was gonna be Vice President of Midwestern Operations. Now I'm here, on this lawn, in serious danger of being eaten to death. Ooh! A coin!"

Gold Magnet is an upgrade plant that appears in Plants vs. Zombies. It is the upgrade of Magnet-shroom. It costs $3000 to buy the seed packet from Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies and costs 50 sun to plant, along with the 100 sun the Magnet-shroom costs.

Every two seconds, it collects up to five pieces of money on-screen, saving the player's time and allowing them to focus on attacking. It can attract both types of coins as well as diamonds.

Suburban Almanac entry

Gold Magnet
Gold Magnets collect coins and diamonds for you. Must be planted on magnet-shrooms "How did I end up here?" asks Gold Magnet. "I was on the fast track --corner office, full benefits, stock options. I was gonna be Vice President of Midwestern Operations. Now I'm here, on this lawn, in serious danger of being eaten to death. Ooh! A coin!" Cost: 50 Recharge: very slow

Audio

Gold Magnet picks up a Coin.

Usage

Gold Magnet costs 50 sun to plant and must be planted on an existing Magnet-shroom (Magnet-shroom costs 100 sun). The Magnet-shroom does not have to be awake, because Gold Magnet is not a mushroom. It charges for two seconds when there are coins or diamonds on the field, collecting all of them.

On iOS or Nintendo DS versions, Gold Magnet should rarely be used, as it is not as time-consuming and difficult to touch all the coins on-screen with the touchscreen compared to clicking them with a mouse. However, it can still come in handy, especially for simply automating the process.

Note: Unlike Magnet-shrooms, Gold Magnets do not steal metal objects from zombies, such as buckets, pogo sticks, or ladders. Thus, the player should only plant a Gold Magnet if large amounts of money are being dropped, as they are otherwise useless.

Strategies

Due to their automatic money collection ability, Gold Magnets are best paired with groups of Marigolds, since the latter reliably generates money, with each Marigold generating one coin every 24 seconds. There are existing gold farming strategies that utilize many Marigolds producing money that's collected by Gold Magnets, while the zombies are held back and killed by other plants, especially in Last Stand. Gold Magnets can also be useful in levels where large amounts of money are dropped by zombies, particularly Survival: Endless. But otherwise, this plant serves little purpose and as such, it's a good idea to pick other plants over it in most levels.

It is not wise to plant a Coffee Bean on a Magnet-shroom before upgrading it, as Gold Magnet is not a mushroom and does not sleep in the daytime, thus wasting 75 sun.

It is also not recommended to use Gold Magnet on normal levels, as there are few enough coins that the player can manually collect them without getting distracted.

Related achievements

	Morticulturalist Collect all 49 plants.

	Book Learner Fill out the Suburban Almanac.

Gallery

Gold Magnet has a gallery!

Visit this page to see it.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Gold Magnet
Simplified Chinese	吸金菇	"Gold-attracting-shroom", lit. "attract gold mushroom"
Traditional Chinese	吸金菇
Dutch	Goudmagneet
French	Aimant en or
German	Goldmagnet
Italian	Calamifungo dorato	"Golden magnet-shroom"
Japanese	ゴールドマグネット
Brazilian Portuguese	Ímã Dourado	(Also known as "Ímãgumelo Dourado"
Russian	Золотой Магнит
Spanish	Magnetoseta dorada	"Golden magnet-shroom"

Trivia

• If its unused Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars design isn't counted, then Gold Magnet is the only plant introduced in the original Plants vs. Zombies that has never returned in another game.
  • This is also the only Upgrade Plant that doesn't appear in any other game.
  • If you play old versions of Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars, Gold Magnet will actually appear in advertisements for purchasing Moody-shroom.
    • However, it is plausible and possible that, in the future, Gold Magnet will return in other games of the series, including both International and Chinese versions of Plants Vs, Zombies 2, along with other plants that only reappeared in the latter version.
• It is one of the four upgrade plants that lose abilities from their downgrades (in the case of this plant, not being able to grab metal objects from zombies).
  • The others being Cattail (losing the ability for a land plant other than Pumpkin to be planted on it), Cob Cannon (not firing on its own and not being able to have a Pumpkin planted on it), and Gloom-shroom (being unable to fire more than one tile in front of it).
• It has a stem and leaves, unlike the Magnet-shroom and other mushrooms.
  • Despite not being a mushroom, it has "mushroom" in its name in Chinese, Italian and Spanish version of Plants vs. Zombies, and would also use it as its name in Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars if not scrapped.
• Much like the Plantern and Flower Pot, it is based on an object rather than a plant.
• It uses magnetism to pick up silver coins, gold coins, and diamonds despite the fact that silver and gold are non-magnetic metals, and diamonds are not even made of metal.
• Because it cannot pick up coins or diamonds until they touch the ground, it will still try to pick them up; but the coins will not move, and will remain there.
• It and Winter Melon are the only two upgrade plants that cost less sun than their original plant.
• It is the cheapest upgrade plant in the game, costing only 50 sun.
• It may attempt to collect coins after all the coins on-screen have been cleared by clicking. It will glow and try to attract coins, but it won't attract any coins.
• On the iPad version's seed packet, its eyebrows are missing.
• It and Fume-shroom are the only two plants whose Almanac entry states they held a job (Gold Magnet had a corner office and was on the fast track to becoming a high-level executive for a company) before the game.
• It takes a second to magnetize coins and diamonds while Magnet-shroom instantly grabs metallic objects. The reason for this is because it has to rear back before magnetizing.
• When it attracts coins, it scrunches up its eyebrows as if it is concentrating.
• In DS and DSi versions, all money Gold Magnet attracts moves at a slower rate than any other version of the game.
• If the player has more than one Gold Magnet on the lawn, they will only work one at a time, and never two at once.
• Unlike Magnet-shroom, it does not have to dispose of the attracted object.
• Stinky the Snail in the Zen Garden is similar to Gold Magnet in that they both collect money. Plus, they cost the same ($3000) in Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies.
• If one looks closely, it has no eyebrows when it attracts coins or diamonds.
• If a Gold Magnet gets ready to magnet up a coin and the player picks that coin before it does, it will still show the attracting coins animation, but it will not attract the collected coin.
• Even if there are gold coins or even diamonds on the screen, the Gold Magnet will not collect more valuable ones first.
• In Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars, it has no eyebrows and its stem is straight.
• The sound when this plant picks up a diamond is the same sound as when you manually pick up a coin.
• It shares the same idle animation as Blover.

See also

• Magnet-shroom
• Money
• Diamond
• Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies

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