I, Zombie Endless

I, Zombie Endless
Game	Plants vs. Zombies
Statistics
Location	Night
Type	I, Zombie
Flags	None
Plants
Zombies
Rewards
First time	A diamond (after three times a row or rarely), a sprout, or chocolate
Replaying	N/A
Level
Objective 1	Eat all 5 brains to pass the level!
Objective 2	Sun is carried over between levels, you must carry over at least 50 sun or you will lose the game!
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I, Zombie Endless is the tenth and last level of I, Zombie in Plants vs. Zombies, Plants vs. Zombies: Journey to the West, and Plants vs. Zombies: Great Wall Edition. It is the endless level of I, Zombie. When the player reaches a streak of ten in I, Zombie Endless, they will earn the achievement Better Off Dead.

The level continues indefinitely until the player starts a next streak and there are no zombies present in the lawn with less than 50 sun where they cannot able to place any more zombies which results in losing the level thus ending the streak, or is restarted voluntarily by the player.

Plant combinations

Each streak features a layout of randomly placed plants, with a total of eight possible plant combinations. In each of the these layouts, one to eight Sunflowers are included, along with up to seven Puff-shrooms taking their places, depending on the amount of sun the player has, as well as the player's current streak. The sum of the number of Sunflowers and Puff-shrooms appearing in a layout is always eight.

Other plants in each layout include:

• Composite layout* (30%) – two Chompers, two Spikeweeds, one Peashooter, one Wall-nut, one Potato Mine, one Snow Pea, one Fume-shroom, one Squash, one Threepeater, one Torchwood, one Split Pea, one Starfruit, one Magnet-shroom, one Kernel-pult and one Umbrella Leaf.
• Control layout* (30%) – three Snow Peas, three Spikeweeds, three Split Peas, three Kernel-pults, one Repeater, one Threepeater, one Torchwood, one Magnet-shroom and one Umbrella Leaf.
• Instant Kill layout* (20%) – four Potato Mines, four Fume-shrooms, three Chompers, three Squashes and three Spikeweeds.
• Peas layout (4%) – nine Snow Peas, four Repeaters and four Split Peas.
• Explosive layout (4%) – nine Potato Mines and eight Chompers.
• Stars and Spikes layout (4%) – nine Spikeweeds and eight Starfruits.
• Magnet and Fume layout (4%) – nine Fume-shrooms and eight Magnet-shrooms.
• Scaredy layout (4%) – twelve Scaredy-shrooms and five more Sunflowers.

Note : * = This layout may appear after you restart voluntarily or lose the level.

Plants in different layouts

	Composite	Control	Instant Kill	Peas	Explosive	Stars & Spikes	Magnet & Fume	Scaredy
Sunflower	1 to 8	1 to 8	1 to 8	1 to 8	1 to 8	1 to 8	1 to 8	6 to 13
Puff-shroom	0 to 7	0 to 7	0 to 7	0 to 7	0 to 7	0 to 7	0 to 7	0 to 7
Peashooter	1
Wall-nut	1
Potato Mine	1		4		9
Snow Pea	1	3		9
Chomper	2		3		8
Repeater		1		4
Fume-shroom	1		4				9
Scaredy-shroom								12
Squash	1		3
Threepeater	1	1
Spikeweed	2	3	3			9
Torchwood	1	1
Split Pea	1	3		4
Starfruit	1					8
Magnet-shroom	1	1					8
Kernel Pult	1	3
Umbrella Leaf	1	1

Composite layout

Control layout

Instant Kill layout

Peas layout

Explosive layout

Stars and Spikes layout

Magnet and Fume layout

Scaredy layout

The first three layouts (Composite, Control, and Instant Kill) are the most common layout appearing in this level once you clear the streak, restart voluntarily, or lose the level. This because to give balance between players and plants as well, as other layouts sometimes are easier to clear than these three due to less plant types.

The Magnet and Fume layout is probably the most difficult one, due to the fact that Magnet-shrooms can stop the Digger Zombie, Ladder Zombie, Buckethead Zombie and Football Zombie, while the Fume-shrooms can kill Dancing Zombie and its summoned Backup Dancers, and kill Imps quickly. Hence, only the Conehead Zombie, Pole Vaulting Zombie, and Bungee Zombie, which also are all weak, can be used initially. The player will need a lot of sun for this setup, regardless of the plant placement.

The Scaredy layout, on the other hand, has more sunflowers than usual (up to 13) and is also the rarest and easiest, as only one imp may still be able to clear one lane with other zombies on nearby lanes while Scaredy-shrooms are hiding. The frequency of the Scaredy layout notably affects how far a player can go.

Strategies

See: I, Zombie Endless/Strategies

Related achievement

	Better Off Dead Get to a streak of 10 in I, Zombie Endless.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	I, Zombie Endless
Simplified Chinese	僵尸公敌（无限）
Traditional Chinese	殭屍公敵（無限）
Dutch	Ik, Zombie (eindeloos)
French	I, Zombot sans fin
German	I, Zombie (Endlos)
Italian	Io, zombi (infinito)
Japanese	俺、ゾンビ「エンドレス」
Spanish	Yo, Zombi Infinito	"Endless I, Zombie"

Trivia

• The explosive layout is similar to ZomBoogie, except that sometimes, a Sunflower gets replaced by a Puff-shroom.
• Although this I, Zombie level is endless, the streak record has a limit of 2,147,483,647 (using Cheat Engine). After that, the streak will be negative but the level will still continue.
  • This happens because 2,147,483,647 (2³¹ - 1) is the maximum value of signed 32-bit integer in computing, and attempting to reach a value higher than this results in an integer overflow.
• If the player has less than 50 sun during a streak or upon starting the next streak where they cannot able to place any more zombies, the losing dialog box says "You made it to a streak of (number of streaks that the player completed)" and only the game over music plays. The same losing message is also used in Vasebreaker Endless.
  • In iOS and Android versions, the dialog box title says "GAME OVER", while on console, DS, and PC versions, the name of the level is instead used (I, Zombie Endless).
    • The reason why the name of a level is used on console, DS, and PC versions as the dialog box header instead of the generic "GAME OVER" text is because on Lawnstrings.txt, the text says "[ENDLESS_PUZZLE_DEATH_MESSAGE]: You made it to a streak of {STREAK}", with [ENDLESS_PUZZLE_DEATH_MESSAGE] part is programmed to display a level name (I, Zombie Endless) as the header.
  • Due to the game over music being played when the dialog box appears, it is possible to skip the music by exiting the game over screen through restarting (Try Again) or exit the level (Main Menu/Menu/Quit (depending on the version)) while the music plays.
  • When the next streak starts and the losing dialog box appears due to having less than 50 sun (not able to place any more zombies), the sound for entering the streak and game over music will play together, with the game over music will last to be played before everything become silent.
• This is the only I, Zombie level with an extra objective where the player must have at least 50 sun to start the next streak and continue the level (able to buy an Imp) that otherwise if no zombies are present in the lawn and starting a streak while having less than 50 sun, they will lose the level.
  • However, the text "Sun is carried over between levels, you must carry over at least 50 sun or you will lose the game!" is only present on iOS/Android versions. It is absent on other versions like the PC version, but the mechanics of a level is still the same.
• Through spawning zombies via third party programs without spending sun to place zombies by clicking on a seed packet, it take 50 Sunflowers to reach the maximum sun amount of 9,990.
• If the player spawns Dr. Zomboss through third party programs (re-enacting Level 5-10 and Dr. Zomboss's Revenge), the music will stop upon entering the next streak. From that point, the only music and sound that are heard are the streak loading sound, and the game over music if there are no zombies present in the lawn and starting the next streak while the player has less than 50 sun.
  • If restarting voluntarily, after losing, or the player sets background music, the music will go back.
  • If setting into another background music (i.e. Graze the Roof), that music will last until either the player loses or restarts voluntarily and upon restarting, the level will go back to its default Cerebrawl.

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