Magnet-shroom (Plants vs. Zombies)

For other uses, see Magnet-shroom (disambiguation).

Magnet-shroom
Magnet-shrooms steal helmets and other metal objects from zombies.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	100
Recharge	Fast
Toughness	Normal
Range	Nearby zombies
In-game statistics
Upgrades to	Gold Magnet
Unlocked	Beating Level 4-8
Sleeps during the day
Magnetism is a powerful force. Very powerful. Sometimes it scares Magnet-shroom a little. He's not sure if he can handle that kind of responsibility.

Magnet-shroom is a mushroom that takes away metallic objects such as buckets, pickaxes, equipment, or any metal object from zombies, lowering their toughness and/or preventing them from using their special abilities, while only having a small recharge time needed between thefts.

Although he does not cause any damage, he can render some of the toughest zombies almost defenseless, such as Football Zombie by removing their helmet, reducing their health to that of a normal zombie and making them easier to defeat in all situations.

Audio

Sound	Description
	Attracting metal

About

For more information about this character, see Magnet-shroom

Magnet-shroom is obtained after the player beats Level 4-8. It can steal metallic objects from metallic zombies inside its range, seven columns by five rows.

Almanac entry

Magnet-shroom
Magnet-shrooms remove helmets and other metal objects from zombies. Range: nearby zombies Special: removes helmets and other metal objects from zombies Sleeps during the day Magnetism is a powerful force. Very powerful. Sometimes it scares Magnet-shroom a little. He's not sure if he can handle that kind of responsibility. Cost: 100 Recharge: fast

Upgrades

Gold Magnet: Magnet-shroom can be upgraded into Gold Magnet, which is not a mushroom, after purchasing the upgrade from Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies for $3000 and 50 sun per planting.

Strategies

Magnet-shrooms are great against small amounts of armor and tool wielding zombies. They need to be close to the front row behind defenses to be in range of zombies, but remember that the Magnet-shroom will only affect zombies with metal (for example, it will not affect the Conehead Zombie). It is a good idea to protect the Magnet-shroom with a Pumpkin or some other defensive plant such as a Tall-nut, since they are often in front of your defensive plants. Do not forget that poles, Zombonis, catapults, and clubs or road signs are not magnetic.

Note that is not advised to use the Magnet-shroom during Survival: Endless due to the massive amount of zombies with metallic objects and, during Endless, he is almost useless with his cooldown. Also, when used in levels with Digger Zombies, make sure that the Magnet-shroom is placed near to the front so Digger Zombies will not be far enough in your defenses to eat vital plants when their pickaxes are stolen by the Magnet-shroom.

I, Zombie

Magnet-shrooms appear in many I, Zombie levels. They will take away your ladders, buckets, pickaxes, and football helmets, rendering your most powerful zombies useless and making him one of the most dangerous plants, alongside Threepeater and Kernel-pult. Use Conehead Zombies to quickly eat them without losing much sun. If the Magnet-shroom is heavily guarded, you may have to use a Bungee Zombie to steal him. However, watch out for Umbrella Leaves.

However, its strength can be turned into its weakness. By having Magnet-shrooms take an object, waiting approximately six (6) seconds, and placing a Digger Zombie at the far right square, if done correctly, the Digger Zombie will have their pickaxe removed by Magnet-shroom, pop up at the last tile to the brain, eat the plant or walk over Spikeweed, and eat the brain. This can effectively bypass many defenses or save 50 sun as a Digger-Imp combination would usually cost 175, 50 more than the 125 that Digger Zombie is worth.

List of magnetic objects

• Bucket
• Screen door
• Football helmet
• Jack-in-the-box
• Pickaxe
• Pogo stick
• Ladder
• Trash can
• Black football helmet

Related achievements

	Sproing! Sproing! Complete Pogo Party without using Tall-nuts or Magnet-shrooms.

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

	No Fungus Among Us Complete a Nighttime Level without planting any mushrooms.

	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

Magnet-shroom has a gallery!

Visit this page to see it.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Magnet-shroom
Simplified Chinese	磁力菇
Traditional Chinese	磁力菇
Dutch	Magneetpaddo
French	Champi-aimant
German	Magnetpilz
Italian	Calamifungo
Japanese	マグネットシュルーム
Brazilian Portuguese	Ímãgumelo
Russian	Магнитогриб
Spanish	Magnetoseta	A portmanteau of "Magnético" (Magnetic) and "Seta" (Mushroom).

Trivia

• Unlike most mushrooms, when sleeping, he does not close his eyes. He will also appear gray, as if he had already stolen a metal object.
• He is nocturnal while his upgrade, Gold Magnet, is not.
• An imitated Magnet-shroom will glow thick white when attracting an object, whereas a normal glows a light blue color.
• The sound of buzzing electricity can be heard when he steals an object.
• He and Sea-shroom are the only mushrooms that are not obtained in the Night levels, excluding the Gloom-shroom, which is bought from Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies.
• He, Hypno-shroom, and Doom-shroom (when sleeping) are the only mushrooms that bounce from left to right.
• Gold Magnet has a lower sun cost than him. It is one of two upgrade plants to do this, the other being Winter Melon.
• It takes 15 seconds to recharge after removing a metallic object.
• He will not steal metallic equipment from hypnotized zombies.
• In Beghouled, if the player drags him around (without it having a match), and he has stolen a metallic object, the metallic object will appear on the other side of the Magnet-shroom.
• Sometimes he will try to attract a metallic object when the object has just been destroyed. If so, he will appear as if he has stolen an object, but without the object.
• The eyebrows from the seed packet and the Almanac image are pointed in a different way.
• He and Fume-shroom are the only mushrooms that can be upgraded.
• He, Fume-shroom, Lily Pad and Kernel-pult are the only plants that can do something that their upgrades cannot do.
• He cannot steal the Gargantuar's weapon (the metal sign), even if it is metal, because it's only visually different.
• When he stole Pogo Zombie's pogo stick, the stick's handle appears to be broken.
  • This also occurs when blocked by a Tall-nut or when the zombie loses it.
• He is nicknamed "小铁" (lit. "little iron") in Plants vs. Zombies: Endless Edition.
• Jack-in-the-box and Pickaxe are the only metallic items that cannot be destroyed without Magnet-shroom and without killing the zombies. Pogo Zombies lose their Pogo stick when they try to jump over a Tall-nut, and other metallic items are armors that can be destroyed in the same way the zombies are attacked. Ladders that have been laid on Wall-nuts, Tall-nuts, or Pumpkins can be destroyed using Cherry Bomb, Doom-shroom, Jalapeno, or Cob Cannon.

See also

• Metallic objects
• Gold Magnet

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