Modern Day

	Modern DayThe eleventh and final world in Plants vs. Zombies 2Fully released on February 6, 2017

Modern Day
Game	Plants vs. Zombies 2
Number of levels	34
Difficulty
New plants
New zombies
To unlock	Complete Big Wave Beach

For the Chinese version, see Modern Day (Chinese version). For the identical first area of the game, see Player's House (PvZ2).

Modern Day is the 11th world in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Part 1 was released on January 7, 2016 for some users and finally released on January 12, 2016. Part 2 was fully released on February 16, 2016. Part 3 was released on February 6, 2017.

It is set in the present, more precisely a few moments before Crazy Dave eats his taco (and further begins his time travel journey), and features Dr. Zomboss trying to negate and alter history. The lawn is the same as the Player's House and the music is a combination of themes from the first game with instruments from every world.

This world is a mash-up of every time period encountered before; the main environment modifier, portals, reflect that. Portals summon special zombies from any time period to the lawn. The tiles where portals appear and the zombies summoned are scripted and never change. The gimmicks from some other worlds are also present, elevating the challenge to the point of being the second world with a five Jalapeno difficulty rating.

Since the player can encounter zombies from every previous world in this world, it can be a good option to complete multiple tasks at the same time from Travel Log that involves killing certain zombies.

Audio

Sound	Description
	Intro
	Choose your Seeds
	First wave
	Flag wave A
	Flag wave B start
	Flag wave B
	Last flag start
	Last flag
	Ultimate Battle(Chinese version only/International version removed)
	Mini-game(Chinese version only/International version removed)
	Winning
	Reward
	Losing

Game description

The end is the beginning! Return to moments before you left in a contemporary contest stocked with zombies of every egregious era!

Order of events

After obtaining the world's key from Big Wave Beach - Day 32, the player gains access to Modern Day. On Day 1, Dr. Zomboss declares the beginning of his Project Paradox. The player also encounters portals that spawns zombies from other eras depending on the portal itself.

On Day 15, the player obtains a taco that was later revealed to be a trap made by Dr. Zomboss. After defeating waves of Gargantuars from previous eras on Day 16, the player obtains a Modern Day Piñata.

On Day 32, Dr. Zomboss informs the player that their attempt to re-eat a taco has shattered time and it is up to him to fix it, which Crazy Dave responds by saying that he is too taco-addled to care. On Day 33, Dr. Zomboss stated that he is not lying and re-eating a taco is impossible. On Day 34, Dr. Zomboss says that if Crazy Dave will not listen to reason, they will all be destroyed. After defeating Dr. Zomboss, he says that Crazy Dave must let go of his dream of re-eating a taco and presents to him the Taco with a Waffle in it. Crazy Dave is shocked and says that this is the best day of his or anyone else's life. Penny responds by saying that maybe they have misjudged Dr. Zomboss this whole time, but then, Dr. Zomboss states that perhaps they may have not misjudged him and he may not be planning anything else for the future. He then flees.

On Day 35, Crazy Dave says that the Taco with a Waffle in it was delicious, but he smells more zombies coming. Penny says that the zombies still want brains. She further says that they would see stronger versions of zombies.

On Day 44, Dr. Zomboss appears and asks Crazy Dave about his taco, which actually contained a secret ingredient, guessing that he will surely appreciate the zombies. After they have defeated the Zombot Tomorrow-tron, Crazy Dave and Penny ensure that they have a high chance of survival, as of powered-up plants, while Dr. Zomboss says that looks like it is required to have more upgraded zombies.

Levels

Difficulty

Being considered by some the last world, Modern Day pits the player against nearly every zombie in the game, even if they did not encounter all of them. As a result, hence its five Jalapeno difficulty, Modern Day is an extremely hard world. It contains twenty somewhat hard-hard days (2, 4, 5, 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 28, 35, 39, 40, 41, 42, and 43), eight very hard days (7, 10, 21, 26, 29, 30, 36 and 38), and three extremely hard days (9, 12, and 44). It also contains three variable levels (32, 33, and 34). However, its difficulty is slightly easier than that of the previous world, Big Wave Beach, though much harder than the world prior to Big Wave Beach, Jurassic Marsh.

• Easiest level: Modern Day - Day 22 or Modern Day - Day 37
• Hardest level: Modern Day - Day 9 or Modern Day - Day 44

Main levels

Day	Plants	Zombies	Portals	Flags	Reward	Notes
1	Player's choice		: : :	Two
2	Player's choice with		:	Two	Money bag
3			N/A	Two	Money bag	Special Delivery
4	Player's choice		N/A	Three
5	Player's choice with		N/A	Two	Money bag
6	Player's choice		:	Two	Modern Day Piñata	Gold Tiles present Objective: Produce at least 4000 sun
7	Player's choice		:	Four	Modern Day Piñata
8	→→ or → → or → → or →→ → →		N/A	100 matches	Money bag	Beghouled
9			:	Three	Money bag	Tombstones present Locked and Loaded
10	Player's choice		: :	Three		Power Tiles present
11	Player's choice with		N/A	Two	Money bag
12	Player's choice		N/A	Two	Modern Day Piñata	Dinosaurs: Objective: Don't lose more than 10 plants
13	→→ or →→ → or → → or →→ →→ →		N/A	150 matches	Money bag	Beghouled
14			N/A	Two	Modern Day Piñata	Locked and Loaded
15	Player's choice		N/A	Two	A "taco"	Save Our Seeds
16			N/A	Three	Modern Day Piñata	Gargantuar battle
17	Player's choice with		:	Two
18	Player's choice		N/A	Two	Money bag
19			:	Two	Money bag	Special Delivery
20	Player's choice		N/A	Two	Highway to the Danger Room	Gold Tiles present
21	Player's choice		: : :	Three	Money bag
22	→→or → → →→ →		N/A	75 matches	Money bag	Beghouled
23	Player's choice with		N/A	Two
24	Player's choice		N/A	Two	Money bag	Power Tiles present
25			N/A	Two	Money bag	Special Delivery Slider tiles present
26	Player's choice		N/A	Three	Money bag	Dinosaur:
27	→→or → →→ → → or →		N/A	100 matches	Money bag	Beghouled
28	Player's choice		N/A	Two	Money bag	Gold Tiles present Objective: Produce at least 3000 sun
29	Player's choice		N/A	Three	Modern Day Piñata	Dinosaur:
30	Player's choice		N/A	Three	Money bag	Minecart and rails present Objective: Don't let the zombies trample the flowers
31	Player's choice with		N/A	Two	Money bag	Slider tiles present
32			N/A	The specific Zombot's health	Modern Day Piñata	Boss battle
33			N/A	The specific Zombot's health	Modern Day Piñata	Boss battle
34			N/A	The specific Zombot's health	Taco with a waffle in it	Boss battle
		Dinosaurs:

Epic Quest: Modern Day Dustup!

Play extra hard Modern Day levels 35-44 to win a pleasing set of gems!

Since the 7.4.1 update, this limited-time Epic Quest of 10 steps was added. It uses Modern Day days 35 to 44 as equivalent of its 10 steps. A money bag is awarded after completing each step, and completing all 10 levels will give the player 100 gems.

Since the 9.1.1 update, this quest has 8 levels (37-44) and gives 25 gems.

Step	Plants	Zombies	Portals	Flags	Notes
1	Player's choice		: :	Three
2	Player's choice		N/A	Three	Objective: Survive without planting on Dave's mold colonies
3	Choice without sun-producing plants and free plants		N/A	Five	Last Stand
4	Player's choice		N/A	Four	Dinosaur: Objective: Don't let the zombies trample the flowers
5	Player's choice		N/A	Four	Save Our Seeds
6*	Player's choice		:	Three
7*	Player's choice		:	Two	Objective: Don't lose more than 5 plants
8*			N/A	Two	Locked and Loaded
9*	Player's choice without sun-producing plants		N/A	Three	Objective: Produce at least 3500 sun
10*			N/A	None, replaced with 's health bar	Boss battle

*No lawn mowers present.

Brain Busters

Special Delivery

Main article: Special Delivery

Special Delivery is a Brain Buster that is a conveyor-belt level with the plants given via said conveyor-belt. Being a conveyor-belt level, no sun and sun-producing plants will be given. Starting from Big Wave Beach, most of its levels are featuring new plants.

It is playable on Days 3, 19 and 25.

Save Our Seeds

Main article: Save Our Seeds

In the Save Our Seeds levels, the player has to protect the endangered plants marked by a striped tile and his or her house too. If the player lets one of them be eaten by the zombies or disappear in some way, he or she will lose. Otherwise, it is a regular level, which the player can choose the plants to protect the endangered ones.

It is playable on Days 15, with two endangered Primal Wall-nuts. and 39, with three endangered Moonflowers.

Locked and Loaded

Main article: Locked and Loaded

Locked and Loaded is a regular Brain Buster with the plants chosen, and the player has to use them to defeat the zombies. Starting from Dark Ages, its levels will always feature a premium plant.

It is playable on Days 9, 14 and 42.

Last Stand

Main article: Last Stand

Last Stand is a Brain Buster that gives the player a huge a amount of sun and some Plant Food before starting the level. However, the player cannot choose plants that do not cost sun (except Hot Potato and Stallia), sun-producing plants and some other certain plants (However, this rarely happens). After choosing, the player will be able to plant plants with instant recharge to set up his or her defense before starting the battle.

It is playable on Day 37.

Beghouled

Main article: Beghouled (PvZ2)

Similar to the first game, the player has to make matches of three or more of the same plant so more can appear. Each match gives one sun plus another one for each chain reaction caused. The sun is used to upgrade the plants on the board. If the player manages to make a match of more than four plants, the Plant Food effect of the plant moved is activated. When a set number of matches is reached, the player wins the level.

It is playable on Days 8, 13, 22 and 27.

Related achievements

	Great Gargling Gargantuars Unleash the Modern Day Gargantuar

	Present Perfect, Future Tense Complete Modern Day

	Time Traveler Complete a level where each of your plants comes from a different world

	Hot Off the Presses Set a Newspaper Zombie's newspaper on fire

	You're an All-Star? Complete a level where All-Star Zombies are unable to tackle even a single plant

Galleries

Modern Day has a gallery!

Visit this page to see it.

Walkthrough

See Modern Day/Walkthrough.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Modern Day
Simplified Chinese	摩登世界	lit. "Modern World"
French	Temps modernes
German	Moderne
Italian	Tempi moderni
Brazilian Portuguese	Vida Moderna
Spanish	Tiempos modernos

Notes

General

• Prior to the 10.5 update, World-exclusive plants such as Thyme Warp, Gold Leaf, and Perfume-shroom were restricted in Seed Selection Screen, despite the fact that Modern Day uses aspects from different worlds.
  • However in Modern Day - Day 9, players can use Thyme Warp during Locked and Loaded level despite of that restriction.
• The music themes in this worlds are remixes of themes from the first Plants vs. Zombies:
  • The Choose Your Seeds theme is a remix of the first game's main theme, using instruments from Ancient Egypt, Pirate Seas, and Wild West.
    • Like Jurassic Marsh, the intro has a very close resemblance to the main menu theme of the first game.
  • The first wave music in this world is a remix of the Player's House theme (Grasswalk), using instruments from virtually every world. Despite this, prominence is given to the piano, harpsichord and bass clarinet. The balafon and organ also appear later in the track.
  • The second wave music is also a remix of the Player's House theme (Grasswalk Horde), yet again using instruments from every world. This time however, the bassoon and balafon play a much more important role, and the accordion is swapped with the one of Jurassic Marsh.
  • The third wave music is a remix of Graze the Roof, using instruments from less worlds which are more defined. The organ and the electric guitar are the main ones being used, with the balafon and bass clarinet also briefly appearing.
  • The final wave music is an instrumental remix of Zombies on Your Lawn, using instruments from every world. The organ and electric guitar are the most important here, however we also hear parts using instruments from Far Future and Pirate Seas. The later sections of the song show prominent usage of instruments from Jurassic Marsh.
  • Despite this world mostly reusing sounds from all of the other worlds, it has two unique instruments: the live-recorded Fender Stratocaster and the grand piano.
  • The Ultimate Battle theme uses only Ancient Egypt, Pirate Seas, Big Wave Beach and Jurassic Marsh instruments. Brushed cymbals belonging to Frostbite Caves also appear later.
  • The Demonstration Mini-game theme yet again uses mainly Ancient Egypt and Big Wave Beach instruments, however this time the palette is diversified a little with the flute and marimba from Lost City, with the latter lacking reverb. The percussion is also identical to that of Dark Ages' Mini Game theme.
    • The prominence of Ancient Egypt, Big Wave Beach and Jurassic Marsh in these two themes may be related to the fact that they are the first, sixth, and last worlds to be released before Modern Day.
• All the plants obtained in this world are shadow plants/Conceal-mint family plants.
• This is the first and only world that does not contain levels with only one flag.
• This world has the most levels with the world's exclusive Brain Buster, as 4 levels are used for Beghouled.
• Before its expansion, Modern Day was the second world to not feature any Last Stand levels. Lost City is currently the only world not to feature Last Stand levels.
• Until an unknown update, Piñata Parties as well, as Vasebreaker levels and Endless played the Player's House theme. After that, Modern Day's theme is played instead.
• So far, this is the largest world in Plants vs. Zombies 2, having 34 levels (44 counting the expansions).
• This is the only world that has four boss fights.
  • It is also the only world with more than two boss fights.
  • It is also the only world which does not have its own time-based Zombot, not counting Player's House.
• This is the third world in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that has more than one Imp variant (Imp and Super-Fan Imp). The others are Dark Ages and Lost City.
• All conveyor-belt levels in this world (excluding Day 19 and boss fights) contain Intensive Carrot.
• It is the first world since Dark Ages not to have a world-exclusive plant.
• Wild West and Lost City are the only worlds that do not have respective portals appearing during normal levels. They only appear in Highway to the Danger Room.
• In the preview picture for Modern Day since the 4.5.1 update, a Relic Hunter Zombie is shown coming out of the portal despite that in the game, they only appear swinging in.
• Almost every zombie from the other worlds appear. Zombies such as Flag Zombie variants, Vase Gargantuar, Fisherman Zombie, and Zombie King do not appear.
  • Furthermore, if the player defeats any of the Zombots in Modern Day before fighting them in their original worlds, they will not be seen in the Almanac.
  • If the player defeats any of the Zombots in Modern Day before fighting them in their original worlds, the trophy will still appear.
  • Aside from boss fights, Blockhead Zombie and Bug Zombie also do not appear in any of the normal levels, but can be spawned from portals in Highway to the Danger Room.
• Ancient Egypt, Pirate Seas, Wild West, and Modern Day are the only worlds that did not have their positions changed on the world map after 5.3.1 update.
• Modern Day, Jurassic Marsh, Lost City, and Frostbite Caves are the only worlds not to introduce plants from the first Plants vs. Zombies game.
• Modern Day and Ancient Egypt are the first worlds to have new levels added to them after the 5.3.1 update.
• Zombot Tomorrow-tron can be fought twice in this world, in Day 33 (if the player is lucky enough to confront it) and Day 44.
• Modern Day is one of two worlds to not show a zombie, or an interpretation of a zombie, on its world map icon, instead showing the Player's House with a spiral concrete ramp under it. The other is Lost City, which has a temple with an engraving of a plant head.
• This is the only world in the game that does not give a golden trophy for passing all levels. However, it is present in the Chinese version, where it is based on concept art.
• Balloon Zombie, Imp, Gargantuar, All-Star Zombie, and Super-Fan Imp are the only Modern Day zombies that returned in Plants vs. Zombies 3.
  • In the Chinese version of this world, there is a Digger Zombie and he also returned in Plants vs. Zombies 3 as well, as Miner Threat.
    • Newspaper Zombie and Sunday Edition Zombie did not return in PvZ3, but there is another zombie with a similar ability to these two, which is Cell Phone Zombie.