Olive Pit

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This item is only obtainable during certain events. However, it can still be used if you have already obtained it. It is currently not available.

Olive Pit
Olive Pits drill into the ground and wait to consume zombies foolish enough to walk over them.
Almanac statistics
Sun cost	175
Recharge	7 seconds
Usage	Can swallow multiple zombies at a time
Special	Spits out zombie-slowing olive oil
Family	Contain-mint
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(ignores Olive Pit while in the air) (notices and kills it)
Rarity (China)	Legendary
Unlocked	250 seed packets
Unlocked (China)	Collect ten Olive pit puzzle pieces
Costumes
Olive Pit lies buried deep underground, thinking furiously. What about? Hard to say. Maybe airplanes? Do helicopters count as airplanes?

“	Plant Olive Pits and watch as they gobble up zombies.	”
—Penny

Olive Pit is a premium plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that was introduced in the 8.2.1 update. When played, Olive Pit buries itself in the ground, and acts as a pitfall trap, swallowing and instantly killing any zombie that steps on it. After burying itself, every 7 seconds, Olive Pit spits out olive oil on the tile in front of itself, lasting 6 seconds.

Zombies that step on oil will have their speed and bite attack reduced by 33.3% (66.7% in the Chinese version). Once it becomes full, the Olive Pit will pause spitting out olive oil. Olive Pit spits out 3 puddles of olive oil in the three tiles in front of itself when finishing chewing. Zombie Chickens and Ice Weasels are swallowed without being counted in pit capacity.

In the Chinese version, Olive Pit's chew speed is increased to 60 seconds.

Origins

Olive Pit is based on the olive, the fruit of the Olea europaea tree native to the Mediterranean primarily harvested for its vegetable oil, a key ingredient in Mediterranean cuisine.

Olive Pit's name is a pun on its function as a pitfall trap and on the real-life pit that is the seed of an olive.

Almanac entry

Note: The stats shown below only apply to Level 1.

Olive Pit		SUN COST 175 RECHARGE 7 SUN COST: 175 RECHARGE: 7 Special Pit Capacity Special 20 Special: Pit Capacity Special: 20 FAMILY Contain-mint FAMILY: Contain-mint Olive Pits drill into the ground and wait to consume zombies foolish enough to walk over them. Usage: can swallow multiple zombies at a time Special: spits out zombie-slowing olive oil Olive Pit lies buried deep underground, thinking furiously. What about? Hard to say. Maybe airplanes? Do helicopters count as airplanes?

Olive Pit

		SUN COST 175			RECHARGE 7

SUN COST: 175
RECHARGE: 7

		Special Pit Capacity			Special 20

Special: Pit Capacity
Special: 20

		FAMILY Contain-mint

FAMILY: Contain-mint

Olive Pits drill into the ground and wait to consume zombies foolish enough to walk over them.

Usage: can swallow multiple zombies at a time
Special: spits out zombie-slowing olive oil

Olive Pit lies buried deep underground, thinking furiously. What about? Hard to say. Maybe airplanes? Do helicopters count as airplanes?

橄榄坑能减速前方一格僵尸，并让路过的僵尸掉下去 植物特征：矮个子 橄榄坑埋在地下深处，他一直有个愿望，希望有一天能去一次天空之城里面的飞船。 In English: Olive Pit can slow down zombies ahead of it, as well as having passing zombies falling into it Plant feature: short plant Olive Pit lies buried deep underground, always having one single dream, to one day board the aircraft from Sky City.

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When fed with Plant Food, Olive Pit will swallow zombies (up to 6 zombies in the Chinese version) and spit out 8 puddles of olive oil in a 3x3 area, lasting 6 seconds.

Contain-mint effect

When boosted by Contain-mint, Olive Pit's pit capacity is increased by 6 zombies and its chew speed is reduced to 10 seconds.

Level upgrades

Level	Seed Packets	Coins	Upgrades
			Sun Cost	Recharge	Toughness	Pit Capacity	Chew Speed
1	0	0	175	7 seconds	300 dps	2	20 seconds
2	50			6.5 seconds	350 dps	3
3	100			6 seconds	400 dps		18 seconds
4	200		150	5.5 seconds	450 dps	4
5	300			5 seconds	550 dps		16 seconds
6	400			4.5 seconds	600 dps		14 seconds
7	500		125	4.25 seconds	650 dps	5
8	600			4 seconds	700 dps		12 seconds
9	800			3.75 seconds	800 dps		10 seconds
10	1,000		100	3.5 seconds	900 dps	6

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Digestion Enhancement 消化强化	Pit capacity is increased from 2 to 3 and digestion speed is reduced by 10 seconds.
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Olive Pit gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Tunnel Enhancement 坑道强化	Pit capacity is increased from 3 to 4 and digestion speed is reduced by another 10 seconds.
	Cell Activation 细胞活化	Olive Pit gains another 50% more attack power and health (200% of initial).
	Ability Awaken 能力觉醒	Olive Pit may be boosted when planted.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Olive Pit gains another 50% more attack power and health (250% of initial).
	Entangled 缠绕	When a zombie walks over Olive Pit while recharging, blades of grass will entangle that zombie (except for for Gargantuars, flying zombies and vehicle zombies) for 5 seconds.
	Fighting Power 战斗能力	Olive Pit gains another 50% more attack power and health (300% of initial).

Strategies

Olive Pit can be seen as a much more flexible Chomper, as it can devour more zombies before chewing, cannot be destroyed by most zombies like Spikeweed, and spits out olive oil which slows approaching zombies in a similar fashion to Sap-fling. The trade-off is that Olive Pit is slightly more expensive, recharges a little slower, and cannot affect zombies that don’t walk over it. Olive Pit also does no continuous damage to targets it can’t swallow, unlike Chomper.

Due to Olive Pit's insta-kill nature, it makes an excellent plant for thinning out dangerous zombies from hordes. Its immunity to most zombies makes it a great option to plant in the right-hand columns, nearest to where the zombies spawn. A fully upgraded olive pit can consume six zombies before it needs to chew and then only spends 10 seconds chewing - this can be enough to significantly thin large hordes of zombies with very little drawback, as Olive Pit is safe from most harm whilst it's chewing.

However, Olive Pit does have some weaknesses. Flying enemies are completely immune to both the pit and the olive oil, and it is completely useless against Gargantuars, who are also one of the few zombies that can destroy it. Jurassic Rockpuncher, while not immune to getting swallowed if planted directly on him, will notice it and destroy it instead of walking onto it. Olive Pit is also incapable of dealing with consistent zombie hordes, as it must eventually stop chewing. As such, bringing another offensive plant is essential, to not overwhelm the Olive Pits.

When boosted by Contain-mint, Olive Pit's capacity gets increased, allowing it to face a large group of zombies more easily, while its swallowing speed increased to level 10 standard. However, this still can't change its weaknesses, such as ingnoring flying zombies and dealing no damage to non-edible zombies. The olive oil puddles it leaves and its creation interval remain unchanged, either. So to some extent, the procrastination ability of Olive Pit has not been strengthened.

Olive Pit is more suitable for dealing with critters such as Zombie Chickens and Ice Weasels than other swallowing plants, due to its fast reaction rate. But it will still miss a few things because there is actually a gap in its swallowing. Olive Pit makes a great guard against plants vulnerable to direct attack, such as Electric Currant or Phat Beet. Should your defenses not be adequate against all threats that approach them, Olive Pits are a great last ditch (literally) to stop any zombies that might crawl through.

Olive Pit is an excellent plant to use in Arena and Penny's Pursuit harder levels because it can devour most of the zombies that show up no matter their level, but the player should beware of Gargantuars, Jurassic Rockpunchers, flying zombies and machines. For the second and the third ones, Chomper or Toadstool are better. Or you can simply bring both.

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In other languages

Language	Name	Description
English	Olive Pit
Simplified Chinese	橄榄坑	"Olive Pit"
French	Tuile d'olive	"Olive Tile", lit. "Tile of Olive"
German	Bohrlive
Italian	Olivozza
Brazilian Portuguese	Carfosso de Oliveira
Spanish	Pozoliva	portmaneau of "pozo", the Spanish word for a well, and "oliva", the Spanish word for an olive

Trivia

• Some zombies cannot be swallowed by Olive Pit when they're walking on it, for example, Far Future vehicle zombies (due to their sizes).
• Its animation when planted is reused from Intensive Carrot.
• Despite being a ground plant, it could be planted on Lily Pads as well as the planked lanes in the Pirate Seas. This was likely an oversight.
  • This was later fixed in the 8.3.1 update.
• Despite being an underground plant, it can still be affected by Boombox Zombie's music. This is likely another oversight.
• It is the second plant based on an olive, the first being Oil Olive.
• Olive Pit cannot be planted on wooden planks in Pirate Seas. This is most likely because it's an underground plant.
  • It shares this trait with Potato Mine, Bamboo-shoot, Cactus, Celery Stalker, Primal Potato Mine, Escape Root, Snap Pea, Radish, Bambrook and Lotus Root.
• Olive Pit cannot be planted on minecarts. If the player tries this, the message will appear: "Olive Pits make holes. No railcarts!".