Starfruit (Plants vs. Zombies)

For other uses, see Starfruit (disambiguation).

Starfruit Starfruits shoot stars in 5 directions. Almanac statistics Sun cost 125, 175 (Versus Mode) Recharge Fast, very slow (Versus Mode) Damage Normal (for each star) Toughness Normal Range 5 directions In-game statistics Direct damage 20 damage every 1.5 seconds (x5) Unlocked Beating Level 4-6 "Aw, man," says Starfruit. "I went to the dentist the other day and he said that I have four cavities. I've got --count it-- ONE tooth! Four cavities in one tooth? How does this happen?" 未来星(literal translation: Future Star) Future Stars can launch milk stars in five directions at once. Almanac statistics Sun cost 125 Recharge Fast Damage Normal (for each milk star) Toughness Normal Range 5 directions In-game statistics Direct damage 20 damage every 1.5 seconds (x5) Unlocked Beating Level 4-6 (Great Wall Edition) 未来星儿童成长牛奶能向四面八方发射奶星星来保护你的草地。" Future Star Child Growth Milk can shoot milk stars in all directions to protect your lawn."

Starfruit is a plant appearing in Plants vs. Zombies, unlocked after beating Level 4-6.

Starfruit attacks by projecting stars in five different directions whenever a zombie is in his line of fire: one to the left, one going up, one going down, one going to the upper right (gradient of 1/2), and the last going lower right (gradient of -1/2). Each star deals 20 damage. If a zombie is exactly in front of him, with or without eating him, the zombie will be damaged by two of the five sides of Starfruit.

He appeared as Future Star (未来星; pinyin: wèilái xīng) in both Plants vs. Zombies: Great Wall Edition and Plants vs. Zombies: Social Edition as a promotional plant.

About

For more information about this character, see Starfruit.

Starfruit is unlocked after completing Level 4-6. He costs 125 sun (175 in Versus Mode) to plant. In this game, Starfruit has his own mini-game called Seeing Stars, where the player is required to fill up certain tiles with Starfruit to form a giant star in order to complete the level.

Origins

Starfruit is based on the real life starfruit plant (Averrhoa carambola).

Future Star was based on Starfruit from the original game with its name coming from the Chinese milk company of the same name. Its cyan coloring comes from the company Future Star's logo, which is the company's name in white text with an outline of a star at the end amongst a background.

Almanac entry

Starfruit
Starfruits shoot stars in five directions. Damage: normal Range: five directions "Aw, man," says Starfruit. "I went to the dentist the other day and he said I have four cavities. I've got --count it-- ONE tooth! Four cavities in one tooth? How does this happen?" Cost: 125 Recharge: fast

未来星
未来星一次可向5个方向发射奶星星。 伤害：中等(每颗奶星星) 发射速度: 四倍 未来星儿童成长牛奶能向四面八方发射奶星星来保护你的草地。" 花费: 125 恢复时间: 快

In English: Future Star Future Stars can launch milk stars in five directions at once. Damage: normal (for each milk star) Launch Rate: four times. Future Star Child Growth Milk can shoot milk stars in all directions to protect your lawn." Cost: 125 Recharge: fast

Strategies

Starfruit stands out from other projectile-based for specializing in attacking lanes other than the lane he is planted on. His strength lies in his relatively high firepower potential for his cost, as well as the ability to neutralize enemies attempting to attack plants from the back, such as Digger Zombie in the first game and Prospector Zombie in the second. However, this is hampered by Starfruit's awkward firing pattern, which makes the plant incapable of defending himself from direct assault. Because of this, the plant is likely going to be deployed in columns, in which each Starfruit can cover others.

The player can improve Starfruit's performance by funneling the zombies away from the plant, reducing or avoiding the risk of direct attacks altogether. Possible methods include planting Starfruit on water lanes in Pool levels where there are less pressure from zombies, or guiding the horde with Garlic.

Seeing Stars

To win the mini-game, the player must plant Starfruit on the designated tiles - the only other plant that can be placed there is Pumpkin. Because of this, Pumpkin will prove to be highly useful in defending Starfruits in more vulnerable positions. Other strategies that normally work with Starfruit can also be used in this mini-game to help fending off the horde until the objective is completed.

Versus Mode

Use Starfruit with cost-efficient early-game options like Puff-Shroom and Scaredy-Shroom to help save sun for Starfruit's sun cost of 175 in this mode. Avoid running this plant with other sun-heavy attackers like Melon-Pult and Threepeater. You also have to plan around the increased recharge of Starfruit, which can make setting up the plant much more problematic than you might like.

Related achievements

	Shooting Star Complete Seeing Stars before the first Flag Zombie appears.

	Morticulturalist Collect all 49 plants.

	Book Learner Fill out the Suburban Almanac.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Starfruit
Simplified Chinese	星星果 阿桃 as nickname in Plants vs. Zombies: Endless Edition 未来星 in Plants vs. Zombies: Great Wall Edition and Plants vs. Zombies: Social Edition
Traditional Chinese	星星果 阿桃 as nickname in Plants vs. Zombies: Endless Edition
Dutch	Stervrucht
French	Carambole
German	Sternfrucht
Italian	Frutto a stella
Japanese	スターフルーツ
Russian	Звездоплод
Spanish	Frustrella	A portmanteau of "Fruta" (Fruit) and "Estrella" (Star).

Trivia

• When a Bungee Zombie is trying to steal him, he does not try to harm him, but if another zombie is in Starfruit's range, all five stars will shoot at the Bungee Zombie until the zombie is out of the Starfruit's range.
• In the Nintendo DS and DSi versions, sometimes a zombie is within his range, but the star projectile will just bypass the zombie instead of hitting it. This most likely occurs if the zombie is in a lane above him, regardless of position.
• The player can use him to achieve the Grounded achievement (you have to plant him in the fifth lane, where there are Flower Pots), but he must be defended with Pumpkins in order not to make Conehead Zombies eat him.
• He is one of the only three plants that have their own minigame (Seeing Stars), the others are Sunflower (Art Challenge Sunflower) and Wall-nut (Wall-nut Bowling, its sequel, and Art Challenge Wall-nut).
• In the iPhone version of PvZ, if a zombie is right behind a Starfruit, all 5 stars hit the zombie, which can 2 shot a basic zombie. This is likely a glitch.

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies: Endless Edition

• When underwater, his two projectiles that have slanted trajectories move closer to the those having vertical projectiles, even though his detection range remains unchanged.

Specific to Future Star

• It, Super Chomper, and Calm Chuck were the only plants in Social Edition to be sponsored by a product.
  • In Future Star's case, it is advertising a brand of milk in China.
• Seeing Stars with Future Star have a logo featuring the logo for the popular Child-Growth Milk produced by the Real Future Star company but with the biggest star replaced by a Future Star plant
• Despite being a premium plant, it has the seed packet for a normal plant.

See also

• Gloom-shroom
• Star
• Seeing Stars

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