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.
Statistics
Sun Cost	175
Recharge	7 seconds
Pit Capacity	2
Chew Speed	20 seconds
Family	Contain-mint
Plant Food effect	Swallow a bunch of zombies, and spit out oil in the surrounding area.
Usage	Can swallow multiple zombies at a time
Special	Spits out zombie-slowing olive oil
Statistics (China)
Sun Cost	175
Recharge	10 seconds
Toughness	300 damage
Attack Rest	60 seconds
Range	Own Tile
Area	Single Target
Class	Special
Quality	Orange
Tags	Deadly, slowing
Plant features	Short plant
In-game statistics
Other weakness	(ignores Olive Pit while in the air) (notices and kills it)
Unlocked	250 seed packets
Unlocked (China)	Collect ten Olive pit puzzle pieces
Costumes
Costumes (China)
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 planted, 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% (66% 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 interval 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 Special Pit Capacity Special 20 Contain-mint Plant Food: Swallow a bunch of zombies, and spit out oil in the surrounding area. Olive Pits drill into the ground and wait to consume zombies foolish enough to walk over them. 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.

Costumed (China only)

After being fed with Plant Food, Olive Pit is able to swallow the flying zombies.

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 damage	2	20 seconds
2	50			6.5 seconds	350 damage	3
3	100			6 seconds	400 damage		18 seconds
4	200		150	5.5 seconds	450 damage	4
5	300			5 seconds	550 damage		16 seconds
6	400			4.5 seconds	600 damage		14 seconds
7	500		125	4.25 seconds	650 damage	5
8	600			4 seconds	700 damage		12 seconds
9	800			3.75 seconds	800 damage		10 seconds
10	1,000		100	3.5 seconds	900 damage	6

Mastery upgrades

• Chance to Boost
• Damage Pierce

Level upgrade (China only)

Level	Upgrades	Description
	Digestion Enhancement 消化强化	Can now swallow up to 3 zombies of equal and lower levels, or one level 3+ zombie. Reduces chewing time to 50 seconds. 橄榄坑内一次能消化的僵尸数量变为3个或1个3阶以上的僵尸。消化时间减少至50秒。
	Combat Training 战斗训练	Olive Pit gains 50% more attack power and health (150% of initial).
	Tunnel Enhancement 坑道强化	Can now swallow up to 4 zombies of equal and lower levels, or one level 5+ zombie. Reduces chewing time to 40 seconds. 橄榄坑内一次能消化的僵尸数量变为4个或1个5阶以上的僵尸。消化时间减少至40秒。
	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	While chewing, traps zombies for five seconds within one tile to the right if approached. Can digest four zombies of any level. 当橄榄坑进入消化状态时，当僵尸出现在右侧1格时，会伸出草叶将其脚缠绕5秒。所有阶数的僵尸都可以正常同时消化4个。
	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 him. 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, as they are too large to be swallowed and can destroy it as well. Machines are also too big to be swallowed, and while Jurassic Rockpuncher can be swallowed if Olive Pit is planted directly on it, it will notice it and destroy him 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 his weaknesses, such as ignoring 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, Ice Weasels and Zombie Monkeys 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

Please note that only official translations are used.

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, before the 8.3.1 update, be planted on Lily Pads as well as the planked lanes in the Pirate Seas. This was likely an oversight.
• Despite being an underground plant, it is affected by Boombox Zombie's music. This is likely another oversight.
• It is the second plant based on an olive, the first being Oily 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, Resistant Radish, Bamboo Bro and Lotus Shooter.
• Olive Pit cannot be planted on minecarts, either. If the player tries this, the message will appear: "Olive Pits make holes. No railcarts!".

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