Pirate Seas

Pirate Seas
The second world in Plants vs. Zombies 2
35 levels ⋅ Fully released by April 25, 2017

For other uses, see Pirate Seas (disambiguation).

Pirate Seas
Game	Plants vs. Zombies 2
Number of levels	25
Difficulty
New plants
New zombies
To unlock	Complete Ancient Egypt

Pirate Seas is the 2nd world in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It is based on an old pirate ship on the open ocean. It is home to pirate zombies and some plants. It is unlocked by using a World Key, which is only obtainable after completing Ancient Egypt - Day 6 (This was previously Ancient Egypt - Day 8 prior to the 7.1 update)

According to the Pirate Seas trailer, this world takes place on the Andaman Sea.

In this world, the player's lawn is split up into three sections. The first section, the half towards their lawnmowers (the first five columns) functions as it normally would. The section towards the entry point for zombies is quite different. Planks connecting the zombies' ship to the player's allow them to passage normally onto your lawn. While some rows do not have any planks, they can still be attacked by ambush zombies landing halfway across their lawn.

The sections with the planks will function as normal, with the exception that a few plants cannot be planted on planks (such as underground plants, like Potato Mine). The third and final part is the sea tiles, which no plants (not even water-orientated plants like Lily Pads) can be planted there and zombies instantly die if they land in the water. This is also the main part of the lawn where Swashbuckler Zombies start to swing forward towards the non-water parts of the lawn.

Audio

Sound	Description
	Intro
	Choose your Seeds
	First wave
	Middle wave A start
	Middle wave A
	Middle wave B start
	Middle wave B
	Last flag start
	Last flag
	Ultimate Battle
	Demonstration Mini-game
	Winning
	Reward
	Losing
	Zombot Plank Walker intro

Game description

The year is 1679, the golden age of zombie piracy! Keep your booty close, and your plants closer, as the zombies take to the sea to plunder your brains!

Order of events (Spoilers)

The player uses the key obtained from Ancient Egypt - Day 6 and the player travels to this world.

After Day 7, the player receives a treasure map that leads to "Treasure" saying "TREASURE, NOT ZOMBIES". However, it was a trap planned by the zombies and Dr. Zomboss, thus, they attack the player, yet, the wave of zombies are defeated.

When the player reaches Day 25, Dr. Zomboss writes a note, claiming Penny may be a Zombot since its temporal signature is nearly identical to his own creations. Penny asks Crazy Dave if she is the daughter of Dr. Zomboss, but Crazy Dave mentions only about a sandwich he just made. Dr. Zomboss then attacks the player in his Zombot Plank Walker, but is defeated once again. He then writes another note, saying that he will have the answers when he has Crazy Dave's brains. In retaliation, he flees as always.

The things that fall in water in this world are:

• Guacodile or Parsnip when rushing (Including Plant Food Effects).
• Zombies that get pushed or knocked back into the water.
• Imps that misfire from an Imp Cannon.
• Seagull Zombies and Pelican Zombies that die on the water.
• Swashbuckler Zombies that fall off ropes.
• Goo Peashooter's Plant food effect.
• Hypnotized zombies.
• Zomboids created by the Zoybean Pod.
• Ice Bloom's ice blocks getting pushed by Explode-o-Vine.
• Turkeys created by Turkey-pult.

Levels

Difficulty

• Easiest level: Pirate Seas - Day 1 or Pirate Seas - Day 22
• Hardest level: Pirate Seas - Day 27 or Pirate Seas - Day 32 or Pirate Seas - Day 34

Main levels

Day	Plants	Zombies	Flags	Notes	Prize*
1	Choice		One
2	Choice		One		Money bag
3	Choice		One
4	Choice		Two		Dead Man's Booty
5	Choice		Two		Pirate Seas Piñata
6	Choice		Two
7	Choice		Two		Note
8			Two	Gargantuar battle	Pirate Seas Piñata
9	Choice		Two
10	Choice		Two		Money bag
11	Choice		Two
12			None	Cannons Away level	Shovel Boost
13	Choice		Two	Objective: Produce at least 3000 sun	Money bag
14	Choice		One	Last Stand level
15	Choice		Two	Objective: Don't let the zombies trample the flowers	Money bag
16	Choice		One	Save Our Seeds level	Pirate Seas Piñata
17	Choice		Two	Objectives: Defeat 20 zombies in 30 seconds	Money bag
18			Two	Locked and Loaded level
19	Choice		One	Objectives: Produce at least 1750 sun Don't let the zombies trample the flowers	Pirate Seas Piñata
20	Choice with		One	Objectives: Produce at least 1000 sun	Money bag
21	Choice		Two	Objectives: Defeat 5 zombies in 5 seconds Produce at least 2500 sun	Extra Seed Slot
22	Choice		One	Last Stand level	Money bag
23	Choice		One	Objectives: Defeat 8 zombies in 10 seconds Don't let the zombies trample the flowers	Pirate Seas Piñata
24	Choice		Two	Save Our Seeds level
25			None	Boss battle	Pirate Seas Trophy, Wild West key

*Prizes that are not money bags are unlocked only first time.

Epic Quest: Pirate Seas Skirmish!

Play extra hard Pirate Seas levels 26-35 to win a rich bounty of gems!

Since the 7.4.1 update, this limited-time Epic Quest of 10 steps was added. It uses Pirate Seas days 26 to 35 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 (28-35) and gives 80 gems.

Step	Plants	Zombies	Flags	Notes
1	Choice		Four
2			Three	Special Delivery level. Objectives: Survive a massive attack in Pirate Seas Survive without planting on Dave's mold colonies
3	Choice without		Two	Objectives: Spend no more than 2250 sun Never have more than 15 plants
4			Two	Locked and Loaded level. Objective: Defeat 20 zombies in 8 seconds
5	Choice		Two
6*	Choice		One	Last Stand level. Objective: Don't let the zombies trample the flowers
7*			Three	Special Delivery and Save Our Seeds level.
8*	Choice		Two
9*	Choice without most sun-producing or free plants		One	Last Stand level. Objective: Don't lose more than 1 plant
10*			None	Boss battle

*No lawn mowers present.

Brain Busters

Cannons Away

Main article: Cannons Away

Cannons Away is an exclusive Brain Busters for Pirate Seas. The objective for this game is to beat the target score by shooting the Seagull Zombies using the Coconut Cannons. Failure to do so will force the player to retry the level.

Locked and Loaded

Main article: Locked and Loaded

In this Brain Busters, the player is required to finish the level with the plants given to survive the zombies attack.

Save Our Seeds

Main article: Save Our Seeds

In this Brain Busters, the player has to protect the endangered Spring Beans and survive a horde of zombies at the same time. Otherwise, the player will have to start over again.

Last Stand

Main article: Last Stand (PvZ2)

The player must plan their defenses carefully and must survive an intense zombie incursion. However, if the player is smart enough to formulate a good strategy, he or she can win this Brain Buster.

Dead Man's Booty

Main article: Dead Man's Booty

Dead Man's Booty is Pirate Seas' Endless Zone. The player can practice their skills in surviving level after endless levels of extremely big hordes of zombies. This is also a great way to practice how long the player can survive in extreme hordes of Gargantuars that will appear. The numbers and positions of planks are randomised for each level

Zombot Plank Walker

Main article: Zombot Plank Walker

The Zombot Plank Walker is the boss of Pirate Seas. It can summon any Pirate Seas Zombie except Seagull Zombie, Flag Pirate Zombie, Swashbuckler Zombie, and Imp Cannon. It has two attacks: the first causes the Zombot's "eye" to pull back and reveal a cannon that fires five Imp Pirate Zombies. The second attack causes the Zombot to retreat a short distance, then charge forward destroying both plants and zombies in a two-column range unless stopped with Plant Food.

Related achievements

	Yarr, Matey Unleash the Pirate Gargantuar

	Pirate Booty Complete the Pirate Seas

Gallery

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Walkthrough

See Pirate Seas/Walkthrough.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Pirate Seas
French	Mers pirates
German	Die Piratensee
Italian	Mari dei pirati
Brazilian Portuguese	Mar dos Piratas
Spanish	Mares piratas

Trivia

• Flying plants cannot be placed on plankless tiles, despite apparently being unconnected to the ground.
• Zombies in this world have a very large vocabulary as they tend to say things like "landlubber", "scurvy brains", "brains ahoy", "scallywag", and more pirate catchphrases.
• The music in this world is based off popular representations of pirate music, including sea shanties. The music in this world is considerably drier than in other worlds.
  • The Ultimate Battle version of this world was later reused for many other worlds; mainly Wild West and Dark Ages.
  • Many instruments lack considerable reverb, only adding up to the dry quality of the songs. Ironically, the world is directly based on the sea, which is anything but dry.
  • The instruments from this world borrowed for Modern Day's sound palette were the accordion, Pizzicato strings, harmonica and the bottle blowing. The accordion is sometimes swapped in for Jurassic Marsh's in Modern Day due to their similar tone. The temple blocks are reused in the Demonstration Minigame and Ultimate Battle. The bodhrán is also reused in the Ultimate Battle.
  • The clarinet and bodhrán in this world is later reused in Dark Ages (in the First Wave and the Ultimate Battle for the clarinet, almost every song for the latter), while the double bass in both its Mid Wave themes are used some of the Minigame themes of Dark Ages, Frostbite Caves and Lost City. The harmonicas and temple blocks are also reused in Wild West's music. The temple blocks are reused in many of the Demonstration Minigames and Ultimate Battles along with the bodhrán in many of the Ultimate Battles.
• The victory music for this world mixes the Pirate Seas victory music and, since the Neon Mixtape Tour update, the Neon Mixtape Tour victory music. This glitch has been fixed since the Neon Mixtape Tour Side B update.
• All the zombies in this world have gold teeth except for the Gargantuar Pirate and the Zombie Parrot.
• If the player looks closely, the zombie ship has a skull with a pan on it, which resembles Crazy Dave's appearance. This is similar to how the Sphinx (located on the right of Ancient Egypt's lawn), Pharaoh Zombie's sarcophagus, and the statue on Lost City's lawn (located on the left side) have Crazy Dave's face on them, as well as coins.
• On the world map, a shark's fin can be seen by the Gargantuar statue as a reference to the Gargantuar Pirate's hand-held weapon (a shark). However, he isn't holding it directly.
• The Golden Age of Zombie Piracy is a reference to the Golden Age of Piracy.
• This world, Dark Ages, Sky City, and Renaissance Age are the only worlds to have animated backgrounds.
• This world's surprise attack was not added until the 1.7 update.
• The weather in this world is cloudy.
• The water areas actually deal extreme damage to zombies, replacing their death animation with a splash. This is evident if the player somehow removes the planks in Zombot Plank Walker's battle, and the Zombot will constantly take massive damage while creating multiple splashes, as it is not supposed to drown in the first place due to health mechanics that stop zomboss from taking damage when switching phases. Modded Zombies with negative health from integer overflow can also easily survive it, but may cause framerate drops.
• This world has the most plants the player can unlock, that being 8 plants.
• Inzanity Epic Quest levels of this world can also spawn entirely plankless levels. In the case where Imp Cannons, Seagull Zombies, and Swashbuckler Zombies are absent, the player effectively wins the level as everything that spawns drowns immediately.
• This world has the most ways Imps can be spawned. Specifically, from Barrel Roller Zombie, Zombot Plank Walker, Imp Cannon, thrown by a Gargantuar Pirate, and spawning normally from the right.
• The stairs at the top of the background are much larger than a regular zombie.
• There is a glitch where the player can plant any plants on water and planks by tapping on the seed packet, then moving the finger to water or planks, holding until all the zombies die. This causes the plant to be planted on water.
  • In addition, a little splash sound can be heard when planting on water.
  • The player can use this glitch to plant underground plants (e.g. Potato Mine, Celery Stalker, etc.) on planks.
• There is unused music for this world composed by Laura Shigihara, it can be heard in a Crazy Dave Transmission on YouTube. Due to high demand, the track was later released through Shigihara's official Youtube channel.
• One of the voice clips for the zombies is recycled from Plants vs. Zombies Adventures.
• Ancient Egypt, Pirate Seas, Wild West, and Modern Day are the only worlds that did not change their positions on the world map after 5.3.1 update.
• If the player tries to play on water tiles, the message "You can't plant there" will display, similar to if trying to plant a Potato Mine on the pool tiles not occupied by Lily Pads or an aquatic plant on the remains of a Lily Pad in the first game.