Roof

Roof
The fifth area in Plants vs. Zombies
19 levels - Unlocked by beating Level 4-10

Roof
Game	Plants vs. Zombies
Number of levels	19 (9 Adventure Mode, 2 Mini-games, 2 Canceled mini-games, 1 Puzzle Mode, 3 Survival Mode, 2 Co-op Mode)
New plants
New zombies
To unlock	Beating Fog

The Roof, also known as Roof Battle in Plants vs. Zombies: Endless Edition, is the fifth area of Adventure Mode and takes place on top of the player's house.

It consists of a 5x5 sloped side at the back and a 4x5 straight side in front with a satellite dish on the zombie side and a chimney on the player's side where the zombies enter when you let one enters the house.

Audio

Sound	Description
	Roof stage soundtrack

Environment modifiers

Repeater cannot shoot peas over the angle (the pea has been blocked)

Straight shooting plants (Peashooters, Starfruits, etc.) will not be able to hit zombies if planted on the sloping side (although they can fire over the edge when planted on the first sloped column next to the straight columns), so the player will need to use lobbed-shot plants for this stage (the player can use Fume-shrooms too, but the need of waking them up using Coffee Bean and their short-range may prevent the player from using them much).

Plants also need Flower Pots to place plants on the roof due to the fact that the roof is not made of soil thus making the roof's surface unplantable (same goes for its night counterpart). Because it takes place during the day, sun falls from the sky during this stage, and mushrooms fall asleep.

There are no Lawn Mowers, so until Roof Cleaners are purchased from Crazy Dave, the player's last line of defense is their leftmost plants.

Column Like You See 'Em - a mini-game that takes place on the roof.

This area also has "ambush zombies", which are actually Zombies (or Conehead Zombies and Buckethead Zombies) that are dropped by Bungee Zombies onto the roof, possibly into the player's defenses, although they can be repulsed by Umbrella Leaves. This is similar to the zombies that surface from the Pool and the zombies that come out of graves. Overall, this is the hardest area of the game to overcome.

New plants

The plants added to this level are specially made to fit the roof. For example, due to the slope of the roof, catapult plants must be used. These include the Cabbage-pult, Kernel-pult, and Melon-pult, which are all lobber plants.

These plants are essential to roof levels, because of the slope of the roof blocking all straight-shot projectiles. Flower Pots are also essential for planting on the roof because plants can't be planted on the roof without them. The other plants added in the roof stage are Coffee Beans, Garlics, Umbrella Leaves, and Marigolds.

New zombies

• Bungee Zombie
• Ladder Zombie
• Catapult Zombie
• Gargantuar
• Imp

List of levels

Adventure Mode

Level	Plants	Zombies	Flags
5-1	Choice		One
5-2	Choice		Two
5-3	Choice	*	Two
5-4	Choice	*	Three
5-5		*	Two
5-6	Choice	*	Two
5-7	Choice		Three
5-8	Choice	* Summoned:	Two
5-9	Choice	Summoned:	Three

Mini-games

Level	Plants	Zombies	Flags
Column Like You See 'Em		* Summoned:	Three
Pogo Party	Choice	*	Three

Canceled mini-games

Level	Plants	Zombies	Flags
High Gravity	Choice	*	Two
Bungee Blitz		*	Three

Puzzle Mode

Level	Plants	Zombies	Flags
Last Stand: Roof		Summoned:	Five

Survival Mode

Level	Zombies	Flags
Survival: Roof	Console:	Five
Survival: Roof (Hard)	Summoned: Console:	Ten
Survival: Roof (Endless)	Summoned:	Infinite

Co-op Mode

Level	Zombies	Flags
Co-op Roof	Summoned:	Three
Co-op Hard Roof	Summoned:	Ten

* - Only appears in the final wave. ^ - Console version only.

Plants vs. Zombies: Endless Edition exclusive (Archived content) (China only)

In addition to the pre-existing nine stages, there were three bonus stages exclusive to Plants vs. Zombies: Endless Edition. They all had an objective to complete. They required gems to be unlocked or specific fully grown plants in the Zen Garden.

Level	Plants	Zombies	Flags	Objective
5-11	Choice with		Four	Don't spend any sun in 45 seconds
5-12	Choice with	Summoned:	Three	Produce at least 3500 sun
5-13	Choice with	Summoned:	Four	Never have more than 30 plants

Related achievement

	Grounded Defeat a normal Roof level without using any Catapult Plants.

Gallery

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  The Roof stage

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Roof
Simplified Chinese	屋顶
French	Toit
German	Dach
Italian	Tetto
Japanese	屋根
Spanish	Tejado

Trivia

• On the Xbox Live Arcade version, the player can see a large telephone pole in front of the roof. It does not appear in Night Roof due to the visibility of Dr. Zomboss.
• Crazy Dave and Cabbage-pult do not know how the zombies got on the roof in the first place, but at the beginning of roof levels, the player can see a ladder at the right that may have helped them.
  • Some versions of Plants vs. Zombies do not have a ladder.
• When the level is being represented, the words on the screen will say "[The player's name]'s Roof!" with an exclamation point at the end.
• The music played on the Roof is called "Graze the Roof", a pun on the phrase "raise the roof".
  • The song also sounds like Grasswalk (the Day theme) when it starts playing.
  • In Plants vs. Zombies 2, the theme for the third wave of Modern Day is a remix of Graze the Roof.
• Fume-shrooms and Gloom-shrooms are the only non-lobbed-shot plants that can shoot up the slope of the roof.
• In the Xbox 360 trailer, it is said that the roof has Spanish tiles.
• It appears that the roof has flowers and weeds right after the slant. These flowers and such are not sentient unlike other plants in the series.
• On the Android and iPad versions of the game, there is a hole on the side of the chimney that the zombies walk through, instead of dropping down it.
• In newer iPad versions, the clouds in the background are shaped like brains.
  • The same clouds appear in Stop Zombie Mouth!, where an Imp flies with a tube of toothpaste.
• This area is the only area to not have its Bonus level as a mini-game or a Puzzle.
  • However, by looking at the Limbo Page, you can see that it was a cancelled mini-game, called Bungee Blitz.
• Obviously, the reason that the Digger Zombie and Dancing Zombie will not appear on this area is there is no soil. However, they did appear in Co-op Roof.
• Just like with Fog, the mobile version does not skip the intro when the music loops like other versions do.

See also

• Night Roof
• Adventure Mode