Star (item)

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This article is about content available solely in the People's Republic of China.

For other uses, see star (disambiguation).

“	Awesome! I've always wanted to eat one of those. Wait... that's not a starfish. It's an actual star. Ugh, you can have it.	”
—Crazy Dave

Star (item)
Statistics
Type	Progression item
Cost/Obtained	Completing objectives
Use	Unlocking plants and levels

Stars are items collected from levels or Brain Busters in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars and Plants vs. Zombies Online. In Plants vs. Zombies Online and previous versions of the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, they can be collected by playing star challenges with specific objectives to differentiate the level. Since the 1.8.0 update of the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, a star is now obtained by beating the level in Normal Mode, and the other two stars are rewarded for beating it in Hard Mode (with the exception of Ancient Egypt). Beating a boss level will reward the player all three stars (or one star in Ancient Egypt).

Stars were formerly in the international version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 as well, but they were removed in the 1.7 update. Because of how Plants vs. Zombies 2 used to work, stars were necessary for traveling to other worlds and obtain certain achievements. Star gates were unlocked after beating the final level of a world, then the player needed 15 stars to continue into Pirate Seas and another 15 (or 30 in earlier versions) stars to Wild West. They were replaced by World Keys and completed levels in the 1.7 update.

A star on a level

In the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, stars are only used for unlocking certain plants in Plant Exchange, as World Keys are also in this version. However, as of the 1.8.0 update, their original purpose has returned while still keeping the option to unlock plants.

Plant and upgrade unlocks

Stars	Plant / World	Bonus / World	Seed slots	Starting sun	Shoveling sun return	Plant food capacity
0			5	50	0%	3
3		Extra Seed Slot	6
4	Level 2 Peashooter
5	Level 2 Sunflower
8	Level 2 Wall-nut
10		Sun Boost		75
15	Level 1 Torchwood
20		Extra Seed Slot	7
25		Shovel Boost			12.5%
30	Level 1 Bonk Choy
35		Sun Boost		100
40	Level 1 Homing Thistle
45	Level 1 Power Lily
50		Plant Food Boost				4
55	Level 1 Lava Guava
60		Extra Seed Slot	8
65		Shovel Boost			25%
75	Level 1 Infi-nut
80		Wall-nut First Aid
85	Level 1 Asparagus
90		Sun Boost		125
95	Level 1 Hypno-shroom
100	Level 1 Pepper-pult
115	Level 2 Torchwood
120		Shovel Boost			37.5%
130	Level 2 Bonk Choy
150	Level 2 Lava Guava
160		Sun Boost		150
170		Plant Food Boost				5
180	Level 2 Infi-nut
190		Shovel Boost			50%
200	7th world unlockable	Bonus Upgrade Complete 8 Seed Slots 150 Starting Sun 50% Shoveling Sun Return Maximum 5 Plant Food
210	Level 2 Asparagus
220	Level 2 Hypno-shroom
230	Level 2 Pepper-pult
240	Level 2 Homing Thistle
250	Level 3 Torchwood
260	8th world unlockable
270	Level 3 Bonk Choy
280	Level 3 Lava Guava
290	Level 3 Infi-nut
300	Level 3 Asparagus
310	Level 3 Hypno-shroom
320	9th world unlockable
330	Level 3 Pepper-pult
350	Level 3 Homing Thistle
370	Level 1 Gold Bloom
380	10th world unlockable
390	Level 1 Peach
410	Torchwood Costume
430	Level 1 Garlic
440	11th world unlockable
450	Bonk Choy Costume
470	Level 1 Primal Potato Mine
490	Level 2 Peach
500	12th world unlockable
510	Infi-nut Costume
540	Level 2 Garlic
570	Asparagus Costume
600	Level 1 Caulipower
630	Hypno-shroom Costume
660	Pepper-pult Costume
700	Level 2 Primal Potato Mine
730	Homing Thistle Costume
770	Level 2 Caulipower
800	Level 3 Peach
840	Level 3 Garlic
870	Level 3 Primal Potato Mine
910	Level 3 Caulipower
940	Peach Costume
970	Garlic Costume
1000	Primal Potato Mine Costume
1050	Caulipower Costume

Pre 1.8.0 (Archived content)

Before 1.8.0, the star unlock system was split into multiple sections per world, with stars from a world counting towards its specific section. Each section had 4 plants (except for Frostbite Caves, which only had 3).

World	Plants
Ancient Egypt	Iceberg Lettuce 1 Star	Bloomerang 10 Stars	Twin Sunflower 20 Stars	Bonk Choy 40 Stars
Pirate Seas	Spring Bean 5 Stars	Spikeweed 10 Stars	Snapdragon 20 Stars	Power Lily 38 Stars
Wild West	Squash 5 Stars	Chili Bean 10 Stars	Split Pea 20 Stars	Jalapeno 38 Stars
Kongfu World	Resistant Radish 5 Stars	Peach 30 Stars	Fire Gourd 55 Stars	Coconut Cannon 77 Stars
Far Future	Infi-nut 10 Stars	Magnifying Grass 40 Stars	Tile Turnip 60 Stars	Laser Bean 78 Stars
Dark Ages	Puff-shroom 10 Stars	Sun Bean 20 Stars	Magnet-shroom 50 Stars	Hypno-shroom 79 Stars
Big Wave Beach	Tangle Kelp 20 Stars	Homing Thistle 40 Stars	Bowling Bulb 60 Stars	Acidic Lemon 83 Stars
Frostbite Caves	Stunion 15 Stars	Hurrikale 30 Stars	Chard Guard 66 Stars
Sky City	Groundcherry 10 Stars	Asparagus 20 Stars	Saucer 40 Stars	Pineapple 67 Stars
Lost City	Stallia 10 Stars	Red Stinger 20 Stars	Toadstool 40 Stars	Lava Guava 56 Stars

List of star challenge types (Archived content)

• Defeat X zombies in Y seconds
• Don't let the zombies trample the flowers
• Don't lose more than X plant(s)
• Don't plant on Dave's mold colonies
• Don't spend any sun for X seconds
• Never have more than X plants
• Produce at least X sun
• Spend no more than X sun
• Don't lose any lawn mowers
• Survive without using Plant Food.
• Survive a massive attack in the (current time period)*
• Plan your defense and defeat the zombies*
• Survive the attack with the given plants*
• Survive and protect the endangered plants*
• Don't use Plant Food
• Plant up to X plant(s)

*Special objectives used only in bonus levels

Gallery

Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version)

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  A level menu that has stars for Normal Mode and unobtained stars for Hard Mode

Pre 1.8.0  (Archived content)

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  World key in a jar and stars (unlocks star challenges for this world)

Plants vs. Zombies 2 (international version) (Archived content)

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  A completed level and an earned star

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  Attempting to get a star

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  The player got all three stars

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  The player got a star

Plants vs. Zombies Online (Archived content)

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  Star counter

Trivia

• Since these no longer exist in version 1.7 or newer versions of Plants vs. Zombies 2, when the player updates to that version and goes to their saved game, they will receive plant costumes or 3500 coins depending on how much stars and costumes in exchange for all their stars.
  • The same thing happens on their total amount of keys of all areas, except they are exchanged for only coins.
• Despite existing in the game's files and being fully functional (with the former even having an updated icon), both Instant Recharge and Mower Launch aren't given via the Star Exchange.