Survival: Day/Strategies

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This is a strategy page about Survival: Day. Feel free to add your strategies, but see the rules page first.

Note

This level of Survival Mode is quite easy. Players can use a lot of plants that they rely on in normal day levels, because this level is only slightly longer than most of them. However, a good plant to use to stop Buckethead Zombies, Screen Door Zombies, and Football Zombies are Magnet-shrooms with Coffee Beans.

Gatling Twins

This strategy is quite simple and easy.

Plants needed:

Wave 1
Plant two Sunflowers in the first and second columns. When the first zombie appears, players won't have enough sun to get a Repeater, so plant a Potato Mine in the third column. Collect enough sun to buy a Repeater. When the second zombie appears, place the Repeater in the third column in the same lane as the zombie. Place two Sunflowers behind it. When the third zombie appears, plant another Potato Mine. When the fourth zombie appears, plant another Repeater. Place two Sunflowers behind it. Plant three more Repeaters, and place Sunflowers behind them. If you have enough sun for one, plant a Gatling Pea on a Repeater. Plant a Twin Sunflower on any Sunflower as soon as possible.

Wave 2
Plant more Twin Sunflowers. When the first Buckethead appears, add a Gatling Pea or a Torchwood on the fifth column to take it down. Upgrade all Repeaters to Gatling Peas as soon as possible. When finished, plant Torchwoods with Pumpkins in column five.

Wave 3
Plant another column of Repeaters in the fourth column. Keep planting Twin Sunflowers. When you have enough sun, add Gatling Peas to the new Repeaters. By the time this wave is complete, you may have all Twin Sunflower planted. If not, you will definitely get them by Wave 4.

Wave 4
Keep upgrading those Repeaters and Sunflowers.

Wave 5
Players should be set by now. There isn't much else to do except collect money and wait.

Gatling Melons

By Wintermelon43

Plants to bring:

SD-Strategy 3.png

Note that Snow Peas can be replaced with Melon-pults later on.

Gatling Torchwoods

By Jackninja5DipperGravityFalls

First flag

To start off, choose the following plants:

Do not choose Repeaters, as they are for the next flag. It is recommended to plant two columns of Sunflowers, but if you do not plant them in time, focus on planting Peashooters. Then plant Snow Peas for the Conehead Zombies. This is pretty easy and so your lawn should look like this:

Jackninja5SurvivalDayFlag1.png

If you don’t plant enough Sunflowers, don’t worry. Just plant them before the second flag.

Note: You can use Potato Mines, Squashes, or both if you do not have enough sun for Peashooters and Snow Peas.

Second flag

Choose these plants:

Continue planting Sunflowers until Screen Door Zombies or Newspaper Zombies arrive. You can also plant Repeaters whenever you want, but dig up the Peashooters first. Also, you might want to replace the Snow Peas with Torchwoods. Now your lawn should look like this:

Jackninja5SurvivalDayFlag2.png

Note: Plant Twin Sunflowers wherever you want on Sunflowers in all waves after this.

Third flag

Choose these plants:

Jackninja5SurvivalDayFlag3.png

By this point, Buckethead Zombies should be defeated easily. Try to keep planting Gatling Peas and Twin Sunflowers.

Fourth flag

Choose these plants:

Jackninja5SurvivalDayFlag4.png

Football Zombies should arrive, but they are not a threat if you have a Gatling Pea and a Torchwood combined. Continue to plant Twin Sunflower.

Final flag

Choose these plants:

Jackninja5SurvivalDayFlag5.png

You should need to plant more Twin Sunflowers at this point. Warning: It's hard to collect all of the sun.

The Peashooter strategy

This is a very simple strategy. You need Peashooters, Sunflowers, Torchwoods, Magnet-shrooms, Coffee Beans, and Pumpkins. Plants like Gold Magnets, Marigolds, and Twin Sunflowers are optional.

The complete strategy:

P=Peashooter, S=Sunflower, GM= Gold Magnet (optional), T=Torchwood, PT=Pumpkined Torchwood, M=Magnet-shroom, PM=Pumpkined Magnet-shroom, N=Nothing.

S  S   P  P  P  P PT PM N
S  S   P  P  P  P PT PM N
S  GM P  P  P  P PT PM N
S  S   P  P  P  P PT PM N
S  S   P  P  P  P PT PM N

Sunny Days and Flower Power

Use this strategy to get the Sunny Days achievement and Flower Power.

First flag
Plant Sunflowers in lanes 1,3,5 with two Garlics in front of each. Use Potato Mine for the zombies when earning sun for Gloom-shrooms. Upgrade some of the Sunflowers to Twin Sunflowers. This round should end with 500 to 1000 sun, or sometimes 2000 sun.

Ts S S S S S S G G
Ts S S S Fs Gs Gs G G
Ts S S S S S S G G

S - Sunflower
Ts - Twin Sunflower
Fs - Fume-shroom
Gs - Gloom-shroom
G - Garlic

Second flag
This round must end with 2000 to 3000 sun, or sometimes 4000 sun.

Ts Ts S S S S S G G
R Sn K Tn Sw Sw
Ts Ts S S Gs Gs Gs G G
R Sn K Tn Sw Sw
Ts Ts S S S S S G G

S - Sunflower
Ts - Twin Sunflower
R - Repeater
Sn - Snow Pea
K - Kernel-pult
Tn - Tall-nut
Sw - Spikeweed
Gs - Gloom-shroom
G - Garlic

Third flag
This round must end with at least 5000 sun.

Ts Ts Ts S S S S G G
M R Sn K Tn Sw Sw Sr Sr
Ts Ts Ts S Gs Gs Gs G G
M R Sn K Tn Sw Sw Sr Sr
Ts Ts Ts S S S S G G

M - Melon-pult
Sr - Spikerock

Fourth and fifth flags

By the fourth or fifth flag, you must have 8000 to 9990 sun to earn the Sunny Days achievement.

Ts Ts Ts Ts S S S G G
M R Sn K Tn Sr Sr Sr Sr
Ts Ts Ts Ts Gs Gs Gs G G
M R Sn K Tn Sr Sr Sr Sr
Ts Ts Ts Ts S S S G G

Eight slots, no upgrades

This a simple strategy that can be done with eight seed slots and no upgrade plants.

First flag
Choose these plants:

Plant three Sunflowers; then, when the first zombie arrives, kill it with a Potato Mine. Every time a zombie comes, plant a Repeater in that lane and continue planting Sunflowers until the back two columns are filled. Plant Torchwoods in the sixth column.

S S R Tw
S S R Tw
S S R Tw
S S R Tw
S S R Tw

S - Sunflower
R - Repeater
Tw - Torchwood

Second flag
Plant Repeaters in the fourth column and Tall-nuts in the seventh column.

S S R R Tw Tn
S S R R Tw Tn
S S R R Tw Tn
S S R R Tw Tn
S S R R Tw Tn

Tn - Tall-nut

Third round
Plant Spikeweeds in the empty spaces in front and place Pumpkins on the Tall-nuts.

S S R R Tw (Tn) Sw Sw
S S R R Tw (Tn) Sw Sw
S S R R Tw (Tn) Sw Sw
S S R R Tw (Tn) Sw Sw
S S R R Tw (Tn) Sw Sw

Sw - Spikeweed
() - Pumpkin

Fourth and fifth flags
Fill the empty spaces in the fifth column with Repeaters.

S S R R R Tw (Tn) Sw Sw
S S R R R Tw (Tn) Sw Sw
S S R R R Tw (Tn) Sw Sw
S S R R R Tw (Tn) Sw Sw
S S R R R Tw (Tn) Sw Sw

Gold farming strategy

This strategy will help players to earn at least 2500 coins.

Choose these plants:

  • Sunflower = S
  • Repeater = R
  • Gatling Pea = GP (not necessary)
  • Torchwood = Tw
  • Marigold =M
  • Garlic = G
  • Potato Mine
  • Any kind of Instant players like or Twin Sunflower.

First, plant a row of Sunflowers on the leftmost column, then use Potato Mine for the first zombies. Put two columns of Repeaters on the second and fourth rows, then Garlic on the first, third, and fifth rows. After that, plant Marigolds on the Garlic's row. Players lawn will look like this:

Note: / = empty space

Ts M M M M / / G G
S R R Tw / / / / /
Ts M M M M M / G G
S R R Tw / / / / /
Ts M M M M / / G G

Coins and Spikes Strategy

Plants needed:

  1. Sunflower=S
  2. Garlic=G
  3. Coffee Bean
  4. Doom-shroom
  5. Potato Mine
  6. Tall-Nut=T
  7. Marigold=M
  8. Spikeweed
  9. Spikerock=SS

Plant sunflowers in the entire top lane except the two front space for garlics. In that process, players will need to use potato mines to get rid of pesky zombies. Now, start planting Spikeweeds in lanes two and four (those will become Spikerocks). Put a tall-nut on the back of the Spikerocks. On the bottom lane, plant an entire lane of marigolds except the front one for two garlics. In the third lane, plant two garlics in front. The rest of the game is simple. In the third lane, use doom-shrooms to take out every zombie.

At wave two, exchange potato mines for cherry bomb. And exchange marigold for Imitated doom-shrooms.

At the end, the lawn should look like this:

S S S S S S S G G
T SS SS SS SS SS SS SS SS
G G
T SS SS SS SS SS SS SS SS
M M M M M M M G G

I Fell Into a Burning Ring of Fire!

Here is what the lawn should look like in the end:

S S S S S S S G G
GA GA GA GA RP T SW SW SW
S S S S S S S G G
GA GA GA GA RP T SW SW SW
S S S S S S S G G

Gloomie Coins!

This strategies is by Tegarcs142.

Require 9 Seed Slot. Rake is not needed

Plants to bring

First Round

  • Sunflower
  • Twin Sunflower
  • Coffee Bean
  • Fume-shroom
  • Gloom-shroom
  • Potato Mine
  • Garlic
  • Marigold
  • Imitater Marigold

Start off by planting 2 Sunflowers on 1st, 3rd, and 5th rows. When first zombie comes, use Potato Mine to kill it and continue build sunflower. After that keep collecting sun for Gloom-shroom. When second zombie comes, plant another Potato Mine to kill it until have enough sun. After that plant Fume-shroom in 7th column and 3rd row and upgrade it with Gloom-shroom and wake them up. Plant Garlics on 1st, 3rd, and 5th row. Now it's time to build Marigolds in rows with Garlic. If you want, upgarde Sunflower on 3rd row with Twin Sunflower. Remember that you need collect coins from Marigold, but you can plant Gold Magnet later round. At the end, it should like this

After flag 1.jpg

Second Round

  • Coffee Bean
  • Fume-shroom
  • Gloom-shroom
  • Garlic
  • Marigold
  • Imitater Marigold
  • Pumpkin
  • Spikeweed
  • Spikerock

In second round, plant Spikeweed and upgrade to Spikerock to deal with Buckethead Zombie and plant 2 more Gloom-shrooms. Plant 5 Marigolds on 2nd and 4th row and add Pumpkin and 5th column in that row where Marigold is there to deal with Football Zombie unless is not here. At the end it look like this

After Flag 2.jpg

Third Round onwards

  • Garlic
  • Pumpkin
  • Magnet-shroom
  • Gold Magnet
  • Spikerock
  • Anything else

on third round, if you see near-dead Garlic, quickly replace it with fresh ones and continue plant Spikerock and pumpkin if you encounter with Football Zombie. If you want to collect coins automatic, then replace sunflower on 1st and 5th row 1st column with Magnet-shroom and upgrade them with Gold Magnet but do not wake Magnet-shroom first. you can also remove sunflower on 2nd column in that row with another Marigold if you think you have enough sun to spare Garlics and Pumpkins.

After Flag 3.jpg

rest of 4th and 5th round is same until you win. This method can Rack up $9500 or more depending your luck. Don't forget your good eye for Garlic when you see near-dead Garlic to replace it with fresh ones.Finished.jpg

NOTE:

  • At 5th round sometimes may not include Dancing Zombie and Pole Vaulting Zombie. In the case, you can replace garlic with 3 marigolds at 1st, 3rd, and 5th row 8th column if you want.
  • There very rare chance that Zombie Yeti appear. If that case kill him quickly and block him using pumpkin if he try to run away and you get 4 diamonds ($4000). See screenshot below
Zombie Yeti appear










Zombie Yeti Killed and 4 diamonds for collected








Seeing More Stars

Remember how the starfruits in Seeing Stars took down everything they saw in an instant? Well, we can transfer that over to Survival Modes! This 'Strategy' is very simple, as it requires...spamming Starfruits! Let's get into it! For the first flag, you will need:

  • Sunflower
  • Twin Sunflower (Optional)
  • Starfruit
  • Puff Shroom
  • Imitater Puff Shroom (Optional)
  • Spikeweed
  • Spikerock
  • Pumpkin
  • Imitater Pumpkin (Optional, Imitater Puff Shroom is preferred for the first flag)
  • Potato Mine
  • Squash (Optional, can be used instead of Potato Mine but Potato Mine is preferred for the first flag)

First Flag

When the level starts, start stalling with Puff Shrooms and plant a row of Sunflowers. Kill the first few zombies with Potato Mines and Squashes (if you decided to bring them), until you start planting Starfruits. Keep on stalling with Puff Shrooms and placing Starfruits. If you brought them, start planting Twin Sunflowers as well.

Second Flag

For the second flag, you can get rid of your Sunflower seed packets and you can forgo Potato mine for another Insta-kill plant, Potato Mine will not be required from now on. You can also get rid of your puff shrooms, but I recommend you keep them, you don't need to get rid of them JUST yet. If you do decide to get rid of them, replace them with the Imitater Pumpkin and an insta-kill plant. You can also bring Tall-Nut. When the level starts, keep on planting Starfruits, finish off your twin sunflowers (if you got them). Make sure you stop planting Starfruits on the third lane from the right (or the fourth if you brought Tall nuts.) If there's time, start planting pumpkins over your third-lane-from-the-right Starfruits, or start planting Tall-Nuts in that spot if you stopped from fourth from the right.

Third Flag

For the third flag, you can now officially get rid of your Puff Shrooms! HOORAYYYYY!!!! oh and you can also get rid of your twinflowers if you got them all planted Moving on, now is when you'll start using spikeweeds and spikerocks. After finishing your Pumpkin defense, you can now plant Spikeweeds infront of them. Keep on using pumpkins for maintenance and start upgrading your spikeweeds.  That's...about it. Just keep planting pumpkins, sit back, enjoy the rest of the game.

1 Gloom-shroom only Strat

Only 1 gloom, 5 magnets and some Tall-nuts can win you this level

Plants Needed:

Ok start by getting out 2 rows of sunflowers, use your potato mines to stop the first 2 zombies, now you should have a Gloom-shroom, 5 tiles into lane 3. Put 2 garlics on tiles 5 and 6 and the top and bottom, and a garlic in front of your gloom-shroom. Place a pumpkin on the gloom-shroom, And 2 Tall nuts encased in pumpkins on spot 5 of lanes 2 and 4. By flags 2 and 3, Football and Screen Door zombies should show, plant 5 magnet-shrooms In Column 4. Now it’s finished! Sit back, relax and all you have to do is maintain the pumpkins and garlic


It works








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