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Anyone who’s played Frontierville for any length of time has come across plenty of varmints, those pesky critters that show up and cause trouble on your homestead. Whether it’s bears, snakes, or groundhogs, these guys appear and cause problems until you clobber them and drive them away. When you’re just getting started in Frontierville, clobbering varmints is a fun and entertaining activity. But later in the game, varmints are more of a nuisance than anything. They get in the way of what you’re doing and they cost precious energy to clobber and get rid of.

But here’s a neat trick. Varmints stay put until you clobber them, and they even remain after you log out. The really neat part is that only one varmint of each type will appear on your homestead at one time. So rather than drive off the varmints, keep them out of the way somewhere on your homestead, such as a corner. They’ll stay there peacefully and you can go about more important business.

Control your varmint problem by keeping, rather than clobbering them.

Ah the lowly but reliable Peashooter in Plants vs. Zombies. This is your basic offensive ranged weapon in the game. It shoots a single pea at a time at the zombies doing normal damage. One key advantage early on is that it only costs 100 sun to plant and it has a fast recharge time. In the first few stages of the game, you’ll be planting a lot of these. However, as the game progresses and you start fighting tougher zombies, you’ll probably leave the Peashooter behind for the more advanced weapons in your seed packet collection.

Here’s the official background on the Peashooter from the game:

How can a single plant grow and shoot so many peas so quickly? Peashooter says, “Hard work, commitment, and a healthy, well-balanced breakfast of sunlight and high-fiber carbon dioxide make it all possible.”

One of my favorite plants in Plants vs. Zombies is the Chomper Plant. This guy isn’t the best overall plant, but he’s one of the most fun ones. Basically, he is a single kill plant that eats up zombies whole. He can kill any zombie except the Gargantuar and Dr. Zomboss (the big boss at the very end). Anything else is lunch. The chomper can even eat zombies from a full square away, meaning that you can set up a Chomper behind a Wall-nut or Tall-nut and it will gobble up from a safe distance.

The really important thing to know about the Chomper, though, is that while it’s chewing and devouring a zombie it is very vulnerable. The Chomper needs about 45 seconds to fully eat a zombie so during that time it’s ineffective. You’ll really need to protect Chompers while they chew. A common technique is to place your Chompers behind a row of Wall-nuts. They’ll eat the first zombies that approach the Wall-nut line and then will have enough time to finish their snack and eat again. Of course, Chompers aren’t enough of a defense by themselves, but they are great for taking out the tougher zombies like the Bucketheads and the Pole Vaulting Zombies.

Slot Machine is a mini-game available early on in the Plants vs. Zombies game. The concept is very simple. Instead of picking plants at the beginning, you win them by spinning a slot machine wheel at the top of the screen. Click on the red lever to spin the wheel. Each spin costs 25 sun and you win different plants and other bonuses as prizes. When you win the items, you can place them on the playing field to defend against the oncoming zombies.

Spin the lucky wheel to earn plants to defeat the Zombies.

The game is played on a standard daytime map, and you’ll be defending against regular zomibes, Bucketheads and Coneheads. You can win regular peashooters, snow peas, wall-nuts, and sunflowers as prizes. On some spins, you can win bonus sun. The game continues playing until you earn 2,000 sun and then you’ve won the game. Overall, this mini-game is very easy to play. The only real strategy is to keep on spinning!

Wall-nut bowling is a fun mini-game in Plants vs. Zombies that plays a little differently than most of the game. You were first introduced to this game in stage 1 of Adventure Mode, but this mini-game is considerably tougher to beat. In Wall-nut Bowling, you roll different types of Wall-nuts at an oncoming wave of Zombies. The Wall-nuts are your only weapon. This game is all about timing and understanding the critical importance of rebounds. Your success will largely depend on how good you are at using the Wall-nut rebounds to take out several zombies at a time.

Knock lots of Zombies over in Wall-nut Bowling.

Here’s a look at the different zombies you’ll face in this mini-game. There are a bunch of them!

• Zombie
• Flag Zombie
• Conehead Zombie
• Buckethead Zombie
• Newspaper Zombie
• Pole Vaulting Zombie

And you’ll have the following weapons to battle the onslaught.

• Wall-nut
• Exploding Wall-nut
• Lawnmowers (your last line of defense)

Basic Strategy

The Wall-nuts and Exploding Wall-nuts work just like bowling balls. Whenever they hit a zombie, they will bounce off that zombie at an angle and have the potential to hit other zombies until they reach the end of the screen. Use this to your advantage: a little patience is worthwhile here. You can let a zombie approach until there are other zombies behind it in other lanes and then attempt to take out several with one shot.

Regular zombies will die on one hit, but Coneheads, Bucketheads, and Newspaper zombies require multiple hits to kill. Pole vaulting zombies will jump over the first Wall-nut that crosses their path, but after that they are vulnerable.

Whenever you hit multiple zombies with a single Wall-nut, you can get coins. In fact, the number of coins you get grows quickly with multiple hits on one throw:

• Hit one zombie: zero coins
• Hit two zombies: one silver coin
• Hit three zombies: two silver coins
• Hit four zombies: three silver coins
• Hit five zombies: gold coin and Roll Some Heads Achievement

Once you get the hang of things, you can use this mini-game as a great way to rapidly earn coins. In fact, it makes sense to play this mini-game several times over once you unlock the mini-games and use it to earn enough coins to get some of the key items from Crazy Dave’s Shop.

Here are a few tips and tricks to keep in mind. First, remember that when you roll a Wall-nut down the middle, it’s rebound direction is random. But when you roll it on the top or bottom row, it will always rebound down or up, respectively. And they always reverse direction on subsequent hits, following a zig-zag pattern. This is really important to keep in mind when you’re trying to hit four or five zombies in a row. Finally, don’t forget that you have the lawnmowers as your last line of defense. Don’t be afraid to use them, especially in the later stages of the mini-game when you have a lot of zombies coming at you in a single lane. Of course once you use one, you must protect that lane at all costs.

Wall-nut bowling is a fun mini-game and a great diversion for a little break. Plus, it’s a fantastic way to earn coins early on. Have fun with it!

Plants vs. Zombies is a fun and challenging variation on the concept of a tower defense game, but with a novel premise. In this game, Zombies are attacking your yard, attempting to get inside your house to eat your brains. You use the plants to defend your yard. Each of your plants has special powers, which match up against the different types of zombies you will face.

The main part of the game is the Adventure Mode, which is a series of many levels that progress through different settings, beginning in the daytime and going through night, fog, and even attacks on your backyard and roof. In addition to the main Adventure Mode, there are several entertaining mini-games and even a very difficult survival mode.

Beginners should have no problem starting the game, as it features very simple tutorials to teach you all of the basics. Even if you’ve never played a tower defense style game before, you’ll be up to speed very quickly. Although the tutorial shows you how to play, it doesn’t provide much in the way of strategy, so here are some tips and tricks that will help you play better in the game.

Collect Sun

Your primary currency in the game is the sun that you collect. Although you can catch sun as it falls in the daytime, your main source will come from sunflowers that you plant in your garden. A common mistake is to not plant enough sunflowers early on. When the action gets thick towards the end of each stage, you’ll want to have a steady stream of sun pouring in.

A basic defense in Plants vs. Zombies

As a general rule, you’ll want to plant at least 3-4 sun along the back row before you plant anything else. The first zombies that attack in each stage are weak and slow, so you don’t need to attach them right away. Use your cheaper one-shot defenses whenever you can and concentrate on building up at least two rows of sunflowers on the left side of your garden to provide you with a steady stream of sun.

Use the Rake

Once you get through the first few levels of Adventure Mode, you’ll have the chance to visit Dave’s Shop. One of the first things you should buy there is the Rake, which only costs $200. It lasts for three stages, and you should keep replenishing it. What it does is automatically kill the first zombie? Why is this so important? Well, it buys you precious additional time at the beginning of each stage, allowing you to plant more sunflowers instead of having to spend your sun on defenses right away. Using the rake, you can get a solid 4-5 sunflowers planted before having to spend any time or sun on anything else. This helps you establish a great foundation for later in the stage.

Who left that lying there? The rake takes out the first Zombie in the stage.

Be Patient at the Beginning

A common mistake that beginners make in the game is to build up their expensive defenses too quickly. Remember that above all else, zombies are slow. Use this to your advantage in the early part of each stage and focus on planting your sun-generating plants first. Instead of spending 100 sun or more on pea-shooters, try using the Potato Mine or the Puff-shroom plants early on for defense. The Potato Mine only costs 25 coins and it can be planted near your sunflowers. By the time the zombie makes it all the way across the lawn, the mine will be armed. At night time, the puff-shrooms are a great early defense because they don’t cost anything to plant.

Patience is a virtue in the early stages of the game. Here a Potato Mine awaits its victim.

ZomBotany is one of the first mini-games you can play in Plants vs. Zombies. It’s got an interesting twist: the zombies that are attacking you have been turned into zombie-plant hybrids. You’ll face off against both Peashooter Zombies and Wall-nut Zombies who attack you. The mini-game is set in a normal daytime level, but your strategy will need to be a little different because the enemy has a ranged attack.

The final wave of ZomBotany in Plants vs. Zombies.

The Strategy

The basic plan should be to build up a few rows of sunflowers in the back. You’ll definitely want to quickly build a row of Wall-nuts to defend the right side. These can absorb most of the attacks coming from the Zombie Peashooters and will hold off the Wall-nut Zombies too. The key here is to always protect your sunflowers and peashooters so that they don’t get destroyed. When picking your plants, try to include some instant-kill options like the Squash and the Cherry Bomb. If you’re doing this mini-game in the later levels, you’ll probably have a few more plants to choose from, like catapult plants. These will be really helpful once you’ve got your Wall-nut barriers in place. If you’re playing this mini-game in the earlier levels, then using a row of Chompers behind your Wall-nuts can be very effective as well.

Keyboard Cheat Codes for Plants vs. Zombies

You can use any of these codes at any time during the game while playing Plants vs. Zombies. Some of the codes will require that your Tree of Wisdom has reached a certain height before you can use them.

It’s holiday time in Frontierville and there’s a new quest to help you celebrate Independence Day here in the United States. The new Fireworks quest series will give you some great new rare items, but you have to start by making some fireworks. And to get those fireworks, you’ll need two items: fire and saltpeter. Of the two, fire is the easiest. If you’ve been playing the game for a while, you probably already have all you need. Saltpeter is a little more difficult, and well, icky to get.

The key is completing your Manure collection. Every once in a while, you get manure drops from animals on your frontier as you feed them. When you collect enough manure from several different animals, you’ll be able to turn in the collection for Saltpeter, which can then be used to craft fireworks for the quest. The challenge is getting enough manure. You’ll need to complete the following for each Saltpeter:

• Poultry Puddin – Collect from geese and chickens
• Piggy Poop – Collect from pigs
• Brush Brownie – Collect from sheep and goats
• Prairie Pile – Collect from horses and mules
• Meadow Muffin – Collect from cows and oxen

In addition to feeding and farming your own animals, try tending to your neighbor’s animals to increase the manure drops. Collecting enough to make all the fireworks you’ll need is going to take some time, so roll up your sleeves and get to it!

Energy is a very important concept in FrontierVille. Most everything you can do in the game, such as clearing land, constructing buildings, and tending to your animals, is metered by available energy. Generally, every action you take requires one unit of energy. When you run out of energy, you either need to wait for your energy pool to replenish itself over time, or do certain things, such as eating meals or purchasing energy refills, to get it back.

The good news is that energy replenishes itself over time. The bad news is that it grows slowly. When FrontierVille first launched, you would earn back one unit of energy every three minutes. Now that the creators of the game have done some re-balancing, it now takes five minutes for each energy point to accumulate. When you’re just starting out and don’t have very much energy to begin with, you’ll only need to wait about an hour or less for your energy to get back to full.

If you don’t want to wait, there are a few things you can do to restore some or part of your energy. Here are some basic energy cheats — tips and tricks to get energy back quickly in FrontierVille.

Eat Meals

You can trade in the food you accumulate in the game for meals, which instantly transform into energy. The simplest meal, the Light Snack, restores 3 energy points and only costs 32 food to create. It used to cost just 25 food, but again, the creators have been busy rebalancing the game. You can spend most food points to create larger meals, such as Breakfast, Lunch, or even the 7-course meal, to restore even more food. One item, the All You Can Eat, instantly restores all of your energy. But this item costs 10 horseshoes (FrontierVille’s for-pay currency) and is really designed for players at much higher levels in the game.

Friends

There are two basic ways to use your friends to get more energy. The first is simply by visiting them. Each time you visit one of your friends each day, you get a small amount of your energy restored. You can also get energy from friends through gifts of meals. If you’re constantly running low on your energy bar, ask your friends to send you the meals as gifts. If you’re able to build up a lot of FrontierVille friends who remember to send gifts to you regularly, you can keep your energy ball pretty high.

Working the Land

Each time you do something on your Frontier, you get small pick-up rewards that you click on such as XP, coins and food. Sometimes, you’ll get lucky and get a blue lightning bolt, which restores energy as well.

Level Up

Every time you get enough XP to reach a new level, your energy bar will restore to 100%. Knowing this is one of the more important cheats because you don’t want to waste your other energy boosts if you’re about to level up. It’s a really good technique to count up the XP left to level when you get close and plan out your energy usage accordingly. Ideally you want to almost run out of energy right before you level up so that you get as big of a free boost as possible.

Hopefully these tips will help you master one of the most important concepts in the game. Happy homesteading!