Baa-shroom

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This creation was a submission to the Year of the Goat Contest!

Common Rare Baa-shroom Baa-shrooms become stronger after being fed. Almanac statistics Sun cost 100 Recharge Normal Damage Moderate Range Straight Special Leaves the tile in front of it unplantable for 60 seconds if fed In-game statistics Direct damage 20 OR 30 damage per shot Unlocked Beating Level 2-8: The Big Boys Baa-shroom is quite lazy, only using his full potential when there's food involved. Don’t blame him, though, most of them die easily anyway. Rare Baa-shroom Rare Baa-shrooms have a bigger appetite than Common Baa-shrooms. Almanac statistics Sun cost 150 Recharge Moderate Damage Heavy Range Straight Special Leaves the two tiles in front of it unplantable for 60 seconds if fed In-game statistics Direct damage 20 OR 50 damage per shot Unlocked 10 Rare Baa-shroom essence, 15 mushroom caps Rare Baa-shroom and Baa-shroom are always there for each other. If either one catches you insulting their brother's color palette, you'll never hear the end of it.

Baa-shroom is a plant in Plants vs Zombies: The Wacky House. He is unlocked after beating Level 2-8: The Big Boys. He shoots spores out of his cap, dealing 20 damage. If the player clicks on the Baa-shroom, it will eat the tile in front of it. This will leave the tile unplantable for 60 seconds, until it grows back.

Origins

Its name refers to its creation during the 2015 Year of the Goat contest, and its goat-like horns, and the fact that it is a mushroom.

Almanac entry

• Common
• Rare

	SUN COST 100 RECHARGE Normal - 7.5 TOUGHNESS Typical - 300 DAMAGE Moderate - 20 OR 30 RANGE Straight Baa-shrooms become stronger after being fed. Special: Leaves the tile in front of it unplantable for 60 seconds if fed Baa-shroom is quite lazy, only using his full potential when there's food involved. Don’t blame him, though, most of them die easily anyway.
Baa-shroom Unlocked in 2-8: The Big Boys
Lab Details ELEMENTS x1 (50% chance of 2)

	SUN COST 150 RECHARGE Moderate - 15 TOUGHNESS Typical - 300 DAMAGE 20 OR 50 RANGE Long - 4 tiles Rare Baa-shrooms attack weaker enemies with even more force and stronger enemies with less force. Special: Leaves the two tiles in front of it unplantable for 60 seconds if fed Rare Baa-shroom and Baa-shroom are always there for each other. If either one catches you insulting their brother's color palette, you'll never hear the end of it.
Rare Baa-shroom Conjured with 10 Rare Baa-shroom essence, x12
Lab Details ELEMENTS x1 (50% chance of 2)

Rare counterpart

Rare Baa-shroom is Baa-shroom's rare counterpart. Baa-shroom gains +30 damage when fed rather than +10. However, it has to eat two tiles in front of it rather than one. Rare Baa-shroom is a darker shade of red, and its cap is blue with purple splotches. Its eyes are bright red and open rather than closed, and its horns are curled into a "C" rather than an "S".

Strategies  (Free-Edit Section)

Baa-shrooms, in their baseline statistics, are essentially the same as Peashooters, although without any Torchwood synergy. However, it can deal 1.5x more damage if the player just sacrifices the tile in front of it. Although this may not seem like a big difference, it can go a long way in the long-run. Baa-shroom's long range means that the player has many options in where they wish to plant the Baa-shroom. Placing Baa-shrooms in the far back can give close-ranged plants the chance to be effective. However, as a result, this would push your Sunflowers more forward. If one wants to prioritize Sunflowers more, then Baa-shrooms could be placed in front of them.

Baa-shrooms can be handy in saving sun in nighttime areas. The tradeoff of getting rid of one tile for more fire power can seem less dangerous here, since the player has to fight on a small budget in these levels. They also generally just give a headstart to the defense's firepower.

In daytime areas, Baa-shroom becomes a bit less useful since it would now require a Coffee Bean to work. In that case, it would still end up dealing more damage than Peashooter, yet less damage than Repeater, with an in-between price of 175.

The player can take advantage of Spikerock's ability to be planted on any surface to make the best of the empty tile that Baa-shroom leaves.

Balance changes

June 7, 2017

• ▼ Sun cost raised to 250 (+175).
• ▼ Health lowered to 700 (-200).

March 8, 2018

• ▲ Range increased to "Straight" (previously 9 tiles).

November 14, 2020

• ▼ Sun cost raised to 350 (+100).

November 14, 2020

• ▼ Range decreased to four tiles.
• ▲ Now deals area damage.

Version 2.6 (January 19th, 2024)

• ▶ Ability change: Now deals 20 damage, gaining +10 damage when fed.
• ▲ Sun cost lowered to 100 (-250).
• ▲ Range increased to "Straight" (was previously 4 tiles).
• ▼ No longer deals area damage.
• ▼ Baseline damage lowered to 20 (-20).
• ▼ Peak damage lowered to 30 (-150).
• ▼ Now sleeps in the day.

Gallery

HD Baa-shroom

Baa-shroom attacking, variation 1

Baa-shroom attacking, variation 2

Baa-shroom attacking, variation 3

Baa-shroom's Seed Packet

Baa-shroom's Seed Packet without its tag

Baa-shroom's unused PC Seed Packet

Baa-shroom being unlocked by the player

Rare counterpart

HD Rare Baa-shroom

Rare Baa-shroom's seed packet

Rare Baa-shroom's seed packet without its tag

Old

Baa-shroom in the Almanac/Seed Selection Screen

Baa-shroom's old Seed Packet

Baa-shroom's older Seed Packet

An old HD Baa-shroom

Baa-shroom attacking, variation 1

Baa-shroom attacking, variation 2

Baa-shroom attacking, variation 3

Baa-shroom's concept design

Trivia

• Originally, when using a pea as a unit of damage, many of its stats contained the numbers 2 and 7, the lucky numbers for The Year of the Goat.
  • Its original sun cost was 75.
• He was originally a premium plant to celebrate the 2015 Chinese New Year.
• Baa-shroom was DsFanboy's profile picture for over three years.

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