Suburban Almanac

For the almanac in Plants vs. Zombies 2, see Almanac.

Template:ProfilePic2 Suburban Almanac is a book containing data on all the plants the player owns and all the zombies that the player has encountered in Plants vs. Zombies. It is obtained after beating Level 2-4 in Adventure Mode of the first time. Each time a new zombie appears in the seed choosing menu at the start of a level, a new card appears with the zombie name and picture but instead of a description, there is a message reading [Not Encountered Yet].

Although important information like damage, recharge, and cost are shown for each plant and similar statistics are included for each zombie, some information is wrong or misleading and some is missing altogether. The flavor text for each entry is fairly humorous and may include jokes or references to other parts of the game, other games or other companies entirely.

Almanac index page

It can be accessed from the Main Menu, in the plant selection screen by clicking on the Almanac button, in the pause menu, or on a specific zombie. Almanac entries for zombies and plants do not appear until they have been encountered.

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The Suburban Almanac

Gallery

Suburban Almanacs

Animated Suburban Almanac

Suburban Almanac that appears on the Main Menu

Console Suburban Almanac

Suburban Almanac on the DS/DSi version

Obtaining the Suburban Almanac in the PC version

Obtaining the Suburban Almanac in the Android version

Suburban Almanac Index in Android version

Full Almanac

Almanac's Plant background

Almanac's Zombie background

Almanac's Plant background on the DS/DSi version

Almanac's Zombie background on the DS/DSi version

Almanac's zombies' card

Almanac's plants' card

Almanac in Java version (note it isn't a book, and accessible even before playing the game)

Inside it

The book

Almanac entries

Plants' page as seen on PopCap's website

Zombies' page as Seen on PopCap's website

PC plants' Almanac

Android and iOS Almanac's zombies' page

Imitater's entry in the Almanac

Nintendo DS Almanac's zombies' page

Part of the plants' Almanac entries in the iPod version

The zombies' Almanac in the PC version

Completed Almanac on the iPad version

Another completed Almanac on the iPad version

iPad zombie's Almanac without Zombie Yeti

Completed zombie Almanac including Zombie Yeti on the iPad version

Trivia

• The humorous Almanac flavor texts are written by Stephen Notley, as confirmed by George Fan.
  • In Plants vs. Zombies 2, all texts on Lost City and beyond are also written by him.
• The name is likely a reference to the Suburban Book of the Dead, a novel by Robert Rankin.
• The Suburban Almanac has an index, but it should be contents, since an index tells which page mentions a certain subject.
• In Pumpkin's description, Renfield, a character from PopCap's Peggle, is mentioned.

The Imitater is the small drawing in the upper-left corner.

• Only 48 seed packets can be seen in the Almanac, so to access Imitater's entry, players have to click the image in the top left corner of the plant section.
  • However, in the iOS and Android versions, Imitater has its own seed packet.
• The background for the card for the plants are colored like brown dirt, and the background for the card for the zombies is colored like blue stone, much like a gravestone texture.
• Sunflower's and Zombie's outlines are seen in the background of the Almanac.
• The background of each plant's animation in the Almanac varies according to the environment it can be used in, but all zombies have the same background, which is the grassy backdrop in the Day levels (with the exception of the Zombie Bobsled Team, which will be standing on a patch of ice created by a Zomboni).
• There are four major differences between Nintendo DS almanac and the almanac of all other versions:
  • The seed packets are shown on the bottom screen while the entries are on the top screen. The length of some of the entries separates them into two pages.
  • The almanac in the iPod touch, iPhone, Android, and Nintendo DS versions are not large enough to show all types of zombies at once. Instead, a scroll bar, similar to what is shown on the mini-games, Puzzle Mode and Survival Mode menus, is used.
  • The almanac is not accessible on the Nintendo DS version's pause menu.
  • In the main screen, the almanac has only one word, almanac, unlike the others, which have "The Suburban".
• The plant in the index is Sunflower, but the first plant is Peashooter.
• Peashooter, Wall-nut, Puff-shroom, and Jalapeno are the only plants to be referenced to in another plant's entry.
  • Peashooter and Jalapeno are mentioned in Imitater's almanac entry, Puff-shroom is mentioned in Fume-shroom's, and Wall-nut is mentioned in Tall-nut's.
• More than half the plants in the online version appear differently than in the actual game, such as Coffee Bean with wings.
  • Cabbage-pult and many upgrade plants is missing from the online Almanac.
• Sometimes a bug can happen where if a player sees Zombie Yeti and then closes the game, Zombie Yeti would appear as if it was never seen.