Re: HINTS AND TIPS

Don't know where to post this, but I tried Reinforce-mint-ing a column of Gumnut (lvl 1), and since the waves of zombies were just arriving and some of them were yet to step on the lawn, the bubbles splashed on them outside the lawn.

A pharaoh zombie is the only one stuck there. My Laser Bean didn't react to him since he's not entering the lawn yet. So I can only wait. Pretty sure I was waiting until I can plant another column of lvl 1 Gumnuts and still waited some more until he's finally free.

I suppose Laser Bean managed to kill those other weaker zombies outside the lawn by being triggered by the zombies on the lawn in front of them. Imagine if I used non-piercing damage plants, I might wait forever.

The normal bug report can be done via the Help Center but given EA's current focus is on other new games, this is not likely to be addressed in a rush. 

Thankyou for sharing so we are mindful of this and not to use Gumnut/Reinforcemint in such situation.

@eieio_31310I'm not sure if it's a bug at first. Since I think there are other plants which attack zombies before the enter the lawn. But now I just realized that some zombies don't eat plants, like Mecha-Football zombie. I just gummed him in Arena, and he seems to be stuck without eating the gum.

If such zombie gets stuck alone before entering the lawn like the scenario above, without your plant killing it, or no zombies behind him to eat him away, then you'll literally wait forever (or until your phone battery dies).

@ForestOutlook 

The bubblegum is eaten by the zombies but a normal adventure mode zombie would take a long time to eat through the gum, unlike an Arena zombie which would probably get through it in a couple of chomps.

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@Perfume-shroom92 wrote:
@ForestOutlookSo what happens when you put down reinforce mint with gumnut? Does it activate the bug pink bubble that sticks down multiple zombies?

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There's no problem if the exploding bubble gum rain down the zombies inside the lawn. It only becomes a problem if the gums rain down on the zombies before they enter the lawn. The plant food effect is mainly to blame, and reinforce-mint effeft is to activate Gumnut's pfe. This is actually not an easy to encounter bug. But could pose more problem the higher the level your Gumnut is, or the more Gumnuts are on the lawn. Since more gums will be spread, if not enough zombies on the lawn, they'll target zombies before they enter the lawn too.

@MAGICDAVESHROOM 

Indeed, it's just that some zombies don't eat plants, and thus they don't eat the gums as well. For these zombies to proceed, you need to kill them with your plants, or to have them eaten by the zombies behind them.

From reddit:

1. The Hit Points are the Gum's Health, which is Tall-nut level. Gum Health Boost is the health of the zombie that's gummed, multiplied by a percentage, and added to the health of the Gum. So at lvl1 it's 300; that means that the top health of the zombie that's gummed is multiplied by 300% and added. At level 10 it's multiplied by 1000% (10x).

2. The gum takes smash damage, but if it's a gargantuar's gum, it's basically smashing through its own health times at least 3.

3. All-stars... they do smashing damage but no insta-kill. So how many smashes can gum take? It depends on the health of the zombie that's gummed.

4. The arcade machine will just crush a Gumnut that hasn't gone off. But if a Gumnut has gummed another zombie, the Arcade zombie will push the cabinet past the gummed zombie, and then will be blocked by the gummed zombie and start doing chewing damage on the gum. [Haem's comment: It's likely the same story with Ice Blocks though that wasn't specifically addressed in the reply]

This means that the gum depends on the zombie's health. So, although, the Zombies in Arena do more damage, they also have more health which makes the gum tougher. It's a really interesting plant.

The Football helmets do damage with there pushing effect, so they will "eat through" the gum. It's just takes a long time 🙂

Now I am wondering how Octo zombie and Wizard zombie deal with the sticky gum.....

Need to try this out in adventure and see but I have not even started getting a level 1 gumnut yet maybe someone can do the honor & confirm.

Thanks @HenryThePear .  So you are confirming instead of covering up/transforming the gum, Octo and Wizard are starting to chew them?

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@PowerToss wrote:
The Football helmets do damage with there pushing effect, so they will "eat through" the gum. It's just takes a long time 🙂

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Thank you PowerToss for clarifying. It's an interesting plant indeed, with how different zombies deal with the gum differently, especially those which do not eat plants (or not immediately eat plants).

I gummed the Mecha-Football zombie with my lvl 1 Gumnut in Arena Jade League, and it's stuck there for quite a long while that I feel pity for him and decided to end his misery 🤣. That pushing damage seems to do very little to the gum even in Jade League.