Here an updated penalty list. Most information is based on my own experience and from testing. There is no guarantee that the list is 100% accurate 😉
Penalty list
- No penalty for Instants: Blover, Hurrikale, Cherry bomb, Jalapeno, Grapeshot, Bombegranate, Power Lily, Goldbloom, Solar tomato, Potato Mine, Primal Potato Mine, Escape Root, Stallia, Stunion, E.M.Peach, Iceberg Lettuce, Shrinking Violet, Lava Guava, Tile Turnip, Gravebuster, Intensive Carrot, Ice Bloom
- Nuts: Wall-nut, Tall-nut, Primal Wall-nut, Infi-nut, Explode-O-Nut, Pea-nut
- Defensive Plants: Chard Guard, Spring Bean, Holly Barrier, Endurian, Electric Currant (?), Pumpkin
- Consumables: Hypno-shroom, Garlic, Chili Bean, Shadow-shroom, Sun Bean, Hot Date, Sweet Potato, Torchwood, Electrici-Tea, Imp Pear
- Others Plants:
- Celery Stalker, Squash, Spikeweed, Spikerock
- Shadow Pea & Grimrose swallowing zombie and disappearing
- Ghost Pepper & Puff-Shroom are not counted as dying when they disappear on their own, so no penalty
- Plants produced by other plants have no penalty when they are eaten/killed: Witch Hazel, Spear-mint (Spikerocks), Spore-shroom (new Spore-shrooms), Zoybean (Zomboids)
- Power-mints disappearing
Miscellaneous:
- Gravebuster getting eaten before removing the grave causes a penalty
- Grimrose getting eaten by a lost pilot zombie causes a penalty
- No penalty when plants are destroyed by: Torchlight Zombie’s torch, Mecha-Football Zombie pushing plants off the lawn
- Parsnip's ability to rush down a lane when almost eaten does incur a penalty.
- Guacodile's ability to rush down a lane when almost eaten does incur a penalty.
- Ultomato in Boosterama events: If Ultomato is destroyed before it vanishes on its own you get a penalty. So don’t plant Ultomato under Cardio Zombie etc.
- Pyre Vine, Blastberry Vine, Shine Vine getting eaten does incur a penalty
