Pea Garden: a Plants vs Zombies mod

Name: Pea Garden: a Plants vs Zombies mod
Author: PrimalPedro

Pea Garden brings Plants vs Zombies plants into Minecraft, with biome-based variants and new recipes for older vanilla items.

NeoForgeClient and serverAll rights reserved1.21.8

What it does

Pea Garden adds plant items from the Plants vs Zombies franchise to the Minecraft world, including biome-based variants that appear in different terrain. The server and every player need the mod installed. Files are published for NeoForge only, for 1.21.8, with 1.0.9 as the latest file from 2026-04-14.

Key features

Eight Peashooter variants
Eight Peashooter variants each have unique properties, and they can protect a base and collect sun shards.
Nut Shield defence
Players can build an extra tanky Nut Shield to guard their area, and it can heal allies nearby.
Recipes for vanilla items
New recipes give older vanilla items a use they lacked before, adding crafting paths to existing materials.

Gallery

Heal your plants with the new Sunflower plant

Craft Nut plants and a Nut sword with Wall-nut drops

Freeze foods to give them the Brainfreeze effect

Deal extra damage with the Brainfreeze effect

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

1.21.81.0.9

ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

How it compares

Full comparison

Plants vs. Minecraft is a NeoForge mod for 1.21.5 under the MIT License, and it is not open source. Whispers of the Pale Garden is a NeoForge mod for 1.21.4 – 1.21.8 under All rights reserved, and it is not open source.

Mod	Loaders	Game versions	Environment	Updated
Pea Garden: a Plants vs Zombies mod	NeoForge	1.21.8	Client and server	2026-04-14
Plants vs. Minecraft	NeoForge	1.21.5	Client and server	2025-07-16
Whispers of the Pale Garden	NeoForge	1.21.4 – 1.21.8	Client and server	2025-08-01

Questions

Does Pea Garden need to be installed on the server?

Yes. The server and every player need the mod installed.

In the catalog

Pea Garden: a Plants vs Zombies mod is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,596 Food mods for NeoForge. 17,695 mods support Minecraft 1.21.8.

Food mods6,151 NeoForge mods Mods for 1.21.817,695

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What the author says

Pea Garden brings the iconic Plants from the PvZ franchise into your Minecraft world, with biome-based variants and new functionality and recipes to old vanilla items. Discover 8 Peashooter variants with unique properties to protect your base, collect sun shards to heal your allies, or build an extra tanky Nut Shield!

PrimalPedro, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Modrinth page: modrinth.com/mod/pea-garden-a-plants-vs-zombies-mod
Owner: PrimalPedro
Published: 2026-03-27
Updated on Modrinth: 2026-04-14
Facts verified: 2026-10-15