Thief-shroom

The Thief-shroom is a mushroom plant which has similarities to the Magnet-shroom. The main difference is that it has a shorter range and isn't limited to metal objects, instead stealing almost any protective object or weapon from zombies nearby.

Made by Milesprower2.

Stats
Most of this info is covered in the Infobox.

Cost: 75 Sun.

Recharge: Fast.

Range: 3x3.

Introduced in: Hidden Base - Night 7.

Appearance: A medium-sized mushroom plant shrouded in a black cape, with a small part of the stalk visible, revealing its eyes, white with black pupils. When stealing an object, it will drop a smoke bomb to briefly shroud the area in smoke and a zombie will have lost its object. The object will be worn (in the case of helmets) or balanced (for other items) on top of the Thief-shroom's head, and will disappear when it's ready to steal again.

Plant Food
A massive smoke bomb shrouds the whole screen, and it will steal every object that it can. Afterwards, it will be ready to steal again immediately.

Stealable Objects
The Thief-shroom can steal the following objects from zombies: * The Ant Farmer Zombie is essentially a Chicken Wrangler, except it releases the Ants (Chickens) upon destruction of the Ant Farm that it's holding in front of it as a shield. Thief-shroom is one of very few ways to prevent the release of these ants.
 * Roadcones.
 * Buckets.
 * Jack-in-the-Boxes.
 * Diamond Helmets (from Diamondhead Zombie).
 * Football Helmets.
 * Rockets (from Rocket Zombie).
 * Torches.
 * Ladders (before or after placing).
 * Ruby Skulls (from Ruby Skull Zombie AKA reskinned Turquoise Skull Zombie).
 * Blowpipes (from Tribal Zombie).
 * Golden Shovels.
 * Magic Staffs (from Wizard Zombie).
 * Guns (Zombie Private and Zombie Sniper).
 * Bombs (from Trap Zombie).
 * Ant Farm (from Ant Farmer Zombie*).
 * Barbell (from Weightlifter Zombie).

Strategies
The Thief-shroom is essentially a more versatile Magnet-shroom, though Magnet-shroom can steal a few items that Thief-shroom ignores (e.g. Pogo Sticks). This makes Thief-shroom is extremely useful, even during daytime levels when it costs extra.

When placed within a Pumpkin at the front lines, as it allows you to disarm many zombies. It could also potentially be combined with Garlic in a similar way to Gloom-shrooms as an alternative strategie as well. However you use it, you must keep in mind the short range and design around that.