Graveyard Keeper Tips & Tricks: 6 Ways to Up Your Corpse Disposal Game (2024)

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Managing a medieval graveyard is hard work, especially when there’s so many other things to do as well. Here’s how you can ahead in Graveyard Keeper.

Graveyard Keeper has charmed our hearts, and then extracted them (along with our skulls, skins, bones, and flesh). There’s a lot to do in this Stardew Valley-like, so here’s a bunch of tips to help you get off the ground running.

You can replace broken grave decorations instead of repairing them

Early on in the game, your graveyard will have several graves in poor condition. To repair these, you can use wood or stone repair kits. If you run out of these initial repair kits, however, it will likely be a while before you can craft them.

To get your graveyard rating up, a smart idea is to just replace the broken grave decorations entirely. You can do this by removing the headstone or fence, then applying a fresh new one.

Prioritise wood, stone, and metal production early on

Almost all the important things you need to build in the game require wood, stone, and/or metal parts. These can be produced in your workyard. Consequently, you should try and expand your workyard as soon as you can, to house all your production tools.

For producing wood parts, you will require:

  • Sawhorse: to cut down large logs into smaller pieces
  • Chopping spot: to turn wood billets into firewood or wedges
  • Carpenter’s workbench: to create wood parts like planks, grave decorations and repair kits

There are more tools later in the game, such as the circular saw, for instance, but these are the most important early on.

For producing stone parts, you will require a stone cutter, which can be used to break down large pieces of stone into smaller ones. Smaller pieces of stone can further be cut into grave decorations and repair kits.

For producing metal parts, you will require:

  • Furnace: to turn ore into ingots (using fuel)
  • Anvil or wooden anvil: to turn ingots into metal parts

These can be upgraded later in the game, but these are most important early on.

You can buy stuff you that you can’t produce (yet)

Money is scarce in Graveyard Keeper, and you need to work for every coin. That said, if you don’t have an item you need, you should be able to buy it from the Village.

You can also sell produced items, but only to the appropriate buyer. Metal parts will be bought by the smith, for example, while wooden parts will be bought by the carpenter.

Whenever possible, though, you should work out a way to produce things on your own. Being self-sufficient is a huge help in Graveyard Keeper, as then you will be able to save your money for what really matters.

Put items in their relevant trunks

While you can put any item in any trunk, it is smarter to put items in trunks according to their use. For example, you should put wood, stone, and metal objects in the workyard trunk(s). Seeds should go into the garden trunk. Grave decorations should go in the graveyard trunk, etc.

Apart from keeping things organised, this actually aids your gameplay. When crafting items, the game will automatically count items stored in the related trunk.

For example, if you want to plant seeds in the garden, you don’t need to have them on you. They can be stored in the garden trunk, and the game will let you plant them as if you have them in your inventory.

There’s a shortcut to the village (and you can teleport, too)

Getting to and coming back from the village takes a lot of time. Not only can this be inconvenient, but it gets boring, too. You can speed up the process by using the underground shortcut, which is located in the tunnels below your home.

You will need to first clear the path and access the area where Snake is. After that, it’s simply a matter of following the path going right, the one that Snake actually enters the tunnels from. If you follow it all the way to the end, you will end up in the village.

Alternately, you can buy a teleport stone from the tavern keeper. This lets you teleport between from anywhere to your house, or to the tavern. Very handy, but it has a cooldown that takes a while.

Cremate the bodies you don’t want to bury (don’t toss ‘em in the river)

Although there are no penalties for throwing a body in the river, it is a better idea to cremate it. Doing so will earn you a burial certificate (I’m not sure why), as well as some ash. Ash can be used to make ceramic funeral urns, black paint, or flavor enhancers.

To cremate a body, you will require the Cremation technology, found in the Theology branch. You can then build a “Place for burning corpses” and light ‘em up. It takes a while for the corpse to burn, so go do something else, or sleep. When you’re back, there will be a fresh and crisp burial certificate waiting for you.

For more information on Graveyard Keeper, be sure to follow our ongoing coverage of the game, including a review, which will up soon. You can also find out more at the official website.

This Article was written by: Rahul Shirke

Graveyard Keeper Tips & Tricks: 6 Ways to Up Your Corpse Disposal Game (2024)

FAQs

What is the best corpse to bury in graveyard keeper? ›

Once you bury the body you'll see it gets a rating right away. If it doesn't have any red skulls, the rating will be 0. If it does have red skulls, every single one of them will add a -1 value to the rating. So, it's best if the corpses you bury in the graveyard don't contain any red skulls.

How do you get rid of corpses in graveyard keeper? ›

Corpses can be disposed of by either throwing them into the river or burning them. Burning corpses will give you ash, salt and a Burial certificate, and can be done to the south of the Morgue. Corpses can be thrown into the river with no cost or noticeable consequence, but will not give you anything in return.

What is the highest corpse rating in graveyard keeper? ›

With access to the Souls room and its new materials added by the Better Save Soul DLC, the maximum corpse rating can be increased to 26.

Which body do I dig up graveyard keeper? ›

Now in his dialogue, the ghost ask you to dig up the grave from the bottom right corner of your graveyard (the only grave with no decoration on top). The grave you dig up is the grave of the farmer's wife (which is actually used in one of the quest from Stranger Sins).

Do Red skulls affect zombies in graveyard keeper? ›

Though I read in a recent thread, that red skulls decrease the grave quality, but does nothing for the zombie efficiency.

How do you make the most efficient zombie graveyard keeper? ›

So, similar in most respects to your buried corpses, you want to do anything that adds white skulls (remove Blood / Fat, perform Gold / Silver / Lye / Glue injections), while avoiding anything that subtracts white skulls (cause a Surgeon Mistake, remove Flesh / Skin, perform Acid injection).

What do maggots do in graveyard keeper? ›

The maggot is a byproduct of dutiful farming (composting). It can either be decomposed after study into reagents for use in alchemy, used as a bait for fishing, or - under duress - consumed for a relatively tiny amount of energy.

How do you decompose in grave keeper? ›

You need to go west and find a witch on the swamps. She gives you recipe for alchemy workbenches that you can put in your church cellar. Then you can decompose items using them.

What does the corpse hatch do in graveyard keeper? ›

The corpse hatch allows corpses to be dropped directly into the morgue where they will decay slower.

What does fame do in graveyard keeper? ›

Though the Merchant states that Fame will increase the prices that the crates will be sold for, they have a hard limit and increasing Fame provides no benefits.

Can you keep playing after beating graveyard keeper? ›

Yes, finishing the main story "ends" your game, but you can reload the morning you "won" and play past that point if you want.

Are there multiple endings to graveyard keeper? ›

This DLC contains three different endings. Despite all of them being cliff-hangers, there are perks that come with them. If you want to see all of them, you should save and back up your game before you build the watchtower at the Refugee Camp.

How do you get a good body in graveyard keeper? ›

Starting with a 4R/6W corpse
  1. Perform a. Lye injection.
  2. Perform a. Glue injection (Optional; x13 )
  3. Perform a. Silver injection.
  4. Perform a. Gold injection.
  5. Remove the. Fat.
  6. Remove the. Blood.

How often do bodies show up graveyard keeper? ›

Before making the carrot box, the donkey brings carcasses every 2 days, sleeping seems to affect this negatively (unconfirmed). After the construction of the carrot box it will deliver every day as long as the box is full, except on Sunday.

How many hours does it take to complete graveyard keeper? ›

When focusing on the main objectives, Graveyard Keeper is about 45½ Hours in length. If you're a gamer that strives to see all aspects of the game, you are likely to spend around 70½ Hours to obtain 100% completion.

What is the best use for maggots in graveyard keeper? ›

The maggot is a byproduct of dutiful farming (composting). It can either be decomposed after study into reagents for use in alchemy, used as a bait for fishing, or - under duress - consumed for a relatively tiny amount of energy.

How often does a donkey come in Graveyard Keeper? ›

Before making the carrot box, the donkey brings carcasses every 2 days, sleeping seems to affect this negatively (unconfirmed). After the construction of the carrot box it will deliver every day as long as the box is full, except on Sunday.

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