Basic Prayer
The Basic Prayer is the simplest sermon, and the one the story hands you first. It can be held with as few as 4 parishioners and succeeds for certain with 8. Every parishioner brings 0.25 Faith and 5 copper; a successful sermon adds 0.3 Faith per parishioner and 10 copper for each point of graveyard quality. It has no buff or item reward.
A sermon is not used up when you hold it, so one Basic Prayer lasts the whole game: bring it every Wrath day. It has to be in your backpack, not in a chest, to show up at the lectern.
Agatha, the Nun, gives you the 1-star Basic Prayer in Holy Moly!, once your church reaches quality 10.
Variants (3)
| Quality | |
|---|---|
 | ★ |
| ★★ |
| ★★★ |
How to obtain
Craft
| Workbench | Ingredients | Yields | Mastery | Duration | Tech points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writing Desk |  Story any quality ×1  Clean Paper ×3  Ink ×1 | ★–★★★ ×1 |  5 | 12 | 3 |
Quest reward
Notes
- With 10 parishioners it gives 6 Faith, and 3 even if it fails. Before the town opens, happiness is capped at 10, so 10 parishioners is the most you will see.
- The 2- and 3-star copies cannot be written. Sermons are written at the Writing Desk from a Story, 3 Clean Paper and an Ink, but no technology unlocks the Basic Prayer recipe, so the 1-star copy from the quest is the only one the game gives you.
- Better copies only pay more money. The 2- and 3-star Basic Prayers give 15 and 20 copper per graveyard quality on success; the Faith and the thresholds are the same.