Graveyard

The graveyard is where you bury the bodies the donkey brings. Every grave has a quality, set by the body’s skulls and by the gravestone and fence you put on it. The graveyard’s quality is the total of everything inside its Grave Areas. Graveyard quality raises the money a successful sermon pays, and Grave Expectations asks for 10 of it.

Burying a body

1. At the graveyard’s blueprint table, place an Empty Grave. It costs nothing, but it can only go on a grave spot inside a Grave Area.
2. Dig it out with a shovel.
3. Carry the body over your head to the pit and interact with it to lay the body in.
4. Fill the grave with the shovel. The body’s Burial Certificate drops next to the grave.
5. Open the grave to add a gravestone (top slot) and a fence (bottom slot) from your backpack.

Digging and filling each drop 2 red tech points, and every filled grave counts toward the inspiration Last Respects.

Grave quality

Every body carries white skulls (good) and red skulls (bad), added up from its organs and the items in its pockets. For a grave:

• Decorations add quality: the gravestone’s and the fence’s quality together.
• Each red skull takes one point off. A grave can go below zero.
• White skulls are the ceiling. However good the decorations, a grave never scores more than the body’s white skulls.

Exact formula

Grave quality = the lower of (gravestone + fence − red skulls) and white skulls.

Example: a body with 3 red and 3 white skulls, under a Wooden Cross I (2) and a Wooden Fence I (1), scores 2 + 1 − 3 = 0. Take the fat and blood out of its pockets first (1 red skull each) and the same grave scores 2.

To raise a grave’s score, lower the body’s red skulls on the autopsy table before burying it. Pocket items are the easy part: Fat and Blood carry a red skull each, while Flesh carries a white one, so leave the flesh in.

Thirteen decorations exist, in four materials. A grave takes one headstone and one fence, so its score is the two added together:

Technology	Cost	Headstone	Fence	Best grave
Wooden Sign	free, from the story	Wooden Sign 1	—	1
Wooden Gravestones I	5 red, 2 green	Wooden Cross I 2	Wooden Fence I 1	3
Wooden Gravestones II	20 red, 5 blue	Wooden Cross II 3	Wooden Fence II 2	5
Stone Gravestones I	50 red, 10 blue	Gravestone I 4	Stone Fence I 3	7
Stone Gravestones II	100 red, 30 blue	Gravestone II 5	Stone Fence II 4	9
Marble Gravestones I	200 red, 50 blue	Marble Cross I 6	Marble Fence I 5	11
Marble Gravestones II	300 red, 100 blue	Marble Cross II 7	Marble Fence II 7	14

Until the stone tier, then, a grave scores 3 at most, which is what the story’s early graveyard quotas are built around. Stone Gravestones I also wants 25 reputation with the Nun, and everything past it descends from that node.

Graveyard quality

Only what stands inside a graveyard area counts. You start with one Grave Area I already built, which you cannot take down until you have put the sign on your first grave. You can build one more of that kind, and technologies add ten other kinds of area with different spots; Grave Area I compares them. Within an area:

• Each grave adds its quality.
• An open pit or a grave with an unfilled body counts −3.
• Exterior benches go on the bench spots of a Grave Area. Exterior Bench I adds 3.

Each time graveyard quality reaches a new high, the gain counts toward the inspiration for graveyard quality. Tearing things down and rebuilding them does not count twice.

Other ways to get rid of a body

	Burial Certificate	Tech points	Also gives	Graveyard quality
Burial	Yes	2 red for digging, 2 for filling	Last Respects progress	The grave’s quality
Crematorium I	Yes	1 red, 2 blue	5 Ash, 1 Salt	None
Throwing it in the river	No	None	Nothing	None

The crematorium comes from the technology Body Places I and stands in the morgue. Everything still inside the body burns with it. The river only takes bodies at two fixed spots near the graveyard.

A body left lying on the ground disappears by itself after 75 minutes of real time spent off screen, about 10 in-game days. You get nothing for it.

Exhuming

To dig a body back up, remove the gravestone and the fence first, then use Exhume in the grave window. It uses up an Exhumation Certificate, which Januarius sells.