The Graveyard is introduced in the Tutorial. An integral part of the game is how well you "keep" or maintain your Graveyard. The most important part of the Graveyard is Graveyard Rating. The Church is located in the Graveyard.
Graveyard Rating
Graveyard Rating is the main factor affecting amount of money earned by donations in weekly sermons. Therefore, having a high Graveyard Rating is desirable.
There are 6 items that affect graveyard quality: Bushes, Corpses, Graves, Tombstones, Fences, and Monuments.
Bushes
Bushes are present at the start of the game and do not currently regrow after being removed.
Each bush has a -1 Graveyard Rating effect on Graveyard Rating.
Corpses
The quality of a buried corpse determines the maximum rating per grave. The number of Red Skulls , green and white skulls in the corpse rating, are the basis of the quality. No grave can have a higher rating than the number of white skulls on that corpse. Additionally certain autopsy operations increase the base rating of a grave. See Corpse for more info.
Graveyard decor
Includes things like stone path,urns with ashes, flower beds, prayer booth, etc. For matching High Standarts of episcop
Item | Quality provided | Size | Technology required | |
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Wooden prayer station |
+ 2 | 2 x 2 | Graveyard Enhancement | Can be only placed in 5 spots. |
Stone prayer station |
+ 4 | 2 x 2 | Stone Prayer Station | Can be only placed in 5 spots. |
Stone columbarium |
+12 | 4x4 | Cremation | |
Marble columbarium |
+ 20 | 4 x 4 | Cremation II | |
Flowerbed |
+ 2 | 2 x 2 | Can be only placed in 5 spots. | |
Lawn |
+ 2 | 2 x 3 | Graveyard Enhancement | Can't be rotated |
Lawn |
+ 3 | 2 x 4 | Graveyard Enhancement | |
Lawn |
+ 4 | 2 x 6 | Graveyard Enhancement | Can't be rotated |
Marble flagstones |
+ 3 | 2 x 4 | Stone Prayer Station | |
Lantern |
+ 4 | 2 x 2 | Stone Prayer Station | Can only be placed in 5 spots. |
Graves
Graves are an integral part of the game. Your first source of income in the game are Burial Certificates. They are obtained by burying corpses, and can be sold to Horadric at The Dead Horse for 1 50.
Graves also have a positive or negative Graveyard Quality based on corpse quality and decor that directly affects your weekly income during Sermons.
Graves have no effect when placed or "planned" with the Blueprint Desk located in the Graveyard.
Until digging a grave for burial, the grave has a -2 effect on quality.
Grave Maintenance
Graves will fall into disrepair over time, this is made apparent during the tutorial when you are shown how to repair grave decorations. Grave decorations that have deteriorated will provide less {{Graveyard Rating}} which in turn will provide you with less income.
Tombstones
As noted in the Corpses sections, the maximum benefit of a grave can not exceed the number of of the corpse buried there.
Item | Quality Provided | Technology required |
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None | ||
Wooden marker |
Graveplate | |
Wooden cross |
Simple Gravestone | |
Gravestone |
Simple Gravestone | |
Stone cross |
Stone Gravestone | |
Gravestone II |
Stone Gravestone | |
Stone cross II |
Carved Gravestones | |
Stone plinth |
Carved Gravestones | |
Stone sculpture |
Grave Monuments | |
Stone sculpture II |
Grave Monuments | |
Marble cross |
Marble Gravestone | |
Marble cross II |
Carved Marble Gravestones | |
Marble plinth |
Carved Marble Gravestones | |
Marble sculpture |
Crpts | |
Marble sculpture II |
Crpts |
Fences
As with Tombstones, a grave quality is only as good as the corpse in the grave.
Item | Quality Provided | Technology required |
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None |
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Wooden grave fence |
Simple Gravestone | |
Stone grave fence |
Stone Gravestone | |
Stone grave fence II |
Carved Gravestones | |
Marble grave fence |
Marble Gravestones | |
Marble grave fence II |
Carved Marble Gravestones |
Corpse
Corpses are a source for many of the crafting ingredients you need in the game and burying them in the graveyard and decorating graves is how you earn most of your money. When burying a corpse of any quality you will receive a burial certificate that can be traded at the tavern for Money1 50. The Corpse Rating determines if it counts against your Graveyard Rating and the max Grave Rating. A grave can have only one Graveyard Point equal to the rating of the buried corpse. Decorations added to the grave after that point will not count. See Corpses for more information.
The main method for improving the rating of a corpse is the Autopsy Table in the morgue. By removing organs and body parts you change the number of Red and White skulls and increase base Graveyard Rating.
Royal Services
Once you are a Preacher you gain access to the Royal services box located below the church. It is through this box that you pay taxes and fines, request permission to exhume corpses, or interact with the bureaucratic system behind the throne.
Title Verification
You upgrade citizen titles by spending money on the Crown.
Each title grants Happiness with the Crown that is needed to unlock options at the Royal Services Box.
Title | Cost | Friendship | Notes |
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Citizen | 50 | 30 | |
Rightful Citizen | 1 | 65 | |
Aristocrat | 13 | 100 |
Exhumation Permission
Item | Cost | Notes |
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Exhumation permission |
1 75 | Required to dig up a buried body. |
Corpse Exhumation is only needed when a Graveyard Rating and badly autopsied corpses negatively impact your Graveyard Rating. To exhume a corpse buy an Exhumation Permission from the church box by pressing (E) while standing in front of it then selecting "Paid Services". The church box is left of the church entrance. Note: These cost 1 75, 25 more than what you are paid for the Burial Certificate. You will be given a Burial Certificate for burying it in the graveyard as well as burning it once you unlock cremation which leads to you getting 2 certificates for the same body
Royal Stamp
Item | Cost | Notes |
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Stamp |
50 | Requires 20 |
The Stamp is necessary to complete a Quest for Horadric. Afterward the stamp allows you to craft packages of meat with clean paper, and flesh at the Kitchen Table. Packages of meat can be unwrapped into sliced meat or sold to Horadric. The stamp has infinite uses.
Town Pass
Item | Cost | Notes |
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Town pass |
Requires 20 |
Will allow you past the guards so that you may enter the town at some point. At which time you are stuck by lightning and die. Gerry warns you against trying again, but rather to ask snake for the items you need from Town.
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