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The Graveyard
Graves
Location information
Buildable
True
Exits
Church, Home, Apiary, Swamp
Npcs
Episcop

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 Graveyard Rating effect on Graveyard Rating.

Corpses

The quality of a buried corpse determines the maximum rating per grave. The number of Red Skulls Red Skull, green Green Skull and white White Skull skulls in the corpse rating, are the basis of the quality. No grave can have a higher Graveyard Rating rating than the number of white skulls on that corpse. Additionally certain autopsy operations increase the base Graveyard Rating 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

Wooden prayer station
+ 2 Grave Decor 2 x 2 Graveyard Enhancement Can be only placed in 5 spots.

Stone prayer station
+ 4 Grave Decor 2 x 2 Stone Prayer Station Can be only placed in 5 spots.

Stone columbarium
+12 Grave Decor 4x4 Cremation

Marble columbarium
+ 20 Grave Decor 4 x 4 Cremation II

Flowerbed
+ 2 Grave Decor 2 x 2 Can be only placed in 5 spots.

Lawn
+ 2 Grave Decor 2 x 3 Graveyard Enhancement Can't be rotated

Lawn
+ 3 Grave Decor 2 x 4 Graveyard Enhancement

Lawn
+ 4 Grave Decor 2 x 6 Graveyard Enhancement Can't be rotated

Marble flagstones
+ 3 Grave Decor 2 x 4 Stone Prayer Station

Lantern
+ 4 Grave Decor 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 Silver Coin1 Copper Coin50.

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 Graveyard Rating 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 Graveyard Rating benefit of a grave can not exceed the number of White Skull of the corpse buried there.

Item Quality Provided Technology required
Blank 64x64 None
+0 Grave Decor

Wooden marker
+1 Grave Decor
Graveplate

Wooden cross
+2 Grave Decor
Simple Gravestone

Gravestone
+2 Grave Decor
Simple Gravestone

Stone cross
+3 Grave Decor
Stone Gravestone

Gravestone II
+3 Grave Decor
Stone Gravestone

Stone cross II
+4 Grave Decor
Carved Gravestones

Stone plinth
+4 Grave Decor
Carved Gravestones

Stone sculpture
+5 Grave Decor
Grave Monuments

Stone sculpture II
+5 Grave Decor
Grave Monuments

Marble cross
+5 Grave Decor
Marble Gravestone

Marble cross II
+6 Grave Decor
Carved Marble Gravestones

Marble plinth
+6 Grave Decor
Carved Marble Gravestones

Marble sculpture
+7 Grave Decor
Crpts

Marble sculpture II
+7 Grave Decor
Crpts

Fences

As with Tombstones, a grave quality is only as good as the corpse in the grave.

Item Quality Provided Technology required

None
+0 Grave Decor

Wooden grave fence
+1 Grave Decor
Simple Gravestone

Stone grave fence
+2 Grave Decor
Stone Gravestone

Stone grave fence II
+3 Grave Decor
Carved Gravestones

Marble grave fence
+4 Grave Decor
Marble Gravestones

Marble grave fence II
+5 Grave Decor
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 MoneySilver Coin1 Copper Coin50. The Corpse Rating determines if it counts against your Graveyard Rating Graveyard Rating and the max Grave Rating. A grave can have only one Graveyard Point Graveyard Rating 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 Red Skull and White White Skull 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 Happiness or Friendship Symbol with the Crown that is needed to unlock options at the Royal Services Box.

Title Cost Friendship Notes
Citizen Copper Coin50 30 Happiness or Friendship Symbol
Rightful Citizen Gold Coin1 65 Happiness or Friendship Symbol
Aristocrat Gold Coin13 100 Happiness or Friendship Symbol

Exhumation Permission

Item Cost Notes

Exhumation permission
Silver Coin1 Copper Coin75 Required to dig up a buried body.

Corpse Exhumation is only needed when a Graveyard Rating 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 Silver Coin1 Copper Coin75, Copper Coin25 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

Stamp
Silver Coin50 Requires 20 Happiness or Friendship Symbol

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

Town pass
Requires 20 Happiness or Friendship Symbol

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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