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11 The graveyard is the title system of Graveyard Keeper 2 and the economic base everything else is built on. Lazy Bear Games has confirmed that its core idea is unchanged from the first game, that it has gained a new layer of management on top, and that it sits outside the walls of The Town rather than inside the settlement the player is rebuilding.
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33 Where It Sits
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55 The June 2026 developer log placed the cemetery in a peaceful, attractive area outside the city walls, next to the Keeper's base. The developers made a point of it: restoring The Town is one job, but the player is not forced to live in it. The Graveyard is one of the areas the game names on its location banner, alongside the Garden, the Astrologer's Tower, the underground Town Workshop and the Port Area district. The full catalogue is on Locations.
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77 The Green Skull Rating
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99 The official screenshots show how graveyard quality is scored. Each individual grave carries a floating green skull value, which can be positive or negative, and the area banner carries an overall green skull rating that the plot sums to.
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1111 On-screen elementWhat it showsPer grave valueA green skull icon and a number floating above the plotObserved valuesNegative three, zero, three, five and six on individual graves in one captureArea ratingA green skull figure on the Graveyard banner, reading nine in that same captureImplicationPoor plots drag the total down, so layout and upkeep matter
1212 The scoring rules behind those numbers have not been published. What is clear is that this green rating is a separate axis from the red skull corruption the player chases on corpses, which is covered on Zombies.
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1414 Graveyard Modules
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1616 The clearest new mechanic on the cemetery side is modular expansion driven by the Technology Tree. Unlocking a module lets the player place it on the plot, and each module provides space for a different class of object.
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1818 Module contents named by the studioTombsBenchesColumbariesMonumentsGraves
1919 Alongside the modules the sequel adds a wider set of new grave designs and decorations, so a cemetery can be laid out and styled rather than just filled. Placement uses the same grid build mode as the rest of the game, described on Buildings and Construction.
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2121 Corpse Supply and Quality
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2323 Burial duty has not gone anywhere. The developers confirmed that the Keeper still buries townsfolk who reach the end of their journey, and tied the supply directly to the rebuild.
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2525 The larger The Town grows, the more corpses arrive.The better supplied and more prosperous, and therefore more sinful, the settlement becomes, the better those corpses are.Better corpses carry more skulls, which feeds the corruption economy described on Zombies.
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2727 That loop is the reason Town Restoration is not a side project. Improving residents' lives is, in the game's blackly comic logic, a way of improving the raw material.
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2929 What the Graveyard Screenshot Shows
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3131 The published graveyard capture is set in the rain and shows the plot part way through development. A large columned mausoleum stands at the northern edge, beyond a paved forecourt. An angel statue, stone benches, a numbered stone column and several headstone styles are already placed. The player is mid-interaction with a wooden grave surround, with an on-screen prompt bound to the F key. Several plots are bare earth without a marker, and those are the ones carrying negative values.
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3434 Two further captures published with the demo on 14 September 2026 show the burial routine itself. In one, by day, the Keeper carries a wrapped body over one shoulder toward a row of three plots, one freshly dug, one filled and one marked with a wooden cross. In the other, at night, a body lies on the ground beside a wooden grave surround while the Keeper stands over it. Both are set in the same cemetery, with the columned mausoleum, a chest and a blueprint easel at its edge and a numbered stone column nearby.
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3737 Graveyard Milestones at Launch
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3939 Two launch achievements set concrete graveyard targets: True Graveyard Keeper, for burying 50 corpses, and Home Sweet Tomb, for raising the quality of the cemetery to 200. The second gives the cemetery-wide quality score a documented milestone; how that score relates to the per-grave green skull values is not stated. The full list is on Achievements.
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4141 The Morgue and Body Work
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43-Patch notes since launch name the rooms and stations that handle bodies. Corpses are counted against the morgue's capacity, and exhumed corpses count too: a bug fixed on PC, PlayStation and Xbox, but still listed for both Switch versions on 13 October 2026, let the counter drop below zero after cremation. The Crematorium takes a corpse on its table, an urn can be crafted from a corpse, and the Resurrection Table in the morgue holds a prepared, strapped body for reanimation. The Son of a Butcher perk covers organ surgery and pocket extraction.
43+Patch notes since launch name the rooms and stations that handle bodies. Corpses are counted against the morgue's capacity, and exhumed corpses count too: a bug the official list says update 1.007 fixed on most platforms, but still listed for both Switch versions on 13 October 2026, let the counter drop below zero after cremation. The Crematorium takes a corpse on its table, an urn can be crafted from a corpse, and the Resurrection Table in the morgue holds a prepared, strapped body for reanimation. The Son of a Butcher perk covers organ surgery and pocket extraction.
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4545 Around the plots, players can build a crypt and graveyard fences, and the graveyard is laid out in zones that can be demolished, starting with one in the tutorial. The studio's 2 October 2026 plans add cremation for zombies.
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4747 Not Yet Disclosed
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49-How the green skull score is calculated per grave or per decorationWhether the rating gates anything, and if so whatThe full module list and their unlock costs on the Technology TreeThe full set of body preparation steps and any embalming station. The morgue, the Crematorium and the Resurrection Table are named aboveWhether corpses can be refused. The morgue holds them against a capacity, whose size has not been publishedAny cap on graveyard size
49+How the green skull score is calculated per grave or per decorationWhether the rating gates anything, and if so whatThe full module list and their unlock costs on the Technology TreeThe full set of body preparation steps. Patch notes mention embalming and autopsy, including inserting an organ, but do not describe how they workWhether corpses can be refused. The morgue holds them against a capacity counter, but the capacity rule had not been stated by 13 October 2026Any cap on graveyard size