The graveyard rating is the sum of three categories — Burial, Decoration, and Fences / Graves — each capped at 5 quality points, so the overall maximum is 15/15. Corpse delivery brings in the bodies that drive your burial rating, your zombie workforce, and your Crematorium fuel.

More context

Per-grave score is calculated as min(Decoration Score, White Skulls) − Red Skulls. White skulls are the body's potential ceiling, red skulls are penalties you want to remove before laying it to rest. To maximize a single grave, you need an iron grave, an iron fence, and a high-quality body in a good coffin (rating 5 for QL3 bodies). Burying a zombie or skeleton drops the rating, so avoid burying undead if you can.

How burial quality is scored

Per-grave score is calculated as min(Decoration Score, White Skulls) − Red Skulls. White skulls are the body's potential ceiling, red skulls are penalties you want to remove before laying it to rest. To maximize a single grave, you need an iron grave, an iron fence, and a high-quality body in a good coffin (rating 5 for QL3 bodies). Burying a zombie or skeleton drops the rating, so avoid burying undead if you can.

Recommended early research

TechCostUnlocks

Wooden Sign

free

First grave marker.

Wooden Gravestones I

R5 G2

Wooden Cross I (+2 decoration), Wooden Fence I (+1).

Graveyard Keeper I

R2 G5

Expands the grave area.

Body Places I

R5 G5

Unlocks the Crematorium.

Better caskets and fences

Better caskets (wooden, stone, marble) and stone/iron fences and graves give the biggest decoration boosts.

Corpse delivery chain

The corpse-delivery questline begins once you reach 10 reputation with Agatha at the Crossroads and ask her about the Donkey, which opens "The Nun with the Hairy Ass"; if you need more reputation, "Nun of Your Business" accepts 5 Clean Paper + 2 Ink for 10 Agatha reputation. Before Agatha can route deliveries to you, you must raise Graveyard quality to 20 and report it, and repair the Crossroads Manhole with 2 Polished Bronze + 4 Polished Stone and report that as well — order does not matter, but both must be completed. Reporting the manhole repair rewards 10 Agatha reputation plus 2 Town Gratitude. Once restored, you can ask Agatha on the Wrath-symbol day how many corpses are needed each week. Better-corpses upgrades unlock at 30 Agatha reputation and trigger the "Brawns and Brains" branch, with a 40-reputation follow-up.

Three handling paths

Burial

Graveyard Burial

Prepare sites and bury for rating. Best for high-white-skull bodies.

Resurrection

Zombie Resurrection

Reserve red-skull bodies as workers.

Crematorium

Crematorium

Unlocked by Body Places I. Ideal for bodies with many red skulls and few white skulls.

Autopsy rules

Always carry a fresh body to the morgue's autopsy table, read its red / white skull counts, and only remove organs that lower red skulls (commonly fat and blood). Stop cutting when red skulls hit zero — further cuts hurt white skulls. Lower-quality bodies are best steered to the crematorium or zombie labor rather than burial.

Quick prerequisite summary

Reputation
Reach 10 Agatha reputation to open the delivery questline.
Graveyard quality
Raise to 20 and report.
Manhole repair
2 Polished Bronze + 4 Polished Stone.
Reputation reward
10 Agatha reputation + 2 Town Gratitude on report.