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.
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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.
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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
| Tech | Cost | Unlocks |
|---|---|---|
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
Graveyard Burial
Prepare sites and bury for rating. Best for high-white-skull bodies.
Zombie Resurrection
Reserve red-skull bodies as workers.
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.
