How many hours does it take to complete Graveyard Keeper?

When focusing on the main objectives, Graveyard Keeper is about 45½ Hours in length. If you're a gamer that strives to see all aspects of the game, you are likely to spend around 71 Hours to obtain 100% completion.

What gives the most red points Graveyard Keeper?

you get so many red points when you finde the coalmine and start digging and when you start smelting iron or create vases .

Should I throw the body in the river Graveyard Keeper?

corpse into a river. There are no known negative consequences if you do so in game . After you first do so, Gerry appears, scolds you, and tells you the secrets of cremation. burial certificate for corpses you dump, this way of disposal is a financial loss for you.

Guide for Graveyard Keeper - Quest list (2024)

This page is a TLDR; version of the main walkthrough, only giving you the relevant information about the main quests in the game.

There are 6 quest-related NPC. They show up on one specific day during the week, and each will give you a series of quests. Most of them require items that you can purchase or craft, but sometimes they ask for a favor. Those favors usually imply progressing with another NPC questline so if you feel blocked try to continue the other available quests. If they ask for an item, you can, of course, carry it with you before meeting them and accepting the quest in order to avoid unnecessary back and forths.

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This is a reminder of all 6 quest-related NPCs:

The Bishop comes to the Church on the Pride day (icon: circle with dots around, brown color). He arrives with sunrise and stays a bit after sunset.
Ms. Charm comes on Lust day at the Dead Horse tavern in the village (icon: woman symbol, red color). She is available when the sun is up.
The Merchant comes to the tradepost right under the village tavern every Gluttony day (icon: ?? on brown background).
Snake visits the underground next to the cellar, and then in front of the dungeon entrance during the night between Gluttony and Envy days (icon: a circle with horns on green background).
The Inquisitor comes on Wrath day (icon: male on dark brown background) at the Witch Hill (there is a blocked path leading North towards the Witch hill on your way between your house and the wheat farm).
The Astrologer comes to the lighthouse during sunrise on Sloth day (icon: crescent moon on blue background).

THE BISHOP

1- Upgrade the graveyard quality to 5. This can be done by removing bushes, fixing existing decorations and adding more. Please read the walkthrough pages if you need help. Make sure to have carrots at the ready, or at least some carrot seeds before turning the quest in, as the donkey will go on a strike. From then on, he will deliver corpses only if you give him carrots.

2- Craft 20 bowls. When you accept this quest the Bishop gives you the technology required to craft them.

Potter's wheel: 1 Clay + 1 Water = 3 bowls. Collect water in the well just outside of your house, and there is a clay deposit South from the graveyard.

3- Upgrade the graveyard to 30. Keep burying corpses and add some decorations. I recommend cheap stone decorations for now.

4- Improve the church to 20. At this point in the game, you should focus on adding 6 benches, and as many candelabras II as you can. You can buy some candles from the Bishop and use them to reach temporarily 20 quality and turn in the quest. Remember that they burn for only 1 day so do that on Bishop day.

5- Give him 4 bronze star quality fillet. Don't bring silver of gold quality, only bronze. You could fish and then cook bronze fishes, but the easiest way is to purchase them from the lighthouse keeper (on any day, I'm not talking about the astrologer). If you haven't been to the lighthouse yet, it's as South East as possible on the map, East from the village.

6- Purchase a building permit from the mailbox next to the church for 20 silver. You need 3 extra silver for gaining the right to perform sermons again by purchasing rightful citizenship from the same mailbox. If you have between 20 and 23 silver I suggest you wait an extra week, sell stuff or perform sermon before turning this quest (as you'll gain more than 3 silver by next week hopefully).

7- Upgrade the church to 50. This requires either a lot of high-quality candles, better decorations or a mix of both. I chose the latter option, having 40 base quality and adding a few candles. Indeed, I chose to run the gold quality Faith sermon (my favorite by far) which requires 50 quality itself. 40 quality gave me an 80% chance of success, which was enough in my books. I built 6 soft church benches (get silk from the merchant), 2 confessionals and 6 candelabras II. Confessional II is a nice and cheap upgrade as well.

8- Upgrade graveyard quality to 200. It's really not complicated and you shouldn't try to hurry this quest. You could do that only in the eastern part of the graveyard but it is easier to unlock the western part of it. Simply read the sign left of the church, and talk to the Inquisitor. You'll need 20 happiness points with him and he will give/sell you the papers required to use the entire graveyard. You can reach around 1250 quality in total in the graveyard, and this is the last quest related to graveyard quality. As you can see, there is a LOT of room for further improvement: no need to optimize anything.

Please note that when your graveyard is in the 150-200 quality range, Yorrick (the ghost from the tutorial) will enter rage mode and wreck some of your decorations once during night time. They are chosen randomly and can obviously be repaired with the appropriate toolkits. I personally lost about 20 quality but it could have been much worse. Don't panic and prepare a few stone kits (1 piece of stone + 2 simple iron parts + 1 clay = 4 stone kits).

Bonus quest: build 3 marble statues while reaching 200 quality. Indeed, the Bishop asks you to build 3 gold quality carved pieces of marble. First, craft 3 gold quality steel chisels. They require wooden sticks, steel parts, and lenses at the carpenter's workbench II. Each statue also requires 1 polished brick of marble and 5 faith points.

9- Bring the aristocrat papers. This cost 12 gold coins and should stop you in this questline for a while. Most NPC requires you to get those papers, and this is your long term goal.

10- Get an "accepted invitation" from the inquisitor. He'll refuse, so ask the merchant. He will accept when you reach 90 happiness with him. Get back to the Bishop and enjoy the cut scenes.

THE MERCHANT

1- Bring him 12 carrots, 12 cabbage, and 12 beets. You could purchase them to the farmer but early in the game, you are tight on money. It's much better to purchase seeds and grow the vegetables yourself. Don't rush this as the next quest requires an extravagant amount of money. Read the section again if you need more info on harvesting vegetables.

THE INQUISITOR

1- Come back next week. Yes, nothing else.

2- Bring 20 firewood and 10 flyers. Firewood can be crafted from wood billets at the chopping spot. For the flyers, the list of recipes is the following:

1 clean paper + 1 pen&ink = 5 flyers

5 bat wings -> 2 pigskin paper and 1 pigskin paper = 4 clean papers (church workbench)

3 feathers + 1 ink = 1 pen&ink (Both ingredients can be purchased from the astrologer)

Alternatively, you can craft the ink with 1 black paint + 1 conical flask + 1 water. Black paint has several recipes but the easiest is 1 graphite powder + 1 water

5 coal + 10 fuel = 1 graphite (furnace) and 1 graphite -> 2 graphite powder (alchemy mill)

I recommend crafting 50 flyers in total, 10 for the inquisitor and 40 for the merchant.

3- Bring 10 silver quality red wine (again, not gold quality). You can either purchase some at the village inn or grow them yourself in your newly acquired vineyard. I recommend the latter option as red wine is the best option for life and energy until the end game. You will need at least fertilizers I to get silver quality seeds, but it is worth the investment. Once researched, use quality fertilizers on your vineyard, then plant grape seeds. It's much longer to grow than vegetable so be patient. Harvest the fruits, and transform them in your cellar (vine press and winemaking barrel required).

4- Build the tent and bring 5 gold quality burgers and 10 gold quality mugs of beer. Those burgers require you to cook 4 baked meat, 2 bread, and 1 gold onion.

1 flesh (from corpses) -> 1 raw sliced meat -> 2 baked meat

2 flour (purchase or harvest yourself) + 3 water -> 4 dough, 2 dough -> 2 bread

Gold onions need to be grown, but as you'll need them for another quest AND for crates. It's crucial to massively harvest them, so research fertilizers II and use quality fertilizer II in your garden and grow onions. For the beer, the recipe is 50 water, 3 gold quality hops and 15 Wheat. Hops and hops seeds can be purchased from the miller but only if you have unlock the second level with him. You should buy or purchase wheat with him until then to increase his level. The tent requires 5 hemp rope (purchased from Dig east of the village), 15 wooden plank (carpenter's workbench or circular saw) and 20 nails (any anvil).

Once the tent is built and stocked with food and beer, talk to the inquisitor. You'll need to assist to a few additional burnings, so come back every following week.

5-Talk with the inquisitor to progress in the questline (requires 75 happiness with him). Another quick quest, providing that you have done the previous ones.

6-Talk with the inquisitor next week. There is a missable achievement during this dialogue (pick the Gerry related option). Then you unlock the ability to gather dark organs from corpses. Now when you get corpses pay attention to those dark organs and collect 1 of each (brain, heart, and intestine). Study them for a crazy amount of blue points and then hand them over to the inquisitor.

7-There are a few other quests involving the inquisitor, but you only need to talk to him while having enough happiness points with him. You get those points by completing the quests above in this section.

SNAKE

1- Bring him 5 Faith points. You earn them with sermons so you need to restore the church first (Bishop quest 1).

2- Bring him the dungeon key. First, ask the astrologer about the Keepers journal, he will also give you a key. Now talk to Snake for the instructions, and then study the key on the study table with the instructions (requires 2 Faith and 2 science points). You get the active key that you need to show to Snake.

3- Talk to Snake for a cutscene. You can now grab the Keepers journal for the astrologer back in the room with the fire trap. Snake wants 5 bloody nails and 1 bucket of blood. Nails comes from Iron maidens enemies (dungeon levels 3 and above). The bucket can be crafted at the church workbench but it is easier to obtain it in a chest in dungeon level 5.

4- You are now able to ask Snake about Mrs. Charm necklace as part of her quest n°4. Snake asks you for the Necronomicon from the Astrologer. You need to progress far enough with the astrologer until he asks for the restoration tools. Snake has them and gives them to you. Now get back to the astrologer and once his book is fully restored, he tells you that the Lighthouse keeper has the Necronomicon. He'll give it to you for 5 maggots, that you can obtain alongside with peat when you process crop waste in the compost heap. Once you have the Necronomicon, return to snake to complete the quest.

5- Decorate the dark church until you reach 20 quality. This is actually the maximum and you'll need to craft a decoration for every spot available. This requires a hefty number of bones, skulls, and blood, taken from corpses. You want 2 blood fountains and fill them with 10 blood each. Build 2 of each: crucified skeleton, crucified skeleton on the wall, skulls in the wall, skulls in a column. This requires a grand total of 24 skulls, 20 blood, 8 wooden beams, 2 silver pumpkins, 10 polished bricks of stone and 2 stone repair kits.

6- Give Snake a damask sword with a gem. You can craft it for 1 steel sword, 1 faceted diamond, and 3 gold jewelry details, or purchase it from Koukol near the fort (North East from the village). He appears at night and sells the sword for 1 gold 50 silver. If you already mined some gold and diamonds in the dungeon it is more efficient to craft the sword yourself. After the cutscene talk to Snake once more.

7- Bring a wooden plank and follow Snake. Don't forget to mine the boulder and loot the medallion.

8- Bring the golden apple. It lies in dungeon level 15, or you can buy it from Clotho for 10 gold coins. Get it from the dungeon as you need to complete it for another achievement anyway.

9- Bring a dark heart from a corpse. You need to progress in the Inquisitor questline far enough to be able to harvest dark organs (6th quest).

Before turning in this last quest, ensure that you have finished all the other quests involving Snake: get the restoration tools for the astrologer (40 happiness), learn about Mrs. Charm necklace (30 happiness), and at 60 happiness he also tells you where are the parts for the laser. After to hand over the dark heart there is a cutscene ending this questline, and Snake will NOT show up again. Ever. You've been warned.

THE ASTROLOGER

1- Talk to the poet in the village tavern. Then bring a skull to the astrologer. Make sure to have one before making the long trip to the lighthouse!

2- Retrieve the keeper's journal. The astrologer gives you a key (for Snake quest n°2). Complete snake quest 2 and once you open the gate you can grab the journal in the room where you died in the fire trap.

3- Clean the journal, with acid purchased from Clotho in the swamp or crafted at the alchemy workbench II. Then bring him restoration tools, that Snake kept all along (part of Snake quest n°4).

4- Now the Astrologer tells you that he gave the necronomicon to the lighthouse keeper. He is willing to trade it for you for 5 maggots. Get those from processing crop waste at the compost heap.

5- He wants information about his daughter from the Gipsy baron (North West from the lighthouse, near the entrance of Mountain fort). The baron will tell you everything if you release one of his friends captured by the inquisition. You need 60 happiness with the inquisitor to unock that option with him. Once released, return to the gypsy baron, then to the astrologer.

6- Talk to Mrs. Charm and return to the Astrologer.

7- Now you can get the paper with calculations (to repair the mill) and ask about the parts of the barrel.

8- You need the astrologer as part of Mrs. Charm quest n°11. His plan requires first a Book (silver quality) crafted at the desk (requires a silver softcover or hardcover and a silver chapter). Next week return to the Astrologer with a gold book. It requires gold quality ingredients obvously, and preferably writing perks.

9- Bring him aristocrat papers. They cost 12 gold. Showing them to the Astrologer concludes both his and Mrs Charm questlines.

MRS CHARM

1- Give her 5 Faith points (acquired from sermons).

2- Give her 10 Faith.

3- Give fake coins to snake and return to her.

4- She wants information about her necklace. You need 30 happiness with Snake to get that information from him. He points you toward Mountain fort. One screen West from there is Koukol. He tells you that you can't get the necklace. Return to Mrs. Charm.

5- Get Mr's Chain perfume (she is the red haired woman, also in the tavern). Mrs. Chain asks you to give Clotho a basket of food, and bring back 12 frogs. You can purchase them from Clotho or you can fish them in the swamp and near the Village. Once both tasks are done, Mrs. Chain accepts to give you the perfum, so return it to Mrs. Charm.

6- Bring her 1 jewelry to promote the vegetable business as part of the Merchant quest n°7. Recipe is 1 gold jewelry detail + 1 faceted diamond + 2 Faith. The best is to mine diamond in the dungeon (level 8 and higher). The gold jewelry details require 1 gold ingot, 1 steel parts, and 2 Faith. Get gold nuggets from the dungeon (level 6 and higher) and transform them in the furnace II into gold ingots. Steel part requires 1 steel ingot and 2 ceramic bows, also at the furnace II. All of those recipes are unlocked through their corresponding technologies.

7- Give her 1 story (gold quality). You can earn some just for completing main quests (journalist perk), studying items (curious mind perk), and from the confessional if you chose to build one in the church. If you need to craft one, you need 10 Faith, 1 pen&ink and 1 clean paper. You'll need both writing perks and the prayer for imagination to reach gold quality.

8- Talk to the farmer and then to the miller to receive incomplete instructions. To get the paper with calculations, talk to the Astrologer when you have 60 happiness with him. Once obtained, gather 5 complex iron parts and 6 wooden planks and return to the mill to fix it. Speak to the farmer again.

9- Bring her the aristocrat papers.

10- Talk to Wagner and give him a fly agaric infusion. Mix 1 booze (brewed at the alcohol distiller in the cellar) and 3 red mushrooms (from the swamp, requires Master gatherer perk) in the alcohol distiller, still in the cellar. Return to the tavern the next day, and then to the cliffs located North East of the map near Mountain fort. Wagner can be found in some bushes.

11- Talk to Mrs charm, and then to the Astrologer. Complete his quests n°8 and 9, which will conclude both his and Mrs. Charm questlines.

Once all questlines are complete, you now have all 6 items required to complete the game. Return to the Witch hills and place them on the pedestal to unlock the last cut scenes and finish the story. You can still play the game if you wish to, but remember that Snake will NOT show up again, as mentioned earlier at the end of his questline.

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