Useful answers. Clear sources.

What this site is

Keeper’s Field Guide is an independent, English-language guide site for Graveyard Keeper 2. It exists for one kind of moment: you are mid-game, something has stopped working, and you want the fix without reading a forum thread from the start. Every guide is built around one of those moments, with the answer at the top and the reasoning underneath.

The site covers the sequel only. A lot of older advice online is for the first Graveyard Keeper, and some of it, especially anything about tier-two workstations, sends sequel players the wrong way. When a system works differently from the first game, the guide says so.

What we cover, and what we leave out

The guides cover the systems you deal with every week: zombies and their talents, the factory, crafting chains like iron, wood, clay and bread, farming and fishing, alchemy, the church, happiness and reputation, trading, graveyard quality, battles and achievements. There is also a week planner for the six-day calendar and a page that explains each patch in player terms.

We leave out the late story. Quest names from the opening chapters appear where they are needed, because you cannot explain Jack in a Boat without naming it, but nothing here spoils the ending. We also stay away from mods, save editing and exploits; everything on the site works in an ordinary, up-to-date copy of the game.

• Covered: mechanics, recipes, thresholds, routines and troubleshooting.
• Covered: patch changes that affect play.
• Left out: late-story spoilers.
• Left out: mods, save editing and exploits.

Who the guides are for

Mostly for players in their first few dozen hours, when the game throws the most new systems at you. The beginner guide and the calendar guide assume nothing. The zombie, factory and alchemy guides assume you know the basics and want the rules behind them.

Veterans of the first game are a special case. You will recognise a lot, and that familiarity is exactly what causes trouble when a sequel system works differently. The guides flag those differences where they matter.

How a guide is built

Each guide follows the same order so you always know where to look. A short answer comes first. Then a checklist in the order you should check things. Then an at-a-glance diagram, followed by sections that explain the rules, with tables for recipes, costs, thresholds and timings. Common questions sit near the end, and the sources sit at the very bottom.

Guides are long on purpose. The short answer is there for people in a hurry, and the detail is there for when the short answer is not enough: a worked example, the exceptions, the patch that changed it.

Every guide also ends with links to related pages, picked so that the next question you are likely to have is one click away. Someone fixing an idle zombie usually wants zombie talents or the factory next; someone working on Faith usually wants Town Gratitude.

How we research

Facts come from several kinds of source, and each guide uses more than one. The community database GK2DB is built from the game’s own files, which makes it the best reference for exact numbers: recipe inputs, costs, thresholds, timings. Other guide sites and community FAQs add practical advice and help catch mistakes. The official announcements on Steam settle anything to do with releases and patches.

Where sources disagree, we say so on the page and point you to the place in the game that shows the real number, usually the recipe window or a tooltip. We do not invent figures, and we do not present a layout or strategy as the best one unless there is a reason to believe it.

Keeper’s Field Guide is maintained by GitHub user darren562.

Versions and updates

Every guide shows the game version it was written for and the date it was last updated. Graveyard Keeper 2 was patched four times in its first week, and some of those patches changed the answer to common questions. When a new update lands, we read the official notes, update the patch notes page, and revise any guide whose answer has changed.

Console versions sometimes receive patches later than Steam. If a guide mentions a fix you do not have yet, that is the likely reason.

Dates on a guide mean the page was checked against its sources and the latest official notes on that day. If a guide has not changed for a while, it is usually because nothing in the game has changed for that topic, not because it has been forgotten.

Images and video

The scene images on this site are official promotional screenshots from the game’s Steam page, credited to Lazy Bear Games and tinyBuild, and used to illustrate the area a guide is about. The trailer is the official release-date trailer, loaded from YouTube only when you press play. The cemetery illustration, the site mark and the diagrams on each guide are original work for this site.

Corrections

If an answer differs from your game, first check the version note on the guide and the patch notes page, since a recent update is the most common reason. Then compare with the sources listed at the bottom of the guide. If the page is wrong, we want to fix it: corrections are made directly on the page, and the updated date changes with them.

An independent fan site

Keeper’s Field Guide is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lazy Bear Games or tinyBuild. Graveyard Keeper 2, its name, characters and game assets belong to their respective owners. The site has no analytics, advertising or accounts at the moment; the privacy page explains what little it does store.