GRAVEYARD KEEPER 2 Getting started

Graveyard Keeper 2 beginner guide.

A short route into your first garden and workshop, followed by a reusable project checklist.

  • Garden
  • Workshop
  • First projects
The garden and yard — an overview of your starting workspace.Official Steam screenshot · Lazy Bear Games / tinyBuild ↗

THE SHORT ANSWER

Follow the opening tutorial, start a small wheat garden, and build toward a working kitchen. Sleep before ending a session: the published walkthrough identifies sleep as the save trigger.

Your first useful projects

Adapted from the linked GuideLVL walkthrough. This is a launch-period, secondary-source route, not a speedrun or a route tested by this site.

  1. Finish the first burial tutorial. Take the burial certificate to the village innkeeper. Keep following the tutorial prompts before branching into larger projects.
  2. Plant a small wheat crop. The walkthrough uses 16 wheat seeds across four beds after unlocking gardening. The first harvest gives you a food-production input.
  3. Build the early wood stations. Start with the sawhorse, then the chopping block, wooden anvil and wooden workbench. Check the blueprint before spending your research points.
  4. Get the kitchen running. Repair it, add the millstone and research bread. Fuel comes from a woodshed serving the area, rather than being placed directly in each stove.

Checkpoint: you have harvested wheat and can follow the flour → dough → bread chain. Then work toward the cellar and the Plague Doctor’s quests.

Make a plan for your next project

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Choose your next task

Already have a worker? Use the assignment steps. Have an unlocked factory? Try the small iron line. Before a sermon, check Gratitude refill options.

Sources & version

Opening hours; published September 2026 walkthrough, exact patch unspecified

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