What's the Point of Acid Injection?

[PhotriusPyrelus]

So after I realized I can't play this game how I want to (not defiling corpses; I don't know why I thought there would be a morality aspect to the game), I started tinkering around with enbalming and autopsying.

I can't see any reason to ever use acid. If you pull all the parts out of a body, it seems to always have no skulls. You can then use the enbalming fluids to get either 3 Red 1 White skulls up to 5 white skulls.

I'm not sure if there's a reason to maximize red skulls, but wether you're trying to maximize red or white skulls, -1 to both is a pointless affect, and if you want no skulls, just take out all the organs.

Can someone explain it to me?

[TheCollector]

If you prepare a corpse properly,you can get 0 red and 12 white skulls for maximum rating at the graveyard but you also need the end game tech to craft marble items to decorate the grave with a +5 marble fence and a +7 marble sculpture for the full +12 rating.

In general red skulls give a negative rating for a grave which has to be compensated by grave decoration before white skulls decoration counts, e.g. a corpse with 3 red and 3 white skulls requires a +3 decoration to be neutral and a +6 decoration to reach a grave value of +3.
If you don't have a +6 decoration but only a +4 decoration, you could use acid to turn the corpse into a 2 red and 2 white skulls corpse which has a rating of +2 with your +4 decoration.
If you end with a 1 red and 13 white skulls corpse, you get a +11 rating with the maximum +12 decoration, but by using acid you can get the full +12 rating.

Usually you can also just tinker with organs to adjust the red / white skulls to the desired numbers.

A higher graveyard rating results in higher revenues from the church (money, faith).

See for further reading :
https://graveyardkeeper.gamepedia.com/Preparation_place
https://graveyardkeeper.gamepedia.com/The_Graveyard
https://graveyardkeeper.gamepedia.com/12-Skull_Corpse_Preparation

[EVIL Shenanigans]

Simply put, I think Acid is just a yang to the Lye's ying. For those working towards 'perfect' corpses - 12W for the graveyard or 16W for zombies - it is almost certainly useless, but there are rare occasions otherwise when it could be utilized, such as the 4-decor example Collector mentioned.

Originally posted by PhotriusPyrelus:

(not defiling corpses; I don't know why I thought there would be a morality aspect to the game)

There was in alpha, but it's been abandoned by the devs ...maybe in a future DLC?

Originally posted by TheCollector:

A higher graveyard rating results in higher revenues from the church (money, faith).

Money only - graveyard quality directly effects the monetary reward from sermons, while church quality directly effects the faith reward.

[VendoMandarinas]

I think the graveyard point is useless after you reach 200 points for the quest. Mine has 500 right now and as of now, using a corpse prayer (gives only +25% money) I'm only getting 20 silver coins. I think it's too low to be impactful to the game, since my zombi farm is getting a lot more money, faster and easier. Investing further into the graveyard seems rather useless unless you want to build the perfect graveyard, I'm just going to get the 50 corpses achievement and let it be because the perks of non-money related prayers are just way better than the money prayer itself.