Cemetery Rating question

[older than dirt]

I have filled cemetery right side of church. I had a 5 rating, but before the church official returned it went down to 3. Now I have bodies gathering that I can't inter since I can't do anything else to improve cemetery. Any ideas would be appreciated.

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[Tenebrais]

You need much better quality bodies in there. Examine the graves and look at the number of red skulls on the bodies - each red skull reduces your graveyard rating by 1!

Buy exhumation permissions from the mailbox and dig up anything with lots of red skulls. You can improve bodies by removing certain parts at the autopsy bench, or you can just cremate them to get rid of them. You really don't want to bury anything with more than one red skull.

[older than dirt]

Mailbox at the church? I can't use it yet, nothing available.

[Embaye]

this will be explained through out the game.
in your ESC-Menue are Tutorials for the basics of the game

[older than dirt]

OK, I just feel like I have messed up. I can't repair church, use mailbox, etc. since I am stuck a 3 rating. I guess I am wondering if I need to start over since I can't exhume graves.

[GlassDeviant]

1) Fix the damaged gravestone in row 3 (from the front), position 2 with a Stone Repair Kit.
2) Get rid of the negative graves. You can "fix" the bodies with surgery or just replace them with better corpses. If you get all those graves filled, replace all the zero graves with corpses that give positive numbers.

Read about how to do corpses properly, since it's clear you did not read the tutorials when they appeared in game. Read this page thoroughly, ever single word. Read it twice if you have to.

https://graveyardkeeper.gamepedia.com/Corpse

Read especially the Rating section of that page to see what you're doing wrong.

[older than dirt]

Originally posted by Indifferent Orangutan:

1) Fix the damaged gravestone in row 3 (from the front), position 2 with a Stone Repair Kit.
2) Get rid of the negative graves. You can "fix" the bodies with surgery or just replace them with better corpses. If you get all those graves filled, replace all the zero graves with corpses that give positive numbers.

Read about how to do corpses properly, since it's clear you did not read the tutorials when they appeared in game. Read this page thoroughly, ever single word. Read it twice if you have to.

https://graveyardkeeper.gamepedia.com/Corpse

Read especially the Rating section of that page to see what you're doing wrong.

OK, I admit I never read tutorials. Reminds me of assembling things on Christmas Eve and wondering why I had problems. Thanks for all the help.

[HunterSouls]

Can we burn the 3red skulls after exumed?

[Tankfriend]

You can burn any body you want, no matter the number of skulls.

[Guts]

Also look up this page for the advanced way to max out body scores so you can max your graveyard score. The better your graveyard, the better your donations will be at the church.

https://graveyardkeeper.gamepedia.com/12-Skull_Corpse_Preparation

Also if you advance the story enough to find dark organs, you'll gain the ability to get a skill that lets you see the red and white skulls in each organ.

[GlassDeviant]

You can't burn zombies. At least you couldn't the time I tried, maybe that has changed now. I send old zombies down the river. Still no zombie apocalypse. It makes me so sad.

Originally posted by N473:

https://graveyardkeeper.gamepedia.com/12-Skull_Corpse_Preparation

That's fine until you really understand how corpses work in the game, then it just becomes a list you have to look up or memorize because every corpse has to be treated special. It's much easier to have a system where your own decision is whether a corpse will be eventually cremated, buried or zombified. Moreso once you have the Cultist tech because you can actually see the skulls on each part.

[Guts]

Originally posted by Indifferent Orangutan:

You can't burn zombies. At least you couldn't the time I tried, maybe that has changed now. I send old zombies down the river. Still no zombie apocalypse. It makes me so sad.

As long as you get the embalming process right on the zombie (embalm with preservative, alkali, glue, silver, and gold before removing blood and fat) then all that matters is finding the +3 brain, heart, and intestines on zombies. You can get a zombie with 40% efficiency this way. I have one at 38% and it's making gold onions 24/7. With a couple more of those guys, I'll be making more than 1.5 gold a week for doing nothing.

[GlassDeviant]

If I am not going to be cremating it for ashes (needed for columbariaum I/II and certain fertilizers) I process every corpse with lye, glue, silver, gold, restorative (even if it doesn't need it, just to keep it a routine that I don't need to consciously think of) and preservative, in that exact order.

All of my zombies are 40%. No exceptions. Obviously the one or two found buried near the apiary aren't but those aren't "my" zombies. I could take the easy route and make lesser zombies earlier but it works out for me because I never have to remember which one are less than max efficiency when I move them around. The original zombies (I figured out how to always get 2 at the rockslide) stay at the sawmill except for when I first start shipping crates, for a little while, then they go back.

[CloudSeeker]

I never place any corpses in the graveyard until I got everything I need for getting 12 skull corpses. That is unless I need it for upgrades. What I do is to harvest all organs and store them for later use. Then I burn the corpse for ash. Then when I got the Cultist perk that allow me to see the quality of the organs I make perfect corpses from the stockpile of organs I got.

Burning corpses have no real downside. You get a burial certificate, and ash which you require in large amounts.

[CloudSeeker]

Originally posted by Indifferent Orangutan:

All of my zombies are 40%. No exceptions.

I find that far more tedious then it is worth. Especially with the DLC which gives you farm more reasons to have more zombies. I also find it rather pointless to have high % on zombies that do the running jobs. It doesn't seem like they move any faster if they have high % or not.

[Mal Function]

Originally posted by Huntersoul5 PT:

Can we burn the 3red skulls after exumed?

burn em, or rework them, with embalming and skill you can improve a lot of bodies... only thing you cant help is surgical mistakes.