The crafting chain the route needs (plus farming basics)
Every station and recipe the walkthrough leans on, in the order you’ll need them.
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Graveyard Keeper 2 has hundreds of recipes, but the story only leans on a few chains: wood, bronze, Melted Fat, bricks and stone, iron, a set of kits, and paper and ink. This page lays them out in the order the route reaches them, and starts with the farming you need in Phase 1.
How a recipe unlocks
- Five things have to line up before you can make anything:
- Research — red, green or blue points buy the technology that unlocks the recipe or the station. A few technologies also check a character’s reputation (see reputation).
- The station, placed from a building desk (Yard, Garden, Alchemy Lab, Writing Room…).
- An extension, when the recipe names one — the Tool Rack for most kits, the Hardening Bucket on an anvil for tools and Iron Kits.
- Mastery in the right skill (Building, Smithing, Farming, Anatomy, Book writing). Tools in your tool belt add to it.
- The tool the job asks for: by hand, Hammer, Axe, Shovel…
Farming basics (Phase 1)
- Herm wants 5 Wheat, and wheat takes days to grow — that’s why the route plants it first.
- Setting up:
- Research Gardening (5 green) and place a Garden Bed from the Garden building desk. It costs no materials; finishing it needs a shovel and Farming mastery 2.
- Buy Wheat seed from Herm. Seeds are sold and planted in groups of four.
- Plant, then let it grow. Harvest when the bed shows it’s ready; each harvest also gives 2 Leaves.
| Seed | Plot | Mastery to plant safely | Perfect harvest from 4 seeds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheat seed | Garden bed | 2 | 6 Wheat + 6 seeds |
| Carrot seed | Garden bed | 4 | 6 Carrots + 6 seeds |
| Flax Seed | Garden bed | 5 | 6 Flax + 6 seeds |
| Beet Seed | Garden bed | 6 | 6 Beets + 6 seeds |
- You can plant below the listed mastery, but each planting step may fail. If all four fail, a wheat bed still gives about 4 Wheat and 4 seeds — enough for Herm, just slower to build a stock.
- Fertilizer, once you want more:
- Fertilizers I (10 green) unlocks the Compost Pile (Board x2, Stick x12): 8 Leaves → 2 Peat (Farming 1).
- Crop Boosting Fertilizer I: Peat x2 + Dream Dust x1 at the Formulation Bench (Anatomy 2). Applied before planting, it lifts a perfect wheat harvest to 7 + 7.
The stations, in the order the route builds them
| Station | Research | Materials | Phase |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sawhorse | The Concept of Wood (2 red, 2 green) | Board x2, Stick x4 | 1 |
| Wooden Anvil | Bronze Works (5 red) | Short Log x1, Stone x1 | 1 |
| Woodworking Workbench I | Woodworking I (10 red) | Board x8, Bronze Nails x4 | 1 |
| Stonemason’s Workbench | The Concept of Stone (15 red) | Wooden Plank x2, Bronze Nails x2 | 1 |
| Potter’s Wheel | Pottery I (10 red, 5 green) | Wooden Plank x2, Piece of stone x1 | 1 |
| Kiln | Brick Making (15 red, 5 green) | Piece of stone x4, Clay x5, Water x5 | 1 |
| Distillation Cube | Alchemy, Distillation (5 red, 5 green) | Wooden Plank x2, Bronze Detail x2, Brick x12 — in the lab | 3 |
| Furnace I | Bronze Melting (10 red) | Piece of stone x6, Brick x12 | 1 |
| Hardening Bucket | The second Bronze Works (30 red, after Bronze Melting) | Wooden Plank x4, Bronze Nails x8 — attaches to an anvil | 1 |
| Tool Rack | Tool Rack (35 red) | Wooden Plank x2, Bronze Detail x4, Bronze Nails x6 — attaches to a workbench | 4 |
| Woodworking Workbench II | Woodworking II (40 red, 5 green) | Oiled Plank x4, Polished Bronze x2 | 5 |
| Furnace II | Iron Forge (35 red) | Polished Stone x6, Polished Bronze x2, Brick x12 | 5 |
| Iron Anvil | Iron Smithing (50 red) | Piece of stone x4, Iron Ingot x2 | 5 |
| Writing Desk | Writing Basic (5 red, 5 green) | Wooden Plank x4, Bronze Nails x6, Polished Bronze x1 — Writing Room | 6 |
- Every station on this list is finished with a Hammer at Building 2, except the two extensions, which are placed directly. All of them except the Distillation Cube and the Writing Desk go on the Yard building desk.
Wood
| Makes | From | Where | Mastery |
|---|---|---|---|
| Board x4 | Log x1 | Sawhorse | Building 1 |
| Short Log x2 | Log x1 | Sawhorse | Building 1 |
| Wooden Plank x1 | Board x1 | Woodworking Workbench | Building 2 |
| Oiled Plank x4 | Wooden Plank x4, Melted Fat x1 | Woodworking Workbench (Oiled wood research, which needs the Tool Rack research) | Building 4 |
| Reinforced Plank x1 | Oiled Plank x1, Bronze Detail x2 | Any anvil, Hammer | Smithing 4 |
| Wooden beam x2 | Log x1 | Circular Saw | Building 6 |
| Oiled Beam x2 | Wooden beam x2, Melted Fat x1 | Woodworking Workbench II | Building 6 |
| Firewood x10 | Short Log x1 or Stick x20 | Chopping Spot, Axe | Building 2 |
| Fuel x20 | Firewood x2 | Firewood shed | Smithing 1 |
Bronze
| Makes | From | Where | Mastery |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze Nails x6 | Bronze Scrap x1 | Any anvil, Hammer | Smithing 1 |
| Bronze Ingot x2 | Bronze Scrap x3, Fuel x10 | Furnace I or II | Smithing 1 |
| Bronze Nails x12 | Bronze Ingot x1 | Any anvil, Hammer | Smithing 2 |
| Bronze Detail x6 | Bronze Ingot x1 | Anvil + Hardening Bucket, Hammer | Smithing 2 |
| Polished Bronze x2 | Bronze Detail x2, Sand x2, Melted Fat x1 | Workbench + Tool Rack (Bronze Polishing) | Building 5 |
| Bronze Gear x3 | Bronze Ingot x1 | Iron Anvil, Hammer | Smithing 5 |
- Bronze Scrap comes from breaking debris with an axe early on; Herm, the Trademaster, the Bishop and Harold also stock it.
Melted Fat, clay and stone
| Makes | From | Where | Mastery |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melted Fat x4 | Fat x1, Clay Plate x2, Fuel x20 | Distillation Cube | Anatomy 1 |
| Clay Plate x3 | Clay x2 | Potter’s Wheel | Building 2 |
| Brick x6 | Clay x4, Fuel x20 | Kiln | Building 3 |
| Stone Kit x1 | Stone x2, Polished Stone x1 | Stonemason’s Workbench + Tool Rack (Stone Polishing) | Building 5 |
- Clay is dug with a shovel south of the graveyard (Building 2). Piece of stone: Stone x2 + Wood wedge x4 → Piece of stone x4 at the Stonemason’s Workbench, Building 3 (The Concept of Stone). Polished Stone comes from the Stone Polishing research (20 red, 5 green): Piece of stone x4 + Melted Fat x1 + Sand x2 → Polished Stone x4 at the Stonemason’s Workbench with a Tool Rack, Building 5. The Builder shop sells both once you have it.
Iron
| Makes | From | Where | Mastery |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Ingot x3 | Iron Ore x3, Fuel x30 | Furnace II (Iron Forge) | Smithing 5 |
| Iron Detail x6 | Iron Ingot x1 | Iron Anvil, Hammer (Iron Works) | Smithing 6 |
| Iron Nails x12 | Iron Ingot x1 | Iron Anvil, Hammer (Iron Smithing) | Smithing 6 |
| Iron Kit I x1 | Iron Ingot x1 | Iron Anvil + Hardening Bucket, Hammer (Iron Works) | Smithing 7 |
- Iron Ore: the Trademaster on the Main Pier sells 10 at a time, and so do the Bishop and Harold later. You can also mine iron rocks (Pickaxe, mastery 3, 3 ore per stage): one southeast and one southwest of the graveyard, plus several around the forest bandit camp and the quarry.
- The research path is Bronze Polishing → Iron Forge (35 red) → Iron Smithing (50 red) → Iron Works (75 red). The Tool Rack (35 red) sits alongside it and is needed by almost every kit.
Kits
- Kits are what the story hands in most often. Here is every one the route asks for, and who wants it.
| Kit | Recipe | Where | Who asks for it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Kit | Stone x2, Polished Stone x1 | Stonemason’s Workbench + Tool Rack, Building 5 | Agatha (2); inside every Building Kit I |
| Building Kit I | Stone Kit x1, Brick x6 | Woodworking Workbench + Tool Rack, Building 5 (Houses Repairing) | Linda’s shop (4), Jack’s workshop (5), Agatha (2), Harold (2) |
| Wooden Kit I ×2 | Wooden Plank x3, Oiled Plank x1 | Woodworking Workbench + Tool Rack, Building 5 | Linda’s shop (3), Jack’s workshop (5), Agatha (2) |
| Iron Kit I | Iron Ingot x1 | Iron Anvil + Hardening Bucket, Smithing 7 | Linda’s shop (1) |
| Furniture Kit I | Wooden Kit I x1, Iron Kit I x1 | Woodworking Workbench II, Building 6 | Agatha (2) |
| Iron Kit II ×4 | Iron Ingot x1, Clay Molds x2 | Smithy II + Bellows, Smithing 5 | Harold (1) |
| Wooden Kit II ×3 | Special Wood x1 | Assembly bench II/III + Drill press, Building 7 | Agatha’s house (2, plus 1 inside each Furniture Kit II) |
| Furniture Kit II | Wooden Kit II x1, Iron Kit II x1 | Assembly bench III, Building 8 | Agatha’s house (2) |
Paper and ink
- Everything here is made at the Writing Desk in the Writing Room, except the hardcover notebook.
| Makes | From | Research | Book writing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leather Scroll x4 | Skin x1 (from an autopsy) | Writing Basic | 1 |
| Clean Paper x6 | Leather Scroll x1 | Writing Supplies | 1 |
| Ink x4 | Ash x1, Water x1, Melted Fat x1 | Writing Supplies | 2 |
| Blank Softcover Notebook x2 | Leather Scroll x1, Clean Paper x4 | Books I | 2 |
| Music Notes x1 | Clean Paper x2, Ink x1 | Church Music I | 5 |
| Blank Hardcover Notebook x1 | Blank Softcover Notebook x2, Golden ingot x1 — at the Paper Press | Writing Tools II | 4 |
- Ash is sold only by the Apothecary; Water comes from the well in your garden, ten per draw.