WhenGraveyard Keeperplayers aren’t putting bodies in the ground and extracting organs for their nefarious plans, there’s no shortage of other activities to engage in - from cooking food offood of varying qualityto fishing and bringing science to the medieval era, there are several wonderful ways to pass the time when players aren’t dealing with the strange townsfolk.
One of the most important hobbies that players can engage in isfarming. While some crops can be purchased from the farmer, others must be grown by the player themselves. To get the carrots that attract the corpse-delivering donkey to their graveyard, a farm should be up and running ASAP. With that in mind, this guide will help new players to unlock farming inGraveyard Keeper.
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How to Unlock Farming in Graveyard Keeper
When players start a new game ofGraveyard Keeper, it’s important to unlock farming as soon as possible so that the titular graveyard doesn’t get neglected due to a lack of body deliveries.
To begin the quest that unlocks farming, players first need to check thegardening benchin the bottom-right section of their homestead, above the path that leads into town. They’ll find it destroyed, and inspecting the wreckage gives the player a prompt to go talk to Horadric.
Talking to Horadric, the owner of the local ‘dead horse’ tavern, gives a new talking prompt:Ask about the Gardento receive theGarden certificate. This will also begin a quest that has players speaking to the Merchant, but progressing it isnotrequired to begin farming.
This certificate allows players to return to the gardening bench and repair it, an act that unlocks theempty garden bedrecipe.
How to farm
The garden bench unlocks farming, but actually putting seeds in the ground requires an empty garden bed. For this, players simply need to place it anywhere on the farm, approach it, and hold a button to prepare the soil for seeds.
Seeds can be purchased from the farmer NPC, who can be found by taking the path south through the cornfield. Carrot seeds can be purchased at a starting price of 9 copper each.
Planting crops inGraveyard Keeperrequires at least four seeds, and, unlike insimilar games, they don’t need to be watered or maintained, meaning that players can simply plant ‘em and forget ‘em. After a few days, they’ll have grown noticeably and can be harvested by holding a button, yielding a random number of crops, and giving some seeds back. Players will also be rewarded with somecrop wastethat is used in some potion recipes.
As players get more advanced, they’ll unlock:
Graveyard Keeperis available on Mobile, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
