Graveyard Keeper 2 Body Prep & Surgery

Every corpse is a pile of skulls waiting to be sorted. Remove the right parts and a red-skull body becomes a white-skull asset worth burying or raising; remove the wrong ones and you destroy value permanently. Here is the full body-prep checklist.

What to Remove From a Body

• Remove: blood and fat. Both turn red skulls white with no downside. This is the first thing to do to every corpse.
• Remove: organs — conditionally. Brain, heart and intestine each roll between roughly -3 and +3 skulls, and the roll is fixed per corpse. Extract the bad ones; but see the Cultist note below before blindly cutting.
• Keep: flesh and skin. Removing flesh kills white skulls outright; removing skin flips white skulls to red. There is no scenario where stripping them helps.
• Dark organs: removing them clears reds — useful on corpses you intend to bury for rating.

Red vs White Skulls

• White skulls — bury them for graveyard rating; raise them into zombie efficiency (+2.5% each)
• Red skulls — burying them lowers your graveyard score; on a zombie they were harmless in GK1, but in GK2 the red skull count caps the zombie’s skill perks, so a corrupted corpse is now a permanently limited worker
• The two levers — blood/fat extraction and organ swaps — are the same two levers that mattered in GK1

Injections & Embalming Order

Surgery Mistakes

Botched extractions apply Surgeon’s Mistakes, which subtract white skulls. In GK1 the permanent fix was stacking the Butcher and Surgeon perks and upgrading to Preparation Place II. If a corpse matters, do not operate without them.

Step-by-Step: Perfect Corpse

1. Refrigerate or embalm on arrival so decay does not burn quality
2. Extract blood and fat
3. Extract and evaluate organs (with the Cultist perk) — swap in the +3 rolls
4. Inject Preservation → Lye → Glue → Silver → Gold
5. Decide the fate: bury for graveyard rating, or raise at the Resurrection Table

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