Graveyard Keeper 2 Crafting Stations

Launch week’s biggest crafting searches — writing desk +450%, formulation bench +2,000%, distillation cube +1,050% — are all stations, and they are not interchangeable. Here is what each one does and which one you need next.

Writing Desk: The Science Station

The Writing Desk sits in the basement under your home (trapdoor in the back room, opened by the “Dust in the Kitchen” quest). It manufactures Science Kits — the only source of Science Points in the game, which is why the research page calls it the spine of the tech tree:

• Kits decompose into Science Points at the Study Table in the Alchemy Lab — which unlocks when you first meet the Plague Doctor
• The paper chain: Leather Scroll → Clean Paper → Blank Softcover Notebook. Leather Scrolls are made at the Writing Desk from organs, which ties crafting directly to the sanity mechanic
• Ink gates all Writing Desk output — see alchemy for the ink chain

Formulation Bench: Anatomy Crafts

• Blueprint from the Theology tech tree; built in the Writing Basement (Writing Room category)
• The build costs Polished Bronze — the quest material everyone searched during demo week; see polished bronze
• Recipes require Anatomy mastery 1. Confirmed recipes: Tooth = 1 Skull (4 ticks, 2 energy + 0.2 insanity per tick, +1 red +1 blue tech point; skulls come from “Remove skull” at the Autopsy Table in the Morgue) and Corpse Injection = Melted Fat + Preservative (skill: Corpse Preservation III)

Distillation Cube: Refining Reagents

• Built in the Alchemy Lab (reached through the Inquisition Base), costing Planks + Wooden Beams + Flask Shelf parts
• Gated twice: the tech Alchemy Basic → Alchemy Distillation and the “Dust in the Kitchen” fairy quest that opens the cellar/alchemy content
• Confirmed recipe: Melted Fat = 1 Fat + 1 Pottery Bowl + 1 Fire — the corpse-injection ingredient; higher cube tiers raise the yield from 4 to 7 per batch

Flax & the Spinning Wheel

“Flachs” (flax) is a breakout German search: flax turns into Flax Yarn at a Spinning Wheel via the “Flax Yarn” skill in the Agriculture tech tree. The raw-flax gathering spot is still being verified against the launch build — flagged rather than guessed.

The Factory: Conveyors & Automation

• The late-game automation floor: Conveyor Chest I/II, Zombie Carousel, Assembly Workbench I–III, Forge I/II, Bioreactor, Kitchen I/II
• Large machines need construction level 4 plus a hammer; extensions slot directly into a compatible station without one
• Pair it with the zombie workforce — the factory is where assigned workers stop being porters and start running production lines

A Note on “Green Scroll” & Runes

“Green scroll” broke out at launch, but no green-scroll item has been documented in GK2 — what does exist is the rune-based alchemy system: ingredients carry red/blue/green rune values, only the summed values decide the output, and substitutes work. Water (well), sticks and ash are easy green-rune sources. Ingredients must be studied at the Study Table first, with a flask placed on the Flask Shelf — see alchemy.

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