Graveyard Keeper 2 Faith Guide

Faith is the currency that gates churches, research, alchemy and raising the dead. In GK2 it is produced through the weekly Mass, and the size of the payout is set by two numbers you directly control: Temple quality and Gratitude.

How to Unlock the Church

1. Complete Jack’s boat quest — 5 Wooden Planks and 5 Bronze Details.
2. Craft 5 Clay Plates for the Twins (requires Pottery I and the Potter’s Wheel).
3. Deliver the Nun’s letter, then meet the Nun at the Tavern.
4. The meeting opens the Temple and your first sermon.

How the Faith Payout Works

A sermon’s output is min(Temple quality, Gratitude). Raising only one of the two does nothing — the weaker number is your ceiling. Keep both climbing together and every Mass pays more.

Running the Weekly Mass

• Masses run once per in-game week, on Wrath day — on the calendar it is the day marked with a dark-red male symbol
• A sermon produces roughly 16 Faith with an early Temple (demo-build figure)
• Missing a week wastes an entire cycle of income, so keep a stock of sermon prerequisites

Raising Temple Quality (Splendor)

• Temple improvement comes from Splendor benches — six slots that each take 2 planks and 6 bronze nails
• The Writing Desk is built underground and counts toward Temple progression
• Better quality also unlocks the higher Theology perks below

Raising Gratitude

Gratitude has a maximum of 10 and fills through the town and the dead rather than through the church itself. The demo-build sources:

• Burying bodies properly
• Selling Burial Certificates
• Town Gratitude pages — see town restoration
• Selling food and helping NPCs with their requests

Where Faith Goes

• Technology: advanced tech nodes and the Writing Desk chain
• Raising a zombie — the Resurrection Table costs 10 Faith per worker
• Theology perks (the Priest line), which improve what the church does per week

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