After being dropped into a medieval world of corpses and priests, you find yourself in charge of a graveyard and church in Cemetery caretaker. There's a lot to do if you want a chance to get home, and we'll walk you through it. For starters, you want to perfect the art of autopsy, which is harder than you think.
The ideal corpse requires knowledge of the rotting body, time management and overall luck. Below is everything you need to know to get the perfect autopsy and start burning bodies with impurities. Take a look so you can start making progress on your long journey home.
How to get more corpses
There is only two ways to get bodies in the graveyard: you can either digging up bodies that have already been buried on the property or you can wait for the donkey to give you a new one, provided the mortuary is not currently full.
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If the graveyard is full, no additional bodies will be delivered. You can either dig up previous bodies and dispose of them to make room for new ones, expand the cemetery area, or start cremating bodies instead of burying them.
How to complete an autopsy
Once a body arrives in the graveyard, you have it a limited time to treat the body for burial. Corpses come to 100 percent freshness, and will rapidly decomposes on exposure to the elements.
Pick up the body and take it in the mortuary. Place it on the preparation site to begin the autopsy. As you unlock more tech you will be able to unlock more parts to remove and ways to slow down the degradation.
The the ideal body will only have white skullsand many of them. To get this high score, you have to make very few mistakesif any – which is not entirely up to you. In the base game the most skulls you can get on a single corpse is 12but the DLC expands this to 16 and 26.
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What to remove
Body part
Effect
Blood
Removes a red skull and adds a white skull.
Fat
Removes a red skull and adds a white skull.
Bone
No effect on the body.
Brain
Randomly removes either red skulls or white skulls. Remove at your own risk.
Heart
Randomly removes either red skulls or white skulls. Remove at your own risk.
Intestinal
Randomly removes either red skulls or white skulls. Remove at your own risk.
Dark brain
Removes four red skulls and one white skull.
Dark heart
Removes four red skulls and one white skull.
Dark intestine
Removes four red skulls and one white skull.
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What to leave
Body part
Effect
Skin
Adds a red skull and removes a white skull.
Fat
Adds a red skull and removes a white skull.
Bone
No effect on the body.
Brain
Randomly removes either red skulls or white skulls. Remove at your own risk.
Heart
Randomly removes either red skulls or white skulls. Remove at your own risk.
Intestinal
Randomly removes either red skulls or white skulls. Remove at your own risk.
Dark brain
Removes four red skulls and one white skull.
Dark heart
Removes four red skulls and one white skull.
Dark intestine
Removes four red skulls and one white skull.
You can add parts back to the body to undo the effect if you accidentally remove something.
Surgeon's mistakes happen randomly and is added to the body, although it cannot be removed. This lowers the quality of the body in general.
For every tenth percent that a body loses in freshness, a sickly green skull will be displayed. These bodies cannot be resurrected and will have a generally degraded quality. To stop bodies from decomposingyou must either place them on a pallet to slow down decomposition or use injections to reverse or completely stop the degradation process.
How to dispose of a body
There are several ways you can dispose of a body after an autopsy. For starters, you can bury it in the cemetery and decorate the grounds to increase the graveyard rating. This is the default disposal method, but you can e.geventually unlock cremation to burn the remains to ashes on a funeral pyre.
Second, you can reanimate a corpse to work as a servant in the cemetery. Take the corpse to a resurrection table and create a zombie. You don't get a certificate for this, but you get free labor around the cemetery. This is only available in the Breaking Dead DLC.
Finally, when all else fails, you just might dump the body in the river. This is a quick way to dispose, but it is a financial loss for you. There is no certificate to sell, so be sure to take the parts you need from the body before you dump it. This is really just perfect if you fail the autopsy beyond the limit to save.
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