

This is made apparent during the tutorial when you are shown how to repair grave decorations.

Graves will fall into disrepair over time. After being dug out for burial, the grave has a -2 effect on quality. Grave sites have no effect on when placed or "planned" with the blueprint desk located in the graveyard. (with the Game of Crone DLC the maximum benefit for tombstones is increased to +9 and for fences to +7 resulting in a possible max. As the maximum benefit for tombstones is +7 and fences is +5, no grave can have a rating higher than +12, even if the corpse has more than 12. Graves also have a positive or negative effect on the rating, based on the corpse quality and grave decorations. They are obtained by burying or cremating corpses, and can be sold to Horadric at The Dead Horse for 1 50. Your first source of income in the game isīurial certificates. The fence around the whole graveyard can be repaired for +10 and further upgraded for +20. ) Decor ĭecor includes things like lanterns, urns with ashes, flower beds, prayer stations, etc. Corpses that spawned in the graveyard at the start of game may not acknowledge organs or parts added to them, effectively 'eating' the parts with no benefit. (Possible Bug Warning: If you exhume a corpse with 100% freshness from the right/east side of the graveyard, be wary of trying to improve it via autopsy. Additionally, certain autopsy operations increase the base rating of a grave. No grave can have a higher rating than the number of on that corpse. The number of, and in the corpse rating are the basis of the quality. The quality of a buried corpse determines the maximum rating per grave. There are four factors that affect quality: bushes, corpses, decor and graves.īushes are present at the start of the game and do not currently regrow after being removed. It is therefore desirable to have a high.

Nevertheless, the French word originally comes from Greek koimeterion, meaning “a sleeping place”.Graveyard rating is the main factor affecting the amount of money earned by donations in weekly sermons. It comes from Old French cimetiere, which meant, well, graveyard. Of course, the word “cemetery” did not appear out of the blue when graveyards started to burst at the seams. However, you might be surprised to hear that “grave” comes from Proto-Germanic *graban, meaning “to dig”, and it is related to “groove” but not to “gravel”. The origin of “graveyard” is rather obvious it is a yard filled with graves. The etymology of the two words is also quite intriguing. By the end of the 18th century, the unsustainability of church burials became apparent, and completely new places for burying people, independent of graveyards, appeared -and these were called cemeteries. The part of the churchyard used for burial was called graveyard, an example of which you can see in the picture.Īs the population of Europe started to grow, the capacity of graveyards was no longer sufficient (the population of modern Europe is almost 40 times higher than it was in the 7th century). From about the 7th century C.E., the process of burial was firmly in the hands of the Church (the Christian organization), and burying the dead was only allowed on the lands near a church (now referring to the building), the so-called churchyard.
