Graveyard Keeper 2 Faith

Sermons open with the quest Holy Moly!, which ends with your first ceremony. That one sermon can be held on any day.

From then on it is one sermon per Wrath, the sixth day of the week. Our calendar guide lists the rest of the week.

The church itself is handed to you with the job — the Town is the part you have to fight for.

Parishioners = the lower of your Likes and your church quality. Church quality is the most people the church can hold.

With no Likes, or church quality at zero, nobody attends and nothing is paid.

Likes come from town orders, selling goods that carry the Likes label, and Town Gratitude (5 Likes each).

Church quality comes from the Choir, the Organ, the Church Smells upgrades and the other church furniture.

Base Faith = parishioners × the prayer's Faith per head, rounded. Base bronze = parishioners × its bronze per head. Both are paid even on a failure.

Success chance = parishioners ÷ the prayer's difficulty, capped at 100%.

A success adds bonus Faith per parishioner, bonus bronze per point of graveyard quality, and the prayer's blessing.

Example from wikily.gg: Basic Prayer I, 20 parishioners, graveyard quality 30 — 11 Faith and 4 silver.

Per parishioner: Basic Prayer 0.25, Faith Prayer 0.3 / 0.4 / 0.5 by grade, Prayer for Repose up to 0.5, Prayer for Old God 1.

Higher grades need more people — Faith Prayer III will not start below 50 parishioners.

Our prayers guide lists every prayer's minimum, its sure-success count and its blessing.

Faith Prayer and Money Prayer are written at the Writing Desk from 1 Story, 3 Clean Paper and 1 Ink at Book writing mastery 8.

A written prayer is not used up, so one good copy serves every Wrath.

Our Writing Desk guide covers the station and its paper chain.

Excessive zombies cuts what every prayer pays. It is checked when a PR Machine program starts or ends, not when you resurrect — see our zombie limit guide.

Hypno Prayer's blessing, God of delusions, clears the penalty the moment it is granted.

Priest: Basic Prayer Faith per head from 0.25 to 0.35.

Cardinal: bronze per head from 5 to 6.

Performer: bonus Faith from 0.3 to 0.4 a head, and bonus bronze from 10 to 12 per graveyard quality point.

Faith is spent rather than banked: studying many items at the Study Table costs Faith as well as Science, and zombie collars cost 3, 5 or 10 Faith at the Jewelry Table.

That is why a steady weekly sermon matters more than one big one.