Jack in Graveyard Keeper 2

PC patch 1.010 (October 13) fixes Jack missing during bronze-tool submission and near the boat on the Twins' land. Check your installed version before treating an absent Jack as a reputation requirement; see the linked patch notes for the official changelog.

Jack is a foreman and builder with a shipbuilding background.

You first meet him on Twins' Land during Jack in a Boat; after that he works from Jack's Workshop in The Town.

His reputation is the gate for several factory and steel technologies, so it pays to advance him early.

The first quest asks for 5 Wooden Planks and then 5 Bronze Details.

You also need 10 Village reputation to persuade the brothers to help with the rowing.

Complete the Workshop Hours order at the Town Warehouse and speak to Jack; it gives 10 Jack reputation and one Town Gratitude.

Clear the zombies around his workshop during Jack's Back in Business. Entering the liberated workshop gives another 10 reputation and 2 Town Gratitude.

Then bring 5 Building Kit I and 5 Wooden Kit I, as two separate hand-ins in either order. The repair gives 10 reputation, 2 Town Gratitude and makes you Jack's apprentice.

Delivering only one kit type leaves the workshop unfinished — a common reason the quest seems stuck.

Jack's Back in Business opens once Workshop Hours is done. The journal asks you to clear the zombies around Jack's workshop and then tell him — he is staying at the Town Warehouse.

Clearing them is a battle, Market Square Purge. allthings.how's walkthrough says it needs a Barracks Defense Power of 22 to start, which you raise by crafting barricades in the Barracks.

One squad is enough even though two are allowed. The gate is south of the Barracks, marked by a red shield banner near the Square.

In the fight, put barricades on the choke points, plant the squad banner in the central defense ring and hold until the timer ends. The battle gives 3 Town Gratitude.

Handing in the quest pays +10 Jack reputation, 2 Town Gratitude and 1 Story (bronze), and opens Give Materials — the workshop repair above.

Man of Steel sends you to the Bishop at the Royal Foundry for high-quality steel. Hand Jack 3 Steel Ingots for 10 reputation and 3 Town Gratitude.

It unlocks Factory Tour, which awards another 10 Jack reputation.

Our steel guide covers the route to the Royal Foundry.

60 reputation: required for Stars, Lies, and Contracts, where Gunter recruits Jack as a frontman and Jack signs the PR contract.

70 reputation: needed alongside Iron Products to research Steel Smithing and its Steel Anvil.

80 reputation: unlocks Jack's Pride fragment, a portal fragment reward.

Fextralife also notes a 50-reputation step and his restoration requests before the Conveyors technology opens.

Count what you have done: Workshop Hours, entering the workshop, the repair, Man of Steel and Factory Tour are 10 each.

If you are short, look for the step you skipped — usually the second kit hand-in or the steel delivery.

70 Jack reputation is the steel gate. Together with the Iron Products technology it lets you research Steel Smithing, which unlocks the Steel Anvil.

Steel Ingots themselves are not smelted — they are bought from one vendor, which our steel guide covers.

Jack also posts town orders of his own. wikily.gg lists a Supply: Iron order worth +20 Likes, then a repeatable five-box version at level 2 — our mine guide covers where that iron comes from.