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Graveyard Keeper 2 Writing Desk

Updated 2026-09-30 · Searched as “graveyard keeper 2 writing desk”

Short answer

The Writing Desk is the Book writing workbench in the Writing Basement. Research Writing Basic, then build it for 4 Wooden Plank, 6 Bronze Nails and 1 Polished Bronze — the Polished Bronze is what stops most players. It makes 21 recipes, including paper, ink, stories and every prayer your sermons use, and a zombie can staff it.

The keeper stands beside a glowing table and circular symbols inside the Astrologer's Tower.

The Astrologer's Tower

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Official promotional screenshot · © Lazy Bear Games / tinyBuild · Official media kit · Material credits

Unlock and build cost

The desk comes from the Writing Basic technology and can only be built in the Writing Basement.

It costs 4 Wooden Plank, 6 Bronze Nails and 1 Polished Bronze.

Polished Bronze has its own unlock chain. Our Polished Bronze guide explains it, and the Bronze Nails guide covers a steady nail supply.

The 21 recipes

Materials: Clean Paper, Leather Scroll, Blank Softcover Notebook and Ink.

Research and books: Primer, Science Kit I and II, Dictionary, Music Notes, Story, and Improve Story I and II.

Prayers: Faith Prayer, Money Prayer, Prayer for Repose, Prayer for Storms, Combat Prayer, Combo Prayer, Harvest Prayer, Prayer for Excellence and Hypno Prayer.

Why it matters

Sermons need prayers, and prayers only come from this desk, so it is the heart of the Faith economy.

Notebooks, Ink and Stories from the desk also make Printed Poetry, the item that finishes the Necronomicon quest.

Prayer for Storms is one of the prayers that pays 30 bronze per point of graveyard quality.

Unlock the Temple, improve Splendor, Gratitude, Prayers and Theology, then hold weekly Mass to earn Faith.

An original summary of the weekly Faith routine that the desk's prayers feed. Not a Writing Desk screen.

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Original diagram · Graveyard Keeper 2 Wiki · editorial illustration · Original wiki diagram

Zombies at the desk

A zombie can work the desk. It starts a recipe only when its own mastery reaches that recipe's requirement.

The desk does not work on its own, so it needs you or a zombie at it. It is worked with bare hands; no tool is needed.

Perks for writers

Scribe gives +4 Book writing mastery at the Writing Desk. Paper maker raises paper output: Clean Paper 10 instead of 6, Leather Scroll 6 instead of 4.

Sermon writer cuts energy on 9 desk recipes from 4 to 2 per tick, and Like a King starts Stories with 2 successful ticks done.

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