Graveyard Keeper 2 Factory

What are you trying to do?

• Build a production lineName a goal and get the chain, the machines, the connections and the workers that reach it.
• Fix a line that isn't workingSay where it stops and read the first thing to check, not a list of everything.

Or jump straight to it

• Is my conveyor powered?The game states three things about it: your factory's capacity is limited, operating more carousels raises it, and adding zombies to a carousel raises it again. The Belt Master perk raises what a carousel zombie produces.
• Get a crate to TownA crate that is not being picked up usually has nowhere to be put. A full pallet stops the crate that would go onto it, an occupied station stops the line behind it, and the machine at the back of the line then stops for a reason that belongs to the pallet.
• Join two machinesAdd the pieces in the order your build runs them and the list under it compares every edge: what can leave, what can enter, and what the piece in the middle does with the item between them.
• Check the workersEvery machine below runs a conveyor recipe that consumes this material, with the side the belt has to arrive on.

What Do You Want Your Factory to Do?

Nothing below is recommended until the build has a goal. Choose one and every block that follows answers that goal: the chain, the machines, the workers, the power and the materials.

Choose a goal

• Build my first working lineTake the shortest chain there is and get it running end to end.
• Produce a specific itemName the item and work back through every step that has to run before it.
• Fill a town orderStart from a crate the town asks for and build the line that fills it.
• Check a build I already haveCompare what stands against the machines, workers and power a line needs.
• Fix a line that stoppedWalk the chain in production order and find the first step that cannot run.

The goal decides which questions the blocks below answer.

Why Isn't My Factory Working?

A stopped line is rarely one fault. It is one edge that does not carry, and every piece behind it stopped for a reason that is not its own, which is why replacing the machine that looks idle so often changes nothing.

Where does it stop?

Stops at: Materials never enter

Nothing on this list stops a line on its own. If it is still standing, the cause is in your own build rather than in the rules.

Already ruled out

• ✓OK

  The belt passes an item on

• ?Check yours

  Zombie Carousel is not joined to a belt at all: it states no conveyor connector, so the pieces around it have to reach it another way

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Connection & Logistics Validator

Add the pieces in the order your build runs them and the list under it compares every edge: what can leave, what can enter, and what the piece in the middle does with the item between them.

This compares rules rather than tiles. Every side, every intake and every recipe below is the one the game states for that object, so a green edge means the game allows it, not that your particular arrangement reaches it.

Conveyor Chests, Splitters & Underground Conveyors

These three are where a line goes wrong quietly. Each one is a connector like every other piece, so an edge through one of them has to satisfy the same two rules as any other edge.

A belt segment, a splitter and an underground segment each state the same four sides, so a direction problem is almost never about how a straight segment is laid. It is about the piece at the end of the run.

Supply Station, Pallets & Delivery to Town

A finished crate leaves the line in three separate steps, and almost every stuck-crate question comes from reading them as one.

Reported by players in the current build, around 27 and 28 September 2026.

Nothing above prices the delivery. Which post a crate needs is stated, and how many pallets you have is something only you can see.

Your Minimum Working Setup

Everything a line needs before it runs once: the benches, the connections between them, the workers, the power and the bill.

Choose a goal above and the machines, connections, workers and bill for that line are listed here.

How the Factory System Works

Factory gameplay is about connecting several production steps rather than crafting one recipe in isolation. Raw material enters the line, one station turns it into something an earlier recipe did not produce, and that intermediate item becomes the input of the next station. A chain is only as fast as its slowest step, so the question is never “what does this recipe need” but “what has to happen before it, and where”.

1. Raw resources↓
2. Processing↓
3. Intermediate materials↓
4. Assembly↓
5. Final product↓
6. Storage and delivery

Every arrow is a station, an input and an unlock. A step that is missing stops everything after it, which is why the planner reads the whole chain rather than the target recipe.

How the Factory Opens

The factory floor is reached through a quest chain rather than through one unlock. Finish the quest below, bring what it asks for, and the factory quest becomes available.

The chain is ordered: each quest is offered only after the one above it is finished.

Reaching the factory floor is quest progression, not a production unlock: whether a line can run also depends on its technology, its station and its inputs, which the plan above states with the line.

Plan a Production Line

Pick a target and the page states the steps in the order the chain has to run them, with the station, the inputs, the unlock and whether a worker can take the step.

What the Factory Costs to Build

A line has two different bills. The materials a recipe consumes are spent on every run and are listed with the line; the objects below are paid once, when they are placed, and they are what turns a set of benches into a line.

Conveyor, storage and delivery objects

• Conveyor Chest I

  • Bronze Gear× ×2 · ×4
  • Bronze Detail× ×4
  • Wooden Plank× ×2
  • Advanced Detail× ×4
  • Wooden Joint× ×2

• Supply Pallet

  • Wooden Plank× ×6
  • Wooden beam× ×2 · ×4
  • Bronze Nails× ×12
  • Iron Nails× ×12

• Zombie Carousel

  Conveyor power source

  • Bronze Gear× ×6
  • Iron Detail× ×6
  • Wooden beam× ×4

• Zombie Supplier Station

  • Wooden Plank× ×4
  • Bronze Nails× ×4

• Zombie Supply Porter

  • Wooden Plank× ×4
  • Iron Nails× ×8
  • Iron Detail× ×2

Each price is the one the build menu records for that object, and an object the game places at more than one price lists each of them.

Longest Recorded Production Lines

The chains with the most levels below the target, counted from the recorded data rather than ranked by how popular the item is. A line only counts when an intermediate item has to be produced before the target can be.

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  Marble Cross II

  18 production steps

  17 stations

  Workers can take 4 of 18 steps

  View production line→

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  Marble Cross II

  18 production steps

  17 stations

  Workers can take 4 of 18 steps

  View production line→

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  Marble Fence II

  18 production steps

  17 stations

  Workers can take 4 of 18 steps

  View production line→

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  Marble Fence II

  18 production steps

  17 stations

  Workers can take 4 of 18 steps

  View production line→

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  Master Armor

  7 production steps

  7 stations

  Workers can take 3 of 7 steps

  View production line→

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  Master Armor

  7 production steps

  7 stations

  Workers can take 3 of 7 steps

  View production line→

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  Master Sword

  6 production steps

  4 stations

  Workers can take 3 of 6 steps

  View production line→

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  Master Sword

  6 production steps

  4 stations

  Workers can take 3 of 6 steps

  View production line→

The ranking is read from the recorded chains, so a target that the data only produces in one step is not a production line and is not listed here.

Factory Workstations

The benches that run a chained step: each of them consumes an item another recorded station produces, which is what makes it part of a line rather than a single recipe. The resource stations are listed too, because they are where a chain's raw material enters it.

Check whether an item can be automated→

Factory Power Item

Zombie Power is an item some conveyor recipes spend as an ingredient, which is why a line can stall the way a line out of ore stalls. It is not the same thing as the capacity that limits how much conveyor runs at once — that is the next block.

Recipe costs are stated per run, so the amount a line needs is the amounts below added up rather than a total the line holds. How much of it can be delivered at once is a question about your own build.

Factory Capacity

When every line stops at the same moment, the cause is almost never a machine. A factory runs on capacity, and capacity comes from Zombie Carousels rather than from the Zombie Power item.

Where capacity comes from

The game states three things about it: your factory's capacity is limited, operating more carousels raises it, and adding zombies to a carousel raises it again. The Belt Master perk raises what a carousel zombie produces.

Two things raise it

• +Put a zombie into a carousel that is standing empty
• +Build another Zombie Carousel

Zombie Carousel

A cost per conveyor object is not stated, so this page counts the pieces of a network rather than pricing it. Not confirmed yet — feedback welcome.

Capacity is the one figure here that the game deliberately keeps out of the build menu: it is a limit on the network rather than a price on a piece.

What Each Piece Does

Five objects in this system have names that sound interchangeable and are not, and the misunderstandings between them account for a large share of the questions this page answers.

How to Plan a Factory Layout

The recorded data proves which stations feed which, and that is what a layout can be planned around. It does not prove a best arrangement, so what follows is grouping rather than a blueprint.

Practical layout principles

• Group stations that depend on each other

  Two benches belong next to each other when one produces an item the other consumes on the next step. Keeping that pair together removes the trip between them.

• Reduce movement of intermediate items

  Intermediates are produced and consumed inside the line, so they are the rows that move most often. Build the area around the intermediate rather than around the raw material.

• Separate raw processing from final assembly

  Ore, logs and crops arrive from outside the line, and the finished item leaves it. Neither has to sit inside the assembly area, and both are the parts that scale when the line grows.

• Plan around the stations a worker can take

  If a step is going to run without you, that station needs the space and the route the worker uses. The chain below states which steps accept a worker and which stay manual.

Check which steps a worker can take→

How to Unlock Factory Production

A production step is only available once its technology is researched, and a station is often added by a technology of its own. These are the unlocks the open line sits behind.

Technologies this line needs

Open a production line above and this block lists the technologies its steps record.

Browse the full technology tree

Can Zombies Work in the Factory?

Some production steps accept a zombie worker, while others stay manual or need different conditions. The chain below states which is which for the open target.

Learn how zombie workers, Mastery and tools workCheck whether a specific item can be automated→

Factory Automation

The factory is the structure of production: which steps exist, in what order, at which stations. Automation is what removes the manual step from that structure. Building a line does not automate it, and automating a step does not plan the line around it.

Open the Automation guide

Why Is My Factory Not Producing?

The chain below is the order the line runs in. Walk it from the top: the first step whose inputs or requirements are missing is the one that stops everything after it.

Open a production line above and this block turns it into a checklist.

A checklist states what the game records, not what your save contains. The requirements marked as a check are the ones only you can confirm.

Structure checks out but nothing moves? Diagnose the run

Supplying Your Factory

Every line ends up waiting on something that has to arrive from outside it. These are the raw inputs of the open target, and each one links to the page that answers where it comes from.

Raw inputs this line consumes

Open a production line above and this block lists what has to arrive from outside it.

Find where an item comes from

Factory Progression

Production capability grows with the number of steps a line can run in order, not with the number of recipes known. The bands below count the targets the delivery records at each length.

1. Two-step lines

   One raw or gathered material is processed once before the target exists. This is what a first factory looks like.

   16 production line(s)

   Deepest example: Stone Kit

2. Three to four steps

   A processing step and an assembly step, often at different benches, which is where a station layout starts to matter.

   101 production line(s)

   Deepest example: Alkali

3. Five to six steps

   Kits and components that are themselves produced, so the line has branches and needs storage between the steps.

   73 production line(s)

   Deepest example: Master Sword

4. Seven steps or more

   The deepest chains the delivery records. These are the lines a worker or an automated step has to carry, because no one runs them by hand at scale.

   133 production line(s)

   Deepest example: Marble Cross II

The bands count recorded chain lengths only. They do not place the bands in the story, and they do not claim an order to research them in.

Browse Factory Outputs

Every item a recorded process produces, grouped the way the item payload files it. Each row is a chain, not a recipe: it states how many steps run before the item exists.

Factory Products the Town Orders

Shops and residents ask the town for the crates a factory produces. These are the recorded orders that a production line can fill, with the delivery each one asks for.

Orders a line can fill

• Supply: Appliances I×30BakerUrgent · Repeatable · 50 happiness
• Supply: Appliances I×30BakerRepeatable · 25 happiness
• Supply: Appliances I×30Furniture MakerUrgent · Repeatable · 50 happiness
• Supply: Appliances I×30Furniture MakerRepeatable · 25 happiness
• Supply: Appliances II×30AlchemistUrgent · Repeatable · 50 happiness
• Supply: Appliances II×30AlchemistRepeatable · 25 happiness
• Supply: Appliances II×30BreweryUrgent · Repeatable · 80 happiness
• Supply: Appliances II×30BreweryRepeatable · 25 happiness
• Supply: Beer×20TavernUrgent · Repeatable · 40 happiness
• Supply: Beer×20TavernRepeatable · 25 happiness
• Supply: Building materials I×5JackRepeatable · 10 happiness
• Supply: Building materials I×10SmithyUrgent · Repeatable · 20 happiness
• Supply: Building materials I×10SmithyRepeatable · 25 happiness
• Supply: Building materials II×20SmithyUrgent · Repeatable · 40 happiness
• Supply: Building materials II×20SmithyRepeatable · 40 happiness
• Supply: Clothes I×30Fish StandUrgent · Repeatable · 50 happiness
• Supply: Clothes I×30Fish StandRepeatable · 25 happiness
• Supply: Clothes I×20TailorUrgent · Repeatable · 40 happiness
• Supply: Clothes I×20TailorRepeatable · 20 happiness
• Supply: Clothes II×30TailorUrgent · Repeatable · 50 happiness
• Supply: Clothes II×30TailorRepeatable · 25 happiness
• Supply: Cutlery I×10ApothecaryUrgent · Repeatable · 25 happiness
• Supply: Cutlery I×5ApothecaryRepeatable · 15 happiness
• Supply: Cutlery II×30ApothecaryUrgent · Repeatable · 50 happiness
• Supply: Cutlery II×30ApothecaryRepeatable · 30 happiness
• Supply: Cutlery II×20BreweryUrgent · Repeatable · 70 happiness
• Supply: Cutlery II×20BreweryRepeatable · 25 happiness
• Supply: Engineering Mechanism×20AlchemistUrgent · Repeatable · 40 happiness
• Supply: Engineering Mechanism×20AlchemistRepeatable · 25 happiness
• Supply: Engineering Mechanism×30BuilderUrgent · Repeatable · 50 happiness
• Supply: Engineering Mechanism×30BuilderRepeatable · 25 happiness
• Supply: Engineering Mechanism×30JewelerUrgent · Repeatable · 50 happiness
• Supply: Engineering Mechanism×30JewelerRepeatable · 25 happiness
• Supply: Engineering Mechanism×30SmithyUrgent · Repeatable · 50 happiness