How do sermons work in Graveyard Keeper 2?

One prayer is held a week, on Wrath day. The number of people who come is the smaller of your Happiness and your church quality, and holding the sermon spends that same amount of Happiness. Each prayer states a crowd it needs to start and a bigger crowd that makes it certain; between the two it can miss.

Which prayer should I hold for Faith?

Whichever pays the most at the crowd you can actually seat. That is rarely the biggest prayer: a large one that cannot start pays nothing, and one that can miss pays its smaller amount when it does. Order the week by what you can count on and read the top of the list.

How many people will come to my sermon?

As many as the smaller of your Happiness and your church quality. A high Happiness in a poor church still fills only the poor church, and a fine church with low Happiness sits almost empty. Raising the larger number changes nothing.

Why can't I start this sermon?

Either too few people came, or the prayer is not with you, or it is not Wrath day. Compare your two numbers against the crowd the prayer asks for; if the crowd is fine, check that you are carrying it in your backpack rather than leaving it in a chest.

Why did my sermon fail?

A prayer below its certainty threshold can miss. If your crowd sat between the two numbers, the prayer was allowed to begin and had a real chance to fail, and a failure pays only the base amount.

Does church quality increase Faith?

Not directly. It seats more people, and more people means more Faith at the same rate. A church with more room earns more from the same prayer, but it never changes what one head is worth.

Does graveyard rating affect sermons?

It changes one thing: the money a successful sermon collects. Every point of rating adds to the collection on a good week, and it adds nothing at all when the sermon misses. It brings no extra people to the pews.

What does the Prayer of Storms do?

It asks the God of Storms for a change, and that change is what a zombie run is usually after. The blessing cards below give you the game's own words for it, the length of it, and the other prayers that ask for the same god.

What does the Hypno Prayer do?

It asks a god of its own for a different change, and it pays a good amount of Faith for the crowd it wants. Whether it is worth a week depends on whether you need its effect or would rather spend the same crowd on money.

Graveyard Keeper 2 Sermon Planner — Prayers, Effects, Faith & Success

What do you want out of this week's sermon?

Pick the goal and the week underneath is ordered for it. Faith, money and a blessing are three different things, so they are never averaged into one score.

Your church this week

Three numbers decide every prayer below. They stay in this browser while you plan, so you only type them once.

Happiness

What a sermon spends. Everything it draws in, it takes away.

Church quality

A church only seats as many as its own quality allows.

Graveyard rating

It does not fill the church. It only adds to what a successful sermon collects.

Sitting in the pews: 0The smaller of Happiness and church quality, and the only crowd size that matters.
Happiness the sermon uses: 0The same as the crowd, whether the sermon lands or not.
Added by your graveyard: 0Every point of rating adds to the money a successful sermon collects.

Happiness left over

0

Line the next week's up before Wrath day comes round again.

Work out how to refill it

These three numbers are kept in this browser only, and nothing about them leaves your machine.

What this week can actually hold

Grouped by whether a prayer can miss, then ordered by the goal you picked. Every amount is worked out at your own church.

Nothing is measured until you put your numbers in.

Order them byWhat you can count onThe amount that arrives even from a week that goes badly.The long-run averageChance and payout rolled into one figure, for when you mean to keep at it.

RiskShow me everythingThe safe ones first, the gambles under them.Only certaintiesHide anything that could miss.

Not enough people yet

These will not start at your numbers. Each one says what is short.

Basic Prayer ★
Not enough people
Faith you can count on
0
0 if it lands, 0 a week on average
Parishioners
0
Happiness spent
0
Chance of success
Will not start
Starts at / safe at
4 to begin, 8 to be sure
Faith either way
0
Faith on success
0
Money either way
0
Money on success
0
8 more Happiness and 8 more church quality would put this out of reach of failure. Work out the Happiness
Open one prayer in detail
Basic Prayer ★★
Not enough people
Faith you can count on
0
0 if it lands, 0 a week on average
Parishioners
0
Happiness spent
0
Chance of success
Will not start
Starts at / safe at
4 to begin, 8 to be sure
Faith either way
0
Faith on success
0
Money either way
0
Money on success
0
8 more Happiness and 8 more church quality would put this out of reach of failure. Work out the Happiness
Open one prayer in detail
Basic Prayer ★★★
Not enough people
Faith you can count on
0
0 if it lands, 0 a week on average
Parishioners
0
Happiness spent
0
Chance of success
Will not start
Starts at / safe at
4 to begin, 8 to be sure
Faith either way
0
Faith on success
0
Money either way
0
Money on success
0
8 more Happiness and 8 more church quality would put this out of reach of failure. Work out the Happiness
Open one prayer in detail
Combat Prayer ★
Not enough people
Faith you can count on
0
0 if it lands, 0 a week on average
Parishioners
0
Happiness spent
0
Chance of success
Will not start
Starts at / safe at
15 to begin, 40 to be sure
Faith either way
0
Faith on success
0
Money either way
0
Money on success
0
God's fury
You combatants inflict more damage during battles.
40 more Happiness and 40 more church quality would put this out of reach of failure. Work out the Happiness
Open one prayer in detail
Combat Prayer ★★
Not enough people
Faith you can count on
0
0 if it lands, 0 a week on average
Parishioners
0
Happiness spent
0
Chance of success
Will not start
Starts at / safe at
40 to begin, 80 to be sure
Faith either way
0
Faith on success
0
Money either way
0
Money on success
0
God's fury
You combatants inflict more damage during battles.
80 more Happiness and 80 more church quality would put this out of reach of failure. Work out the Happiness
Open one prayer in detail
Combat Prayer ★★★
Not enough people
Faith you can count on
0
0 if it lands, 0 a week on average
Parishioners
0
Happiness spent
0
Chance of success
Will not start
Starts at / safe at
80 to begin, 120 to be sure
Faith either way
0
Faith on success
0
Money either way
0
Money on success
0
God's fury
You combatants inflict more damage during battles.
120 more Happiness and 120 more church quality would put this out of reach of failure. Work out the Happiness
Open one prayer in detail
Combo Prayer ★
Not enough people
Faith you can count on
0
0 if it lands, 0 a week on average
Parishioners
0
Happiness spent
0
Chance of success
Will not start
Starts at / safe at
30 to begin, 60 to be sure
Faith either way
0
Faith on success
0
Money either way
0
Money on success
0
60 more Happiness and 60 more church quality would put this out of reach of failure. Work out the Happiness
Open one prayer in detail
Combo Prayer ★★
Not enough people
Faith you can count on
0
0 if it lands, 0 a week on average
Parishioners
0
Happiness spent
0
Chance of success
Will not start
Starts at / safe at
60 to begin, 120 to be sure
Faith either way
0
Faith on success
0
Money either way
0
Money on success
0
120 more Happiness and 120 more church quality would put this out of reach of failure. Work out the Happiness
Open one prayer in detail

Compare rewards

The same church, read across several prayers at once, so you can see what each one gives up and gains.

One sermon a week. Say what you mean to hold before you spend it.

Put prayers on the table

Tap a prayer to add it, tap it again to take it off. The table follows your numbers.

Clear the table

Prayers side by side
Outcome	Outcome	Chance of success	Blessing
Basic Prayer ★	Not enough people	Will not start	None
Basic Prayer ★★★	Not enough people	Will not start	None
Prayer for Speed	Not enough people	Will not start	Running God
Hypno Prayer ★★★	Not enough people	Will not start	God of delusions

What each blessing really does

A prayer names a god, and that god changes one thing for a length of time. Below is what the game says it changes.

God's fury
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You combatants inflict more damage during battles.
Runs for the shortest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Combat Prayer ★
God's fury
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You combatants inflict more damage during battles.
Some of its 3 star tiers run it longer than others.
Held by
- Combat Prayer ★★
God's fury
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You combatants inflict more damage during battles.
Runs for the longest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Combat Prayer ★★★
God of offer
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You get more Happiness and money from town orders.
Runs for the shortest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Consumption ★
God of offer
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You get more Happiness and money from town orders.
Some of its 3 star tiers run it longer than others.
Held by
- Prayer for Consumption ★★
God of offer
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You get more Happiness and money from town orders.
Runs for the longest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Consumption ★★★
God of dead
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You get better corpses.
Runs for the shortest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Repose ★
God of dead
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You get better corpses.
Some of its 3 star tiers run it longer than others.
Held by
- Prayer for Repose ★★
God of dead
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You get better corpses.
Runs for the longest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Repose ★★★
God of demand
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You urgent town orders are not so urgent.
Runs for the shortest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Demand ★
God of demand
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You urgent town orders are not so urgent.
Some of its 3 star tiers run it longer than others.
Held by
- Prayer for Demand ★★
God of demand
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You urgent town orders are not so urgent.
Runs for the longest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Demand ★★★
God of craftsmen
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You receive bonus talents Talent.
Runs for the shortest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Excellence ★
God of craftsmen
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You receive bonus talents Talent.
Some of its 3 star tiers run it longer than others.
Held by
- Prayer for Excellence ★★
God of craftsmen
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You receive bonus talents Talent.
Runs for the longest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Excellence ★★★
God of nature
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You farms work faster.
Runs for the shortest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Harvest Prayer ★
God of nature
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You farms work faster.
Some of its 3 star tiers run it longer than others.
Held by
- Harvest Prayer ★★
God of nature
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You farms work faster.
Runs for the longest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Harvest Prayer ★★★
God of delusions
For the undeadAsked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
Your debuff for excessive zombies does not work anymore.
Runs for the shortest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Hypno Prayer ★
How a zombie run works
God of delusions
For the undeadAsked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
Your debuff for excessive zombies does not work anymore.
Some of its 3 star tiers run it longer than others.
Held by
- Hypno Prayer ★★
How a zombie run works
God of delusions
For the undeadAsked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
Your debuff for excessive zombies does not work anymore.
Runs for the longest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Hypno Prayer ★★★
How a zombie run works
Creative God
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You have a chance to get stories while working.
Runs for the shortest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Imagination ★
Creative God
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You have a chance to get stories while working.
Some of its 3 star tiers run it longer than others.
Held by
- Prayer for Imagination ★★
Creative God
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You have a chance to get stories while working.
Runs for the longest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Imagination ★★★
God of insane
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You get more Insanity.
Runs for the shortest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Insanity ★
God of insane
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You get more Insanity.
Some of its 3 star tiers run it longer than others.
Held by
- Prayer for Insanity ★★
God of insane
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You get more Insanity.
Runs for the longest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Insanity ★★★
God of the zombies
For the undeadAsked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You zombies work faster and you con use worse collars to create them.
Runs for the shortest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Obedience ★
How a zombie run works
God of the zombies
For the undeadAsked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You zombies work faster and you con use worse collars to create them.
Some of its 3 star tiers run it longer than others.
Held by
- Prayer for Obedience ★★
How a zombie run works
God of the zombies
For the undeadAsked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You zombies work faster and you con use worse collars to create them.
Runs for the longest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Obedience ★★★
How a zombie run works
God's protection
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
Your combatants receive less damage during battles.
Runs for the shortest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Protection ★
God's protection
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
Your combatants receive less damage during battles.
Some of its 3 star tiers run it longer than others.
Held by
- Prayer for Protection ★★
God's protection
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
Your combatants receive less damage during battles.
Runs for the longest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Protection ★★★
God of sane
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You do not get Insanity at all.
Runs for the shortest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Purity ★
God of sane
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You do not get Insanity at all.
Some of its 3 star tiers run it longer than others.
Held by
- Prayer for Purity ★★
God of sane
Asked for by 3 star tiers
What it changes
You do not get Insanity at all.
Runs for the longest of its 3 star tiers.
Held by
- Prayer for Purity ★★★
Running God
Asked for by 1 star tiers
What it changes
You and you zombies move faster.
Held by
- Prayer for Speed
God of the storms
For the undeadAsked for by 1 star tiers
What it changes
You can resurrect zombies every time you need it.
Held by
- Prayer for Storms
How a zombie run works

A length is only given where the game states one for the god.
A blessing can earn its week even when the prayer collects less Faith or money than another.

Can I hold this one?

Choose a prayer and see whether your church can hold it, and what stands in the way if it cannot.

Prayer

Nothing chosen yet. Pick a prayer above, or come here from a prayer's own page.

When the sermon goes wrong

Find what you saw, and the checks are ordered by what usually explains it.

What happened?

Nothing picked yet. Choose what you saw above.

Every prayer and its own numbers

The rates the game gives each prayer, before your church is applied to them. A rate is per parishioner unless it says otherwise.

Basic Prayer ★
Needs to start
4
Certain from
8
Faith per head
0.25
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
10
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Basic Prayer ★★
Needs to start
4
Certain from
8
Faith per head
0.25
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
15
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Basic Prayer ★★★
Needs to start
4
Certain from
8
Faith per head
0.25
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
20
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Combat Prayer ★
Needs to start
15
Certain from
40
Faith per head
0.2
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
5
BlessingGod's fury
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Combat Prayer ★★
Needs to start
40
Certain from
80
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.4
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
10
BlessingGod's fury
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Combat Prayer ★★★
Needs to start
80
Certain from
120
Faith per head
0.4
Faith per head on success
0.5
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
15
BlessingGod's fury
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Combo Prayer ★
Needs to start
30
Certain from
60
Faith per head
0.4
Faith per head on success
0.4
Money per head
10
Money per graveyard point on success
20
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Combo Prayer ★★
Needs to start
60
Certain from
120
Faith per head
0.4
Faith per head on success
0.5
Money per head
10
Money per graveyard point on success
25
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Combo Prayer ★★★
Needs to start
120
Certain from
160
Faith per head
0.4
Faith per head on success
0.6
Money per head
10
Money per graveyard point on success
30
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Prayer for Consumption ★
Needs to start
20
Certain from
50
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
30
BlessingGod of offer
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Prayer for Consumption ★★
Needs to start
50
Certain from
100
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
40
BlessingGod of offer
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Prayer for Consumption ★★★
Needs to start
100
Certain from
150
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
50
BlessingGod of offer
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Prayer for Demand ★
Needs to start
40
Certain from
90
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
30
BlessingGod of demand
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Prayer for Demand ★★
Needs to start
90
Certain from
140
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.6
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
40
BlessingGod of demand
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Prayer for Demand ★★★
Needs to start
140
Certain from
200
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.7
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
50
BlessingGod of demand
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Prayer for Excellence ★
Needs to start
40
Certain from
90
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
20
BlessingGod of craftsmen
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Prayer for Excellence ★★
Needs to start
90
Certain from
140
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
20
BlessingGod of craftsmen
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Prayer for Excellence ★★★
Needs to start
140
Certain from
200
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
20
BlessingGod of craftsmen
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Faith Prayer ★
Needs to start
7
Certain from
15
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.4
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
10
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Faith Prayer ★★
Needs to start
20
Certain from
40
Faith per head
0.4
Faith per head on success
0.5
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
10
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Faith Prayer ★★★
Needs to start
50
Certain from
70
Faith per head
0.5
Faith per head on success
0.6
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
15
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Harvest Prayer ★
Needs to start
15
Certain from
40
Faith per head
0.2
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
5
BlessingGod of nature
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Harvest Prayer ★★
Needs to start
40
Certain from
80
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
10
BlessingGod of nature
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Harvest Prayer ★★★
Needs to start
80
Certain from
120
Faith per head
0.4
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
15
BlessingGod of nature
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Hypno Prayer ★
Needs to start
60
Certain from
120
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.2
Money per head
10
Money per graveyard point on success
10
BlessingGod of delusions
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Hypno Prayer ★★
Needs to start
120
Certain from
160
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.2
Money per head
10
Money per graveyard point on success
10
BlessingGod of delusions
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Hypno Prayer ★★★
Needs to start
160
Certain from
220
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.2
Money per head
10
Money per graveyard point on success
10
BlessingGod of delusions
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Prayer for Imagination ★
Needs to start
15
Certain from
40
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.2
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
5
BlessingCreative God
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Prayer for Imagination ★★
Needs to start
40
Certain from
80
Faith per head
0.4
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
10
BlessingCreative God
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Prayer for Imagination ★★★
Needs to start
80
Certain from
120
Faith per head
0.5
Faith per head on success
0.4
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
15
BlessingCreative God
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Prayer for Insanity ★
Needs to start
15
Certain from
40
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.2
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
5
BlessingGod of insane
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Prayer for Insanity ★★
Needs to start
40
Certain from
80
Faith per head
0.4
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
10
BlessingGod of insane
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Prayer for Insanity ★★★
Needs to start
80
Certain from
120
Faith per head
0.5
Faith per head on success
0.4
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
15
BlessingGod of insane
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Prayer for Likes ★
Needs to start
40
Certain from
90
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
40
Changed bya Priest in the post, a Cardinal in the post, and too many zombies about
Prayer for Likes ★★
Needs to start
90
Certain from
140
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
50
Changed bya Priest in the post, a Cardinal in the post, and too many zombies about
Prayer for Likes ★★★
Needs to start
140
Certain from
200
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
60
Changed bya Priest in the post, a Cardinal in the post, and too many zombies about
Money Prayer ★
Needs to start
7
Certain from
15
Faith per head
0.2
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
10
Money per graveyard point on success
20
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Money Prayer ★★
Needs to start
20
Certain from
40
Faith per head
0.2
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
25
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Money Prayer ★★★
Needs to start
50
Certain from
70
Faith per head
0.2
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
30
Money per graveyard point on success
30
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Prayer for Music
Needs to start
80
Certain from
80
Faith per head
0.5
Faith per head on success
0
Money per head
50
Money per graveyard point on success
0
Changed bya Priest in the post and a Cardinal in the post
Nothing is given for the Faith a success adds and the money a success adds.
Prayer for Obedience ★
Needs to start
60
Certain from
120
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
15
Money per graveyard point on success
15
BlessingGod of the zombies
Changed bya Priest in the post and a Cardinal in the post
Prayer for Obedience ★★
Needs to start
120
Certain from
160
Faith per head
0.5
Faith per head on success
0.6
Money per head
50
Money per graveyard point on success
25
BlessingGod of the zombies
Changed bya Priest in the post and a Cardinal in the post
Prayer for Obedience ★★★
Needs to start
160
Certain from
220
Faith per head
0.5
Faith per head on success
0.7
Money per head
50
Money per graveyard point on success
30
BlessingGod of the zombies
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Prayer for Old God
Needs to start
180
Certain from
180
Faith per head
1
Faith per head on success
0
Money per head
50
Money per graveyard point on success
0
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Nothing is given for the Faith a success adds and the money a success adds.
Prayer for Prosperity ★
Needs to start
20
Certain from
50
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.2
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
30
Changed bya Priest in the post and a Cardinal in the post
Prayer for Prosperity ★★
Needs to start
50
Certain from
100
Faith per head
0.4
Faith per head on success
0.2
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
40
Changed bya Priest in the post and a Cardinal in the post
Prayer for Prosperity ★★★
Needs to start
100
Certain from
150
Faith per head
0.5
Faith per head on success
0.2
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
50
Changed bya Priest in the post and a Cardinal in the post
Prayer for Protection ★
Needs to start
15
Certain from
40
Faith per head
0.2
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
5
BlessingGod's protection
Changed bya Priest in the post and a Cardinal in the post
Prayer for Protection ★★
Needs to start
40
Certain from
80
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.4
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
10
BlessingGod's protection
Changed bya Priest in the post and a Cardinal in the post
Prayer for Protection ★★★
Needs to start
80
Certain from
120
Faith per head
0.4
Faith per head on success
0.5
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
15
BlessingGod's protection
Changed bya Priest in the post and a Cardinal in the post
Prayer for Purity ★
Needs to start
20
Certain from
50
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.1
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
20
BlessingGod of sane
Changed bya Priest in the post and a Cardinal in the post
Prayer for Purity ★★
Needs to start
50
Certain from
100
Faith per head
0.4
Faith per head on success
0.2
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
20
BlessingGod of sane
Changed bya Priest in the post and a Cardinal in the post
Prayer for Purity ★★★
Needs to start
100
Certain from
150
Faith per head
0.5
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
5
Money per graveyard point on success
20
BlessingGod of sane
Changed bya Priest in the post and a Cardinal in the post
Prayer for Repose ★
Needs to start
20
Certain from
50
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.1
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
20
BlessingGod of dead
Changed bya Priest in the post, a Cardinal in the post, and too many zombies about
Prayer for Repose ★★
Needs to start
50
Certain from
100
Faith per head
0.4
Faith per head on success
0.2
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
20
BlessingGod of dead
Changed bya Priest in the post, a Cardinal in the post, and too many zombies about
Prayer for Repose ★★★
Needs to start
100
Certain from
150
Faith per head
0.5
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
20
BlessingGod of dead
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Prayer for Speed
Needs to start
30
Certain from
60
Faith per head
0.3
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
10
Money per graveyard point on success
10
BlessingRunning God
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Prayer for Storms
Needs to start
20
Certain from
40
Faith per head
0.4
Faith per head on success
0.3
Money per head
20
Money per graveyard point on success
30
BlessingGod of the storms
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Each star is a prayer in its own right: it asks for a bigger crowd and pays more. These rates are what the game gives before any perk or penalty is applied.

How the numbers fit together

Four short steps, from the three numbers you typed to what a sermon hands over.

1Step oneHappiness and church quality are compared, and the smaller of the two is the crowd that turns up.
2Step twoThe crowd is measured against the prayer's own two thresholds: one to begin, one to be certain of success.
3Step threeFaith and a base collection are paid for every head, whether the prayer lands or not.
4Step fourA success adds more Faith, and adds money for every point of graveyard rating, plus the god's blessing.

The whole chain

Happiness: The meter a sermon draws on and spends down.; Half of the crowd, and the whole cost of holding one.
Church quality: How many people the building can seat.; The other half of the crowd. It never changes what a prayer pays.
Graveyard rating: How well kept the graves are.; Only the money a successful sermon collects. It brings nobody to the pews.

Change any one of the three and every prayer below is worked out again from scratch.

Sermon questions

How do sermons work in Graveyard Keeper 2?: One prayer is held a week, on Wrath day. The number of people who come is the smaller of your Happiness and your church quality, and holding the sermon spends that same amount of Happiness. Each prayer states a crowd it needs to start and a bigger crowd that makes it certain; between the two it can miss.
Which prayer should I hold for Faith?: Whichever pays the most at the crowd you can actually seat. That is rarely the biggest prayer: a large one that cannot start pays nothing, and one that can miss pays its smaller amount when it does. Order the week by what you can count on and read the top of the list.
How many people will come to my sermon?: As many as the smaller of your Happiness and your church quality. A high Happiness in a poor church still fills only the poor church, and a fine church with low Happiness sits almost empty. Raising the larger number changes nothing.
Why can't I start this sermon?: Either too few people came, or the prayer is not with you, or it is not Wrath day. Compare your two numbers against the crowd the prayer asks for; if the crowd is fine, check that you are carrying it in your backpack rather than leaving it in a chest.
Why did my sermon fail?: A prayer below its certainty threshold can miss. If your crowd sat between the two numbers, the prayer was allowed to begin and had a real chance to fail, and a failure pays only the base amount.
Does church quality increase Faith?: Not directly. It seats more people, and more people means more Faith at the same rate. A church with more room earns more from the same prayer, but it never changes what one head is worth.
Does graveyard rating affect sermons?: It changes one thing: the money a successful sermon collects. Every point of rating adds to the collection on a good week, and it adds nothing at all when the sermon misses. It brings no extra people to the pews.
What does the Prayer of Storms do?: It asks the God of Storms for a change, and that change is what a zombie run is usually after. The blessing cards below give you the game's own words for it, the length of it, and the other prayers that ask for the same god.
What does the Hypno Prayer do?: It asks a god of its own for a different change, and it pays a good amount of Faith for the crowd it wants. Whether it is worth a week depends on whether you need its effect or would rather spend the same crowd on money.

What this page was worked out from

So you know how far to trust a row.

Prayers (star tiers)22 / 58
Blessings38
Prayers with their own page20
Checked againstGK2 Production DB Final V1 / Demo v1.002.4a

The thresholds, the four rates and the blessing on each row are the game's own numbers. Nothing on this page was typed in from a guide.
The chance of success at a crowd between the two thresholds is read as the fraction of the way to certainty. It matches the failure you see in play but the game never prints it.
Happiness, church quality and graveyard rating are what you tell this browser. Nothing can read them from your save, so a wrong number gives a wrong week.
Not every god states how long its blessing runs. Where none is given, the card says what is known and nothing more.
Every threshold and rate above was confirmed in GK2 Production DB Final V1 / Demo v1.002.4a.