Cremation Pyre Location and Unlock Path
Not every body brought by the donkey is worthy of a permanent grave plot. Burying mutilated or heavily decomposed cadavers severely degrades your overall cemetery score. Knowing where and how to burn inferior remains is an indispensable sanitation skill for every caretaker.
The designated cremation grounds are located in the clearing south of the cemetery grounds, just west of the pathway leading to the southern village. Before constructing a pyre, you must unlock the Cremation technology node in the Theology skill tree using red and blue research points.
Once unlocked, interacting with the blueprint draft in the pyre clearing allows you to build a single-use funeral pyre using eight wooden billets. Upgraded permanent stone cremation platforms become accessible later in the technology tree, reducing wood consumption.
Valuable Byproducts: Ash, Salt, and Burial Certificates
Cremation is not merely a waste management solution; it serves as a primary source for crucial alchemical and agricultural materials. Burning a body yields five piles of clean ash and one pouch of refining salt, alongside a valid burial certificate.
Ash is an irreplaceable component for crafting black ink, fertilizing complex crop beds, and mixing ceramic glazes for decorative urns. Storing ash in dry basement barrels guarantees a steady supply for your church printing press and illumination scripts.
Refining salt is equally vital, serving as a primary ingredient in meat curing, seasoning recipes, and laboratory reagent dissolution. Because burning also awards the standard burial certificate, selling these certificates to the town tavern provides the exact same cash income as an earth burial without occupying prime cemetery real estate.
Triage Strategy for Damaged and Low-Skull Corpses
Develop a rigorous intake procedure to identify cremation candidates immediately upon delivery. If a cadaver arrives with multiple unremovable red skulls, or if an accidental autopsy mishap ruins the remaining tissue, mark it for immediate transport to the pyre.
Before igniting the wood logs, always harvest whatever usable organic materials you can without guilt. Strip the corpse of flesh, skin for parchment crafting, and fat for candle tallow before cremation, as the fire destroys all unharvested organs regardless.
By reserving ground burial exclusively for pristine, high-white-skull remains and incinerating the rest, your cemetery rating will rise rapidly, maximizing church donations without bloating your grounds with poorly scored graves.