Graveyard Keeper 2 Technology Guide: Tech Points and Best Unlocks
Updated 2026-09-30 · Fan-made guide for Graveyard Keeper 2 · Not affiliated with Lazy Bear Games
The Graveyard Keeper 2 technology tree uses red, green and blue tech points to unlock recipes, workstations, buildings and production systems. Spend your first points on Bronze Works, Gardening and the basic resource techs — they widen your loop fastest.
Three colors of tech points
Technologies unlock with red, green and blue tech points. The colors roughly map to what you do to earn them: red points come from building and heavy work, green points from nature and farming, blue points from study and intellect.
Green is the easiest to farm early — harvesting crops and bushes is one of the simplest ways to stack green points in the opening days. Blue comes from the Study Table in the Inquisition Base's tower, which is also your mastery engine.
Best technologies to unlock first
Community guide consensus on the early tree: Bronze Works first, then Gardening, then Chopping and The Concept of Stone, followed by Woodworking I, and Pottery I with Brick. Every one of those widens your resource loop or unlocks a saleable good.
The logic is loop-widening over novelty: each early tech should either give you a new resource stream or a cheaper way to make an existing one. Flashy late branches wait until the loop is self-feeding.
The scale of the tree
The tree is deep. The Building branch alone holds 52 technologies across 18 columns, and fully researching it costs roughly 4,470 red, 257 green and 670 blue tech points — numbers that tell you red points are the long-term bottleneck.
Some players feel early progression through the tree runs fast, unlocking a huge portion within the first few hours. Either way, the takeaway is the same: you don't need to plan the whole tree, just the next two or three loop-widening techs.
How to earn tech points faster
Study items at the Study Table in the Inquisition Base tower — it's the highest-value point pump in the game and also raises mastery. Feed it everything you gather.
Beyond study, keep farming for green, keep building for red, and sell the surplus your unlocked techs produce to buy back time. Tech points, money and mastery all feed each other in the sequel.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do tech points work in Graveyard Keeper 2?
There are three colors — red, green and blue. Red comes from building and heavy work, green from nature and farming, blue from studying items. They unlock recipes, workstations, buildings and production systems.
What should I unlock first in the tech tree?
Community consensus: Bronze Works, then Gardening, then Chopping and The Concept of Stone, Woodworking I, and Pottery I with Brick — all early loop-wideners.
How do I get blue tech points?
Study items at the Study Table in the Inquisition Base's tower. It also raises mastery, making it the most valuable point source in the game.