One of the biggest problems you will face while playing Graveyard Keeper is trying to get blue tech points. Blue Points are not accessible until you unlock the Church and cannot be quickly earned until mid-to-late game. Still, getting tons of blue points to unlock all the tech blueprints can be difficult.
You may find yourself going through every avenue imaginable to learn how to earn the coveted blue points. To save you a lot of time, we’ve compiled a list of the best ways to earn blue points in Graveyard Keeper.
Updated by Branden Lizardi on April 16, 2023: After several updates and DLC expansions, the best way to play Graveyard Keeper continues to change. But even now, one constant remains. We all need more blue points. This mysterious corner of the technological system has sidestepped most of our daily tasks. But with time comes wisdom. We know of smarter ways to produce more blue tech in a quick and easy way, and we’ve updated this list accordingly.
15 buy a book
An easy way to get blue points is to simply buy books. These can be purchased from Astrologers in exchange for silver coins. These books can be studied for a quick point boost and come in two varieties.
The first cannot be purchased until you reach store tier 2, and the second is locked until you upgrade the store to tier 3. They are sold in limited quantities, so they cannot be farmed this way and you still have to use other methods.
14 study body parts
Once you’ve created a learning table, you can earn science by consuming paper to look closely at in-game items. This can be a quick way to get blue points as you can research many common items. Blue points can be obtained by looking at body parts such as the heart and intestines.
Blue points are hard to come by, so researching certain items like dark organs can give you 100 points that can easily unlock a few new blueprints at a time.
13 note taking
Another way to quickly earn blue points is to build a writing desk. To do this, we need to gather a few items. First you need to make paper out of pigskin or bat wings. Next we need to put together the story. Third, you need to make or buy pens and ink. If you can’t make a pen and ink yet, you can buy the ingredients from an astrologer.
Then you have to go to your desk and write a note using one of the stories. You will get some blue points for each successful completion of this task.
12 tomb item research
You can also earn blue points by studying other items, such as tomb items. The lower end of the scale scores 20 points, such as studying a tombstone or wooden grave fence. However, the better the tomb item, the more blue points you get.
Items like Marble sculpture and Marble sculpture 2 easily score 100 points each, while slightly lower ones like Marble Plinth and Marble Cross 2 score 90 blue points.
11 craft prayer
When you reach Preacher status, you can give a daily sermon that provides various buffs. Casual prayers are unlocked by default, which doesn’t do much except give you a little faith.
For other prayers, you need to unlock and craft recipes. You can earn extra blue points by doing so. Each time you create a prayer, you will receive 5 blue points. You’ll want to preach a sermon on an extra buff, so the blue points you earn are an extra incentive to remember this.
10 cautious buff
Another way to get blue points, though not many, is to utilize the Circumspect buff. Circumspect lasts for 2 minutes, during which time you gain 1 extra blue point for each item that requires faith.
Consuming Cake, Grape Pie, Fancy Lentil Soup, Lentil Cutlet or Cheesecake will give you the Circumspect buff. Of course, you can cook all of these at home as long as you have the recipes you need.
9 Craft Steel Items
You can also get blue points by crafting certain steel items, although you won’t get much at once. Crafting steel parts in Furnace III gives you 1 blue point each time you craft them.
Additionally, crafting a steel chisel through one of the three available recipes in Carpenter’s Workbench 2 will earn you one blue point each time. It’s not the most lucrative way to get blue points, but it’s more of an added bonus since you’ll have to craft these items often.
8 craft fence
Building fences is an easy way to get blue points early. Each time you build a stone wall, you gain some blue points. Building a fence requires only two stones and can be done multiple times in a row. As a bonus, this will also help increase the quality of your graveyard. This is because stone fixtures can earn more points than wooden fixtures.
If you need a tombstone, you can also craft different types of stone to earn blue points. There is also a tier 2 for stone fixtures that earn blue points when crafted.
7 flask making
If you’re a bit farther out in the game and want a more passive way of making blue points, you can use a furnace. To get blue points you need to make a huge glass and have a little patience.
Once the glass is made, set the furnace to produce as many flasks as possible with the current amount of glass. Then leave the area for other activities while the flasks are being produced. If possible, leave the furnace out for a few days to allow blue dots to build up around your workspace.
6 Study and Craft Church Items
There are more items you can study to get more blue points, such as church items. As for more common items like incense, studying this will give you 15 blue points.
On the other hand, studying Incense 2 will give you 45 blue points. Other church items that can be studied include urns, which can give you 30-50 blue points depending on the urn. You can also earn extra points by crafting church items like candles and jars.
5 making hemp rope
You don’t need too many ropes in the game, but it’s not bad to make them because you can get blue points. To make hemp rope, Dig must grow or buy hemp when he reaches level 2. Hemp is easy to grow as there is no need to water the plants in the game and you have a stock of hemp for your rope. Create in a few days. Unlike other in-game plants, hemp doesn’t have a quality level to worry about.
Hemp Rope requires a Church Workbench and sacrifices 4 hemp at a time.
4 sculpture marble
You can unlock marble sculptures later by progressing through the game and earning blue points in other ways. These sculptures help greatly increase the value of each tomb in the tomb, so earning blue points from marble sculptures will give players double points. If you have the Breaking Dead DLC, you can use zombies to mass harvest marbles.
If you have surplus marbles from the DLC, it’s easy to whip up the statue quickly to get lots of blue dots.
three book making
If you’re more into the game you could probably write a whole book. Not only is this important for a few questlines, but it also allows you to get blue points quickly. Craft books take a little time and require a lot of items because there is a process to go through. To create a book, you must first create enough notes to make the chapters, and then create a cover to make the book.
The higher the quality of the chapters, the better the chances of making a better quality book. The good news is that you can earn blue points through the entire course.
2 golden apple
Acquiring golden apples doesn’t always give you a lot of blue points, but there are ways you can use the item to help. To get the golden apples, which give you blue points, you have to unlock the snake quest line and do the first few quests to unlock the entire dungeon. Then you have to go to the 15th floor, the last floor of the dungeon, and pick a golden apple from the tree.
Give it to Snake and he will offer you an apple flavor. If you accept the apple tasting, you will immediately receive 100 blue points.
One to inject
The final way to get blue points is to take a shot. Injections can be unlocked in the mid-to-late game and greatly help with points in the Graveyard. Infusions can be crafted on an alchemy crafting table and will help increase the number of white skulls a body has or slow the rate at which a body decays. There are also injections that can restore up to 50% of the body.
A lot of injections will give you a lot of blue points and will quickly increase the quality of the corpses you put in the graveyard.