Graveyard Keeper 2: How to Get Bronze Scrap

Bronze Scrap is the starting point for every piece of bronze you will make in Graveyard Keeper 2. It feeds both the nail supply that early workstations demand and the ingots that later bronze parts are built from, and it costs nothing if you are willing to smash up the debris sitting around your own property.

Quick answer: Break the broken barrels and sort the trash piles around the Yard and garden for 1–3 Bronze Scrap each, and buy 15 more from Herm at any trader tier.

Where Bronze Scrap drops

All the free scrap comes from junk objects. There are 14 broken barrels and trash piles across the Yard and garden alone, usually clustered in groups of two or three, with more scattered around the Inquisition base, the surrounding land, and parts of the village. Indoor rooms hold richer debris than outdoor junk.

Source	Where	Scrap per object
Broken barrels	Yard, garden, Inquisition base, village	1–3
Trash piles	Yard, garden, surrounding land	1–3
Broken shelves	Morgue, Alchemy Lab, Writing Basement, Resurrection Lab	2–3
Herm	Trader stock, all tiers	15 in stock

Barrels need to be chopped apart with an axe equipped, and they also hand over Boards and ready-made Bronze Nails alongside the scrap.

Looting Barrel Scraps — Broken barrels beside the stone ruins, one of the closest scrap clusters to the Yard. Shown at 00:09 in JA Guides Gaming’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Trash piles require manual searching instead of a tool swing: interact with one, then sift through the rubbish. This rummaging causes a small increase in insanity, while the bottom-right loot feed shows the wood, nails, and scrap you obtain.

Rumaging Wood and Nail Piles — Sorting a debris pile by hand pulls out nails, rope, and Bronze Scrap. Shown at 00:19 in JA Guides Gaming’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Junk requires Building mastery 2 before you can break it. The rusty axe and the rusty pickaxe both grant that mastery, so the starting tools are enough.

Clearing debris also feeds the Junk Fighter line of Inspirations, which pushes your Metallurgy progress along. There is no reason to walk past a barrel even when your nail supply is comfortable.

Buying Bronze Scrap from traders

Herm is the dependable seller from his very first tier and always carries 15 units. Bronze Scrap has a base price of 6 and stacks to 50, so a single purchase run covers a decent stretch of building. Further into the game, additional merchants and town buildings carry it as well.

Trader	Tier	Stock
Herm	All tiers	15
Trademaster	Tier I	25
Bishop	Tier I	25
Harold	Tier I	25
Jeweler (town building)	Tiers I–III	15 / 20 / 30
Smithy (town building)	Tiers I–III	10 / 15 / 20

The Jeweler and the Smithy only stock scrap once you have actually constructed them in town, so neither counts as an early option.

Turning Bronze Scrap into nails and ingots

Scrap has exactly two conversions, and both sit behind the first Metallurgy technology.

Workbench	Input	Output	Duration
Wooden Anvil	1 Bronze Scrap	6 Bronze Nails	4
Furnace I	3 Bronze Scrap + 10 Fuel	2 Bronze Ingots	9

Open the Tech Tree, go to the Metallurgy branch, and unlock Bronze Works for 5 Red Tech Points. That single node opens up Bronze Nails and the Wooden Anvil at the same time.

The Wooden Anvil takes just 1 Short Log and 1 Stone when placed through the Blueprint Table in your main Yard. Make the Short Log at the Sawhorse, and mine the Stone from any suitable rock with your pickaxe.

Yard Blueprint Requirements — The Yard build menu, where the Wooden Anvil, Furnace I, Sluice Box, and Hardening Bucket blueprints live. Shown at 00:23 in JA Guides Gaming’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Load scrap into the anvil and pick the Bronze Nails recipe. Every single scrap returns six nails, which is enough to make even a handful of salvage cover several early builds.

Wooden Anvil Interface — The Wooden Anvil menu handles nails and, with the Hardening Bucket nearby, Bronze Details. Shown at 00:22 in Quick Tips’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

For ingots, build Furnace I and load 3 scrap with 10 Fuel. Each batch returns two Bronze Ingots, and ingots are the only thing Bronze Details can be made from.

Furnace Ingot Crafting — Furnace I accepts scrap or an ore mix for Bronze Ingots. Shown at 00:43 in JA Guides Gaming’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

The arithmetic is worth memorising. Three scrap produce two ingots, and two ingots produce twelve Bronze Details at six apiece. Both recipes need mastery 1, and each completed batch grants a tech point along with a Fireman or Blacksmith Inspiration.

Furnace Bronze Ingot Recipe — The Bronze Ingot recipe with its fuel cost shown in Furnace I. Shown at 00:46 in Quick Tips’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Studying Bronze Scrap for tech points

Take one piece to the Study Table for a one-off reward of 10 tech points. The study costs 2 Science, takes 3 time units, and drops to 2 with the Researcher perk. Studying does not consume the scrap, and with the Scientist perk there is a 30 percent chance of also producing a Story.

When Bronze Scrap stops being worth farming

Scrap is the cheapest route to bronze only while you are still clearing the starting area. Once the Bronze Forge is available, 3 Copper Nuggets and 1 Tin produce four ingots, and neither of those materials costs money. Copper is mined from deposits out past the garden and near the cliffs to the northwest, and Tin comes from the Sluice Box using River Sand and water.

Until that point, the cycle is simple. Break every barrel, sort every pile, and confirm the pickup by watching the Bronze Scrap notification appear in the corner and the count rise in your inventory, where it stacks up to 50. Save what you do not immediately smelt, because a shortage of a few nails can stall the Woodworking Workbench, the Stonemason’s Workbench, the Firewood Shed, and the Hardening Bucket all at once.