Graveyard Keeper: How to Build a Resurrection Table

The Resurrection table is the one piece of furniture that turns the morgue from a corpse-processing room into a labor supply. It only exists in the morgue, it only becomes available after the Breaking Dead zombie questline points you toward Gunter, and it only works on bodies that are still in good shape.

Quick answer: Unlock the Second chance technology in the Anatomy and alchemy tab, then build the table at the morgue’s drafting board using 4x Wooden plank and 4x Complex iron parts.

Resurrection table build cost and requirements

Requirement	Detail
Technology	Second chance (Anatomy and alchemy)
Materials	4x Wooden plank, 4x Complex iron parts
Build location	Morgue only, via the drafting board
Footprint	5×4 tiles, cannot be rotated

That 5×4 footprint matters more than it sounds. The morgue is already crowded with pallets, embalming tables, and mortuary racks, so clear a block of floor before you commit the materials.

Unlock the Second chance technology

Second chance does not appear in the tech tree from the start. The node opens up after you meet Gunter, the chained-up zombie behind the gate beneath your house, and pull the blueprint off the cabinet beside him.

Head down into the morgue and talk to Gerry. He brings up Gunter, which is what puts the zombie questline in motion.

Get the Instructions from Snake, then collect the Keepers Key from the Astrologer at the lighthouse in the east. He is only there on the blue day, so plan the trip around the calendar.

Take both items to the Study Table beneath the church and study them. That produces the Active Key, which you hand to Snake to open the gate.

Go through the gate and talk to Gunter. Interact with the cabinet next to him to pick up the blueprints for the Resurrection Table and the Porter Station, and grab the 3x Zombie Juice sitting in the broken cabinet nearby.

Open the menu, go to the Technologies tab, and switch to Anatomy and alchemy. Buy the Second chance node, which contains Blueprint: Resurrection Table.

Unlocking technology — Blueprint: Resurrection Table sits under the Second chance node in the Anatomy and alchemy tech tab. Shown at 00:07 in JA Guides Gaming’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Holding the blueprint is not the same as owning the technology. If the table is missing from the morgue build list, the Second chance node is almost certainly still unpurchased.

Build the Resurrection table in the morgue

Craft or collect 4x Wooden plank and 4x Complex iron parts before you walk over. Both are workyard staples, and you cannot place the table without the full set.

Walk south past the cemetery entrance to the underground morgue door and press the prompt to enter.

Heading to the morgue — The morgue entrance sits south of the cemetery gate, marked with an [E] Enter prompt. Shown at 00:17 in JA Guides Gaming’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Interact with the Mortuary drafting board inside. The build list shows the Pallet, Double pallet, Fridge pallet, Mortuary rack, and Resurrection table alongside their material costs.

Pick the Resurrection table and drop it into an empty 5×4 patch of floor. The planks and iron parts are consumed on placement, and the table is ready to use as soon as construction finishes.

Resurrect a corpse into a zombie worker

Each resurrection has a fixed price, and all three parts must be on hand at the same time.

Ingredient	Amount	Where it comes from
Corpse	1	Donkey deliveries, 90% quality or higher
Zombie Juice	1	Gunter’s cabinet, or alchemy workbench
Faith	10	Successful weekly church sermons

Carry a corpse down to the morgue and place it on the Resurrection table. Bodies below 90% quality are rejected outright.

Make sure the Zombie Juice is either in your inventory or stored in a mortuary rack, and confirm you are holding at least 10 Faith.

At the table, use E, then select Resurrect. Selecting Take body cancels the task and empties the table.

Demonstrating Resurrection Table usage — The table's menu offers two choices: Take body to pull the corpse back out, or Resurrect to spend the juice and Faith. Shown at 00:33 in JA Guides Gaming’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

You know it worked when the corpse is gone and a zombie stands in its place, ready to be picked up and carried like a log. Haul it to a workstation such as a sawhorse, queue up the work, and use the Put option to drop the zombie there. It keeps going until the queue is empty.

Keep bodies, Zombie Juice, and Faith stocked

The table itself is cheap. Feeding it is the ongoing cost, and each of the three inputs has its own supply line.

Fresh bodies: the donkey delivers regularly as long as you feed it carrots and supply Seed Oil for the cart wheels.
Zombie Juice: beyond the starting three, craft more at an alchemy workbench from 1 Health Powder and 1 Blood.
Faith: earned by running successful sermons in the church each week.
Body decay: embalming slows it, which keeps more deliveries above the 90% threshold.

A zombie’s work efficiency depends on the corpse’s quality, represented by its number of white skulls. Using embalming fluid on a good corpse benefits the zombie whenever it swings an axe.

Once the first zombie is on its feet, the rest of the system opens up quickly. Gunter points you to a blocked path north of the church, and clearing it unlocks the Zombie Mining, Zombie Woodcutting, and Zombie Quarrying technologies that give your new workforce somewhere useful to stand.