Graveyard Keeper: How to Build a Study Table

The Study table is the workstation that converts items into tech points in Graveyard Keeper, and it is the only place you can turn paper into Science. It lives in the Alchemy Lab beneath the church, and the build itself is short once you have the right glassware in your bag.

Quick answer: Unlock the Research technology, then build the table from the blueprint table in the Alchemy Lab using 6 Wooden planks, 4 Simple iron parts, and 3 Conical flasks.

When the Study table unlocks and where it can be placed

The table only becomes available once you have pushed the Bishop’s main quest line far enough to reopen the church and gain access to the Alchemy Lab below it. That lab is the single valid location — the blueprint will not appear anywhere else on your property.

The technology that gates it is Research, the first node of the Book Writing tree, which you receive as part of reopening the church rather than by spending points.

A Study table is already built in the Alchemy Lab in a normal playthrough. You only need to construct one if you demolished it, or if you want a second table placed somewhere more convenient in the lab.

Study table build cost

Material	Amount
Wooden plank	6
Simple iron parts	4
Conical flasks	3

Planks and simple iron parts are basic workyard output, so the Conical flasks are the real bottleneck. The blueprint menu in the lab lists all three requirements and greys out the entry until every stack is in your inventory.

Alchemy blueprint menu — The Alchemy build menu showing the Study table's requirements: Conical flasks, Simple iron parts, and Wooden planks. Shown at 00:29 in JA Guides Gaming’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Footprint matters in a cramped basement. The table occupies a 5×4 space while you are positioning the ghost, then settles into 4×4 once placed, and it can be rotated before you confirm.

How to get Conical flasks

Conical flasks are glassware, so they sit behind a short chain of unlocks spread across two trees. Open the Technologies menu and check these before you start hauling materials.

Glass, Glass blower, and Glass blower II under Anatomy and alchemy
Furnace II under Smithing, which is the station that actually makes the flasks

Technology tree requirements — The Technologies screen, where Glass, Glass blower, Glass blower II, and Furnace II gate conical flask production. Shown at 00:49 in JA Guides Gaming’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Head out to the workyard and open Furnace II. Its recipe list covers Glass, Conical flasks, and Advanced conical flasks.

Smelt Glass first. The recipe takes River sand and Water, both of which you can gather in bulk before firing the furnace.

Queue at least three Conical flasks. Making a few extras is worth it, since crafting flasks also awards blue tech points.

Crafting conical flasks in Furnace II — Furnace II recipes, with Glass built from River sand and Water and the Conical flasks entry below it. Shown at 01:15 in JA Guides Gaming’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Placing the table in the Alchemy Lab

Walk into the church, take the stairs down into the cellar, and continue into the Alchemy Laboratory.

Interact with the small blueprint table in the lab and open the Alchemy category. Select the Study table entry.

Rotate the placement ghost until it fits the free floor space, then confirm. The materials leave your inventory and the finished table appears immediately.

Stocking Science and Faith so the table can be used

A freshly built Study table does nothing on its own. Research consumes Science and, for most items, Faith. Science is not an inventory item — it behaves like fuel in a furnace or oven and is stored inside the table itself, so you load it by decomposing paper goods at the table. Decomposing costs no energy.

Decomposed item	Science produced
Clean paper	2
Notes	4
Chapter	15
Lens	20
Book	30

Clean paper is the cheap, repeatable option early on. It is crafted at the Church workbench from Pigskin paper, which in turn comes from Skin taken off corpses in the morgue (one skin yields four paper) or from Bat wings (five wings yield two paper). One Pigskin paper converts into four Clean paper. A Desk will also turn Ruined books and River sand into Clean paper.

Inspecting Crafting Recipes — The Church workbench, where Pigskin paper and Clean paper are made before being decomposed into Science. Shown at 00:49 in JimmyTheSaint’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Faith is the other half of the equation and comes from delivering sermons in the church, with the amount tied to your church rating and the sermon you use. Faith is a carryable item, so spend it carefully — several NPC quests want it too.

Confirming the Study table works

Interact with the table and the “Pick a resource” menu opens, listing everything in your inventory that can be studied. Each entry shows its Faith and Science cost plus the tech point icons it will award. If an item shows no tech point icon, it cannot be researched.

Preparing Items to Study — The Study table's item picker, showing which tools and graveyard pieces can still be researched. Shown at 07:25 in JimmyTheSaint’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Confirming a research action consumes the item, deducts the Faith and stored Science, and pays out the tech points on the spot. Each item type can only be studied once, and the entry disappears from the list afterwards — that removal is your confirmation the table is set up correctly.

Graveyard pieces are the most generous early research targets. Crafting a Gravestone at the Stone cutter and studying it returns a large block of blue tech points for very little stone.

Crafting Gravestone at Stone Cutter — A Gravestone being cut at the Stone cutter in the workyard, ready to be carried down and researched. Shown at 12:46 in JimmyTheSaint’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Once the table is standing and stocked with Science, it stays useful for the rest of the run. Body parts, tools, crops, and graveyard decorations all feed it, and the tech points it returns unlock most of what follows in the Book Writing and Theology trees.