How To Get More Energy In Graveyard Keeper 2

Graveyard Keeper 2: Complete Guide To Energy Published Sep 30, 2026, 9:30 AM EDT Nick is a gaming news writer for TheGamer, and has been covering the games industry for over three years at sites such as Twinfinite, DotEsports and The Phrasemaker. Born and raised in a small town in Pennsylvania, Nick studied Media and Professional Communications at the University of Pittsburgh, refining his writing and fact-checking to ensure clarity and entertainment value in everything he writes. Like many life-simulator games, Graveyard Keeper 2 relies on energy to keep track of how much work you've done and can do throughout the day. Chopping wood and tending the graveyard both draw from the same limited pool, and it drains faster than you might expect once your to-do list starts growing. However, it can be tough to manage that energy with everything you need to do. Running dry mid-task can stall your progress and leave a full day's plans half finished. Here's how to manage and get more energy in Graveyard Keeper 2, so you can spend less time resting and more time building your business. Unfortunately, expending energy is the easiest thing to do in the game. Anything you do will use energy, from making tools to chopping trees to harvesting crops. Basically, anything that you use F to complete will use up energy. You have a limited amount of energy per day, and it's affected by more than just doing work. Certain tasks will affect your sanity, which is the purple bar that begins to cover the blue energy bar at the top of the screen. The more your sanity is affected, the less max energy you have. How To Get Energy Getting energy isn't as easy as using it, but it's pretty easy. Eating food will give you energy, with better foods giving you more per bite. For example, eating a berry will give you significantly less health than eating bread or a more complex food item. The other way to regain energy is to sleep. Sleeping in Graveyard Keeper 2 doesn't work quite the same as other games like Stardew Valley, where it puts a hard end to the day. Instead, it simply moves time forward a few hours, refilling your energy, at least up to the limit of your sanity. Sleeping not only refills your energy, but because it moves time along, it's also a great way to speed up things like crop growth or the time something takes in a furnace. How To Best Manage Energy While you have a fixed amount of energy, that doesn't mean that work is going to be so tiring for the whole game. As you progress through your inspirations, you can improve your mastery of certain tasks. Completing tasks that you have higher mastery of will use less energy, meaning you can do more of them before having to sleep or eat. The best way to manage your energy is to focus your perk points on the work you do most. If you're chopping down lots of trees, then it's best to have higher mastery in building, and if you're focused more on farming, then it's better to have a higher mastery in farming. After playing the game for a while, the mastery levels rise automatically, making for much easier work in all areas, even if that's not where you choose to focus your perk points. Every aspect of the game relies somewhat on the others, so everything will level up naturally.