Corpses and autopsy
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Corpses and autopsy
White skulls for the graveyard, red skulls for zombies: what every body part carries, and the Anatomy each extraction needs.
Every corpse is made of six body parts - skin, bones, skull, heart, brain and guts - plus a few soft parts in its pockets. The corpse's white and red skulls are the sum of its parts, and removing or adding organs at the autopsy table changes them.
- 6
- Organs per corpse
- 36
- Organ variants
- 5
- Corpse tiers
- 12
- Embalming mixes
A buried corpse's white skulls count toward the grave's quality, but its red skulls never do - and each red skull has to be covered by a decoration point before the white ones start to count. A resurrected zombie is the opposite: every red skull unlocks a zombie perk slot.
Counts toward a grave's quality once it is buried, alongside decorations.
Never counts for the graveyard and uses up decoration; makes a better zombie and opens a zombie perk slot each.
Each white skull matched by a decoration point on the grave becomes one point of quality.
How an extraction turns out
An operation at the Autopsy Table I runs for a number of ticks, and each tick succeeds or fails - Anatomy mastery sets how often it succeeds. The result depends on how many ticks succeeded.
Enough successful ticks to reach the organ's gold mark: the organ comes out as an item.
Between the silver and gold marks: the organ is removed from the body, but it is ruined and no item is left.
Short of the silver mark: the organ is removed and a Surgeon's Error is left in its place - 1 red and 1 white skull less.
Extracting each organ: the Anatomy mastery it needs, its ticks, and the successful ticks needed to remove it (silver) or keep it (gold), plus the tech points each operation earns.
 | Skin | Bronze | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 red, 1 blue |
| Skin | Silver | 3 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 red, 2 blue |
| Skin | Gold | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 red, 3 blue |
 | Bones | Bronze | 2 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 1 red, 1 blue |
| Bones | Silver | 4 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 1 red, 2 blue |
| Bones | Gold | 7 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 1 red, 3 blue |
 | Skull | Bronze | 3 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 1 red, 1 blue |
| Skull | Silver | 5 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 1 red, 2 blue |
| Skull | Gold | 8 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 1 red, 3 blue |
 | Heart | Bronze | 5 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 1 red, 1 blue |
| Heart | Silver | 9 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 1 red, 2 blue |
 | Heart | Gold | 13 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 1 red, 3 blue |
 | Brain | Bronze | 8 | 14 | 7 | 13 | 1 red, 1 blue |
| Brain | Silver | 10 | 14 | 7 | 13 | 1 red, 2 blue |
 | Brain | Gold | 13 | 14 | 7 | 13 | 1 red, 3 blue |
 | Guts | Bronze | 9 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 1 red, 1 blue |
| Guts | Silver | 11 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 1 red, 2 blue |
 | Guts | Gold | 13 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 1 red, 3 blue |
Embalming
Embalming adds or trades skulls without surgery. Solutions and injections are made at the Formulation Bench and applied at the Embalming Table I; the grade (I to III) comes from how well the solution was made.
Embalming mixes and what they do to a corpse's skulls.
| Mix | Red skulls | White skulls | Made from | Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Solution for Corpses I | 0 | +1 | 1 Melted Fat and 1 Preservative | 1 silver |
| Solution for Corpses II | 0 | +2 | 1 Melted Fat and 1 Preservative | 10 silver |
| Solution for Corpses III | 0 | +3 | 1 Melted Fat and 1 Preservative | 50 silver |
 | Solution for Zombies I | +1 | 0 | 1 Alcohol and 1 Preservative | 2 silver |
| Solution for Zombies II | +2 | 0 | 1 Alcohol and 1 Preservative | 12 silver |
| Solution for Zombies III | +3 | 0 | 1 Alcohol and 1 Preservative | 60 silver |
 | Injection for Corpses I | -1 | +1 | 1 Melted Fat, 1 Preservative and 1 Comet's Tail | 2 silver |
| Injection for Corpses II | -2 | +2 | 1 Melted Fat, 1 Preservative and 1 Comet's Tail | 12 silver |
| Injection for Corpses III | -3 | +3 | 1 Melted Fat, 1 Preservative and 1 Comet's Tail | 70 silver |
 | Injection for Zombies I | +1 | -1 | 1 Alcohol, 1 Preservative and 1 Comet's Tail | 3 silver |
| Injection for Zombies II | +2 | -2 | 1 Alcohol, 1 Preservative and 1 Comet's Tail | 13 silver |
| Injection for Zombies III | +3 | -3 | 1 Alcohol, 1 Preservative and 1 Comet's Tail | 80 silver |
Corpse tiers
Corpses arrive in tiers. Higher tiers carry more gold-quality organs, and the Prayer for Repose blessing raises the tier of arriving corpses while it lasts. Burying a corpse earns the certificate shown.
What each corpse tier carries, over every body layout in that tier.
| Tier | Body layouts | Red skulls | White skulls | Gold organs | Burial reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 0 | 15 | 0 to 1 | 2 to 4 | 0% | Burial Certificate I |
| Tier 1 | 9 | 1 to 5 | 1 to 5 | 4% | Burial Certificate II |
| Tier 2 | 9 | 2 to 6 | 2 to 6 | 15% | Burial Certificate III |
| Tier 3 | 9 | 3 to 7 | 3 to 7 | 20% | Burial Certificate III |
| Tier 4 | 9 | 3 to 7 | 3 to 7 | 20% | Burial Certificate III |
Tools for better organs
Autopsy questions
What does removing an organ do to a grave's score?
Removing a red-skull organ lowers the corpse's red skulls, so fewer of the grave's laurels are cancelled; a clean extraction also leaves the organ as an item. Removing a white-skull organ lowers the most the grave can score.
What causes a Surgeon's Error?
Too few of the operation's ticks succeeded. Each organ needs the Anatomy mastery shown in the table above. An Organ Restorer repairs the error afterwards.
Which skulls matter for a zombie?
Red skulls: each one opens a zombie perk slot. Red organs are added at the autopsy table, and Solution or Injection for Zombies at the embalming table changes the skulls without surgery.