Autopsy: burial and zombie candidates

Choose the corpse’s destination before removing anything. A burial body benefits from white skulls and fewer red skulls. A zombie candidate benefits from red skulls within its collar’s limit. Removing Blood and Fat from every delivery can weaken the workers you planned to raise.

For an operation on a valuable candidate, check the organ-by-organ mastery requirements. A top-grade Heart, Brain or Guts needs Anatomy 13; acquiring an Organ Improver does not remove that insertion requirement.

Read the grave-quality limit

A grave’s quality is the lower of its decoration quality minus red skulls and the corpse’s white skulls. Decoration quality includes the gravestone and fence.

With 3 decoration points, a body that has 2 red and 3 white skulls scores +1. Removing those two red skulls while preserving all three white raises the same grave to +3. Raising the decoration score to 6 afterward still gives +3 because the body has only three white skulls.

Inspect pockets before surgery

Blood and Fat contribute red skulls; Flesh contributes white. Check the displayed change before removing a pocket item from a burial candidate. Keeping Flesh can preserve the grave’s ceiling.

The six organs are Skin, Bones, Skull, Heart, Brain and Guts. Their skull values vary. Unlock the appropriate anatomy technology to reveal them: Skin and Bones, Skull and Teeth, Autopsy Advanced, and Autopsy Master cover different organs.

Read the operation’s success chance before attempting extraction or insertion. Organ quality and effective Anatomy mastery both matter. A failed operation can destroy a useful organ or leave a Surgeon’s Error. Such an error blocks that body from resurrection, so do not use a valuable worker candidate to practice risky surgery.

Preserve zombie candidates

Leave useful red-skull pocket contents in a body selected for resurrection. Keep every organ slot complete and choose a collar that supports the total. More white skulls do not increase zombie efficiency in the sequel.

For an unsuitable burial body, cremation returns a Burial Certificate plus materials such as Ash and Salt once the facility is unlocked. Remove items you want to keep first; disposal consumes what remains inside. River disposal gives up the certificate and useful cremation materials.