Graveyard Keeper 2 Energy & Tired Guide

Quick answer: Energy is the blue bar in the top-left. Every work swing costs a fixed amount (shown in the crafting window) and the character simply stops when empty. Eat to restore it instantly. Tired is separate — it arrives after roughly two in-game days without sleeping, and sleeping is the game's only save.

Energy basics

• Each action costs a fixed amount of energy; you never faint — work just halts with an empty-energy icon.
• Food restores energy instantly. Bread is clearly better than berries or mushrooms — mushrooms "barely dent your energy bar". This is what makes the Gardening → Millstone → Bread chain the practical way to keep the bar topped up.
• Berry Pie: +30 Energy (and −3 Insanity). Croissant is often cited at +20 Energy but that value is TBD.
• Energy Potions exist, but their restored values are TBD post-launch.
• Insanity does not lower your maximum one-for-one. The purple bar occupies a stretch of the energy bar and pushes the ceiling down, and eating cannot refill the portion it has taken over.

Tired — what it actually does

Tired is not triggered by energy hitting zero. It arrives after roughly two in-game days without sleeping, shown as a blue "Zz" icon at the top-centre of the HUD. While Tired is active:

• Every action costs extra energy, and Insanity builds faster.
• Insanity-reducing effects are reported to work less effectively (demo-era reports; no retail confirmation of the amount).
• Every energy point you spend also adds Insanity — demo-era data put this near +0.5 per point (unverified).
• Only sleeping in your bed clears it. No food, no potion, no walking it off.

Insanity & food

Sleeping only helps while you are Tired (Zz icon lit) — sleeping when you are not Tired refills the purple energy bar but does nothing to Insanity. And Tired sleep removes only a fixed amount, not the whole bar: a heavy Insanity stack takes 2–3 nights of Tired sleep to work off. The exact per-night figure is TBD.

The standard food remedies:

Food	Insanity	Energy
Berry Pie	−3	+30
Beer (Tavern)	−12	+52
Croissant	−5	TBD

One source claims Beer does not help energy; two sources give +52 Energy, so that is the value used here. Other baked goods land in the −3 to −5 Insanity range.

Berry Pie recipe: 4 Dough + 6 Berries → 4 pies, at the Kitchen Oven.

Perks: Butcher's Son can reduce Insanity (no concrete values published). Axeman, Carpenter and Blacksmith showed no measurable Insanity reduction in testing.

Sleeping & saving

• Sleeping is the only regular save method. No manual save, no save-on-quit.
• The bed refuses sleep at full energy — spend 1 energy, then sleep. This trips up players right at story moments that advance on sleeping.
• You wake when energy is full (0→full takes about 6 in-game hours), and sleep runs the world ~50× faster without skipping calendar events.

Time scale

One day = 7.5 real minutes; a week is six days (~45 minutes) in the order Gluttony, Sloth, Lust, Envy, Pride, Wrath. Wrath is sermon day — the only day you can earn Faith via church sermons.

(The 7.5-minute day length, the six-day week and the day names are demo-era figures — flagged for re-verification.)

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Last verified: September 2026 — data from post-launch guides; all values below source to their linked URL.