Graveyard Keeper 2 Donkey Delivery Schedule: Carrots, Timing & Strike Fix

Donkey Delivery Schedule and Calendar Mechanics

Understanding when Donkey visits your graveyard and how to forecast body drop arrivals.

In Graveyard Keeper 2, corpse delivery follows the 6-day celestial week. Donkey arrives reliably on Pride Day (represented by the radiant Sun symbol) and Lust Day (represented by the Venus female symbol). When Donkey approaches, you will hear a distinct bicycle bell chime echoing across the graveyard path.

If your morgue has zero open pallets or cold slabs, Donkey will halt outside the chute, complain loudly about full mortuary conditions, and leave without depositing the body. To prevent wasting delivery cycles, always process or cremate incoming corpses promptly.

Maintaining a steady delivery rhythm ensures maximum harvest of skulls, blood, fat, and high-quality corpses for cemetery expansion and zombie labor.

Carrot Logistics, Cold Pallets, and Morgue Automation

How to establish a self-sustaining carrot farm and preserve fresh corpses from decay.

To satisfy Donkey's appetite without manual labor, research 'Advanced Farming' at the Church Study Table. Plant 4 carrot plots in the Garden south of your house. Once harvested, place carrots directly into the outdoor Carrot Box (up to 50 carrots max capacity, granting 10 continuous body deliveries).

Corpses begin decaying the moment Donkey dumps them down the chute. Constructing Cold Pallets in the Morgue reduces corpse decay rate by 90%, giving you ample time to perform multi-stage embalming and organ extraction without losing burial quality score.

Pairing automatic carrot deposits with Tier II Cold Pallets completely eliminates corpse rot, allowing you to orchestrate high-tier embalming at your own pace.

Troubleshooting Donkey Stoppage: Nun Quest Gates, Carrot Supply & Update 1.010

Diagnosing why Donkey stops delivering corpses in mid-to-late game: Quest gate progression, Carrot Supply crafting, and morgue counter fixes.

In mid-game campaigns (often reported around Day 40 to 50 on Nintendo Switch 2 and PC), players frequently encounter an issue where Donkey abruptly halts deliveries despite full carrot boxes and empty morgue pallets. In many cases, Donkey can be found idling silently behind trees near the Nun's cottage. This is not a save glitch, but a quest progression gate: advancing the Nun's storyline tasks (such as her base camp upgrade, which had a softlock resolved in Update 1.009) releases the flag and restores Donkey's scheduled morning routes.

Additionally, players looking to automate bulk carrot distribution often unlock the 'Carrot Supply' technology but find the recipe missing from the home kitchen. In Graveyard Keeper 2, all Supply-class trade goods (Carrot Supply, Crate Supplies) must be manufactured at the Zombie Factory or Town Warehouse packing workstations, not on the domestic kitchen stove.

Finally, verify that your game is running on Update 1.010, which officially eliminated the bug where the morgue counter remained stuck at 1/19 with zero corpses present, a flaw that previously caused Donkey to falsely treat the morgue as full.

Comprehensive Delivery Diagnostics: Differentiating between algorithmic quest gating and mechanical supply shortages saves hours of troubleshooting. Always check the Nun's base camp if Donkey goes missing from the northern road despite abundant carrots.

Step-by-Step Strategic Walkthrough

• Clear debris and build the Carrot Box outside the morgue chute entrance using 5 wooden planks and 4 nails.
• Purchase Carrot Seeds from the Farmer in the Southern Farmland for 20 bronze coins each.
• Grow carrots in your Garden plots (requires 4 seeds per plot, matures in approximately 12 in-game hours).
• Deposit at least 5 to 10 Carrots into the Carrot Box to satisfy Donkey's union strike requirement.
• Ensure at least one Autopsy Table or Cold Pallet in the morgue is empty; Donkey will not drop corpses if pallets are full.

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