Graveyard Keeper 2 Update 1.009 Patches Crashes, Stuck Zombies, and a Sauna Perk Bug

Update 1.009 for Graveyard Keeper 2 arrives as a wide-ranging maintenance release, targeting crashes, frozen game states, and a collection of quality-of-life irritants that had accumulated since launch.

What changed

Crashes & freezes

• Fixed a crash that could occur while loading a save.
• Resolved error pop-ups when a gardener zombie attempted to harvest an already-gone crop.
• Fixed a freeze triggered by assigning a zombie to a station whose previous worker was no longer valid.

General fixes

• The player and HUD could remain locked after returning to the main menu or starting a new game; cleared.
• The day would fail to roll over if the clock landed exactly on the end-of-day mark, causing a visible day-count jump in the quests UI after a sermon.
• Scenes have been slightly expanded to avoid cutoff on widescreen monitors.

Softlocks & collisions

• Players getting stuck after upgrading the nun's base are now moved clear of the building automatically.
• Collisions cleaned up on conveyor storage, the crematorium, the resurrection table, and the garden and vineyard assistant stations.
• The overhead-carried box no longer blocks movement; the locked tower gate's interaction point is fixed; sawhorse item drops now land in the correct location.

Zombies & stations

• Caretakers can be picked up or inspected from their station while they are out working.
• Zombies at the sawmill, mine, clay pit, and sand pit no longer stall after returning a job result.
• Gardener zombies stuck on a failing harvest now return to their station; persistently failing harvests are left for the player to resolve.

Inventory, crafting & perks

• Bait stored in bags is now recognized when fishing.
• The Son of a Butcher perk's bonus now correctly applies to organ surgery and pocket extraction.
• The pre-order Sauna bonus was permanently reducing food energy restoration after its buff expired — this is fixed.

For players managing sprawling undead operations, the zombie-pathfinding and station-stalling fixes in particular should meaningfully reduce idle time between jobs.