Video walkthrough · captions checked · the weekly gratitude loop
Gratitude wants 10 a week and the taught method caps at 5. This page turns the video’s test into one runnable routine: buy from Herm, sell the same goods back, take the full 10 in one go for a net 2s 26c — and let the offering box repay it, ending 44 copper ahead. Every figure carries its timestamp. What the video never covers — the cap that rises from 10 to 20, warehouse orders, what each prayer demands — gets its own chapters and tables, each marked as either a player report or the game’s own data.
0:00–0:20 · video
Town Gratitude is a weekly resource you spend on sermons to produce Faith. The taught method is to accumulate it by selling things — but it is capped each week, so it turns into a chore you have to babysit.
The video’s promise: fill the weekly 10 in one go, at almost no net cost, so the chore disappears.
0:20–0:41 · video
The official route is selling burial certificates for gratitude. The video tests it: seven certificates in, and it pays 5 — that is the weekly cap from that source.
A sermon costs 10, so certificates alone never fill the bar; you need a second source.
0:41–0:58 · video
Quest rewards hand over 5 gratitude at a time, which exactly covers the gap — but quests are finite, so this cannot be the long-term answer.
The video treats quest gratitude as early bridging, and saves the real fix for the next chapter.
1:00–1:53 · video
Herm’s stock list marks certain goods with a thumbs-up: those pay gratitude when you sell them back to him. So you buy, sell the same goods back, and convert the spread into gratitude.
The shopping list the video uses: 5 fillets, 30 wheat, 30 carrots, 30 beets and 30 cabbages — 7 silver 53 copper in total.
1:53–2:38 · video
Selling the same haul back, Herm pays less than you spent: the video gets 5 silver 27 copper back, so this is not a free lunch.
What it does hand over is gratitude — 10 at once. Net: 7s 53c out, 5s 27c in, so 2s 26c buys the full weekly 10.
2:38–3:16 · video
The video keeps prayers, faith and gratitude in the chest beside the church, because that is where they get used, and carries burial certificates around instead — the morgue run is frequent enough and certificates are quick silver when needed.
Small habit, but it decides whether the routine flows or stalls halfway.
3:16–4:16 · video
After the sermon, the video empties the offering box: 2 silver 70 copper with the money bonus applied. Against the 2s 26c cost, the run ends 44 copper ahead.
So the loop is not about saving coin — it is about automating the weekly 10 gratitude for effectively nothing.
4:29–4:48 · video
Gratitude is spent on sermons, sermons produce Faith, and Faith buys the yellow-icon nodes on the inspiration tree — the mid-game progression gate.
The video’s point is that gratitude is not hard to obtain; remembering to chase it weekly is. This routine deletes the remembering.
4:48–5:03 · video
The video demonstrates the whole routine on the day of wrath — the sermon day: do the Herm buy-and-sell first, then preach, then empty the offering box.
Since both gratitude and sermons run on a weekly rhythm, binding them into one day is the complete shape of the method.
The 10 you are filling here is only the early ceiling. Players report it rises from 10 to 20 — that comes from community guides, not from a number the game states, so it stays a report rather than a fixed value.
The trigger is reported two ways: the first successful town defence, or opening the harbour route. The fair reading is that the cap rises once the main line reaches a certain point, so do not treat 10 as a constant.
Once the ceiling is 20, one Herm buy-and-sell run (10) only fills half of it: you need a second run that week, or a second source. The warehouse orders below are one of them.
Once the ceiling is 20, one Herm run no longer fills the week. Players report a second steady source: warehouse orders. Deliver produced supplies to the shops in town and an order pays 15, 20 or 25 gratitude depending on its size. Those numbers come from community guides, not from anything the game states.
The gate here is not gratitude but production: zombie workers on the workstations, so crops and materials keep coming without you, are what you actually deliver.
Gratitude is not one source but several, each capped on its own, and together they decide what you can bank this week. The table puts every source this page mentions side by side and says where each number comes from.
| Source | Per turn-in | Weekly cap | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burial certificates (handed in at the tavern) | The video puts 7 in and is paid 5 | 5 (read off the video) | Per-certificate value not confirmed |
| Quest reward gratitude paper | 5 each (read off the video) | Not confirmed (quests are finite) | Runs out — early bridging only |
| Herm buy-and-sell-back loop | 10 per run (read off the video) | Not confirmed | Fills only half once the cap is 20 |
| Warehouse orders (supplies to town shops) | 15 / 20 / 25 (players report) | Not confirmed | Needs a production line at home |
| Combat victory rewards | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Players report town defence and similar fights pay gratitude |
Whether a sermon runs at all, and how well it goes, depends on the parishioner count and sermon difficulty the prayer in your hands demands — two fixed values from the game’s own data, separate from the gratitude you hold. Below are the nine prayers at grade 1.
| Prayer | Parishioners needed | Sermon difficulty | Base coin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic prayer | 4 | 8 | 5 |
| Prayer for Faith | 7 | 15 | 5 |
| Prayer for Money | 7 | 15 | 10 |
| Combat Prayer | 15 | 40 | 5 |
| Harvest Prayer | 15 | 40 | 5 |
| Prayer for Repose | 20 | 50 | 20 |
| Prayer for Excellence | 40 | 90 | 20 |
| Combo Prayer | 30 | 60 | 10 |
| Hypno Prayer | 60 | 120 | 10 |
The single source video (published 2026-09-19). Its English captions were read in full on 2026-09-20 (132 cues) and checked chapter by chapter.
Names are the game’s own: Town Gratitude (its tooltip reads “Gives 5”), burial certificates I–III, Herm’s stock, the Prayer for Faith. Every coin figure — 7s 53c, 5s 27c, 2s 70c, +44c — is read off the video, so it is community observation rather than a number the game states.
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