Graveyard Keeper 2 Plague Doctor — Albert Quests & Alchemy

Short answer

Plague Doctor is Albert, underground by your house. He sells you alchemy, your first zombies, and a long quest chain—US Trends spike when players hit the tower door and do not have the Inquisitor’s medallion or secret combination ready.

Tower unlock checklist

1. Clear the dungeon blockage under your house (3 Bronze Detail, 3 Wooden Plank).
2. Collect the secret combination from the footprints scene.
3. Use the combination + Inquisitor’s medallion (from the opening prison sequence) on the Abandoned Tower bars (+5 village rep).
4. Open the hatch, let Albert in, ask how to make Dream Dust → receive Alchemy, Basic and lab access.

Quests people search by name

Quest beat	What to bring / do
Sweet Dreams	Dream Dust ×1 to Albert
Varnish Before You Fiddle	Lacquer ×1 for Linda’s violin arc
Personal Zombie Zone	High-quality corpse (~8 red skulls) for his experiment
Coughing it Up! / Heal the Healer	Late; ties to Linda and sewer cheese plot

Full sequencing changes with election flags—if dialogue is missing, finish the prior Albert quest marker in your log.

Alchemy habits Albert expects

• Study water and blood first (cheap science from the tower chest).
• Only studied ingredients craft in the lab—importing random mushrooms fails silently until studied.

Not the same as “pay taxes”

Tax payments go through Januarius’s post box (silver fee, flavor message)—see pay taxes if that is what you googled.

Related guides

• Alchemy hub
• Lacquer item
• Resurrection

Fan-made notes for Graveyard Keeper 2 — confirm costs, quest flags, and recipe yields on your save after patches.