Meet Your Maker: Burial Sites Explained

Burial Sites play an extremely important role in Meet Your Maker, as they are the foundations upon which players will build their own Outposts. While the in-game tutorial will walk fans through the basic process of claiming Burial Sites, they may still have some lingering questions about them. This guide is here to attempt to address those questions by providing a comprehensive look at Burial Sites in Meet Your Maker.

Selecting a Burial Site in Meet Your Maker

When a player is ready to make a new Outpost in Meet Your Maker, they should interact with their Sanctuary's Command Center, select the Build tab, and press the "claim new Burial Site" input that is indicated at the bottom of the screen. These actions will lead fans to a list of available Burial Sites, and they must now decide which one they want to claim. To make this decision, players should look at the information that appears under each Burial Site's name, and here are details on exactly what that information means:

Capacity is an indication of how many blocks, traps, and guards can be at a particular Burial Site. This means that an Outpost built on a Burial Site with high capacity can be larger and more elaborate than one built on a Burial Site with low capacity. Notably, mods and augments also consume capacity, though much less than the traps and guards to which they are affixed.
Atop the image of the Burial Site, players will see its price in Synthite. For the uninitiated, this material can be earned by evolving the Chimera, using Meet Your Maker weapons to destroy objects during raids, and more, and it is exclusively used for building-related activities.
Below the image, fans of post-apocalyptic games will find indications of how much GenMat can be extracted from the Burial Site before it is depleted and which Advisor that GenMat will go toward leveling. Players are thus advised to determine which Advisor's Boost they are most interested in before picking Burial Sites, as those Boosts increase in duration as the Advisor goes up in level.

First Trip to a Burial Site in Meet Your Maker

After claiming a Burial Site, Meet Your Maker players can select it from within the Build tab to load it. Upon loading the new Burial Site for the first time, fans will find that it already has a randomly generated structure that is made from many blocks that cannot be deleted and some that can. Notably, players can quickly delete all removable blocks by holding the "strip outpost" input that is indicated at the bottom of the build menu, allowing them to start fresh at zero capacity.

Players will also discover that there is a red GenMat vessel within their new Burial Site, and they will ultimately need to construct their Outposts in a way that leads the Harvester and potential raiders to that item. Furthermore, every Burial Site is generated with at least one Forsaken Tomb, which raiders can destroy to receive Parts and Synthite. The easiest way to locate a Burial Site's Forsaken Tombs is following the industrial noises that they make, and it can be fun to create hidden paths that lead to them.

Can You Move GenMat and Forsaken Tombs in Meet Your Maker?

As indicated, every Burial Site is generated with its GenMat and Forsaken Tombs already placed. This may cause fans of base building games to wonder if they can move GenMat and Forsaken Tombs in Meet Your Maker, and indeed it is not possible to do so. As such, fans will need to use the positions of these important blocks to inform the shapes of their constructions.

GenMat Depletion and Prestige in Meet Your Maker

It was previously indicated that a Burial Site is depleted once its GenMat pool has been fully extracted, and it will become inactive when that occurs. However, that does not have to be the end of a Burial Site's life, as the game's Prestige system makes it possible for first-person shooter fans to replenish its GenMat and reactive its Outpost.

To Prestige a site, players must spend Synthite and Prestige Points, which are earned by killing raiders and receiving accolades, through the Prestige tab within the pause menu. This system incentivizes fans to put some real effort into their constructions, as doing so will generate more Prestige Points and allow them to keep their Outposts running. Notably, players will also receive some XP in Meet Your Maker and increase a Burial Site's capacity each time that they Prestige, giving the action some additional value.