In this Frostpunk Beginner’s Guide, we will guide you on how you can start playing Frostpunk for the first time. The PC version of Frostpunk was released last year however, the game is also arriving on PS4 and Xbox One which is built from scratch for the consoles. Lucky for the players, it brings all the complex strategy and survival mechanics from the PC version to the consoles.
If you are just started playing Frostpunk on your PS4 and Xbox One or even on PC, this Frostpunk Beginner’s Guide will help you get up to speed with all-important mechanics of Frostpunk. The game might look a little intimidating at first because it is at its core a society survival game which is best played on a PC but with the help of this guide, you will easily understand all basic and advanced mechanics of the game easily.
Beginner’s Guide – Frostpunk
Our Frostpunk Beginner’s Guide details every basic and advanced mechanic of Frostpunk that you must know right from the start of the game.
Maintaining Temperature is Extremely Important
Frostpunk is set in a world that has been hit by a freezing catastrophe and maintaining temperature is vital for survival. You will be required to ensure that the temperatures remain adequate in your city if you want your city to survive and sustain. Some of the buildings require heat zones otherwise you cannot even build them. However, Frostpunk comes with a very handy mechanic which allows you to check the temperature of your entire city very quickly.
Simply head over to your generator and toggle the Thermal Vision button to switch between the normal view and the thermal vision. This vision will allow you to see and make adjustments to the heat-producing capabilities of your city at a single glance. Make sure that you maintain adequate temperature for your buildings and residents to survive other people will constantly get sick and die. Some buildings will also stop working if the temperature is not right.
Have Enough Space for your Resources
As you expand your city and build more resource generation buildings, you will require more and more storage space to safely put all surplus for later use. For this, you can construct Resource Depots and Gathering Posts. However, each of these buildings can only accommodate a limited number of resources. When you are not researching or expanding your city, your resource collection buildings are still working which means that resources are still piling up in your warehouses.
A time will come when your collection buildings will become full and you will not be able to store additional surplus which will stop further resource production. To counter this, you must ensure that build additional storage structures so that your resource production buildings are never wasting the time because you never know when you might need a large quantity of any resource present in the game. Always keep an eye on your resource collecting structures.
Always Connect Buildings with Roads
If you have played Anno or any other city builder, you will be aware of the importance of building roads and connecting structures with each other with the roads. Frostpunk also follows the same rule and you will be required to connect all newly constructed buildings to your existing road network. You should make this a habit of building roads to your newly constructed structures.
Certain buildings will not start functioning until you connect them with roads. The roads give the citizens a clear way to reach the new structures and back to other places. You will be assigning workers to the new buildings so it is vital that you build roads to make it easier for workers to reach them. It will also make them more efficient in their travels and work.
Assign Right People to the Right Job
This phrase comes from the real world and is actually a work-efficiency technique that will allow companies to make their workforce more efficient. This phrase is pretty straight forward and can be applied perfectly in Frostpunk as well. You must assign the right type of people to the right type of jobs. The game has two basic types of workforce. You have engineers and then you have workers.
The engineers are on the higher skill spectrum and they are more helpful in buildings such as workshops and other technical buildings in the game. On the other hand, the workers are better are completing hard tasks such as resource collection and food collection. You must assign the right type of people to the right jobs to make them more efficient.
Always Keep an Eye on Your Society’s Current Status
Based on their needs and requirements fulfilling ratio, your society will have two basic feelings which affect their working and chances of survival in your city. These are Discontent and Hope. These are two basic factors which show you how happy or unhappy your people really are. Looking at these two factors, the game will tell you what you can do to improve the stats.
For the best results, Hope (the blue meter) should be as high as possible while Discontent (the red bar) should be as low as possible. This will ensure that people are happy and are looking forward to surviving in your city. If your people have little hope and high dissatisfaction levels, they will leave your city and find new prospects for their lives.
The Workshop is Your Key to Survival
Frostpunk offers you a large number of basic and advanced buildings to choose from. However, none of them are as vital as you will not be able to research and build advanced buildings without it. You must try to build your workshop as quickly as possible in the game because it will allow you to research many new buildings before you can build them and also upgrade them. Therefore you must build your workshop as quickly as possible.
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