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Frostpunk is a city building RTS / survival game by the creators of "This War of Mine." In the Frostpunk timeline, humanity was right on the edge of developing some badass steampunk technology when the horrible specter of CLIMATE CHANGE! initiated an apocalyptic ice-age. Your job is to keep your city alive and your population hard at work making soup also alive. One of the key players in your success/ failure will be the "book of Laws" where you can set the rules and regulations for your city - as well as the decisions you make as events unfold through your game. Things such as Child Labor, adding sawdust to your soups to keep people more full, and re-opening the Mereen fighting pits are all options on the table. You will be managing your populations hope and discontent through these actions and through events which force you to make decisions. You will also be managing how goddanm cold it is around your city.

• Coal Powers your generator.
  
  
• Wood Used for building and research, great in soup.
  
  
• Steel Used for building, not great in soup.
  
  
• Raw food Delicious - especially when your people are starving and eat it and get sick from it.
  
  
• Food rations Also Delicious
  
  
• Steam Core A rare item which can only be found via exploration. Used to build advanced buildings and machinery.

• Workers - Your weary survivors and citizens.
  
  
• Engineers - A specialized class of people, engineers can be assigned to grant a boost in production from buildings, they can also gather at a faster rate than workers.
  
  
• Children - Gather at a slower rate, depending on your choice of laws they may not be able to work in dangerous jobs or work at all.
  
  
• Tip: A human will eat 1 ration per day. Starving people eat 2 rations per day. If you have run out of rations people will eat 1 raw food per day. People eating raw food instead of processed rations are more likely to get sick.
  
  Your city's people each have their own names, spouses, jobs, children, and homes. Each one is broken up into three general categories: Engineers, Workers, and Children. Each one of your resource gathering and other production buildings require you to assign people to work there. Your people will have their own daily schedule including working 10 hours each day. You can dictate exactly how many or how few people are dedicated to certain jobs. For example, you could take everybody off hunting and cooking to stockpile coal if a major temperature drop is arriving.

• The Generator -This is your main building, central to your city, and the most important one. The generator is able to provide heat in a radius around it, after you fire her up with coal. Cycling the generator up, or "overcharging" it will generate "stress." When the generator is not in overdrive, the stress level will go down. If the stress level reaches 100%, it explodes and you lose. Managing the heat level around our city will be crucially important to keeping everybody warm and happy.
  
  It consumes 6 coal per hour at base level (144/day) and can be sent into overdrive for a number of hours to increase the existing heat zone temperature by one level without consuming extra coal.
  
  Tip: Overdrive is best used at night when everybody is at home to benefit from the extra heat, it can be turned off during the day to reduce the stress on the generator.
  
  
  
  

• The workshop -This is where your people research fun new technology (see below)
  
  
• Steam Hub Mini-generators which make heat for an area. They broadcast the same heat level as whatever the generator is at. (i.e. if the Generator is at +3 heat level, these broadcast a +3 heat level) They DO NOT STACK. (I.e. you cannot make a +4 heat level area by overlapping a +2 steam hub with another +2 heat zone)
  
  
• Workshop Large building which makes Automatons.
  
  
• Beacon A building which lets you view the overworld map and command scouts. Make scouts at this building.
  
  
• Outpost Depot Lets you make outpost teams which establish a camp where there are resources and gives you regular shipments.
  
  

• Gathering Post Handy and cheap building which gives workers 1 heat insulation. Workers will automatically gather deposits in range (crates, wreckage, or coal piles)
  
  
• Resource Depot A relatively expensive building which increases the maximum storage capacity of a given resource. Mandatory for mid - late game. You will be looking for places to shove these late game.
  
  
• Stockpiles A useless building taking up valuable real estate close to the generator. It does nothing, does not require heat, and cannot be manned or removed.
  
  

• Coal Thumper Large building which flushes coal piles up to the surface, ready to be collected by people at a Gathering Post our just on their own. (Use a gathering Post) Can be upgraded to a Steam Coal Thumper.
  
  
• Mine Built at a coal deposit, extracts coal, costs a steam core. Can be upgraded to a steam coal mine and an advanced steam coal mine.
  
  
• Charcoal Kiln Turns wood into coal. Requires a ton of wood if this is your primary coal production.
  
  

• Steelworks Built at an iron deposit, extracts steel. Can be upgraded to a steam steelworks and an advanced steam steelworks.
  
  

• Sawmill Harvests nearby frozen trees - limited by the surrounding tree amount. Can be upgraded to an advanced sawmill. These are limited to the number of nearby trees.
  
  
• Wall Drill Large structure which drills into the countryside and pulls back trees. Can be upgraded to a steam wall drill and advanced steam wall drill.
  
  

• Hunting Lodge Hunters leave from here to check traps every night and return in the AM with the catch. You will need a healthy amount of them, especially early game. You can also cheese them, taking them off the building during the day - reassigning them elsewhere, and returning them at night to work 24/7
  
  
• Hunters Hanger Like the hunting lodge, except better and with blimps.
  
  
• Cookhouse Turns raw food into food rations, you can easily keep up with the food demand with only a couple of workers. (or children)
  
  
• Hothouse Greenhouse, needs to be heated well.
  
  
• Advanced Hothouse Bigger veggies.
  
  

• Tent Basic housing for 10, 1 heat insulation
  
  
• Bunkhouse Better housing for 10, 2 heat insulation
  
  
• House Best housing for 10, 3 heat insulation, can be upgraded to 4.
  
  

• Fighting Arena Place near your housing to reduce discontent during the evening times.
  
  
• Public House A bar which reduces discontent. Later, whores.
  
  

• Medical Post A small medical facility staffed by 5 engineers which treats up to 5 patients.
  
  
• Infirmary A huge medical facility staffed by 5 engineers which treats up to 10 people twice as fast as a medical post.
  
  

• Cemetery Dead people go here, can be in a heat zone.
  
  
• Snow Pit Dead people go here, can not be in a heat zone.
  
  

• Child Shelter Building which houses 15 kids during the day - later can help with Workshop or Medical Post duties.
  
  
• Carehouse Place for the crippled and severely ill to go on half rations until you get them cyborg arms.
  
  

• Watchtower A small watchtower waiting to be upgraded to a Guard Post. Provides a hope bonus in the AoE around it.
  
  
• Guard Post Same as a watchtower - but bigger and better and you can use the guards to break up the rabble during events and go on patrol once you pass the law.
  
  
• Propaganda Center
  
  "It is very warm in our glorious city!"
  
  
• Prison Put those filthy rabble rousers away for life! (or three days, whatever)
  
  
• Agitator Work harder, citizen.
  
  

• House of Prayer Similar to a guard post, but has a larger footprint, larger AoE, and doesn't need to be heated or manned.
  
  
• House of Healing Treats sick people with the power of prayer. Does not work as well as the power of medicine - but provides a hope bonus.
  
  
• Faith Keepers You know those dudes with the clubs in Game of Thrones that go around making people walk through Kings Landing naked? These are those dudes.
  
  
• Shrine Have faith! (and work harder).
  
  
• Soup Kitchen? Small cookhouse which distributes food to workplaces during the day - manned and provides a passive heat bonus to workplaces.
  
  
• The Temple Large building which gives further options to increase hope. No flying buttresses for some reason.

• There are two resources which will make you lose the game outright - coal and food. Make these your priority and manage them well. Food shortages can sneak up on you quickly.
  
• Early game, have your workers harvest from coal piles, crates, and wreckage which are not close to any other deposits. The reason being is that later you will want to make gathering posts at the clumped deposits later on when the weather is colder and you need the protection.
  
• Wood and research will be your limiting factor for expanding your early city - make sure your coal and food production are solid then focus on wood. Coal is predictable, and you don't need to overdo it.
  
• Keep an eye on future weather changes. If you see a -2 level drop incoming - make sure you get your city ready by researching better heating and increase your coal production ahead of time. If you can't, then get your medical posts ready for some new patients.
  
• The general consensus is that child labor isn't worth what they can actually do. If you go the child shelter route- you can eventually enlist them to aid engineers or medical posts to improve efficiency and increase hope to boot. This is way more valuable then what they can accomplish in the coal mines.
  
• Get your research up and your scouts out early.

Tinfoil Papercut fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Apr 12, 2019