Why YOU are failing at Frostpunk! - 5 simple tips to improve 

My first playthrough I went in blind and went for it. I was actually doing fairly well. No child labor, minimal 24 hour shifts, research was steady, supplies were good, and I had housing. I was a little behind on heat, but it was only chilly. Then all the refugees showed up and my plans to up the heat got delayed to take care of them. Then I found out about the storm and knew I was screwed. It was a ton of fun and taught me a lot about what to prioritize and what sacrifices to make

Always dead when i reached the -60 degree mark hahaha this game is frustrating yet so addicting! Thanks for the tip!

First thing to build should always be the Workshop and immediately research Faster Gathering (10 Wood), otherwise that Gathering Hut you placed down first will move a lot slower. You can assign people to work directly on the various resource piles until the night of Day 3/morning of Day 4, when the temperature drops - it's when the temperature drops that the Gathering Huts will become more useful. The 1st Law you should pass would be to have children work (but never "all jobs") as they are wonderful to have collecting from the piles and gathering huts initially, and then I usually put them to work in the Cookhouse(s). Secondly, as long as you build 8 tents (80 Wood) by the end of the 1st day, you won't even need to turn on the generator. Technically, you can leave the generator off until the temperature drops on Night 3/Day 4 - though you'll still get pop-ups saying the generator is still off and people are afraid they'll freeze, but you'll find that all the tents still show "livable." You'll also want to build a Medical Post (25 Wood) + a Cookhouse (20 Wood) + a Hunters' Hut (20 Wood) by the end of Day 2. Research: Hunters' Gear, Sawmill, Coal Thumper, Steelworks, Heaters & Steam Hub. Laws: Emergency Shift (can only use this once without penalty, so you'd better make sure), Extended Shift (use sparingly in Workshops and/or Coal resources), Radical Treatment & Soup (only use this once or twice as people will starve and eventually die) Build any remaining Gathering Huts by the end of Day 3 and pull everyone off outside piles and place them in a Gathering Hut or other indoor workplace that has heat. You can place a few Steam Hubs near the Gathering Huts, but if you've got Heaters researched, this won't be necessary. If you haven't turned on the Generator by now, you absolutely need to turn it on as you should have more than enough Coal by now (and might have even needed to build a Resource Depot). Research: Beacon (make sure you have 5 workers available), Drawing Boards, Generator Range/Power, Bunkhouse, Sawmill Upgrade, Healthcare Insulation & Resource Depot upgrade. Laws: (any of the above if they're not finished), Cemetery, Care House & Prosthetics Wall Drill: eventually you'll get rid of the Sawmill as the Wall Drill brings in more wood, but in the early game, it's still best to use the Sawmill - the Wall Drill also uses a Steam Core, which you only have 1 in the early game - save this research for Day 5 - 7 Scouts: Send them to the Weather Station and/or Large Convoy first as this will lead to the Steel Bridge, where you'll find a free Automaton. However, do not continue to Winterhome until after Day 15 as it will trigger the event before then and you'll need that time to gather as many resources as possible and keep your Hope as high as possible. Also, when it comes time for Order vs. Faith - always choose Faith as people tend to feel more threatened by Order and more at peace with Faith. I've never won a scenario where I chose Order, though I have seen others be successful. However, those successful ones were all filmed 2 years ago when the game came out and since there have been so many updates since then, I'm giving my opinion about playing over the past 2 months

Hey everyone. I am going to revisit Frostpunk and post a bunch more. When I switched my PC last year I never replayed it. But I feel excited to make some more videos again!! Stay tuned.

I’m so addicted to this game. Originally I was looking for something like Cities Skylines, but I play on console and I heard that the game was not as good as it was on PC. I ran into FrostPunk and instantly liked it. It’s a whole new world you can tend to. Love playing it while stoned also 🔥

I just finished New Home on survivor. My start was emergency shifts on two wood piles and one coal pile (using workers). No one dies if you use it on the piles but they will die if they're in a building. Put the rest on steel/ more wood. Built two med posts (a necessity on survivor as people get sick super quickly) and two workshops. Assigned engineers to fill both med posts and the workshop. But come morning fill both workshops and spread the remaining 5 between the two med posts. I first researched heaters, as in survivor the temp drops super quickly. The beacon next. Built a few gathering posts. By the start of the morning shift the workers on the emergency shifts have cleared their piles out. Then they go on the gathering posts and you can start setting up hunter huts. You'll have a heap of wood to build all the tents and basic infrastructure. Next get child shelters (which goes to them being engineer assistants) and so on. Really, the best way to learn is just watch an expert player do a run. That's how I figured things out. :)

So basically don't do what the game tells ya to at the beginning lol. Appreciate the the insight and tips, just got the game.

I love the music chosen in this video. Usually I dislike it when people have really loud music when explaining things, but I can’t really complain since it’s too darn soothing. Great video!

Thank you everyone for stopping by. This video has continued to do amazing and it's so humbling to see it rise, it motivated me to come back and make more content!

Your suggestions make a lot more sense than all the other videos I've come across. They seem more hacky/gamey, whereas your approach seems more common sensical.

Great video, short and sweet. Very helpful.

You are the best, some of videos get very "boring" but you make a full and great resume of what I need to know, thanks a lot :3

This is the first... city building? and resource management? game that I played. And it's SO fun, glad that I decided to tried this genre out. Anyway, love your video, it helped me a lot

Thanks for the video! I hope you will upload the next ones soon :D

This is IMO the best way to start! Very helpful hints… thanks!

Solid tips and straight forward. Thank you.

just deleted my day 17 file from the game, I bought this game recently and had a blast playing and stressing on what to do (I dunno what I'm doing most of the time) then came the raw good not coming in despite the hunter's hut built and the Londoners being successful on convincing people to join them. Now, I'm watching tips and came across this as one of the videos

The first thing I did was build 2 workshops right off the bat, and I was also able to build 8 tents and 1 gathering post before the end of the first night. The first research item is faster gathering, to prioritize resources and efficiency.

This guid is amazing and I understood it. I know I will probably forget everything you just said in this video but that is what is so great about videos on youtube they are there forever. New subscriber here.

jokes on you, I won, through the power of Public execution and overwork!

Thanks, man ! Cheers from Brasil

I have tried a couple of guides from other people and none of them worked except for your videos. No kidding I watched two of your guides and beat the game in one sitting. Thank you for such amazing and helpful video.

Really good video man. I like your start up strategy. I'm definitely gonna try this tomorrow thanks

Just started playing. This game is so fun. Subbed and will watch your other videos.

I would like to say that you can do both research and resources at the same time if you manage your first day right. The first thing to do is build a workshop and research faster gathering and if you do it fast enough you can unlock it on the first day. Then put your gathering post on 24 hour shift when the day ends and do beacon next. The night should consist of getting more gathering/medical posts ready and building tents After that, you're settled. It can be done and its the most effective start i know.

it was sitting in my library for 6 years or whenever it came out because it stressed me so much the first time i played. yesterday i finally beat it after looking up some advices, your video included. i was still stressed at the end but i DID IT so thank you ❤

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thank you! i had no idea steam hubs have time schedules that you can adjust!

Interesting approch, thanks.

Great tips.

Dude.. thanks 🙏 I've been struggling so hard in this game.

Great explanations

you as a counsellor in such an environment....you have my vote ;-).

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for me it’s usually warmth, or hunger. If I maintain one thing, the other collapses

I've played for a little while now and am decent at the new home scenario, but have never noticed the option to change the on/off times of the steam hubs! Glad you put that in there!

Are Gathering Posts a newer thing in the game? Pretty sure they weren't a thing back when I played it. I ask because I plan to start a new play on Endless and am looking to refresh my memory.

Thanks for the tips! Maybe this time I'll make it past Day 8.

First thing I recommend doing besides pausing is book of laws.

Another tip: Don't bother turning on the Generator until the first time the temperature drops. Don't worry if people are working in chilly areas. The risk of illness is low enough to not be an issue, and buildings/tents at this point will be livable with their insulation. Heck, don't even bother collecting any coal until you are about to turn the generator on for the first time. Build up a good stockpile of wood and steel, start researching, and don't stop passing laws. Extended shifts, Medical Apprentices, and Soup are three high priority laws early-game.

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cheers mate nice vid

I disagree about not researching beacon early. Faster gathering first and next should be beacon. Put 4 workshops and you'll research faster. Then send out your scouts to get more people then you could quickly add other buildings to go with the demand. Also quickly research another scout team so you can send two.. so they can scout more places until you've discovered places with resources. Then you can build outpost so if you're short of anything you can get some sent to you daily. I always prioritize the food (fishing) so even if my hunters could barely hunt, 100 raw food still get sent everyday. Also I always choose to dump bodies in snow pit. You can use the bodies later for other useful things like fertilizing hothouse and organ transplant to heal the sick (so some death can be a good thing). If you choose cemetery, workers will be off work for hours so if you have lots of death going on, this will be a major problem and work halted/slowed down. Later on, I always stick with religion faith path because it's way easier to bring down discontent and raise hope later on. One of my games ended with almost 500 population with no sickness, no death medical are complete and running, and all resources, raw food and rations overloaded where I have to keep adding large resource depot, almost no discontent and almost full hope. Also long before the storm even came I've already researched everything there is to research. Going through the cold storm was easy by then. This is what worked for me.

Thank you this video was very informative.

I followed this guide in the early stages & everything was going to plan. Then loads people got hungry. Before I could properly react, every single person became unable to work due to hunger. Ive tried a couple guides now & I keep failing miserably. No disrespect to you. I’m probably not doing it right. But I think I’ll make my own decisions & see how that goes. More fun that way - learning from my own mistakes

I noticed you said you'd choose soup, I'm curious to hear your opinion - don't you find food additives to be more powerful?

Thanks bro for the tips. I have made it till day 11-12 but then my hope is almost drained and discontent is through the roof and I get overthrown :( Will defitiely try this with the help of some comments here aswell to try to make it till endgame

you do faster gathering , then out of no where you got steam hubs on day 3?

thanks for video I am new to game and I was so confused

Very well done

Just an addition for easy food build 3 hunters cabins and fill them up for the night shift after 18:00 once they finished their night run in the morning release the workers 😄😄😄 then repeat every day You are welcome😄

what is the music at the back that is being played? I love the music. Please tell me the music's title :)

I failed because I had to go potty with my dog. After coming back, I forgot to turn off the heat override and the core exploded. LOL

Im on ps5 how are you building the gathering posts without roads? is that different for consoles?

Ok how does heat work because every steam hub i put down seems to do nothing and i die because I’m unable to heat homes

How do get the resources? I try building a camp to get coal but it's never finished before the first night and most people die. No videos show how to start getting wood or coal

Great vid new sub :)

Idk about the first tip cause discontent will always go down to basically none after a while so might as well use the resources to make something more efficient. and not more than 10 people usually get sick, in the normal scenarios anyway

its a good game, and good game to get some challange :) Good video :)=

Have you though of turning off the background music while you are teaching? I've never been in a classroom with music playing while the professor is speaking...have you?

Just got through my first play through by the skin of my teeth. Discontent was through the roof and the generator was hours away from exploding. Half the population died but they pulled through in the end. Very fun game

Turn off your generator during the day. Shut it off at 4am. It takes it two hours to completely shut off. They can handle -20c temperatures.

Mind blowing tips, now it's clear why I couldn't reach the fourth week

Ive beaten it only twice but this seems like a muuch better startup

Only just downloaded this on ps5, struggling is an understatement. Started playing before watching videos. Great game but bloody hard

Just pump coal like crazy and make sure your people are warm. Get the guard towers and make sure to use that a lot to raise hope

I always try an automate as soon as possible

After having the generator blow up on me within the first week because i forgot to turn it off before the cold snap, came here to look at stuff and funny thing is that I got the game from a steam sale lol

Something that confuses me is why none of my hunters are coming back, they were hunting for 2 days straight.

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sustain life 1 me:24 dead in the first day lol.

I love the music you use! Can you share it please!

Somehow I managed to win the game in my first try, I'm surprise I even got to finish it I thought I would just get bored but somehow the game is extremely addictive lol

Where are the other videos?

I disagree with a few things here. Coal is not actually that much of a priority. It is a priorityon day 3 to prepare for day 4 and onward. But the first 2 days can be used to only collect wood and steel. I believe that insulation is far more important than getting more heat. That is why tents and bunkhouses, and then improved versions of worksites are more important than coal generation. You can simply never turn on the generator until day 4 or so. A simple hospital tent or two will do just fine until it actually starts to get cold. I do agree you shouldn't rush the Beacon, but you still kind of should. The faster you can get to the automaton the better. Research is very important to fix the issues that will show up. You should for that reason try to have 8 workshops and get more engineers as soon as possible. This is also a reason you want the Beacon up fast. More workshops means faster research. I do agree that you shouldn't focus on buildig mines and stuff. Coal Mines are a noob trap. People think they are good but not as good as a coal thumper. The main reason for coal mines is for automatons as they can work 24/7 and that requires at least 2 automatons with a coal thumper. The buildings you should focus on however are the infirmary. That building is just OP.

Amazing game can't wait for fp2

Just wanted to get some input from others, I’m a huge fan of this game and want to expand to other games that are similar. I grew up playing RTS games like battle for middle earth and loved them. Please comment similar games that you also love.

These tips aren't bad, but I disagree with a few. The two most important resources in this game are people and research. Obviously, yes, keep people alive. But the real key to doing that is getting your research going ASAP. I usually do that by using my starting resources on a pair of workshops immediately and not assigning the engineers to resources specifically to build the workshops faster, since people who are not gathering will do any building tasks that need to be done. Once those are done, my first research is always Faster Gathering, as its benefit is really only good at the beginning of the game. Following that up with a Beacon to get more people plus the automaton at the Deserted Bridge is the way to go, IMHO. This wasn't really touched on in the video, but the very first thing that should be done before unpausing the game is to sign a law. The reason being is to get it on cooldown ASAP so you can pass as many as you can and get access to key buildings and abilities sooner rather than later. Waiting until Day 2 or 3 to pass your first law is flat-out bad gameplay/advice. I always go with Emergency Shift first, because people will not die from overwork if they're assigned directly to a resource pile whether it be coal, word, or steel, and once the temperature drops, it's too cold to assign people directly without massively inflating your number of sick people, so it's the beginning of the game to do this, or never. While I'm on that subject, treat Discontent like a resource to be spent. First day, you should pass Emergency Shift, then get three of those on wood piles immediately. This will easily give you MORE than enough wood for the first eight tents, cookhouse, medical post, etc, with leftovers for researching Drawing Boards (Level 2 tech tree) and have wood for scout teams in the first 24 hours. That Discontent goes away soon after the shifts end, or people will ask you to end them and not use Emergency Shift for 2-3 days, which is fine because after that point you don't need them any more. Like with research, getting a beacon up ASAP is more crucial than waiting as demonstrated here, which surprises me since you put emphasis on Steam Cores, as scout teams will be your only means of getting them early on. More importantly you'll get more people, which will be needed for Hunter's Huts specifically because of their huge drain on manpower early game. The more people you have, the more resources you can get, along with, guess what, research. Another fun fact; you can use the Generator's overdrive ability at no additional coal cost, so at around 8:00 pm (2000 hours) is the optimal time to turn that on. It will keep people from getting sick while the tents are being built. Another tip in this same vein; if you have construction that is going on past 9:00 pm (2100 hours), pause it until 5:00 am (0500 hours). People tend to get sick if they're out building throughout the night. Also in that same vein, it's more useful to pass the Corpse Disposal law, then the Organ Transplants law to get a 20% faster heal rate, which also still counts even if no one has died (I'm aware this may have been talked about in the next video on laws, but I'm gonna mention it anyway). Something to keep in mind about Automatons is that they start with only a 60% efficiency rating, so beginning of the game most people will be better off with the extra cores and steel, since the latter is also a significant bottleneck in terms of resources. Those extra cores could mean an additional coal mine, hothouse, wall drill, or an early infirmary which could make a big difference. Or if people hold onto those cores for a while, they could basically turn that first Automaton into two, since building one from scratch only costs a single core (Plus the 100 wood, 100 steel, and 50 coal). Another useful thing not mentioned is that you can always get your Steam Cores back by dismantling the buildings or Automatons that use them. Not a bad video, but again, some things I disagree with or thought could have been mentioned in addition.

Thumpers and gathering huts, makes for a toasty game.

I only have an Xbox I play it on there I can't wait until the fall until we finally get the edge and all that good stuff we're still stuck with winter home.. The mechanics on it are nothing compared to what you can do with the PC. There are a few times I wish I could do half the stuff then but I can't afford a PC lol. I would have to say it is much harder to play it on a console than it would be a PC constructive wise.

How do we heat the tents when they ask us to heat the homes

Are you playing on normal difficulty ?

I played for a week straight and couldn’t get passed the Londoners and just uninstalled

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I dont agree with how you started. The book of law is litteraly the first thing you do since its on a timer, you wasted two days meaning you delay your laws. Same with the workshop you can just straight build two workshops and send people on foot to collect the wood needed for houses. This way you already got one tech unlock on the second day. 15 days you get before the story progresses by itself, its a good idea to max as much as you can quickly

I like to use gathering posts to deplete my finite resources around me first before using the infinite mining machines. I always building them when I can I just wont use them until I can get the space these resources take.

some tips dont work in infinite like focus on buildings

Did he say his name is Ryan.. FROST?

I always see people saying they hate this game but i know deep inside, its too addicting to leave lol

Nice video, you sound like you come from my home town. The music is too loud and distracting though.

the damn londeners

I need help with late game

I like your tips about the early start and gathering posts. Some good info there. However i disagree about child labour law. That is indeed subjective, but in my opinion, going the route of child shelter then gives you the apprentice program law which gives you the option to have kids help out in research or in medical buildings. Best option is to create engineer apprenticeship because that will give you a flat 20% research speed increase! This is SO much better than having a few kids as workers in the long run. I dont have to tell you all how important faster research IS! Secondly you DONT need steam hubs so early in the game. Steam hubs burn a LOT of coal. You are better off researching heaters in order to save on coal and heaters will give you functional buildings even in -40 temp with low health risk. You should research steam hubs later on when you already have at least 1-2 coal producing facilities up and running at full steam (coal mine / coal thumper). Steam hubs are ideal after you set up your major resource producing plants (steel mills, saw mills, coal mines) and not before. However you will deal with a few more sick people. My last tip is to ALWAYS research the better houses first when you unlock a new research tier because you will get an event that requires you to provide the next tier of homes which will give you a large boost in hope if succeeded. You dont have to research everything from every tier. In my first playthrough i was always behind on research because i made this mistake and then when the housing event came up i failed it and lost a lot of hope. SPOILER: make sure you research the tier 3 home upgrade before you send a scout team to Winterhome!

yeah thing is there are many different ways of playing this game :D

I disagree with starting with tents. I start with the workshop and learn the bunk houses, and then I house my people, tents seem to be a waste of resources

i am staying

My performance improved a lot when I rushed double medical beds. This is pretty much mandatory because you won't be able to find new staff for new medical tents for a very long time and you need engineers to do crucial tech early game. Also there's a neat trick where hunters can gather at night, free them in the morning and send them to do other work. This can get you a bit of resources in the first couple of days

I'm stuck on day 22 and it sucks;-;

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