Indonosa Indonosa Check on your economy production stats (V key) and make sure your cookhouse is functioning everyday. On the harder difficulties, it only takes one sick cookhouse worker to throw your schedule off. Also, cookhouse is level 1 heating, so they tend to get sick. Don’t waste a research point on cookhouse insulation until the very end, you can just place it next to a steam hub or in the inner ring.
Straight up, the more you do for your citizens the more discontented they are. At the beginning hope is high and discontent is low - they have no tents and hardly any resources, but they're happy. Later, you've built homes for everyone, heaters everywhere, child shelters, cemetery, a care home, and they hate your guts!
Hello, I have watched your video and applied your starting methodology my game. With that, I managed to have nearly 24k coal, 9.7k rations, 750 (max) wood, 750 (max) steel, all laws passed, all necessary researches completed right before storm. And I won without needing any bad laws, 0 deaths, "we haven't crossed the line" ending. Thanks for this amazing video.
I don't know how I survived the storm. Everyone here is talking about stocking up on coal and food and I'm here just like, "you can do that?" My last moment as the storm broke was with the generator at ~90% stress and only 40 coal remaining with zero hope and hundreds of ill people. This video is definitely changing how I play.
Tip: You don't need to turn the generator on until the temperature drops. If you do choose to turn it on, don't bother with houses because the homeless will sleep in the heat zone. I don't touch the generator for days and build 8 houses before the first night and a medical post close to the generator because you'll get a couple sick people. Secondly, I build my workshop on the first day a decent distance away from the generator to create an industrial zone, because towards the end of the game you want automatons running your workshops 24/7 and the area close to the generator is premium living space. Lastly, resource outposts are amazing - build those instead of wasting your valuable early research time on faster gathering or steam hubs. The faster you get a beacon up and get more workers the better... Especially if you choose child shelters, like me, and can't rely on the child labour.
@@SecretLars Absolutely, but you have a finite number of tech choices to bee-line at the start of the game. Faster gathering will only help you later when you get a coal thumper up, as you will easily and quickly exhaust the starting resources so long as you don't kill off all your early workers.
@@ed_goblin Like real life, people don't actually starve that quickly and your starting food is fine for the first two days or so. I don't really bother with processing food until you have surplus workers in the subsequent arrival waves.
You may be the only person I've seen playing this game who doesn't make impulsive, glaringly bad decisions within the first week. For that you have legitimatly earned my respect.
Morgan Robinson He has a low risk kinda way of playing which I do like aswell, but having max hope is absolutely useless that early on the game. I love having a high risk high rewards sorta thing.
Legacy sparta Well, if you like to live dangerously, that's one thing. It's the lack of considerations of clearly labeled future consequences that frustrates me. With how reductive the Book of Laws can be people are maddeningly quick to make irrevocable choice about the future disposition of what is quite possibly the last remaining human civilization worth the name and what their ethics and survival strategies should be. Considering how 11-bit takes consequences this is nothing short of asking for a disaster.
@@collinbtw I mean I lost due to this last night so it's always a good idea to keep a decently high hope so your people don't try to banish you or leave
I nearly got banished but the campaign ended 5 hrs before, my city had like about 600 people but most of them died due to temps going below -100 and I struggled with coal, the generator was going on and off, had 2 automatons struggling to gather coal, about 290 sick, 100 gravely ill, 40 amputees, ended up the campaign with 335 people and under New Order, so I was doing public executions to lower discontent. Tho it went to maximum and I had an ultimatum to lower it or I would be banished... but the storm passed and the campaign ended successfully, I was lucky for my 1st playthrough
Would like to see more. Tip: get automatons on mining coal asap. In the later parts of the game coal hast to be coming in 24/7, and the human workers are really not able to do that.
Automatons are more endgame (around day 20) type of machines. You could easily beat the game without them. But If I'm too lazy to micro manage every workplace I get automatons.
You only need the automatons on coal towards the end of the game, I've never failed to start the storm with less than 25k coal storage using human in days shifts.
Dunno about that, in my last game i had 98k coal and never even made a coal mine or coal outpost, and the only thing i used automatons for was wood because they were in areas that made little sense to heat. If you go to the generator you will be able to see if you get more coal in that you use, and that is a 24 hour cycle, so you really don't need to have it comming in at night if you just make sure to keep it in the green. Now keeping the margin large is good naturally so you have some freedom to increase the heatlevel when it gets colder.
You only need 1 or 2 in the cook house, as they will process all the raw food early on, saving you 3-4 peeps for other jobs, if you build gathering huts near the piles ( 1 ea for coal and wood/steel) first thing, and lay roads peeps don't get cold, I've never had peeps get frost bite (though haven't tried the game on hard yet). If you wait until you're asked to build the tents, you get a hope bonus. And use the inner 4 circles for houses and max 3 med tents only, placing the hunters, cookhouse and workshop on the 5th circle (as they can be heated during work hours. I've also found during late game you can run just 9 small steam gens around the 6th circle all through the storm.
Steam hubs are waaaaay more economical than developing the range of the central steam engine. Just build circularly around them. I’ve bet several play through like that and it’s almost game breaking how much easier it makes things.
@@m1garandMUSIC there's alteast 2 scripted deaths in the game, 1 suicide, 1 from that lone refugee who walked miles from a doomed settlement and 1 possible accident death
Buncha of my people died for some reason even tho everyone had housing, all work places were on comfortable heat level and food ratios were good. What the heck 🤣
Wow! Fantastic start. Well done. I've finished this scenario successfully using Order, but I was hanging on by the skin of my fingers all the way. Stockpiling anything was a fool's fantasy. When I succeeded I nearly screamed a triumphant shout out since the entirety of the storm was spent frantically reassigning jobs and managing heaters. I was almost foaming at the mouth by the time it was done ;P Sure all the way I would not make it. I was a bit daunted to even try again, because it was just so manic. Looking at this I'm sure I can do better now. Thanks again.
Awesome! Glad you're playing this, was looking for someone who actually knew what they were doing with Frostpunk, been thinking about picking it up myself.
@@christianthompson7915 I'll I can say is take your time each day....dont grow your community to fast and always have the resources first hand to support that growth before it comes.
One easy tip: if you go to your generator screen and click consumption, you can see how much coal you're making/using, and if you're in the green or not. Useful for making sure everything is working out especially as you expand and have more steam hubs heaters etc working.
Finally a great tutorial! I would love to see another one where you show us how you would manage the part of the game where it gets colder and colder. I will definitely try out this start but where I'm really struggling is from about day 18 or so.
I really appreciated your quick setup technique and you showed me how important the steam hub is. I shied away from it initially because it needed so much steel and I was obsessed with getting tents built right away and doing lots of other things that didn't matter. Mind you, it was fun, but I was having shortages by the time the first cold snap hit. And then coming out of it I wasn't ready to move forward. Thank you!
Just bought the game on steam, and while downloading wanted to learn a little bit more about it. Your video, 100% is what I was looking for. Thanks for putting it out there!
I'm new to this game, I had no idea the Gathering Post worked so well with the Coal Thumper... I feel stupid and happy at the same time for discovering this now !!! ahahah this video was very helpful dude :)
The great things about this kind of game is to see different playstyles and approaches. I stumbled over this game and really had to get it due to the obvious challenge. And boy it kept me busy but until I saw your video, I realized that I was having a lot of fun watching some let's players fail but ended up involunterily copying some essential mistakes YOU SIMPLY DIDN'T DO. That was awesome to see and I loved this quick guide to help me become better at the start - Even on hard. Thanks.
One more tip to add: Different buildings have different frost resistance f.e the childcare house has 2 while a tent has only 1, so you can build the ones with 2 to the outer rim and all the less resistant ones to the closest rim.
I suggest an alternative first law: soup. It allows you to turn your 100 raw food into 250 rations instead of 200, which is extremely helpful because it gives you a longer window to get your hunter's huts staffed, and that's a huge challenge in the early game since they require 15 people and make 15 raw food per hour. Sadly, that's not enough food to keep up with the needs of 80 people, so you end up needing 2 hunter's huts with 15 and 10 people staffing them respectively. Needless to say, it's pretty damn difficult to get that many people freed up within the first few days, so any additional time you can spare is very helpful. Also, yes, it makes people discontent, but at the beginning it shouldn't be an issue. Now, onto the alternative strategy and why you shouldn't just make hothouses. 1.) It requires Tier 2 research, meaning it'll take a while to unlock. 2.) You need a steam core to build it. This wouldn't be an issue if Coal Mines didn't also require steam cores, and you WILL need a lot of coal in the next week as the temperature drops and you start using heaters, and then on top of that demand will nearly double when you get the generator range upgrade. Now, in the early game you can get a burst of 3-5 steam cores from the early scouting, but remember that requires research, too, and it requires lots of wood and another 5 people on top of what you're already using to staff the hunter's huts. This means you now have to free up 30 people AND you have to wait for the first 3 expeditions to complete AND you have to do a bunch of early-game research to even begin with hothouses while still making enough coal to sustain a city's worth of buildings. Just trust me, do soup early and throw down a cookhouse on Day 2. You can thank me later. P.S. don't forget to staff it with children because child labour is OP
Thanks for the tips. I’ve been restarting a lot too getting the grasp of things, especially since the genre is new to me. Hook us up with an expedition tip video! That’s where I was lost
Wow, thank you for this video! I've failed this game so many times, and just beat it last night. Never had such a satisfying win! This starter tutorial is the best! Also, your "were you raised in a barn?!" absolutely killed me XD
I feel whenever I play frostpunk I do well at the beginning, then when the second storm starts looming over the horizon, that’s when it gets... *Not Good.*
Colton . Zimmerman There are some really good games popping up recently that might scratch your itch for a "Fallout-style citybuilder." 'Surviving the Aftermath' is the first one that comes to mind. Unfortunately it's only available on the epic game store, as far as I can tell, but it's a game that's worth it at only $19.99 for early access. It's good, too. Some more games that sound like what you're looking for are: 'Endzone: A World Apart' 'Atomic Society' Maybe 'After the Collapse' Try those on for size.
Colton . Zimmerman oh, dude, also, definitely check out Atom! Atom is great. It's an indie RPG a lot like the first two Fallout games, but it takes place in Soviet Bloc countries. It's only $11.99 on Steam.
I find immediately getting a scout team and exploring to be the best option as I'm usually able to pump out enough resources to get my research up to coal mine by the time the Automaton gets to New London therefore giving me enough breathing room to pivot my workers to steel and wood opening a factor and making my bots cheaper and more efficient
Surely we get a playthrough at some point, I'm enjoying the game at the moment but it's often more entertaining to watch someone who actually knows what they're doing play it
I recently started playing this and I want to slap myself in the face, I wondered why the laws were different sometimes and you just pointed it out, just seen the split in the laws you can choose from smh. Great game.
Just started playing in console. Really appreciate this video, I'm restarting a lot too trying to make it as efficient as possible. I was paying too much attention to what the game was trying to make me build. I'll be trying this setup tonight.
I played almost exactly how you played even my laws the same, But I went for the Beacon pretty quick my 3rd time and I feel like that kind of screwed me were I could have already had the hot house. I have failed 3times!!!!!! lol but this game is great I am finally trying to get just a little help by watching your vid, ni9ce video man new sub here!!
Honestly wish you had a full video doing a full playthrough, this initial setup really helped me when I first played this campaign a couple years ago and was able to beat the game on Medium after having to start over. Would love to see more though of this playthrough, and I like that you did stuff for the last autumn too, maybe the edge as well?
I disagree on some things: 1. During work time the temperature that matters is that of the work place (while in free time the temperature that matters is that of homes, that of the outside if they are homeless). There are a lot of chances for colonists to get sick (and so not be able to work) if they just gather the stuff in the cold, that's why in very early game I rely on gathering posts which have some insulation. 2. The workshop and anything else other than homes and buffs for homes should be placed farther away from the city, at least 6 squares, as to allow 3 rows of homes to be placed encircled around the generator since workshops and other buildings have heaters and homes don't. 3. I'm not actually sure about this, but I think that the medical post efficiency is influenced by temperature, however I can't find any info on that. If it is though it should be placed next to the generator, maybe instead of the workshop.
This might be either a difficulty thing or that 11-bit Studios have adjusted the game somewhat because as of now (June-2020) the initial cold drop is a much more leniant -10°C instead of -20°C. Also the first medical post is just as capable in handling your initial batch of survivors during those temps because I had my peeps gather all the free resources first before starting to build up an industry. Although in hindsight, I should have used Gathering Stations as well ^^ That thinking almost ruined my coal supply too. Even with the tooltips took me a while to realise that coal thumpers and gathering stations work hand-in-hand ^^ Im personally more fond of the "Sustain Life" approach, because while the initial strain with the gravely ill is problematic, once you get your first infirmary you will get your sick workforce back without the need for a factory to produce prosthetics.
Tell me you're bad at a game without telling me you're bad: "I got lynched on day 5 after losing over half my people." Thanks for this video, it's going to help a lot!
Awesome vid, helped lots...more vid ideas: top ten tips for early, mid & late game...differences from going between order & religion sides, scouting tip & automaton tips! Thanks!
Thanks very much for that. This game is fun but punishing and this guide gave a lot of useful tips. It's interesting that you only use one workshop (with emergency shifts) and that you put the housing in the central ring area. But with the heaters, medical posts and cookhouse are still covered. Thinking about it though, I guess you don't have time to get a steam hub up to build a residential area.
Probably someone already said this but im gonna do it anyway cause it does not seem to be common knowledge about this game. The first emergency shift NEVER kills anyone regardless of the workplace. After that only emergency shifts on resource piles (not on gathering posts) will not harm people. However if you do the first emergency shift on your workshop - for example to rush scouts or whatever you like to rush) - and then immediatly do a second one on a resource pile the chance of an engineer dying in your workshop is quite high. Though you can have as many emergency shifts as your discontent allows on resource piles and noone will die.
Shit I learned from this video that made me question my intellegence. "You should use your first steam core on a hothouse so you don't need 30 people hunting inefficiently all day." "You should build your first indistries in a clump together around 1 steam hub." (Kill me now, I was sure for some vague future reason they needed to be next to those various edges on the wall." "Build all your starting homes right around the genorator in a ring, don't build them in a means that needs an additional steam hub immediately." "When the temperature starts to fall, make sure no workers are out in the negative 40 temps gathering junk by hand." (I was wondering why I had 18 people sick by day 7) "It's 100% ok to build a carehouse and 2 industries before the beacon, especially since you won't need to waste all your wood building houses and a third god damn hunters hut because everyones starving." "Turn the heaters on around your first industry so everyone does not freeze to death." "Make sure your basic god damn needs are taken care of before building a second workshop." Geeze, my first game ended after I rapidly harvested all the wooden crates and realized that without dismantleing key buildings like hunters huts I'd have 0 way to climb the tech tree and establish a single permanent industry. Thank you so much mate.
Firstly I will echo the call to buy This War of Mine. Unless you have a Switch, you have no excuse! Secondly... I didn't know this was out! I'll pick it up in a couple of weeks after pay day!
The gathering post are more efficient than having people gather the resources and because they are warmer (with heaters) people won't get sick as fast.
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The efficient gameplay is fun to watch. Are you going to do a playthrough of this game?
I might stream it sometimes but probably not a full gameplay video
Why do you have food at the start
@@user-ro9zf9kz1h u always start with 100 raw food
Is it me or does anyone else hate the random guy that shows up and forever plunges ur city into dispare and riots ahaha cause i do so much
Wow, this video made me realise how utterly terrible I am at this game!
me too! hahahaa
Word, I just played for like 3 hours and got destroyed, then watched this like WTF?!?
Just got this on console. I suck so bad!
@@yolandefiddy4199 this game is not designed for console, playing in pc is way more better.
@@rafitohornero3850 fuck u
Never max out the cookhouse, 1 person in the cookhouse can keep it running until like 150 people.
Really 🧐
@@MrGODZILLASWAGG Yup. Just found that out myself yesterday
Thank you!
Any other tips?
Indonosa Indonosa Check on your economy production stats (V key) and make sure your cookhouse is functioning everyday. On the harder difficulties, it only takes one sick cookhouse worker to throw your schedule off. Also, cookhouse is level 1 heating, so they tend to get sick. Don’t waste a research point on cookhouse insulation until the very end, you can just place it next to a steam hub or in the inner ring.
Straight up, the more you do for your citizens the more discontented they are. At the beginning hope is high and discontent is low - they have no tents and hardly any resources, but they're happy. Later, you've built homes for everyone, heaters everywhere, child shelters, cemetery, a care home, and they hate your guts!
really? he at him didnt happened
Sounds like socialism in America. Lol
@@J.B.1982 We can't know how Americans think of socialism, because they don't even know what it is.
@@DudeMichaelJackson but still they want it so bad, they will soon understand how bad it is lol
@@J.B.1982 Socialism in America is in plain view in California
my rules
WORK OVER TIME OR I'LL TURN THE GENERATOR OFF!
They won’t unless ur dumb
You're fired, and exiled.
Try to overpower the generator to explode just for kicks
*Discontent rises up significantly
Yeah, Stalin had the same idea.
Best "how to not suck" guide I've found for frostpunk so far, thanks!
Hello, I have watched your video and applied your starting methodology my game.
With that, I managed to have nearly 24k coal, 9.7k rations, 750 (max) wood, 750 (max) steel, all laws passed, all necessary researches completed right before storm.
And I won without needing any bad laws, 0 deaths, "we haven't crossed the line" ending.
Thanks for this amazing video.
I don't know how I survived the storm. Everyone here is talking about stocking up on coal and food and I'm here just like, "you can do that?" My last moment as the storm broke was with the generator at ~90% stress and only 40 coal remaining with zero hope and hundreds of ill people. This video is definitely changing how I play.
Tip: You don't need to turn the generator on until the temperature drops. If you do choose to turn it on, don't bother with houses because the homeless will sleep in the heat zone. I don't touch the generator for days and build 8 houses before the first night and a medical post close to the generator because you'll get a couple sick people. Secondly, I build my workshop on the first day a decent distance away from the generator to create an industrial zone, because towards the end of the game you want automatons running your workshops 24/7 and the area close to the generator is premium living space. Lastly, resource outposts are amazing - build those instead of wasting your valuable early research time on faster gathering or steam hubs. The faster you get a beacon up and get more workers the better... Especially if you choose child shelters, like me, and can't rely on the child labour.
Ian Chisholm This is exceptionally good, highly useful info. Thanks, mate.
How do you manage food if you bring in more people straight away?
Faster gathering applies to gathering huts
@@SecretLars Absolutely, but you have a finite number of tech choices to bee-line at the start of the game. Faster gathering will only help you later when you get a coal thumper up, as you will easily and quickly exhaust the starting resources so long as you don't kill off all your early workers.
@@ed_goblin Like real life, people don't actually starve that quickly and your starting food is fine for the first two days or so. I don't really bother with processing food until you have surplus workers in the subsequent arrival waves.
Russia's spring simulator. Just needs more vodka dlc.
Oh god :D
well, these people didnt live for ages in these conditions, they are from Britain :D
Its actually -30 degrees. eh
Nick I think he knows,-30 is normal in Siberia. Though later this game will drop even further and break current record in Antarctica.
Thats why you have decision to introduce moonshine next to each meal. Which is best decision to take D
You may be the only person I've seen playing this game who doesn't make impulsive, glaringly bad decisions within the first week.
For that you have legitimatly earned my respect.
Morgan Robinson He has a low risk kinda way of playing which I do like aswell, but having max hope is absolutely useless that early on the game. I love having a high risk high rewards sorta thing.
Legacy sparta Well, if you like to live dangerously, that's one thing. It's the lack of considerations of clearly labeled future consequences that frustrates me. With how reductive the Book of Laws can be people are maddeningly quick to make irrevocable choice about the future disposition of what is quite possibly the last remaining human civilization worth the name and what their ethics and survival strategies should be. Considering how 11-bit takes consequences this is nothing short of asking for a disaster.
i think i play this too much
@@collinbtw I mean I lost due to this last night so it's always a good idea to keep a decently high hope so your people don't try to banish you or leave
@@confusedbutok I remember watching skye, his don't starve playthroughs were completely awesome, not sure a what he did with frostpunk though
sold at "you need to get your shit together first, yeah?" great guide
he squeezed everything that took me an hour to build into 8 minutes hahahahaha
hahaha same man crazy
5 playthrough's for me so far and 5 banishments. So here I am...
Pretty much the same story. ':D
Same
yeah same here ..cant last more than like 15 days ahah
Dare I say it? Same
I nearly got banished but the campaign ended 5 hrs before, my city had like about 600 people but most of them died due to temps going below -100 and I struggled with coal, the generator was going on and off, had 2 automatons struggling to gather coal, about 290 sick, 100 gravely ill, 40 amputees, ended up the campaign with 335 people and under New Order, so I was doing public executions to lower discontent. Tho it went to maximum and I had an ultimatum to lower it or I would be banished... but the storm passed and the campaign ended successfully, I was lucky for my 1st playthrough
Would like to see more. Tip: get automatons on mining coal asap. In the later parts of the game coal hast to be coming in 24/7, and the human workers are really not able to do that.
yeah the factory is the next building - as you get a new core pretty quickly
Automatons are more endgame (around day 20) type of machines. You could easily beat the game without them. But If I'm too lazy to micro manage every workplace I get automatons.
I beat it by beign the dictator and excuting ppl it worked well the city survived 20 out of 112 though but hey still it survived
You only need the automatons on coal towards the end of the game, I've never failed to start the storm with less than 25k coal storage using human in days shifts.
Dunno about that, in my last game i had 98k coal and never even made a coal mine or coal outpost, and the only thing i used automatons for was wood because they were in areas that made little sense to heat. If you go to the generator you will be able to see if you get more coal in that you use, and that is a 24 hour cycle, so you really don't need to have it comming in at night if you just make sure to keep it in the green. Now keeping the margin large is good naturally so you have some freedom to increase the heatlevel when it gets colder.
You only need 1 or 2 in the cook house, as they will process all the raw food early on, saving you 3-4 peeps for other jobs, if you build gathering huts near the piles ( 1 ea for coal and wood/steel) first thing, and lay roads peeps don't get cold, I've never had peeps get frost bite (though haven't tried the game on hard yet). If you wait until you're asked to build the tents, you get a hope bonus. And use the inner 4 circles for houses and max 3 med tents only, placing the hunters, cookhouse and workshop on the 5th circle (as they can be heated during work hours. I've also found during late game you can run just 9 small steam gens around the 6th circle all through the storm.
Steam hubs are waaaaay more economical than developing the range of the central steam engine. Just build circularly around them. I’ve bet several play through like that and it’s almost game breaking how much easier it makes things.
"No one will die." Game decides one of my engineers dies in a work accident, damn it.
That dont actually count for the achievement
Yeah that one engineer dying is scripted so it doesn’t count
@@m1garandMUSIC there's alteast 2 scripted deaths in the game, 1 suicide, 1 from that lone refugee who walked miles from a doomed settlement and 1 possible accident death
Buncha of my people died for some reason even tho everyone had housing, all work places were on comfortable heat level and food ratios were good. What the heck 🤣
Wow! Fantastic start. Well done. I've finished this scenario successfully using Order, but I was hanging on by the skin of my fingers all the way. Stockpiling anything was a fool's fantasy. When I succeeded I nearly screamed a triumphant shout out since the entirety of the storm was spent frantically reassigning jobs and managing heaters. I was almost foaming at the mouth by the time it was done ;P Sure all the way I would not make it. I was a bit daunted to even try again, because it was just so manic. Looking at this I'm sure I can do better now. Thanks again.
Awesome! Glad you're playing this, was looking for someone who actually knew what they were doing with Frostpunk, been thinking about picking it up myself.
FASCIST WORKS THE BEST FOR THIS sorry for caps
Except it ain't
great game but it will kick you in the balls every other day so be prepared
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Playing this through gamepass absolutely love it.
Same here.
Timothy Weakly i've been playing through gamepass for the past day now and i keep getting crushed at dat 36
@@christianthompson7915 I had to watch some tutorials. Theres definitely hidden things in the game the don't tell you.
Timothy Weakly ik. i've been finding a lot of stuff out on my own but i still cant make it past day 36
@@christianthompson7915 I'll I can say is take your time each day....dont grow your community to fast and always have the resources first hand to support that growth before it comes.
Well... you convinced me, imma start saving my steam money. I want this game asap
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RangerDave NO WAY LOL
norespawns I'm the real one I promise
did you buy it?
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One easy tip: if you go to your generator screen and click consumption, you can see how much coal you're making/using, and if you're in the green or not. Useful for making sure everything is working out especially as you expand and have more steam hubs heaters etc working.
Finally a great tutorial! I would love to see another one where you show us how you would manage the part of the game where it gets colder and colder. I will definitely try out this start but where I'm really struggling is from about day 18 or so.
Well you just became my frost punk CZcamsr. Thankyou
I really appreciated your quick setup technique and you showed me how important the steam hub is. I shied away from it initially because it needed so much steel and I was obsessed with getting tents built right away and doing lots of other things that didn't matter. Mind you, it was fun, but I was having shortages by the time the first cold snap hit. And then coming out of it I wasn't ready to move forward. Thank you!
game went free a few days ago, and I kept losing and this video has given me the best start. Thank you and u earned urself a sub
Same here. I got it yesterday and played it but lost after two hours. This vid helps
Just bought the game on steam, and while downloading wanted to learn a little bit more about it. Your video, 100% is what I was looking for. Thanks for putting it out there!
Thanks for this, very helpful. I would've likely kept getting banished if not for these tips. This game is the Dark Souls of city-builders.
My guy, this is the best beginner tutorial I have ever seen. Thank you very much for the tips!
I'm new to this game, I had no idea the Gathering Post worked so well with the Coal Thumper... I feel stupid and happy at the same time for discovering this now !!! ahahah this video was very helpful dude :)
That early research and 24-hr labor focus on heat and hot house are genius moves.
Frostpunk AKA "hope your people don't start eating each other
God, I honestly wish they would it would save my food supply and we don't need those children.
Man I knew that game would be right up your alley just by seeing the trailer. Probably gonna get the game as well
The great things about this kind of game is to see different playstyles and approaches. I stumbled over this game and really had to get it due to the obvious challenge. And boy it kept me busy but until I saw your video, I realized that I was having a lot of fun watching some let's players fail but ended up involunterily copying some essential mistakes YOU SIMPLY DIDN'T DO. That was awesome to see and I loved this quick guide to help me become better at the start - Even on hard. Thanks.
One more tip to add: Different buildings have different frost resistance f.e the childcare house has 2 while a tent has only 1, so you can build the ones with 2 to the outer rim and all the less resistant ones to the closest rim.
really good job i liked the planned industry sector ;) such a nice place everything is heated up noone gets ill
This game is so awesome. I've seen another tutorial from a guy starting totally different from you. There are many possibilities. Which is great!
I suggest an alternative first law: soup. It allows you to turn your 100 raw food into 250 rations instead of 200, which is extremely helpful because it gives you a longer window to get your hunter's huts staffed, and that's a huge challenge in the early game since they require 15 people and make 15 raw food per hour. Sadly, that's not enough food to keep up with the needs of 80 people, so you end up needing 2 hunter's huts with 15 and 10 people staffing them respectively. Needless to say, it's pretty damn difficult to get that many people freed up within the first few days, so any additional time you can spare is very helpful. Also, yes, it makes people discontent, but at the beginning it shouldn't be an issue.
Now, onto the alternative strategy and why you shouldn't just make hothouses.
1.) It requires Tier 2 research, meaning it'll take a while to unlock.
2.) You need a steam core to build it. This wouldn't be an issue if Coal Mines didn't also require steam cores, and you WILL need a lot of coal in the next week as the temperature drops and you start using heaters, and then on top of that demand will nearly double when you get the generator range upgrade. Now, in the early game you can get a burst of 3-5 steam cores from the early scouting, but remember that requires research, too, and it requires lots of wood and another 5 people on top of what you're already using to staff the hunter's huts. This means you now have to free up 30 people AND you have to wait for the first 3 expeditions to complete AND you have to do a bunch of early-game research to even begin with hothouses while still making enough coal to sustain a city's worth of buildings.
Just trust me, do soup early and throw down a cookhouse on Day 2. You can thank me later.
P.S. don't forget to staff it with children because child labour is OP
Terrible strategy
@@masterofcoin1217 Sure it is, my essay-worth of explanation means nothing.
"Doctor, I'm crazy sick!" "Here, have some crazy meds." ;D
Just got this game. And I have to say your video is BY FAR the most helpful one I've found for someone just starting out. Thank you so much!
If we ever have to live in a place like this, I nominate you as our leader!
Thank God I found your video. I've been struggling for days. Thanks alot.
Thanks for the tips. I’ve been restarting a lot too getting the grasp of things, especially since the genre is new to me.
Hook us up with an expedition tip video! That’s where I was lost
Wow, thank you for this video! I've failed this game so many times, and just beat it last night. Never had such a satisfying win! This starter tutorial is the best!
Also, your "were you raised in a barn?!" absolutely killed me XD
I feel whenever I play frostpunk I do well at the beginning, then when the second storm starts looming over the horizon, that’s when it gets...
*Not Good.*
100+ without sickbeds
Thanks for this. I was just letting my bros trek through the snow everyday lol
This concept is absolutely beautiful.. need a fallout style game like this
Colton . Zimmerman There are some really good games popping up recently that might scratch your itch for a "Fallout-style citybuilder."
'Surviving the Aftermath' is the first one that comes to mind. Unfortunately it's only available on the epic game store, as far as I can tell, but it's a game that's worth it at only $19.99 for early access. It's good, too.
Some more games that sound like what you're looking for are:
'Endzone: A World Apart'
'Atomic Society'
Maybe 'After the Collapse'
Try those on for size.
Colton . Zimmerman oh, dude, also, definitely check out Atom! Atom is great. It's an indie RPG a lot like the first two Fallout games, but it takes place in Soviet Bloc countries. It's only $11.99 on Steam.
I find immediately getting a scout team and exploring to be the best option as I'm usually able to pump out enough resources to get my research up to coal mine by the time the Automaton gets to New London therefore giving me enough breathing room to pivot my workers to steel and wood opening a factor and making my bots cheaper and more efficient
Surely we get a playthrough at some point, I'm enjoying the game at the moment but it's often more entertaining to watch someone who actually knows what they're doing play it
I played this for the first time yesterday. Talk about additive. Cool game. Like you played it way more than I should've.
I recently started playing this and I want to slap myself in the face, I wondered why the laws were different sometimes and you just pointed it out, just seen the split in the laws you can choose from smh. Great game.
Just started playing in console. Really appreciate this video, I'm restarting a lot too trying to make it as efficient as possible. I was paying too much attention to what the game was trying to make me build. I'll be trying this setup tonight.
I played almost exactly how you played even my laws the same, But I went for the Beacon pretty quick my 3rd time and I feel like that kind of screwed me were I could have already had the hot house. I have failed 3times!!!!!! lol but this game is great I am finally trying to get just a little help by watching your vid, ni9ce video man new sub here!!
Really nice video!
You helped me very much with these tips!
Now i can start the adventure without allways struggling :D
Honestly wish you had a full video doing a full playthrough, this initial setup really helped me when I first played this campaign a couple years ago and was able to beat the game on Medium after having to start over. Would love to see more though of this playthrough, and I like that you did stuff for the last autumn too, maybe the edge as well?
Thanks now I know where I was making mistakes especially leaving the workers at night at those resources centres
This is two years ago but thanks a bunch just got into this game and this video helped
Been using steam hubs all wrong! Had them by houses not work areas wow this was enlightening! Cheers!
Just got this game (sorry I'm late) and made so many stupid mistakes (e.g. building tents randomly away from the generator)! Thank you for this video!
You make this look like such more an awesome game than I already think it is pogchamp
Just purchased the game and came looking for tips to get a stable economy going. This is right up my street.
plzz more of this man,this is literally the best guide video out there for this game....!
I recently just played frostpunk and I keep failing or struggling from early to mid game. This video was really helpful for me
I'd be excited to see more of this, This War of Mine was hands down one of the most fun survival games I've played In the past few years
another one!!! we want part 2 :D
I always use corpse pits because it unlocks laws to make medical facilities and hothouses better
thanks for all the info and the tip just started this game and was dieing like no other lol
I've had this game since release. And after much trail and error and looking up guides I finally bet the first scenario. I love this game!
I disagree on some things: 1. During work time the temperature that matters is that of the work place (while in free time the temperature that matters is that of homes, that of the outside if they are homeless). There are a lot of chances for colonists to get sick (and so not be able to work) if they just gather the stuff in the cold, that's why in very early game I rely on gathering posts which have some insulation. 2. The workshop and anything else other than homes and buffs for homes should be placed farther away from the city, at least 6 squares, as to allow 3 rows of homes to be placed encircled around the generator since workshops and other buildings have heaters and homes don't. 3. I'm not actually sure about this, but I think that the medical post efficiency is influenced by temperature, however I can't find any info on that. If it is though it should be placed next to the generator, maybe instead of the workshop.
medical post can work under "fresh" condition at least
Hey started playing frost punk on Xbox one. I have no clue and your video will help me get a safer start so thank you :)
“Was your born in a barnnnnn.” 😂 Def subbing
This might be either a difficulty thing or that 11-bit Studios have adjusted the game somewhat because as of now (June-2020) the initial cold drop is a much more leniant -10°C instead of -20°C. Also the first medical post is just as capable in handling your initial batch of survivors during those temps because I had my peeps gather all the free resources first before starting to build up an industry. Although in hindsight, I should have used Gathering Stations as well ^^
That thinking almost ruined my coal supply too. Even with the tooltips took me a while to realise that coal thumpers and gathering stations work hand-in-hand ^^
Im personally more fond of the "Sustain Life" approach, because while the initial strain with the gravely ill is problematic, once you get your first infirmary you will get your sick workforce back without the need for a factory to produce prosthetics.
thank you!!! super helpful start off tutorial. Makes it more feasible to venture of into the story of the game and more advanced building. Brilliant!
I would love to see either a play through from you or more tips
Just heard about this today, so thanks for the guide.
Tell me you're bad at a game without telling me you're bad: "I got lynched on day 5 after losing over half my people."
Thanks for this video, it's going to help a lot!
Your videos are top notch first class mate. Excellent guide.
lol, just started my first game and had everyone gathering out in the cold for days. no wonder half of my population ended up ill.
Thank for thinking this thru...refreshing. Pls keep this game going,.wud like to see how you handle what is over the horizon!
I am in love with this game but I can't tell you how many times I've started over lol
This is my first game that I lost so many times I started watching guides for basics
Awesome vid, helped lots...more vid ideas: top ten tips for early, mid & late game...differences from going between order & religion sides, scouting tip & automaton tips! Thanks!
Great stuff, enjoyed this. I always struggle with food so interesting to see you go for the hothouse so early
Started playing and out of all the vids on youtube I enjoyed your tips the most! If you ever go back to this please do a walkthrough!
Please make a full gameplay! I always run out of coal and that's depressing
Thanks very much for that. This game is fun but punishing and this guide gave a lot of useful tips. It's interesting that you only use one workshop (with emergency shifts) and that you put the housing in the central ring area. But with the heaters, medical posts and cookhouse are still covered. Thinking about it though, I guess you don't have time to get a steam hub up to build a residential area.
Probably someone already said this but im gonna do it anyway cause it does not seem to be common knowledge about this game. The first emergency shift NEVER kills anyone regardless of the workplace. After that only emergency shifts on resource piles (not on gathering posts) will not harm people. However if you do the first emergency shift on your workshop - for example to rush scouts or whatever you like to rush) - and then immediatly do a second one on a resource pile the chance of an engineer dying in your workshop is quite high. Though you can have as many emergency shifts as your discontent allows on resource piles and noone will die.
Love this video man, would love to see more with FrostPunk.
Poor davey stuck to fallout 4 in a way
I personally love to see you play more stuff and I'm sure you enjoy it as well!
Shit I learned from this video that made me question my intellegence.
"You should use your first steam core on a hothouse so you don't need 30 people hunting inefficiently all day."
"You should build your first indistries in a clump together around 1 steam hub." (Kill me now, I was sure for some vague future reason they needed to be next to those various edges on the wall."
"Build all your starting homes right around the genorator in a ring, don't build them in a means that needs an additional steam hub immediately."
"When the temperature starts to fall, make sure no workers are out in the negative 40 temps gathering junk by hand." (I was wondering why I had 18 people sick by day 7)
"It's 100% ok to build a carehouse and 2 industries before the beacon, especially since you won't need to waste all your wood building houses and a third god damn hunters hut because everyones starving."
"Turn the heaters on around your first industry so everyone does not freeze to death."
"Make sure your basic god damn needs are taken care of before building a second workshop."
Geeze, my first game ended after I rapidly harvested all the wooden crates and realized that without dismantleing key buildings like hunters huts I'd have 0 way to climb the tech tree and establish a single permanent industry. Thank you so much mate.
Firstly I will echo the call to buy This War of Mine. Unless you have a Switch, you have no excuse! Secondly... I didn't know this was out! I'll pick it up in a couple of weeks after pay day!
This video was fantastic! Got my sub. Hope to see a second part one day!
Use this build on ps4 version the other day. It kills!! I squeezed another workshop in there somewhere but other then that great job man!
"I should be out doing other stuff" Glad i am not the only one like this xD
this game is now free on Epic Games
love the game
great tips
Really like the look of this game. Look forward to more videos about it
whoa?! you can turn buildings around!? That's amazing.
The gathering post are more efficient than having people gather the resources and because they are warmer (with heaters) people won't get sick as fast.
Davey, if possible I'd love to see you build something like that huge forge in the center of the game.
definitely taking inspiration from this - for sure
I like the way you talk sir it’s very, entertaining I aspire to be as cool as u
dude your a boss! thanks for the tips. i would ahve loved to see you go even further with this build :P