In Frostpunk 2, you’ll have to “defrost” or frostbreak the areas or tiles to construct your buildings and districts. This is one of the core things you have to learn and master because it also costs resources to use the Frostbreakers. Here’s how to frostbreak those tiles in Frostpunk 2 and everything you need to know about the feature.
How to Frostbreak Deep Frost in Frostpunk 2
To frostbreak areas, you need to click the button on the lower right of your screen. This is the frostbreak window. It’ll change the UI of the game, and you’ll see the whole area highlighted with either light or dark shades. The darkest area means that these tiles have already been frostbroken, and you can freely build on them.
The grey area means you still need to frostbreak the tiles, but you don’t have access to the area yet. The white or snowy areas mean that you can currently frostbreak these tiles and work your way to farther or grey areas near the tile.
If these areas don’t change shade when you click the frostbreak button, it means that you don’t have the resources to perform the frostbreak task. You must have 200 workers (or workforce) and 30 Heatstamps to frostbreak.
When you commit to a frostbreak task, you’ll have to choose eight tiles to order the command. Once you have chosen eight tiles, you can click the checkmark at the last tile you picked to start frostbreaking.
Frostbreaking Tips in Frostpunk 2
At the start of every playthrough or chapter, resources are extremely limited. Every early decision you make will impact your progress in the end. If you decide to oversupply yourself in food, ores, or other resources, you’ll find yourself lacking in other aspects, especially your workforce.
If you don’t have any workforce available, you’ll struggle to frostbreak more areas to fix some of your problems. For example, if you invest too much in producing industrial goods, you might suddenly find problems like heating, workforce shortages, food shortages, and more. If these all pile up and you are constantly reducing your population, you’ll also lose more of your workforce.
When your population and workforce are dwindling, you can’t even fix it because you don’t have the workforce to construct other buildings or frostbreak areas to make room for more buildings. This is the worst-case situation you always want to avoid, so you don’t want to frostbreak areas that you don’t really need at the moment.
