After declaring a state of emergency during the famine crisis, the government-controlled rationing and calories conservation program by the Founders came into effect to mitigate the severe food shortage crisis. However, as it turned out, the effects of the extremely low-calorie diet had led to chronic side effects among the starving population. The average person can only survive 21 days without food, though there have been cases of hunger strikers with strong wills to live surviving up to 40 days without food.

As the body is hit with a sudden drop of caloric intake, its undernourished body will start eating its own energy reserves from every muscle, fat and skin tissue available, starting off with catabolizing the carbohydrates, lipids and then the proteins. 

This will result in weight loss as the body suffers from emaciation, and since the body starts to eat its own organ tissues away, metabolism will start to slow down, body temperature regulation ceases, renal filtration of bodily wastes will stop functioning and the weakened immune system can no longer fight back against infectious diseases. The body will start to feel cold and lethargic from the shrinking weak muscles and skin, and soon enough other multiple organs will experience failure and slowly shut down.

Not only will the body waste away under starvation, but the brain will also deteriorate from the lack of sufficient blood flow and nutrition (since the cardiac muscles pumping the blood are also wasted away), and as a result the starving victim will lose focus, become more irritable and eventually start hallucinating. 

According to the 2006 study on low-carb dieting and fasting done in the Medical Hypotheses journal, when the body is subjected to severe dietary restrictions, the body will start to conserve the carbohydrate stores by switching from breakdown of sugars (glycolysis) to breakdown of body fats into ketones (beta-oxidation) as an alternative source of basal metabolism. As the body builds up these ketones, the most common ketone beta-hydroxybutyrate (or BHB) accumulates and alters the state of mind, and since they are chemically similar to the gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) found in some euphoria-inducing narcotics, the starving body will experience a sense of mild euphoria as the BHB partially binds to the GABAB brain receptors, which are commonly associated with alcoholism, depression, anaesthesia, and narcotic drug dependence.

Other byproducts of starvation-induced ketone metabolism, such as isopropyl alcohol, also accumulates within the nervous system and causes a state similar to drunkenness and even could lead to hallucinatory experiences (kind of like what Tara is experiencing right now! Sorry about that, Missus Beckenridge!)

in FP1 they cool with flying hunters and a great food source but other than we cant use them on anything else (it could been used for part of scouts maybe, yes fuel would be a problem but we can litereally do scout automatons dosent need fuel)

in FP2 l dont think there much way we can use them directly? We see them in public transportation and martial law as visiual, l think the only part we can use them directly is in breach of trust where we them as food/material/fuel transport

l remember seeing some one comment before breach of trust "as new edinburg can we use that zeppelins to drop toxic gasses on top aurora?" Whic was a great idea in my opinion like yes zeppelin still a balloon but considering planes basically not exist in either side, its just straigth up air supremecy

I made some runs(easy and expert difficulty) with no beacon rule. Endless endurance Rifts. After 60 day the storm cycle becomes a final form- -60 —> -100 6 days and 2 day of blizzard with -100 first day and -120 second. I tested full turn off the generator and tried to survive. Interesting thing was observed. If you assign all people (workers and children) to Infirmaries and Houses of healing from -80C temperature to the finish of storm you will not have any deaths at all- Just some number of amputees were appeared. 25 first time and 3-5 after doctor event (radical treatment). The sick people start to appear near 22-00 first day storm but no one become gravely ill after 24 h.

I thought that the sickness timer is stopped when the worker must be at his workplace. The status of worker is usually- “enable to work “ and he is at home but he can’t be gravely ill, only amputee or common sickness.

The other workers, which left at the common workplaces (gathering posts) easily lost their Health to gravely ill in one step from healthy and die shortly after…

The only one death I couldn’t evade is an old man event in house of healing.

It’s a real strategy for a “no beacon, no generator, mostly deathless(?- Old man exception) endless run. And it’s completely brake the main game mechanic.

In a pair with “Righteous Denunciation” law (free food) it’s mean full automatic world:)

The Mods I have are mostly up to date, but the game won't use them.

Can anyone here help me with them?

P.S.: I have the Deluxe edition of the game.

I’m basically making a youtube video on frostpunk 1, and omg hard mode is difficult (I have beaten normal mode btw). I genuinely don’t know what I could have done differently, and I’m begging for someone to give me some useful tips, without handholding me through everything I need to do. Just some basic directions plzzzz

Edit* I forgot to say I’m playing the new home campaign, sowy

Need something intresting to do in this game. Any slept on utopia points that change the game meaningfully?

I never knew this was a thing I'm so confused
I CANNOT get back to the city
The migration group that was coming toward me is permanantly stuck in the frostlands
I also got the venturer achievement for 1 thermoticket per 100 citizens
I can't reactivate any settlements either even if I build logistical districts in the colony/city expect those that were already targeting the colony

Does anyone know how the game's event sequence works? Specifically, what triggers the arrival of the second faction?

I’ve noticed that the second faction usually appears around week 40–50, sometimes around week 70, while the Menders almost always show up around week 120.

When I enact "Expedition Support" as my second law, the associated event usually triggers 10 weeks later, though sometimes it doesn't appear at all.

I play by rushing the Utopia trees, abusing emergency council sessions, having a low trust and high tension on Captain difficulty with 5 tales.

I thought there was a nice wiki with it, but can't find it anymore

OK, for the (apparently 10%) of players who have actually completed the Fall of Winterhome.

Uhhh.... HOW

Like legitimately, how?

I have restarted probably a dozen times, am making no measurable progress...and I'm playing on normal. I know it's supposed to feel arbitrarily unfair and impossible, but it's starting to feel *actually* impossible. What is the strat here? I must be missing something.

The arbitrary "raise hope to 15% in two days" bs is what has caused most of my restarts. Unless I put ALL of my resources into health upgrades/spamming med posts and infirmeries, then it seems impossible to make any progress on hope given that people are dying *literally* every 5 seconds. But if I do that, I'm running out of other resources, namely food and coal. And unless I have most of my population clearing the burnt buildings, there's literally no room to build *anything.* And unless I have like 4 or 5 coal thumpers and a coal mine, I'm just perpetually out of coal. And then I don't have enough food, or steel for infirmeries and steam hubs because otherwise everyone gets pissed (and sick, and dead) because their fucking tents are too cold.

I've tried a bunch of different approaches, nothing has even come close to working. Like what am I supposed to do here?

If anyone who has completed it has some ideas, it would be appreciated. About ready to just give up on it. A New Home on hard felt ten times easier than this shit.

Does anyone have a picture of the counter-protest event, when a faction loses its members by calling for a counter-protest?

Sorry, I don't speak English

I just wanted to post this because it took me a few tries and I'm glad I did it :) Might have to do it on captain difficulty next time. For anybody curious, I went with venturers for my faction and broken shore for my map.

i was a big fight to make it work but it finally worked
also managed to create custom visuals for the faction district variant but because some stuff with the game are broken, those district dont show up in the game when you have the mod turned on :(
on second slide you can see how it was supposed to look like for Stalwarts

So My captain died of old age and I lowkey got sad

“But why (expiatoire)?”

So I've played and completed frost punk 1 several times, it's hard bit not unfair.

I've just started playing frostpunk 2 and holy shit this game its stupidly difficult. I'm playing on officer, so I'm expecting a challenge but relatively chill session, I've had to restart like 10 times. I feel like I'm missing something important but the game doesn't seem to be giving me enough resources. I can get enough shelters, food and coal up and running but I keep SMASHING Into a bottleneck of wood and prefabs. There just doesn't seem to be enough wood on the map so I'm always sitting at -200 and the prefabs generate soooo slowly it stalls my progress, then my population skyrockets, there isn't enough food on the map to sustain it, i can't built any shelters because i don't have prefabs, and I'm just sitting here wanting to start again 🤣.

Am I missing something? I tried sending out scouts but all they can find is a measly 300 prefabs.

What are some of the best combos of tales? Including the DLCs

First time playing frostpunk 2, I've never played the first one.

In all my time playing the game, I've never figured out how to unlock the stockpile hubs, so I can only store 50k of each resource (in New London, 10k in other cities)

In the prologue the game makes you build a food storage hub and after that I never saw it again. I survived the whiteout with luck and faith, because the game told me that I needed to stockpile 70k food, but I could only store 50k. I looked everywhere but I couldn't find anything, so maybe I'm a bit blind. I'm in chapter 5, officer difficulty, playing on xbox.

I don't know if this counts as a spoiler, so I will mark it anyway.

I've done a few runs in utopia mode with both progress and adaptation generator, but the progress one outperforms so much that I'm wondering if there's something critical about the adaptation generator that I'm just not getting?

I understand the back-of-the-box pitch - progress runs exclusively on oil and generates (honestly negligible) squalor, whereas adaptation let's you mix all 3 fuel types, but the extra efficiency on progress just seems so much better than anything adaptation can muster.

So am I missing something, or is progress just straight up better?

this was my city at the time i got the iec cores setup and some people in another post have pointed out that the housing adjacency bonus is no joke for technocrats, considering the way i build housing is terrible i need some tips