Frostpunk refugees generator#

A 4th workshop with just TWO engineers will out research child shelters + child engineers. Your 18 hour tech will be done about 15 minutes faster, whoop whoop. Here's what each path gives:Įngineering - since you have 3 workshops already, an additional 20% boost results in a 4% total gain in research speed when you're already at 150%, so less than a 3% total increase in research speed. The problem is that child shelters + medic/engineer boost is two entire laws for a paltry gain. Anytime you have more than roughly 3-4 children, labor beats shelter hard. Unless you get really lucky with finding refugees in the frostlands immediately, child labor to staff the gathering posts for the thumpers is just ideal. On endurance endless cores are a precious and rare commodity and it gets very cold very fast so going for thumpers as quickly as possible is pretty much the only sane build. Refugees gives you so few workers for the first few days, and child labor is worth it even if it's just for getting the piles cleared up efficiently. If you're not going for early heating and are just going to tough out the relatively mild weather of New Home with health care (either to put the automaton to work on a mine or use the outpost location for your coal solution), then you really don't need child labor and boosting health care or research is preferable.įor the other scenarios I'd agree that child labor is definitely the way to go. If you're going for early thumpers, that's where child labor shines. On New Home it really depends on your heating strategy.

Frostpunk refugees generator#

The big bottleneck on the construction of the generator is research, and this makes me feel that engineering apprentices really outshines the other two alternatives. You also don't need any coal production beyond just gathering from the starting piles for the first two storm cycles, which means you won't be running many gathering posts past the first two days and won't even have places to employ those kids. You have to choose between Faith and Order, one or the other.I would say that Builders is one place where Child Shelters is definitely superior to Child Labor, and on New Home it really depends on your build.īuilders just gives you a crap-ton of workers from the very beginning, and you only have a tiny number of children. However, you will experience a massive population spike early on, so don't let your resource expenditures get away from you. You start out with fewer people than A New Home, so getting early resources is hard. A better player might disagree with me though. I don't find automatons to be necessary on this level because you have soooo many laborers, so I prefer to focus my tech elsewhere.Just do Bunkhouses or even Tents if you prefer.

You don't need Houses on this map it doesn't get as cold as A New Home and it's not a requirement like in The Arks.Hothouses are more efficient and require less space to feed your populace, but they require a tech investment to start using.

You should also be able to hold off on food until you find the Cannery, which you must do ASAP. You can go for either Hothouses or Hunters' Huts.They are precious as gold for much of the scenario. Do not use more than one emergency shift at a place where engineers work.It is a waste of the shift if your engineers spend the night doing nothing for lack of wood. Use your first emergency shift on the Workshop to help catch up in tech, but make sure you have the resources to queue up another research project when the current one is done.On normal difficulty, I believe you start with enough coal that you don't even need to gather it on the first day.You have a lot damn kids to work with, and space gets tight later on. The scenario is heavily geared towards passing the Child Labour law.You'll be relying on these 8 for a minute. Put 5 on the Workshop and 3 in a medical post. You should get a Workshop up ASAP and research the beacon. There are a few important things about the start of that scenario to bear in mind, namely your starting resources and the composition of your populace.