How to combat freezing?

[Theodis]

I'm at the second campsite and the game has suggested that hunting is good and that I should stockpile as much food as possible before the winter. However most people that are sent out to hunt come back freezing. I'm having my engineers remove the freezing status each week and made the kid an engineer as well to fix one additional freezing character per week, as well as burning extra to remove one more freezing status, but even with all this the number of freezing individuals and frostbite cases quickly gets out of hand. Burning the extra amount for that one additional freezing heal is also super rapidly depleting my resources, so I'm not even able to stockpile as the game is suggesting that I do.

Am I missing some important mechanic when dealing with freezing characters or some mechanic to mitigate the issue when sending people out to hunt?

[Razekal]

The Doctor can also treat freezing, took me way longer than I'd like to admit to realize he's not just for malnutrition. I started to have the Doctor handle frostbite cases then let the engineers heal random freezing statuses

[RobOda]

Yep; medbay.

Upgraded and with runt I had 4 spaces (the max might be 5…)

That gives you a lot of room to play with in terms of getting people cold etc.

[Theodis]

I also realized that feeding the furnace elephant seals will also heal one person each of freezing. This helps a lot.

[Federok]

Originally posted by Theodis:

I also realized that feeding the furnace elephant seals will also heal one person each of freezing. This helps a lot.

those might be the most valuable reasource to make through the winter.

[Majima Kun]

Med bay and the furnace, also assign your science officers in the med bay to make medicine that can insta heal the assigned crew. Very valuable for late game.

[Jacq]

Don't use the furnace. If you upgrade the Medbay and make the kid the doctor's assistant, you have 4 healing slots a week without having to waste your engineers.

Don't heal freezing party members, only heal them once they get frostbite. You can send freezing party members out to hunt etc.

[RobOda]

Originally posted by Jacq:

Don't use the furnace. If you upgrade the Medbay and make the kid the doctor's assistant, you have 4 healing slots a week without having to waste your engineers.

Don't heal freezing party members, only heal them once they get frostbite. You can send freezing party members out to hunt etc.

Of course, be careful about this. You can easily have a streak of bad luck and end up with more than 4 people with frostbite or other issues.

The conservative thing to do is to heal them of freezing, but that's not entirely needed until late game.

The engineer method will allow you to double-dip them; Cure them of freezing, then send them out to get frozen again, which gives you more room for errors.

[vaxquis]

>The engineer method will allow you to double-dip them; Cure them of freezing, then send them out to get frozen again, which gives you more room for errors.

you're wrong there. Freezing+freezing (e.g. with penguin collection, scouting etc.) = freezing, not frostbite. The only way I was able to get a get frostbite was to leave a freezing person untended through the end of the week. Hard to say whether it's intentional by the devs or not, but that's how it worked for me. Might be a bug though, so YMMV.

[Andrew]

If you salvage the engineering tools from the basement, they give +1 unfreeze to the engineers. You can use the engineers one at a time to retrigger this . So with Runt, you can unfreeze 6 people. ( To vaxquis' point. It's unclear whether this is intended since it's super unintuitive )

I think this can be better than using him as a doctor since you can use those characters.