Does this game exist in an alternate reality where igloos don't exist?

[Stop the Insanity]

From what i've gathered you need to build shelters of tents or wood to house your ever so chilly Frostpunkians and keep them from freezing to death as it is -40 outside. Ideally you want to build them along the inner most ring around the generator for maximum toastyness factor.

But like, what about that fact that igloo's exist? People have been building and surviving just fine in those for centuries or something. My extensive research on wikipedia has taught me that it can be -45 outside and up to a nice 16 degrees inside an igloo when warmed by body heat alone.

So did the people of Frostpunk just skip such archaic building methods and jump straight to building gigantic metal heat towers, or what? I mean, am I missing something here? Look at all that snow just lying there! They could have a regular iglootopia! Obviously don't build them right by your giant heat tower but you get the idea.

I'm excited for the game and can't wait for it to come out. I just thought this would be fun to bring up and also want to know if there's some logic here i'm missing.

[sortulf]

How many City living Europeans knew how to build an igloo in 1850?

[Spechtmaster]

just one would be enough to teach the others...and he would just have to no enough to figure it out ...but its steam punk and not escimo punk ...is there such a thing? There should be!

[ChaosLegion]

Originally posted by Spechtmaster:

escimo pun

Now that would be a game about arctic survival.

[ForgeTec]

Originally posted by ChaosLegion:

Originally posted by Spechtmaster:

escimo pun

Now that would be a game about arctic survival.

it already exsists

[Carbono]

You know, I don't usually care thaaat much about "realism" in games, but the Igloo point has been hovering over my head since I've first read this post... And it's something I hope the devs address sooner or later. (Not here, of course, InGame)

[Rage]

honestly igluees are simple u just need to buid with snow around u and the more snow the less cold gets in a iglue will always stay around 32f if its not insanly cold and then u just add more snow and more people and its more insolated and warmed

[Turtler]

This is a point well made, but I see a few issues.

One of the key ones being that, simply put, you're going to have an issue with heat. It seems like the main settlement is clustered around this massive coal pit with that being burned for fuel, heat, and so forth. That's not the kind of place you'd want an igloo terribly close because it might get melted or weakened by things like falling cinders.

Secondly, there are some issues with how you'd "pimp" the igloos up. Yeah, you certainly can add some things like electricity, fireplaces, and whatnot to them, especially with modern tech... but it is REALLY REALLY REALLY Hard. That means I doubt they'd be suitable for-say- stuffing a power plant in or making a massive barracks or vehicle park.

I figure they could serve as a kind of introductory niche, being the poor man's housing on the outskirts of one's settlement where heat complications are less of an issue, for low maintenence and that could be used while you're trying to get the generators cranked up. But I think for a lot and likely even most stuff you'd want material made out of more durable, heat resistant, and flexible (in terms of size) material than igloos.

[Senno]

Igloos aren't really designed in a manner that would really work with the atmosphere and gameplay that the team are really going for. There is literally a large heater in the middle of a pit and you want to build structures out of snow and ice?

It is built in a alternate universe so it is likely that the lack of igloos can be easily explained away.

[LeumasWhite]

Seems like there's be an opportunity for some more social engineering there, which is in-theme. Upper class gets to live close to the engine; commoners get the igloos.

[Stop the Insanity]

Originally posted by Senno:

Igloos aren't really designed in a manner that would really work with the atmosphere and gameplay that the team are really going for. There is literally a large heater in the middle of a pit and you want to build structures out of snow and ice?

It is built in a alternate universe so it is likely that the lack of igloos can be easily explained away.

You seem to be missing the incredibly obvious fact that the giant heater doesn't turn the entire crater into a mega oven. O.o

[Turtler]

Originally posted by Stop the Insanity:

You seem to be missing the incredibly obvious fact that the giant heater doesn't turn the entire crater into a mega oven. O.o

You seem to be missing the incredibly obvious fact that it doesn't need to turn the entire crater into a mega oven in order to cause major structural problems for Igloos, especially if they are anywhere but at the very outskirts of it.

There's a reason why igloos will collapse if the weather gets warmer than the year around average near the arctic circle, and how even then they need to get periodically replaced anyway (well, so do metal structures but at a MUCH slower rate). Exposing them to too much residual heat will break the "foundation" igloos need, because they need snow to be FIRM.

Heat will- among other things- cause snow to expand and thus corrode the firmness.

And that's before I talk about the residual problems you might get from ash, sparks, or the like floating down onto them nad accelerating the process.

[Harpoon]

Also, the igloos need a certain type of snow to be built. From what I gathered it must me "hardened" by wind and there's not a lot of wind inside a crater.
They would be ideal for shelters of the expedition teams though.

[Seventh]

Aren't igloos temporary shelter anyway? Why would you want to work with snow and ice when you have the resources to construct heated buildings? Theres no "plot hole" here, its obvious as day why they don't build them.

[Montana]

See it more as Canada Simulator 2018.