Providing heat in the last autumn scenario?

[江中蛤蟆]

By about 32nd day, workers may ask you to provide heat for their houses or they will strike. And, most buildings are too cold to work properly by the 35th day because the temperature has dropped to -50C°.
But there is no way to turn on the generator or any technologies/buildings to provide heat. The only thing I can do is watching hundreds of workers freeze to dead.
Is that a bug or something like "this part has not been finished yet"?

[Darkeng]

Braziers? Did you build/research them or not?

[江中蛤蟆]

Originally posted by DarKeng:

Braziers? Did you build/research them or not?

There is no such an option for me to research

[Tankfriend]

No, you simply can't switch on the generator. You're supposed to make do with braziers etc. while you finish the rest of the generator / the last three upgrades, then get the hell out of there. The scenario does not transform into a workable endless game after you've finished the generator.

[GT500]

Originally posted by 江中蛤蟆:

Originally posted by DarKeng:

Braziers? Did you build/research them or not?

There is no such an option for me to research

You will get it eventually :)

[The Mogician]

You get a popup with a worker telling you about new technology that you can research, you research heaters and braziers there.

[The Mogician]

您好，
根据您的头像，您已经被排进了正月十五枪毙名单。

[Xiphoris]

A 4th technology tree unlocks with heat technologies that you can research. I believe you should have already gotten this option before day 32. I haven't made it that far and I've gotten the option.

Check your research tree to see if you have a 4th branch. It appears during an event right after the temperature starts to drop, where the game announces that shipments will be ending on a certain day, and that you'll be evacuated. The popup says something like "An engineer approaches you with some ideas".

[Jeridan]

No, the "I'll deal with it later" just doesn't open the research screen. The Heating tab is available when you open the research screen later.

[江中蛤蟆]

Now I am pretty sure it was a bug.
I started a new game and this time a new research tab comes to me in 27th day.

[Tila]

I have researched everything in the heating tab and placed a lot of braziers all around my tent area. but I still can't get the tents to warm up to the status the workers want me to (livable). they stay on the third level (chilly) and I can't get them warmer. am I doing something wrong or are my workers just whiny sissies??

[Nikas Zekeval]

Originally posted by Tila:

I have researched everything in the heating tab and placed a lot of braziers all around my tent area. but I still can't get the tents to warm up to the status the workers want me to (livable). they stay on the third level (chilly) and I can't get them warmer. am I doing something wrong or are my workers just whiny sissies??

IIRC Braziers max out at increasing heat by two levels (+20 C). Add in tent insulation of one level? Yeah, at -50 C you have to have the temperature go up to -40 C to reach liveable. Also like steam hubs the heat bonus doesn't overlap, you just get the best value if more than one applies.

I got out before the snow fell, so I don't know if the heat varies of just keeps going down.

[Tila]

My bad, I discovered after my post that I hadn't seen the second level of heat in the Braziers menu. I ran out of food, but made it out in time. I believe it's not dropping further than -50°C

[Anvos]

Yeah as long as you've spread out enough braziers and have the rank 2 of heating you should be good, though yeah this is one of those F you scenarios in the later part of the game, where people can demand warmer homes but you have no ability to do so, especially on the engineer path where for some reason you can't put regular people in the fancy housing, even if you can spring the resource to do so.

[Nikas Zekeval]

Originally posted by Anvos:

Yeah as long as you've spread out enough braziers and have the rank 2 of heating you should be good, though yeah this is one of those F you scenarios in the later part of the game, where people can demand warmer homes but you have no ability to do so, especially on the engineer path where for some reason you can't put regular people in the fancy housing, even if you can spring the resource to do so.

The Engineers get upset if the common laborers have as good housing.

OTOH I can see the in universe logic of only tents. Six to seven weeks is scheduled to build the generators so why waste the resources and shipping on very temporary housing? Sending some poles and canvas for tents, or even just the canvas, is a cheaper option and leaves more room for supplies to build the generator.

Ironically the penal colony has better insulation than the tents...

[socratessoul]

Originally posted by Nikas Zekeval:

Ironically the penal colony has better insulation than the tents...

That's why they call prison a 'health farm' XD