Where exactly are the cities in Frostpunk located?

[Midnight Murrauder]

It says that most of the settling parties headed north from England, but the only thing remotely considered north would be Iceland or Greeland, as there's no other sources of land at the tip top of the world, just lots of ice. Also, why head north during a giant freeze? Wouldn't it have been smarter to head south for the equator?

[Aturchomicz]

Originally posted by Midnight Murrauder:

It says that most of the settling parties headed north from England, but the only thing remotely considered north would be Iceland or Greeland, as there's no other sources of land at the tip top of the world, just lots of ice. Also, why head north during a giant freeze? Wouldn't it have been smarter to head south for the equator?

Greenland, I think

[Arpente Reves]

Might be Greenland or Iceland. They are talking about the North and they are traveling on the ocean so huh...
And maybe they installed the generators on the north for the local plants and animals, already adapted to the extreme cold

[Corrosive47]

I thought they went to North America.

[Nohiro]

In a frostland far far away...

[BlueStinger]

Scotland is north of England....

[Amanoob105]

We know from the main campain that it's in the north, so that's half the planet ruled out .

We know it's a place that takes at least a few weeks if not months to get to from london, so it's not scotland.

We know it's a place with lots of coal. One of the key reasons they went north, with the others being MASSIVE volcanic eruptions around the equator blocking out the sun (as told by the loading screens) and far enough away from most of the, now mass panicking, population for them to set up the generators without any major interruptions/distractions.

And we know it has to be a place that the USA can get to, and would need to get to, by sea.

Most likely it's Greenland or Iceland (though my moneys on the former) as they have most, if not all, of the above points.

[E-Wolf]

Well just search for Coal reserves ...

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[PhailRaptor]

One of the early scouting locations in A New Home, the Storm Shelter, gives us a specific distance from London in Miles. Enter that into a radial distance map, and it will draw a circle, on the perimeter of which that scout location lies. We know the Generator City building teams all left North from England. These 2 facts together restrict the possible locations to the South-Eastern coastal area of Greenland, just below the Arctic Circle, and the Northern reaches of Siberia. One of the things your citizens might emote when there is a temperature drop is "It's just like Siberia!", which would strongly discourage the location actually being in Siberia.

This, combined with the fact that even today there are vast untapped reserves of Coal in Greenland, the lifeblood of any steam powered society, all but guarantees this to be the location.

[Midnight Murrauder]

Originally posted by PhailRaptor:

One of the early scouting locations in A New Home, the Storm Shelter, gives us a specific distance from London in Miles. Enter that into a radial distance map, and it will draw a circle, on the perimeter of which that scout location lies. We know the Generator City building teams all left North from England. These 2 facts together restrict the possible locations to the South-Eastern coastal area of Greenland, just below the Arctic Circle, and the Northern reaches of Siberia. One of the things your citizens might emote when there is a temperature drop is "It's just like Siberia!", which would strongly discourage the location actually being in Siberia.

This, combined with the fact that even today there are vast untapped reserves of Coal in Greenland, the lifeblood of any steam powered society, all but guarantees this to be the location.

Wow, good job on the research, I think you've confirmed it's Greenland.

[josif409]

I noticed in the last autumn scenario you encounter a number of French locations. You also hunt reindeer. It also would have to Be somewhere heavily forested for the ice drills to be able to extract large amounts of wood buried under ice. Between these 3 things and looking at the map in this scenario I noticed it looks a lot like areas of newfoundland. I get the strong impression Canada is where the game is set. It is also on the opposite side of the planet from the eruption sites. The last major point is it’s more likely it’s somewhere in the British empire. Mainly if they started before the storm they wouldn’t just roll in to danish or Norwegian territory. Again they would be somewhere in the British empire. Another thought is there would be Norwegian, danish or Icelandic peoples in the game if they were in those territories. And lastly on distance. From London it doesn’t match but if you consider that a logical departure point across the sea to be west Ireland where it would be easier for people to congregate by ship before the sea was frozen over. Moving people there by ship would make sense if there was a time crunch.