Guide for Frosty Planet DLC (no spaced out)

[euphoria96]

Game guide for Frosty Planet DLC (Spaced Out Disabled)


I'm writing this with the expectation that you already know how to play the base game.

First off, there's lots of different ways to play this game. There's different playstyles, different game modes even. There's no one correct way to play this game. This is how I completed Frosty Planet. Hope someone finds this useful.

__________Very Beginning______________________

Heat - dig down to the wood heater, and keep operating this. It gives your toons frost resistance for some time. Otherwise, your toons will be chilly and walk slow and sleep a lot. It consumes wood and expels heat and CO2, both of which are useful.

Food - I found food to be very easy throughout the entire game. There's tons of wild plants and animals. In fact, I never had to farm or ranch the entire game there was so much food. Wild Pikeapple Skewer was my main staple in the beginning. Make sure to disable your toons from eating raw Pikeapple before it can be cooked. Use pips to plant wild Pikeapple*.

*Pips will take damage in areas below -30C. And you need -15C or colder to grow Pikeapple. So there's a narrow range where pips are useful here. You can take older PIPS (ones that have already laid an egg) on a suicide mission to plant more wild Pikeapple in the colder areas.

Oxygen - there's tons of oxylite, but this will run out very fast. And there's no algae. So I started to melt water using an ice liquefier to feed an electrolyzer. The gas from the electrolyzer is hot, and will slowly start to warm your base, which is good.

Carbon Dioxide - its too cold for liquid water and a carbon skimmer. So instead use wild Alveo plants. They eat carbon dioxide and produce oxylite, which you will need for space. There's no gold on the map, so start stockpiling oxylite ( I use 12 tons) for rocket missions later in the game.

Wood - wood is critical to power your wood heater and ice liquefier (gives you oxygen). You can get wood from wild Flox's and a shearing station. But FLox's will need to eat Pikeapple for their antlers to grow. Just plant a bunch of wild Pikeapples all over.

At some point, you now have a stable food source (wild Pikeapple), oxygen from melting ice, and a sustainable source of wood to keep this all going.

___________Early Game__________________________________

Main focus is to build out a large insulated base. And get atmo suits.

Heat - keep using wood heater

Food - wild Pikeapple Skewer

Oxygen - I created a large insulated pool, and started melting ice with a metal refinery (water coolant). Instead of manually using the ice liquifer for water.

Carbon Dioxide - wild Alveo Plants

Reed fiber - wild Bammoth's give you 5 reed fiber each using a shearing station. This is plenty to make all your atmo suits.

Once you can make atmo suits, you can now explore the map and the game really opens up.

_________________Mid Game_____________________________

Go explore the map and find some warm water gysers. Use the heat from the hot water gysers to warm your main base and living area. With a warm base, you can now use toilets, a carbon skimmer, and can turn off the wood heater. You also don't need wood anymore.

Food - I moved away from Pikeapple Skewer to Frost Buns and Barbecue ( wild creatures).

Oxygen - electrolzyer using warm water from gyser

Electricity - ethanol will be your main source. There's large pools all over. Use your bonbon trees and spigot seals to make a sustainable source of ethanol. Place carved quartz under bonbon trees to produce nectar. The spigot seals eat the nectar to produce ethanol. I used all wild bonbon trees and wild spigots, and let the ethanol drip down to a single point where i could pump it out. Each individual spigot doesn't produce much ethanol by itself, but it adds up because there are so many of them.

Sand - sand is hard to find early on, but there's tons on the map. Just go explore the map and dig it up.

Dirt - early on, I was worried about running out of dirt, but there is plenty on the map. Go go out and explore.

Coal - there is some coal in the oil biome, but not much. I recommend using some hatches for coal production. You need coal for ceramic. Make sure you use wood instead of coal for refined carbon, since coal is limited.

Clay - open up some polluted oxygen pools and clean the air with air filters to get clay. You need clay for ceramic for your cryogenic rockets.

Cooling - i used the -60C ethanol from my spigot farm for cooling where I needed it. Like my food storage area.

Mercury - mercury is a pain and melts and goes all over. I just collected it and stored it as solid in my spigot seal area.

Ice storage - find a cold area and store all your ice here in chests. Add some wild weezeworts if you want. The map will start to warm and you don't want water everywhere.

Bammoths produce a lot of heat. Keep them out of your cold storage areas.

At the end of mid game, I had a very sustainable efficient base, with sustainable power supply (spigots), cooling, food and oxygen. Everything was basically automated.


___________End Game (Space)______________________

The space biome in Frosty planet is totally different then any other map. There's no regolith, its all ice and cold. The meteors don't do any damage. There's no risk of overheating. So should be a great place for solar panels right? Wrong. Each solar panel only produces around 30 W on average in space, and they need to be cleaned from the snow that falls on them. So solar is basically worthless in this biome.

Food - endgame food was barbecue from wild creatures. I tried Fish tacos, and fried squash, but my duplicants had to run all over the map to collect wild squash and sleet wheat, which was inefficient. Its easier to collect meat from tons of wild Bammoths which are near your base. Or wild Vols in your base.

Electricity - ethanol from wild spigots, hydrogen from oxygen production.

Cooling - i used the -60C ethanol from my spigot farm for cooling where I needed it. Like my food storage area or steam turbine for my metal refinery.

Since space is cold, you can't use regolith to make steam for your steam rocket. So use an aquatuner instead.

Oxylite - there is no gold on the map, so you can't make oxylite using the oxylite refinery. You'll need Alveo plants and carbon dioxide. If you haven't stored up oxylite so far, you're in for a rude awaking when you need it for space.

Gold - You need gold to make super coolant, to make liquid hydrogen, to complete the game under the "Great Escape". But there is no gold anywhere. Plus you need to unblock to Geothermal Power Plant for another win achievement. Build 5 Glass Forges and melt 50T of sand and feed this into the Geothermal Power Plant. Each time you get around 120 kg of gold. I had to operate the plant 2x for enough super coolant.

And there you go. Escape off into the Great Temporal Tear to start anew. :-) Hope someone finds this useful.