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- Heat Management: How Do I Manage Heat In My City?
- How To Increase Heat In Your Districts
The first free update ofFrostpunk 2 completely revamped how heating works when building your cities. No longer will you need to build your housing districts in pretzel shapes just to get the right heating bonuses. However, heat has become far more complicated and requires a different sort of thinking to get exactly right for your citizens' survival and comfort.
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PostsThankfully, the Heat Management map will help you greatly in overseeing all the complexities and nuances of making a thriving and (most importantly) warm metropolis. Once you master this menu and learn the few tricks and tips we've laid out here for you, your city will be sure to survive the rolling tides of winter.
Heat Management: How Do I Manage Heat In My City?
Heat is a crucial element to your city's survival, being a direct influence to:
- Work efficiency.
- Available workers.
- Disease and Death.
To see how heat is distributed in your city, you can open the Heat Management tab by pressing on the temperature display on your UI above.
Your heat map will show which districts are cold and which are radiating warmth.
Radiating Warmth is a condition that happens when a district is very warm. Any districts touching a zone that has Radiating Warmth will have their own temperature increased by a quarter of a point per neighboring tile.
Radiating Warmth is difficult to see without zooming in. It is indicated by thin bands of red lines encircling the district, moving away from it in waves.
However, beware that any district with a fire icon displayed on it will indicate Wasted Heat. In these areas, you should lower the temperature to conserve resources.
You can easily lower the temperature of an individual district from the Heat Management tab by pressing the - icon or by sliding the heat bar down in the district's individual menu.
If all districts in your city are too cold and you need to raise the general heat of all districts, you can increase the output of heat from your generator directly.
How To Increase Heat In Your Districts
Heating from districts is now dependent on four things:
- The Generator's proximity.
- The Generator's direct heat output.
- Proximity to Radiating Warmth districts.
- Base level of heating (assigned to each type of district).
For every node of a district beside the generator (or a heat source), your district will increase its heating bonus by one quarter of a point.
Within each heating district, you'll see a sliding bar on the left that indicates the amount of heat your generator outputs to it.
Raising this bar increases a district's heat but also increases the amount of resources your generator consumes.
To further increase the warmth of your districts, there are two immediate and easy methods:
- Install Heating Hubs.
- Install Insulation (for housing districts).
- Enact the Heat Pipe Watch law for Community Service.
Heating Hubs will be the only option available to you in the early game and can be crucial to building your city.
Much like the old Steam Hubs of the first game, Heating Hubs will distribute heat (and increase heating levels) to surrounding areas by two nodes in all directions.
To insulate your housing districts, you will have to research Housing Insulation inside your Research Hub. Your options are:
- Coarse Lining (Level One)
- Asbestos Lining (Level Two)
After finishing your research, you can install that insulation in districts inside a district's independent menu.
It will be displayed in the bottom-centre of the pop-up menu.
Insulation does not work in any districts except housing.
Inside your laws and proposals at City Council, you can find the law 'Heat Pipe Watch' inside your Community Service options.
This will raise all Housing District heat levels by +1, a huge early-game bonus that should not be overlooked and costs nothing in resources to implement.
As a bonus for keeping all your districts warm, you'll get additional Heat Stamp revenue from the Heat Auctions law. This is very strong in the early-game, allowing you to get two Community Service boons simultaneously.
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