Frostpunk 2: The Pit Scenario Complete Guide

Conquering Frostpunk 2's Pit challenge demands resilience. This Utopia Builder scenario tasks you with establishing a city around a treacherous, disease-ridden pit. While some aspects are randomized, core elements remain consistent, making strategic planning crucial for survival.

The Pit: A Never-Ending Test

Accessible via the Utopia Builder menu, The Pit presents a continuous challenge, testing your Story Mode skills. You can customize difficulty, ambition, and tales.

Resource Distribution in The Pit

The Pit's map features a consistent resource layout:

Resource	Location
Coal	West side (mountain base & slopes)
Prefabs	East side (near city & above pit), mountain tip
Food	North of the city (two clusters)
Oil	Center of the pit
Materials	South of west coal, southeast of city center, mountain tip
Steam	Northwest of west coal (under mountain)
Logistics	West and north edges

Avoid the pit and mountain slopes initially due to disease and increased building costs.

Choosing Your Ambition

Ambitions define your city's primary objective:

Ambition	Goal	Best Tale Pairing
Repopulate the Frostlands	35,000 total population across all colonies	Beacon of Hope
Develop a Metropolis	50,000 Capital City population	Depleted Cores
Build a Prosperous Future	Stockpile 300,000 Fuel, 200,000 Food/Materials, 100,000 Goods	Apocalyptic Whiteout
No Ambition	No primary goals

You'll also select three factions: Thinkers, Lords, and a random; Foragers, Machinists, and a random; or Labourers, Merchants, and a random.

Selecting Your Tales

Tales add extra challenges:

Tale	Description
Beacon of Hope	Manage five waves of refugees with high sickness/injury rates.
Apocalyptic Whiteout	Survive a severe blizzard at week 558.
Depleted Cores	Rebuild a core's factory by exploring and gathering components.

Tips for Success

The Pit is brutally challenging. Beginners should start with no tales or only one. Prioritize securing prefabs, building housing, securing coal, and establishing a council hall. Don't neglect food, oil, materials, and steam sources once the initial steps are taken.

Heat stamps are crucial. Implement "Heat Auctions" and "Heatpipe Watch" laws early to boost heat stamp generation and mitigate cold snaps.

Establish logistics quickly to access resources beyond the city's initial limits. Coal is finite, and the Depleted Cores tale removes steam cores.

Prioritize goods production to increase heat stamp income. Use "Durable Goods" to reduce demand and specialize industrial districts for goods production. Build a goods factory early.

Before the first whiteout (around week 350), research and install two levels of housing insulation, research triple-ring piping, and stockpile fuel and food. Delay establishing additional colonies until after the first whiteout.

The Pit is endless. Complete ambitions and tasks to unlock monuments.

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