Priorty number 1 is always building enough shelter and start the generator, so place enough housing districts to satisfy your current housing needs and work towards the first oil/coal patch

Now analyze your current situation.


If you are in the prologue, build the first prefab extraction district and take the second oil patch while you're frostbreaking towards the food sources. The one in the south is the most important one and should be focused. You may need to extract from the second prefab and the third oil source in the future, but focus your efforts on extracting from at least 3 food sources (including the south one) and don't forget to build 2 food storage hubs to even hold that much food in the first place.


If you are in the campaign, you'll have some food for quite a while so it's not the most pressing priority right now. Focus on placing extraction districts on all the coal, building extraction districts on prefab sources with one industrial district as soon as they run out, building extraction districts on material sources and researching sawmill ASAP to deploy them. Also, place a logistics district to start exploring the frostland.

If you burn through your coal too quickly, consider placing heating hubs near districts that require heat. Heating hubs require material to operate, so make sure you have enough production. You could also scale back surplus production to use less coal, and to place districs smartly so that exactly 3 of the hexagons touch a blue zone from any given source.

Cold is caused by lack of heating

- Generator should be on and have enough fuel to generate heat. Lack of heat is the biggest factor here.
-- Use the overdrive function occasionally to save on fuel costs
-- Scale back surplus production to save on fuel

- People should have sufficient housing.
-- The housing districts should also have enough heating through insulation laws or heating hubs so that they don't demand any additional heating, which consumes more fuel.

Hunger is caused by lack of food

- Consider passing the "Food Additives" law
- Build and man food districts on food sources
-- Consider building hothouses to increase production
--- If you have at least one Biowaste Hothouse and passed the Foraged Additives law, there will be a synergy event which increases food production
- Explore the frostland and harvest food sources
-- If you have declared your goal to settle the frostland instead of burning it, with the appropriate research you may convert a frostland food node into a permanent food delivering settlement

Disease is caused by adapt focused buildings, squalor, some laws, and toxic gasses in the spoiler region

- If disease is caused by squalor, consider solving squalor first
- Consider passing the "Supported Quarantine" law, but make sure you have enough shelter beforehand, since this will increase the amount of shelter the population needs
- Consider researching and building hospitals

Squalor is caused by progress focused buildings, and by lack of materials

- Consider picking the adapt goal of colonizing the frostland instead of burning the snow away
- Research and build air filtration hubs
- Research and build waste recycling factory
- If lack of materials is the cause, consider building more extraction districts or create material outposts. Remember that you can use sawmill and furnace to massively increase production.

Crime is caused by population, and lack of goods

- If crime is caused by lack of goods, consider building more industrial districts and select the goods mode instead of the prefab mode. Make sure you have enough prefab production before committing to this step, as it is requried to build things.
- Consider enacting laws that reduce crime, such as mandatory scool/apprenticeship
- Consider researching and building watchtowers and prisons
- If you have the stalwarts in your city, consider building good relations with them and regularly use their ability to generate guardsmen. Guardsmen can also be supplied from a certain outpost north of new london.

When the Whiteout hits, Food production and outside deliveries grind to a halt. Hopefully you've stocked up on everything, mainly Food and Fuel.

Here's how to reduce fuel consumption during the Whiteout:
- Disable Logistic/Food Districts. If left active, they will continue hogging tons of fuel at no/marginal production.
- Activate Overdrive if you have space left in the danger meter. Overdrive generates heat at no additional fuel cost.
- Deploy Heating Hubs everywhere
- Build smartly. Build Districts together, near the Central Districts, and in areas sheltered from the wind to benefit from +20 heat each
- The most heat intensive Districts are Extraction (with Sawmills and Foundries) and Housing.
-- Consider researching Housing insulation
-- If you have a surplus on Housing space, scale back workers from individual Housing Districts with the most heating demand
-- Scale back material production from Extraction Districts specifically housing Sawmills and Foundries
--- Stockpiling a massive amount of Materials beforehand should make this easy