Your Frostpunk 1 lore questions answered!

Dear Citizens!

Some time ago due to your unyielding interest we asked you to share your questions about the world of Frostpunk 1. We received a couple thousand questions in total! This video contains the answers to the most popular ones from Jakub Stokalski who was the Lead Designer of Frostpunk 1 and is currently the Game Director and Design Director at Frostpunk 2. Enjoy!

Below you can find the questions and answers in the written form!

What happened to the rest of the world? Has the entire planet gone permanently cold? You can reasonably assume that while the story focused on London and England the calamity was global and different countries saw it coming in different ways. It just goes without saying that some would try to adapt in different ways. We even hint at this at The Last Autumn and other points of the scenario. So you might reasonably expect different areas of the world to have some strategies of survival which we do not depict in the game. What they are specifically, how many survived or maybe all of them are gone we kind of want to keep under wraps.

What happened to the British Royal Family and other powerful people of the era? We did not want to focus too much on establishing, you know, lots of backstory which is not the point of the game experience itself. However as the lore grew we knew that what actually enveloped Great Britain and the world in principle as The Great Freeze was progressing was all the social pressure to the point of civilization crumbling. The old social order started being under extreme duress and many violent happenings occured all around the world. The ultimate fate of the social structure of this time is something that we want to keep open.

Where and how many generator sites were there? We did not specify and we do not want to specify how many generator sites were there, apart from the fact that there were multiple. Basically throughout all of the content you saw in Frostpunk you saw multiple generator sites as well as some failed sites so it goes without saying that the whole generator project was a big effort by the British Empire to try to save civilization.

Are there any technologies other than the generators used to survive the cold? Even as we established in The Last Autumn different countries and different powers at the time saw the freeze coming and tried to adapt in their own ways. A few examples would be the French in The Last Autumn building this mysterious railway thingy. In the last expansion On The Edge we showed different settlements kind of trying to eke out a living even after The Great Storm. But definitely the generators were something big that was meant to uphold civilization and society in its structure. Would the other methods of survival allow this large-scale human settlement, large-scale social structures to survive? This we don't want to define at this time.

Where did the people of Winterhome end up? Is the city of New Manchester indeed the survivors of Winterhome? Well, New Manchester is a story of its own so it was not never intended actually for them to be survivors of Winterhome. But the fate of the people of Winterhome is intentionally left vague and we will have to see if we can revisit them maybe at some point.

Why do our people travel North with their generators? Wouldn't it make more sense to go closer