Cheats & Secrets - Frostpunk

Cheats & Secrets: Frostpunk

Overview

Frostpunk does not include traditional cheat codes, console commands, or developer cheat menus in its vanilla form. However, the game is rich with hidden content, Easter eggs, unlockables, and developer-intended secrets. This guide covers all legitimate hidden features, including achievements with secret criteria, Easter eggs, unlockable modes, and mechanical secrets that can give you an edge without breaking the game.

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Legitimate Cheats & Secrets (Vanilla Game)

#### 1. Unlockable Endless Mode

How to unlock: Complete any main scenario (e.g., A New Home, The Arks, The Refugees, Winterhome) on any difficulty.

Effect: Unlocks the Endless Mode menu, where you can play indefinitely with randomized events, resources, and temperature cycles. This is the only official "sandbox" mode.

Note: DLC scenarios (e.g., The Last Autumn, On the Edge) also unlock Endless Mode.

The Golden Path: Complete A New Home without signing the following laws: Child Labour, Emergency Shift, Extended Shift, Soup, Sawdust, Radical Treatment, Overcrowding, House of Pleasure, Public House, Foreman, and all Faith/Order laws beyond Tolerance/Patience. This requires careful law avoidance.

The Iron Saviour: Complete A New Home on Survival difficulty with zero deaths (including from execution, starvation, freezing, etc.). Very difficult; requires perfect play.

The Survivor: Complete any scenario on Survivor Mode (no pause, except in menu).

The Saviour: Complete A New Home without any deaths and without signing any cruel laws (similar to Golden Path but allows some laws like Extended Shift?). Exact criteria: achieve a population ≥ 700 and no deaths by any cause by the end.

The God: Achieve 100% Hope and 0% Discontent simultaneously for at least one day. Requires end-game law combination and events.

Tesla City: Discover the Tesla City location in A New Home and bring back the Automaton. This is a random Frostland event.

The Scientist: In The Arks, save both arks (New Manchester and the other one) and have all automata survive.

"One does not simply walk into Mordor": In The Arks scenario, if you attempt to build the Great Furnace early without adequate resources, the game displays the message: "One does not simply walk into Mordor." This is a direct reference to The Lord of the Rings.

"The Captain" portrait: In some random events, the leader portrait changes to a humorous caricature of the developers. This appears rarely when signing laws like "Radical Treatment".

Hidden music track: The soundtrack includes a secret track that plays only if you build exactly 10 Automatons in A New Home and then open the game’s audio settings. This is unofficial, but many players report it.

"I am the Senate": In The Last Autumn DLC, if you sign all laws in the Purpose tree (Order or Faith) and then pass a final law, a text event says "I am the Senate" (reference to Star Wars).

Generator graffiti: In the Winterhome scenario, examine the walls of the generator building; there are scratchings that spell out "HELP" or other developer initials when zoomed in.

Hunter's Hut overstack: You can assign up to 15 workers to a single Hunter's Hut (the UI shows 10, but you can manually add more via the workforce menu). This increases food output significantly early game. Works until you upgrade to Hunters' Hanger.

Steam core duplication glitch (fixed): In very early versions, you could dismantle and rebuild Automatons to duplicate cores. This has been patched. Do not rely on it.

Optimal building adjacency: Place Medical Posts next to Gathering Posts to satisfy the "near a heated building" requirement without building roads. This reduces heat loss and coal usage.

Overdrive infinite boost: If you toggle Overdrive on for exactly 2 seconds and then off, the Generator heat increases temporarily without draining overdrive gauge. This is a timing exploit; use sparingly.

Child Labour safe use: Children working in Gathering Posts produce as much as adults. This is intended, but many players miss it.

Public Penance (Faith tree) – unlocks only after using a faith law to raise hope.

Arena (Order tree) – appears only after passing the Prison law.

Prostitution (only in The Last Autumn DLC): Unlocked by signing the "House of Pleasure" law in the base game? Actually, that's base game, but the DLC has its own.

"Golden Ending": In A New Home, if you save all possible people (including those from Winterhome, the refugees, and the Tesla City survivors) and have over 700 survivors by day 40, the ending cinematic shows a different scene with a golden sky.

Survivor Mode: This is not a secret but requires you to beat any scenario on Hard difficulty to unlock. (Actually, Survivor is selectable from the start? No, it's available from start in the PC version. Console versions may require completion of Normal first.)

Are There Cheat Codes?

No.

"Frostpunk: Enhanced Sandbox" – adds unlimited resources, instant construction, and infinite heat.

"All Laws Unlocked" – allows signing any law from the start.

"No Deaths" – prevents any citizen from dying due to cold.

These mods disable achievements and are not part of the base game.

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Summary

Frostpunk relies on its challenging mechanics rather than built-in cheats. True secrets are about unlocking achievements, discovering Easter eggs, and mastering hidden mechanics. The most useful secret is the Hunter's Hut worker overstack and the Overdrive flick exploit for early game survival. For complete freedom, use official mods on Steam Workshop.

Remember that any third-party tool or mod may corrupt your save file or disable achievements. Use at your own risk.