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List of All Housing District Buildings

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☆ How to Survive Whiteouts | How to Transfer Oil
★ Workforce | Goods | Food | Oil | Shelter
☆ Crime | Tension | Squalor | Disease

Housing District buildings are used to provide shelter and better living conditions for the population in Frostpunk 2. See a list of all Housing District buildings, what they do, and how to unlock them.

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List of All Housing District Buildings

All Housing District Buildings

Building Details
Punitive Prison Description: Prison with built-in equipment to discipline criminals and re-educate them using corporal punishment.
Supporters:
・Pilgrims
District: Housing District
Incubation House Description: Facility that transplants unborn children into specialised incubators, drastically shortening gestation time.
Supporters:
・Technocrats
District: Housing District
Lunatic Asylum Description: Institution where those deemed mentally unstable or degenerate are confined to prevent them from affecting the rest of society.
Supporters:
・Faithkeepers
District: Housing District
Food Hoarding Inspectorate Description: Task force that tracks down food hoarders and black marketeers and offers bounties to citizens denouncing them.
Supporters:
・Faithkeepers
District: Housing District
Pleasure Club Description: Recreation district where an exclusive clientele pays for high-end entertainment, generating revenue for the city.
Supporters:
・Icebloods
District: Housing District
Pleasure Commons Description: Recreation district subsidised by the City where workers can enjoy some rest and recuperate from their hardships.
Supporters:
・Technocrats
・Faithkeepers
District: Housing District
Ventilation Tower Icon Ventilation Tower Description: It disperses foul air outside the city.
Supporters:
・Stalwarts
・New Londoners
District: Housing District
Moss-Filtration Tower Description: It circulates air through natural moss that absorbs and filters impurities.
Supporters:
・Frostlanders
・Pilgrims
District: Housing District
Isolation Prison Icon Isolation Prison Description: Hardened criminals are locked up here.
Supporters:
・Frostlanders
・New Londoners
District: Housing District
Research Institute Icon Research Institute Description: Unlocks the Idea Tree and is dedicated to come up with technological solutions.
Supporters:
・All
District: Housing District
Thought-Correction Prison Description: Prison that uses innovative methods to cure criminals and rehabilitate them back to society.
Supporters:
・Stalwarts
District: Housing District
Teaching Hospital Icon Teaching Hospital Description: Provides medical education and training to students.
Supporters:
・Stalwarts
District: Housing District
Hospital Description: Provides medical treatment to sick and injured people to speed up their recovery.
Supporters:
・Frostlanders
・New Londoners
District: Housing District
Recovery Hospital Description: Hospitals with materinity wards and rehab facilities to ensure patients are fully recovered before being released.
Supporters:
・Pilgrims
District: Housing District
Watchtower Icon Watchtower Description: Command post where guards are quartered to maintain order.
Supporters:
・Frostlanders
・New Londoners
District: Housing District
Patrol Watchtower Icon Patrol Watchtower Description: Deploys guards who lessen crime in the city.
Supporters:
・Pilgrims
District: Housing District
Surveillance Watchtower Description: Watchtower outfiitted with the state of the art equipment to monitor citizens and ensure order
Supporters:
・Stalwarts
District: Housing District

How to Unlock Buildings

Research In the Idea Tree

Research In the Idea Tree

New buildings are unlocked by researching them in the Idea Tree (shortcut: R key). The Idea Tree has multiple tabs that offer solutions to all kinds of problems that the city will face.

Researching ideas costs Heatstamps and will take some weeks, depending on the idea.

How to Unlock the Idea Tree and All Ideas

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