Permafrost World Zones
8 entries
Broad environment references gathered from available sources. Exact layouts, coordinates, transitions, and spawn maps remain unconfirmed.
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Every world zones card links to a dedicated page with its summary, attributes, and any acquisition note we can currently support. Use those pages to compare functions and risks instead of relying on a name alone.
How attributes are handled
Attributes are limited to what the available source describes. Values that depend on exact patch testing are marked as reported or left out. That keeps the database useful without inventing recipes, spawn tables, or combat numbers.
Frozen Cities
Abandoned urban ruins dense with machinery and scavenging opportunities.
Frozen urban ruins are described as dense with abandoned machinery and industrial salvage. Their complex navigation and sudden weather shifts make them environmentally dangerous despite their high supply potential.
- Environment type
- Abandoned urban ruins
- Reported value
- Machinery and industrial salvage
- Reported risk
- Complex movement and sudden weather shifts
- Evidence
- Official premise and community reporting
How to get
Location is broadly part of the reported open-world environment; exact access routes and layouts are pending verification.
Industrial Ruins
Reported sources for scrap metal, machinery, and shelter-building materials.
Industrial ruins are associated with scrap metal, abandoned machinery, power-generation components, and basic shelter upgrades in community map reporting.
- Environment type
- Industrial salvage zone
- Reported resources
- Scrap metal, machinery, and power components
- Reported use
- Shelter construction and generators
- Evidence
- Community loot reporting
Wilderness
Vast frozen terrain for hunting, tracking, and high-risk travel.
The wilderness is a broad open region where players can track wildlife for food and materials. Aggressive wildlife and lethal sub-zero whiteouts make preparation and escape routes especially important.
- Environment type
- Open frozen terrain
- Reported value
- Wildlife, food, and organic materials
- Reported risk
- Aggressive wildlife and whiteouts
- Evidence
- Official premise and community reporting
Forest Edges
Reported transition areas for organic resources and mobile hunting spawns.
Community map reporting associates forest edges with organic meat, pelts, and mobile hunting opportunities, while noting the risk of animal ambushes.
- Environment type
- Hunting transition zone
- Reported resources
- Organic meat and pelts
- Reported risk
- Animal ambushes
- Evidence
- Community loot reporting
Faction-Controlled Territories
Dangerous holdings occupied by hostile survivor factions.
Faction territories are reported as guarded by coordinated human enemies. They are associated with advanced improvised melee weapons, firearms, ammunition, and other hoarded survival supplies.
- Environment type
- Hostile occupied territory
- Reported resources
- Improvised weapons, firearms, ammunition, and supplies
- Reported risk
- Coordinated human enemies
- Evidence
- Official premise and community reporting
How to get
Exact territorial boundaries and outpost positions are pending verification.
Military Bunkers
Reported hidden-cache sites associated with advanced components.
Community reporting links military bunkers to hidden caches and advanced electrical components used for high-tier communal outposts and life-support systems.
- Environment type
- Military ruin
- Reported resources
- Hidden caches and advanced electrical components
- Verification status
- Exact interiors and rewards pending confirmation
- Evidence
- Community loot reporting
Research Labs
Reported high-tech ruins for advanced electrical components.
Research labs appear in community loot-location reporting as another potential source of advanced electrical components. Their interiors, hazards, and exact rewards remain unconfirmed.
- Environment type
- High-tech ruin
- Reported resources
- Advanced electrical components
- Verification status
- Hazards and exact rewards pending confirmation
- Evidence
- Community loot reporting
Abandoned Settlements
Frozen remains of human habitation and scattered supplies.
The official premise describes frozen cities and scattered survivors. Abandoned settlements are treated here as a general environment type rather than confirmed named locations.
- Environment type
- Frozen human habitation
- Reported value
- Scattered supplies and shelter potential
- Verification status
- General premise; no named sites confirmed
- Evidence
- Official Steam listing