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InFrostpunk 2’s second chapter, Ambitions, you’ll be establishing a colony at the Old Dreadnought in order to establish a steady supply of Oil to New London. However, once you do that, it might not be totally clear how to actually move the Oil from your colony to your city.
The menu to do so is pretty easy to miss, and you’ll have to understand this to progress through the game’s Story Mode and keep your city supplied with the resources it needs.
Transferring Resources To New London
First, you’ll have toestablish a Settlementandupgrade it to a Colony– refer to our Settlement guide and our guide to Chapter 2 if you need help with that. Once you’vebuilt your Oil Extraction District, you’ll need to move that Oil to your main city.
Start byopening the panelfor your Old Dreadnought colony. You’ll find this next to the mountain icon symbolising the Frostlands – it will look like anoil barrel. Clicking on this will reveal an image of the Old Dreadnought colony, as well as three icons: a box with arrows on either side, three people with arrows on either side, and an eye with an arrow pointing downwards.
Click the first icon to open theResource Transfermenu. You’ll see a number of resources you’re able to transfer here, including Coal, Oil, Food, Materials, and Goods.
While we’re focusing on Oil here, it’s always a good idea to play with these sliders so that your Colonies are receiving the supplies required for basic maintenance from New London. You can also use the Meet Demand button on a resource, represented by scales, to prioritize meeting that Colony’s demand.
Hover over theOil slider. You’ll be able to see that the Colony is producing a surplus of Oil.Move the slider to the rightso that it’s transferring Oil to New London.
You can also transport stockpiles of resources either way, as long as one side has a big enough stockpile and the other side has enough stockpile capacity.
Transferring Population To Colonies
Unlike in your capital city,populations will not increase on their ownwithin colonies. As you expand your operations in a colony, you may need totransfer people overto keep all Districts working at maximum efficiency.
The process is similar to that of transferring Resources. Instead of clicking the first icon in the Old Dreadnought panel,click the second icon. This will open aPopulation Transfer menuwhere you can send workers from your city to your colony, or vice versa. Simplyuse the sliderto dictatehow many workerswill move, andin which direction.
The game’s UI will warn you if you are about to transfer too many workers from one place to another. If youtransfer more workers than you have employed, districts and buildings from the sourcewill deactivate.
Transferring workers takes time, so be patient. you may see the estimated travel time in the top-right corner of the screen, above the Frostlands icon.
