How to reduce Disease in Frostpunk 2

Disease in Frostpunk 2 is a city-wide problem that, if left unchecked, can potentially disrupt the majority of your workforce and further raise Tension among city folks. However, there are quite a few ways you can mitigate the spread of disease in your city. In this article, you will find an in-depth guide to reduce the spread of diseases and help cultivate a healthy, hospitable environment in your city.

For a detailed brief on Disease in Frostpunk 2 and means to mitigate it, read below.

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What is Disease in Frostpunk 2?

Disease is a city-wide problem in Frostpunk 2, which can reduce your effective workforce and simultaneously cause massive losses to your economy and population.

If not curbed at the earliest detection, Disease can spread throughout your city and take massive tolls on your entire population. An in-depth guide to controlling and preventing this affliction can be found below.

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How do Cold, Hunger, and Squalor affect Disease in Frostpunk 2?

Keep a tab on cold, hunger, and squalor to reduce disease (Image via 11 bit studios)

Cold, Hunger, and Squalor are the three primary factors that determine the growth and spread of disease in Frostpunk 2. When either of these factors are left unchecked, there is a massive possibility of the development of illness within the walls of your city.

If you want to reduce the spread of diseases, your priority should be to ensure that all three of these factors should be in check. Citizens should have adequate means to sustain themselves against the cold and enough food on the table to prevent malnutrition.

Furthermore, keeping your city clean and preventing Squalor from taking control of your streets will significantly drop the growth and spread of sickness in Frostpunk 2.

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How to reduce Disease using Buildings and Hubs in Frostpunk 2?

Decrease disease using Buildings (Image via 11 bit studios)

Other than these three factors, you can also construct certain buildings to help you combat the development and spread of diseases and infections in the game. Some of these structures include:

• Teaching Hospitals
• Recovery Hospitals
• Hospitals

All three of these structures can be constructed after researching Hospitals through the Idea Tree: Society. You can construct them in the Housing District to help the afflicted and prevent the spread of sickness around your colony.

Furthermore, you can also build research Pharmaceuticals to develop laboratories capable of providing your citizens with adept healthcare when required. Here are some useful buildings that you can build in the intrinsic to mitigate the damage caused by diseases in the game:

• Pharmaceutical Testing Laboratory
• Pharmaceutical Laboratory

Note: Pharmaceutical buildings should be built exclusively in the Industrial Districts.

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How to reduce Disease using Laws in Frostpunk 2?

Reduce disease by enacting laws (Image via 11 bit studios)

Aside from buildings, you can enact Laws to prevent Disease in Frostpunk 2. These laws can be proposed and voted on once you have researched the relevant developments. If you are not sure about which laws might help you combat the spread of illness in your colony, you can try out some of these:

• Contagion Prevention: Supported Quarantine
• Contagion Prevention: Infectious Badge
• Treatment: Experimental Treatment
• Treatment: Conservative Treatment
• Worker Shifts: Weather-Adjusted Shifts
• Funerals: Harvesting Funerals

All of these will be available under Council: City, and Council: Society. With enough votes, you can push these Laws to help reduce the development and spread of illness within your city and colony.

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How to reduce Disease by exploring the Frostlands in Frostpunk 2?

Exploring Frostlands to combat disease (Image via 11 bit studios)

For those that enjoy exploring the Frostlands, you might stumble upon certain POIs that directly decrease Disease in Frostpunk 2 if converted into an Outpost. Issuing the process of conversion is a great idea, and will help you in improving the general quality of life in your city.

After developing the Outpost, you must connect it to your primary city using a Trail, or by using a Skyway in Frostpunk 2.

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