How To Get & Use The Deep Melting Drill In Frostpunk 2

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The Deep Melting Drill is a powerful building in that can help you access resources buried deep within the Earth. With the Deep Melting Drill, you can better access Deep Deposits. These valuable resources can keep your city alive for a long time, so long as they are harvested and properly used.

Depending on the area, deep Deposits can provide resources like extra food or material. These resources are nigh impossible to collect without the Deep Melting Drill, making it an important addition to your city. However, you'll need to properly fund and Research this building if you hope to place it in one of your districts.

You won't be able to build the Deep Melting Drill at the start of, but if you're playing Story Mode, you shouldn't have to wait long at all. Near the end of Chapter 1, you'll be faced with a choice: either defeat the Frost or embrace it. If you want the Deep Melting Drill, you'll need to defeat the Frost. Choosing to embrace the Frost locks off the Deep Melting Drill from your campaign.

Pretty early on in Frostpunk 2's campaign, you'll run out of coal reserves and need to find another, more permanent source of energy for your city.

From there, you'll need to research this solution in the Heating tree after unlocking the first generator upgrade. The Deep Melting Drill costs 100 Heatstamps to research and takes ten weeks to study fully, locking you out of other Research options. While you're studying the Deep Melting Drill, use the next ten weeks to collect the needed materials to construct the finished product.

Researching the Deep Melting Drill will increase your Trust in with the Stalwarts and New Londoners, making it a great topic to Research if you support these Factions.

In order to construct the Deep Melting Drill, you'll need about 300 Workforce, 80 Heatstamps, 40 Prefabs, and 1 Core. Cores are a scarce resource in that can only be harvested from pre-Frost technology. You can collect Cores by sending out Expeditions, but each Core must be spent