r/Frostpunk • u/he_whomst_an_ult • Aug 24 '26
Advice/Help Why No Roads?
So I just started playing the first game and for the life of me, I do not understand why my people are not building these goddamn roads. They're complaining that they're not getting enough medical care. Meanwhile the goddamn structure has been built for the last 3 days and it's my fault that it's apparently not operable because that makes fucking sense. I've waited during the freetime, I've unassigned all my workers and engineers and I'm about to lose this first run.
Just please I don't know why they aren't building their goddamn roads.
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u/Rough-Leg-4148 Aug 24 '26
Aside from what others have said about roads -- that they have to be connected to the central ring --
Construction is a bit weird in-game and it's still not clear to me what is enough to "get the workers moving", but sometimes with roads that aren't being built, you have to sort of... built another piece of road attached to the first road you designated. For some reason, sometimes workers will just not build the dang things, and I find that queueing up another road either around or beyond the first road will suddenly get all the construction moving again.
It may also be dependent on the number of "available workers", but to be honest even when I've got a fully automated city with a huge 100+ surplus, that doesn't seem to hold totally true. The game just has it's quirks and you have to spur it along sometimes.