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Biomes

Frozen tundra, glacier, ice forest, frozen city — what each one costs you.
Gear

Clothing, tools, weapons — described by mechanic, not made-up stats.
Systems

Cold, warmth, hunger, progression, co-op — each with an explicit "unmeasured" list.
Guides

Original long-form guides, every number traced to a source.
Tools

Four calculators that turn a decision into a number.
Compare

Permafrost against other games, and biomes against each other.
Release

9 October 2026, Early Access.
News

Official timeline only — no rumour recycling.
Sources

Where every number comes from, and what is still unmeasured.
Biome reported

Glacier

Vertical ice terrain — traversal and falls are the problem.

Threats
  • — Slips and falls on ice
  • — Sudden weather shifts at elevation
  • — Limited flat ground for shelters
Salvage focus
  • — Ice-cached supplies
  • — Reclaimed pre-catastrophe technology
Traversal

Move along ridgelines and established paths; avoid improvised descents with a full pack.

How Glacier plays

Glacier terrain is referenced in official biome framing alongside tundra and buried cities.

Elevation changes make movement risk a bigger factor than temperature alone.

Ice surfaces are expected to interact with the traversal and shelter systems, but exact handling is unmeasured pre-launch.

What is still unmeasured here

Biome-specific numbers are not published and cannot be inferred. The following stay blank on this page until they can be measured in the demo or the launch build:

  • Temperature band and how fast exposure accumulates in this biome
  • Resource node density and respawn behaviour
  • Enemy and wildlife spawn tables
  • Loot table weights for the salvage listed above
That list is the point of this page. Every pre-launch Permafrost wiki has opinions about those four things and none of them have measurements.
Other biomes
Comparisons

Data version 2026.09.24 · reviewed 24 September 2026.