Guides
Step-by-step Permafrost guides for your first days, story progression, core survival systems, and practical walkthroughs through the frozen world.
Permafrost Skills: All 16 Skills and How They Level
Skills grow by use, no skill points: each action grants XP. The full 16-skill table with per-level bonuses, caps and XP per action from the game files.
Permafrost Beginner Guide: Survive Your First Days
A practical opening route: pick a background, craft stone tools, master campfire discipline, rescue your dog, build a first cabin, and learn how blueprint points and saving actually work.
Permafrost: How to Save Your Game (and Not Lose It)
Save manually from the pause menu — the autosave can be over an hour old. Plus respawn beds, backpack recovery and co-op save rules.
Permafrost Walkthrough: Main Quest Route (Early Access)
The full main quest route through the Early Access region — Horizon, the bone cave, New Home, Hunter's Glade, House Camp and the Solar Fields — with quest-gating gotchas.