Finally Beat New Home Extreme
New Home on extreme mode has been kicking my butt. I'm on a path to get all Steam achievements for FP1.
Finally cleared it with only 6 deaths from early game, no deaths during final storm.
Signed Child Labor, Soup, Sustain Life, Overcrowing, 24 hour shift, and then extended shift laws first in that order. Mainly only used the children in the beginning so I could get some faster gathering and give my workers time to build without resource lost. After that, the children stayed in Cookhouse til I automated that.
For research I went against common advice after 4 failed runs of trying to do beacon first. Instead I did; Faster Gathering, Drawing Boards, Hot House, Heaters, Sawmill, and then Beacon.
I did Order, but stopped after propaganda center and agitators.
Had to do cemetary much to my dismay because had 1 citizen die from starvation before I could get it under control.
I got my first scout team out on day 5 or 6.
On day 35 I realized I messed up greatly, I had only build 2 upgraded hot houses instead of 3, which is why I spammed so many upgraded hunter huts. Also cost me as I had to switch over to soup so I could stockpile for storm.
Otherwise, relied heavily on sawmills until about day 33 when I did a 2nd level wall drill to get the last burst of wood for the storm event.
I explored all of Frostland, but made everyone travel back by themselves and robbed the Tesla people, as one should, no free meals here. I did save/escort all the last wave survivors.
562 Citizens and 16 automatons to carry us. Don't know why the working number bugged out.
I never do coal thumpers bc not worth the labor or research time when your time is limited imo and during the last storm I always have enough hope from the proganda center that I can just ignore them wanting coal thumpers.
2 Advanced Coal Mines with fully upgraded automatons gave me enough coal and I only went negative on coal during the last 2 storms when all the heaters had to be turned on. I did struggle with getting coal up to speed with how fast I was researching the heating, mainly due to lack of steam cores due to my late scouting, but it was all manageable.
Things I learned, I am not good at micromanging and keeping track of things, but have been learning more, especially in harder modes to just let time roll on normal speed.
I didn't build tents til day 2 & 3 for everyone which gave me the bonus points for fulflling promises. I turned on generator and overdrive at 1950 every night. Managing the generator gave me a lot less sick people. I also think not forcing 24 hour and exteneded really helped me to get on my feet because food and warmth is SO hard to keep up with.
I didn't build more Research posts fast enough, was a day or so delayed which cost me. I did learn to cycle my engineers better and made sure they were only filled with healthy engineers.
I didn't really get breathing room til about day 20, by then just had to start fine-tuning and upgrading the tents.
Maybe I could've had better luck following what others do in Extreme or Survivor mode, but this is what worked for me, maybe this will help somone else that is struggling with New Home Extreme mode. Now onto getting the New Home Survivor achievement.