Frostpunk 2 Mods: The Best Picks and Where to Get Them

Why Modding the City Is Worth It

New London's vanilla rules can start to feel familiar after a few runs. You learn to stack adjacency bonuses, leave gaps for hubs and drain prefab deposits before they run dry. Frostpunk 2 mods change those rules. Some add whole political systems or new Frostland sites, some add co-op multiplayer, and some simply remove a chore you are tired of.

11 bit studios built modding into the game. FrostKit, the official modding tool, lets creators build their own maps, models and scenarios. FrostKit left beta and reached 1.0 with the Free Major Content Update on May 8, 2025. That release added:

• A search bar
• An overhauled mod menu
• A play-in-editor mode
• Faster loading
• Tutorials and sample mods for beginners

The studio also noted that Utopia Builder's Tales are designed so the community can expand and mod them.

Where to Download Mods

There are four main places to find Frostpunk 2 mods:

Image: Steam / 11 bit studios

• mod.io hosts a large catalog. The official modding contest required entries to be uploaded here.
• Steam Workshop has supported mods since Hotfix 1.1.1 on October 31, 2024. Since then, you can browse, upload and use mods through either Steam Workshop or mod.io. Workshop support requires the Steam version of Frostpunk 2 on Steam, which runs on Windows and macOS.
• Nexus Mods hosts a separate catalog, including the UE4SS-based Infinite Deposits Mod.
• CurseForge lists only 1 project so far.

Start With the Contest Winners

In July 2025, 11 bit studios and mod.io ran a modding contest with a $10,000 grand prize for Best Overall Mod. Around 16 entries came in, and the winners were announced on September 15, 2025. These mods are a good starting point because a jury from 11 bit studios and mod.io reviewed each entry in detail.

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Award	Mod	Creator	What it changes
Best Mod & Best Politics Mod	Political Overhaul	Hevi007	9 new communities with two Zeitgeists, new Strain and Corruption stats, new law categories, events, moral decisions and abilities
Best City Mechanics Mod	City Development Effort	Samps4	New statistics, new cold levels, new difficulty settings, new districts, new buildings and UI improvements
Best Frostland Mechanics Mod	Frostland Reborn	antohanikulin	New Frostland sites, lore and slightly different types of interactions with them
Best Visual/Design Mod	Brave New World	FrostBreakingTeam	New scenarios, buildings and mechanics, with a set of newly designed buildings and districts

The jury singled out Political Overhaul because it fits the original design without breaking balance. One juror said they no longer saw a reason to play without it. City Development Effort is the opposite kind of experience. It snowballs hard, and a mistake made long ago can come back to punish you.

The honorable mentions are also worth a look:

• Survive Together (SiddharthaOm and MrBob1137) adds co-op multiplayer. It is still in alpha, but you can play a good chunk of the New London scenario with up to three friends.
• Protectorate (Henry_joestar) is a long-term overhaul that adds new resources and a transport system.
• Automaton Overhaul (ActionPickle) reimagines automatons, and the jury had a lot of fun with it in the end game.
• Captain Statue (Roollingstoones) is a lighter-hearted entry that caught the jury's attention.

Most-Downloaded Overhauls and Combo Packs

Here are download counts from mod.io for several of the big mods:

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Mod	Downloads	File size	Notes
Deeper Deposits 1.021	7K	6.58 KB	—
City Development Effort	6K	26.88 MB	Contest winner
Frostland Reborn	6K	357.97 MB	Contest winner
Political Overhaul	5K	116.73 MB	Contest winner

The Fourth Axis is another large overhaul. It adds a whole new Zeitgeist axis centered on government and safety, plus a rework of the crime system that makes it more challenging. Spectrum merges The Fourth Axis with Political Overhaul into a single mod.

If you want both The Fourth Axis and Political Overhaul, install Spectrum instead of the two separate mods.

Quality-of-Life and Cheat-Style Tweaks

Some systems in the base game take a lot of planning: leaving gaps for hubs, managing workforce, and finding that prefab deposits disappear quickly. Plenty of small mods loosen these limits:

• Easy Frostbreaking and FrostBreak X. FrostBreak X raises the maximum frostbreak length to 25 hexes.
• LessWorkfoce cuts operating and construction workforce requirements for buildings and districts by 50%. Frostbreaking costs are unchanged.
• 3X Heatstamps and 3X District Production triple Heatstamp income and base district output. Costs and workforce stay the same.
• Infinite Deposits Mod with UE4SS Lua makes every deposit on the map infinite.
• Togglable Freecam and Frostpunk 2: Larp let you look around your city up close. Larp adds first-person walking, jumping and time controls, and works on 1.6.1.

For languages, a Thai localization on Nexus adds an option the base game does not have.

Keeping Mods Working on Patch 1.6.1

The current game version is Hotfix 1.6.1, released after Breach of Trust. Many mods now list "1.6.1" in their descriptions. Check for that before you subscribe.

A few practical points:

• Use mod.io directly for some mods. As of 08.07.2026, the authors of BuildingSlot 1.6 and Less Burden 1.6 recommend downloading from mod.io because the in-game mod loader has problems.
• Some mods need manual installation. XDS Buildings works on 1.6.1 only if you place it in ...\steamapps\common\Frostpunk2\Frostpunk2\Content\Paks\XDSBuildings.
• Watch for the outdated-mod warning. Since Hotfix 1.2.1, the game warns you when a save that used mods is loaded with outdated or missing mods. Keep a copy of saves that depend on large overhauls.
• Plan around The Surge. The third expansion, The Surge, launches December 14, 2026. Back up modded saves before it arrives, and update or remove mods if the game warns you after the update.