Permafrost Story Walkthrough: Main Quests in Order

Permafrost's story is a chase after a radio voice called Icarus across a frozen city, told through 37 main quests in eight regional chains and 53 side quests. The quest files describe the order themselves: each quest lists the quests it starts on completion, so this walkthrough follows that graph from the cave at the start to the Lunar Set that lets you enter White Hell. It stays spoiler-light on dialogue and focuses on what you have to do, build and craft.

Act 1 — the cave, Horizon and the Village

1. 1
   A New Beginning

   Craft a Stone Axe, build a Campfire, warm up, open the cabin door and unlock Rope in the blueprint tree. Reward: 5 Cloth. Quest page.

2. 2
   Feel The Heat

   Exit the cave and find the leader of Horizon — Robyn, daughter of the local sheriff and founder of the Horizon community. Quest page.

3. 3
   Horizon's Kitchen

   Cook meat into a dish and talk with Robyn. The Village chain's tutorials (Bed and breakfast, Tools of survival, The Deer Hunter) run alongside and teach braziers, stone tools and the Crude Bow. Quest page.

4. 4
   Dog Days

   Go deeper into the Bone Cave, heal the dog with any bandage and feed it raw Meat. You gain a companion; the Who's a Good Boy achievement is for petting it. Quest page.

5. 5
   New Home

   Build a Workbench, Wooden Wall, Wooden Doorway, Wooden Floor / Roof, Wooden Door, build and claim a Bed, then craft a Flint Pickaxe, Flint Axe and Flint Shiv. This is your first base. Quest page.

Act 2 — the Woods and Hunter's Glade

The Outpost sends you to Hunter's Glade; High Frequency has you climb the tower, talk to Skinwalker (Anna's right hand and a master hunter), renovate the tower and listen to Icarus's transmission. The Way Home (and its twin House into a Home) hands you the Tailoring Bench blueprint from Skinwalker's box, unlocks the Tribal Clothes Set, and asks you to craft Tribal Boots, Cowl, Gloves, Jacket and Pants before reaching House Camp's outskirts and the Church. Reward: a Utility Backpack. Skinwalker's side challenges in the Woods are animal hunts — "Wabbit" Season, Oh, Deer, On Boar'd, Hour of the Wolf, Nothing Left to Moose, The Muskox, UnBear-able, What Does The Fox Say — each worth doing for the Skinning XP and pelts.

Act 3 — House Camp

1. 1
   House Camp Flipper

   Report to Anna, collect resources, disassemble Metal Junk into Scrap, unlock and craft the Scrap Axe, Scrap Pickaxe and Scrap Shiv, then renovate three damaged walls (near Gate D, facing the Solar Facility, near Gate B). Rewards: 5 Metal Junk, 1 Wire, 20 Bucks, 1 Whiskey, 5 Frozen Pizza, plus the Stove blueprint. Quest page.

2. 2
   Breaking the Radio Silence

   Repair the stairs to the Church roof, listen to Icarus, then collect the Hybrid blueprints from Anna and craft Hybrid Boots, Gloves, Hat and Jacket (32 insulation each). Reward: a Mountain Backpack. Quest page.

3. 3
   Tower of Finn

   Go to the Improvised Radio Tower and find Finn at the top; this leads into New Town and the Solar Fields. Quest page.

4. 4
   Going Further (parallel)

   The main-line tracker: 'now that I've got a Heater, it's time to cross the cold zone'. Reach House Camp through the caves and find an upgraded heater blueprint — the Chemical Heater — before White Hell. Quest page.

Act 4 — Solar Fields

1. 1
   New Town

   Find the Warehouse — Logan Boyce's camp — and ask him about the nearest radio tower. Logan sells Scrap, Copper, Sulfur and 9x19mm ammo.

2. 2
   Queen of Rats · What's Up, Doc?

   Logan's two favours: negotiate with The Rat Queen at Solar's Crossing, and visit Dr. Sonnenberg's laboratory in the Solar Fields.

3. 3
   Parking Zoo

   The Rat Queen hands over the Weapon Bench recipe; build it, craft 9x19mm ammo, then kill Wolves, Boars and a Bear. Reward: 5 Sulfur, 3 Weapon Parts.

4. 4
   The Collector → After Favours

   Collect four delivery crates for the doctor, then report to Logan.

5. 5
   Extreme Makeover · Let's see what the future holds

   Renovate the Solar Crossing and wait for Logan's word about the radio tower.

6. 6
   New Message

   Climb the radio tower, listen to the transmission, ask Anna about White Hell. Rewards: an Electric Heater, a Scavenger Backpack, the Electric Heater recipe, the Dismantle Bench and the whole Scavenger Clothes Set.

Act 5 — Technocrats Colony and the Permafrost Armor

Permafrost Armor is the umbrella quest: visit Technocrats Colony, Urban District and Bunker 21, acquire the Permafrost Jacket and report to Robyn. In the colony, Suit Up takes you to The Estate to talk to Amalie Owlgate through the intercom; The Guided Tour repairs the Med Bay intercom; Gardener, Mechanic, Tribal, Spy is a clue hunt for a saboteur involving Martha. Any Way The Wind Blows repairs the rooftop windmill for 5 Frost Core, and Electric Sheeps — fixing Icarus's cleaning robot — rewards the Permafrost Armor blueprints for Boots, Pants, Jacket, Gloves and Cloak. See the Technocrats chain.

Act 6 — Urban District, the Bunker and White Hell

1. 1
   Grumpy Friend

   Find Jeremiah Crow, the ex-military leader, at the Crow's Nest to learn about Permafrost Armor. Quest page.

2. 2
   Stolen Treasure

   Recover the supplies container from the Moon Cult's base and return it to Jeremiah. Quest page.

3. 3
   Where it all began

   Reach Bunker 21, climb through the gap and find the Lunar Armor Blueprint; share what you learn with Jeremiah. Quest page.

4. 4
   Dressed for White Hell

   Craft the Lunar set — Permafrost Cloak, Jacket, Gloves, Pants and Boots (Cloth, Moonrock Ingots and Quality Metal at the Tailoring Bench). Each piece gives 50 insulation and 50 frost armor. Quest page.

5. 5
   Trial Of The Storm

   Find a way through the snowstorm, listen to the Rook Self recording and deliver Condor's package. I want to be a hell runner! sends you to the Last Stand to meet Condor. Quest page.