Ice Age Guide

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Cold-route challenge routing: value movement, recovery, and safe food loops before optional fights.

Run checklist

1. Treat Ice Age as a terrain-and-temperature challenge first; cold movement penalties and wind mistakes kill more runs than low damage.
2. Recent player advice is unusually consistent here: stay close to trees or holes when the cold starts ticking, and treat shelter timing as part of the route instead of as a panic button.
3. Snow movement is harsher than sand, so dodge windows that feel safe elsewhere can fail in the first biome. If Beeware or other early pressure appears, slow down and keep escape lanes open.
4. Small dodge shells, Vegan-style food routing, Wings or other terrain adaptation, Burrower, and one clean attack such as Trunk are the most repeatable recommendations from current public discussion.
5. Big-body routes can still work, but the fresh Ice Age screenshot case only looks stable because level-three Cheek Pouch plus Provider kept food flowing through fights; copy the food engine, not just the size.

Recommended builds

• Smol Dodge
• Vegan Pacifist
• Moulting Defense
• Beginner First Clear

Related achievements

• Challengedn't
• Gilded
• Really?

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