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New Player Path
Learn the systems that cause the most expensive early mistakes before you start chasing power.
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Frost Academy
Learn the game before the game teaches you the expensive way.
Frost Academy is built around the things players usually learn after they have already spent the shards, gems, speedups, widgets, or materials. Learn the why first. Then use Frost's free tools to apply it to your own numbers.
Complete subject
Bear Academy
Understand troop ratios, formations, rally roles, joiner heroes, damage testing, and why the answer changes by account.
Enter Bear Academy →2026 event playbook
Frostfire Mine
Learn RRLLR, patrol strategy, crowded-lobby recovery, scoring priorities, and when a fight is costing more than the vein is worth.
Open Frostfire guide →New 2026 event · basics live
Winter Siege
Learn the event from scratch: two squads, Strongholds, Stars, Hearts, Morale, Wardens, routes, and limited attacks.
Learn Winter Siege →New Player Path · Published
Start Here: the eight habits that protect your account.
Work through them in order if you are new, or use them as a decision framework if you already know the game. The goal is not memorizing tables. It is learning what deserves your resources before you spend them.
01
Progression is not power
Learn why visible power and useful account progression are not the same thing.
02Resources you will wish you saved
Learn which resources deserve a plan before you spend them.
03Build for your account
Understand why the right answer changes with budget, role, state age, and goals.
04Events are progression
Make the upgrades you already need pay you back through smarter timing.
05Troop types have jobs
Learn why Infantry, Lancers, and Marksmen cannot be treated as interchangeable power.
06Buildings unlock value
Choose building upgrades by the job, unlock, or progression gate they solve.
07Think before building heroes
Evaluate heroes by access, role, longevity, replacement timing, and total investment.
08Before-you-spend checklist
Use Frost's repeatable decision system before spending scarce resources or money.
Knowledge Library
What Academy teaches
We're building the subjects in useful learning order instead of publishing hundreds of disconnected reference pages.
Ready now
Published subjects with immediate payoff for players.
Start Here
The decisions new players should understand before spending gems, shards, speedups, or upgrade materials.
Bear Trap & Bear Hunt
Rally roles, troop ratios, formations, joiner heroes, damage testing, and the mechanics behind stronger Bear sessions.
Frostfire Mine
RRLLR, patrol routes, crowded matches, veins, scoring, Kathy, and how to salvage a good run when the ideal strategy is not available.
Hero Gear
Which gear deserves your XP, Essence Stones, Mythic pieces, and Mithril — and why the right priority changes with your goal.
Combat & Troops
Troop roles, formations, rally and garrison mechanics, Expedition skills, training, promotion, and combat stats.
City & Progression
What each building unlocks, Furnace and Fire Crystal progression, prerequisites, and when an upgrade is actually worth doing.
Chief Gear & Charms
Gear and Charm priorities, troop-piece mapping, scarce materials, set progression, event timing, and when your account should break the standard upgrade order.
Resources & Efficiency
Gems, shards, widgets, speedups, Fire Crystals, event timing, and the resources you will wish you had saved later.
Next in line
Deep systems that plug into the foundation above.
Heroes & Generations
Hero generations, skills, acquisition, investment, replacements, spender value, and long-term build/skip planning.
Research
Research Center and War Academy systems, priorities, prerequisites, and what each branch changes.
Later library
Still part of Academy, but not ahead of the fundamentals.
Pets
Pet unlocks, skills, combat roles, investment priority, longevity, and replacements.
Experts
Expert skills, Books and Sigils, real costs, return on investment, and role-specific value.
Daybreak Island
Island decorations, permanent bonuses, placement value, and progression priorities.
Game Mechanics
Buff applicability, capacities, stacking, stats, titles, territory effects, and the rules behind the numbers.
How Frost works
Learn for free. Plan with the tools. Get a second set of eyes when you need one.
Academy explains the mechanics, tradeoffs, and mistakes publicly. Frost's tools help you work with your own numbers, and signed-in players can save supported account data as they go. If you want Frost to put the whole account together for you, a $19.99 Account Review turns that saved context, your goals, and the areas you want checked into a personalized action plan. No subscription required.