Freezing Together
Surviving a frozen apocalypse is brutal enough on your own, but doing it with friends changes everything. Freezing Together is an add-on built for players who love the PermaFrost experience but refuse to face the endless winter alone. Originally created so a player and their friend could tackle PermaFrost: Eyes of the Storm in multiplayer, this add-on pieces together the right combination of mods to make cooperative survival actually work.
The core idea is simple: the world is still ending, the cold is still deadly, but you no longer have to be the last person standing. Freezing Together for Minecraft lets you share the struggle, the scavenging, and the small victories that come with staying warm for one more night.
What Freezing Together Actually Does
PermaFrost is designed as a lonely, hostile survival challenge. Freezing Together keeps that atmosphere intact while removing the isolation. Instead of a single player fighting the elements, you and your friends can band together, split resources, and cover more ground in search of shelter and supplies.
The add-on focuses on making multiplayer functional rather than turning the game into something easy. The apocalypse is still an apocalypse. You will still freeze, starve, and struggle, but now you can do it as a team.
Key Features
- Cooperative multiplayer support for the PermaFrost experience
- Join any singleplayer world and invite friends through the pause menu
- Preserves the harsh, frozen survival atmosphere of the original modpack
- Balanced so that teamwork helps without removing the challenge
- Works with the mods bundled into the PermaFrost: Eyes of the Storm pack
Supported Versions and Loaders
Freezing Together is built around the PermaFrost: Eyes of the Storm modpack, which runs on the Forge loader. Because it depends on that specific pack, you should match your Minecraft version to whatever the current PermaFrost release targets. In practice this means sticking to the Forge-based versions that the modpack officially supports, since mixing loaders or mismatched versions will break the add-on and the base pack alike.
Before you download Freezing Together, check the modpack page for the exact Minecraft version it is built for. If you are running a Forge profile that matches, you are in good shape. If you are on Fabric or a newer unsupported version, the add-on simply will not load correctly.
How to Install Freezing Together
Getting set up is straightforward once you understand the order of operations. The add-on is meant to sit on top of the existing PermaFrost pack, so you install the pack first and then layer the multiplayer fix on top.
Step-by-Step
- Install the PermaFrost: Eyes of the Storm modpack through your launcher of choice.
- Confirm the pack launches correctly in singleplayer before adding anything else.
- Download Freezing Together and place it into the appropriate mods folder for that pack.
- Launch the game and create or load a singleplayer world.
- Open the pause menu and use the option to add friends to your session.
- Invite your friends and start surviving together.
If you would rather skip the manual file shuffling, the foxygame.net launcher offers a one-click install path for Freezing Together, pulling the correct build straight from its add-on catalog so you never have to guess which version matches your pack.
Playing Together in Practice
The multiplayer flow is refreshingly low-friction. You do not need to rent a server or configure port forwarding. You join any singleplayer world, open the pause menu, and add friends directly. From there the session behaves like a normal co-op game, except the world is frozen, resources are scarce, and every decision about warmth and shelter is shared.
This changes how you approach the early game. One player can gather wood while another scouts for a cave or structure. You can rotate who keeps the fire going, split food stores, and coordinate trips into dangerous territory. The tension of PermaFrost remains, but it becomes a shared tension rather than a solitary grind.
Tips for New Groups
- Agree on a base location early so nobody wanders off and freezes.
- Pool resources for warmth and food instead of hoarding.
- Assign roles: gatherer, builder, explorer.
- Keep a shared stash so a single death does not wipe progress.
Final Thoughts
Freezing Together solves a very specific problem in a very clean way. It takes the bleak, solitary survival of PermaFrost and opens it up to friends without softening the challenge. If you have ever wanted to experience a frozen apocalypse with company, this add-on is exactly what you need. Install the pack, add the fix, invite your friends, and see how long your group can last before the cold wins.