Frost — Chilling House
Steel Path build. Snow Globe is a bunker. Chilling Globe freezes anyone who walks in. You live inside it and shoot out.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Excavation, Defense, Mobile Defense, Kuva Survival bubbles, 'please don't touch the pod'
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Why this build?
Steel Path for Excavation, Defense, Mobile Defense, Kuva Survival bubbles, 'please don't touch the pod'
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- This is the objective Frost people actually wanted in 2013, still correct on Defense tiles in 2026.
- Globe is not DPS. People who smash 3 on cooldown in Exterminate are playing the wrong config.
- Nullifiers and Demolysts eat globes. Peek, kill the bubble-eater, recast.
Don’t use this for: mobile Exterminate · players who refuse to recast Globe
Stronger mods, Arcanes, real synergy
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Inside-the-globe guns — Hitscan or punch-through. Projectiles can eat the inner wall. You shoot from inside.
Alternative if…
- Star Chart only → First Globe
- This is too much Forma / cost → First Globe — Star Chart
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Readiness
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- Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
- Forma 0/4 · required — 4 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 4 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 4 specialised mods. Typical farm ~4–6 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Medium confidence. A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.
Your next step
Next: Whiteout — Optimised
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Whiteout — OptimisedPlan
Today → next → later
Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.
- NextGet Corrosive ProjectionOpen Nightwave
- After that3–4 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterCrimson · StrengthHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalChilling HouseSteel Path · Advanced · 3–4 Forma
Upgrade from here
Whiteout — Optimised
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Whiteout — OptimisedFarm the gap
- Frost augments — Icy Avalanche · Chilling Globe · Ice Wave Impedance · Freeze Force · Biting Frost
Helminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 3 Crimson · Strength — Globe HP.Archon locked
- 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Replace a shattered globe now, not after the excavator dies.Archon locked
Tonight
What is actually up
30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.
30 minutes
Farm Corrosive Projection
One named gap. Open Nightwave
60 minutes
Corrosive Projection, then Forma
Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.
120 minutes
One Archon Hunt
If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.
- Farm Corrosive Projection
Open Nightwave
Who this is for
Play this build from zero
The excavator keeps dying and you are tired of it.
- Time to a playable copy
- After Chilling Globe.
- First mission to practice in
- Hieracon, Pluto, or any Excavation. One globe per drill.
2 button drills · 13 parts · tick the lists as you go
Before you start
0 of 3 done
Put it on the Warframe
0 of 4 done
Keep this up
Bunker loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Plant Snow Globe (3) on the thing you are defending. Stand inside.
- 2Chilling Globe freezes walk-ins. Shoot them. Avalanche (4) the clump outside if the wall is groaning.
- 3If the globe shatters, recast immediately. If it is still up, do not recast — you just deleted your HP pool.
- 4Icy Avalanche is optional here. Chilling Globe is the augment that matters.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Drop on the excavator the second it lands
33. Stand inside. Shoot out.
- 2
If it shatters, recast now
Not after the drill beeps. Casting speed helps.
Common mistakes
Giant Range globes
Nullifiers pop them from the next room. Medium is correct.
When this feels easy
- 1Armor shards / GuardianGlobe HP is Armor times Strength.
Parts checklist
0 of 13 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
16 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●frostframe
- 2○Corrosive Projectionmod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Chilling Globeaugment
- 5○Blind Ragemod
- 6○Umbral Intensifymod
- 7○Steel Fibermod
- 8○Primed Continuitymod
- 9○Stretchmod
- 10○Primed Flowmod
- 11○Arcane Guardianarcane
- 12○Molt Reconstructarcane
- 13○Crimson · Strengthshard
- 14○Amber · Casting Speedshard
- 15○Steel Pathunlock
- 16○Archon Hunts (shards optional)unlock
Depends on
What this loadout needs
Required is a gate. Recommended is a ceiling. Optional is a later farm — don’t stall the card for it.
Required
Corrosive Projectionmissing · Open Nightwave
Power Driftmissing · Unlock Lua
- Chilling Globe
missing · Steel Meridian / Cephalon Suda · 25,000
Enemies that enter the globe freeze. The door is now a trap.
Umbral Intensifymissing · Finish The Sacrifice
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Primed Flowmissing · Baro Ki'Teer
Recommended
Optional
Amber · Casting Speedmissing · Earn Amber shards
Replace a shattered globe now, not after the excavator dies.
Watch it played
YouTube for this loadout
How to Frost
Avalanche strip, Snow Globe, Ice Wave. Defense Frost, not the old 4-spam.
Strength
~200%+ globe HP
Duration
100–130%
Range
100–145% globe size
Globe health scales with Armor and Strength. Range grows the sphere — too big and Nullifiers eat it. Recast deletes the old globe.
From the mods
Live power
Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.
- Strength
- 258%
- Duration
- 155%
- Range
- 145%
- Efficiency
- 45%
- Energy
- +275%
- Capacity
- 52 / 67
1 Umbral piece
Weapon HUD
Arsenal numbers
Base × damage mods × crit expectation × fire rate × multishot. No faction, no quantization. Galvanized kill stacks are a slider, not assumed.
- Damage
- 35
- Crit
- 12% × 2.00
- Status
- 26%
- Fire rate
- 9.58
- Multishot
- 1.00
- Avg hit
- 39
- Arsenal DPS
- 376
Toggle common mods
Frost mods
- AuraCorrosive ProjectionNightwave
- ExilusPower DriftOrokin Vaults / Lua
- 1Chilling GlobeEnemies that enter the globe freeze. The door is now a trap.Steel Meridian / Cephalon Suda · 25k
- 2Blind RageGlobe HP.Orokin Vaults
- 3Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
- 4Steel FiberArmor feeds globe health.Enemy drops
- 5Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer
- 6StretchEnemy drops
- 7Primed FlowBaro / relics
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Corrosive Projection | Nightwave | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Orokin Vaults / Lua | |
| 1 | Chilling Globe Enemies that enter the globe freeze. The door is now a trap. | Steel Meridian / Cephalon Suda · 25k | |
| 2 | Blind Rage Globe HP. | Orokin Vaults | |
| 3 | Umbral Intensify | The Sacrifice | |
| 4 | Steel Fiber Armor feeds globe health. | Enemy drops | |
| 5 | Primed Continuity | Baro Ki'Teer | |
| 6 | Stretch | Enemy drops | |
| 7 | Primed Flow | Baro / relics |
Inside-the-globe guns
Hitscan or punch-through. Projectiles can eat the inner wall. You shoot from inside.
Arcanes
Arcane Guardian
More armor, fatter globe.
Eidolon hunts
Molt Reconstruct
Heal after casts if you peek outside.
Zariman
Archon shards
- 1Crimson · StrengthGlobe HP.3 · Netracells
- 2Amber · Casting SpeedReplace a shattered globe now, not after the excavator dies.1 · EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crimson · Strength Globe HP. | 3 | Netracells | |
| 2 | Amber · Casting Speed Replace a shattered globe now, not after the excavator dies. | 1 | EDA |