Unfreeze an Animal How to Unfreeze Animals

Unfreezing is the whole name of the game and the step most people rush. Pushing a sphere across the map feels like progress. Standing still while ice drips feels like AFK. That idle moment is when you actually take ownership. This page is only about the thaw: where to stand, what the E prompt means, why melt speed is a shop product, and how to finish a dragon without feeding the neighbour.

The rule

An animal trapped in ice is public loot. The official description is blunt: steal animals before they unfreeze. Your job is to make “before” as short as possible and to be present for all of it.

Unfreeze an Animal thaw gameplay

Campfire placement

Stop the sphere in the stone ring, not on the outer grass. Heat is a radius. A block that looks “close enough” can sit outside the melt tick and waste the time you just spent pushing. If the ice is larger than the pit — dragons in the gallery shots overflow the ring — centre the body over the flames, not the tail.

Do not start a second push while the first melt is running unless a teammate is body-blocking the fire. Six-player servers punish split attention. If you must leave, you have already decided the animal is expendable. That decision belongs on protect your base, not here.

The E Unfreeze prompt

When you are in range, the HUD shows E Unfreeze (tap the equivalent button on mobile). Start it once. Stay in range. If you walk out, assume the channel dropped until the prompt returns. The prompt is not a suggestion; it is the difference between a parked ice cube and a owned animal.

PC: hold or press E as the prompt indicates, facing the block. Mobile: keep the thumb on the interact button and do not let the camera yank you off the pit. Console: bind interact somewhere you can hold while you look around for stealers. Full device notes sit on controls.

Melt speed

Thaw Labs sells 2x Melt Speed for 199 Robux with the text “All your frozen animals thaw twice as fast. Permanent.” That sentence tells you two design facts: melt has a duration, and duration is a balance lever. If you do not buy the pass, you compensate with positioning, teammates, and by not thawing high-value ice when the server is sweaty.

The free equivalent of 2x melt is starting the fire the instant the sphere arrives and never letting a gap appear. The paid equivalent is shortening the gap. Compare it with +20 Speed on game pass tiers and speed versus melt. Speed helps the journey; melt helps the finish. Steals happen at the finish.

What you should thaw, and when

Thaw commons when the server is quiet so the plot starts printing. Thaw rares when you have a body on the pit. Skip a contested dragon if your fire is already busy — a half-melted legendary is an advertisement. Rankings are on the animal tier list; names and roles are on the animal index.

If you are still learning the push, finish the beginner walkthrough before you camp a slope spawn. The thaw does not get easier when the walk was longer.

After the ice breaks

The animal should stay on your plot and generate cash. If it wanders, nudge it back before you leave. Cash from a finished thaw is what funds the next hunt; see make money fast. Then either guard or go. Do not stand in the pit celebrating while the next sphere rolls toward someone else.

The short gameplay clip in the middle of this page shows a thaw in motion. Watch the fire, the drip, and how long the player stays planted. Copy that stillness before you copy anyone’s steal montage.