Welcome to Week 249. This week we’re adding a brand new item to the Workshop: the Inaris Powerbank. This allows you to bring a pre-charged power bank down with you, giving you a portable way to charge items on the fly. We’ve also updated the Volcanic Stomper, giving it a more subdued coat that better fits its volcanic environment. Noxious Crusts have received some slight adjustments too, and wi…
Welcome to Week 247. This week, we've updated 11 existing Saddles to work with the Slinker, bringing the total number of Saddles available for the Slinker to 14. We've also made a range of optimization and cleanup improvements to Elysium, which will reset Foliage and Voxels on the map. Finally, we'll take a quick look at what's coming next week, with Scoria becoming available on all maps throug…
Welcome to Week 246. This week, we’re adding a new Metal Weapon Rack, giving prospectors a stylish new way to display their tools. We also go into a bit more detail about the power cut that occurred in the studio during last week’s livestream, which affected our development work over the weekend. We’ve also got a preview of the next Great Hunt on Elysium and its accompanying free patch, which w…
Welcome to Week 245. This week, Tuskers are getting a major expansion with the introduction of breeding and new phenotypes to discover, collect, and breed into your herd. We’re also taking a sneak peek at the Tier 3 Metal Weapon Rack, giving you another option for storing and displaying your prized gear while matching your base’s design. Notable Improvements: · Fixed Olympus scan missions where…
Welcome to Week 244. This week we're making the waters of Icarus more diverse, with fish now accurately represented in the world based on their fishing locations. Alongside this, we're introducing the Carbon Fishing Rod to help you catch them. We're also bringing the Dedicated Server Browser out of beta following a much-needed update, including a range of fixes and quality-of-life improvements.…
Welcome to Week 243. This week we're revamping one of the very first missions ever created for the game: Livewire on Olympus. Our goal is to continue revisiting older missions like this, bringing them in line with the quality and design standards of our more recent content. We're also giving you a small preview of what's coming next week: in-world fish and a new fishing rod. These additions are…
Icarus is free to play this weekend and to celebrate we are enabling a double experience weekend! Not only this but all of our DLC is on sale with a special 'Free Weekend Bundle' which packs the base game and all our major expansions into a single bundle with a additional discount. Welcome to Week 241. This week, we take a look back at some of the standout patches and updates from the past year…
Welcome to Week 241, This week we're introducing a brand new weapon archetype: the Launcher. The first weapon in this category is the Single Barrel Launcher, allowing you to load and fire grenades with far greater precision than throwing them by hand. We also discuss the community feedback surrounding last week's screw recipe changes and the adjustments we're making in response. Finally, we giv…
Welcome to Week 240, This week, we've updated the T4 Foundry Mesh, reducing its size while preserving its full functionality - a popular community request. We also perform a slight balance of the recipes found on this, the anvil and the forge. We're also kicking off the first in a series of refreshed Olympus Missions with the updated Rustic Mission. In addition, we've fixed a long-standing bug…
Welcome to Week 239, This week brings a brand new item to the Workshop, joining the growing set of Deployables: the MXC Oxite Dissolver. We’re also sharing updates on a planned rework of the Olympus quests, as we begin revisiting and improving some of the game’s earlier content. Finally, we’ve got a preview of what’s coming next week: an update to the Tier 4 Foundry. Notable Improvements: · Fix…
Welcome to Week 238, This week's update introduces the new Cured Leather Backpack, giving prospectors another craftable storage option while on the surface. Made entirely from materials gathered while on planet, it's designed to help you stay equipped and organized without relying on workshop gear. We're also giving you a preview of what's coming next week: a brand-new workshop item, the MXC Ox…
Welcome to Week 237. This week, we are expanding the Norex Trader inventory to provide access to boss vestiges that are not normally available on all maps. We are also making a few balance adjustments to the Sandwyrm Queen and its associated items. In addition, we're including a preview of next week's update, which will introduce a new addition to the planetary crafted backpack lineup. Notable…
Welcome to Week 236. This week introduces Ubis breeding, allowing Prospectors to establish their own breeding populations of these iconic swamp birds. Looking ahead, next week's expansion of the Norex Trader will provide new ways to access world boss rewards across more maps. Notable Improvements: · Optimizing a number of collision setups of many expensive mesh setups · UX Pass on Aquariums, fi…
Welcome to Week 235. This week, we're expanding access to Obsidian by adding Deep Ore Veins to Olympus, Styx, and Elysium. This makes the resource readily available across all maps and gives prospectors more opportunities to gather it, regardless of where they choose to play. We're also introducing the Deep Cycler, a new Tier 5 device that allows players to reconfigure Deep Ore Veins. This prov…
Welcome to Week 234. This week’s patch adds new Interior Wood flooring pieces, expanding your options for building and decorating indoor spaces. These pieces are designed to fit smoothly with existing assets for more variety and flexibility in layouts. We’re also introducing curved railings that snap to these new floors, as well as other compatible curved floor pieces. This makes it easier to c…
Welcome to Week 233. This week marks the launch of the Timber Extraction Unit, a brand-new Legendary item purchasable from the Biolab. Designed for high-efficiency harvesting, this powerful tool can rapidly decimate forests while also doubling as a dangerous weapon, launching spinning saw blades at unsuspecting creatures. Elysium has also received a small map update in preparation for future co…
Last week, we said we would be releasing a new legendary item this week - the Timber Extraction Unit. While testing it, we decided to make some additional changes to improve how it feels and to properly integrate it into Icarus. As a result, we’ve decided to push the release back to next week instead. Welcome to Week 232. This week, we’re introducing Gribbler Husbandry, a new system that expand…
Welcome to Week 231. This week brings four new unique fish subspecies to Icarus - one per map, plus a rare catch found only in the Mushroom Swamp on Elysium. We have also performed a decent amount of texture and LOD optimizations on knives, guns, bows, spears ammo and fish to save more memory while playing. We’re also teasing next week’s update with a brand-new legendary item you may have seen…
Welcome to Week 230. This week brings Boar Breeding to Icarus with a new Juvenile version of the Boar, new Fertility Serum to craft and 7 new Phenotypes to explore. Coincidentally, we've also added what we're calling the "Slaughtering Mechanic". The ability to quickly dispatch tames through the use of a new Butcher's Knife. We also provide a small preview of what's coming next week - a new radi…
Welcome to Week 229. In this week's "Atmospheric Update", we have improved several areas that help piece together the world of Icarus. First, we updated our Waterfall shader to give a more realistic and consistent visual whilst also improving performance thanks to tessellation LODing and shader optimization. Next, we re-enabled the "Storm Wall", an enormous visual object which can appear in var…
Welcome to Week 228. This week we added Ruby to the Workshop which allows you to call down those precious resources on any Icarus map via the Orbital Exchange Interface. Supported Mount icons on hovered Saddle info windows have also been updated to be more readable, and pretty. Notable Improvements: · Added temperature map to Elysium to increase environmental temperature near lava · Added light…
Welcome to Week 227. This week brings several Quality of Life improvements to the Repair Bench, to make it easier to use, and to understand why it might not be meeting requirements for repairing certain items. Some of the UI has been tidied up and functionality governing the bench has also been refined to make it more usable and understandable. Notable Improvements: · Fixed meteor showers happe…
Welcome to Week 226. In this week's update we are delivering 12 new Envirosuit Modules to the Workshop which aid players in a variety of ways, from resource consumption reductions, to damage increases, to protective modules, and more. Modules are designed to make gameplay a little bit easier, and with some of the higher level Envirosuits offering up to 4 Module Slots, an interesting way to comb…
Welcome to Week 225. This week, we're expanding the cart system to work with another pack animal - the Bull. Additionally, a few Limestone Deep Mining Ore Deposits have been added to each map, to allow players access to bulk limestone recipes, and shortcuts towards mass concrete creation while playing on other maps. Notable Improvements: · Limestone deep ore veins should now spawn near select w…
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