Icarus Dev Tracker

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Week 105 is here, and with it, the start of our third year of Icarus.

This week we’re adding three new Rustic Sign variations in both ground and floor variations, with a more ‘raw’ design than the standard wood sign.

We’ve also got a ton of information on upcoming updates and features for all the new players who have joined us from our recent Free Weekend.

These are all scheduled for next year, as our team will be focusing on smaller updates over the Christmas break while spending time with their families. However, you can still expect some big features like our Batteries and Electrical Network soon, and our weekly updates will continue just like they have for the last two years.

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Notable Improvements:

• Added Icons behind the armor slots, light slot and bulk slots
  
• Fixed an issue with the hotbar hotkeys not showing correct keys when rebound
  
• Fixed fur issues on...

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Icarus’s first-ever Free Weekend is here!

This has been in the works for some time, and we are excited to finally do one of these and give players who have been on the fence about Icarus the chance to try it out and see all the work that has gone into it over the last two years.

For those unfamiliar with what a Free Weekend is, this is a four-day period over the weekend when anyone can download Icarus and play without having to have purchased the game.

If you’ve got friends you’ve been trying to convince to get the game, this is a great time to get them to come join you with no strings attached.

All content in the Icarus base game will be playable, including Open World and Operations on Olympus. We’ve also put the game itself and a bunch of the DLC on discount so if you enjoy it, you can score a good deal to keep playing long after the Free Weekend finishes.

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Our Week 104 update is here. This week we’re adding Seed Pouches, a Tier 1 item that will store your seeds gathered while out exploring.

We’ve also got an update on Batteries and next week's update. You’ll also have probably noticed this update is a day early, which is intentional and will make sense tomorrow, so keep an eye out for some news.

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Notable Improvements:

• Permit sprint cancels reload on magazine and round fed weapons, if enabled in the control settings
  
• In the Kill List operation, creatures now also spawn outside of mission area
  
• Added the building tier to building piece tooltips
  
• Added a 'Z' collision offset so you can more freely place rugs on top of floors with beams beneath them

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Week 103’s update brings two new rugs to Icarus, which require pelts and vestiges from two of the most fearsome foes - the Polar Bear and the Brown Bear.

These are craftable at Tier 3 on the Advanced Textile Bench, so get to gathering those materials and crafting.

In addition to cosmetic updates like these Rugs, we’re always working on new features and performance improvements and we have an update on big improvements coming to animals and taming, and batteries.

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Notable Improvements

• Updated the Brutalist Wardrobe & Cabinet and Industrial Wardrobe & Cabinet to have 25 inventory slots as originally intended (rather than 10)
  
• Updated recipes for cooking, Masonry Bench and Armor Bench to allow access to T2 recipes in both T3 and T4
  
• Added recipe for Gold Partition for Art Deco set which was accidentally hidden
  
• Fixed travel quest step detection for mounted p...

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Week 102 is here and features new Deep Ore Veins of Titanium, Platinum, Salt, Clay, Scoria and Obsidian for you to drill.

We’ve also enabled Exotic voxels in Open World caves which will replenish using the Meteor Shower event we debuted last week.

This week we’ve also released two new architectural DLC, an Industrial Furniture Set with 36 pieces and an Art Deco Furniture Set with 26 pieces for you to purchase and adorn your base with. These support our ongoing development of Icarus and are some of the most detailed and unique pieces we’ve released to date.

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Notable Improvements

• Exotic voxels will now spawn in Open World caves, these will replenish with Meteor Shower events
  
• You can now place deployables on top of rugs which was previously blocked
  
• Vapor Condenser rewards have been updated to include Enzymes in addition to Exotics when in its ‘active state’ which as of l...

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Hypatia Part II is here.

You can now play 21 Operations that have been transitioned over from Missions in your Olympus Open Worlds. These Operations have been hand-selected with a range of challenges to choose from.

We’ve also added Exotic respawning in Open World, with the new Meteor Shower event occurring every 3 hours and spawning new nodes, veins, voxels and exotic plants.

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Notable Improvements

• Open World Selection Screen now shows Operations for Olympus and exotics for all 3 maps
  
• Fixing Desert Mammoth Trophy not being the Desert Mammoth Trophy when placed
  
• Fixed Tusker Trophy deploying as Komodo Trophy
  
• Fixed Viscid only granting Wolf kill experience by accident
  
• Encroachment: Extermination - Fixed clients seeing incorrect kill requirements for The Great River, showing the objective as complete when it wasn’t
  
• Meridian: ...

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Welcome to week 100, a century of Icarus weekly updates! This week brings the XENON backpack, a new hunting backpack with unique buffs and perks such as skinning speed boosts and reductions to knife wear.

We’re also one week away from Hypatia Part II, which will add Operations and Exotic Spawns in Olympus Open World games.

Notable Improvements

• Chamios & Tusker Vestiges now drop as intended, and the Wooly Zebra trophy now looks like a Wooly Zebra
  
• The Decorations Bench received a visual upgrade to reflect that it will be used for decorations other than just the basic rustic set
  
• Fixed an issue where respawns could be limited while doing Operations in open world, this was only supposed to be active during Missions
  
• Removed the Biolab button in the Orbital Workshop menu. It wasn’t supposed to be there yet
  
• Added UI on Drills and Extractors to display ore per minute
  
• Fixed...

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Week Ninety Nine’s update is here, and we’re focusing on the Bestiary this week, rebalancing how you earn points and how many points each unlock takes to achieve.

Our focus has been to reduce the grind for this feature and make it more enjoyable for players to complete.

We’ve also added new animal trophies, with all creatures now having their own craftable version. Alongside this, we’ve made ‘Vestiges’ a harvestable item from any kill.

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Notable Improvements

• Buildings will now burn and melt when placed in lava (Thatch & Wood destroy right away, stone, concrete, glass, aluminum, and brick will slowly burn and be destroyed, Scoria Brick & Scoria will be unaffected)
  
• Add stats display to blueprint unlock tooltips for the building pieces
  
• Added minimum distance culling to fur shader, brown bear armor fur strands should no longer obstruct vision when using a hunting rifle
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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Week Ninety Eight brings our newest and most powerful mount to Icarus, the Tusker.

Found exclusively in the arctic regions of Styx for the time being, the Tusker has the highest health, regeneration, and carry capacity stats of any of our mounts so far, but trades its speed for these, making it slower but more durable.

We’ve also got an update on the next part of Hypatia which will see Olympus get Operations, and some fixes for bugs that arose in last week's update.

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Notable Improvements

• Fixed all stockpile missions as they would request another stockpile pod each new session and players would lose progress
  
• Fixed WETWORK Olympus mission from being unclickable and thus unable to be started after the Olympus mission layout change last week
  
• Fixed Bear Armor blocking some views in first-person
  
• Adjustments to quest spawning and supply pod spawning to fix s...

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The first part of our Hypatia Update is here adding Operations ('Open World Missions') to the Styx Expansion
These have proven really popular in the Prometheus map of our New Frontiers expansion, so we’re excited to bring these to Styx - a map rich with challenging geography, unique missions and violent fauna.

Styx was released back in 2022 and has since undergone a major transformation, with 27 missions, unique fauna, fish species, SMPL3 quests, and more. If you’ve enjoyed New Frontiers, or even Olympus (the original Icarus map), then Styx provides a new challenge for you to sink your teeth into.

Notable Improvements

• Mesh and Texture adjustments to most building tiers which will provide some performance benefits and allows us to cosmetically skin these in future
  
• Fixed Longbow being unable to be crafted or repaired on the forge or foundry as it was supposed to be
  
• Fixed some collision issues present on th...

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.