Icarus Dev Tracker

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Welcome to Week 148.

This week is the penultimate update before the release of the Null Sector, so we’ve focused on a bunch of QoL improvements and bug fixes in advance of this releasing. These include some recommendations from our community through Feature Upvote.

We’ve also got a bit more insight into what to expect with next week’s Null Sector release, and some details on how you can jump in and test it now on a temporary branch, if you want to help us find any outstanding issues.

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This Week: Quality-of-Life (QoL) Improvements
This week, we’ve focused on a range of QoL improvements and bug fixes as a lead-in to our planned release of Null Sector next week. We generally don’t release a major feature/content in subsequent weeks, and with the size of Null Sector, we wanted to dedicate more time to t... Read more

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

Welcome to Week 147.

This week comes with a massive quality-of-life addition: an in-game wiki of items craftable in Icarus as a new section of the Field Guide. This includes where to find them, how to craft them, what to use them for, and what they’re connected to.

We also introduce some new exclusive bobbleheads for owners of Stationeers as a thank-you for supporting the studio.

Plus, we have a small update on where Null Sector is up to and what’s coming next week.

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Notable Improvements:

• Prospects without local save files are no longer shown on the 'Load' screen. This should fix the issue where players would incorrectly see past multiplayer games in this list without having access to the save file
  
• Mounts are now bound to the account that claimed them instead of the specific character. This should fix the issue where players bringing down mounts that were claimed by a differ...

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

Welcome to Week 146.

We’ve converted another 15 Missions over to Operations on Olympus, giving you a ton more content to experience in your permanent prospects.

We’ve also addressed some bugs that cropped up last week, including Desert Saddles on Moa and Cart Attachment repairs.

Next week’s update is a big one, so have a look at the bottom at what to expect and how it’ll help you navigate the thousands of in-game craftable items.

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Notable Improvements

• Fixes for workshop items that were unable to be reloaded
  
• Fixing the Desert Saddle so it works with the Moa
  
• Fixing cart attachments as they were unrepairable
  
• Various Shadow related fixes and tweaks
  
• Updated some old search area's to properly highlight the compass when inside the search area.

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

Contains the Following Fixes

• Fixing Issue where concrete ramps where removed from the buildable table resulting in pieces being deleted in game
  
• Fixed bookshelf inventories not being accessible after being added.

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

Welcome to Week 145.

This week, we’re introducing two new biome-specific saddles with relevant temperature resistances to give your mounts extra support while traversing Icarus.

Seeding Carts have also been overhauled, with tiered plow attachments that bring their statistics and buffs in line with those of the tiered shovels introduced in Week 136.

We’ve also got a sneak peek at what’s to come next week and why you’ll want to return to Olympus to check it out.

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Notable Improvements

• Added the ability to modify the crosshair, its size, shape, and color
  
• Fixing issue where all throwables (grenades, molotovs etc) where not able to be thrown
  
• Tooltips after highlighting a crop plot, then looking at other items now force an update, preventing lag when swapping between items
  
• Guano Recipes for Biofuel, Basic Fertilizer & Volatile Substance, now use far ...

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

Welcome to week 144.

This week introduces the new Arctic Vesper, which is found in nests spawning in the frozen expanses of Icarus.

The Arctic Vesper is a dangerous foe, flying low to the ground and fiercely defending its nests, where you’ll be able to find the new ‘Guano’ resource that can be used in bio-fuel alternative recipes.

We also briefly mention the new cart attachments coming next week.

Notable Improvements

• Recipes that produce resources such as water or biofuel, will now display the amount of that resource produced on the recipe (See Composter)
  
• In place of stack count in item tooltips, items with a resource contained within (water / biofuel / electric charge) will show their current units and total capacity instead
  
• Mount tooltips will no longer show 'Owned by Nobody' when the owner logged out
  
• Removing dirt mound recipe and blueprint from the tech tree as it is no lo...

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

Welcome to week 143

This week, we introduce a new growable plant: Sugarcane, which can be purchased as Seeds in the Orbital Workshop. Fully grown Sugarcane can be ground down in the Mortar and Pestle to make the newest ingredient on Icarus, Sugar.

With the addition of sugar comes new recipes and Candy, a new food group that doesn’t count towards the total active food buffs but provides small situational buffs for escaping dangerous situations.

We’ve also got a quick snapshot of what’s to come next week, and where you’ll find it nesting.

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Notable Improvements

• Aluminum buildables have received a LOD pass, meaning there are no more black lines that ascend when viewed from a distance
  
• Added a new master glass material and reworked all the current glass BLD materials, to reduce the excessive amounts of fog that could be seen through the glass
  
• Adjusted the weight and...

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

This week's update continues our trend of introducing small improvements and new content from our recently concluded project clinic.

Two features deserve special mention - our new corner stair pieces and changes to crafting shotgun ammo.

Our NullSec work has also progressed since the conclusion of the project clinic. We also have a small update on this below.

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Notable Improvements

• Improved performance by removing tick cost from spline networks and reducing building base tick.
  
• General lighting optimizations have been implemented to improve performance
  
• You can now drop items into the Medical Satchel, Seed Pouch, and Farmers Bag by dragging an item on top of them
  
• When a Medical Satchel, Seed Pouch, and Farmers Bag is in your hotbar, you can right-click to open it
  
• Updated the Icons for fuel slots so that if it accepts any container with a specific resource, a new symbol ...

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

Welcome to week 141

This week, we continue our project clinic.

Originally posted by author: We are working on some big changes with the ‘Nullsector’ (the Prometheus Free Expansion). We are aiming to provide some very different (but good different) experiences not seen before with Icarus. Some of these changes are a bit spicy and we are doing lots of rapid balance iteration at the moment, this includes overhauling the quests for a more narrative focus. The Nullsector will be released when the experience hits the mark it deserves.

- Jake Dodunski, Icarus Project Lead

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This Week: Project Clinic Highlights
Our Project Clinic has resulted in an array of adjustments, enhancements, additions, and refinements.

Performance Optimization to Skeletal Meshes
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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Contains the following Fixes

• Fixed bug causing operations to break if you click to start them before the audio narration has finished playing. If you have a stuck mission that is affected, you may need to cancel it and can start it again after a short cooldown.
  
• Fixed bug preventing players from starting a new SIMPL3 mission at the terminal.
  
• Adding missing saucepan proxy mesh for cooking devices