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Week 106 is here, and with it comes the Biomore Backpack, our second role-specific backpack, this one being for the medic.

This comes with a bunch of unique team-buff auras and other perks, making it perfect for the support role in your group.

We’ve also got an update on Bees for you to sink your teeth into.

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This week: Biomore Backpack
This week, we’re adding a new backpack, for the medic of your crew.

The Biomore Backpack is purchasable in the workshop. It provides six inventory slots, along with 3 active auras where the prospector and nearby allies having increased physical resistance, quicker healing from bacterial, parasitic and poisons, and additional health regeneration. It also has some buffs for the wearer, reducing the stamina impact from using tools, and providing more health to do... Read more

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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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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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

This week: Seed Pouches
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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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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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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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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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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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Week Ninety-Six brings the Brown Bear Armor to Icarus, a new Tier 2 set crafted from the pelts of your favorite Icarus foe.

We’ve also got an update on Hypatia, and some news around our planned release for Part 1 - Styx Operations.

Thank you everyone for their feedback last week on the building system improvements, we’ve taken your ideas on board for future updates.

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Notable Improvements

• Increased Ashen Drake spawns in Lava Areas and added additional Spawn Zones
  
• Small improvements to building placement logic to make it more intuitive
  
• Orbital Exchange Pods when launched grant exotics to your account immediately rather than waiting till the end of the launch sequence
  
• Adjustments to the Lava Hunter Broodling Creature so it targets correctly with its leap attack and reduced damage to take into account its burn modifier application

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This week's update features the third batch of Carved Wood Decorations, adding a complete lounge suite to craft and decorate your base with.

We’ve also adjusted our building placement system, adding more options and variations to expand the creative options for builds. This will be an ongoing piece of work for us, so we’re looking for your feedback on it.

Finally, we’ve got an update on Hypatia and next week’s content.

Notable Improvements

• Fishing traps and other water deployables no longer work in lava rivers, only real rivers
  
• You can now right-click food buffs to remove them
  
• Fixed a bug where sprinting while swimming in the water would not use stamina
  
• Fixed a bug in Cactus and Everbank outposts where aluminum shells sometimes spawned over top of voxels

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Week Ninety Four brings the new C0NT4CT device to Icarus, merging the Short Range Radio, Infrasonic Relay Device and Encrypted Satellite into a single device.

This is a big step towards our Hypatia update, where we’ll be adding Operations (missions you can complete from your Open World session) to both the Styx and Olympus maps so they can be activated from your Open World sessions, just like in our New Frontiers expansion.

We’ve also added a new pop up which will allow you to check your file state after each patch, which aims to reduce bugs or crashes caused by outdated and leftover files from Steam’s patching process.

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Notable Improvements

• A checksum file check has been added which shows a message on the title screen if you have mods installed or your pak files from the patch are in a bad state. This will be helpful in figuring out if Steam’s patching process has accidentally corrupted the project...

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Icarus has always been a good-looking but deadly environment, but now it will kill you faster.

Working with our friends at NVIDIA we have upgraded Icarus to support DLSS 3.0. The result was a 2.6X on average increase in performance enabling max setting, ray-traced gameplay on many GeForce RTX 40 Series systems.

If you are running Icarus in Direct X 12 mode and have a GeForce RTX 40 Series GPU, turn on Frame Generation in the Graphics Settings to take advantage of the improved frame rate.



Benchmarking in NVIDIA’s labs found a that DLSS 3 boosted Icarus’ performance by 2.6X on average.

When we were developing ICARUS we reached out to many publishers, manufacturers, and platform owners but were unable to really get any traction with nearly everyone... except NVIDIA.

Despite being a massi...

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This weeks update we release the work we have been doing towards performance improvements. We have been working on these improvements for some time, and they represent a major change in how a number of assets and parts of the map are loaded. Most specifically these are targeted to address hitching and stutters caused by level streaming and asset loading when moving across the ma, but in many cases they also give modest general FPS improvements as well.

We’ve done a big write up to explain the changes we’ve made and our logic for it also, to give you an idea of the background work that’s going in to improving the experience for all players as we add more content to the game in the future.

This week also brings the long awaited wind power system, with new wind turbines giving you a third sustainable power source, and a sneak peek at our next improvement to the electricity system, batteries.

We’ve also got an update on Hypatia, our next big free update, and ev... Read more

Icarus: New Frontiers, the first expansion of the Icarus experience, has landed. It brings with it a new map, with all new biomes, mutated alien creatures, narrative missions (known as Operations) that further unveil the story and can are integrated into your Open World game, craftables, exotics, and more.



New Frontiers Expansion

Icarus: First Cohort dropped prospectors into safe Earth-like terraformed zones. Icarus: New Frontiers will take you deep into new regions of Icarus where alien creatures and habitats survived but were altered by the terraforming process.

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Week 89 is here and - with only one week until New Frontiers - we’ve decided to do a week of focusing on Quality of Life improvements and introducing some new benches that allow for all the new content to come next week.

A bunch of QoL improvements recommended by our community have been added, including new keybinds and adjustments to blueprints.

On top of this, we’ve added three new benches - a Tier 3 Masonry Bench, a Tier 3 Forge and a Tier 4 Foundry (which are the higher tier versions of the Tier 2 Anvil).

These provide a more streamlined progression for the items previously on the lower tier variations of these benches, and allow for simpler consolidation to save floor space as you progress through the levels.

Finally, the New Frontiers Gameplay Trailer premieres this weekend on YouTube, and you can sign up to watch with us at the link below.

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Week Eighty Eight is here and with the New Frontiers expansion only two weeks away we have a lot to talk about.

The feature of the week is the revamped farming system, following on from our community discussion a couple of weeks ago. This changes how you interact with crop plots, introduces a more robust early-game farming system and adds five new items to support these changes.

We’re also calling for feedback on a proposed ‘arachnophobia mode’, so if you are someone who suffers from this (or know someone who does), we want to hear your thoughts on our proposed ideas in the comments.

Finally, if you haven’t already heard, ‘The Seeker’ - the newest installment in our live action documentary series - premieres this weekend on YouTube so go sign up today.



Video Premiere: The Seeker

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Week Eighty Seven brings a new set of interior decorations to Icarus - rugs. Six variations have been included, with five animals to hunt down to gather the required materials. We’ve also just announced the upcoming premiere of the newest live action documentary in the Icarus saga ‘The Seeker’. You can sign up for the YouTube premiere below. Finally, for those who missed last week's announcement, you can read up on our upcoming expansion, New Frontiers, now only three weeks away.

Video Premier: The Seeker

‘The Seeker’ is the latest installment in our live action documentaries, and it’s premiering on YouTube on Saturday August 12th at 6pm EDT. There might even be an old friend, thought lost to Icarus, making an appearance…

Want to refresh your memory on the story so... Read more