Icarus Week 214 Update | Explorer Backpack

Welcome to Week 214.

This week introduces the Explorer’s Backpack, a specialised backpack available in the Workshop that’s designed to improve traversal around Icarus.

This update also marks the end of our holiday releases, along with the conclusion of the double experience event. We hope you’ve enjoyed spending time jumping in with your friends.

Finally, we take a brief look ahead to next week’s update, which will introduce several small quality-of-life improvements and fixes based on community feedback from the past few weeks.

This Week: Explorers Backpack

This week, we’re adding the Explorer’s Backpack to the Orbital Workshop. Designed for stamina and traversal, it’s ideal for planetside exploration and long journeys across Icarus.

The Explorer’s Backpack increases maximum stamina, stamina regeneration, and movement speed, while also reducing wildlife threat. As a trade-off, it uses more backpack slots than some alternatives, so inventory management is required.

With its stamina-focused bonuses, the Explorer’s Backpack enables new build options, freeing up food and gear choices for other stats. It’s a strong choice for exploration, stamina-heavy tasks, and faster traversal.

Sale: Second Chance Bundle

The recent Winter Sale saw almost 1 million new prospectors arrive on Icarus, but for those who missed out on the DLC discounts we've decided to offer them for a limited time as part of a new bundle.

You can use this bundle to pick up any of the core expansions you're missing at a 33% discount. The breadth of DLC we offer allows people to scale their level of support for the project and have allowed us to keep developing the game for 4 years. There's no doubt that without this DLC, that represents almost 40% of our revenue, we would not have been able to do this for so long.

If you're looking for an excuse to invite your friends along, remember that only the host requires DLC content to make it available to everyone in multiplayer games they host so get some allies on board for that tough mission, or just invite them in to show off your base!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/66187/

Next Week: QOL Improvements

Next we will be pushing forward with some suggested quality of life updates that have been brought up over the last few weeks. A couple of the improvements include some mission fixes and some new settings to allow quicker interaction with objects.

Many of these suggestions are voted on by the players via our Feature Upvote page.

Your support makes these updates possible.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/66187/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/35727/Icarus_Complete_the_Set/

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