Icarus Week Eighty Nine Update | New Forge, Foundry and Gameplay Trailer

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.

New Frontiers: Gameplay Trailer

The New Frontiers Gameplay Trailer premieres on YouTube this weekend, Saturday the 19th at 6pm EDT.

Just like last week's ‘The Seeker’ premiere, we’ll be on Discord answering questions and watching along with you - so come join us!

Quality of Life

Before we launch New Frontiers, we wanted to spend this week making some QoL adjustments that the community has asked for.

• We’ve added a ‘Loot All/Take All’ key-bind option for you to map in the controls menu
• We removed XP debt upon death this also removes any outstanding XP debt that remained from a death before this change was implemented
• The ‘drop’ keybind will now default to ‘unbound’ rather than Q, but can still be set manually. You can still drop items by dragging them to the drop box in your UI
• Building pieces can now be unlocked as ‘Building Pack Kits’ rather than individual items. This will save your blueprint points for other unlocks, only requiring three per building tier now for three ‘packs’
• If a blueprint provides multiple recipes, the UI will now show all the recipes that it will unlock
• Farming and Harvesting XP have been added to the new farming system changes from last week
• All T2 and above arrows now craft in packs of five and higher tiers of arrows have had their costs reduced to balance against this
• Fur has received a balance, with the amount found on aggressive creatures reduced, and increased on passive creatures. This is because of the lack of recipes requiring fur, and the abundance of engagements with aggressive creatures leading to players stockpiling so much of it.
• We’ve added an alternate ‘Steel Bloom’ recipe that uses charcoal
• We’ve added more seed packets for seeds which were currently missing from the workshop pool

Forge, Foundry & Advanced Masonry Benches

This week we’ve added three new benches in preparation for the new content to come in New Frontiers, and also to provide a consolidation route for benches as you progress up the tiers.

These are the T3 Masonry Bench, The T3 Forge and T4 Foundry. The Forge and Foundry are the higher tier variations of the Anvil found in T2.

All of these benches contain the recipes of the previous benches so, as you build the new versions, you can deconstruct previous iterations to save room in your base. This also means we have shuffled some recipes around to make this more streamlined and easier to navigate.

The new tiers of benches are:

Tier 2 Masonry Bench → Tier 3 Masonry Bench

Tier 2 Anvil → Tier 3 Forge → Tier 4 Foundry

The Tier 3 Masonry Bench will focus on brickwork, and while this week it only contains the recipes from the current Tier 2 bench, from next week it will include the brand new building items that come with New Frontiers. This means that once the Tier 3 Masonry Bench is built, you can scrap your Tier 2 variation as all recipes will be available on this option.

The Tier 3 Forge will now hold all the recipes for tools, shields, bows, crossbows, arrows and bolts that were unlockable at Tier 3 but craftable on the Tier 2 anvil. It will also have all the Tier 2 recipes, but the Tier 2 anvil will no longer have any recipe for an item that is above Tier 2.

The Tier 3 Forge requires coal or charcoal to fuel while you craft, and also needs to be placed outdoors to allow for ventilation.

The Tier 4 Foundry is the pinnacle of tool crafting on Icarus, and has all the Tier 2 and Tier 3 recipes of the Anvil and Forge, along with all the Tier 4 recipes that were previously available on the anvil also.

This is a large machine, and requires a lot of space. Because it requires electricity to run, it also needs to be placed inside, and a strong power source is necessary to keep it running.

This new system allows for you deconstruct lower tier benches as you craft the higher tier ones, alleviating any issues with the growing need for floor space, but also allowing for the evolution of items in your base as your level grows. Ideally, a base running high level electronics wouldn’t also be housing a basic anvil, and these new benches allow for that progression.

With the addition of these new benches, the blueprints tree has also been altered slightly to reflect the shift. You may notice some gaps, but these will be filled next week as all the New Frontiers content is added to the tech trees.

New Frontiers

We are now less than a week away from the New Frontiers expansion and the excitement in studio and among the community is palpable. For those of you who haven’t caught up on what’s to come, here’s our announcement blog to check out.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1149460/view/3684558162502822183

If you like what we’re doing with Icarus, and want to support our continued development, consider purchasing one of our DLCs for a few dollars, it would mean a lot to us.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2445280/Icarus_Interior_Decorations_Pack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1995690/Icarus_Styx_Map__Missions_Pack/

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