Icarus Week Ninety Five Update | New Lounge Suites to decorate your base with

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

This Week: Carved Wood Decorations

This week's update features the third and final installment in the Carved Wood Decorations series, adding a lounge suite for players to craft and place around their bases.

This includes a Living Room Chair, Two-Seater Couch, Three-Seater Couch, Seated Bench, Stool, Bookshelf, and Coffee Table.

All of these items will be automatically unlocked as blueprints, and won’t require investing any new points if you already have the Decorations Bench.

This Week: Building Placement Adjustments

We’ve made some improvements and additions to the building placement system that give you more options for unique build designs.

Additions:

• Half and Quarter floor pieces can now go in the gaps left by the other half and quarter pieces. This allows you to create split floors or narrow walkways around corners (L-shapes).
• Angled Wall pieces can now go in the gaps left by other angled wall pieces, allowing a complete split wall.
• Angled Wall pieces can now have diagonal beams placed on their center edge. With the above change, you can have two angled wall pieces and a beam in between, all in the same space as a single wall.

Coming next week:

• Ramps built off of other ramps using the alternate rotation are now placed opposite the current ramp, allowing you to build a new ramp in the opposite direction. Previously these would be placed at a large offset and be unusable. Notably, this is pretty handy for creating paths up the side of buildings or mountains.

The building system is an ever-evolving element of the game, and if you’d like to see more tweaks or changes, feel free to leave them in the comments below or post them in Feature Upvote.

These are some of the most commonly requested features from our community, but we’re up for considering more. We’ll be interested to see how people use this week's changes in their bases.

Coming Soon: Hypatia

We have now completed converting 17 of the Styx Missions over to the new Operations system that is coming in Hypatia Part 1. This will let you play them in Open World mode without leaving the planet's surface. We’ll have even more converted by this Friday and potentially will be doing a closed testing phase with a few community members.

As mentioned last week, Hypatia will be split into two parts, with Styx missions being converted over first. If you haven’t got Styx yet, you can grab it on Steam and get accustomed to the new map and new creatures before Hypatia comes out.

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

Next Week: Bear Armor

Next week, we’re bringing a new armor set that may cause PTSD for some players: Bear Armor.

This will be positioned in Tier 2, and as a result, we’ll be reducing Bone Armor to Tier 1 and making some adjustments.

Support our Project

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/1648532/Icarus_New_Frontiers/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/33813/Icarus_Complete_the_Set/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/34141/Icarus_Outposts_Bundle/

Changelog v2.0.5.116433

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