Icarus Week 118 Update | Improvements and Balances to Resource Network

Welcome to week 118. We’re continuing our work on the Resource Network update from last week, with a bunch of fixes and balances added, along with a few new features that we mentioned were going to be in this week's update.

We’ve also got some info on next week's update, and some mission fixes that were needed to address the impacts of the new Resource Network.

Hop in and have a read.

Notable Improvements:

• Added Total Growth Speed indicator to Crop Plot inspection UI
• Fixed railing orientation on all floor pieces so now railings will be the correct orientation (especially on stairs)
• Fixed issue with Water Troughs where the water would not appear in the mesh when it contained water
• KILL LIST / FRACTURE: Fixed Decals not removing grass, these should be much easier to find
• Fixed Processor recipe icons width, now correctly has 7 across again. Auto processors now have 3 across
• Improved UI prompts and tooltips for dirt mounts, noxious crusts and red exotics, as part of continued efforts to improve the new player experience
• Update Olympus and Styx weather events to use Prometheus-style scaling weather, with more varied modifiers and less reduced movement speed
• Added an inspect option to powered devices without inventories, such as solar panels, wind turbines and batteries

This week: Resource Networks Update

As mentioned last week, this week we’re focusing on bug fixes, balances and improvements to the new Resource Network, such as:

• Fixed a case where water networks and electrical networks could be joined leading to issues where people could fill their batteries up with water
• Added the ability to turn devices on and off using the Resource Network Inspector window. To use, expand a ‘device group’ and click the connection icon to toggle the device
• Fixed the Resource Network Inspection Window getting stuck showing 'Gathering Info' on clients if it was opened twice, in situations when no values on the network had changed since it was previously opened (Deployed in Hotfix last week)
• Removed collision from spline pucks, fixing players ‘bobbing’ as they walk over wires
• Replaced Resource Network Inspector summary with a visual flow indicator. This should be a bit more clear about which direction and to which devices the flow is going

We’ve introduced the feature where power and water output fluctuate based on the current storm:

• Wind Turbines now generate more power during most types of storms, with the maximum power output during wind storms. Snow, sand and ash storms will slow them instead. When generating more than 100% of their base power level they’ll take damage over time based on the generated power, but cannot be destroyed by this damage. Wind Turbine output is reduced based on their remaining durability.
• Solar Panels have been buffed to produce 6000 power. They now generate slightly reduced power during most storm types but will not receive any damage from those storms, they even get an output boost during the swamp’s “clearing winds” storms!
• Generators output slightly less power in heatwaves
• Waterwheels generate more power while it’s raining but less during ash or snow storms.
• Waterpumps and water borers have reduced water flow during snow, and a little less during hail and heatwaves

These changes are to encourage diversity in energy networks and will evolve based on feedback and community interactions. We’ll be closely monitoring over the coming weeks to ensure the best gameplay experience.

This week: Mission Fixes

We’re also introducing a couple of mission fixes this week: unintended collateral impacts of the Network Resource Update.

VOYAGER: Increased power storage requirements

• The energy network patch reduced the requirement from 1 hour to 6 minutes. We increased this to require 1 hour with a generator, but allow you to connect 2 generators (max 10,000 flow) to reduce the time to 30 minutes

VERTIGO: Fixed laser not being self-powered

• The energy network patch incorrectly added power requirements to the laser, blocking mission completion

Next Week: Brambles - A New Base Defense

Next week, we’ll be adding a new type of base defense - Brambles. These can be grown in crop plots and harvested when fully grown, to be placed around your base to serve as a natural base defense. The lack of base defense has been a prickly topic, so we’re glad to be adding something to the crafting pool.

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/bundle/36462/Icarus_Architecture_Bundle/

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

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