Icarus Week 122 Update | New Coziness system for a good night's sleep

Week 122 is here and it is all about sleep.

We’re introducing a new Coziness system, which incorporates your home decor into the quality and duration of your sleep, giving you a boost if you’ve invested time and effort into making your home more cozy.

We’ve also got some more information on Laika and the new Talent Trees for Mounts/Tames, and an exciting update on space travel customs relaxing their restrictions on traveling with your furry friends.

Jump in and have a read.

Notable Improvements:

• Optimizations in tree stumps and building base, drastically reducing memory usage of these assets which are some of the most common assets in the game
• Update tree fall audio check to cast instead of tag query (to avoid any issues with reloading or incorrect tagging), reducing hard references and reducing memory footprint
• Added the ability to sleep near an active Air Conditioner, Heater or Dehumidifier (shown as climate control in UI) rather than just a fireplace or campfire
• Allow steel-barred building pieces to be crafted at Fabricator

This week: Coziness

Last week we called this ‘homeliness’ but it seems that the UK and US have very different meanings for the word ‘homely’, the former being positive and the later being negative. So we decided to rename the system to ‘coziness’ to avoid confusion.

We’re introducing a new system this week that gives your home decoration talent some purpose.

Items such as trophies, rugs, decorations and furniture now have an additional stat - the Coziness bonus. These will impact your character's sleep quality and duration by adding a summarised impact to your sleep duration and quality, incorporating all objects surrounding your bed.

These don’t need to be circling your bed like a sacrifice circle, all decorations within a wide area will be counted and this will all be displayed when looking at your bed with your character and in the sleep screen.

Future: Laika - Animal Skill Trees

We wanted to chat a bit more this week about a key feature in our upcoming Laika update - Animal Skill Trees for tamed animals.

Laika will introduce individual skill trees for each mount or tame you own, as they will now earn their own XP, level up, and earn skill points you can invest.

These skill trees will have a mix of base stat boosts and unique perks, allowing you to invest in them to gain strength, speed, agility, health and more. Some of the special perks include:

• Buffalo: Extra carry slots (including an extra cargo slot)
• Moa: Faster walking while in water (they’re also able to walk in deeper water than before!)
• Terrenus: Significantly increased movement speed, in exchange for carrying slots
• Tusker: Reduced inventory spoil rate

With this new depth to mounts, keeping them permanently planetside feels wrong. But this is no longer the case, as Mounts and Tames will now be able to be shipped to space and then taken down to other prospects, allowing you to move them from mission to mission, base to base.

Next Week: Workshop Cot

Following on from this week's Coziness update, we’ll be adding a new bed for purchase in the orbital workshop - the Workshop Cot.

This will have its own perks and buffs for the ultimate sleep hygiene and quality.

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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