Icarus Week 145 Update | New Arctic and Desert Saddle variants

Welcome to Week 145.

This week, we’re introducing two new biome-specific saddles with relevant temperature resistances to give your mounts extra support while traversing Icarus.

Seeding Carts have also been overhauled, with tiered plow attachments that bring their statistics and buffs in line with those of the tiered shovels introduced in Week 136.

We’ve also got a sneak peek at what’s to come next week and why you’ll want to return to Olympus to check it out.

Jump in and have a read.

Notable Improvements

• Added the ability to modify the crosshair, its size, shape, and color
• Fixing issue where all throwables (grenades, molotovs etc) where not able to be thrown
• Tooltips after highlighting a crop plot, then looking at other items now force an update, preventing lag when swapping between items
• Guano Recipes for Biofuel, Basic Fertilizer & Volatile Substance, now use far less Guano - this works better balance wise with the rarity of the Vesper Nests
• Fixed being unable to upgrade buildings to steel roofing

This Week: New Saddles

This week's feature items are two new basic saddles - in Arctic and Desert variants. These provide your mount with temperature resistance buffs in the saddles' respective biomes. Both are unlockable in Tier 2 and craftable at the Ranching Station.

In addition, some saddles present in the Creature Comforts Pack have also received some stat increases to bring them in line with their standard counterparts.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2790990/Icarus_Creature_Comforts_Pack/

This Week: New Seeding Cart Attachments - Plows

Back in Week 136, we introduced a range of tiered shovels that provided tiered dirt mounts with added buffs and resistance to different weather and biomes. This rendered Seeding Carts relatively obsolete on a purely statistical basis. Thus, Seeding Carts are well overdue an update, which we’re delivering this week.

Seeding Carts will now have a new layer of customization with interchangeable plows. Different tiers of plows will have equivalent statistics and weather resistances to their comparable tiered shovels, creating the same higher-quality dirt mounds. Ideally, this will make farming with carts no longer a limitation when it comes to growing your crops.

In the future, we’d like to address the harvesting cart also with the same improvements in mind, so watch this space.

Coming Soon: NullSector

As mentioned in previous weeks, the NullSector (our Free Prometheus Expansion) will include new Operations, a new exploration mechanic, new mutated creatures, and one new giant creature.

We are still actively working on the NullSector, with some big mission revamps in the works, more narrative, more dialogue, and more missions to provide the experience it deserves.

This region is not for the faint of heart. All the adjustments and differences are geared towards this being a hardcore survival challenge, so make sure you enter it prepared.

If you are interested in reading about what we plan to do with missions in the future, click here.

Next Week: Olympus Operations

Next week, we plan on converting a few more Olympus operations to missions, allowing some of the older content to be playable in open worlds.

Your support makes these updates possible.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/40692/Icarus_Pets_Bundle/

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

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