Icarus Week 249 Adds a Portable Powerbank and Puts Noxious Crust on a Timer

The update also gives the Volcanic Stomper a new coat, lowers Exotic Noxious Crust returns, and previews a faster Tier 4 Electric Seed Extractor for next week.

Mihaela Kicevski1 minute ago

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An Icarus astronaut holds a large power bank inside a blue-lit workshop.

Icarus Week 249 gives prospectors a portable way to keep their equipment running. The new Inaris Powerbank joins the Workshop, carrying 150% of the charge held by its craftable equivalent and recharging handheld battery devices along with high-tier Lithium equipment.

RocketWerkz detailed the changes in its Week 249 Steam announcement. The update also changes the Volcanic Stomper’s appearance, adjusts Noxious Crust spoilage, and fixes several mission, creature, UI, and icon issues.

The Inaris Powerbank keeps field equipment charged

Found in the Gadgets category, the Inaris Powerbank lets players bring a pre-charged battery into a prospect. It can recharge handheld devices and high-tier Lithium equipment in the field, which should make long trips less dependent on finding a way back to a powered base. The extra capacity is especially useful for equipment such as the Inaris Flashlight, which can now stay active through multiple nights with fewer interruptions.

Volcanic Stomper gets a darker look

The rare Volcanic Stomper spawn now uses a subdued coat designed to fit the volcanic biome. Its previous bright pink coloring has been replaced, while the original colorful variant is being moved toward another biome in future content.

Noxious Crust now rewards speed

Noxious Crust still offers a large resource boost when players use a Miasmic Pickaxe and a Tier 3 Cleansing Device, but the resource is no longer permanent. A full stack of 50 takes a little more than four real-world hours to spoil, with each unit taking five minutes. Spoiled crust breaks down into one unit of its original ore.

The change preserves the mechanic’s high returns while adding a deadline for processing the material. Players can still receive up to a 5x return by cleansing the crust quickly, while waiting until it spoils leaves a minimum 2x return. Exotic Noxious Crust has also been reduced from a 5x cleansing rate to 3x.

Noxious Crust and ore beside processing equipment

A faster Seed Extractor is planned for next week

The following week’s update will introduce the Electric Seed Extractor, a Tier 4 upgrade that extracts seeds from vegetation much faster than the existing option.

Electric Seed Extractor beside crops in a base

Icarus 3.0.27.157242-rel-DangerousHorizons Patch Notes

Week 249’s changelog adds the Workshop power bank, the Noxious Crust spoilage system, new Horde mode nameplates, and bed-related health regeneration icons. The fixes cover Hidden Cache missions, Lithium tools, the Stomper’s biome setup, Noxious Crust recipes, and a wide set of upcoming Elysium and creature assets.

New Content

Finishing Setup of Workshop Power Bank and Removing Dev Lock
Added Epic Creature nameplates to Alpha creatures (Wolf, Snow Wolf, Hyena, Snow Leopard and Cougar) spawned during Horde mode waves (Vapor Condenser). This doesn’t change the difficulty of the creature (except +15% chance for Hemorrhage if it wasn’t already present) but is primarily there for the nameplate purpose
Noxious Crust will now spoil (5 minutes per unit, 50x stack will take >4 hours to spoil)
NPC Soldiers are now flammable and can catch fire
Added unique background image for Tier5 tech tree. Added source files for all tiers
Added new bedroll, sleeping bag and bed Health regen modifier icons.

Fixed

Fixed Tamed Conifer Wolf not retaining custom phenotypes or placing map marker due to base class of corpse
Miasmic and Inaris “Night” Pickaxes tooltip improvements so mining yield isn’t split into two different stats
Updated Vapor Condenser UMG visuals to be consistent with other UIs. Added Emissive ‘On’ material swap setup for Condenser. Removed Niagara system that wasn’t activated properly. Added accompanying high-only lights
SIMPL3 Hidden Cache mission fixed edge case where spawned creatures would be stuck inside the box
SIMPL3 Hidden Cache mission now has more appropriate creatures for different biomes. No more wolves in the Elysium Desert. Also random selection fixed so a variety of creatures can be selected from within the biome
SIMPL3 Collect Quest now has appropriate creatures spawning in Tundra, Geothermal, and the Elysium Desert biomes, instead of defaulting to bear cubs
Fixed load prospect UI issue.
Alteration icon now hides when tool or weapon is slotted into alteration bench.
Added new alteration icons for extended chamber, pistol accuracy, rifle accuracy that were missing.
Localization – Fixed laser side arm attachments not having an attachment icon setup. Added logging to show its missing.
Added laser pistol attachment icon.
Localization – Fixed ‘sawblades’ being used by ‘sawblade’ now says Timber extraction unit
Added additional RepNotify to Lithium Tool base class to handle effects toggling
Fixed LOD screensize values on T4 Stove. Disable GenerateOverlapEvent on light meshes in BP. Fixed LOD Screensize on Dehumidifier mesh and Homestead fridge
Swapping Stomper Skin with one that correctly fits the volcanic biome & removing bespoke volcanic BP’s
Adding Stomper_Coastal Creature and Corpse BP using the original colors
Fixing Redirectors in AI Folder
Added new bestiary image for the stomper with the new textures.
Fixed Texture settings on numerous icons for optimization and image quality. Updated Texture Asset Validation to check textures in icon folder for correct settings
Fixed MipGen settings for several icons
Fixed icon asset validation and updated several icons
Re-adding Exotic Noxious Crust but lowering recipe rate from 5x -> 3x
Noxious Crusts down spoil into their base ores (so a iron crust will decay into 1 iron ore)

Future Content

Removing Dev Lock & Adding GHE Lock on 1/2 height concrete fortifications
RAD_D – Shifting Quest Markers so they trigger correctly when moving to the first are in the swamp, needed to be adjusted based on new swamp terrain changes
RAD_D – Removing T5 Limitation on the Utility Laser Recipe, replaced the aluminium screws with steel screws
RAD_D – Updating building requirement from 20 -> 30
Malformation Fishing Rod now has a +1,000% bonus chance to catch Blinky, making it more reasonable to fish for the quest granted recipe
Mounts now take Poison Damage when Miasmic items are in their inventory, same as player. Gated behind GreatHunts_Elysium feature level
Renamed Radiation Boss Arena biome to Malformation Spire
Fixed collision setup on Radboss Den meshes so that only the entrance plane is interactable. Updated Highlightable entry
Radboss Payloads now apply modifiers based on HitActors from initial RadialDamage result, instead of running additional (unoccluded) sphere trace to ensure consistent damage application
Disabled velocity based camshake on tick on Radboss
Increased web cables sides from 3 to 6 and decreased thickness from 40 to 20 for improved visuals. Fixed compression on Opacity texture and decreased to 1024px
updated Niagara FX on Grenade Radiation to fix flickering sprites
Updated description and flavor text for a handful of items
Adding Radiation Wind, Lightning Cloud and Speckles to the Weather Actions and Atmosphere Controller
Adding Radiation Wind, Lightning Cloud and Speckles to the Weather Controller, Weather Action Base and Player Effects Component
Adding Radiation Wind, Lightning Cloud and Speckles to Basic Cosmetic Radiation Test Weather Actions
New Resource Items – Chitin, Heavy Leather, Lead, Carbide, Alloys, Composite Wood (item setup + recipes devlocked)
Tweaked LODs on Electric Seed Extractor. Fixed collision setup. Updated RecipeSet icon and removed Devlock on row. Allow custom rotation on DeployableSetup
Fixed Engine folder material references in Electric Seed Extractor DM
Removed unused Electric Seed Extractor RecipeSet row. Fixed materials using Wood PM. Updated to MediumDeployable weight
Removed emissive on Seed Extractor material not properly setup
Added Crab Head itemable data
Ground Dragon – Initial Implementation
Ground Dragon – Added animations. Fixed movement speed. Fixed sound of wyrm queen on dragon. Fixed dragon floating. Added missing DNT. Added corpse
Ground Dragon – Fixing build changing feature level to core
Ground Dragon – Added new animations for goap actions. removed eat/drink water goap actions as there’s no anim
Ground Dragon – Fixed ground dragon doing same anim as wyrm queen and not spawning a corpse. Added relevant experience events.
Ground Dragon – Fixed physics asset
Adding first audio layers to ground dragon movement animations
Adding ground dragon audio row setup. Adding new footstep events that better match its size. Velocity adjustments etc
Adjustments to bite attack audio ground dragon
Unhooking and duplicating animations for centipede and crawler to remove from RB references for audio
Audio setup for crawler. Removing all references to RB. Adjusting speed to work alongside audio
Updates to pitching difference between crab small and larger movement
Adding new unique looping footstep events for crawler and centipede. Adding to foliage event and adjusting with velocity for best representation of speed and intensity. Removing from BPs
Adding duplicates of attack montages for centipede and crawler. Adding audio for attacks for both. Footstep and movement fine tunes
Lots of adjustments to crab and crawler and centipede big and small. New attack montages for crab small to feel different from parent. Added parent crab health curve with slightly more health to feel stronger to match visual size difference. Adjustments of speed of attacks to feel weightier at different sizes.
First pass audio for crawler. Attack, spot, flinch and death events and data table entries
Crawler – Reduced crawler movement speed to use the ‘jog’ anim instead of the ‘sprint’ when attacking.
Crawler – added faster anims to make speed viable.
Crawler – moved crawler files from radboss folder to crawler folder.
Crawler/Centipede – Added corpses and dead animbp
Adding first pass of centipede voc and audio setup
Updates to centipede voc audio. Adding flinch and adjusting death
Centipede attack notifies
Adding new event for smaller crabs footstep loops to better represent their size
Beaver – fixed physics asset
Added art assets for the juvenile elegant horse.
Updated elegant horse skeletal mesh and textures
Updated the elegant horse fur mask and splines
Update to the elegant horse fur splines
Elegant Horse – Fixed corpse and physics asset
Large Dino – Fixed corpse showing raptor.
Plant Minion Elite – Added corpse and physics asset.
Jungle Hunter – Added new mesh and animbp with the few anims we have. Added physics asset and animbp for corpse.
Added additional jungle monkey animations
Added first pass flying lizard sk mesh, materials and textures
Updated flying lizard textures
Added Trees, Cliffs, Lakes and Landscape Sculpting in the Jungle, Green Quad
Added Trees, Cliffs, Lakes and Landscape Sculpting in the Jungle, Yellow/Green Quad
ARK – mesh placement, foliage placement and landscape sculpting in geothermal, purple quad
fleshing the initial tundra area out in blue quad. new cliffs, macros and sculpting.
More cliffs and macros for ARK
Replaced Trees with No FLOD Trees, Updated Cliffs Mats, Updated Rock Formations, Updated Biome Map
Added non-FLOD versions of Small Banyan trees to use for the top of the jungle pillar cliffs
Added JU_Clearing decal FT and material for jungle
Updating flod description for jungle plant for better audio foliage match
Updated collision on Elderberry bushes. Added unique ItemReward rows (still giving Fiber for now). Added unique Highlightable row
Disable DF on Jute plants
Adding new BP lake actor to water and generating ocean spline. Currently set to lake – updating to ocean soon
Adding ocean audio event and DT entry. Adjusting waves based on proximity immersion and z
Beach amb adjustments and fine tunes
Simplifying the ocean spline and also fine tuning placement so the water doesn’t ever sound like waves splashing while on dry sand
Adjustments and fine tunes to coastal ocean, ambience and spline
Moving ocean spline to persistent level to be same as lakeaudio from previous maps
Further fine tunes to lakeaudio spline in coastal ocean
adjustments to close ocean waves width to feel more natural when close
Width adjustments based on direction of ocean
Added 3 wild variants of the Strawberry plant
Added 3 variants of wild Spinach plant, including all materials, textures, SMs, FTs, BPs and FLOD DT entries.
Added missing collision to the Spinach variants needed for audio

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