Icarus Week 251 Adds a Tameable Kiwi With Nighttime Bonuses
The new companion can boost carry weight, egg production, and nighttime mining and wood-felling yields, while a Field Guide category update is planned for next week.
Icarus Week 251 adds the long-requested tameable Kiwi, giving players a companion that trades daytime combat strength for stronger nighttime perks. The update also fixes several crafting, taming, and deployable issues, while RocketWerkz is putting Great Hunts Elysium content through external testing. Full details appear in the Week 251 Steam announcement.
The prior Week 250 update previewed the Kiwi as the following week’s companion, and Week 251 now delivers it.
How to tame the Kiwi in Icarus
Kiwis are caught with a Snare Trap and specialized Kiwi Bait, both crafted at the Ranching Station. Set the trap in a forest, attach the bait, and wait until night for a Kiwi to take it. Once trapped, the animal must be fed fresh carcasses while it is defended and kept safe. The Kiwi remains dangerous until the taming process is complete.
Combat-focused Kiwis are weaker and slower than wolves during the day, but their nighttime damage and movement improve when players invest in the relevant talents. A domesticated Kiwi can also support a base with a Carry Weight Capacity aura, help with egg production, and provide an aura that increases nearby Mining and Wood Felling Yield during nighttime.
Week 251 also cleans up crafting and animal systems
Several smaller fixes address problems that could get in the way of regular prospecting. Skinning creatures that drop ice with an Obsidian Knife will no longer create dummy water items, and crafting with oil-based resources such as the Polymeriser will now provide crafting experience. Cake and roast platters no longer highlight their garnishes when players look at them, the Deluxe Leather Saddle has been corrected for the Slinker, and the T4 food trough now uses the proper proxy mesh with active grain crafting effects.
Outside those fixes, the update corrects Kiwi aura behavior, improves Lightning Rod assets, fixes localization for Dropship Quest UI text, and prevents aura-granted weight reduction from saving to the database. The latter change keeps temporary aura effects from becoming permanent after they should expire.
Field Guide subcategories are planned for next week
RocketWerkz is also preparing a quality-of-life pass for the Prospector Field Guide. New subcategories will make items easier to find, while clicking a parent category will still show the unfiltered view. The team is continuing final testing and polish on the Great Hunts Elysium content, with external testing already underway.
Icarus Week 251 Patch Notes, 3.0.29.157838-rel-DangerousHorizons
The changelog adds the Kiwi’s nighttime stats and talent support, introduces Field Guide subcategories, and fixes issues affecting crafting experience, ice harvesting, saddles, food deployables, aura persistence, and the Kiwi’s combat bonuses.
New Content
- Kiwi Tame balance: Increased peripheral perception, decreased audio perception range, remove hemorrhage from base stats. Fixed missing icon in Mounts DT and fixed filename. Fixed incorect bone list. Decreased Health and Damage by roughly half. Fixed preview camera settings
- Adding new Stats for Nighttime Bonuses for use with the Kiwi Talent Tree
- Kiwi tame increase to base health, melee damage, and move speed. Addition of Nocturnal Nature talent to further increase night time melee damage and move speed. Placeholder for Night Yields aura to increase nearby player mining and felling yields
- Kiwi tame increased combat stats at night, now has standard pet resistance bonuses, increased mass, new icon for aura modifier
- Kiwi tame removing rebirth talent and replacing with standard physical reduction bonus
- Adding new Stats & Virtual Calculations so we can scale the FellingRewards_+% and MiningRewards_+% by their Nighttime only _+% stats
Adding New Stats & Virtual Calculations for the AuraEffectiveness_% which increases and decreases the effectiveness of the granted effect of the aura
Hooking up new Stats and Aura for the Kiwi Pet - Field Guide – Added subcategory support.
Fixed
- Prevent Ice being cooked when skinning a Rimetusk with an Obsidian Knife.
- Fixing issue where crafting with resources was not providing experiance, fixes cases such as the Polymeriser which would not provide any crafting experience when crafting items with oil
- Updated the slinker delux leather saddle skinning.
- Fixing issue with Cakes and Roasts so that the platter and garishes do not highlight when looked at
- Optimized collision on Lightning Rod meshes. Removed V1 unused assets. Fixed electrical connector transform on Platinum rod. Optimized Platinum rod textures. Fixed missing highlightable on rods
- Fixed proxy mesh used in T4 food trough being stretched/scaled, use proper mesh from filled version instead. Added grain active crafting VFX
- Fixed Salvage and Close text on Dropship Quest UI not being localized
- Added localization string for Gestation
- Adding a touch more randomization to carry shotgun event to help it feel less repetitive when jogging and sprinting
- Fixing distant water level not hitting -inf and spacializers not overriding fully
- Fixing Weight Reduction Granted Effect so it no longer saves to database – as a rule modifiers granted via auras should not save as otherwise their effects become permanent
- Kiwi fixing final tier of combat buff to only work at night as intended
- Aura Effectiveness can now be specified in the Granted Auras Table and a new stat has been added specificially for the kiwi’s aura effectiveness
- Committing virtual states file so all of the new kiwi related stats will work as intended (night melee, night felling etc)
- Devlocked FG subcategory rows and removed DNTs
Future Content
- RAD_O3 – Issue where a new instance of the NPC Anderson was spawning each time the prospect was reloaded
- RAD_O1 – Adding fallback case of checking consumed item rather than just for the buff of the Antiradiation Stew to complete quest, this allows full players also to complete the quest
- RAD_A/C – Show and Hide Boss depending on mission state – Boss Hides upon completion of A and shows on start of C
- RAD_C2 – Correctly Tagging the makeshift colony radio tower
- Legendary Launcher – Adjusted ADS to make sight bigger and obscure the hand anim.
- Added 1st person aim anim for the legendary launcher
- Radflyer – Added backup codepath to ‘randomly fly’ when the flyer has a target but no LoS and then the EQS fails to get a location to path to the player.
- Added Roasted whole exotic, wolf, exotic piece, wolf piece item icons.
- Added new Roasted meat item icons.
- Updated the deployable setup DT with the correct placement meshs for the roasts assets
- Added aditonal art assets for the T4 roaster deployable roasts and updated the BPs. Slowed down the T4 roaster close anim to show more of the proxy mesh
- Added new art assets for the deployable roasts setup
- Settlements – Shifting Settlement Founding text so it is done in another BP where we can display the founding players name
- Settlements – Adding Cheat to grant experience to settlements
Settlements – Adding chat messages for a few basic settlement events - Settlements – Stockpile is now unlocked by default in the talent tree
- NPC – Adding quick blue recolour for settlement npcs and adjusting clothing so they use a set which they are actually skinned for
- Settlements – Adding Map Makers and Origin Setups for the settlement locations in Geothermal and Jungle Lite
Renamed the Beach Settlement to Coast for naming consistency - Settlements – Fixing issue where deployables where not consuming the item when replaced introduced last commit
- Settlements – Adding Settlement Building Tool Recipe and Blueprint
- Settlements – Setting up Settlement Origins int he Arkadia Map and spawning persistant objects as required
Settlements – Adding Map Markers for Settlements
Settlements – Modifiying quest starter objects and adding new strcutures to the settlement building tool - ARK – added QM for settlement in geothermal
- Added QM_Settlement Jungle Lite Marker to Jungle LIte, Green Quad
- Ginger – initial implementation for ginger tea, gingerbread loaf, ginger and carrot soup, ginger curry, and pickled ginger
- Pineapple Recipes added including charred pineapple, dried pineapple chips, pineapple sorbet, sweet and sour pork, and pineapple upside down cake
- Spinach recipes for braised spinach, spinach salad, creamed spinach, spinach omelette, and spanikopita
- Spinach recipes – changed carry weight to weight capacity to better reflect the stat it’s giving a bonus to, change Spanakopita to Spinach Pie for now
- Lead Voxel textures and materials
- testing Lead voxel look in engine
- Adjusted collision on all Bird of Paradise tree pieces so that they now react much more naturally when felled
- Added Trees, Cliffs, Lakes and Landscape Sculpting in the Jungle, Green Quad
- ARK – lava river splines, set dressing, landscape sculpting and decal painting around volcano, red quad
- ARK – lava river spline adjustments, set dressing, decal painting around volcano, red quad
- commiting blue quad with fix level layers on ARK
- Update CullDistVolume settings on T022 – doubled array size to cover object sizes with more verbosity and increased all culling distances to 1.5x existing values
- Added LC_LavaCold_01-04 decals (FTs, textures, mats)
- Small adjustments to beach amb to reduce bird audio when further from trees – still present but not as much. Increase priority of ocean sounds event
- Crab adults now use differnt health and melee damage scaling than the children
- Adding unique ground dragon single file flinch audio instead of multi sound randomized audio
- Crawler/Centipede – Tidyup – Removed unused radboss code still in graph. Fixed crawler corpse being incorrect colour. Removed unused components.
- Beaver – Added jump montage and set jump config to match
- Added beaver creature jump animation
- Adding dino aggro state audio, event and DT setup
- Added elite plant creature needle attack animation
- Updated jungle hunter SK to the new rig and added new animations
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