Icarus Week 252 Adds Field Guide Subcategories and a 300-Resin Sandhorn Horn

The update also fixes crop-watering XP abuse and weather transitions, while improvements to radiation areas are planned for next week.

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An armored Icarus prospector holds a tablet displaying a creature entry while standing beside a Sandhorn in an orange desert landscape.

Icarus Week 252 reorganizes the Prospector Field Guide with new subcategories and adds a Sandhorn Horn that can be ground into 300 Organic Resin. The update also fixes several gameplay and progression issues, and RocketWerkz previewed further work on radiation areas for next week in its Week 252 Steam announcement. RocketWerkz had previewed the Field Guide work in the Week 251 Kiwi update, which introduced the tameable Kiwi while noting that the category overhaul was still in testing.

The Field Guide now breaks out subcategories across most major sections, making it easier to compare related items in one place. Players can, for example, view knives side by side and check their details before choosing tools for resource gathering. The guide is available with J or F1, or by right-clicking an item and choosing “Open in Field Guide.”

Icarus Field Guide displaying a category of melee weapons

This is an initial organization pass across the guide’s hundreds of pages, and RocketWerkz says it plans to keep improving how players find items. The change follows last week’s update, which previewed Field Guide subcategories as work in progress.

Week 252 also adds the Sandhorn Horn, a resource obtained by hunting Sandhorns in Elysium’s desert regions. The horn is a common but not guaranteed drop, with the changelog listing a 75% item-reward rate. Grind one in a Mortar & Pestle to get 300 Organic Resin. The recipe was increased from 200 to 300 resin during development, giving players another way to gather the essential crafting resource.

Other fixes address repeatable crop watering that players could use to gain XP without needing to water a crop again. Watering now only completes when a crop needs it, and the base XP values for watering and fertilizing crops increased from 100 to 150. The Lost SMPL3 quest now cleans up its structure after completion, and fixes to weather-event data address effects that could stop abruptly instead of fading away.

The next patch is scheduled to improve how radiation-affected areas appear and interact. RocketWerkz says it will make the affected area clearer and fix clipping and performance issues when dynamically created radiation zones overlap, including by preventing effects from spawning on top of one another.

The update’s full changelog also lists fixes to virtual stat calculations across fishing, drones, creature lineage, resistances, item wear, and other systems.

Icarus 3.0.30.158174-rel-DangerousHorizons Patch Notes

New Content

FieldGuide categories – Added subcategories for Tools/Melee and Ranged categories. Fixed Tags on Firewhacker putting it into equipment category. Fixed Gauntlet tags being classified as Ranged instead of Melee, and inverse for CaptureGrenade. Added new FG specific queries for Grenades to include CaptureDevice and Bows to separate from Crossbows. Added placeholder icons
Added subcategories for Ammo. Added assaultrifle and sniper ammo tags for FG separation. Changed DetailView UMGs to appropriate entries. Remove Ammo.Nail tags from Nails so they go back into the Resource category. Fixed various ammo tags. Added placeholder icons
Added subcategories for Envirosuits and Modules. Added subcategories and tag queries for Attachments. Fixed flavor text and icon for Garganutan attachment
Added subcategories for Workshop Items. Subdivide workshop package tags. Added Sawblades ammo subcat. Set Coal pack to use standardized Meshable
FieldGuide – Ensure blacklisted items only show under Hidden category.
Added subcategories for Equipment and Food. Fixed Flamethrower being classed as equipment instead of Ranged
Added subcategories for Equipment and Deployables (partial). Removed unused Electric_Motor data which was superceded by Mission_Alternator. Added new icons for Settlement items
Field guide: Creatures category, Buildings by piece type, subcategories for flat categories, tag/query fixes
Pass on Field Guide Subcategories
Updating and adding subcategories in the field guide
Field guide: Ores become a subcategory of Resources
Moved Dropship recall beacons to Ranged|Grenades category and removed Equipment|Throwables category and Tags. Setup Cobalt tags and FeatureLevels. Moved Fur Stacks out of Deployable|Stacks and into Resources|Crafted
Adding Item Setup for Sandhorn horn and recipe to convert into organic resin
Adjusting Sandhorn Horn Recipe 200->300 resin
Added sandhorn horn art assets to the project and updated the mesh in the meshable DT
Adding Sandhorn Horn Icon and adding to item rewards table at a 75% drop rate
Hooked up audio blueprint for kitchen sinks interactable for filling containers and washing hands
Adding the sound of a tap turning on and off and washing hands for the kitchen sink

Fixed

Switched wheat meshes to use simple as complex collision to fix interaction option flicker.
Fixing issue so that harvesting spoiled strawberries crops functions again
Fixed always-relevant actors in instanced levels never replicating to clients that finished loading the level before the server (affects some VFX, atmosphere, projectile cosmetics etc.)
Reverted food troughs back to previous setup for filled/empty state.
Rustic Food Trough: Fixed normals texture, improved roughness, improved collision, improved DF setup
Fixing Bug where you could continually water crops fro XP, this would just consume water, play the sount and grant XP, you can now only complete the water action when the crops require it. No functionaility was changed in terms of crops watering, you just not longer lose water or grant xp when the crop is already in the watered state
Fixed a number of typos, missing info, and text descriptions for items and quest steps
Fixed up Stats DT data for new mining/felling stats
Fix for repeatable watering of plants to amass XP. Buffed base XP values of water and fertilizing crops from 100 to 150
Adjusting storm audio to come in at a slightly higher volume at lower levels to better match visuals
Reducing impact audio of gauntlet by about 4db
Further reduction to gauntlet motor impact type sound
Slight reduction to gauntlet heavy smash
Fixed ValidAmmo display name for Javelin Launcher ammo types
Fixed subtitles text for Church dialog in nullsec mission
Fixed flavor text on Alpha Hyena carcass
Corrected cases of the word Favorite containing a U
Updated LODs for DEP_Nuclear_Reactor
Outpost 006 – Further reduced depth of lake above cave that was causing swimming/underwater post process to occur while inside cave
Added missing flavour text for CRYSTAL mission on Prom
ELY – fixed various misplaced cliffs in green+yellow quads
Fixing radiation cough spamming when short radiation debuffs are added constantly to the player by delaying playback of event by 5 seconds before the cough loop starts
Reverted Aluminium display text to UK spelling (Itemable, Quests, Talents, Accolades, ModifierStates). Row names, loc keys and asset paths untouched. Fixed alumnium typo in Iron Stairs description.
Adjustments to all music tracks, finessing silence events to be consistent and removing double ups of audio within music track events to stop overuse of music tracks. volume balance etc
Reducing the amount of creature idles that can play at once. Reduction in volume
Fixing an issue in Livewire that wasn’t cleaning up the structure as intended when quest ended
Lost SMPL3 quest now has structure cleanup after its completed regardles of save setting
Virtual Stat – CaughtFishWeight_PlusPercent returned BaseFishLength_Plus, now returns BaseCaughtFishWeight_PlusPercent
Virtual Stat – ChanceToCatchRareFish_PlusPercent returned itself, now returns BaseChanceToCatchRareFish_PlusPercent
Virtual Stat – ChanceToCatchUniqueFish_PlusPercent returned itself, now returns BaseChanceToCatchUniqueFish_PlusPercent
Virtual Stat – DroneExtraDamage_PlusPercent returned itself, now returns BaseDroneExtraDamage_PlusPercent
Virtual Stat – TamedCreatureLineageMutationChance_Percent depended on and returned itself, now uses BaseTamedCreatureLineageMutationChance_Percent
Virtual Stat – SwampParasitesResistance_Percent read BaseSwampMovementSpeed_PlusPercent, now reads BaseSwampParasitesResistance_Percent
Virtual Stat – DeepWoundResistance_Percent returned BaseWoundResistance_Percent, now returns BaseDeepWoundResistance_Percent
Virtual Stat – DamageAgainstSpawners_PlusPercent read BaseSandScuttleExtraDamageResistance (copy-paste), now reads BaseDamageAgainstSpawners_PlusPercent
Virtual Stat – ItemWear_PlusPercent Fire_Whacker row pointed at BaseBowItemWear, now BaseFirewhackerItemWear_PlusPercent
Virtual Stat – WaterConsumption_PlusPercent addedn mounted, now addsMountedWaterConsumption_PlusPercent
Virtual Stat – ColdResistance_Percent Arena_SwampApe row pointed at BaseSwampStaminaRegen, now BaseSwampColdResistance_PlusPercent
Virtual Stat – HealthRegen_PlusPercent Arena_Gole, now Cave to match every other atmosphere table
Virtual Stat – HealthRegen_PlusPercent Arena_IceMammoth row pointed at BaseArcticStaminaRegen, now BaseArcticHealthRegen
Virtual Stat – HealthRegen_PlusPercent removed duplicate Volcanic and Grasslands entries from the dependency list
Virtual Stat – ExplosiveDamage_Plus scaled by BaseExplosiveDamage_PlusPercent, now uses virtual ExplosiveDamage_PlusPercent which is its declared dependency and includes the grenade bonus
Virtual Stat – HypothermiaResistance_Percent listed FrostbiteResistance_Percent as its only dependency so it never refreshed, now depends on BaseHypothermiaResistance_Percent
Virtual Stat – TreeCollisionDamageResistance_Percent listed CollisionDamage_Percent as a dependency but reads CollisionDamageResistance_Percent, dependency corrected
Virtual Stat – PhysicalDamageResistance_Percent sdid not list it as a dependency, added
Fixed cases where weather events seemingly end abruptly due to a Curve that was ranged from 0.4 to 1.0 instead of 0.0 to 1.0, causing the action to hold 40% of the previous value on weather end. Fixed numerous cases where theweather action data was setup to modify values but the bool gate for those was not enabled. Fixed some cases where values did not line up from action to action. Added DT validation to pick up on this
Fixing clear snow or sand audio event not triggering due to true or false surface check being incorrectly set to true instead of false

Future Content

Face Customization – Added option for switching to new face and blending between face shapes. ‘toggle’ button is dev locked for time being.
Face Customization – Added voice and fixed warning with accessing mesh tags
Face Customization – Removed ‘none’ option from complexion.
Added Age selection
Face Customization – Added setup for tattoos. Fixed a bug where toggling to the new face customization would not populate correctly due to old character/level being loaded.
Face Customization – Added animation and fixed SK features no sticking to face during anim.
Updated Names to be more player facing e.g. masculine/feminine.
Face Customization – Fixed positioning of new character and fixed constant updating of already cached meshes.
Face customization – Added skin sliders for tone/tint/saturation
fixed blendshape values on character customization
Character customization blendshape and bugs fix
Face Customization – Fixed bugs with badettes debug code always appearing during character select.
Removed face SK always visible and causing double ups
Added in rebreather/Hood/Helmet (currently unhooked due to bugs).
Face Customization – Added dev lock to debug UI to ensure its never in build
Face Customization – Fixed toggle character setting not correctly adding/removing the meshes. Rebreather morph blend added
Face Customization – Fixed copy pose not working for helmet/hood
Face Customization – Rebreather/Hood/Helm all properly follow the head. Added ability to swap out armour based on if helm is being worn. Few things added for feminine face not blending properly (Still ongoing)
Face Customization – Fixed bug where female face wasn’t able to be morphed
Face Customization – removed ability to wear both hood and helmet at the same time.
Adding Lead Mining States to increase Yield where appropriate
Setting up Lead Voxels and adding new Voxel Resource Category
Adding Lead Pyrittic Crust with decay and cleansing recipe
Adding Lead Voxels to the Volcanic Regions of the Arkadia Map
Fixing Lead Voxel Material Map
Adding Lead Deep Ore Veins – will spawn on ARK only
DeepMiningOre Lead textures and materials
added RVT materials for lead mining ore deposit
added Material variation for Rock_Ore_Lead resource
Adjusting Composite Wood Recipe so it takes 10s to craft on the Electric Carpentry Bench and adding Flavour Text, added dev-locked blueprint for composite wood
Adding initial setup of Arc Furnace with blueprint recipe and blueprints and recipes for nanowire, ferrotitainium and aluminium bronze
Updated item text for alloys
Adding Chitin Blood Thinning Paste / Tonic Recipes
Added SM_ITM_Chitin
Hooking up Chitin Mesh
Adding Chitin to Item Rewards
Added Chitin Item Icon.
Adding Heavy Leather -> Leather Conversion Recipe
Heavy Leather can now be harvested with knifes platinum or better on corpses that can’t be carried, dev-locked
Added ITM_Heavy_Leather
Added Spinach Growth Stages, including all SMs, Textures, Materials and data table entries
Added growth states for the Ginger plant, as well as updated the meshes for the Wild Ginger variants
Updated the meshes, materials and textures for the Pineapple plant in anticipation for adding the Pineapple growth states.
Ginger – added new alternate recipes for antibiotics (paste and tonic), heat bandages, and volcanic animal seed feed
Ginger – readding recipes after a bad merge
Poultice Bandage item added. Heals wounds and bleeding like a regular bandage and provides a buff to prevent future basic wounds
Added growth stages for the Pineapple plant, including all SMs, Materials, Textures and DT entries. Also updated DT entries for the Ginger and Spinach to the correct growth meshes for each stage, as some were incorrect
Adjusted foliage settings on ginger, temp color shift on materials
Added Ginger, spinach food item icons to itemable and modifier tables.
Adding large dino roar, idle, death, adjustments to beach scatter etc
Adding distance eq to dino footsteps to help sell distancing better
Adding another silence event into music tracks for new biomes to reduce the frequency of playback to avoid becoming annoying. Adding Ground Dragon unique slam event and notify
Coastal crab reparenting of blueprints and jump removal
Edited item text for Vineshade items
Adding new rewards in D_ItemRewards for missing new creature carcass/loot rows
New creature head items + trophies: 12 new _Head vestige items and 13 _Trophy deployables with Trophy Bench recipes
Added plant boss fertilizer item icon.
ARK – mesh placement, landscape sculpting, decal painting in Volcanic, red quad
Added Trees, Cliffs, Lakes and Landscape Sculpting in the Jungle, Purple/Green Quad
Added Trees, Cliffs, Lakes and Landscape Sculpting in the Jungle, Green Quad
ARK – voxel and cliff placement in geothermal, purple quad
more cliff and foliage work in the tundra, also icewall blockout
moved displaced meshes that were in the persistent level that belonged in the developer level blue quad on arkadia
ARK – foliage placement and landscape sculpting in geothermal, purple quad
ARK – changed WL_Dirt layer(aka Jungle lite) PM to grass instead of dirt
ARK – foliage and cliff placement, decal painting in Geothermal and Volcanic, red + purple quads
ARK – mesh placement, landscape sculpting in Geothermal, purple quad, and moved some macros from red to purple
ARK – mesh placement, landscape sculpting, decal painting in Volcanic and geothermal, red + purple quads
Adjustments to jungle light biome. Warming up the ambience a touch and reducing harshness of bird tweets
Adding more scatter distant birds into jungle light to represent proximity to jungle. Adjustments to insects and scatter cres
Adding audio events and data table setup for bird of paradise trees. not added to BP’s yet
Added new events and BP imp for bird of paradise tree fall and impacts. Added new tree fall loops. Removing unnecessary layers and tweaking
Adding radiation storm FMOD parameters, adding Player env audio setup ready for parameters to layer in storm audio FX
Adding radiation storm audio to geo biome audio event
Setting up radiation param in BP and audio. Updated radiation speckle loop
Adding first proper pass of audio radiation storm. Reducing usual storm wind sounds when radiation increases. Increased reverb on lightning, adding additional spooky layers etc
Naming events in radiation storm in prep for duplicating to other biome events
Added shelter culling on radiation weather storm
Adding radiation storm FMOD parameters, adding Player env audio setup ready for parameters to layer in storm audio FX
Adding radiation storm audio to geo biome audio event
Setting up radiation param in BP and audio. Updated radiation speckle loop
Adding first proper pass of audio radiation storm. Reducing usual storm wind sounds when radiation increases. Increased reverb on lightning, adding additional spooky layers etc
Naming events in radiation storm in prep for duplicating to other biome events
Added shelter culling on radiation weather storm
Adjusting Stats on the Colonist and Malformation Envirosuits so they have more module slots and removed the food slots
The Heavily Damaged Modifier is now correctly reclassified as a debuff
The Forced Evolution Virus now persists between save / load
The Forced Evolution Virus sterility is now categorised as a debuff
Fixed the name of the Colony Radio Tower that the player needs to build as part of the Elysium Great Hunts – now correctly called makeshift
Fixing issue where the XL Aquarium was not craftable as its recipe was dev-locked
Fixing issue where players could pick up the mission only XL Aquarium, they no longer can
Added light to Rad Grenade payload as an initial flash. Fixed nullptr error as client attempted to destroy server-created component on EndPlay
Added static meshes and updated SK for DEP_Armor_Stand_T4
Updated item description text for the launcher to be less verbose
Added malformation survival alteration icon.
Radboss – Removing debug sphere from acid breath attack
RadBoss spit small and large Niagara FX update
Added cloth armor sk meshes for the NPC
Updating NPC Settlers to use Cloth armor by default
Allowing Logging Camp to be placed without proximity to a flod tree
Adding many anim notifys and new audio events for all NPC animations in basic survival anim pack. Axe hits, whooshes, movement events, running movements, pickaxes etc
Adding footstep notifications and movement notifications to a large number of additional NPC animations
More animation audio notifys for npcs
Adding more audio notifys and unique event for npc placing wood
Huge amount of npc anim notifys added and unique audio events for them.
Another large batch of npc animation audio additions and new events
Adding additional audio npc notfies and events
Adding many more npc settler audio events, audio and notifys
Adding more npc anim notifys
Adding new settler anim audio events. Blacksmith hammer and adding all tree chop notifys for montages etc
A whole lot more npc movement audio events and notifys
More NPC anim audio notifys
Removed random icons assigned to new Settlement items
more NPC audio notifys
More NPC generic move audio cues
More npc movement for soldier reloading and checking ammo etc

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An alien world for the taking. Explore, survive and make your fortune if you dare. Icarus is a multiplayer co-operative survival game with persistent metagame progression.