RocketWerkz pushed Icarus Week 211 live on Steam. The patch introduces a new enemy type, a short holiday XP boost, and a new world setting to turn spiders off if you prefer to avoid them.
What to play for this week
There is a limited double XP event running alongside a steep Steam winter sale that discounts Icarus up to 90 percent. DLC packs are also reduced for players who want to pick up expansions or item bundles.
This week: Spiders
The update adds a new creature class: **spiders**. They are nocturnal, appear outside caves in Forest and Grassland biomes across Olympus, Styx, and Prometheus, and use poisonous webs that slow movement. Defeating them yields a new resource, Spider Silk, which unlocks alternate recipes for Rope, Platinum Weave and other items. Spiders also have a craftable trophy and a bestiary entry.
This week: Arachnophobia Mode
For players who want to avoid eight-legged encounters, the update adds **Arachnophobia Mode** to the Custom World Settings menu. Hosts and admins can toggle spider spawning on or off when creating a new Prospect (Difficulty section) or from the Escape menu during a Prospect. New Prospects default to Arachnophobia Off; existing Prospects default to On so spiders do not suddenly appear in established worlds.
Next week: Rideable woolly mammoths
RocketWerkz also previewed a tameable, rideable woolly mammoth arriving next week. Juvenile mammoths will spawn with parents, can be captured and tamed, and will include their own talent tree and saddle items.
Small fixes
- Fixed being unable to pick up pieces of Cake after the session is reloaded.
- Adjusted mount spawn locations when bringing mounts down from orbit so they appear in more navigable terrain near the pod.
If you want context on recent changes and the Dangerous Horizons teaser, see our Week 208 coverage.
Changelog 2.3.22.146311-rel-GreatHunts
Below are the official notes for the Week 211 release. They include the new spider content and a long list of fixes and future work. The items are reproduced from the developer’s release notes in their original order.
New Content
- Added Spider IK
- Added turn BS to spider
- Tweaked Spider rotation rates and blending
- Removed swimming transform offset from spider
- Fixed Spider loco speed
- Added missing spider idle animation
- Reworked spider attack BT
- Fixed spider spit projectile not hitting targets
- Temporarily added Spiders to caves in ELY for testing purposes
- Forest spiders should only wander 2500 units from their target cave
- Anchored wander distance can now be stat-driven
- Removed various DH feature locks from spider content
- Spiders should now only spawn at nighttime (same hours as kiwi)
- Removed DH feature flag from Arachnophobia mode custom game stat
- Fixed issue where custom game settings weren’t being correctly populated by defaults
- Fixed issue where applying custom game settings wouldn’t clear previous configuration before adding again, resulting in duplicate stats
- Hidden custom game settings should no longer have widgets created for them
- Removed spiders from outpost_forest spawn config
- Spiders should now be cleaned up after turning on arachnophobia mode
- Arachnophobia mode will now be enabled for existing prospects. New prospects will have it turned off
- Fixed spiders wandering too far from their nests
- Fixed issue with arachnophobia mode being enabled on non-shipping test prospect info
- Slightly increased min distance to players when spawning new cave spiders
- Adding Spider Trophy Mesh Item and Deployable Setup, Taking and adding new Icons for Trophies, Adding Recipes
- Adding Missed raw art images for spider silk and spider head item icons
- Adding Spider Silk Icon and Spider Head icons, removing feature level lock from spider related items
- Setting up spider Bestiary Entry and splitting from geothermal spider
- Adding Spider Silk item and alternate recipes for platinum weave, bandages and rope
- Spiders now drop spider silk instead of leather
Fixed
- Set Plains Equix to use Deer spawn rates. Set Bluebacks to use Buffalo spawn rates
- Clean out AISpawnRules that are not valid for the SpawnConfig for that level (Polar Bears on Desert Outpost, etc). Add DT Validation for detecting SpawnRules invalid for SpawnConfig
- Fix Cake pieces no longer being interactable after reload
Future Content
- Added Cliffs to the Arctic Blue Quad, Elysium
- Added Orbital Exchange Interface Landing Pad Icon
- Added Clay Brick Building Piece icons
- Adding mutation laugh audio and notify
- Small geiger counter balance pass
- Drones – Switched scout drone to new model. Switched hunter to new model and added new animbp for its new skeleton/anims
- Update Juvenile Mammoth mesh, locomotion speed, animbp
- Fixed mammoth LookAt ctrl rig and replaced usage of old lookat blendspace
- BP_WyrmQueenEgg update on VFX
- Adding woolly mammoth juvi flinch, death and idle vocal events and data table setup. Also adding unique Eden music background track
- Updated saddle data table with correct anim bp for the mammoth saddle
- Added first pass mammoth saddle asset and updated mammoth mount settings to work with the saddle
- Radiation Modifier UI – Progress bar now updates based on values within players ‘survival triggers’ instead of hard coded values
- Adding tesla coil charge, zap, powered audio events and BP logic
- Dragonfly nest spawn rotation should now conform to terrain normal
- Frostfall Replaced Cave Entrance with BP
- Fixed issue with follower spawns that was causing some followers to spawn with 0 X/Y offset
- Added Destructible states for Stone Fortifications
- updated synthetic armour 1st person arms mesh, added the sleeves
- Fixed issue with new OEI asset spawning mounts in mid air
- Transport pod mount spawning will fall back to a close range navigable area in cases where a valid path to pod can’t be found
- Ely – added custom collision meshes for LC_Cliff_23-25
- Fixed Frostfall Landscape Blocking
- Eden cave drips adjustments
- More additions to eden. Adding cave drips closer to the waterfall. Balance of waterfall to have slightly more impact. Adding more insects, added lower percent chance of npc saying something
- Ely – removed references to DC_TreeDead FTs in Tundra, green
- Ely – fixed and applied Z offset on SML Aspen trees, green + yellow
- Ely – fixed floating cliff in NW volcanic, red
- Fixed bright billboard albedo texture by checking on SRGB tickbox for HRB_Kumara_Wild_Var_1
- wip orbital sequence FX
- Updated DEP_Fortification_Stone_Gate, BP, destructible and animation
- Adjusting DM_DEP_Fortification_Concrete_Gate
- Updated DEP_Fortification_Cancrete_Gate with destructibles and animations
- Fixed Raptor mount not attacking back in defensive mode
- Added bite to Raptor’s attack montage
- Lots of drone updates for the carrier
- Temporarily reverted drones in ELY mission 1 back to original drone logic until more work can be done on updated behaviours
- Updated skinning on juvie mammoth bones
- Adding drone hunter or carrier spot vocalisation event. Adding spot vocalisation as a variable so it can be adjusted per drone type
- Clean out old Dev test prospect data for Mounts and ContentServer
- Drones will now attempt to follow navmesh for periods of time when stuck, should help in instances where drones get stuck on large rocks etc
- Fixed an issue where drone movement would sometimes seem to flicker after reaching target location
- Limit Ghost Croc population to 1
- Update Nailgun to support Building Upgrade logic
- Added mammoth juvie bones and carcass art assets to the project
- Ely – lighting pass in Eden, yellow quad
- Adding additional audio events for drone alternatives. Pitching adjustments. More to come
- Replace DC_Palm with CocoPalm in FLODSandbox level. Remove DC_Palm from FLOD DT and delete FTs so they don’t get used
- Fix up Desert Cave diorama blue->yellow fog. Tweak some voxel scales resulting in poor texel density. Remove many meshes that weren’t visible. Delete BuiltData
- Adjustments to eden music track. Adjustments to mutation laugh, adjustments to NPCs dialogue amounts, adding wind gust through grates etc
- Remove references to unused foliage in Diorama_Cave_01 and delete instances outside of level bounds
- Updated flesh sack floater opactiy map compression. Updated BP with new V2 mesh and animation. Created AnimBP. Updated joint names in AI setup DT
- Queen – Fixed wyrm egg delay being unhooked
- Lots of drone audio adjustments. Adding correct collision hit event bones to ensure fall audio plays
- New Drones – Cleaned up main BT and moved attack logic into 3 seperate files for each type
- Updated mesh pack for the new armor sets and updated D_Meshable
- Eden – adjusted various light settings, added new glow material for light meshes, reduced intensity of landing pad spotlights in BP
- Removed duplicate raptor AnimBP for Juvenile, replaced with child class
- Added twoleg and fourleg IK for raptor and striker
- Fixed Swampbird IK not working
- Updated the flesh sack floater opacity material. Added a version 2 of the flesh sack floater which is twice as large, a more detailed rig, and a better idle animation
- Delete NavMeshBoundsVolumes mistakenly placed as NavModifierVolumes
- Final eden ambient adjustments
- Update icons for Crude Oil and Biofuel spline tools
- Disable weather culling mesh on Building Wall Diagonal base class as its not needed and now matches Building Wall base class
- Fixed incorrect relationship row for hopping creatures that was causing it to be a valid target for other NPCs
- Fixed flare gun projectiles bouncing on ground
- Reparented duplicate flare ballistic behaviour
- Fixed flare smoke and sprite particles not fading or scaling correctly
- Flare gun flare should now fade out before hitting ground
- Reduced max speed of flare gun flares when descending
- Repositioned lights and particles on skeletalitem_flare back to 0 (was previously offset to match flare arrow tip)
- Lots of drone updates, additions and improvements. Adding drone carrier spot and drone hunter idle event etc
- Dialogue and quest tweaks, various volume balances and adjustments – general mixing pass
- Ely – fixed floating mesh and deep ore deposit in Tundra, green quad
- Fixed a dialogue issue and some blue quest text for ELY6
- Added variables to BP_IcarusPointLightActor and SpotLightActor for controlling intensity,color etc – reapplied custom settings to placed lights in Eden, yellow quad (they were reverting to default settings during sublevel generation)
- Fixed an issue where the incorrect speaker was displayed in dialogue for ELY4
- Priority adjustment for dialogue to ensure it plays
- Fixed a number of typos, updated flavour text for items, updated quest text with specific faction references
- Added Wall Clock props and security camera assets
- Add Arctic Scorpions to Arctic Outpost spawn group
- Fixed Highlightable on Geothermal Bat nest
- Geothermal Spider now spawns in Geothermal areas like typical creature
- Fix compression settings on Flesh Sac textures. Fix incorrect head joint name and default AI Setup row
- Fixed DT validation with D_Saddles
- Adjusted Woolly Mammoth saddle hand position
- Removed standard saddle DT entry for Mammoth
- Fixed missing Mammoth skill tree requirement link
- Closer matched dialogue for theo, dialogue adjustments etc. Added wyrm death vocalisation to the ground animation etc
- Lots of drone updates and additions across many systems
- Added another inventory slot talent to mammoth tree
- Saddles can now specify stats that must be true before it can be equipped on an NPC
- Added new saddle items for Woolly Mammoth mount
- Increased blend times on Mammoth idle and LookAt
- Added talent and recipes for crafting mammoth saddles
- WIP mammoth platforms will now appear when equipping heavy saddle
- New Drones – Removed nodes that did nothing. Added additive attach montage to hunter drone. Fixed ‘DroneType’ not being set correctly causing all drones to count as the 0 drone type or ‘standard’. New shoot task switches which anim to used based on enum
- Tesla coil fine tunes
- Dialogue tweaks for mission 4. making sure the last line plays. Radiation tweaks, removing reverb from geiger and slight reduction in volume of radiation zone
- Removing reverb causing problems within cave drip event and ambient event
- Mount UI – Hooked up new UI elements
- Fixed Bugs and Landscape Blending in the Arctic Blue Quad, Elysium
- Adding additional cook dialogue lines. Adding water fluid dripping through vent parts. Various adjustments. Removing a couple of unwanted lines
- Committed Mount UI change again as last commit didn’t go through
- Updated D_Meshable for armor mesh packs
- Fix Lithium Sledgehammer pointing to wrong tool damage row
- Disable Spider spawning in Oly Conifer Easy area
- Refreshed nodes in Hunting GOAP BPs to hopefully fix build validation
- Ely – fixed crevasse and landscape seams in Geothermal, red quad
- Eden – light color adjustments, moved some lights and meshes from persistent level, yellow quad – added wet rock decal texture+material
- Slinkers and Batdogs have their max hunting distance halved if player target is within an active spawn blocker
- Added missing mesh packs for the armor sets
- Added missing Storca tame talent name/description
- Changed Mount UI Layout
- Updated Juvie mammoth corpse BP with correct art assets and Gfur culling on skinning
- Updated flesh sack floater idle animation to inflate and deflate quicker
- SulfurWorm Trophy setup
- Disable Rain processing on Arctic Winds weather actions with 0 values
- Add new Atmospheres (DesertEly, Coastal, Tundra Geothermal) to PlayerEffectsComponent when calculating current biome influence for Debris, fixing the missing Debris effects in these new atmospheres
- Fixed Bugs and Caves in the Arctic Blue/Yellow Quad, Elysium
- Queen – increased melee damage on eggs and reduced proj damage
- Mount UI – Duped current mount UI as not intended to be live, going to revert original mount interface back to old regular version
- Mount UI – Fixed build error – Missing stats column
- Drone adjustments and fine tunes
- Ely – tweaked some lighting, added welcome sign to Eden – fixed some floating trees and deep ore node elsewhere in yellow quad
- Added Eden welcome sign mesh, material, textures
- Add DT validation (and tidied) for missing creature images in Bestiary. Hide unused pins for structs in Bestiary BPs to improve searchability
- Added version upgrade logic for custom game settings
- Added Ghost Croc Bestiary image
- Added Reaver Bestiary image
- Added Giant Roach Bestiary image
- Added Flying Tank Bestiary image
- Added Bounder Bestiary image
- Added Sand Scuttler Bestiary image
- Added Tundra Deer Bestiary image
- Added Flightless Tank Bestiary image
- Added Raptor Bestiary image
- Added Slinker Bestiary image
- Added Tundra Monkey Bestiary image, including new Tundra BG images
- Adding drone crit hit audio and extra strong point audio to better signal to the player where to shoot them. Adjusting the areas to cover the correct parts of the drones
- Added hidden SettingsVersion stat to CustomGameStats DT
- Mission six orbital sequence WIP timing of FX setup
- Added SkeletalMesh to Unapproved Actors List, Set Dressing Eden in Desert Yellow Quad, Elysium
- Undoing changes to existing MountInterface widgets, new changes will be done on duplicate widget(s) instead
- Rebuilding banks and various volume adjustments
- Updating Custom Gameplay Settings UI so it matches the general settings rather than using the debug UI
- Blocking Out Rad Caves in the Arctic Green Quad, Elysium
- NPCs inheriting from BP_Mission_NPC now correctly register with speaker subsystem
- Fixed bug in ELY_Story_4 where Iris’ speaker audiocomponent was being deregistered before audio was played
- Queen – Changed modifier icons to new ones.
- Added extra damage to laser/fire/melee and reduced projectile resistance on the eggs.
- Changed scaling on the eggs from 6 per person to 4 + 50% per player (no change solo).
- Reduced egg aura damage from 25 +/- 5 to 15 +/- 5
- Added 6 new damaged screen materials for use with the monitor set dressing props
- Add new AI Spawn Map area ‘RightOutsideEden’ to thin density, lower levels and remove some apex predators
- Big mix pass. Re routed bark lines out SFX bus to avoid ducking making the bark lines feel important. Adjusted mission 4 to have correct end dialogue. various mixing balances of creatures and other things
- Ely – fixed floating uranium nodes in NW volcanic
- Player animbp will now blend between fast and slow riding poses depending on mount’s speed
- Added bestiary lore text for DH creatures
- Adjusted woolly mammoth mount status indicator position
- Removed one of the two mammoth eat animations
- Added missing mammoth eat montage notifies
- Adding floater audio to new animation. Various creature balance tweaks
- Disabled LookAt on Raptor’s sleep montage
- Fix Mammoth Mount pointing to wrong health curve. Doubled Juvenile Mammoth health to 600
- Moved Stone Fortification crafting to Masonry Bench and 4x recipe time
- Unparent Wood Hedgehog unlock from Wood Fortifications. Parent Stone Foritifcations to Masonry Bench. Shuffled many unlock nodes to fix overlap, alignment, and cramping issues
- STandard drone balance audio mixing pass
- Added Trophy, including BP, and Bestiary image for Swamp Hopping Creature
- Added bestiary image for Raptor Desert variant
- Added bestiary image for Storca
- Added Flightless Tank Trophy, including BP
- Fix socket rotations and LOD settings on new Fortifcations
- Fixed Cliff Bugs in Swamp on Orange Quad, Elysium
- Improve LOD quality and collision accuracy on T4 Armor Bench. Increase texture res on B Albedo
- Updated mammoth arctic explorer saddle art assets
- Ely – removed radiation zones from both arctic regions, green+ blue quads
- Adding orbital laser sounds into dialogue event. also adding lots of low mid distortion events to be used in project
- Add chance for Sulfur ore to Geothermal Spider loot
- Improve LOD screensize setting on CactusB meshes. Add unique Sickle harvest rewards which gives Organic Resin and TreeSap (was just Fiber)
- Change Geothermal Spider name to Sulfuric Spider
- Ely – set various LC cliffs to not generate navmesh
- Update Bestiary images for new Creatures and setup Biome/Terrain info for Spiders
- Ely – fixed wheat growing out of rocks in Tundra, green quad
- Small balance pass for the drips in eden to not feel louder than the waterfall itself
- Polished FX for orbital laser destruction sequence
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