balance · June 20, 2025
Icarus Patch Buffs Legacy Boss Gear and Adjusts Crafting
Icarus Week 185 revamps baseline statistics for early mission rewards including Caveworm, Sandworm, and Blackwolf equipment. The update also shifts armor recipes and cleans up drone behaviors.
Early mission rewards finally catch up to modern progression in the latest Icarus update. Week 185 increases damage, durability, and yield across legacy boss gear while modernizing armor crafting requirements.
Legacy Boss Weapon and Tool Buffs
Original mission rewards receive substantial across-the-board improvements to maintain viability. Caveworm knives jump from 2,500 to 7,500 durability, while spear and arrow critical damage values increase to 15 percent. Sandworm and Blackwolf gear shifts from Tier 2 to Tier 3 metrics. Sandworm knives reach 75 damage and 22,000 durability, and Blackwolf knives match that 22,000 durability mark alongside increased resource yield. Blackwolf arrows receive a massive damage increase paired with a drop in break chance from 90 percent down to 15 percent.
Armor Recipe and Resistance Overhauls
Sandworm and Scorpion armor sets transition to Tier 3 standards with baseline resistance increases. Both sets drop fiber from their crafting recipes, replacing it with bone for Sandworm pieces and cured leather for Scorpion gear. Sandworm armor now grants 20 percent baseline poison resistance and active desert health regeneration.
AI and Drone Behavior Tuning
Drones receive combat logic updates to prevent immediate aggression upon spawning. They now wait until attacked or approached before engaging, maintain distance from targets during movement, and cease firing through solid walls and environmental obstacles. Caveworm world spawners and landshark audio levels also receive balancing passes to reduce intrusiveness.
Firearm and Deployable Adjustments
Clawfire weapons lose multishot in favor of marked targets. Elemental multipliers on firearms drop from 75 percent to 25 percent, and specific barrel modifications have their critical and affliction percentages scaled down. Water barrels now correctly register as fillable for dynamic water weight calculations.
Why this patch matters
Week 185 breathes new life into neglected early-game rewards, making classic boss gear genuinely useful for current planetary operations.