update · June 27, 2025
Icarus Update Introduces Customizable Small Pouches
Icarus Week 186 adds craftable small pouches with dye variants and adjusts liquid storage weights. The update also lays foundational balance changes for upcoming Great Hunt encounters.
The latest Icarus patch introduces dyeable small pouches to help players organize inventory space alongside storage weight reductions for portable liquid containers. Week 186 also applies substantial encounter tuning for upcoming boss fights.
Small Pouches and Inventory Organization
Tier 2 characters can now craft a six-slot Small Pouch at the Textiles Bench using five rope, twenty leather, and five iron nails. The tan base pouch can be customized at a mortar and pestle using five units of red, green, or blue paint. These pouches hold up to six items to help compartmentalize inventory, though total weight limits still apply. Generic pouches also receive fixes to prevent nesting bags inside other bags.
Liquid Storage and Item Weight Adjustments
Portable liquid storage items, ranging from portable tanks to waterskins, now feature significantly reduced weight when empty. Meta biofuel canisters, flamethrowers, and gauntlets now correctly count stored biofuel toward total carried weight.
Boss and Encounter Balancing
Great Hunt encounters and related missions receive extensive backend adjustments. Ice Mammoth head critical hitboxes are reduced to demand more precision, and the boss now triggers armor refreshes at 66 and 40 percent health thresholds. Rock golem health, armor scaling, and melee damage values increase dynamically on hard difficulty settings.
Weapon and Projectile Tweaks
Drill arrows drop in initial damage from 85 to 25, but now apply three sequential damage-over-time ticks upon impact and bypass armor ricochet checks. Clawfire weapons undergo complete stat revisions, replacing multishot with marked targets and swapping electricity tiers for elemental infusions. Bloodmoon pistol reload times increase from 2.2 to 3.75 seconds alongside a heavier camera shake.
Why this patch matters
Week 186 offers immediate quality-of-life additions through dyeable inventory pouches while quietly hardening end-game boss encounters for future content drops.