update · November 28, 2024

Icarus Update v2.2.31.130582 Celebrates Three Years With Cake and Mission UI Overhaul

Icarus marks its third anniversary with shareable cakes, a cleaned-up mission UI, and weather culling improvements.

Icarus celebrates three years of weekly updates with patch v2.2.31.130582, introducing anniversary cakes, a streamlined prospect selection interface, and quality-of-life adjustments alongside a studio livestream.

Mission Interface and Quality of Life

The mission selection UI receives a cleanup to remove clutter. Exploration missions are removed because Open World mode and SMPL3 quests handle those experiences, though the Spirit Walk mission remains at the end of the Olympus tree. Mission suffixes are replaced with descriptive icons. Fire extinguishers and flamethrowers can now be repaired via the right-click context menu and are protected from breaking entirely upon reaching zero durability.

Anniversary Cakes

Chocolate, coconut, and carrot cake recipes arrive for the Electric Stove, requiring sugar, flour, eggs, oil, milk, water, and unique ingredients. These deployable cakes can be placed on surfaces and shared piece by piece, granting health, stamina, regeneration, and experience boosts. Stationeers owners also receive a free Icarus suit.

World Performance and Bug Fixes

Building weather culling is refactored into a simple mesh instead of a dynamically created one to prevent failures on angled pieces. Dropships receive a larger scorch setup with an RVT blocker to simulate burnt foliage. The patch also fixes a calf head loot scaling bug that allowed skinning two heads from one calf, and resolves a crash caused by using milk and water simultaneously in a single recipe.

Why this patch matters

Version v2.2.31.130582 streamlines navigation, improves base performance, and adds anniversary treats for long-term survival runs.