update · August 30, 2024
Icarus Week 143 Update Introduces Sugarcane, Sugar Recipes, and Candy Buffs
Icarus Week 143 brings growable sugarcane, new baking recipes that boost ranged combat, specialized candy buffs, and buildable optimizations.
Week 143 of Icarus introduces agriculture expansion with sugarcane and sugar-based crafting recipes, alongside technical adjustments to aluminum building pieces, glass materials, and turret targeting.
Sugarcane Agriculture and Sugar Processing
Players can purchase sugarcane seed packets from the Orbital Workshop to grow on the planet surface. Harvested sugarcane is processed in a Mortar and Pestle to produce sugar, expanding kitchen crafting options in a manner similar to salt mechanics.
New Recipes and Candy Buffs
New cooked meals prepared on Biofuel and Electric Stoves—including Energy Bars, Salted Caramel Pastry, Caramel Berry Tarts, and Chocolate Chip Cookies—improve bow charge speed and gun reload times. Additionally, Strawberry Hard Candy and Watermelon Lollipops provide short situational boosts to movement speed and over-encumbrance penalties without consuming active food buff slots.
World and Building Improvements
Aluminum buildables receive a level-of-detail pass to remove visual artifacts at a distance. Glass materials are reworked to reduce fog opacity, and turrets now require a direct line of sight before firing at targets. Kiwifruit stack sizes are increased to 100 to match other harvested resources.
Why this patch matters
Week 143 expands survival preparation by introducing targeted utility food buffs and resolving visual quirks on building pieces.