update · January 16, 2026
Icarus Week 215 Update Introduces Exact Health UI, Interaction Timers, and Cave Spider Tweaks
Icarus Week 215 delivers new gameplay settings for precise health tracking and faster deployable interactions. The update also makes cave spiders despawn during daylight hours, fixes broken reward scaling, and rebalances drone combat behavior.
Icarus is back with its Week 215 update, bringing a slew of quality-of-life adjustments, bug fixes, and two highly requested gameplay settings based on community feedback.
New Gameplay Settings
Players can now toggle a setting that displays exact health values on both the player HUD and mount UI while riding. A second new setting allows players to adjust the time required for hold actions on deployables, helping to streamline repeated tasks and reduce downtime.
Creature and Wildlife Tweaks
Cave spiders now have a recurring random chance to despawn during daylight hours after 8:00 AM. Drones now deal a small amount of explosive damage when destroyed and can be looted upon death. Rabbit sprinting rotation rates have also been increased for smoother movement.
Stat and Reward Fixes
Shattering rewards for clay, obsidian, and scoria are now correctly configured as virtual stats to scale breakable rock resources properly upon harvesting. Modifiers that previously squished the paper doll armor display in the menu have been corrected.
Building and Water Fixes
Crop plots can now be watered correctly even after being disconnected from a water network. The Foundry is now properly gated behind the Electricity Tool, and the dropship legend icon now matches the actual model used in-game.
Why this patch matters
Week 215 targets persistent community complaints with targeted interface settings, logical progression fixes, and sensible creature behaviors that make routine survival tasks less tedious.