Every update, patch and developer post we have logged for ICARUS, newest first: the date, the headline, a one-line summary and a link to the original source. We file ICARUS under Sci-Fi & Space Survival.
| Date | Title | Summary | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | Icarus Week 256 Update | Quality of Life | Week 256 adds Tech Tree search panning, a Field Guide shortcut to unlocks, lower boss bestiary kill counts, and a creature spawn starvation fix. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-10-22 | Icarus Week 255 Update | Rifle Turret | Week 255 adds a Tier 4 Rifle Turret firing 7.62mm with double damage and about 50% more range, plus turret critical hits and fixes for turrets shooting… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-10-15 | Icarus Week 254 Update | Fish Quality of Life | Week 254 reworks fishing with the new Fish Paste ingredient, additional fish recipes and dishes, a fishing UI overhaul, aquarium Comfort bonuses, and a Great… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-10-08 | Icarus Week 253 Update | Radiation Effects | Week 253 swaps the radiation dome effect for volumetric clouds and adds a scaling vignette UI, alongside a changelog of fixes and a preview of fishing UI… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-10-01 | Icarus Week 252 Update | Field Guide Quality of Life | Week 252 adds Field Guide subcategories, a Sandhorn Horn that grinds into 300 Organic Resin, and raises crop watering and fertilizing XP from 100 to 150. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-09-24 | Icarus Week 251 Update | Tameable Kiwi | Week 251 adds the tameable kiwi, caught with a snare trap and kiwi bait in forests, with talent auras for carry weight, egg production, and night combat. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-09-17 | Icarus Week 250 Update | Electric Seed Extractor | Week 250 adds the T4 Electric Seed Extractor for faster seed harvesting, teases a tameable Kiwi companion for next week, and fixes crop plot and reward bugs. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-09-10 | Icarus Week 249 Update | Inaris Powerbank | Inaris Powerbank recharges battery gear in the field at 150% capacity, while Noxious Crust now spoils over roughly 4 hours, cutting Exotics returns to 3x. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-09-03 | Icarus Week 248 Update | Scoria Deep Ore Veins | Week 248 makes Scoria Deep Ore Veins spawn across all prospects and outposts, and applies a client-side cleanup fix for lingering ghost fire particles. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-08-27 | Icarus Week 247 Update | Slinker Saddles | Week 247 adds 11 Slinker saddles (14 total), resets Elysium foliage and voxels across existing worlds, and previews Scoria deep ore on all maps. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-08-20 | Icarus Week 246 Update | Metal Weapon Rack | Week 246 adds a Tier 3 Metal Weapon Rack crafted on the Machining Bench, fixes Chocolate Cake and Dry Run drill power, and previews the Newton patch. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-08-13 | Icarus Week 245 Update | Tusker Breeding & Phenotypes | Week 245 makes Tuskers breedable using a craftable Tusker Serum at the Ranching Station and adds seven phenotypes, one legendary, alongside mission and quest… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-08-06 | Icarus Week 244 Update | In-World Fish | Week 244 spawns 20 fish species with variants in the world to match catch locations, adds the Carbon Fishing Rod, and takes the server browser out of beta. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-08-01 | Hotfix Version 3.0.21.155391-rel-DangerousHorizons | Hotfix 3.0.21.155391 fixes OFFENDER not spawning cave worms as intended and prevents duplicate prebuilt completion calls and double loot spawning in some… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-08-01 | Hotfix Version 3.0.21.155383-rel-DangerousHorizons | Hotfix 3.0.21 repairs mission-blocking bugs in LIVEWIRE, NEXUS, RELICS, COURIER, BREAKOUT, LIBERATION and others, including wolf pack spawns and missing lab… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-31 | Hotfix Version 3.0.21.155335-rel-DangerousHorizons | Hotfix 3.0.21.155335 fixes prebuilt structures failing to spawn or clean up in missions and name collisions that blocked new structures. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-30 | Icarus Week 243 Update | Livewire Revamp | Week 243 revamps the Livewire mission on Olympus with a new flow and tactical challenges, previews in-world fish and a fishing rod, and fixes lost mission… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-24 | Icarus Week 242 Update | Workshop Flashlight | Week 242 adds the Inaris workshop flashlight, recaps a year of updates, and teases an Elysium Great Hunts boss and a Livewire mission revamp. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-23 | Free Weekend & Double XP Event | Icarus is free to play this weekend with double XP active throughout, alongside an 80% discount on the base game and discounted bundles for its four… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-17 | Icarus Week 241 Update | Single Barrel Launcher | Week 241 adds the Tier 2 Single Barrel Launcher, Crude Grenade and Smoke Bomb projectiles, and reverts Steel Screws to 1:100 after negative feedback. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-10 | Icarus Week 240 Update | Foundry Update | Week 240 shrinks the T4 Foundry mesh, rebalances Anvil, Forge and Foundry recipe times and Steel Screws, and refreshes the renamed Rustic Olympus mission. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-03 | Icarus Week 239 Update | MXC Oxite Dissolver | Week 239 adds the MXC Oxite Dissolver workshop deployable and DLC title-screen badges, rebalances Scuttlers, and previews an Olympus quest rework. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-06-25 | Icarus Week 238 Update | Cured Leather Backpack | Week 238 adds the Tier 3 Cured Leather Backpack, crafted at the Advanced Textiles Bench with +6 slots, 10% ore and wood weight reduction, and +10kg carry… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-06-18 | Icarus Week 237 Update | Expanded Norex Trader | Update 3.0.15.153056 expands the Norex Trader to sell all world boss vestiges for biomass, adds a Sandwyrm Wing Fragment drop, and adjusts boss recipes. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-06-12 | Icarus Week 236 Update | Ubis Husbandry & Phenotypes | Week 236 makes Ubis breedable via a new serum at the Ranching Station, with seven phenotype variants, plus an aquarium UX pass and trader fixes. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-06-05 | Icarus Week 235 Update | Deep Cycler & Obsidian Veins | Week 235 adds Obsidian Deep Ore Veins to all maps and a Tier 5 Deep Cycler that reconfigures veins, plus a preview of Ubis breeding next week. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-05-29 | Icarus Week 234 Update | Curved Building & Railing Update | Week 234 adds curved interior wood floors and seven curved railing types, fixes fist-damage armor stats, and previews Obsidian deep ore and the Deep Cycler. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-05-23 | Hotfix Version 3.0.11.152253-rel-DangerousHorizons | Hotfix 3.0.11.152253 fixes an interactable that blocked refined oil from being added to hoverframes and damaged hoverframes. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-05-22 | Hotfix Version 3.0.11.152237-rel-DangerousHorizons | Hotfix 3.0.11 sets Gas Flyer VFX to Kill instead of Sleep to fix a culling performance leak in swamp and volcanic biomes, and tweaks Biolab pin positions on… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-05-22 | Icarus Week 233 Update | Timber Extraction Unit | Week 233 adds the Timber Extraction Unit, a Refined Oil-powered legendary saw with 12 alterations, and seals off an Elysium map area for future content. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-05-14 | Icarus Week 232 Update | Gribbler Husbandry | Week 232 adds juvenile Gribblers and a craftable Gribbler Serum at the Ranching Station, makes rams shearable, and delays the Timber Extraction Unit to next… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-05-08 | Icarus Week 231 | New Unique Fish & Optimization | Week 231 adds four unique fish subspecies, one per map plus Blinky in Elysium's Mushroom Swamp, and texture and LOD optimizations saving roughly 0.5GB of… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-05-01 | Icarus Week 230 Update | Boar Husbandry & Tame Slaughtering | Week 230 adds juvenile boars, 7 boar phenotypes, a craftable Boar Fertility Serum, and the Butcher's Cleaver for slaughtering tames. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-04-24 | Icarus Week 229 Update | Atmospheric Update | Week 229 revamps waterfall visuals and tessellation, re-enables the Storm Wall and arctic/desert wisp effects, and cuts about 1.5GB of texture memory. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-04-17 | Icarus Week 228 Update | Ruby Resource Pack | Update 3.0.6.151037 adds a Ruby Workshop resource pack for cross-map laser crafting, new saddle mount icons, an Elysium temperature map near lava, and… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-04-10 | Icarus Week 227 Update | Repair Bench QoL | Week 227 reworks the Repair Bench's bulk repair to include items stored in the bench, tally missing resources in the UI, and add a durability threshold slider. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-04-03 | Icarus Week 226 Update | Workshop Modules | Icarus Week 226 unlocks 12 Envirosuit Workshop Modules and hardens UID claiming to stop deployables and building pieces vanishing on reload. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-27 | Icarus Week 225 Update | Bull Carts | Week 225 lets Bulls pull every cart type and adds Limestone deep mining deposits to all maps including existing saves, alongside XP, mount and buildable fixes. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-19 | Icarus Week 224 Update | Forest Wolf Husbandry | Week 224 adds breedable forest wolves with juvenile pups, genotypes and phenotypes, and a new serum, plus oil geysers in all outposts and creature fur… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-13 | Icarus Week 223 Update | Dangerous Horizons & Kepler fixes | Week 223 fixes Lithium tool power drain, adds Lithium Ore and Tier 5 gear to the workshop for Uranium Rods on all maps, and buffs Packed Fuel Bricks to 1.5x… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-07 | Hotfix Version 3.0.0.150086-rel-DangerousHorizons | Hotfix 3.0.0.150086 corrects limestone building recipes, Elysium Igloo bed detection and temperature, Ambush soldier spawning, and Great Hunt quest NPC steps. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-06 | Hotfix Version 3.0.0.150041-rel-DangerousHorizons | Hotfix 3.0.0.150041 fixes doors becoming permanently closed for clients in Operations Elysium: Nexus, Fallout and Reckoning, plus VFX and structure loading in… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-05 | Icarus Dangerous Horizons Expansion & Free Kepler Update | Dangerous Horizons adds the 8x8km Elysium map, new creatures, a boss and tameable mounts; the free Kepler update adds resources, a tech tier and NPC missions. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-02-27 | Hotfix Version: 2.4.1.149492-rel-Homestead | Hotfix 2.4.1.149492 corrects an issue that prevented the new phenotypes of tamed wolves from being selectable. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-02-27 | Hotfix Version: 2.4.1.149477-rel-Homestead | Hotfix 2.4.1 fixes a tag query that blocked Stale Gruel from being crafted on the Electronic Food Trough and adds a missing unbind event to the loot-all… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-02-27 | Icarus Week 221 Update | Mendel/Homestead Fixes | Week 221 fixes the Mendel update's Electric Food Trough power draw, adds Stale Animal Gruel and Silage feed, seven tamed wolf phenotypes, and Genetics talent… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-02-22 | Hotfix Version: 2.4.0.149177-rel-Homestead | Hotfix 2.4.0.149177 corrects workshop creatures being locked behind the wrong DLC, fixes Rooster, Bull and Ram trophy recipe and talent issues, and repairs… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-02-20 | Hotfix Version: 2.4.0.149162-rel-Homestead | Hotfix 2.4.0.149162 fixes Homestead Well crafting, bloodline and twin parent assignment, mount ownership checks on Stay and Follow commands, plus several pet… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-02-20 | Icarus Week 220 Update | Mendel | The free Mendel update adds creature genetics, bloodlines, breeding, and new farm animals; a Homestead Cosmetic DLC adds over 50 items. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-02-13 | Icarus Week 219 Update | New Workshop Sickles | Update 2.3.30 adds three Inaris Workshop sickles with freeze, fire, and miasma effects; the Mendel Update with creature genetics and breeding is due next week. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-02-05 | Icarus Week 218 Update | Chick & Lamb | Week 218 makes chickens and sheep arrive as juveniles that must be raised to adulthood, adds new horse riding animations, and reworks portable water tank… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-31 | Hotfix Version: 2.3.28.148065-rel-GreatHunt | Hotfix 2.3.28.148065 fixes a crash that occurred when right-clicking certain items and choosing destroy. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-30 | Icarus Week 217 Update | Project Clinic | Week 217 lets deployable water storage feed crafting benches, enables drinking from the T3 purifier, fixes survival-slot swapping, and delays Workshop Sickles. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-24 | Hotfix 2.3.27.147716-rel-GreatHunt | Hotfix 2.3.27 fixes a feature-lock bug that prevented Workshop Calves from spawning as intended, caused by recent creature husbandry work. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-23 | Icarus Week 216 Update | Lights Update | Week 216 merges wall and ceiling light variants into single recipes, adds Shroud and Spot Lights, and details upcoming creature genetics and breeding. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-16 | Icarus Week 215 Update | Quality of Life & Fixes | Icarus patch v2.3.26.147083 adds settings for exact health display and adjustable hold-action time, plus fixes for crop plots, drones, and cave spiders. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-09 | Steam is experiencing an outage [RESOLVED] | A Steam-side outage that affected ICARUS players has been resolved; the studio says the fault was Steam's and advises restarting your computer. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-09 | Icarus Week 214 Update | Explorer Backpack | Week 214 adds the Explorer's Backpack to the Orbital Workshop, boosting max stamina, stamina regen and movement speed while reducing wildlife threat at the… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-01 | Icarus Week 213 Update | Tag Based Fish Crafting | Week 213 introduces tag-based crafting, restores steamed fish from any catch, reopens the mount cargo tab, and doubles mammoth stomp radius and secondary… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-25 | Icarus Week 212 Update | Rideable Woolly Mammoths | Week 212 adds tameable juvenile woolly mammoths with a dedicated talent tree and Tier 2 saddle, alongside mount UI improvements. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-19 | Hotfix 2.3.22.146441-rel-GreatHunts | Hotfix 2.3.22 corrects arachnophobia toggle on dedicated servers, forces saving of custom world settings, and fixes admin login state when moving to prospects. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-19 | Icarus Week 211 Update | Spiders, Arachnophobia Mode and Double XP | Week 211 adds nocturnal spiders with poison webs and Spider Silk drops, an Arachnophobia world setting to disable them, and a double XP holiday event. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-12 | Icarus Week 210 Update | Iron Signs | Update 2.3.21 adds craftable T3 iron signs, fixes Aquatica Isle spawn and drone firing bugs, and previews next week's spider creature plus a custom world… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-05 | Icarus Week 209 Update | Frostfall, Fourth Anniversary, and Fixes | Week 209 releases the Frostfall Outpost DLC, combining an arctic surface with lava-filled caverns, and fixes client-side map icons and dysentery resistance. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-28 | Icarus Week 208 Update | Dangerous Horizons Expansion News & Wall Storage | Week 208 teases Dangerous Horizons: the Elysium map, Tech Tier 5, bosses and radiation, and adds wood, refined wood and metal wall cupboards. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-23 | ICARUS: CRITICAL MASS – Trailer now live | Critical Mass is a new trailer that connects the New Frontiers storyline to the upcoming Dangerous Horizons expansion and teases Group 15 mysteries. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-21 | Icarus Week 207 Update | New Butchery Bench & Prime Meat Recipes | Week 207 adds the Tier 3 Butchery Bench for converting raw and prime meats, unique stackable buffs per prime cut, and shorter prime buff durations. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-15 | Hotfix 2.3.17.144813 -rel-GreatHunts | Hotfix 2.3.17.144813 corrects Forest Wolf talent tree assignment and applies wolf and cat talents and stats to tamed creatures as intended. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-13 | Icarus Week 206 Update | New Impact Frag Grenade | Week 206 adds the Impact Grenade at T3, previews a T5 oil-extraction tier, and confirms the Butchery Bench for next week. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-07 | Icarus Week 205 Update | Stone Brick Fireplace and New Biome Preview | Week 205 adds a Tier 3 Stone Brick Fireplace and gives a first look at the Geothermal Biome coming in a future expansion. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-10-30 | Icarus Week 204 Update | New Rustic Decorations And Future Creature Preview | Week 204 adds the Rustic Lamp and Wall Shelf to the decoration set, previews a tamable Raptor planned for the next expansion, and fixes dropped-item collision. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-10-24 | Icarus Week 203 Update | Workshop 5.56mm CHAC Ammo | Week 203 adds CHAC 5.56mm workshop ammo (250 Ren unlock, +50 damage) and announces an ICARUS Console Edition by Grip Digital planned for 2026. | store.steampowered.com |