Icarus Week 134 Update | New Matariki Operation and Kiwi bird spawning on Icarus

Nau mai ko wiki kotahi rau toru tekau m? wh? – Welcome to week 134.

This week we’re celebrating Matariki, the M?ori new year here in New Zealand, with a special free operation DLC for all Styx owners and the new Kiwi bird and Kiwifruit plant.

The new operation, REPOPULATION: Research tasks you with introducing a new species to Styx, the elusive Kiwi.

We’ve also got an update on our Prometheus Part II project.

Jump in and have a read.

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We’re celebrating Matariki this week by introducing a new mission.

REPOPULATION: Research will be granted for free to those with access to the Styx map. Your briefing for this operation is as follows:

HELP INTRODUCE A NEW SPECIES TO ICARUS

// NAME: REPOPULATION: Research
// OPERATOR: UDA
// BIOME: The Great River
// BACKGROUND: Help to reintroduce a newly genetically enhanced revived species into the Styx region.
// MISSION: Deliver a new species for introduction to Icarus.
// TERMS: This area is under surveyed, and was previously deemed too dangerous for human traversal. Proceed with caution, the UDA takes no responsibility for contractor safety.

This will be available after the completion of ‘Omphalos’ (the first mission in Styx), with a payout of 300 Ren and 100 Exotics on completion. There is also additional rewards during the operation based on performance.

Some of you might be asking, ‘What is Matariki?’

Here in New Zealand, the native M?ori people celebrated their lunar new year at the rising of the Matariki constellation (known in the Western world as the Pleiades cluster). This would happen in late June/early July and symbolized the period of the year when the M?ori would release their dead’s spirits to be stars in the sky.

It was a time to be thankful, mourn, celebrate, and spend time together. The Maori tale went that the god of the wind, T?whirim?tea, was so angry when his siblings separated their parents, Ranginui the sky father and Papat??nuku the earth mother, that he tore out his eyes and threw them into the heavens.

If you want to play the new Matariki Operation and don’t have Styx, you can purchase it here.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1995690/Icarus_Styx_Expansion/

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Continuing our Aotearoa theme for the week (Aotearoa is the M?ori name for New Zealand, meaning ‘land of the long white cloud’), we’re introducing a new creature and a new food item, the Kiwi, and the Kiwifruit.

The Kiwi is a flightless, nocturnal bird that will spawn in the forest areas of Olympus and Styx. You’ll only encounter them at night, as they spawn from nests that you can seek out and destroy if you wish to stop them from poaching your crops.

The Kiwi Fruit will be available to purchase as seeds from the Orbital Workshop, and grown as a crop on the surface of Icarus. It provides a natural boost to stamina and resistance to cave sickness, along with the following recipes:

• Dried Kiwifruit Chips
• Kiwifruit Jam
• Kiwifruit Sorbet
• Fruit Snack Pack
• Fruit Smoothie

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The Prometheus Part II project is making strides, with our focus right now on biome development and mission design.

There will be five more missions made up of two expeditions and three other missions. This will bring the total on Prometheus to 16 (part I had 11 missions made up of six story missions and 5 secondary missions).

We’ve also been working on a large lava area with a lot of rocky terrain and winding valleys, which as previously warned, will be considerably harder than previous lava biomes.

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Next week we are introducing a new building tier the stone brick building tier, which requires the shaping of stones. This building tier will sit at T3 and will provide a brick alternative for players on all maps.

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https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/40692/Icarus_Pets_Bundle/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/35727/Icarus_Complete_the_Set/

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New Content[expand type=details]

• Added kiwifruit plant with all growth stages to the project. Updated growth stages data table
• Adding kiwi nest destroy audio and event
• Fixed Kiwi not providing a vestiage when skinned
• Adding Dried Kiwifruit, Kiwifruit Jam, Kiwifruit Sorbet, Fruit Skewers and Fruit Smoothie Recipes and Item Setup
• Unlocking Kiwi and Kiwi related items
• Fixing Kiwi Vestiage being incorrectly dropped as a cat vestiage
• Modified Kiwifruit Sorbet as it is a frozen food which should decay in heat
• Fix quest datatable link
• Added Target on Kiwi Nest so they can be attacked by animals
• Adding Boss Icons to both the Matriach & Fowler Epic Creatures
• Adding Stats to Matriach & Fowler Epic Creatures so they are tougher to fight
• Increased Moa & Matriach Teather Distances
• Fowler Boss now spawns at the cave, a set location rather than a dynamic one
• Added control rig to Kiwi to shrink neck length.
• Adjusted fur on kiwi to make it more visible, fixed fur LOD reducing fur layer count at LOD0.
• Kiwi mesh is now scaled instead of default root component
• Kiwifruit harvesting will now give you kiwifruit seeds
• Slightly increased number of kiwi fruit per harvest
• Adjusting wolf spawners in kiwi mission so they don’t float
• Changing descriptor on wolf spawners
• Adjusted Wolf Spawn Location on Spawers so they wont spawn inside and get stuck
• Fixing Fowler now spawning during kiwi quest
• Adjusting wolf spawn location from dens
• Adding in Wild Kiwi Spawning Nests and setup spawning on olympus and styx
• Fixed placement mesh for kiwi fruit trees

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Fixed[expand type=details]

• Station to station: Extended survey (Oly_Arctic_LongSurvey) – Removed return to dropship mission
• Fixed bug where you couldn’t craft items while mounted.
• Fixed bug where some items were hidden when opening crafting menu while mounted
• Fixed issue where allowlist wasn’t working correctly for T4 Water Trough (powered)
• Added tooltips to exotic deposits and trees
• Tweaked the bestiary description for Antelope slightly
• Fixed a number of typos in item descriptions and modifier descriptions
• SNOWCRASH: Update drop pod step to have a clearer icon and description
• Update ABYSS steps to prevent accidental completion of the mission without collecting rewards.
• Increased research speed after each primary objective is complete

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Future Content[expand type=details]

• Fix first time voxel cache generation is not working in editor for new rock types (internal dev only)
• Added full (no bounds) Prometheus map to Developer prospects for testing
• Add initial setup of Ashlands Transport mission
• Move Prometheus Phase 2 folder structure to better fit more missions
• Setup Ashlands transport mission requirement steps
• Fix DT validator whitespace grizzles
• Switch off a WIP gameplay config (should not have been committed last commit)
• Move to DT driven Instanced Maps (pick from group with rule). Add a whole lot of validation/tools for WB
• Add talent, faction mission and prospect list for Prometheus phase 2 missions
• Remove spurious warnings under Build, Map Check relating to editor only prefabs
• Reorganize Prometheus phase 2 missions folder structure to same format as phase 1
• Setup deployables for 2 additional Prometheus missions
• Added remaining stone brick icons and hooked them up to building pieces data table
• Added Stone Brick variants for missing roof and half stair pieces
• Added Stone Brick Icons and hooked them up to D_BuildingPieces and D_Itemable
• Adding nest audio destruction audio to blueprint.
• Adding bush PM to nest to play correct hit audio.
• Adjustment to audio of broken nest

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