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Icarus Week 235 Update | Deep Cycler & Obsidian Veins

ICARUS · Community Announcements · June 05, 2026

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Welcome to Week 235.

This week, we're expanding access to Obsidian by adding Deep Ore Veins to Olympus, Styx, and Elysium. This makes the resource readily available across all maps and gives prospectors more opportunities to gather it, regardless of where they choose to play.

We're also introducing the Deep Cycler, a new Tier 5 device that allows players to reconfigure Deep Ore Veins. This provides greater flexibility when managing deep mining operations and opens up new options for resource acquisition.

Looking ahead, we're giving a sneak peek at next week's update, which introduces Ubis Phenotypes and Breeding.

Notable Improvements:



This Week: Deep Cycler



Crafted at the Manufacturer and powered by Refined Oil, the Deep Cycler can be placed anywhere on the terrain to reconfigure nearby Deep Ore Veins into a different available resource. Veins with drills attached are excluded, and all affected veins are shown in the UI before activation. Like the Thumper, activating the Deep Cycler attracts Caveworms and Landsharks, requiring players to defend the device while the process is underway. If the device is damaged, it will shut down. Once complete, all eligible Deep Ore Veins within range will have been successfully reconfigured.



The primary reason for introducing this item is to give players a way to reconfigure Deep Ore Veins on existing prospects. As Icarus has evolved, we've continued to add new resources that can be found in Deep Ore Veins - such as Obsidian, introduced this week. However, prospects created before these resources were added do not naturally generate the new vein types.



Previously, the only way to make these new resources available on existing prospects would have been for us to forcibly regenerate or alter Deep Ore Veins. Instead, we wanted to provide players with an opt-in solution that gives them control over when and how their prospects are updated. The Deep Cycler achieves this while also creating a new gameplay challenge around defending the device during operation.

This Week: Obsidian Deep Ore Veins



This week, Obsidian Deep Ore Veins will begin appearing on all prospects and outposts. On newly created worlds, these veins will spawn naturally across the map. Existing prospects will require use of the new Deep Cycler to generate them. This brings the new resource to existing maps and provides an easy way to access its associated technologies.


Next Week: Ubis Skins and Breeding



Next week, we plan to make Ubis, the large birds found in swamps, breedable with opposite-sex partners. Alongside this change, we'll be introducing several new phenotypes to bring greater diversity to the species and their offspring.


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