The latest patch for the survival game ICARUS is probably one of its biggest yet. The Week 23 content update introduces world bosses into the game, with the first one being the large sandworm. To help you find this towering menace, a new workshop item called the World Boss Module has been added to find its location, and other bosses, on the map. Alternatively, the new “Big Game Hunter” talent does the same thing as well.
You can find the large sandworm on any mission that includes the desert biome. Furthermore, a new mission in ICARUS aptly called the “Roaming Sandworm” requires you to find and exterminate the new world boss.
So, what’s the incentive for killing it? It will drop materials for crafting the new Sandworm Gear, which includes the Sandworm armor set, knife, spear, and arrows. Sandworm items generally have higher durability than their Caveworm gear counterparts. Furthermore, the weapons are designed to stop the health regeneration of their victims.
Changelog
- Fixed issue where the Extractor wouldn’t snap to a faulty configured deposit in E6
- Fixed issue where extractors continued to run when the extractor was full, deleting resources out of the inventory
- Fixed issue where radars in missions would attract regular wildlife while also attracting the mission spawning wildlife
- Fixed issue where Radar would continue attracting more waves of wildlife after scanning was completed
- Fixed issue where you would get Arctic weather events in the Forest and no weather events in the Arctic
- Fixed the spoil rate of the Ice Box and Refrigerator to no longer be 0, but rather slower than normal, with the Refrigerator being 2x better than the Ice Box
- Fixed issue where the sickle would not collect any Berries when used on Berry Bushes
- Added increased yield and sickle support for Beans, Cocoa, Coffee, Tea, and Gorse Flower Bushes
- Increased maximum potential output for grown crops of Beans, Cocoa, Coffee, Tea, and Gorse flower
- Fixed further instances of buildings breaking on reload. Continue to report these if you experience them
- Fixed issue where Aluminum and Coal were not spawning correctly for Deep Mining Deposits
- Fixed issue where you couldn’t CTRL+click objects between the space station inventory and the drop loadout
- Removed 2x Weapon Damage multiplier on Shotguns and instead increased Buckshot Shell damage from 15 to 30 in order to give better clarity on where damage improvements are coming from
- Fixed crash that could occur when NPCs eat a corpse that has something like a prime meat or stringy meat drop chance applied to it
- Fixed issue where drills and extractors weren’t shutting down when their inventory is full
ICARUS Week 23 content update is available on PC.
