About Icarus and this guide

"ICARUS is a PvE survival game for up to eight players. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Survive the Open World, complete timed Missions or build your Outpost. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter." - What Steam says about it

First collect fibre, sticks and stones. You'll need these to construct a weapon, tools and a torch.

First Weapon

1. Make a stone knife. You'll need 2 fibre, 2 sticks and 4 stone. Press 'O' (the letter) to open the construction page once you have these. Stone knives and other tools don't last long but fortunately they are easy to repair with a single stone. Press 'I' and right click the broken stone tool to get the repair option. Stone knives are quite effective weapons especially if you aim for the head. Make sure you collect animal products from animals you kill by skinning them while holding the knife and then pressing 'E' (or F if you didn't change that.) You'll need lots of fur and leather plus fibre and sticks to make a bedroll later. Don't discard bones or leave skeletons; hit skeletons with a knife, pickaxe or axe to break them up into bones.
2. Make a stone pickaxe. You'll need 10 fibre, 4 sticks and 6 stone. Use this to break up boulders to collect more stone - it's quicker than wandering about trying to find stones. You can also use these pickaxes to collect iron, copper, silica, sulphur, salt and coal ores if you come across them.
3. Make a stone axe. You'll need another 10 fibre, 4 sticks and 6 stone. Use this to cut down trees and cut them up to collect wood.
4. It probably won't be much use but you might also make a wood spear. This needs to be researched first in the tech tree. Press 'P' to open that. The spear needs 12 fibre and 18 sticks to make. It's useful if you need to reach a beehive or are stood on a boulder with an agressive animal below you. It's slow to use though, the knife is better.

It won't take long before you find your world is getting dark. Make a wood rag torch which needs 40 fibre and 8 sticks. You'll need to unlock it in the tech tree before you can make one. Once you've made one, press L to light it.

Shelters: The weather on Icarus can be foul! There are times when it will kill you if you don't find shelter quickly.

• You can take shelter at the entrance of a cave. Don't enter too deeply though since there are likely to be cave worms or bees inside which will kill you faster than the storm will.
• You can use a pickaxe to mine your way into a large boulder. Hold Ctrl and W while you hit the boulder to crouch while mining. Obvously don't mine your way out the other side of the boulder.
• You can make a fibre shelter but these are a waste of time since wind will quickly destroy them.
• You can make a wood shelter. At the most basic you'll need 2 wood floors (12 fibre and 20 wood each), 4 wood walls (12 fibre and 20 wood each) and a wood door (8 fibre and 10 wood). Altogether you'll need 80 fibre and 130 wood. When placing the walls hold 'R' to select a door opening wall.

A bed and fire

Inside the shelter you can add a bedroll (20 fibre, 20 fur, 10 leather and 10 sticks) and outside the shelter you can place a campfire (8 fibre, 8 stick and 24 stones), fuel the campfire with wood and you may then press E on the bedroll to sleep between 7:00pm and 7:00am. You can also use a campfire to cook meat, pumpkins, soy beans and corn.

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