Icarus Blueprints Explained! Best Way to Spend Points and Full Tech Tree Guide!

[@kwahujakquai6726]

-The firepit is a good choice early, as it costs the same number of points (one point, since you already have campfire) as a small wooded crate, and it has the ability to hold more and withstand storms better outside of a shelter. -Shovels are useful for gathering unlimited ice from the same ice node. Rather than running around in the snow looking for Ice nodes, one can make a shovel and gather a 100 ice from a single node before it breaks and needs repair. Nice since an ice box can only hold 100 at a time.

[@Dabalzak]

Handy comment.

[@LordRazer3]

Or you know...keep your shelter from braking in the ice biome

[@kwahujakquai6726]

@@LordRazer3 Yes, Shovels are useful to keep snow from collapsing the roof on your shelter. Another important use for the shovel.

[@kwahujakquai6726]

@@LordRazer3 The idea that shovels are useless early in the game is a joke.

[@kwahujakquai6726]

@@LordRazer3 Early in the game, meaning lower levels.

[@ChrisCastle]

I find the Firepit to be an excellent item early game, personally. It holds way more than the camp fire or fireplace, and you're less likely to step in it and set yourself on fire than with the campfire. It's not as nicely portable as the campfire, however.

[@seliasthemage]

Also you can store items in it and it doesn't get damaged in weather. Especially nice with the amount of storage.

[@cyrusol]

The fire pit with more inventory slots is essentially a chest that doesn't break during a storm and thus very useful. Regarding armor: some people on Reddit were making the argument that not taking the workshop armor into a mission frees up many slots to take other good workshop items with you. I don't really have a hard opinion on this though.

[@MrSocko-bh1jb]

Skinning Bench is dope for fur and meat, but you actually get more bones from skinning without the bench, since you can smash the skeletons with your axe when you do not use the bench.

[@Cadrieldur]

Thank you for all the Icarus Guides. Subbed.

[@ChrisCastle]

platinum pick and axe are baller if you don't have access to the titanium versions yet; huge step up from iron/steel ... also, maybe bugged, the stamina usage on the platinum pickaxe is very small; you can non-stop mine for a very long time using it.

[@michaeleber4752]

No, no, no. NEVER GET THATCH. Use your pickaxe and find a huge boulder. Cut a hole into the boulder until you can fit inside and adjust the depth when a storm arrives to protect you. Wait until level 5 and get NOTHING BUT WOOD.

[@jamesmckinney3716]

I am lvl 88 where you can almost have every blueprint in the game. So it basically doesn't matter as long as you get the basics and necessary things first. Even if you get something that people say is unessary there is basically infinite blueprint points so go for it.

[@kwahujakquai6726]

You're still lvl 88 after the last patch? I got knocked down to lvl 50 from max lvl 99. I do agree with you about blueprints not mattering much when one reaches the higher levels.

[@jamesmckinney3716]

@@kwahujakquai6726 You can still Level up after 50 and it tells you the lvl. it just stays at 50 because that is where the talents stop.

[@kwahujakquai6726]

@@jamesmckinney3716 Oh I am aware of that...not sure how someone can become lvl 88 from lvl 50 since last Thursday.

[@kwahujakquai6726]

@@jamesmckinney3716 I've played the game after release for over 800 hours. I play the game pretty much every day for an average of 6 to 8 hours. I pay very close attention to new content, and probably understand and acknowledge all new content as it happens, most likely before most. So yeah, I know you can level up beyond level 50...and apparently beyond 99 now.

[@kwahujakquai6726]

@@jamesmckinney3716 If you're just referring to what your steam friend list lvl shows. I have lvl 145 as it shows there.

[@causticfpv5857]

It may just be me but I love the hunter armor, epoxy isn't that expensive with tree sap and sulfur

[@kwahujakquai6726]

I've never made or used the hunter armor. Is it effective in stealth, and more protective than the fur armor?

[@realunicorns]

Im using it every mission, eitjer that or ghillie Its waste of points for min maxers, but I play game for pleasure of building nice and havong variety of good looking armor So I dont mind grind for polar bears for example

[@dios8256]

Thanks for this. Subbed

[@goneriam]

I would love to see an updated version of this. Now that there is open world and 30 day missions I wonder if some of these things are more useful

[@GameAdvisors]

An updated version is coming soon!

[@goneriam]

@@GameAdvisors Awesome!

[@crazycatlogic8368]

I completely skip thatch, if I need shelter before lvl 5 I just mine into a big rock or if I am lucky 2 so I can hide inside one and put the campfire in the other. And I am enjoying the new throwing spears, but bow is better for a first weapon as it does have the greater range.

[@JohnnosaurusREX]

If you build overhangs the walls attatched to it remain sheltered and don't take damage (the overhangs degrade to 20 health points, but they remain there indefenitely). So if you build a thatch 2x2 with thatch overhangs, you only need to worry about the roof. So a thatch 2x2 with just the 4 roof pieces out of stone handles the same as a full stone house in storms (except snow for obvious reasons). That being said you probably want to replace the overhangs at some point since they always play the getting damaged sound in storms. Annoying but functoinal if you don't want to babysit the building. It's insanely cheap and lightweight (at least with a sicle and wood to sticks). I just recently tried javelins and they are insanely awesome. You need to go up to and skin the animal anyway so distance doesn't really matter. More importantly it BODY one-shots basically any normal animal below bears. With stone arrows you have to be really carefull to actually crit-hit the head or it runs away/towards you and you have to hunt it down/defend yourself against the wolf and its buddy's. With a wood javelin you either miss or you kill. No drama. Cave worms get annoying though. Without the workshop my progression is now basically wood javelin -> flint longbow.

[@suriil9875]

27:38 3-4 times faster ... well fuck , this "not that much faster" is what actually decide will you get despawned by a Polar Bro in Arctic or you will survive. I would prefer to spend 20 mints extra prep to get the 6 shooter and keep 40 steel into 120 iron = 120 extra bullets.

[@FabioKastro]

I've been using wooden pillars 6blocks high in place of lightning rods, they work the same and last longer.

[@GameAdvisors]

Does the fire not burn down them to your home?

[@FabioKastro]

@@GameAdvisors I havent had that happen yet, they do slowly burn but never go all the way down. Also i don't put them directly on the house a few meters apart. I always two wooden towers, one on each opposite corner. In the last comment and i said they laster longer, but what i actually meant is that they last long enough and are cheap to repair.

[@Xaxxus]

i wish they would fix hitboxes. The number of times I have had arrows travel through an enemies head and still miss is more than i can count.

[@Xantheus07]

Firepit is much better then the camp fire just for the simple fact it hold more meat.

[@skeetfontenot4922]

Now with open world persistent games things in this video are different.

[@marcobering3945]

I noticed. Mission mission mission, it's his only perspective.

[@sigvar6795]

How much of this applies to open world, since that is now a thing?

[@GameAdvisors]

Ide watch the updated version of this guide as it mentions what might be useful in open world at some points.

[@Collosuss70]

just started playing Icarus, seems alot of this info is out of date or has changed alot, especually on open world Olympus

[@Son-Son01]

Technically the hunting rifle is a lever-action not semi-auto. Silly game devs.

[@TKDFuel4Life]

thatch buildings are useless and dont waste points on it... its so easy to break, almost first weak wind does demage. and if you have a bit bigget house u wont make it to repair... start with wood building...

[@JohnClarkW]

I use thatch ramps at times, but otherwise I agree.

[@ILPEITRION]

Avoid the shovel at all costs. it's worthless to have that blueprint.

[@kwahujakquai6726]

I disagree. A shovel is worth gathering unlimited ice from a single ice node.

[@ILPEITRION]

@@kwahujakquai6726 it is true, you have a honest point. however takes some time to gather an entire stack of ice. which if you do manually takes less time 🤝

[@kwahujakquai6726]

@@ILPEITRION Walking around in the artic regions collecting ice can be more dangerous if polar bears are involved. I feel it's safer to sit in a well hidden spot in stealth, shoveling ice. Especially if I need ice before I'm able to make a rifle.

[@Chappers.Gaming]

can you respect them? blue prints

[@ace_does_internet_stuff1817]

No but unlike talent points you keep gaining them after level 50

[@trnrarmy]

just skip Thatch never use Thatch in Icarus!!!!!!!

[@yoksybdi436]

Спасибо. Очень доступно объясняешь.