Welcome to our 140th weekly update.

This week we are introducing a battery-powered ice box backpack, which offers a new way to keep your food from spoiling while on the go.

We also have a heap of updates including new workshop items, new battery-powered equipment, numerous small tweaks and fixes, and even a new main menu screen.

These are the result of a “project clinic” our team conducted while playing the upcoming free expansion to the Prometheus map. We do these deep dives every now and then, and you can read what a project clinic involves in this post from earlier this year.
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CEO's Forward

We left some of the Prometheus map empty so we could develop it further, which we were planning to release as a free expansion for that map this week. However, as we played through it we ended up doing an intensive "Project Clinic" and are taking an extra week to add even more content - both to the base game and this map.

A key aspect of our studio development is for our senior leadership to do full playthrough runs with no cheats, experiencing our games just as our customers do. This is incredibly time intensive, but is extremely important for our aim of making better games, and it has been instrumental in driving ICARUS forward.

We've talked in the past about doing “Project Clinics”, where we use these intensive playthroughs to highlight issues, missing content, or Quality of Life changes. We then rapidly iterate to solve as many as we can. So we used our Prometheus playthrough week for this purpose and want to get these additions out before we release our expansion to Prometheus.

Once these two updates are out, our focus will move onto the next installments in ICARUS as well as our next free major updates. If you have enjoyed what we do, please consider leaving a review and picking up some of our DLC. Our studio spends all the money we make on developing the game and does no dividends, so all our income goes into making our games.

Dean “Rocket” Hall, CEO

This Week: Ice Box Backpack

This week’s featured new item is the Ice Box backpack, crafted at the Fabricator. This backpack adds six new inventory slots - like most backpacks - but it also chills everything carried in your inventory, drastically extending their spoil time. Our design intent with this backpack is to provide a specialized solution for long expeditions across the map when adequate freezer storage isn’t available.

This backpack does require stored electricity to operate, meaning you must charge it between uses. This can be done at the Charging Station introduced in week 127.

This Week: Project Clinic Highlights

Our Project Clinic has resulted in a massive array of adjustments, enhancements, additions, and refinements - all designed towards the kind of gameplay that we want to emphasize more. This includes survival and general infrastructure setup for more longer-term missions, that are part of the expansion to the Prometheus area.

New Main Menu Flow

When opening Icarus this week you will no longer see your character on the main screen. Instead, you will see our redesigned main menu. We felt the old design did not clearly convey the different game modes available to you and added an unnecessary extra step in the process to getting into a session. This new update aims to simplify this process and get you into game faster.

Hydrazine - A New Workshop-Only Resource

Hydrazine is a new gaseous resource collected from space and compressed into canisters for you to purchase from the orbital workshop. These are a one-time use item that cannot be refilled.

Two new items have been added to the workshop that are powered by Hydrazine:

The MXC Cooker - provides all the same recipes as a pot belly stove but does not require shelter
The MXC Heater - provides substantial heat for a small device, making it perfect for night or arctic crossings

Expect more items to be added in the future that use this new fuel.

Portable Biofuel Generators

To help with power needs on the go, we have added portable biofuel generators. These provide 2000W of power and are very light to carry. They are also considerably cheaper than the other larger biofuel generators and are ideal for powering electric deep mining drills.

Battery Powered Equipment

This week, we've introduced some new equipment that can be charged at the charging station, enriching the tech tree and offering alternatives powered by batteries instead of biofuel or electricity. All of these items are craftable on the fabricator at T4 and sit next to the Charging Station on the Tech Tree.

Battery Powered Lantern that provides an alternative to the flashlight with a different illumination
Battery Powered Spot Lights that can light up large areas
Battery Powered Cave Lights that are ideal for what their name suggests

Item Mesh Updates

Some of our meshes for existing items were substandard and in need of a refresh:
The Ghillie Suit has had a complete overall with a new up-to-date look
The Hunter Armor helmet has been refreshed
The Biofuel Generator has received a new mesh that better fits its size
The Charging Station has been updated to reflect the new equipment that can be charged

Workshop Balance / Price Adjustments

Some minor price adjustments were made to ensure consistency among items of similar quality. Additionally, we’ve introduced minor balance adjustments to more accurately reflect the current status of items in the game and, in certain instances, their readability.
Reduced the Workshop Repair Kit price to be the same price as repairing in orbit
Adjusted the Larkwell Bolt Price and reduced replication cost from 50 -> 10, bringing it in line with workshop arrows of the same tier
Adjusted the Larkwell Sickle Price as it was far costlier than the actual value to a player
Reduced the Workshop Biofuel Canister replication cost as it no longer felt appropriate with the introduction of Hydrazine
Updated the Workshop pickaxes so they have only a single stat for mining yield, which helps avoid confusion when comparing them
Made slight tweaks to Workshop Hammers stats
Reorganized the workshop bow tab to have a clear progression of arrow types, and reduced the Inaris arrow unlock cost
Buffed the Larkwell Knife attack speed to make its high cost appropriate for the benefit it provides

New Stove Proxy Meshes

The Potbelly Stove, Biofuel Stove, and Electric Stove, along with the new MXC Cooker, have been updated with proxy meshes and effects. This means that when you are cooking something, pots and pans with ingredients will appear based on what is currently being crafted. This was done to better reflect what is going on with the devices in the game world. We want to do more of this in the future.

Lighting Updates

We have spent time adjusting the lighting on many of our light sources. Deployables with a flame, such as the standing torch, candles, and campfire, have been adjusted so they feel more atmospheric when playing. Due to some of the changes made, these items are also a little more performant.

Next Week: New Area and Missions for New Frontiers Expansion

Sale on New Frontiers now, for a limited time

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1648532/Icarus_New_Frontiers_Expansion/

As we wrap up our internal play sessions of Null Sector, we can now begin finalizing the free update.

This expansion to the Prometheus map - available with the New Frontiers DLC - includes five new Operations, a new exploration mechanic, new mutated creatures, and one new giant creature.

This region is not for the faint of heart. All the adjustments and differences are geared towards this being a hardcore survival challenge, so make sure you enter it prepared.

Revenue and our DLC Strategy

We have tried to setup our DLC in the most permissive way possible. We give away all the key features for free, rather than bundling them in the DLC. We also made it so only the host needs the expansions, and removed DRM so that it is easy to bypass the DLC restrictions when hosting local servers.

We generally take home about 50% of the retail price, after deductions for Steam, cost-of-sale, and Epic. After these, our typical outpost DLC has around USD 50k net revenue, on a budget of roughly 5-10k per outpost. Making them is very profitable, which surprised us a lot. However from what we can tell, most people buying outposts are doing so via the complete the set - mostly as a way to help us fund future development (thank you!). As these do well, we are looking at doing more of these in the future.

Our major expansion (New Frontiers) was a big portion of income, gaining about USD 1.5M net the above deductions. It probably cost us roughly USD 1M to make, although it is complex to budget for as we pulled out many of the things we planned to include to give away with the free update that went with it. Overall, New Frontiers seems to be a major factor in driving general sales of the game and other content and has been pretty much essential to the survival of the game and maybe even the studio in the current market.

The content packs give us about USD 75k - 100k after deductions, on a budget of roughly that. So they tend to break even, but seem to have quite a long tail. In the long run they add just a little bit on top which we can use to continue with further development.

For the game itself, the last year has seen strong sales - much stronger than the preceding year but below the original launch. This is quite unusual for a video game, when you generally have the vast majority of your revenue at launch and then maybe a small amount continuing on. This is probably due to several factors, the most notable being us improving the game. The community feedback iteration has been essential in us bringing the game back from its mixed launch. People often say “why don’t studios do a No Man’s Sky and improve their game?”, but the reality is this is very expensive and many studios that wish so, simply can’t afford to try. And even where they do, they don’t have the exposure for anyone to notice. We have been incredibly fortunate to be able to continue to develop the game, but it is expensive. We have only been able to do such regular updates through very hard work, heavy community engagement, and a top-level commitment for a better game rather than a profitable one.

This information is provided because game studios tend to be very opaque when it comes to financials, and many gamers end up thinking that DLCs end up being “cash grabs”, when in fact most DLCs don’t tend to make a lot of money as attachment rates are quite low. Our target, and we suspect most studios are the same, is that a DLC will break even over the course of a year.

Please consider leaving a review

We have worked hard to bring our product forward, focusing on changing core aspects of the game based on your feedback, new content, and performance improvements. This has been done every single week since the game launched, with not a single week missed even through natural disasters and holidays. While the game isn’t perfect, we have have worked hard with the community to try and make the game better every week.

Early on we also rolled back the online backend, ensuring the game would have a future even if our studio went under. This was an unpopular decision at the time, but one we knew was necessary to secure the games future. We think that with recent sentiment against Games-as-a-service, we feel vindicated that it was the right call.

Given this, please do consider leaving a review for our products. And if you want to support the studio, please do consider buying the DLC. All the money we make is spent on making our games, we don’t provide any dividends and put all the money back into our staff and development.

Your support makes these updates possible.

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Changelog v2.2.15.125691

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Icebox Backpack is now crafted on planet on the fabricator, it now has a charge and needs to be charged to be active, when active will lower the external temp of the player by 5 Celcius and slow food spoilage drastically, added item recipe and blueprint for the icebox backpack as well as new modifier and icon, feature locked out for now
Added DEP_Powered_Charger_v2
Updated Marked Target modifier to be unable to be triggered by creatures/players that can mark targets. Notably this means the base Dribbo and tamed pets with the relevant talent do not deal extra damage without other targets attacking
The Icebox backpack can now be charged on the charging station
Adding Portable Biofuel Generator and Replacing Mesh of Biofuel Generator
Adding Battery Powered Latern
Swapping Ghillie Suite to use new Meshes
Adding new portable generator audio and BP. Updates to Ghillie armor to suit the new mesh - more foliage vibe, adding battery lantern on / off switch audio
Fixing Portable Generator Scale
Setting up Ice box backpack, talent / recipes
Adding ability for small batteries to be recharged at the charging device
Adding proxy meshes to rechargin station for icebox backpack, flashlight, battery lantern, lava hunter backpack and small battery
Adding fallbacks for cleaning Open World Mission history
Adding Additional Safety checks when triggering missions so old / failed / abandoned missions are cleaned up
Adding Iron Bucket
Fixing Ghillie Arms in First Person to use New Mesh
Adding Hydrazine as a new resource type
Adding new Hydrazine workshop canister
Adding new workshop cooker & heater that run off Hydrazine
Added iron bucket art assets to the project
Added text for new MXC items
Adding audio for workshop cooker and heater. To be tested once power behavior is working
Fixing Battery Lantern not consuming power
Updating Battery Lantern ON / OFF State so that the bulb lights up when ON, Setting default mesh material to OFF
Adding bucket fill audio. Not currently hooked up
Updating Battery Lantern to new Mesh
Adding New Battery Lantern & Cave Light Meshes to Charging Device as Proxy Meshes
Added Off material state for ITM_Battery_Lantern
Added ITM_Battery_Lantern
Updating Hunter Head Icon
Adding Battery Cavelight Item / Blueprint
Adding Iron Bucket Mesh Hookup & Icon
Adding in second version of cavelights on a stick, wall and floor version, fixed up material on first cavelight version, added campcooker proxy mesh
Added Battery Light Deployable base
Battery CaveLights Wall & Floor are now one item with variations
Battery Spotlights are now one item with Variations
Hooking up new Battery Cavelight lights & Meshes
Added Proxies for Workshop Cooker & Heater
Lighting Updates on CaveLight & CaveSpotLight
Adding small vial trophy deploy audio. Small eq adjustments to events. Data table deploy audio setups for all bigger trophys
Adding in campcooker proxy and combined meshes for placement hologram for the cooker and heater
Adding new component for recipe proxies when items are crafting
Adding new recipe proxy for the workshop cooker
Cave Flashlight and Spotlight can now be charged at the charging station
Adding Descriptions for New Cave Light and Spot Light
Fabricator now accepts a water connection for recipes
Hydrazine cooker now uses a green flame effect
Tagging all cooked items with Fruit / Vege / Egg / Gain / Meat / Fish / Chicken etc
Added version 2 of the t3 kitchen bench without the pots and pans
Adjusting cave spot lights, and cave omni lights
Adding new component for recipe proxies when items are crafting
Adding Proxies to Kitchen, Potbelly and Electric Stoves
First iteration of new space menu screen
Swapped the icons for customize button and character create button to make more sense
Changed sizes and font sizes for main menu and open world
Fixed main menu buttons disappearing on startup
Fixed 'close' and 'back' button appearing on DS when selecting mission. Fixed first playthrough popup temporarily making the 'new game' menu dissapear
Changed the menu button layout to match each other
Changed the backgrounds of each map on the open world and missions main menu.
Changed the corners of the buttons to be thicker and animated them a little faster
Reduced Portable Biofuel Generator power efficiency.
Lowered cost of Stone Brick building pieces by ~25%
Changed velocity and eventually disabled particles from NS_Hydrazine_FX

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Fixed weight on many half pieces (were 100, now tiered appropriately)
Removed proposed boss 'heath bars' after backlash about feeding animals candy
Fixed if you attacked boars from a distance then walked away they would just walk to your previous location because they couldnt see you same as the hippo. Readded stat to hippo that was removed for testing
Attacking a dribbo now angers its family and sets its current aggression to max
Fixed any epic wolf counting toward wolf boss kill accolade
Fixed Portable Generator itemable setup, tweaked crafting time of both generators
Update Wheat to Biofuel recipe requirement
Fixed an issue with the sizing of the Portable Generator
Changed the Mesh and Icon for the Charging Device so it can fit larger items
Hitching ropes now stack. Removing one animal from a hitching post no longer removes all animals on that post. Removing multiple animals from a hitching post now grants the correct number of hitching ropes. Fixed bug where only one animal was left attached to a hitching post when game was reloaded
Tweak light of advanced versions of light slot items to have slightly increased brightness
Drastically Increased weight on biofuel generator (2kg -> 40kg)
Slight Adjustment on workshop Deployable costs
Adjusting Larkwell Bolt Price, reduced replication cost from 50 -> 10
Adjusting Larkwell Sickle Price, reduced replication & Unlock cost dramatically
Reduced Workshop Biofuel Canister replication cost
Increased bee aura radius by 50%. Bee aura now affects dirt mounds.
Dirt mound now stacks to 10, increased weight to 250g
Reduced size of dirt mount deployable collision, should make them easier to place next to one another (similar to direct placement with shovel).
You can no longer deploy a dirt mound directly on top of another dirt mound (intersecting edges is still okay).
Fixed CalculateDamageTaken() crash when damage causer was null
Fixed null controler crash on PIE exit
Replaced old Ghillie armor set item icons to new ones
Fixing Workshop heater referencing an old resource that was removed
Fixed bug where food trough / water trough allowlist behaviour wasn't working correctly if set up by a client
Fixing Workshop heater & cooker from not running off hydrazine correctly
Swapping hunter helmet to use the new mesh
Fixed resume button animation
Added bucket asset to meshable data table
Setting up new cave spot lights
Adjustments to lantern audio
Fixing Hunter Helmet unintentionally hiding the undersuits helmet when equipped
Update Workshop pickaxes so they only have a single stat for mining yield
Rescale Workshop hammers, Tatsuo now grants movement speed but lower tier hammers repair slower overall
Reduced Workshop repair kit price to be the same price as repairing in orbit
Reorganized Workshop bow tab to have a clear progression of arrow types, reduced Inaris arrow unlock cost
Buffed Larkwell Knife attack speed
Mounts/Tames will now immediately stop current animation or movement when hitched.
Fixed bug where Mounts/Tames wouldn't return to their previous movement state upon being released from a handheld hitching rope.
Players can no longer release mounts hitched to a post while leading another mount with a hitching rope
Fixing charging Devices CaveLight & CaveSpotLight PRoxy Meshes
Fixed aspect ratio scaling issue on new buttons. Added subtle zoom-in/out effect to new button images.
Sped up OpenWorld/TerrainSelection background image fade in/out, added background blur
Flashlight can be held in your hand again
Fixed cave spotlight wall variant deploying a cave light
Fixed cave spotlight wall variant material assignments
Fixed character buttons being overlapped on main menu
Fixed equipped item shadow not being attached to hands while in first-person perspective
Fixed bug where changing from 1st -> 3rd -> 1st person perspective could cause the light in player's light slot to be positioned incorrectly, causing shadow artifacts.
Added physics to new battery lantern. Increased temperature of battery lantern's lights. Slightly adjusted position of lantern lights in light slot.
3rd person body no longer applies spline pitch rotation when looking up and down in first person.
Increased battery capacity of flashlight and battery lantern by 30%
Increased battery light maximum placement angles
Reduced stack size to 1 for battery lights
Fixing initial battery charge status of lantern and flashlight
Reduced Portable Biofuel Generator power efficiency
Further adjustments to lighting, namely fire based sources
Further adjustments to lighting, namely fire based sources
Swapping Exotic Voxel Material over to a new one
Fixing Tag Queries causing issues with the build
Fixed Hydrazine returning to orbit, this is one time use item
Fixed Hydrazine not appearing in dropship/OEI
Fixing Tag Queries causing issues with the build
Swapping out bucket focusable to use a modified version of the lantern one, added in tweaked 3rd person Idle

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Future Content

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Adding appropriate audio for waterlogged spine item
Adding ice armor fragment pickup audio added to data table item audio and items static
Added animation, changed some font and sizing colour to Main Menu Screen
Lots of adjustments and improvements to Rock Golem audio. Removed aggro state and made it an aggro 1 shot that plays on various animations to avoid state complications with burrowing etc. updated all aggro state audio layers and death layer etc
Added destructible meshs for the lava hunter trophies
Update Prometheus bounds map visibility for full map view
Added lava hunter trophies to the project
Removing Spawning of World Talent Manager for GH, until I have time to fix
Reimported and regenerated Prom fishing map texture and temperature map texture for corresponding setup for the expansion
Fixing muzzle flash on T4 Pistol by adding corresponding socket to skeleton
Updated texture group for RockGolem and Ape textures so they show in 4k
Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
Landscape Sculpting Pass and Landscape Painting Pass, Outpost_011
Ice Mammoth Arena - Added ice chunk meshes + textures, set dressing
Adding more rock golem layers. Flinch and death audio etc
Painted new fishing zones and temp map for Prom expansion
Cliff Pass and added stalagmites, Rock Golem Arena
Added Ape_Boss_Sack to the project
Added ape boss hide asset to the project
First pass rock golem vocalisation audio for attack and aggro state
Ice Breaker is now always relevant for clients, should fix issues where Ice Breaker was popping in and out
Added initial item setup of Sandworm building tier
Ice Mammoth Arena - set dressing and polish
Added ITM_Backpack_LavaHunter
Added ITM_Biomass_LavaHunter
Ice Mammoth arena - added BatNest meshes 02-04, set dressing
Added ITM_Sledgehammer_Rock_Golem
Adding mission source files
Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
Landscape Sculpting Pass and Landscape Painting Pass, Outpost_011
Balances and updates to the rock golem. Added more aggressive angry vocalisations to burrow in and out and other tweaks
Resaving datatable
Ice Mammoth Arena - material work on ice, set dressing with ice chunks, cracks, landscape filler meshes (snow on lake)
Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
Added rock golem fight specific actors into new arena map. Arena_RockGolem now uses one-file-per-actor saving
Added the first two Boss_Ape trophies to the project with blueprints
Setting up Skeleton for Tier 5 Technology Tech Tree and Items with Oil Extraction, Refining and Production creation through a Polymerizer
Fixed flying cheat not working on clients
Adjusted description of flying cheat
Added 'Toggle Flight (Fly)' cheat to enter flying movement. Use mouse scroll adjust speed
Added a tag to all biomass and added a 'hide biomass' option to currency widget. Added back button to open world and mission selector. Made the size of mission and open world buttons uniform with the other buttons
Update Null Sector prospect weather forecast to be harder patterns
Added static to Null Sector area of Prometheus map
Increased maximum spawn distance on Ice Breaker's manual spawn point
Removed RockGolem row from D_WorldData
Disabled world composition for Arena_RockGolem, migrated all actors to Persistent Level
Datatable fix
Updated the pants in the swamp ape display case trophy to not be effected by wind
Added collision for ape boss rug and made slight adjustments to the gfur splines
Added in Basalt Columns and Geothermal lakes, Rock Golem Arena
Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
Consolidated SwampApe arena map
Adding earthquake audio and event. Not currently hooked up to BP
Remove the generated levels from the test base instanced map as build server regex having issues (this is just an example level anyway)
revised meshes/textures for basalt columns, added cluster mesh (WIP)
Iteration on the Terrain and Mission Select Screens
Lots of updates and additions to the rock golem audio. More notifys, events and adjustments to spacial and reverbs etc
Prevent overflowbags from spawning when an instanced level deployable is cleaned up
Swamp Ape Arena - Added & Setup New Tree Var5, Mesh, Material & Level TREE_SW_Mangrove_005
Cliff Placement & Added Snow Material for Cliffs in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
More instanced maps WIP
Basalt columns - WIP meshes/textures
Changed visuals for boss healthbar and armor
Added Ice mammoth armor sk meshes, textures and materials, plastic and ice material functions
Added more columns and moved some floor pieces around based on feedback, Rock Golem Arena
Basalt columns - material adjustments, cluster meshes w custom collision added
Added fuel properties to hardened magma (upcoming item)
Updates to rock golem earthquake and other events. added reverb to footsteps so it can feel echoed at a far distance
Added Water Scyther Spear, Arrow, Bolt and Pic
Adding in remeshed highpoly base model for plantboss for review
Adding in Scyther base mesh and first set of animations, textures to follow
Adding in base mesh for Camping cooker and camping heater as well as texture tweaks to suit, proxy meshes for cooker to follow implementation
Adding in Rock Golem earthquake event to burrown cycle. Adding new rock fall travel audio, rock fall impact audio, new earthquake snapshot override and implimentation. Adjustments to rock gol reverbs and volumes etc
Various instanced level bring up fixes
Swamp Ape Arena - Added & setup New Tree Var6, Mesh, Material & Level TREE_SW_Mangrove_006
Rock Golem Arena Polish Pass and Lake Spline Setup
Added DEP_Trap_Scyther to the project with skeleton and start, loop, and stop animations
Removed remaining arenas from D_WorldData
Setting up Mesh and Icon for Ape Sack
Setting up Mesh and Icon for Lava hunter Throne & Feature
Setting up Mesh and Icon for Rock Golem Sledge
Setting up Mesh and Icon for Lava hunter backpack, adding new aura and related stats
Setting up Mesh and Icon for Lava hunter mine
Added Transparent Basalt Columns to Arena
adding in smaller version of the scyther to use as an enemy fish, custom material and diffuse tweak and material import for the scyther, need to make an alpha mask input for base creature shader too
Adjustments to earthquake. More distortion to make it feel more intense. Adjustment to falling rock ballistic travel spacial to make it feel less whooshy around the player
Added GRE_Swamp_Ape_Grenade
Adding Cheats for Clearing Open World Mission History
Cliff Pass, Outpost 11
Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
Adding more sickle layers to be used for lava hunter sickle
adjustments to crystal material, new meshes and maps for crystal columns
Additions and updates to the golem. Adding eating audio and destroying crystals. General balances, adding notifys to all eating cycles etc
Cliff Pass, Outpost 11
Added support for future shovel and shield attachments
Added new material for crystal columns in Rock Golem Arena
Adding rock golem sledge hammer impact flesh and rock audio and events - data table setups
Added Outpost_012 with temp terrain
Swamp Ape Arena - Added & Setup New COL Mesh for TREE_SW_Mangrove_005 and TREE_SW_Mangrove_006
Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
Cliff Pass, Outpost 11
Removed hardened magma from fuel sources for now
ASHLANDS and ICE SHEET: Increase trail beacon craft requirements
Outpost_012 - landscape iteration
Added updated textures for the Sandworm Wood Building tier, including fixing mismatched meshes and materials in the data table ofr the Sandworm Wood tier, plus assigned the correct kit versions of the meshes to BP_Building_Wall_HalfPitch_Lower_Right_Wood
Added lava hunter warming icon and aura icon

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CEO's Forward

This Week: Ice Box Backpack