MAELSTROM is a Scan and Expedition mission with strong-to-heavy storms. Each fight defending your scanner is long and intense. However, the ultimate goal of this mission is to blow open a permanent shortcut on the Styx map. Objectives and Tips…

To create tools that are more complicated than a stone axe or a mortar and pestle, you’ll need to do some mining. Here’s what you’ll need to create usable metals: Other things to keep in mind: Deep Mining There are…

Exotics! Lore-wise, they’re the reason every faction in space is so interested in Icarus. Gameplay-wise, they’re the currency you’ll need to unlock the high-tier Workshop equipment. In this guide, we’ll go over how to first acquire Exotics, as well as…

In ICARUS, you’ll spend most of your time completing prospects (missions) for the various factions attempting to extract resources from the eponymous planet. These range from simple exploration jobs to long and dangerous treks to recover downed satellites or rare…

It is finally time to track down the Sandworm that you encountered while opening up the Desert region in the mission EL CAMINO: Expedition. In DUST UP, you will follow the destruction left by the Sandworm until you stumble upon…

The VOYAGER-like mission, CRYOGENIC takes prospectors all across the northern part of the map to complete a series of multi-part objectives. Sinotai loves to push the limits with exotic mutations, and they believe there is valuable biological data to be…

The Group 15 research unit of the UDA has a theory that exotics are getting into Icarus wildlife and causing mutations which make them larger and more aggressive than normal. To test their theory, they need a sample from a…

Sinotai has… misplaced a couple of biological containment units (scorpion breeders). So, they want one of your prospectors to drop in and erase any evidence of these exotics-mutated disasters (giant venomous scorpions). In CONCEALMENT: Recovery you will grind up some…

Do giant, furry, snow-colored creatures prowl around the rocky crags of your worst nightmares? Are your prospectors dreading missions where they have to trudge through the Southern Glacier or hunt and skin polar bears? It might help to have some…

Frequently dropping to the surface of Icarus with only an envirosuit, prospectors have to be able to craft their own equipment from local resources. The UDA would like help staying ahead of the game by analyzing the remains of caveworms…