A massive update just dropped for ICARUS that brought the Apicultural System to the game. This new system will transform players into beekeepers, utilizing Worker Bees and Queen Bees to produce a new precious resource.
The Wild Bees Have Arrived
When players explore the world of ICARUS, they will occasionally encounter Wild Bees Nests. They can be discovered in the open field or inside the various caves of the game.
When players get close to these nests, a swarm of angry bees will start attacking them. Players must exercise caution as these bees not only sting for direct damage, but also inflict a stacking debuff called "Bee Swarm." This nasty debuff slows players' movement and melee attack speed. What's worse is that it can stack up to five times!
Fortunately, players can do something about bees by whacking them with a melee weapon. Once they kill the aggressive bees, players can then destroy the Wild Bees Nests to gain some awesome rewards, including honeycombs, worker bees, and even the elusive queen bees!
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Get Them to Work
Beehives can be constructed by collecting 10 honeycombs, 30 pieces of refined wood, and 25 copper nails. Aside from producing honeycomb, Beehives provide a buff that increases the yield of nearby crop plots.
At Tier 3, players can construct the Beehive Breeding Center. Remember the Queen Bees? Players can utilize Queen Bees by putting them inside the Beehive Breeding Center. Doing so will generate Worker Bees that can be tasked to produce more honeycomb.
As players deploy more Beehives, they must start expanding their storage space to store new honeycombs. Luckily, the ICARUS development team added a couple of Beehive expansions in the Tech Tree; one available at Tier 3 and another at Tier 4.
Honeycomb is not only used for constructing Beehives, but it can also be turned into Honey, which is a new resource in ICARUS that can be used for a variety of things, including medicine, candles, cured leather, and food.
Highlights
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Adjustments to bee audio. Adding volume increase based on very close proximity to add intensity and danger to the feel of the bees
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Moved Smoked Bacon icon to consumables folder (source file)
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Adding new stats and modifier for attacks causing a bee swarm, adding stats to bee creature and removing poison damage
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Adding Talents, Recipes and Items related to Beehives, Honeycomb and Honey
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Adding wild bee hive nest audio. Loop and destroy and BP logic to play and stop
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Adding bee hive loop, adjusting PM of bee hive and adding appropriate deploy audiuo to all bee related items
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Added bestiary entry for Bees
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Adding Worker Bee item and balancing beehive extraction/processing/breeding times, Queens now produce worker bees in the breeding center, and workers or queens can be used to generate honeycomb, queens being far more efficient
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Fixing issue with Aura's where they could not effects objects as in some cases they where supposed to (this should fix the issue with crafting machines being effected by the lava biome ash debuff when in range of a dehumidifier)
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Unlocking Bestiary Data for Bee and fixing the Honey Mead so it gives a glass bottle and not another bottle of honey mead when consumed
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Adding Bee Nest Spawns to Forest, Desert, Swamp, Lava and Grasslands biomes
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Adding Reinforced Wood Building Tier - a tier which includes beeswax and craftable from the carpentry bench
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Beehive Honeycomb splitting now requires an active power connection for the T4 Extraction Upgrade
The bees are a part of the ICARUS Week 112 update, which is now available to download on Steam.
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