Icarus: Step-by-Step Guide to Creating New Worlds & Claiming Prospects

Accessing Character Selection and Space Station

• 💡 To begin, press escape and navigate to the character selection screen to return to the space station.
• 📌 The space station menu allows you to create a new prospect, load existing ones, join multiplayer sessions, or resume your current playthrough.

Creating a New Prospect: World Types

• 🚀 Choose between three world types: Open World, Mission, or Outpost.
• 🗺️ For Open Worlds, select your desired map (Olympus, Styx, or Prometheus if expansions are owned), set the difficulty, name your world, and optionally enable arachnophobia mode.
• 📦 Before dropping, you can select cargo to take with you and confirm your loadout.

Selecting Drop Zones and Loadouts

• 🎯 After confirming your loadout, choose a drop zone from available options like Confier, Riverlands, Desert, Arctic, or Canyons.
• private lobby settings (Steam Friends only, or Private) before the game loads.

Mission and Outpost Specifics

• 🎯 Missions offer a specific objective with customizable settings, including an option to enable hardcore mode for greater rewards.
• 🏠 Outposts provide a risk-free building environment with calm weather, regenerating resources, and fewer enemies, but come with an XP reduction.
• 🛠️ When creating an outpost, select the biome type, difficulty, name, and confirm your loadout and invite type.