How would one get to the desert biome on Styx

[Cthulhu]

I've briefly visited the snow biome at K6 on the map. That was easy enough, but can't figure out how to get to the desert.

Here's the online Styx map

https://www.icarusintel.com/

[Dragorin]

There is a tunnel SE corner of H5, however upon my investigation of that area it's blocked. Map you linked above states: Unlocked By Vertigo: Expedition So guess we have to complete that expedition misssion first.

[Fuzzy Spoons]

I had to use a ton of resources to make a freaking wood ramp up a stupid a** MOUNTAIN just to get to the desert...
I had to go to J11 run around to L10 and make a bunch of Wood Roofs and Wood Poles to go up and over the Ice Cliffs to get to the top of the MTN and go through a cave at L2. To get back home I will have to go back the way I came....So stupid open world is dependent on missions for any reason.

[Cthulhu]

Originally posted by Fuzzy Spoons:

I had to use a ton of resources to make a freaking wood ramp up a stupid a** MOUNTAIN just to get to the desert...
I had to go to J11 run around to L10 and make a bunch of Wood Roofs and Wood Poles to go up and over the Ice Cliffs to get to the top of the MTN and go through a cave at L2. To get back home I will have to go back the way I came....So stupid open world is dependent on missions for any reason.

I hear you! Oh well we have to do it!

By the way, I've only ever played open world. How do I get to this mission? Use the drop pod our character initially landed on planet in? What about items to take. Can we take worn gear and anything in inventory off the open world to do this mission?

[Pach]

Originally posted by Cthulhu:

Originally posted by Fuzzy Spoons:

I had to use a ton of resources to make a freaking wood ramp up a stupid a** MOUNTAIN just to get to the desert...
I had to go to J11 run around to L10 and make a bunch of Wood Roofs and Wood Poles to go up and over the Ice Cliffs to get to the top of the MTN and go through a cave at L2. To get back home I will have to go back the way I came....So stupid open world is dependent on missions for any reason.

I hear you! Oh well we have to do it!

By the way, I've only ever played open world. How do I get to this mission? Use the drop pod our character initially landed on planet in? What about items to take. Can we take worn gear and anything in inventory off the open world to do this mission?

You cannot take anything from your open world. In fact, you are best advised to LEAVE EVERYTHING IN A BOX in your open world before swapping to missions.

When you evacuate, everything in your inventory is DELETED.

The only things you can take with you on missions are Workshop items, which you get by getting cash/exotics (in missions).

Good luck! Fingers crossed for you! (the Styx missions are harder than the Olympus ones)

[YorKarma]

Very much harder. I am new to the game. Playing on Styx solo open world. Was very surprised to find out open world required you to play mission game. I chose open world for a reason, but anyway. The missions solo are extremely hard. plan on dying a lot and losing a lot of exp. I completed first mission and tunnel to cave IS NOT OPEN. How many missions do I need to complete to open the tunnel? Thanks.

[Ligator]

Excuse me for digging up this dead thjread but I wonder the same thing as the person in the end. How many missions. I made one. No tunnel to desert.,

[КрендельФигов]

https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Styx
by link image with:
Shortcut blockers in Styx with names of expeditions to open the shortcut and examples of how to 'go around' each shortcut.

[Ky0_GC]

Damn !!! This is freaking stupid !!!
You have a map, but can not (or very harder) explore all of it ?!
Man, this is crazy...

[Dark Redslayer]

I ran into this too trying to get to the ice area. If you're not interested in doing the long missions required for them to be opened (as I wasn't) I found a way around it

Open %localappdata%\Icarus\Saved\PlayerData\<steamID>\Profile.JSON in a text editor (Notepad is easiest, generally).

Styx: Inside the brackets after "Talents":If there's an existing set of talents, go to the end and add a comma, if not simply add a new line between the brackets. Either way, paste the following:



{
"RowName": "Prospect_Styx_A_Expedition",
"Rank": 1
},
{
"RowName": "Prospect_Styx_A_Exploration",
"Rank": 1
},
{
"RowName": "Prospect_Styx_B_Expedition",
"Rank": 1
},
{
"RowName": "Prospect_Styx_E_Expedition",
"Rank": 1
},
{
"RowName": "Prospect_Styx_C_Expedition",
"Rank": 1
},
{
"RowName": "Prospect_Styx_D_Expedition",
"Rank": 1
},
{
"RowName": "Prospect_Styx_B_Exploration",
"Rank": 1
},
{
"RowName": "Prospect_Styx_C_Exploration",
"Rank": 1
},
{
"RowName": "Prospect_Styx_E_Exploration",
"Rank": 1
},
{
"RowName": "Prospect_Styx_D_Exploration",
"Rank": 1
}

[Ky0_GC]

thank you for the tip
but man, this kind of sh*t, pulls me off all the motivation to play the game !!!
it's absurd to have choices like that on a game (specially in open world map... which is for an open world the core base...) it's totally insane
well, hope this will be fixed by a direct and opened way (not via cave or any other stupid idea) to access every biome :/ damn...

[Dark Redslayer]

Originally posted by Ky0_GC:

thank you for the tip
but man, this kind of sh*t, pulls me off all the motivation to play the game !!!
it's absurd to have choices like that on a game (specially in open world map... which is for an open world the core base...) it's totally insane
well, hope this will be fixed by a direct and opened way (not via cave or any other stupid idea) to access every biome :/ damn...

I was mad too, thats why I went so far as to figure out that means of unlocking lol. All I wanted to do was grab some ice for my ice box, I didn't want to do a 4 hour mission to get some ice lol.

[pfoster7]

I only do missions on 1 character. My Styx member was curious about the deserts. Built main base at the falls in I6. Traveled to K3, prepped wood/fiber, then went J2-J3-I3-I2-H2-G2-G3, built shelter in desert side of cave then explored the desert starting at G4.

[Caelaran]

Hopefully this is resolved with Hypatia open world missioning that released today