Did I screw up??

[Yallaen]

I've been playing Icarus now for a week or so. I've gotten my character to Level 23, had a nice house, a basement stable area for my mount...

Well, I finally got around to building the orbital communicator. I had some ren in my pocket, so I finally researched and had the environmental suit built (don't ask me the name, it's the one with the expanded O2 and Water slots).

I could not for the life of me figure out how to get that. I researched it, crafted it...and it was in my inventory. But I could NOT figure out how to get it to me....

So I think I did a dumb thing...I emptied my inventory, went to the dropship, and went to orbit thinking I needed to get it from there and bring back down...

I'm afraid that I've lost my house and everything I crafted thus far....or did I?

[The Klang Is Good]

If you left from openworld prospect it should be still there. So don't worry.

[Rekal]

To rejoin your Open World map, use the Load option from the menu.

You're right about how to equip the envirosuit. It's the only item from the workshop you need to return to orbit and change into directly because you can't change it while on the planet.

[КрендельФигов]

If you exited Outpost, Openworld (any), then after selecting a character when you click ‘Resume’ you will be taken to the last prospect you exited from.
But as already written above, you can always return via ‘Load’. You cannot leave a Mission because it is synonymous with their completion;
Outposts + Openwords is a persistent world and they can only be deleted by force. (although there are also backup files there)

[william_es]

You can only change your suit out when back up in orbit. It's the one thing that's locked while you're in mission, any mission (including open world).

As others pointed out, open world are persistent. When you create an open world session, you give it a name. It should show up in your listings when you go to open world, just choose the named world.

By the way, you did good by putting all your stuff into storage in the open world. It will straight up delete anything that's not a workshop purchased item when you go back up to orbit. Some people have found this out the hard way. In my prometheus open world, I have a little 1 x 1 house, with metal cabinets inside. I have it in the center of a landmark that shows on the map, and happens to sort of be in the middle of all potential landing sites. I get out of the droppod and run to the little hut to get my gear out. I've built in-game versions of many workshop items, so some workshop things I don't even bring anymore.

[Yallaen]

Thanks all for the help! So, basically, anytime I go up to the dropship, I need to be naked: nothing in tool bar, nothing in backpack, etc. Is that correct? And as far as my suit goes, I need to remove the armor as well, go up to the station, change out suits there, then come back? Is that correct?

I think another issue is that I may have built the suit in one of my other "prospects". So I deleted all the other ones except the one I've progessed so far on.

[КрендельФигов]

{I need to be naked: nothing in tool bar, nothing in backpack, etc. Is that correct?}
You should only have what you bought from the orbital workshop. Things made on the planet below will disappear.

{I need to remove the armor as well, go up to the station, change out suits there, then come back?}
4) The only thing that cannot be ordered this way is an envirosuit. To change them, you will need to personally climb up into orbit, which, for example, is not suitable when performing Missions.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1149460/discussions/0/7098294290814138063/#c7098294290816150476

PS By the way, if you are concerned about the safety of your Openworld, you can save it periodically (as I do).
(including everyone reading this): always regularly save your Icarus to a separate folder on another partition of the drive (or flash drive). (disable Steam clouds, otherwise, when you manually return your saves, there is a chance that Steam cloud will return the original saves.)
-------->! You need to save the entire directory c:\Users\”name your windows account”\AppData\Local\Icarus\Saved

[Smutburger]

when I go to orbit and try to switch out my Envirosuit, there is no slot for me to switch to a new one. It shows "Your Items" which have my suit in it plus other items, then on the right side "Items on drops". I don't see where to change out my current suit for the new one. Any suggestions?

[Smutburger]

Nevermind lol, disregard my last moronic comment. I figured it out. It's when you go to the join screen that you can drag it over. Thanks for putting up with me lol.

[Luminous Dark]

Drag and drop the new suit onto the default suit.