Map points?

[Yallaen]

Again, still fairly new to the game. I'm playing Olympus Open world. Is there a way to mark POI on the map in Icarus? I know if you double-click you'll put a marker. But I want to mark caves I've found...is there a way? What about the beacons from those open world mission I've done? Can those be gathered up after completing the mission, and used as markers?

I love this game, but it's not always..intuitive :)

[TheHellKat]

If you do the missions in the open world and swipe the beacons when you are done then you can reuse them as map markers (which is their intended purpose for player crafted ones).

Double clicking to put the waypoint marker is good I suppose but you can only have 1 marker and it doesn't persist between loads.

[КрендельФигов]

In this game, the only way to mark a position on the map is through (at the initial stage of the game it is very expensive, but then not)
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Portable_Beacon
There is a beacon from quests, but for some reason it doesn’t work fully for me.

[Tanyon]

No they refuse to just give us map markers.

So as stated above you can craft beacons or get them from rewards on open world missions. (which is just dumb) I've never played an open world survival game that did not just let me make map markers.

So I just use this interactive map and make my marks on there: https://www.icarusintel.com/

It also shows a lot of information for missions, resources etc.. Very useful tool. Some say it's cheating but whatever.

[Yallaen]

Going to go snatch up some of those darn beacons :)

[william_es]

There's a module that says it allows the marking of locations. I don't know if it's a permanent thing, or basically just a one-time ping so other players can see where you are.

You'll get a marker for tamed animals by the way. So you can park one in a stable near something, get a free map marker that way.

[Rekal]

Originally posted by КрендельФигов:

There is a beacon from quests, but for some reason it doesn’t work fully for me.

There are two kinds of beacons from the C0NT4CT Device jobs. The 'build a tower' beacons do not allow any kind of modification, just a simple blue pin on the map. The 'find the thatch hut' jobs give a fully functional beacon you can change the symbol and color for.

[Borfoid]

Beacons take so few resources to craft though - and you'd kinda need to craft them if you wanted a beacon in real life that wasn't just a scrawl on a bit of paper.

If you want to place a map marker just look at the beacon recipe and make some.

It's like in the real world, you need to place a transceiver in the environment to make the transceiver be a thing. Our little beacons are a pinger. It's kinda analogous to real world beacons.

[Shockwave]

No. Icarus has some very wacky design choices that make not sense and not being able to mark caves and such is one of them. It boggles the mind that we can't mark caves we've found or just about anything else.

I was forced to use an online map, that unfortunately showed all the caves, so because the of this patently ridiculous design choice you are basically forced to cheat, and lose out on the ability to "discover" caves.

[Tanyon]

Originally posted by Shockwave:

No. Icarus has some very wacky design choices that make not sense and not being able to mark caves and such is one of them. It boggles the mind that we can't mark caves we've found or just about anything else.

I was forced to use an online map, that unfortunately showed all the caves, so because the of this patently ridiculous design choice you are basically forced to cheat, and lose out on the ability to "discover" caves.

+1 100% it's just lazy... dumb.. more busy work for us to gather more resources.. we have the technology to go up to space and come back down, and they can mark our map for us in missions.. but I guess that is all just for show lol

[Rekal]

Originally posted by Borfoid:

Beacons take so few resources to craft though - and you'd kinda need to craft them if you wanted a beacon in real life that wasn't just a scrawl on a bit of paper.

If you want to place a map marker just look at the beacon recipe and make some.

It's like in the real world, you need to place a transceiver in the environment to make the transceiver be a thing. Our little beacons are a pinger. It's kinda analogous to real world beacons.

I'm of the opinion that crafted Portable Beacons are not expensive, they are stupidly and prohibitively expensive. This is not me attacking you, I'm just venting about the dumb design decision that is the Portable Beacon.

The Portable Beacons require the T3 Machining Bench and here's the cost breakdown:

• 12 Gold Ore
• 10 Copper Ore
• 60 Iron Ore
• 10 Coal / 200 Charcoal
• 10 Silica Ore
• 25 Platinum Ore

And all the beacon does is add a point to your map and HUD.

GPS is a thing and even if it wasn't inertial navigation is stupidly easy when moving at human speeds - most modern smart phones can do it. If our map is high tech enough to position us perfectly, it should be able to save a few addresses. Our phone's GPS can do it right? At the very least we should be able to pencil in a mark that doesn't go away - We got wood and charcoal right? I'll even craft the pencil if I have to!

In comparison, here are the materials for a device that is self powered and lets you communicate all the way to orbit two-way while also giving accurate landing coordinates - the Orbital Exchange Device which only requires the T2 Crafting Bench:

• 14 Iron Ore
• 14 Copper Ore
• 10 Wood
• 120 Fiber / 50 Leather

The C0NT4CT Device is even cheaper using only Iron instead of Copper. Why can't I just modify one these to send out a location ping? It'd be so much cheaper.

[pfoster7]

Originally posted by Rekal:

Originally posted by Borfoid:

Beacons take so few resources to craft though - and you'd kinda need to craft them if you wanted a beacon in real life that wasn't just a scrawl on a bit of paper.

If you want to place a map marker just look at the beacon recipe and make some.

It's like in the real world, you need to place a transceiver in the environment to make the transceiver be a thing. Our little beacons are a pinger. It's kinda analogous to real world beacons.

I'm of the opinion that crafted Portable Beacons are not expensive, they are stupidly and prohibitively expensive. This is not me attacking you, I'm just venting about the dumb design decision that is the Portable Beacon.

The Portable Beacons require the T3 Machining Bench and here's the cost breakdown:

• 12 Gold Ore
• 10 Copper Ore
• 60 Iron Ore
• 10 Coal / 200 Charcoal
• 10 Silica Ore
• 25 Platinum Ore

And all the beacon does is add a point to your map and HUD.

GPS is a thing and even if it wasn't inertial navigation is stupidly easy when moving at human speeds - most modern smart phones can do it. If our map is high tech enough to position us perfectly, it should be able to save a few addresses. Our phone's GPS can do it right? At the very least we should be able to pencil in a mark that doesn't go away - We got wood and charcoal right? I'll even craft the pencil if I have to!

In comparison, here are the materials for a device that is self powered and lets you communicate all the way to orbit two-way while also giving accurate landing coordinates - the Orbital Exchange Device which only requires the T2 Crafting Bench:

• 14 Iron Ore
• 14 Copper Ore
• 10 Wood
• 120 Fiber / 50 Leather

The C0NT4CT Device is even cheaper using only Iron instead of Copper. Why can't I just modify one these to send out a location ping? It'd be so much cheaper.

I totally agree with this thought. Not only what Rekal has mentioned but the fact that no text can be associated with them when assigned to a map position. Even 5 characters would suffice. I do not normally use them for caves locations but I do for nearby important deep mining sites, my bases (both main and biome exploration) and I also sometimes plop one down on plant locations (especially hard to find Yeast) on Prometheus so I can return later to see if others exist. Beacon material cost is too high as is although I tend to find myself having enough materials to make them. Solo player, natural grinder player.

[Yallaen]

Thank you for the replies! I did grab a couple beacons that I deployed via SIMPLE missions, and used them as cave markers. You can change the color of the beacon, and there are a couple marker icons you can make your beacon. So there's that....