Icarus 'Searchlight: Scan' Prospect Mission Walkthrough & Guide

This Icarus Searchlight: Scan Prospect Mission Walkthrough & Guide will tell you how to make the trek across the Arctic and scan three key locations while staying alive.

What You Need For the Icarus Searchlight: Scan Prospect Mission

The Icarus Searchlight: Scan Prospect mission is going to take you even deeper into the Arctic biome.

• Stone Pickaxe
• Stone Axe
• Campfire
• Bedroll
• Stone Knife
• Wood Bow
• Stone Arrows
• Bone Arrows
• Wood Spear
• Bone Spear
• All Wood building pieces
• Wood Ladder
• All Cloth armor pieces
• Bandages
• Wood Repair Hammer
• Crafting Bench
• Waterskin

Additionally, it is strongly recommended (but not required) to have the following:

• Rain Reservoir
• Oxidizer
• Skinning Bench
• Textiles Bench
• All Fur armor pieces

How to Unlock the Icarus Searchlight: Scan Prospect Mission

You can unlock the Icarus Searchlight: Scan Prospect mission by completing the Icarus Icestorm: Expedition Prospect mission.

Icarus Searchlight: Scan Prospect Mission Walkthrough & Guide

There's a lot of prep to do this time!

Setting Up

You'll land in a familiar area from an earlier Prospect. Craft the following tools:

• Stone Pickaxe
• Stone Axe
• Wood Spear
• Bow
• 30 Stone Arrows
• Stone Knife

Unfortunately, this area also has no water whatsoever -- a Rain Reservoir is strongly recommended for collecting rain or melting Ice. Build a small cabin with a Crafting Bench, Skinning Bench, Textiles Bench, Campfire, and Bedroll at the point indicated on the map. Place a Rain Reservoir outside, ideally on a raised platform.

Next, start hunting like mad. You're going to need enough Fur to build at least 3 additional Bedrolls total (and ideally, a full set of Fur Armor). Make an Oxidizer and a couple of Waterskins if you have it, too.

After you've done a fair amount of hunting, craft the following items:

• 4 Wood Roof/Ramps
• 14 Wood Walls
• 4 Wood Floors
• 16 Wood Beams
• 8 Wood Wall Angled
• 4 Wood Ladders
• 3 Bedrolls
• 3 Campfires
• 3 Wood Repair Hammers

Additionally, gather the following materials:

• 20 Cooked Meat
• 2 Filled Waterskins
• 100 Stick
• 200 Fiber
• 100 Wood
• 30 Stone
• 50 Oxite

Now you're ready to get moving. Make sure to set your spawn point to the Bedroll in your first cabin -- you won't be back for a while.

Collect Radar from Supply Pod

Head into the Arctic Biome and collect the Radar from the Supply Pod. If you encounter a Polar Bear, stay far away from it and sneak if it gets closer to you.

If a storm happens, use your building materials to quickly build a small shelter on stilts. If the weather is clear, proceed to Scan Location 1.

Scan Location 1

When you have Scan Location 1 in sight, walk at least 30-40 meters away and build a stilt house near a cliff wall, ideally on higher ground if possible. You'll use the following pieces to build it:

• 4 Wood Beam
• 1 Wood Floor (with a hole in the bottom)
• 1 Wood Ladder
• 4 Wood Wall
• 2 Wood Wall Angled
• 1 Wood Roof/Ramp
• 1 Campfire
• 1 Bedroll

Set your spawn point to this new Bedroll. If it's after 18:00, sleep until it is morning.

Move to Scan Location 1. Place the Scanner, activate it, and run back towards your stilt house. A single Polar Bear will attack the Radar, but it will eventually give up; wait for it to move away, sneak back to the Radar, and reactivate it. Pick up the Radar and move to Scan Location 2.

Scan Location 2

Repeat the same process at Scan Location 2 -- build a Stilt House 30-40 meters away, set your spawn point inside, and activate the radar. I didn't see what animal spawned due to a bug. Avoid or kill the animal if possible, finish the scan, and head to Scan Location 3.

Scan Location 3

Scan Location 3 is a little more challenging -- this location is on top of a large rock. Fortunately, you also are on the other border of the Arctic biome.

Build your stilt house in the Forest biome; this will reduce concerns about Polar Bears and nasty weather. Then, start chopping down trees -- you're going to need to build quite the contraption to get up to Scan Location 3:

Don't dally about Scanning - an Arctic Storm will quickly trash the structure and you'll have to repair or rebuild it.

Start the Scan and retreat if you like. This time, the enemy is a Snow Leopard; it seems no different than a Cougar except for its color and you should be able to fight it one-on-one.

Once the scan is done, start heading back. Make sure to stop at each of your stile houses and update your spawn point -- you don't want to have to walk through the Arctic Biome more than you need to. Launch the Dropship and you're done!