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The big one this week: if you've ever lost pets to a boss raid, decay, or whatever else the planet threw at you, you can now bring them back from a world save backup. That's the headline. There are a couple of other quality-of-life wins underneath it.

Bring Your Pets Back (#138)

Pets killed in a boss raid don't have to be gone for good. There's a new Recovery Mode toggle on the Pets editor.

Important: you'll need a backup of your world save from before the loss, meaning the world save where the pets still existed. The portal can't conjure pets out of nothing; it copies them from a save where they're still alive.

Good news: Icarus already does this for you. The game keeps a rolling stack of ten automatic backups in your prospect folder, named {prospect name}.json.backup_1 through .json.backup_10. Pick whichever one is from before the raid. That's your recovery source.

Flip Recovery Mode on and the editor changes shape:

Upload one of those .backup_N files directly. No need to rename it. The portal scans it for pet actors that belong to you.
- You can also upload your prospect's main .json If it's from before the loss.
Pick a character if your save has more than one player on it. The portal matches owners automatically when it can.
Pick the pets you want back. Each pet shows up as a card with the same look as the regular editor, just read-only.
Recover. The portal copies the pet's actor data straight into your current Mounts.json and offers you the download.

A few things worth knowing:

It works for any creature, not just specific species. If the pet exists in your backup save and was yours, it can come back.
Duplicates are blocked. If a pet still exists in your Mounts.jsonThe portal won't let you accidentally clone it back in.
Recovery mode is fully read-only. All the normal edit buttons go quiet, so you can't trip over them mid-recovery.
Free for everyone.

If you've got a backup world save sitting in your artifact storage from a previous portal session, you don't even need to re-upload it. The portal sees it and lets you reuse it.

Tool-Created Mounts Not Loading? Fixed.

If you used the New Pet button to spawn a creature, then took the save back into the game and the mount just... didn't appear, that was a bug on our side. It's fixed now.

New pets you create going forward are fine.
Existing tool-created pets sitting in a Mounts.json will be quietly corrected the next time you upload, with a small toast letting you know. No action needed on your end.

If you've had a tool-created mount refuse to load in-game, re-upload your save. You should be set.

Where To Find Us Now

Quick housekeeping. There are now "Join us on Reddit" links in the top nav and the footer, pointing at r/IcarusTools.

That's our home base for tool announcements, bug discussion, and feature requests outside the bug report system. Come say hi.

Behind the Scenes (Briefly)

A couple of things that don't change anything you'll see directly, but are worth a line:

Cartographer now has usage metrics (#232). I had no visibility into how the Cartographer was actually being used: page visits, which maps people loaded, and share-link clicks. That's wired up now, which means I can prioritize Cartographer improvements based on what people actually do with it instead of guessing.
CI is roughly 45× faster. Internal-only, but it means fixes ship faster.

What's Next

Two open user reports are still on the board:

Black/orange cats spawning gray (#241). The variation isn't sticking with cats. Reproducible. Up next.
Maxed talent points not saving (#240). Reported a couple of weeks back; still on the list.
mounts.json parse error on upload (#262). A new one from this week. Investigating.

If you've reported one of these, I haven't forgotten. The pet recovery epic ate a chunk of the last week. Back to triage.

Thanks for using the portal. As always, bug reports that lead to fixes get premium credits.

More soon.