Cured Leather Backpack · Week 250–251 current-player evidence boundary
ICARUS Cured Leather Backpack: Bench and Stats
Quick Answer
The ICARUS Cured Leather Backpack is a Tier 3 planetary backpack introduced in Week 238 and crafted at the Advanced Textiles Bench. It adds six inventory slots, raises base carry capacity by 10 kg, and reduces the carried weight of both Ore and Wood by 10%. It is the direct progression step above the Tier 2 Leather Backpack: the older bag also adds six slots, but Week 238 says its weight reduction is 5%, applies to Ore rather than both Ore and Wood, and its carry bonus is 5 kg. The Cured Leather version therefore keeps the same slot count while doubling the cited reduction and carry bonuses and broadening the reduction to Wood. The official narrative does not list the material recipe, talent cost, durability, armor, or later Tier 4 and Tier 5 backpack details, so check those fields in the current Tech Tree and bench.
- Reading time
- 8 minutes
- Difficulty
- Tier and stat check
- Checked
- 2026-09-27
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Guide details
Before you begin
Check where the Tier 3 Cured Leather Backpack is crafted, what its four verified carrying benefits are, and which recipe and comparison claims the official Week 238 article does not establish.
Week 238 tier, crafting station, slots, carry bonus, Ore/Wood reductions and Tier 2 comparison; no invented recipe or later stats.
- Status
- Official weekly-update answer plus current Bing gap review
- Edition
- Week 250–251 current-player evidence boundary
- Platform
- PC · Steam
- Checked
- 2026-09-27
- Check note
- Only facts stated in the cited official update are treated as verified. Unlisted recipes, exchange prices, controls, later changes, search volume, and keyword difficulty remain Unknown.
Before you set out
Prerequisites#
- Use Week 238 or a later build. That update is the verified introduction point for the backpack.
- Treat it as a Tier 3 on-planet item, not Workshop gear. The official article explicitly distinguishes planetary progression from specialized Workshop backpacks.
- Have access to the Advanced Textiles Bench. The article names the crafting station but does not publish the materials or preceding unlock chain.
- Compare benefits by full category: slots, base carry capacity, Ore reduction, and Wood reduction. A generic “10% lighter” summary loses the item boundaries.
What changes from the Tier 2 Leather Backpack#
The Week 238 comparison is useful because it separates storage space from weight management. Both the Tier 2 Leather Backpack and the Tier 3 Cured Leather Backpack provide six inventory slots, so this upgrade is not primarily a slot expansion. The gains are in load handling. The new bag raises the cited base carry bonus from 5 kg to 10 kg, raises the cited weight reduction from 5% to 10%, and expands that reduction from Ore to both Ore and Wood. That makes it a general planetary hauling upgrade for mining and logging without relying on a Workshop backpack. The official source describes a larger material investment but does not state the actual recipe, so “cured leather” in the name is not permission to invent quantities or assume the only ingredient. It also previews future Tier 4 and Tier 5 backpacks without defining them; those unreleased details are outside this guide.
Route 02
Unlock and evaluate the backpack safely#
Use the current Tier 3 Tech Tree and Advanced Textiles Bench for live requirements, while keeping the four Week 238 benefits as the stable answer boundary.
Locate the Tier 3 backpack entry#
Open the current Tier 3 progression and find the Cured Leather Backpack by its complete name. Week 238 verifies its tier but does not state the blueprint point cost, level prerequisite, or every parent unlock. Read those requirements in the active build before spending points.
Use the Advanced Textiles Bench#
The official crafting location is the Advanced Textiles Bench. If the item does not appear, first confirm the correct bench and the current unlock state. Do not substitute the ordinary Textiles Bench, a Workshop menu, or a guessed crafting station because another backpack uses it.
Read the live material recipe#
Gather exactly what the current bench requests. The update says the backpack requires a larger investment than the Tier 2 Leather Backpack, but it does not enumerate materials or quantities. A recipe copied from a database or older build needs separate current verification and is not treated as official here.
Equip it and confirm the six slots#
After crafting, equip the backpack in the supported slot and verify that six inventory spaces become available. Because the Tier 2 comparison also supplies six slots, do not use slot count alone to decide whether the upgrade is active.
Check the 10 kg carry bonus#
Week 238 states a 10 kg increase to base carry capacity. Compare the current character panel before and after equipping if you need to distinguish the backpack from talents, food, mounts, modules, or other modifiers. This guide does not claim how separate modifiers stack.
Use it for both Ore and Wood loads#
The verified weight reduction is 10% for Ore and Wood. Keep the categories literal. The source does not extend that benefit to stone, crafted parts, food, armor, deployables, or every item made from those resources. Read the current item tooltip when classifying an unusual stack.
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Verified Week 238 comparison#
- Tier and station — Tier 3, crafted at the Advanced Textiles Bench.
- Inventory — six additional slots, the same cited slot increase as the Tier 2 Leather Backpack.
- Carry capacity — 10 kg base carry bonus, compared with the cited 5 kg on the Tier 2 bag.
- Ore — 10% carried-weight reduction, compared with the cited 5% on the Tier 2 bag.
- Wood — included in the 10% reduction on the Cured Leather Backpack, expanding beyond the cited Tier 2 scope.
- Unknown here — exact recipe, blueprint cost, prerequisites, durability, armor, modifier stacking, future backpacks, and later balance changes.
Fault ledger
If the backpack or bonus is missing#
- The recipe is absent from the crafting list
- Confirm Week 238 or later, the Tier 3 unlock, and the Advanced Textiles Bench. The official article does not establish that merely reaching Tier 3 automatically unlocks every recipe.
- Only six extra slots appear
- That slot count is expected and matches the Tier 2 comparison. Check carry capacity and Ore/Wood weight handling for the actual upgrade benefits.
- A carried item does not become 10% lighter
- Verify that the current item is categorized as Ore or Wood. The source does not grant a universal 10% reduction to the entire inventory.
- A recipe guide lists exact material quantities
- Treat those figures as a separate, version-sensitive source. Week 238 does not publish the recipe, so compare them with the live Advanced Textiles Bench before relying on them.
- A newer tooltip disagrees with Week 238
- Record the current build and exact displayed field. Week 238 is the release baseline, not proof that no later balance update occurred.
Field questions
Cured Leather Backpack questions#
- Where do I craft the Cured Leather Backpack?
- At the Advanced Textiles Bench. It is a Tier 3 planetary item, not a Workshop replication.
- How many inventory slots does it add?
- Six. The upgrade keeps the same cited slot increase as the Tier 2 Leather Backpack and improves the carrying bonuses instead.
- What weight does it reduce?
- Week 238 specifies a 10% reduction for both Ore and Wood. It does not state a universal reduction for all inventory categories.
- How much carry capacity does it add?
- The official Week 238 description states a 10 kg base carry bonus, compared with 5 kg for the Tier 2 Leather Backpack.
- What is the crafting recipe?
- The saved official narrative does not list materials or quantities. Use the live Advanced Textiles Bench and do not convert an unverified database row into an official claim.