So I’m doing Expedition 7, which is permadeath (decidedly not my thing), and I got to the second anchor point’s memory section, which happens to be close to a giant plateau on top of super steep cliffs. I’m thinking the jetpack trick will get me right back up to my ship, so I follow the signal off the side of the cliff, interact with the grave and escape some sentinels feeling fine and and dandy, and then I go to do the jetpack trick and…. it doesn’t work. I keep getting these weird hitches, and then I’d run out of fuel and fall. I try to summon my ship, and it says I need 125% fuel to call it, which isn’t even possible. I attempt to corkscrew my way through the mountain, but there is too much of it that can’t be manipulated. I cut notches into the side, but they are too shallow, and I keep falling off because the jetpack won’t stay still.

It was getting late, so I decided I’d better build a base just in case. There are raging firestorms on this planet, and I wasn’t going to solve the problem in that session. At that point, I asked you guys for help. I named my base “Help Me Build a Teleporter Please!.” One of you guys suggested manipulating terrain on the side of the mountain, but the jetpack was too finicky, and I couldn’t do this very well. I don’t have plans for a landing pad, so that wouldn’t work. All other bases and stations were more than 3 hours away. I have probably two thirds of this expedition done, and I didn’t want to lose all that progress!!

So what happened? I built floors and walls up most of the side of the mountain and got more than halfway up. I summoned the Minotaur every so often to brave the storms… and then I fell. My jetpack and rocket boots were damaged and I didn’t have the materials to fix the rocket boots. Undeterred, I continued my construction project but noticed that my jetpack was functioning normally and I wasn’t getting some of the weird hitches I was getting before. I went to the top of my scaffold and thought to try the jetpack trick one more time, and it worked!!! I gloriously jetted to the top of the mountain and found my ship. I got out of there as fast my little solar sails would take me. It was the god**** rocket boots glitching out that caused all of these issues. I made it though! Hopefully I can finish up the other milestones a bit more painlessly and get my frigate.

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I loaded into someone’s parked fighter and I think we just got a glimpse of what ship customization would look like and I kind of don’t hate it 😆