I honestly can’t find any use for it beyond digging up buried tech & artifacts.

I used to level areas to build bases, but of course the terrain would regenerate at some point and I’d have dirt & rocks covering the floor. All of my buildings are now built on struts above ground level.

You have a literal level setting on your manipulator to flatten the terrain, but the terrain regen just negates it completely. What gives?

So lately when I start my game up, it’s been taking me to the “Start New Game” menu by default. Tonight when I started playing, I thought “you know, I died on my permadeath save a few days ago. Let’s give that another go.”

So I make a new save, make progress, then decide to finish the night out casually. I go to switch to my daughter’s and my shared save (she’s 4 and just likes to fly the ship and help build bases). Turns out the start a new save screen it’s been taking me to this whole time overrights whatever game save you were on last. So I’ve lost my 50 hour save that I share with my daughter.

I’m bummed that we’ve lost all our Elsa castles and whatnot we’ve built, but I’m also sad for all the other stuff I accomplished on that save. It was a lot… and now it’s gone.