This should be fixed in the next update.

This save file helped me identify the issue. It should be fixed in the next update (next day or so).

If you start a new game after the next update it will force a pickaxe to spawn in Hab Beta. I will look into revising this to work more closely to the way I described above, where it would still be semi-random, but for now this will ensure that the game mechanic is not locked behind RNG.

Yeah, this appears to be an oversight on my part. The pickaxe is randomized, but there is supposed to be a "failsafe" of sorts that makes sure you find one within a certain amount of game time. It appears that this failsafe is not operating properly and I will need to get a fix for the next update. Thanks for calling this to my attention.

I've got this fixed now. Will be in the next update.

Mr. Fusion has been one of the most helpful contributors here on the feedback forums and he does his best to provide answers when I'm unable respond in a timely manner. His responses here are basically accurate, but I'll elaborate.

The pickaxe/datapad stuff is nearly fixed, but I'm not sure when I'll put the fix out. I might put out another quick patch, or just wait to include them with a feature update in a week or so.

Situational music is my artistic choice for the game, but I've provided a volume slider for the music alone so that you could turn that music off if you wish. Then you could play some other fitting soundtrack if you like.

There is indeed a distant terrain mask that will hide the sun. It is slightly visible depending on the brightness settings on your monitor, but Mr. Fusion is correct that the distance fog largely obscures it.

Could you provide me a screenshot of what your sun looks like? Your description of it being a square shape has me intrigued. I've tried to match the size of the sun to the images that NASA has provided.

I think I found the issue. It think it was partly fixed and then the addition of the pickaxe as a useable "weapon" screwed it up again. I'm working on it. Sorry, there are lots of little edge case things that I don't catch sometimes. Especially when I don't play the same way as other people. I rarely use the datapad hotkeys when I play. I know, that sounds kind of silly, but I guess I'm just trained to always hit the datapad key and then navigate to the apps on the home screen. So I don't catch things like this. Thanks.

Yes, sorry. Your comment with the added descriptions got lost in my email inbox and so I haven't addressed those issues yet. I will try to cover them today with another patch soon.

I forgot to ask if you have a save file where I can test this. I know I've experienced it before also, but it's not 100% reliable. Part of it is a physics calculation for setting the wheels on the ground before the load is supposed to complete, but obviously something is going wrong in some cases.