Waiting is actually not an issue, I have a whole factory to fix remotely
Just as an idea, perhaps some indication that I am not just stuck and have to reload but just wait it out would be great.
Otherwise just close the bug report

After Killing a Medium Worm on Vulcanus I ran in with my mech amour to have my bots collect the remains.
I stopped my character over lava on top of the worm, the bots collected everything and I was unable to move from there on.

Waiting for several minutes while typing this bug report I was able to ...