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Sometimes in my game the removing of objects (buildings, conveyors, etc) suddenly takes 2-3x as long as it should, per item. This happens at random and I've seen it shift speed literally from one building to the next when cleaning up a bunch of stuff. It will stay that way for a couple hours and then suddenly it goes back to normal. Any idea what might be causing this? It's a fairly annoying slowdown when trying to redesign large sections of a base.

Any mods?

It's probably your pickaxe -- it likely ran out of durability and broke. Just craft another one.

Supercheese wrote:It's probably your pickaxe -- it likely ran out of durability and broke. Just craft another one.

You're a genius. I had no idea the pickaxe would affect speed of removing buildings, but that did it! Thank you so much!