Hi, thanks again for the report. I’m sorry about the bug.
I have started work on my post-jam update which will be ready in the next week or so. What I will do for now is brute force this issue and put out a build that fixes saves whenever they get corrupted.
The behavior with collecting materials is unrelated (when this breaks it thinks you are close enough to pick up). However, this has inspired a new attractors upgrade currently in the new alpha which will auto-loot nearby materials.
I’ll comment when the new build is ready so you don’t need to wait for the post-jam release to get back to the game.