
I would love to see a reasson to keep the ship up while we are exploring. With the not so new syatem of crafting underground there is no reall reasson to keep the drill on the surface and when we go to craft lager things just go to a cave with a single landing site like fox hole
Currently, the only reason would be mining. Another cool reason would be that your drillship’s Map is linked with your control bracer, so to be able to access and update the map, the drillship must be in the corresponding area (so you can still fill your underground map).

you can get all the ores from underground travel but even still just come up 2 - 3 times per zone

they have the support turrets and such