Extreme Distances

I have been traveling towards Planetrise for a long time now, probably a half hour in all. My world size is 19.2 sq km. The following information has very little evidence to back it up.

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Over time, an effect of traveling so far has grown slightly into something called jetpack shiver, in which the ice shimmers in the frozen sea while the player is using a jetpack. Additionally, I have found that after a certain point, the settings the moon was originally set to are invalidated. Although I had

deactivated exotic terrain, I found an astronaut lair very far out, and although I had deactivated animals, I found three of them over the  course of a single minute, and all of this happened at once. Before this, I had not seen any astronaut lairs or creatures at all.

Inferences
-Rocket booster bug grows over time

-Sliders become less active or not active at all