Will harvestables ever have a benefit other than just selling them?
TL;DRHarvestables currently only have a small selling value, but the goal is to make them more valuable by using them in manufacturing and science once those systems are worked on.
Well, right now they have the benefit of selling, which is not much of a benefit, sadly. We are working to correct that. They need to become more valuable. The other benefit is that you actually can consume some of them. You don't want to consume the Ranta dung or something like this. The goal is to start using them for manufacturing and science once we get to work on those parts. So once we get to work on those parts, the idea is that we start being able to extract certain materials from them that can be used to manufacture, I don't know, chemical drugs, explosives, things like this, oils for maintaining your weapon better, maybe removing some of the wear and tear, various things where it can improve gameplay. We never envisioned this to be a thing where you just go and you get the fruit and you can sell it for 10 UEC. No one wanted that. That's as far as we could go until our priorities shifted to something which was deemed more important. But the system is there to be used once the other puzzle pieces fall in place.