Well now I'm thoroughly hooked. Spent hours upon hours yesterday reclaiming a large portion of open sea and merging two islands together. Built a stone wall clear down to bedrock to hold the seawater back and opened up all that land into a strip mine. I only kept enough soil to grow a few trees, the rest was pitched out anywhere I could dump it.
All that work and all I built was one wimpy tower.
At some point I was working in the deep mine and found the void. Lost so much stuff when I fell through and died that I decided to start over. This game is way addictive.