if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you

[Pronoun Paladin ☯]

...catchy title. But my question is currently there's large areas of the map that have holes that drop into nothingness. Visually they look pretty neat. If you're adventurous and don't mind glitching the map you can even build under the map...but will they ever add something down below? Will those areas open up into large caves?

[Grandaddypurple]

There will be a "cave biome" coming for update 5 however we don't know how large it will be nor where the entrances will be either.
What you're talking about is commonly refered to as "the void" and it's here to stay I think

[lpnlizard27]

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche

(Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1886), Chapter IV. Apophthegms and Interludes, §146).

Just incase anyone wants to know where that's from.

[medumb]

update 4 is big, gives a lot of stuff to do, but that is only the beginning, with 8 hard to unlock tiers, there is no doubt there will be more, as people say there will be at least 30 tiers in the game. and that will be on update 10, nobody knows what will be there yet, even the developers don't know because they haven't even started making the updates, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 (I think).

[medumb]

leak to that already is satisfactory is early access, and in the last space elevator upgrade, if you try to upgrade again, it says "not available in early access" so satisfactory is leaking more updates. Also, for a bonus question here, what do you think update 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 will have in it?

[Mojo]

@Tricky I think it was rumored the Space Elevator was going to have Tiers up to 10.
Not sure about the # of game updates planned though, even the Devs may not know lol.