Just installed the latest nightly (1.79.0.5434-131213-0d66f33), ran the tutorial (with OXPs) and was too close to the planet again (I presume that's expected atm - or was it meant to have been fixed? Exiting the tutorial crashed the game again). Anyway, aside from all that, the first run produced these log errors:
The crash on tutorial end has been fixed in the branch where the tutorial stuff is presently being developed by cim, but it has not made it to the master branch yet, so it will be a little while before it gets "officially" fixed.
Have you altered keyconfig.plist at all with respect to the key_fire_lasers entry?
I do have a keyconfig.plist in my Config folder that alters several keys (including the fire key). I only got those errors on the very first run of the new build, btw (and the tutorial will only work one-time with a new install, it seems). I'll have to check it again with a fresh vanilla install, I guess.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!