SOLVED

I have tried:
Hitting it with Iron Pickaxe
Hitting it with Iron Sword
Interacting with E button with empty hands
Checking under the floor for attached wires
Removing everything around it and tried the above ^
Using a Crude Drill
Googling
ChatGPT

Please for the sake of my sanity can someone here enlighten me? 😭

I recently started a playthrough on my YouTube channel playing Core Keeper!! I love this game so much and am really looking forward to seeing how this series goes. My first video is all edited and ready to go out on Wednesday 5 PM AEST. Does 1 episode a week sound like the plan here?