What benefits are there to setting a home planet

There's a set of craftable clothing that you can make at the Spinning Wheel. Snow Infantry Gear. The flavor text suggests that it protects against cold weather.

The problem being it requires leather to craft, a total of 38 pieces for the whole set. Leather is somewhat hard to come by due to a low drop rate. I suggest heading out and hunting down animals with an iron hunting bow until you get enough leather for that gear.

The only way I know of to find a specific planet is to know its coordinates, and even that isn't guaranteed to work between updates. Seeing as how this is still early beta, I would advise not getting too attached to anything right now.