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it's gravity, yes, but also that this is almost definitely an ocean planet with no land. Good luck developing metallurgy underwater, to say nothing of fossil fuels etc
Super soaker spaceship
But also if it's an ocean planet and doesn't have a dense iron core, it's gravity won't necessarily be greater than the Earth's
Its likely a hycean world, so closer to neptune than a really really deep ocean world.