this post will tell you things that can realy help you trick the game. modders, you might want to see if you can fix them.
1. infanint ore
all though ore is allready the dominant rock, just in case you need more here's what you do.
1 build an ore refinery.
2 build a spair build (preferabley something expencive in ore)
3 tellaport it back up
why? once you have an ore refinery, all buildings are going to be built with building studs. if your a veterin, then you know this. however, wen you tellaport a building back to the LMS explorer, you get raw ore back! so, if you have a level 3 refinery, and you built a super tellaport, you'll get the equivalint of 50 ore back! and guys, if the math is wrong, feel free to correct it, just don't flame.
2 use laser cutters all you want!
this will also make it so slimy slugs cannot rob you of all your power! it can be a problem to undo however. all you need to do is tellaport up your toolstore. now, drained energy crystals have nowair to be ejected. so you can blast that laser and you don't have to use extra ore to build stuff in order to use the cut off methid to stop slugs
3 how to recharge crystals without a recharge seam. and no, no hacking required!
all you need to do is find a way to get a monster to eat them without trashing your base. if the energy crystal is drained wen the monster eats it, then shoot the monster with a laser beam! once the monster dies, you'll get the crystal back fully recharged! if the monster gets away, well, the crystal was drained anyway!