yeah, i guessed those were possible reasons for the current look of the sprites. good job then! they work perfectly for what they need to do. : )
and eh, no. I stole images from the internet and then edited them a little. I doubt you could just put them in the mod like that. : \
but yeah sorry about the gourd thing, i must have confused this mod with another!! my bad.
About manual crafting only...
I don't know how, but what if the possibility of having infinite items for free was used to grief? I guess it's very unlikely this situation would happen... but imagine somebody replaced ore with PGOs in a mining outpost far from other players' sight. The main unload at the base would eventually receive a trainload of PGOs and it would mess the system or some shit.
again, this would be very unlikely but you never know! Dealing with infinity can be dangerous! D: Maybe i'm just overthinking it so don't worry. thanks for this mod by the way! \o/