The research Big Alien Artifacts is not available if Bob's Enemies is toggled.

You can enable the recipes (small alien artifact -> alien artifact) but only way to do this, seems to be if you enable biters to drop alien artifacts (small alien artifacts)

This does, however, create a huge mess all around your defense perimeter as in late game, you are usually getting hammered with wave upon wave of raging biters.

We need a way to enable these recipes, without having to toggle on the drops from biters. Please :)

Same issue. 65 hours into the game I discover that without the right start-up setting I can't create the orange artifacts I need from bio processing, even though I can make the small ones which end up being useless without the blocked required recipes.

actually, it would make more sense to me if the recipe instead was blocked if they -did- drop (probably en masse) from enemies. including the small coloured artifact recipes.

I restarted the game and enabled all artifact in the config menu for bob enemies, and know everything is working. A little bit unfortunate that it's not working with the default settings but no big deal.