Taking this mod for a spin, and I have Muluna and this installed. It seems like that makes it so that the crusher is still a ways up the tech tree. I haven't actually played with this mod on its own, but at least it seems that the crusher should be made available much earlier, based on getting access to many recipes at green science.

Any chance that this mod could "force" the crusher to be made available earlier when Muluna is installed?

Dunno, never played that mod, will give a look and see if I can understand what's happening there.
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