keep in mind that just granting yourself the first tech doesnt fix the issue. It only fixes it until you want to start doing red science than you need to create the tech archive 1(internal game id for consol is: angels-main-lab-1) or kill yourself once to get it from normal respawn.

yes you should have a lab in inventar. Open the console and use "/c game.player.insert{name="angels-main-lab-1", count=1}. You should have a lab in the inventar. Or you can kill your character and get one that way.

Hm totally didnt see the crushing by hand :) Yeah that would have helped. I just deactivated component mining after the start now to progress. Not sure if i remember that correct but in earlier versions i did start with a ore crusher. New problem that showed up is that after unlocking the brown alga...

So just started a new run in 1.0 with angels industries tech overhaul. With the starting eight iron plates you cant progress without enabling the component mining since you cant craft enough construction frames at start to craft the crusher and a new furnace. Edit: Can also confirm that i cant craft...