You can just install modules in a box and use admin commands to give yourself the scanner if you want.

I have someone playing with me, which is why I was asking. Is there a way to maybe disable the crafting station from being built in the first place? That way I could just spawn the items in, that would work.
Thanks for replying, great work on your mod, it must have taken some fair amount of script wizardry, I'd wager.

Sorry, I forgot to click subscribe on this thread and didn't see your reply.

Like I said, if all you want to do is use the scanner but not have any of the other stuff, uninstall this mod but leave "modules in a box" installed and use "/spawnitem miab_basestore_scanner" and "/spawnitem miab_basestore_receiver" and you should be good to go.

Thank you for your help

Maybe a lite version where craft station only have miab_basestore_scanner and miab_basestore_receiver ?

I want to use this in my tower defends mod I'm creating, so I hope there can be a "survival version of Base In A Box"

where a player can only copy/paste existing castle to the TD map, or duplicate his defends battery with some cost (pay the pixel, or provide all building materials which works better when your battery uses rare defends towers)

So I hope there can be a "Module in a station" where the box is actually a station, and you need to put all materials into that station, then station expanded into a base.
And a crafting station that only has miab_basestore_scanner and miab_basestore_receiver.

I think this is the survival friendly version of Base In A Box. What do you think @Pilchenstein ?

It sounds like you might want to take a look at MadTulip's ship mod - it uses the same modules in a box code but I believe it makes you supply all of the materials before it will print.

In any event, my position on enforcing "realistic" behaviour is that it's not something I have any interest in doing but if you want to make your own addon that uses the miab core to do so then I don't have any objections. :)