i have the same issue

Ok, I got this mess solved. The reason crafting stations bugged out was that changing the ship also changes base mod loading priority, making avali base mod load before Frackin Universe. Which wouldn't be all that bad normaly, if not for the fact that FU itself CONTAINS OLD VERSION OF AVALI MOD, thos overwriting the normal, working mod with it's old broken files on load, resulting in bug.
Now, there are three possible solutions:
1) Force Sayter to get rid of avali files in FU (everyone would benefit, but of course this stubborn goat won't do it)
2) Reach out to modders that make ships and ask them to give their ships lower priority, so that it loads after FU (already done that to my SS Jackalope, so it is now safe to use, huray!)
3) Ask Fevix to write inclusion code for FU, so that avali will always load after FU no matter what

So that's the deal

anvils crash the game

There is a bug in the Avali Nanolathe, when you press the ligths tag in the crafting station it makes the game literally crash.