I'm going to write a full guide sooner or later it's just that sometimes life doesn't have enough free time for me to do all of the things.

The harmony shards are currently useless as I am completely revamping the look and possibly the way they are used but for the moment you can just use them as stuff to sell.

As for the pony bots the answer is in the comments if you looked for a minute but here is the answer, first don't place it down in your ship as they will never respawn, once it's placed beam up to your ship and beam down, it should spawn them.

I'd like to see a guide as well, I can't find anything... how do I get ponies to spawn? I'm playing as a Ponex (the anthro pony race) and I've been doing well, but... I could really use some help...