You can still do this, you don't need a mod unless you want to just cheat chromatic metal, and at that point, you might as well spin up cheat engine and give yourself cash to buy it at stations.
Chromatic metal expansion still exists. For the most optimal outcome, you want two Large Refiners, any amount of Emeril or Indium, and then some silver and gold. 1 Emeril + 1 Silver + 1 Gold = 20 Chromatic metal (Chromatic Stellar Fusion). 1 Chromatic Metal + 1 Emeril = 2 Emeril (Chromatic Expansion). I highly suggest Emeril over Indium, which will become relevant in a moment.
So with 2 Emeril to start split the stack in half one for Chromatic Stellar Fusion and the other for Chromatic Expansion, after cycling through the materials you now have 20 Chromatic Metal and 1Emeril, so you make that into 40 Emeril. Now you split the 40 into two stacks, After Chromatic Stellar Fusion you now have 800 Chromatic Metal with 20 Emeril waiting, so with Chromatic Expansion you will now have 1600 Emeril at the end. Each cycle you gain your Emeril x40, and with Indium, it's x60 but you can't expand Indium into gold so it isn't worth it. The only material you have to get is silver and gold in small amounts which you can do instead of waiting for the minutes to go by for the recipe by flying into space or by having a few more refineries and doing the following:
If you need more gold and silver but don't want to leave the atmosphere, you can do that. Chromatic Alchemy is 1 Ferrite Dust + 1 Oxygen + 1 Emeril. You already have infinite Emeril, and Ferrite Dust and Oxygen are easy to come by especially if you have a farm for the Oxygen or are on a high Flora planet (or perfect planet which means the atmosphere harvesters give Oxygen at the deposits). Ferrite Dust isn't hard to get in large quantities so I'll simply skip that, especially since we will be getting cobalt for our silver and you will get more than enough ferrite dust there. Regardless, you now have infinite gold as well as chromatic metal and Emeril. You can also grow gutrot or mordite flowers and kill sentinels and this will also give you tons of gold if Oxygen is an issue. If you're on a Uranium planet you can make Lemmium, turning 30 Uranium + 10 gold + 120 Ferrite Dust (OR) 60 Pure Ferrite = Lemmium which refines to 250 gold, and Uranium planets can really sustain this because it can be used as a biome material in the next step for infinite silver, so if you are harvesting it with autominers you will profit big time. You don't need much gold in the Chromatic Stellar Fusion process, so you won't have to do this much unless you're trying to do it on a massive scale (as in rooms of refineries doing this recipe).
Silver is the only "tricky" part. If you have a mine set up for silver you're already done, but getting tons of silver is more tricky than gold. For infinite silver, you need to make Herox, Aronium, or Dirt Bronze. This depends on what planet type you are on - Aronium is Paraffinium, Herox is Ammonia, Dirty Bronze is Pyrite. If you aren't on any of those three types, simply refine 2:1 of your element into another: 1 Ferrite OR Pure Ferrite + 2 {BIOME MATERIAL} = {NEXT BIOME MATERIAL} x1 ||| Phosphorus -> Uranium -> Pyrite -> Paraffinium -> Ammonia -> Dioxite -> Phosphorus. ----- So if you're on a Uranium planet for example, simply gather 60 and use the recipe to get 30 pyrite. Now that you have your biome material, make the special material using 20 silver, 30 biome material, and either 60 cobalt or 30 ionized cobalt (caves give TONS of cobalt, no worries). This then can be refined again from the finished product into 250 silver, so you did a silver expansion from 20 to 250. You don't need much so even just doing this 10 times will net you enough to build anything you could ever want really considering how little silver is used in the Chromatic Stellar Fusion process.
So there you go. Infinite of Chromatic Metal, Emeril (or indium if you so choose), Silver, and Gold. And you don't even have to leave the planet. If you have enough silver and gold, you can take an indium farm and expand its output by x60, making it far more profit per visit than an activated indium farm because of the sheer expansion of material which doesn't work with activated metals. Hell, if you have an activated anything farm, just use Chromatic Metal Fusion with Pure Ferrite + Activated Indium = 8 Chromatic Metal (x6 for A Emeril, x4 for A Cadmium, x2 for A Copper), which can then fuel the expansion of a regular Indium farm for insane profit.
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Chromatic metal expansion still exists. For the most optimal outcome, you want two Large Refiners, any amount of Emeril or Indium, and then some silver and gold. 1 Emeril + 1 Silver + 1 Gold = 20 Chromatic metal (Chromatic Stellar Fusion). 1 Chromatic Metal + 1 Emeril = 2 Emeril (Chromatic Expansion). I highly suggest Emeril over Indium, which will become relevant in a moment.
So with 2 Emeril to start split the stack in half one for Chromatic Stellar Fusion and the other for Chromatic Expansion, after cycling through the materials you now have 20 Chromatic Metal and 1Emeril, so you make that into 40 Emeril. Now you split the 40 into two stacks, After Chromatic Stellar Fusion you now have 800 Chromatic Metal with 20 Emeril waiting, so with Chromatic Expansion you will now have 1600 Emeril at the end. Each cycle you gain your Emeril x40, and with Indium, it's x60 but you can't expand Indium into gold so it isn't worth it. The only material you have to get is silver and gold in small amounts which you can do instead of waiting for the minutes to go by for the recipe by flying into space or by having a few more refineries and doing the following:
If you need more gold and silver but don't want to leave the atmosphere, you can do that. Chromatic Alchemy is 1 Ferrite Dust + 1 Oxygen + 1 Emeril. You already have infinite Emeril, and Ferrite Dust and Oxygen are easy to come by especially if you have a farm for the Oxygen or are on a high Flora planet (or perfect planet which means the atmosphere harvesters give Oxygen at the deposits). Ferrite Dust isn't hard to get in large quantities so I'll simply skip that, especially since we will be getting cobalt for our silver and you will get more than enough ferrite dust there. Regardless, you now have infinite gold as well as chromatic metal and Emeril. You can also grow gutrot or mordite flowers and kill sentinels and this will also give you tons of gold if Oxygen is an issue. If you're on a Uranium planet you can make Lemmium, turning 30 Uranium + 10 gold + 120 Ferrite Dust (OR) 60 Pure Ferrite = Lemmium which refines to 250 gold, and Uranium planets can really sustain this because it can be used as a biome material in the next step for infinite silver, so if you are harvesting it with autominers you will profit big time. You don't need much gold in the Chromatic Stellar Fusion process, so you won't have to do this much unless you're trying to do it on a massive scale (as in rooms of refineries doing this recipe).
Silver is the only "tricky" part. If you have a mine set up for silver you're already done, but getting tons of silver is more tricky than gold. For infinite silver, you need to make Herox, Aronium, or Dirt Bronze. This depends on what planet type you are on - Aronium is Paraffinium, Herox is Ammonia, Dirty Bronze is Pyrite. If you aren't on any of those three types, simply refine 2:1 of your element into another: 1 Ferrite OR Pure Ferrite + 2 {BIOME MATERIAL} = {NEXT BIOME MATERIAL} x1 ||| Phosphorus -> Uranium -> Pyrite -> Paraffinium -> Ammonia -> Dioxite -> Phosphorus. ----- So if you're on a Uranium planet for example, simply gather 60 and use the recipe to get 30 pyrite. Now that you have your biome material, make the special material using 20 silver, 30 biome material, and either 60 cobalt or 30 ionized cobalt (caves give TONS of cobalt, no worries). This then can be refined again from the finished product into 250 silver, so you did a silver expansion from 20 to 250. You don't need much so even just doing this 10 times will net you enough to build anything you could ever want really considering how little silver is used in the Chromatic Stellar Fusion process.
So there you go. Infinite of Chromatic Metal, Emeril (or indium if you so choose), Silver, and Gold. And you don't even have to leave the planet. If you have enough silver and gold, you can take an indium farm and expand its output by x60, making it far more profit per visit than an activated indium farm because of the sheer expansion of material which doesn't work with activated metals. Hell, if you have an activated anything farm, just use Chromatic Metal Fusion with Pure Ferrite + Activated Indium = 8 Chromatic Metal (x6 for A Emeril, x4 for A Cadmium, x2 for A Copper), which can then fuel the expansion of a regular Indium farm for insane profit.