Works for me - so confused why it doesnt work for you - have you got it installed with another stacking mod?

It was the literal only mod on a near vanilla world

Works absolutely fine for me. Are you sure your not describing trying to use it with pre-mod crafting stations? I don't remember if it unlearns your pre-mod engrams for you. It needs to be installed in the beginning of the server or everything has to be replaced.

Mod works fine here also, must be something on your end.

Mod definitely does not work "fine" right now.
- Veg cakes don't heal.
- Element can be transfer to other worlds in cluster, which should be restricted.
- Element can't be used to tame Astrodelphis on Gen2.
- TEK Dedicated Storage does not work at all when this mod is installed.

Also note that mod developer has not apparently responded in the last 15 months, even with MANY MANY BUG REPORTS in the comments recently, making this mod ABANDONWARE.

Use the HG Element to fix the "element taming" in Gen 2 - this also affects many stacking mods.
--> Gen 2 dev kit was released recently, so I'm not expecting an update any time soon.

My Veg Cakes do heal my dinos with this mod (the vegetable eating ones) - they just dont like eating them automatically. HG Vanilla mod for this would work fine.

Tek Dedicated Storage does work with this mod - check you dont have "stack size" configured in your server configuration files - otherwise it wont work. I had one map with ItemStackSizeMultiplier=1 (in the GUS) file then it doesnt work.

Agreeing with A New Home, this mod works perfectly fine, aside from not having the most newest items from the new DLC which is expected since the dev kit only just dropped recently and it'll be a bit before they can update most likely. I've used this mod for years and never had an issue. All items work as intended.

have u guys been using the mod on a new server? because Ive used this on my valguero sigleplayer that ive been working on for a while, and stuff that is supposed to cook or refine like metal, wood or meat wont work.

I've used it on a new server - its fine - you may need to pick up / put structure objects back down if you've recently installed it. As the structure objects may be using the older paths.