Enabling a mod setting of Alien Biomes prevents the mod from loading

I ran into the problem that alien biomes didn't load during game start since a few weeks.

I figured that this had to do something with mod-settings.dat

If the mod setting "alien-biomes-disable-vegetation" is set to "Enabled" the game complains during loading with the following
message and you are not able to "repair" the setting since you need to disable the mod to get into the game menu.

"Error ModManager.cpp:1767: Error while running setup for space-location prototype "nauvis" (planet): asterisk-blue (decorative) does not have an autoplace specification."

i verified this with a fresh 2.0.76 installation with alien-biomes as the only mod added to the game and changed the parameter in the "Mod settings" section.