It's the dream of alchemical engineering in microcosm: what if you could create anything? With the barest of reagents, could you recreate the chart of alchemical primes? It's enough to make one think any problem could be solved with alchemy...

This machine's dual Glyphs of Projection allow the machine to select which reagent repopulations the hexarm, depending on which one is used: lead or quicksilver. A hexarm filled with lead can perform fewer projections, because the lead blocks quicksilver form refilling it. Thus with a bit of off-by-one fiddling, I arrange it such that the template atom absorbs enough quicksilver to allow fresh lead to project into replicas of the template atom; over-projection is prevented by the blocking lead.

A straightforward Glyph of Duplication allows cardinals to output as themselves. If the template atom is not a cardinal, the salt supply is unmodified, so the Glyph of Animismus accepts the salt. The vitae and mors have to be disposed of for safety reasons, but are also passed over a bonder and debonder to select between metal or cardinal.

This machine uses ghost grabs: one-time actions at the beginning of a tape loop are prevented for happening a second time by a useless-looking grab at the end of it. The gripper arm is already closed; it cannot swipe another atom.

Much of this has already been covered by now, but I believe this the finest and most parsimonious example of how to create an Everything Machine.

Well, almost the finest. You can present biggie's machine now.

- Alchemist Kazyan