this was a hard cycles puzzle, well done jasper. also big thanks to enbyventis for the support this week, it was great to be able to share my solves with a second set of eyes. this machine builds the output in 4 parts: two sticks of triplexed fire, one of iron/quicksilver, and one of copper. this approach simplifies the construction but results in countless unwanted bonds that must be corrected. thanks to this, there are 13 cycles of latency, as well as 2 coming from using too much projection for the copper. after some iteration, this solve came down from 38 to 33 cycles, so i'm still happy with how it turned out.

anyway, now we're getting an easy week 4 puzzle, right? :azuripaw: