My instructions submission is based off this solve, so I hope this gets shown first!

My stake-in-the-ground for cycles was at 260, but I wasn't happy with it - I was doing animismus in the molten-iron-disassembly chamber (making things cramped and slow) and the amalgam build order was sloppy (also keeping things slow). So I looked for a new build order with this question in mind: "if this puzzle had silver, quicksilver, and vitae inputs, how fast could I make the amalgam?"

I soon found the build order you see in the center chamber - only 8 cycles for building a third of it! All that was left was to make the vitae, quicksilver and silver properly. Since vitae comes out of a different conduit than silver and quicksilver, it works out naturally to have molten-iron-disassembly in the purifijection chamber, and that was simpler (and less cramped) than what I was doing before.