When I went to try this puzzle on Tuesday morning, after a few days staring at it, Steam told me that I had last played Opus Magnum on March 22nd 2022. But I don't remember doing much actual solving since 2018. Ran across the video for Salt Packaging Factory last week, and I got nerd-sniped _hard_...

Also this week's puzzle got stuck in my brain, once I saw it. Height, huh? 4 high smells like it should be possible... 

I never saw a 5h, and I never will.

This 16 loop still feels improveable. Each arm has 2 steps of idling, so 14 loop is almost certainly possible. My blocker to 14 is getting the Fire pair past the unbonded single before it's picked up. I suspect that 12 loop might even be possible. And it would not surprise me if there's some nonsense that does multiple loops to get one repeating segment done.

But I'm happy about this. And the area is pretty decent too. And while getting this far didn't give me a day of infinite happiness, or even an hour, getting a brief moment of it is... pretty good.

PS: The triplex bond is not a broadsword.