prolif, with a saverio transformer and stealing the catalyst, lets us turn 3 silver into 10, which means 16 silver in total for this. the last of those will be drawn on cycle 33, after which it will bond and move to the output, dropping on cycle 36. so, this should be min cycles, but the fact i'm on it on saturday already feels like a bad sign.

my process was to make a proliferation system, then build a sinister triplex pipeline that provides some early silver to the other pipeline, then build the other pipeline around these constraints. i imagine the secondaries are pretty bad due to the very brute forced nature of this, but eh.