tonsi pipi: Hello! This was a fun challenge, I hadn't considered optimizing for instructions before so this was a fun experiment. I am excited to see how much lower everyone else's solutions were.

tonsi usawi: I spent literally this entire week thinking that the metric was cycles not instructions. Bugs, however, found this clever way to get the necessary metals (with just one input), and this is the result. I optimised a bit after the fact, and managed to shave off 3 instructions, Pretty sure 2-4 more could be saved, but I ran out of time :D