I love the way my solution moves. Got 235/179/34: https://imgur.com/fIQJnvi

Nice little puzzle.. here's my stab at it 150/38/29 [i.imgur.com]

I managed to get it down to 140G easily (38 cycles still) but can't quite do 130 atm which would be just 1 track (length 2). I almost can but the last move doesn't clear the glyphs. I'd like to see if it is possible with <3 bonders.

a 17 area solution(80/601/17)
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1196894561

38 cycles with 150G cost and 37 area:
https://i.imgur.com/BrIEX4b.gif
I tried to reduce cost as much as I could while still doing it in 38 cycles. Lower cost at 38 cycles is probably possible (at least a little bit)

I've done 25 area using only bonders / unbonders, which is lower than anything else I've seen, even if it takes 500 cycles :) (60/513/25)
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1191761831

40 cycles without using calcification/duplication [gfycat.com]

I thought Lemon's was inventive, but damn Mystic, that's really impressive. Grats.

Thought a 38 solution would be a huge pain, but it turned out much easier than I thought it would. By doing all the Fire/Salt stuff before Cycle 5, we can skip a step between, "final Primes spawned," and, "Drop in exit."

https://i.imgur.com/yFp2aK6.gif

Alchemist John, elegant solution, mine is very ho-hum My Solution [imgur.com]

Sure. Your solution would be better if you didn't have a dead period after grabbing your ninth pair of Primes. There's also a lot of dead time sliding primes over glyphs.

To go the fastest possible solution, you get enough primes to complete a circle on cycle 5. Cycle 6 link 'em, cycle 7 fix the fire/salt issues, cycle 8 move 'em to the exit, cycle 9 drop 'em. Enough primes for another ring every 6 cycles, so five extra products takes 5x6=30 cycles. So 39 cycles is the fastest possible solution to this challenge.

https://i.imgur.com/68YKgVJ.gif

Can anyone beat 50 cycles? https://i.imgur.com/DEPGxtE.gifv

Excellent solution! Very elegant.

(As to the rest: 😉 )

Now that I look at it again, it seems a bit clumsy, but it does do pretty well in terms of area (though I guess bonders and unbonders would make for the cheapest solutions):
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1180209547


(...Wait, you're PleasingFungus? You did Manufactoria? You have a new game? )

Awesome! All the other solutions I've seen so far haven't used the glyphs - I'd love to see the gif of your glyph version (upload to imgur or something?)

This is pretty cool; I like how there are two totally different ways to do it. With the glyphs I got 70/184/35, which is probably almost as good as it gets with area, at least.