Regarding doing things the hard way, art is one thing, but dont forget than in Engineering the availability of resources varies, and under typical circumstances, are never anywhere near what you would like, so knowing how to do things the hard way may be the only way. -An Engineering Major
Hermit mode is the best thing you can do for the first playthrough. The goal is to finish the game without the pressure of being good at it, then turn on the statistics and go to easy levels and use everything you learned to make it optimised.
Also, minor tip if he wants it (so if he reads this comment for whatever reason): in many of the early levels (and this is a good design idea for later levels too), if you are not always picking up a reagent or moving the currently held reagent off its starting location, you are probably not as fast as you can be. On the level for "stabilized water", you should always be moving reagents out of the input. This requires multiple arms to do (since one arm cant be moving the reagent AND picking up another one at the same time), and it will probably require extending arms (or tracks) to do it well. In general, I found that faster solutions required having multiple different arms dedicated to just pulling things out at all times (not like the 6 ended arm, I mean 2 arms with 1 end). This means your design to get minimum cycles will use way more parts than necessary, but thats just inherent since you can make several chapters worth of levels using a single extender arm and the other devices that need to be there for making the product. Hope that helps. I could also probably show off what my designs looked like to accomplish these things, but that would be past "if he reads this comment" which is already unlikely to happen.
For stabilized water I made a looping track on each side with 8 arms on each, and put the water, glyph and product in the middle. (Turned out I only needed 6 arms before I win, but this maintains maximum output even after beating the level, by having the track loop around)
@@AkitaTom You welcome for the key. Nice Weeb Life Channel. High Key Jealous my dude. Someday I plan on visiting Nippon, once I have a spare ¥400,00 ~ ¥500,000
I enjoyed this game when I played it. Not sure if Ill watch the series because I get annoyed watching some people with strategy and puzzle games *cough* NorthernLion playing factory really poorly *cough* but have fun with this one.
you may be thinking of the previous version of this game, there were two flash games made by the same people called "The Codex of Alchemical Engineering" and "The Codex of Alchemical Engineering - Magnum Opus Challenge"
How dare you not make the first alchemy project you work on not be the most efficient! 2 things! 1. I want to cry 2. I am ashamed to watch this 3. DEFINITELY not joking
Wander - "They didn't explain that very well"
Game - has a text box right above all the instructions explaining said thing very clearly
Regarding doing things the hard way, art is one thing, but dont forget than in Engineering the availability of resources varies, and under typical circumstances, are never anywhere near what you would like, so knowing how to do things the hard way may be the only way. -An Engineering Major
Hermit mode is the best thing you can do for the first playthrough.
The goal is to finish the game without the pressure of being good at it, then turn on the statistics and go to easy levels and use everything you learned to make it optimised.
I just bought this and played 30 mins. Its soooo interesting to watch others play it. Really shows how different people solve problems :)
Also, minor tip if he wants it (so if he reads this comment for whatever reason):
in many of the early levels (and this is a good design idea for later levels too), if you are not always picking up a reagent or moving the currently held reagent off its starting location, you are probably not as fast as you can be. On the level for "stabilized water", you should always be moving reagents out of the input. This requires multiple arms to do (since one arm cant be moving the reagent AND picking up another one at the same time), and it will probably require extending arms (or tracks) to do it well. In general, I found that faster solutions required having multiple different arms dedicated to just pulling things out at all times (not like the 6 ended arm, I mean 2 arms with 1 end). This means your design to get minimum cycles will use way more parts than necessary, but thats just inherent since you can make several chapters worth of levels using a single extender arm and the other devices that need to be there for making the product.
Hope that helps. I could also probably show off what my designs looked like to accomplish these things, but that would be past "if he reads this comment" which is already unlikely to happen.
For stabilized water I made a looping track on each side with 8 arms on each, and put the water, glyph and product in the middle. (Turned out I only needed 6 arms before I win, but this maintains maximum output even after beating the level, by having the track loop around)
Oh god Wander...
Good luck my poor friend.
Good luck.
I've made it to chapter 3 and am having an alright time. I can only imagine chapter 5 is pure hell.
Oooooh, looking forward to this series!
This reminds me of _Portal Bridge-Builder,_ but less frenetic.
_"Better Living Through Alchemy!"_
you mean frantic?
Frenetic is more like a continuous process of being awesome. Frantic is more panicky.
Hey Wander, what if you used the piston arm for the gold transmuting puzzle? Just extend ad nauseum
disclaimer: this is a VOD from a stream, and he is getting hints from chat
I like how you can relate too a alchemy story threw you and your brotheris college life
I have not seen you in a while God damn have you changed
This does not look like my cup of tea.
First one to use it on Stream get it.
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I got off Humble Bundle.
Leave a comment if used.
Wow... posted 3 weeks ago, I thought there was no chance I could snag it. Thank you so much!
@@AkitaTom
You welcome for the key.
Nice Weeb Life Channel.
High Key Jealous my dude.
Someday I plan on visiting Nippon, once I have a spare ¥400,00 ~ ¥500,000
I enjoyed this game when I played it. Not sure if Ill watch the series because I get annoyed watching some people with strategy and puzzle games *cough* NorthernLion playing factory really poorly *cough* but have fun with this one.
Should I buy this, its 66% off on steam, I loved infinifactory and puzzles in general.
@@MrPi-zx9ow I still have to complete infinifactory, but this opus mangum looks like it might make my brain bleed
Wonderful game, but I can't play it because there is no fame table, prizes and so on. When you play it, it feels like the time of life disappears
Good Luck :D
Opus magnum... does that name remind anyone of something cause it sounds familiar
"Magnum Opus". Latin for "Great Work".
"Opus Magnum". Latin for "Works Great".
you may be thinking of the previous version of this game, there were two flash games made by the same people called "The Codex of Alchemical Engineering" and "The Codex of Alchemical Engineering - Magnum Opus Challenge"
maybe he's thinking of all those musical pieces called Magnum Opus
Don’t you DARE turn hermit mode On!
Is that Shell you mentioned in the furry fandom?
Nope.
@@wanderbots Do you even know what the furry fandom is?
cool
More rollout 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Huh?
opus magnum.......magnum opus... wait a damn minute
How dare you not make the first alchemy project you work on not be the most efficient! 2 things!
1. I want to cry
2. I am ashamed to watch this
3. DEFINITELY not joking