First of all, the 2 items made in one craft counts as one craft. Second the Assembly machine 2 is only one craft as the other bit can be made in a assembly machine 1. You also need to add 1 more craft for the oil refinery The boiler can also use the furnace you start with (but that needs some extra...

Neglected to mention in my post the sources of underproduction. The worst offender were the green circuits feeding into the processor / speed module line. The green circuits usually didn't reach the lowest processor assembler. When I went to hand-craft some efficiency modules for all of my labs (alo...

I decided to sit down and try my hand at Lazy Bastard. I never liked hand-crafting, anyway. I started out with my one little miner, hand-mined some coal to power it, and set it up on coal to get even more coal. I repeatedly fed the coal I mined back into the miner until I had 100 or so, then moved m...

I just followed this tutorial (using the same map, same blueprint, following the instructions for Bootstrapping, Red-Green, Blue, "The Owl", and Finishing Up) and I came in at 8:55:37 -- too long for the achievement, but not bad for a first try with no saving/reloading, and I admittedly ma...