Really good information, great job.

Would it be possible to break costs down into the harvestable resources? So steel becomes 5 iron, plastics become petroleum and coal, etc.

A tip that helped me quite a bit... automate as much as you can. You need a LOT of EVERYTHING and you can be making conveyor, ammunition, and red science with just a few assemblers, chests, and inserters. You can scale up later, and this setup can be easily taken apart. You will have plenty of infra...