Word Factori: How to Achieve Minimum Buildings for Every Word

Have you ever been struggling to build one of the factories and finally gotten it to work, only to see that someone built it with half as many buildings as you? Well, I’m here to show you how they did it!

This guide will include a screenshot of all of the buildings used for each factori in a tree formation (usually) going from the ground up, with the ingredients for each layer above being directly below it (if possible).

If you actually want to build the factori instead of just look at how small it is, I’ll also include a list of all of the recipes used below the screenshot. You can then use these recipes to build the factori yourself if you’re so inclined; just connect everything correctly.

Not that either of these other two things are very important, but I’ll also include the number of buildings used and the amount of cycles per box just for fun. If anyone would like, I’d be interested to see if there are more optimal ways to make these factories with the same number of buildings to get fewer cycles.

How I will refer to usage of the buildings:
Benders will be denoted by the word “bend” in front of a symbol
Reflectors will be denoted by either “hf” (horizontal flip) or “vf” (vertical flip) in front of a symbol
Rotators will be denoted by either “ccw” (counter clockwise) or “cw” (clockwise) in front of a symbol
Mergers will be denoted by 1, 2, or 3 “+” marks between symbols
Everything will have an “=” at the end followed by what they make (if there are two “=” in a row, it’s intentional probably)

Recipes:

Buildings: 1

Cycles: 2

Recipes:
bend I = C

Buildings: 2

Cycles: 2

Recipes:
I + I = V

Buildings: 2

Cycles: 4

Recipes:
I + I = V

Buildings: 2

Cycles: 4

Recipes:
ccw I = –
I + – = L

Buildings: 3

Cycles: 4

Recipes:
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
C + Ↄ = O

Buildings: 4

Cycles: 4

Recipes:
ccw I = –
I + I + – = H
bend H = A

Buildings: 4

Cycles: 6

Recipes:
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
C + Ↄ = O
I + I = V
vf V = Λ
V + Λ = X

Buildings: 7

Cycles: 12

Recipes:
I + I = V
I + V = Y

Buildings: 3

Cycles: 16

Recipes:
ccw I = –
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
I + Ↄ = D
D + D = B
I + I + – = H
bend H = A
I + – = L

Buildings: 9

Cycles: 36

Recipes:
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
I + C + Ↄ = Q

Buildings: 4

Cycles: 12

Recipes:
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
I + I + Ↄ = P
I + I = V
ccw V = >
cw V = <
> + < = X
I + V = Y

Buildings: 9

Cycles: 42

RECIPES:
ccw I = –
I + – + – + – = E
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
I + Ↄ = D
I + I + D = R

Buildings: 7

Cycles: 72

Recipes:
ccw I = –
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
I + I + Ↄ = P
I + I + – = H
C + Ↄ = O
I + I + I = N
I + – + – + – = E

Buildings: 9

Cycles: 80

Recipes:
ccw I = –
I + – = L
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
C + Ↄ = O
vf L = Γ
– + Γ = T

Buildings = 8

Cycles = 24

Recipes:
ccw I = –
I + I = V
vf V = Λ
Λ + – = A
V + Λ = X
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
C + Ↄ = O
I + – = L
vf L = Γ
– + Γ = T

Buildings: 12

Cycles: 90

Recipes:
ccw I = –
I + I = V
cw V = <
I + < = K
I + I + I = N
I + – + – = F
F + – = E

Buildings: 8

Cycles: 108

Recipes:
ccw I = –
bend – = U
ccw U = ⸧
I + I + I + ⸧ = R
I + I + ⸧ + ⸧ = B
ccw ⸧ = ∩
∩ + – = A
I + I = V
I + V = Y
bend Y = T

Buildings: 11

Cycles: 320

Recipes:
ccw I = –
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
C + Ↄ = O
I + I + I + I = W
I + – = L

Buildings: 7

Cycles: 28

Recipes:
ccw I = –
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
I + Ↄ = D
I + I + D = R
C + Ↄ = O
I + – + C = G
I + I + – = H
bend H = A
I + I + I = N

Buildings: 11

Cycles: 264

Recipes:
I + I = V
I + V = Y
bend Y = T
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
C + Ↄ = O

Buildings: 7

Cycles: 16

Recipes:
ccw I = –
I + I = V
cw V = <
hf < = >
> + < = X
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
C + Ↄ = O
I + – + – + – = E
I + – = L

Buildings: 11

Cycles: 48

Recipes:
ccw I = –
bend I = C
– + – = =
ccw = = ||
|| + – = H
I + = = F
F + – = E

Buildings: 8

Cycles: 96

Recipes:
ccw I = –
I + I + – = H
bend H = A
bend I = C
I + I = V
cw V = <
I + < = K

Buildings: 8

Cycles: 28

Recipes:
ccw I = –
I + – = L
hf L = ⅃
bend ⅃ = J
I + – + – + – = E
I + I + I + I = W

Buildings: 7

Cycles: 112

Recipes:
ccw I = –
bend – = U
ccw U = ⸧
I + ⸧ = D
bend D = O
I + I + D = R
cw U = ⸦
⸧ + ⸦ = S
vf U = ∩
– + ∩ = A
I + I + I = N

Buildings: 12

Cycles: 768

Recipes:
ccw I = –
I + I + – = H
bend H = A
I + I = V
cw V = <
I + < = K
bend K = X

Buildings: 8

Cycles: 12

This is the one that I think may have a hacked score on the leaderboards for the least buildings, since the bar for 7 is so small it’s basically invisible. So, I technically don’t have the lowest number someone has, but I think this is the lowest I can get.

Recipes:
ccw I = –
I + – = L
L + I = U
U + I = J
I + I + I = N
I + I = V
cw V = <
I + < = K

Buildings: 9

Cycles: 40

Recipes:
ccw I = –
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
I + – + – = F
F + Ↄ = P
P + Ↄ = B
I + F = A
bend – = U
I + – = L

Buildings: 10

Cycles: 320

Recipes:
ccw I = –
bend I = C
ccw C = ∪
ccw ∪ = Ↄ
C + Ↄ = O
I + I = V
ccw V = >
ccw > = Λ
ccw Λ = <
I + < = K
I + V = Y
bend Y = T
ccw T = ⊢
I + ⊢ = H
⊢ + – = F
F + Ↄ = P
I + P = R

Buildings: 18

Cycles: 576

Recipes:
ccw I = –
I + – = L
ccw L = ⨼
ccw ⨼ = ⅂
bend ⅂ = 1
L + ⅂ = +
– + – = =
1 + 1 = 2

Buildings: 9

Cycles: 192

Recipes:
ccw I = –
– + – = =
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
bend Ↄ = )

Buildings: 6

Cycles: 8

Recipes:
ccw I = –
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
Ↄ + Ↄ = 3
I + I + I + – = 4
4 + – + 3 = 1
1 + 4 = 5
3 + 3 + 3 = 9

Buildings: 9

Cycles: 300

Recipes:
ccw I = –
I + I + – + – = #
bend – = U
ccw U = ⸧
hf ⸧ = ⸦
⸧ + ⸦ = S
I + I + I + ⸧ = R
I + – + – + – = E
I + I = V
cw V = <
I + < = K

Buildings: 12

Cycles: 720

Recipes:
ccw I = –
I + – = L
vf L = Γ
bend I = C
hf C = Ↄ
Γ + Ↄ = 5
bend 5 = S
I + S = $
I + Γ = T
I + – + Γ = A
I + Ↄ = D
bend D = O
A + O = @
I + I + D = R
C + I + – =G
Ↄ + Ↄ = 3
I + I + I = N

Buildings: 18

Cycles: 1152

Recipes:
ccw I = –
I + – = L
ccw L = ⨼
ccw ⨼ = ⅂
bend ⅂ = 1
1 + – + 1 = 0
I + 0 + 0 = %

Buildings: 8

Cycles: ?

So, there appears to be a bug in the current version of the game that prevents me from completing this level with the minimum amount of buildings. As you can see, I don’t get 0 anywhere, and that’s because the bug prevents me from subtracting to get to 0. I thought this was just a weird feature, but from what I heard other people saying it appears to be a bug, so this seems to be the minimum buildings solution even though it’s bugged. Since I can’t run it, I don’t know the number of cycles.