Those who have done the speed run achievement--do you set up proliferator?

Trying to figure out if the setup of proliferator takes more time than it eventually saves for the 10 hour speedrun achievement.

Undoubtedly, this is covered in various tutorials, but I'm trying to get my own speedrun walkthrough and blueprints together without using any tutorials or known seeds. That said, I figured I would at least cheat on the proliferator question rather than wasting tons of time with trial and error.

Also, I will be doing it with Dark Fog turned off (gaining more experience and completing this achievement before I try it).

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