Satisfactory Hard Drive Alt Recipe Tracker
Track which alternate recipes you've unlocked from hard drives. Recipes are rated by the community (S/A/B/C tier) — focus on S-tier first for maximum factory efficiency gains.
Showing 29 key recipes (prioritized by tier). Mark all others unlocked at the bottom.
Iron Ingot → Screw directly. No rod step needed — massive throughput improvement.
Iron Ore + Coal → Steel Ingot. Bypasses iron smelting step, far more efficient.
Heavy Oil Residue + Water → Fuel. Massive efficiency gain — eliminates heavy oil residue waste.
Iron Ore + Water → more ingots per ore. Best iron efficiency with Mk.2 water extractors.
Cross-product plastic/rubber chain eliminates waste. Doubles output efficiency.
Pairs with Recycled Plastic to create a self-sustaining cross-product chain.
Fuel + Compacted Coal → massive energy density for generators. Best late-game fuel.
Copper + Iron → more copper ingots per input. Saves copper ore long-term.
Fewer assembler steps for Heavy Modular Frame. Reduces machine count significantly.
Copper Sheet → Circuit Boards without plastic. Removes oil dependency for electronics.
Less coal per steel ingot. Frees up coal for power generation.
Iron Ingot + Plastic → more plates per ingot. Great once you have oil production.
Caterium + Copper → more quickwire per input. Reduces caterium node pressure.
Iron Plate + Wire → Reinforced Iron Plate. Eliminates screws from the reinforced plate chain.
Iron Plate + Screw → faster Reinforced Iron Plates. Higher throughput than vanilla.
Copper Ore + Water → more copper ingots. Essential for wire-heavy builds.
Rubber replaces plastic in circuit boards. Useful if you have rubber surplus.
Wire + Rubber → more cable per input. Great for cable-intensive recipes.
Steel Pipe + Concrete → Encased Industrial Beam. Bypasses steel beam step.
Iron Ingot → Wire. Useful early before copper mining is established.
Steel Ingot → Iron Rod. Frees iron for other uses at the cost of steel.
Steel Beam → Screws at very high rate. Best screw output if you have excess steel.
Quartz + Limestone → more silica per quartz. Helpful if silica-constrained.
Quickwire + Steel Pipe → Stator. Trades copper wire for caterium.
Iron Ore + Petroleum Coke → Steel. Good if you have coke surplus from refineries.
Copper Sheet + Screw → Rotor. Trades iron for copper — situational benefit.
Steel Ingot → Steel Beam with fewer machines. Marginal improvement.
Silica + Limestone → more concrete. Only useful if quartz is plentiful.
Limestone + Water → Concrete faster. Faster than vanilla but same net yield.
Other Alt Recipes (not listed above)
The full game has 106 alternate recipes. Mark how many of the remaining unlisted ones you've unlocked.