Satisfactory is an open world adventure and building game that offers a more unique take on building sim games. Your task is to keep building factories for production and to keep your base running. You can learn how to craft new items, get new gear and equipment, and explore the new biomes that Satisfactory has to offer. Besides crafting and building, you also get a taste of exploration, with four new biomes to explore and collect resources from. While you are out exploring, you might encounter crash sites containing Hard Drives. Unlocking these Hard Drives will give you Alternate Recipes, with which you can unlock blueprints for new crafting recipes.
The game offers 85 Alternate Recipes to unlock, but only a handful of them make it to the top of the ranking list. In this guide we have ranked all of the best Alternate Recipes in Satisfactory and using an Alternate Recipe Tier List
How To Get Alternate Recipes In Satisfactory
During exploration, you will encounter Crash Sites. You can locate Crash Sites using your Object Scanner, and exploring these sites will help you find Hard Drives. Take these Hard Drives to be researched at MAM to unlock Alternate Recipes. You can select one of three random Alternate Recipes that appear, and some recipes are better to get than others
Satisfactory Alternate Recipe Tier List
After picking up a Hard Drive, you can research it using MAM and select a random blueprint to unlock from the list of Alternate Recipes available. Some recipes offer much more in terms of resources used and production boosts gained after crafting them. So unlocking those recipes first can help make the grind in Satisfactory much easier. Below we will be ranking all available Alternate Recipes in Tiers, starting all the way from the top S Tier and going down to F Tier. Here is a short description of what these tiers mean
- S Tier – The best Alternate Recipe list. These recipes will increase production and are easy to craft, plus these recipes are a requirement for plenty of other crafting materials
- A Tier – Good Alternate Recipes to get. They fulfill their purpose but don’t perform as well as the S Tier Alternate Recipes
- B Tier – Alternate Recipes under this tier are quite average in boosts and require more materials to craft them
- C Tier – Below average Alternate Recipes but can do somewhat well if you don’t have a choice
- D Tier – These Alternate Recipes are not great at all. It is best to reroll for another if you have the chance
- F Tier – Alternate Recipes here should be avoided and they won’t help you in the long run
S Tier Alternate Recipes in Satisfactory
The Alternate Recipes listed here are ranked based on their production boosts, materials required for crafting them, and the ease at which they can be crafted.
- Caterium Circuit Board
- Caterium Computer
- Crystal Computer
- Heavy Encased Frame
- Heavy Flexible Frame
- Silicon Circuit Board
A Tier Alternate Recipes in Satisfactory
These recipes are quite good too and are easy to craft. You can unlock and use the recipes below without much worry and they are quite useful for production
- Automated Speed Wiring
- Coated Cable
- Coke Steel Ingot
- Copper Alloy Ingot
- Silicon High-Speed Connector
- Steel Rod
- Steel Screw
- Super-State Computer
B Tier Alternate Recipes in Satisfactory
The recipes below can be a bit challenging to craft, and you won’t find yourself frequently trying to craft them either. These recipes require more materials and effort to create and use
- Adhered Iron Plate
- Electric Motor
- Fused Wire
- Heavy Flexible Frame
- Pure Aluminum Ingot
- Residual Fuel
- Silicon High-Speed Connector
- Solid Steel Ingot
- Steel coated Plate
- Steel Rod
- Steeled Frame
- Turbo Electric Motor
- Turbo Heavy Fuel
- Turbo Pressure Motor
- Uranium Fuel Unit
C Tier Alternate Recipes in Satisfactory
C Tier recipes are not necessarily bad, but they are not good either. You won’t find yourself reaching for these recipes frequently, hence why they are placed in the backburner
- Biocoal
- Bolted Iron Plate
- Charcoal
- Classic Battery
- Coated Iron Plate
- Compacted Coal
- Copper Rotor
- Diluted Fuel
- Diluted Packaged Fuel
- Electrode Aluminum Scrap
- Encased Industrial Pipe
- Fine Concrete
- Heat Exchanger
- Heat-Fused Frame
- Infused Uranium Cell
- Insulated Cable
- Plastic Smart Plating
- Polymer Resin
- Pure Quartz Crystal
- Quickwire Cable
- Quickwire Stator
- Radio Control System
- Recycled Plastic
- Rigour Motor
- Rubber Concrete
- Sloppy Alumina
- Steamed Copper Sheet
- Steel Rotor
- Steel Rotor
- Stitched Iron Plate
- Turbo Blend Fuel
- Wet Concrete
D Tier Alternate Recipes in Satisfactory
You won’t find yourself reaching out for the recipes under the D Tier. They offer no value if crafted and won’t do much for production
- Alclad Casing
- Cast Screw
- Caterium Wire
- Coated Iron Canister
- Crystal Beacon
- Fine Black Powder
- Flexible Framework
- Fused Quickwire
- Heavy Oil Residue
- Insulated Crystal Oscillator
- Iron Alloy Ingot
- Iron Wire
- Polyester Fabric
- Pure Iron Ingot
F Tier Alternate Recipes in Satisfactory
These recipes below are absolutely useless, it is best to avoid them if they appear while scanning Hard Drives. They take up a lot of rare materials to create and offer no value in production
- Bolted Frame
- Cheap Silica
- Compacted Steel Ingot
- Cooling Device
- Electrode Circuit Board
- Electromagnetic Connection Rod
- Fertile Uranium
- Instant Plutonium Cell
- Instant Scrap
- OC Supercomputer
- Plutonium Fuel Unit
- Pure Caterium Ingot
- Pure Copper Ingot
- Radio Connection Unit
- Recycled Rubber
- Steel Canister
That’s all there is to know about best Alternate Recipes in Satisfactory. If you like this guide you can check out our other guides like How To Build A Reinforced Iron Plate Factory In Satisfactory and Best Starting Locations For Satisfactory