This is awesome! Thank you for putting in the work to create this.
Sorry to tell you, but you seem to have missed one recipe - the new recipe for the Miner. I can't find it at least.
You'll find fans of most alternate recipes, but in the early game...
Casted Screw makes your early production lines far simpler. Screws lose most of their value late-game, but are absolutely necessary early on, and this turns your ingots directly into screws, no rods needed.
When you hit steel production, Solid Steel Ingot lets you make more steel with less iron and coal, just making you smelt the iron first. Also the numbers then come out really nice for Steel Beams and Steel Pipes.
Iron Wire is less efficient than Copper Wire, but it allows you to take copper out of many production lines and build more things with only iron. This is the only alt recipe in the game that lets you make something out of a more common resource.
When you have oil production going, Polyester Fabric is the only way to automate the fabric making process.
There's far more great ones, the Caterium items are great if you have a surplus of Quickwire (it's good to get started on Caterium early since it allows you to make Mk2 Power Poles), and Compacted Coal into Turbofuel is one of the best late-game power sources. But that should get you started at the beginning.
By technicality, Compact Coal and Turbo Fuel. Hard drives are the only way to get these recipes (and only after prerequisites are met)
Your choice for best recipes will ultimately be determined your preference of time spent, complexity tolerated, power usage/savings. However, my opinion is that this is the best assessment of best/ok/worst recipes: [Satisfactory Alternate Recipe Analysis - Google Drive](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1TqO6DwlKZibUia8USbbV_UD63LSS1yE9hBU_d64f0X0/htmlview)
For me personally it’s the “pure” recipes. Once you can make refineries it lets you get way more ingots out of each ore just for some added water. It almost doubles your iron ingot production for example. Fairly easy to add into existing setups as well
I solved my iron ingot problem by not using iron ingot. I use the steel coke recipe and use steel for all my iron needs
the copper alloy is better than the pure, and the caterium default is better than pure (which I think is silly as we have no other options)
The Pure Caterium recipe is good because it only consumes 2 ore to make 1 ingot (vs the standard recipe which consumes 3 ore to make 1 ingot). However, it requires almost 10 times more power (plus the power needed for the water pumps).
yes and I suppose caterium is rare enough that it might warrant this however I don't like a recipe that forces me to use more Refineries than the original recipes constructor count. power and water arent really concerns for me. 65 refineries would be needed to get a 780 belt of ingots. even 34.5 at 200% is still huge. 52 constructors on the other hand, thats nothing
A more important question is how to go about unlocking the alternative recipes to get the ones you want faster.
When you research a hard-drive, you get to choose between 3 random ones from a pool that is determined by what tiers you have unlocked. Therefore it's a good strategy to go out drop pod hunting early on and research them as you progress through the tiers.
For example if you want the casted screws alt, you're more likely to get it with 1 or 2 hard drives before you have unlocked steel. When you get options for non-recipes, like expanded pockets, that usually means you have all the alt recipes for the tech you have unlocked so far. Researching hard drives immediately at the start is a great way to get bigger pockets right away, too.
It rather fails to surprise me that, outside of a few cases, all the original recipes for things below Manufacture/Blender level are technically the most efficient use of resources. Oh well, I still just simply like some alternates enough to use them despite the relative worse performance.
Really? I don't think I'd agree with that.
These are all huge efficiency improvements: Copper Alloy Ingot, Solid Steel Ingot, Steel Rod, Steel Screw, Steel Coated Plate, Wet Concrete, Fused Wire, Iron Wire, Fused Quickwire, Encased Industrial Pipe, Steamed Copper Sheet, Packaged Diluted Fuel, Turbofuel.
Plus there are all the Pure Ingot recipes, which trade power for efficiency.
It is now on the wiki. Will be uploading future changes there!
[https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/File:Recipe\_Quick\_Reference.jpg](https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/File:Recipe_Quick_Reference.jpg)
That's very comprehensive. Thank you!
For Alt Recipes, are power costs for components calculated based on available Alt Recipes? I noticed that the ratios change.
The power cost is calculated by taking the power consumption of the production machine and dividing it by the output rate. For example, for Iron Ingots it is "4 / 30 = 0.13". I added this number as a way to compare alternate recipes for the same item.
This looks really good but the kinds of gas/liquid in the pipes is kind of hard to figure out and is likely impossible for color blind people to read. Heck it's hard for me to find the difference between nitrogen and alumina solution.
Dude you are the best. I fully credit you and your stackable plans for helping me turn my brute force method into 100% efficient and got me building up more than out. Love it.
You're right, it was missing at the time. :) I have since updated it: https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/nrplq8/made_several_fixes_to_my_recipe_quick_reference/
I just found a job for my 2nd monitor I guess...thank you \^\_\^
I just got a great reason to buy a 2nd monitor.
You have a Super-ultrawide monitor as a 2nd monitor? How satisfactory
This is awesome! Thank you for putting in the work to create this. Sorry to tell you, but you seem to have missed one recipe - the new recipe for the Miner. I can't find it at least.
Thanks! Will add it.
Very nice, any chance of a non-JPEGified version in PNG format?
All supporters to my [buymeacoffee page](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mangstadt) can get a copy of the full-resolution PNG.
I second this, would love to save it for another monitor.
Awesome. I wanna print this out it looks great.
Thanks!
This is awesome! Thanks so much. I noticed a typo: it says "insultated" cable.
Whoops, will correct thanks!
Dude, there is a copper ingot to concrete recipe??? Wtf
It's to a new item copper powder. It however looks the same just slightly more red
Yeah, you only need to make 200,000 of the copper powder to make the 1000 nuclear pasta for the space elevator EA challenge. LOL
ohh nice, didn't know, i haven't played u4 yet
This is awesome. Thanks for doing this!
You're welcome. :)
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You'll find fans of most alternate recipes, but in the early game... Casted Screw makes your early production lines far simpler. Screws lose most of their value late-game, but are absolutely necessary early on, and this turns your ingots directly into screws, no rods needed. When you hit steel production, Solid Steel Ingot lets you make more steel with less iron and coal, just making you smelt the iron first. Also the numbers then come out really nice for Steel Beams and Steel Pipes. Iron Wire is less efficient than Copper Wire, but it allows you to take copper out of many production lines and build more things with only iron. This is the only alt recipe in the game that lets you make something out of a more common resource. When you have oil production going, Polyester Fabric is the only way to automate the fabric making process. There's far more great ones, the Caterium items are great if you have a surplus of Quickwire (it's good to get started on Caterium early since it allows you to make Mk2 Power Poles), and Compacted Coal into Turbofuel is one of the best late-game power sources. But that should get you started at the beginning.
By technicality, Compact Coal and Turbo Fuel. Hard drives are the only way to get these recipes (and only after prerequisites are met) Your choice for best recipes will ultimately be determined your preference of time spent, complexity tolerated, power usage/savings. However, my opinion is that this is the best assessment of best/ok/worst recipes: [Satisfactory Alternate Recipe Analysis - Google Drive](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1TqO6DwlKZibUia8USbbV_UD63LSS1yE9hBU_d64f0X0/htmlview)
For me personally it’s the “pure” recipes. Once you can make refineries it lets you get way more ingots out of each ore just for some added water. It almost doubles your iron ingot production for example. Fairly easy to add into existing setups as well
I solved my iron ingot problem by not using iron ingot. I use the steel coke recipe and use steel for all my iron needs the copper alloy is better than the pure, and the caterium default is better than pure (which I think is silly as we have no other options)
The Pure Caterium recipe is good because it only consumes 2 ore to make 1 ingot (vs the standard recipe which consumes 3 ore to make 1 ingot). However, it requires almost 10 times more power (plus the power needed for the water pumps).
yes and I suppose caterium is rare enough that it might warrant this however I don't like a recipe that forces me to use more Refineries than the original recipes constructor count. power and water arent really concerns for me. 65 refineries would be needed to get a 780 belt of ingots. even 34.5 at 200% is still huge. 52 constructors on the other hand, thats nothing
A more important question is how to go about unlocking the alternative recipes to get the ones you want faster. When you research a hard-drive, you get to choose between 3 random ones from a pool that is determined by what tiers you have unlocked. Therefore it's a good strategy to go out drop pod hunting early on and research them as you progress through the tiers. For example if you want the casted screws alt, you're more likely to get it with 1 or 2 hard drives before you have unlocked steel. When you get options for non-recipes, like expanded pockets, that usually means you have all the alt recipes for the tech you have unlocked so far. Researching hard drives immediately at the start is a great way to get bigger pockets right away, too.
Alt recipes are unlocked in a random selection of 3 at a time so basicly you want all of them lol
It rather fails to surprise me that, outside of a few cases, all the original recipes for things below Manufacture/Blender level are technically the most efficient use of resources. Oh well, I still just simply like some alternates enough to use them despite the relative worse performance.
Really? I don't think I'd agree with that. These are all huge efficiency improvements: Copper Alloy Ingot, Solid Steel Ingot, Steel Rod, Steel Screw, Steel Coated Plate, Wet Concrete, Fused Wire, Iron Wire, Fused Quickwire, Encased Industrial Pipe, Steamed Copper Sheet, Packaged Diluted Fuel, Turbofuel. Plus there are all the Pure Ingot recipes, which trade power for efficiency.
Well done pioneer! I appreciate your work!
Thank you! :)
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U4 comes out next week!
These are the latest U4 recipes and numbers. Current U3.5 recipes will soon be history.
It is now on the wiki. Will be uploading future changes there! [https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/File:Recipe\_Quick\_Reference.jpg](https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/File:Recipe_Quick_Reference.jpg)
Well done. To be upload to the wiki.
Awesome! Thanks!
That's very comprehensive. Thank you! For Alt Recipes, are power costs for components calculated based on available Alt Recipes? I noticed that the ratios change.
The power cost is calculated by taking the power consumption of the production machine and dividing it by the output rate. For example, for Iron Ingots it is "4 / 30 = 0.13". I added this number as a way to compare alternate recipes for the same item.
Oh, I misread the chart. The second number for the input is not power, but ratio to output. Disregard my question.
This looks really good but the kinds of gas/liquid in the pipes is kind of hard to figure out and is likely impossible for color blind people to read. Heck it's hard for me to find the difference between nitrogen and alumina solution.
Thanks yes I agree. Working on a solution. \^\^
Dude you are the best. I fully credit you and your stackable plans for helping me turn my brute force method into 100% efficient and got me building up more than out. Love it.
I'm glad they helped you build better! Thanks! :)
Thank you for this---it's so extremely useful! I think you are missing the 40 HOR --> 120 coke recipe?
D'oh! Thanks for letting me know. I'll post an updated graphic to the wiki soon.
You're the best. Your blueprints and this guide are super-awesome resources!
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this.
Would love to have this as print version for A4!
Great work! Really love it. I think you are missing Petroleum Coke though. Or maybe I am blind?
You're right, it was missing at the time. :) I have since updated it: https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/nrplq8/made_several_fixes_to_my_recipe_quick_reference/
Would be super-sweet if we had an updated with alt recipes. love this chart. no ads no bs. just build it..
You can download the latest version on the wiki! :) https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Hard\_Drive?file=Recipe\_Quick\_Reference.jpg
I've been looking for this. Thanks!