"But in the same way that a cookie recipe will let you substitute out things like eggs and butter, Satisfactory has all kinds of alternate recipes that let you make items out of simpler recipes and more common resources. They range from being true game changers to being something you should skip. In this article, we'll explain how to find Hard Drives and get the most out of them, and lay out some of our favorite alternate recipes, focusing especially on the early game."
"Being inventive and creative isn't enough to make an alternate recipe--you need cold, hard data, in the form of Hard Drives. You'll find tons of Hard Drives around the Satisfactory map as you explore, build new sites, and connect sites together. Once you unlock Radio Signal Scanning in the Quartz research tree, you can also scan for Hard Drives using the Object Scanner."
"There are a few important things to note about using Hard Drives. Each drive will randomly select a set of alternate recipes when you research it, but the options reflect your current status in the game. In other words, you're not going to get an alternate recipe for nuclear materials when you haven't even unlocked oil processing. You can re-roll each drive's alternate recipe options once, but we recommend holding off."
Alternate recipes let players produce items from different, often more common inputs, sometimes changing gameplay and sometimes being suboptimal. Alternate recipes unlock through Hard Drives discovered while exploring, building, or scanning with the Object Scanner after unlocking Radio Signal Scanning in the Quartz research tree. Hard Drives are researched in the Molecular Analysis Machine (MAM) and the MAM can store multiple drives. Each researched drive randomly presents alternate recipe options that reflect current game progress. Each drive's options can be re-rolled once, but delaying research or rerolls can reserve undesirable options and increase variety of future choices.
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