If you have started your Hard Drive hunt to research new Alternate Recipes but don’t know which ones are good and should be unlocked first, you have come to the right place. Our Satisfactory Alternate Recipes tier list will come in handy.

Satisfactory’s open world is filled with crash sites from where players can recover Hard Drives and research them using the MAM to get a list of Alternate Recipes for items and resources that players must choose wisely if they want to make their factory and production more efficient.

With that said, here’s our Satisfactory Alternate Recipes tier list, ranking all the recipes under different tiers and helping you decide which ones you should get first.

Satisfactory Alternate Recipes tier list

Satisfactory world mining
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Our tier list ranks the Alternate Recipes based on several factors, including power use, the number of machines and buildings you must construct, resources required, and other factors, mainly the time and effort needed in production.

Satisfactory Alternate Recipes rankings explained

  • S-tier: When saving power, resources, and space, these Alternate Recipes are the best. Moreover, they are less complex, making them even better than the others.
  • A-tier: The recipes in the tier are also as good as S-tier ones but slightly fall short in raw numbers when it comes to factors like saving power, resources, etc.
  • B-tier: The B-tier recipes are great but do not offer optimal results.
  • C-tier: The recipes in this tier list are good and helpful in many scenarios, but they do not offer power savings, require many structures, and so on.
  • D-tier: The recipes in this tier list are inefficient as they produce little result compared to their consumption.
  • E-tier: Avoid getting the recipes in this tier list.
TIERALTERNATE RECIPES
SCopper Alloy Ingot, Heavy Encased Frame, Pure Aluminum Ingot, Oil-Based Diamonds, Dark Matter Trap, Heavy Flexible Frame, Sloppy Alumina, Crystal Computer, Silicon Circuit Board, Insulated Crystal Oscillator, Heat-Fused Frame, Uranium Fuel Unit, Caterium Circuit Board, Super-State Computer, Turbo Diamonds, Caterium Computer
AElectrode Aluminum Scrap, Diluted Fuel, Turbo Pressure Motor, Rubber Concrete, Plastic AI Limiter, Steel Screw, Rigor Motor, Fine Concrete, Steel Rod, Steeled Frame, Aluminum Beam, Aluminum Rod, Turbo Electric Motor, Electric Motor, Wet Concrete, Automated Speed Wiring, Coke Steel Ingot
BInfused Uranium Cell, Radio Control System, Silicon High-Speed Connector, Solid Steel Ingot, Heat Exchanger, Recycled Plastic, Coated Iron Plate, Stitched Iron Plate, Adhered Iron Plate, Insulated Cable, Coated Cable, Fused Wire, Plastic Smart Plating, Copper Rotor,  Steel Cast Plate, Nitro Rocket Fuel, Steamed Copper Sheet, OC Supercomputer, Steel Rotor, Tempered Caterium Ingot, Cooling Device, Pure Quartz Crystal, Electromagnetic Connection Rod, Quickwire Stator, Caterium Wire, Quickwire Cable, Bolted Frame, Bolted Iron Plate, Fine Black Powder, Heavy Oil Residue, Flexible Framework, Turbo Heavy Fuel, Cast Screw, Iron Alloy Ingot, Polymer Resin
CLeached Iron ingot, Pure Iron Ingot, Automated Miner, Iron Wire, Coated Iron Canister, Classic Battery, Fused Quickwire, Steel Canister, Cheap Silica, Molded Beam, Alclad Casing, Distilled Silica,  Basic Iron Ingot, Fused Quartz Crystal, Molded Steel Pipe, Leached Caterium Ingot, Turbo Blend Fuel, Electrode Circuit Board, Encased Industrial Pipe, Pure Caterium Ingot, Recycled Rubber
DQuartz Purification, Compacted Steel Ingot, Plutonium Fuel Unit, Pink Diamonds, Instant Plutonium Cell, Iron Pipe, Instant Scrap, Pure Copper Ingot
EFertile Uranium, Radio Connection Unit, Cloudy Diamonds, Dark-Ion Fuel, Dark Matter Crystallization, Petroleum Diamonds, Leached Copper Ingot, Tempered Copper Ingot, Biocoal, Charcoal

That concludes our Satisfactory Alternate Recipes tier list.

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