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0:00Hey everyone, and welcome to
0:01Satisfactory news. In a video I made a
0:03few months ago, I mentioned a few
0:05alternate recipes and I asked if you
0:07guys wanted a dedicated video about the
0:09best ones. And quite a few of you
0:10commented that yes, you did want that.
0:13So, here's that video. Alternate recipes
0:15are a fascinating and unique part of
0:17Satisfactory that are often
0:19game-changing. Unlike other games, these
0:21alternate recipes aren't necessarily
0:23strict upgrades. Some are more efficient
0:26than the base recipe, while others are a
0:28bit more puzzling, letting you use them
0:30to get rid of weird byproducts or make
0:32use of an overabundant resource while
0:34saving your main resource for more
0:35important projects.
0:37How to pick an alternate recipe. Before
0:40I talk about the best recipes, let's
0:41think about how to make the best choice
0:43when you're presented with two options.
0:45Because outside of the standout recipes
0:47that I'm going to mention here, there
0:49aren't many that are objectively good
0:51100% of the time. What works for you in
0:54the moment is going to be dependent on
0:56several factors. Number one, do you
0:58prefer resource efficiency, time
1:00efficiency, or power efficiency? Number
1:03two, are you content with your current
1:06production lines for certain materials,
1:08or do you think that you could tear them
1:09down and improve them? And number three,
1:11does this recipe create or use a
1:14byproduct in a way that interacts
1:15conveniently with my existing factory
1:18and recipes? Some recipes may not appear
1:20immediately good or bad, so examine them
1:23using your current knowledge of the game
1:24and honestly don't worry too much. There
1:27are plenty of hard drives in the game
1:29and you can eventually unlock every
1:30alternate recipe. The other thing to
1:32remember is that it's tied to what tier
1:34you're at in the game, so you won't have
1:37every alternate available to you right
1:38away. So, keep that in mind if you're
1:40hunting for something specific.
1:42Evaluating recipes will also depend on
1:44what you find easy or difficult in the
1:46game. For example, power generation is
1:48always a priority for me and I enjoy
1:50expanding my power grid, so I don't
1:52really care if an alternate recipe costs
1:53more power than the default. But maybe
1:56you hate creating power plants and
1:57you're always running out of power, so
1:59you prefer to find more power-efficient
2:00recipes.
2:02Speaking of power, I will touch on the
2:03power efficiency differences, but just
2:06take my explanations with a grain of
2:07salt. First of all, I'm largely ignoring
2:10miners and extractors, since their power
2:12usage will vary depending on which type
2:14of miner you use, and if you overclock
2:16them. Plus, it's highly dependent on
2:17whether you're using just the alt
2:19recipes that I'm talking about, or some
2:22other combination of recipes. Consider
2:24my power numbers to be a rough estimate,
2:26and don't be surprised if you get a
2:28different result when making your own
2:29comparisons for your gameplay.
2:32Very few alternate recipes exist
2:34entirely in a vacuum. Most of the best
2:36recipes in the game are the best because
2:38of how they interact with other
2:40alternate recipes. A certain combination
2:42of recipes may eliminate an entire
2:43resource from a production chain that
2:45would need to be shipped in from far
2:47away otherwise, or it may allow you to
2:49maximize a limited resource like oil to
2:51make a overabundant fuel plant. My final
2:54piece of advice before we get into it is
2:56not to stress too much about using the
2:58best recipes. Use the ones that make
3:00your life easier and the gameplay more
3:02enjoyable, because remember, this is a
3:04single-player game, and despite what the
3:06game suggests about efficiency, you
3:08don't need to optimize absolutely
3:09everything unless you want to. So, with
3:12that out of the way, let's start the
3:13list. I'm going to start with tier one,
3:16moving all the way to the mid to late
3:18game.
3:19Cast screws.
3:21This can be unlocked in tier one, and
3:23it's one of the best early game
3:24alternates, improving the production of
3:26screws.
3:28Making screws is truly one of the first
3:29annoying things that you encounter in
3:31Satisfactory, since you have to make
3:33ingots, then rods, then screws, and the
3:35rod step just feels like it makes the
3:36whole process way too clunky, especially
3:38when you need them for other items, and
3:40your belts get oversaturated super
3:42quickly.
3:43Basically, cast screws lets you skip the
3:45rods altogether, and turn iron ingots
3:47directly into screws. The crazy thing
3:49about this recipe is that both the
3:51original and the alternate have a one to
3:53four ingot to screw ratio. So, you're
3:56not losing any resource efficiency.
3:58You're purely saving on building extra
4:00constructors. In the early game where
4:02power is one of your biggest
4:03limitations, this is a bigger deal than
4:05it might sound. It actually results in
4:07around a 40% savings in power thanks to
4:10cutting out a whole step of
4:12constructors. It will also save you a
4:14lot of mental effort because whatever
4:15factories you make using this recipe
4:18will likely be torn down and rebuilt at
4:20some point. Fewer buildings means less
4:22time building and tearing down, which
4:24can keep your motivation up to do more
4:26enjoyable things. This is a huge early
4:28game recipe and I highly recommend
4:30rushing to discover hard drives to
4:31unlock it as soon as possible. But as
4:34you progress, you'll probably look to
4:35get rid of screws altogether through
4:37additional alternate recipes or you're
4:39going to use different screw recipes
4:42that you'll find later on in the game.
4:43But for early game, this is essential.
4:46Iron pipe. This is available starting in
4:48tier three. And when you reach phase two
4:51and can start unlocking tier three
4:52milestones, your coal demand is going to
4:55be split between two very big things.
4:58On one hand, you've unlocked coal power
4:59and can finally automate power
5:01production. But on the other hand, you
5:02can start producing steel items to
5:04further your progress through the game.
5:06But what if you didn't have to spend
5:08your coal on steel ingots? Well, that's
5:11where iron pipe comes into play. This
5:13steel pipe alternate recipe makes them
5:15out of iron ingots instead of steel
5:17ingots, which eliminates coal from their
5:19process.
5:20The downside is that this recipe is
5:22quite a bit less efficient on materials
5:24using around triple the iron that the
5:25default recipe uses.
5:27And it uses a fairly negligible 6% less
5:30power, so that's not really super
5:31important. But the advantage of being
5:33able to make steel pipes just about
5:34anywhere in the world is massive,
5:36especially if you need the coal for
5:38other things. After all, iron is
5:40incredibly plentiful. Coal is slightly
5:43less so. Unfortunately, steel beams
5:45don't have a coal-less alternate recipe,
5:47so you'll still need to use coal for
5:48those, and you'll probably want to since
5:50mark three belts use them. Though,
5:52personally, I use this as motivation to
5:54breeze through tier three and get
5:56straight to tier four, thus getting
5:58access to mark [music] four belts.
6:00This is a little bit of a tangent, but
6:01those require encased industrial beams,
6:03which also use steel beams. There's
6:06actually an alternate called encased
6:07industrial pipe, which uses steel pipes
6:10instead of beams.
6:11If you use the iron pipe alternate
6:13recipe, you can make those then and
6:15coal. Continuing from there, using those
6:17two alternates together allows you to
6:19build heavy modular frames with just
6:21iron and concrete, no coal.
6:24That whole explanation might have been a
6:25little confusing, but you can see why I
6:26mentioned that these recipes don't exist
6:28in a vacuum. They all work together.
6:31Molded beam and molded pipe.
6:34Sticking in tier three and talking about
6:36coal, let's talk about some alternates
6:39for beams and pipes. While getting rid
6:42of steel ingots from beams and pipes
6:44isn't totally possible, as I mentioned
6:45before, the molded alternate recipes can
6:48give you massive savings in your steel.
6:51By adding concrete to the mix, which is
6:54fairly plentiful in the world, you can
6:56cut down on your ratios.
6:58Steel beams by default are [music] four
7:00ingots to one beam, and the alternate
7:02cuts it down to just 2.6 ingots to one
7:04beam.
7:05Steel pipes are normally 1.5 ingots to
7:07one pipe, and the alternate cuts it down
7:09to one ingot per pipe.
7:12These are pretty massive savings, and
7:13especially at tier three when you can
7:15unlock these, you're going to be saving
7:16massively on your coal and can devote
7:18more of it to power production. Speaking
7:20of power, there is a minor power
7:22downside with molded beams using 5% more
7:25power and the molded pipes using 13%
7:27more power, but thankfully these numbers
7:30will be easily offset by putting that
7:32extra coal into power production.
7:35Pure ingots. Pure ingots can be unlocked
7:38in tier five. And pure ingot is not a
7:41recipe on its own. It's actually a
7:43family of recipes.
7:45Essentially, each ingot has a pure
7:47alternate recipe. These recipes are
7:49amazing for two big reasons. The first
7:52is that they are all significantly more
7:53efficient than the base recipes, costing
7:55a lot less ore. The other is that they
7:57use water. Adding fluids to the equation
8:00may seem like a downside, but it doesn't
8:01have to be. First off, water is one of
8:03the most annoying byproducts in the
8:05game, so in the worst case scenario,
8:07these pure alternates give you more
8:08options for disposing of that water. In
8:11the best case scenario, you can extend
8:13the resources [music]
8:13in your world, which is essential for
8:15people who want to max out the game.
8:17Steel ingots don't have a great analog
8:19here, but it would probably be the solid
8:20steel ingot, which is available at tier
8:22three instead of tier five. Now, while
8:24it doesn't bear the pure title, wet
8:25concrete also falls into this category
8:27and is often the first choice when
8:29getting rid of excess water.
8:31If fluids are still causing you
8:32problems, I can imagine not wanting to
8:33touch these recipes, but you should
8:35check out my video about how to fix the
8:37fluids in your world, which should pop
8:38up as a card in the corner right now.
8:41Heavy oil residue and diluted fuel.
8:44These two alternate recipes unlock in
8:46tier five, and they are absolutely
8:48critical if you want to max out your
8:50fuel power plants.
8:51This combination of recipes feels really
8:53weird and unconventional, but trust me,
8:55it works out to having the best numbers
8:57by far. Ordinarily, heavy oil residue is
9:00just an annoying byproduct of plastic
9:02and rubber
9:03>> [music]
9:03>> that you somehow have to deal with. But
9:05with the heavy oil residue recipe, you
9:07can turn crude oil into this byproduct
9:09directly. Now, why the heck would you
9:11want to do that? Well, because using the
9:13alternate recipe for diluted fuel, you
9:16can combine it with water to create
9:18fuel. It'll make more sense once we look
9:20at the numbers. 30 crude oil per minute
9:22equals 40 residue per minute. 40 residue
9:25per minute then equals 80 fuel per
9:27minute. With the standard recipe, 30
9:29crude oil per minute just translates to
9:31only 20 fuel per minute.
9:33These two recipes allow you to quadruple
9:35your fuel production just by adding
9:37water and an extra production step. This
9:39line does create the byproduct of
9:41polymer resin, but since this is a
9:43solid, it's much easier to just throw it
9:45in the awesome sink as compared to a
9:47liquid like heavy oil residue. But, you
9:49can go even further with this chain, and
9:51I would recommend combining the polymer
9:53resin with water to create fabric as
9:56your sink value will go from 12 to 140.
9:59So, you'll be getting a lot of tickets
10:01fast. Or, if you need fabric for your
10:03factory, this is actually the only way
10:05to automate it.
10:06The standard recipe uses natural
10:08components that you have to grab by
10:10hand.
10:11I actually have an entire video
10:13dedicated to fuel where I talk about
10:15these alternate recipes and how I make
10:17the most of them, which I will have in
10:19the cards right now. In that video, I
10:21dive deep into how to use them along
10:23with some additional more advanced fuel
10:24recipes to create more power than you
10:27will ever need.
10:28Speaking of power, using these alternate
10:30recipes ends up taking about 50% more
10:33power than using the default recipes.
10:36That doesn't sound great until you
10:37realize that you are getting 400% the
10:40energy output. So, I would say that's a
10:42pretty worthwhile trade-off.
10:44Silicon circuit board.
10:46Staying in tier five for a little while,
10:47when you start processing aluminum,
10:49you'll run into a lot of annoyances, one
10:51of which is the byproduct of silica from
10:53making alumina solution. Silica actually
10:56is used in a later step of the aluminum
10:58production chain in the production of
11:00aluminum ingots. And while you can use
11:02that byproduct to supplement a main
11:03source of silica, you might find that
11:06it's just easier to get rid of that
11:07byproduct and instead rely on a steady
11:10stream of a dedicated silica production.
11:13The reason for this is that there are
11:14fluids involved in this production line.
11:16The last thing you want is for the
11:18silica to back up in the alumina
11:19solution refineries and then back up one
11:21of the fluids, because that could cause
11:23issues that end up being difficult to
11:24solve. Whether you want to get rid of
11:26the silica elsewhere or you're producing
11:28it directly with quartz, a great usage
11:30for it is the alternate recipe silicon
11:33circuit board.
11:34The normal circuit board recipe takes
11:36copper sheets and plastic, while this
11:38alternate takes copper sheets and
11:39silica.
11:41Oil products like plastic are a whole
11:42other production chain that may be
11:44inconvenient to ship in depending on
11:46where you are. It also may take away
11:47from the oil that you'd rather use for
11:49power.
11:50On top of these advantages, it also
11:52consumes significantly less power, and
11:55you can see this without even doing the
11:56math. With the alt recipes, you're just
11:58using a bunch of constructors that use 4
12:00MW of power, but with the default
12:02recipes, you're using refineries to
12:04create plastic, which each consume 30
12:06MW. But, if you do want to do the math,
12:09it's about 70% less power. And that's
12:12before considering whatever you choose
12:13to do with the heavy oil residue for
12:15making plastic. That's going to add even
12:17more power.
12:18My last note on the silica is that there
12:21is a pure aluminum ingot alternate
12:22recipe that is very good, and it removes
12:24silica from the recipe. So, with this
12:27alternate, you'll need to get rid of it
12:28somehow, and the silicon circuit board
12:30is going to be the easiest option.
12:33Heavy encased frame. Now we're in tier
12:35six.
12:37As I said earlier in the video, getting
12:38rid of screws for a production line is
12:40the goal of many players, since even
12:42with high-tier belts, they can be a pain
12:44to move around given their large
12:45quantities. So, it only makes sense that
12:47one of the best later game alt recipes
12:49is the heavy encased frame, which
12:52produces heavy modular frames.
12:54This recipe keeps three of the four
12:55ingredients the same, but replaces
12:57screws with concrete. Concrete, one of
13:00the most basic items in the game.
13:02Outside of that obvious advantage, it's
13:04also just more resource efficient in
13:06general. This recipe is more efficient
13:08than the base recipe, even if you use
13:10the steel screws alternate to make the
13:12screws. And you have access to
13:13alternates for basically every part in
13:15this recipe and the parts that make
13:17them. So, it's incredibly flexible
13:19depending on what other alternate
13:20recipes you have. Here's an example
13:22comparing a totally standard production
13:24line versus one that uses alternate
13:26recipes to make the process more
13:27resource efficient.
13:29This recipe gives you savings in power,
13:32buildings, resources, everything. In
13:35fact, it saves around 50% power, which
13:38can go a long way.
13:40And that's where I'm going to wrap it
13:41up. A lot of the super high-tier late
13:44game alternate recipes are either not
13:46the most impressive or they're so niche
13:49that they're not particularly worth
13:50discussing.
13:52But if you do have a favorite one that
13:53you like to use for the way that you
13:55play the game, please let me know in the
13:56comments below because there are so many
13:59more alternate recipes in Satisfactory
14:00and I'm not going to rate every single
14:02one of them here. Outside of a few
14:03objectively good ones like the ones I
14:05talked about in this video, most of the
14:07other recipes are incredibly
14:08context-dependent and players will have
14:10widely different opinions based on their
14:12play style and factory setup. So, let me
14:14know what you're using. Let me know what
14:16the savior of your play through is and
14:19don't forget to like and subscribe
14:21because it helps a lot and I will see
14:23you in the next video.

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