Upgrading your technology is a key part of progression in Satisfactory, and Hard Drives are the best source of new recipes. Discovering Hard Drives will reward you with Alternate Recipes, which are much more efficient versions of the standard items that you unlock as you level up the HUB and research new technology.
Hard Drives are hidden all over the world in Satisfactory, so tracking them down can be a hassle. Plus, each Hard Drive contains a random assortment of Alternate Recipes, so you may spend hours trying to get the one item that you need for your dream factory setup. This guide will show you where to find every Hard Drive in Satisfactory, including the coordinates for each of them and how to reroll the Alternate Recipes inside so you have the best chances of getting what you need.
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Satisfactory Hard Drive locations map
Here’s a brief overview of all 118 Crash Site locations in Satisfactory so you can see which Hard Drives are the closest to your base.
Hard Drive coordinates
These are more detailed coordinates for each of the Hard Drives in Satisfactory. You can input these coordinates in the upper right corner of the in-game map to ping their map location for easy tracking.
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| Hard Drive Coordinates | Altitude | Requirementes |
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| 236,508 / -312,236 | 100m | N/A |
| 366,637 /-303,549 | -73m | N/A |
| 174,948 / -276,436 | 212m | Electromagnetic Control Rod x43 |
| 176,245 / -243,985 | 72m | N/A |
| 190,785 / -236,810 | 231m | High-Speed Connector x35 |
| 303,169 / -246,169 | 55m | Steel Beam x20 |
| 219,146 / -199,880 | 65m | Screw x25 |
| 360,285 / -217,559 | 39m | 70 MW Power |
| 295,167 / -173,140 | 81m | Iron Rod x5 |
| 360,115 / -106,614 | 118m | Computer x5 |
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| 190,865 / -127,670 | 160m | Alclad Aluminum Sheet x57 |
| 159,088 / -145,116 | 232m | Fused Modular Frame x232 |
| 127,216 / -116,867 | -14m | 100 MW Power |
| 111,213 / -113,041 | 120m | 10 MW Power |
| 98,306 / -149,782 | 26m | N/A |
| 109,775 / -162,730 | 156m | 70 MW Power |
| 119,339 / -165,711 | -2m | N/A |
| 84,256 / -171,123 | -3m | Quickwire x38 |
| 52,687 / -163,605 | 154m | N/A |
| 17,808 / -136,923 | 136m | Rotor x1 |
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| -26,327 / -192,047 | 78m | N/A |
| -56,988 / -144,928 | 22m | 120 MW Power |
| -146,044 / -137,047 | 24m | Modular Frame x5 |
| -247,304 / -142,348 | 45m | 100 MW Power |
| -174,495 / -197,135 | -15m | Copper Sheet x10 |
| -123,677 / -167,107 | 297m | Rotor x4 |
| -55,111 / -204,858 | 78m | Rubber x35 |
| -50,656 / -259,272 | -17m | N/A |
| -136 / -237,257 | -18m | Encased Industrial Beam x15 |
| 5,302 / -187,091 | -16m | Computer x10 |
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| 44,549 / -244,344 | -9m | N/A |
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How to reroll Alternate Recipes from Hard Drives
Each Hard Drive gives you a choice between two random Alternate Recipes. If you don’t like either option, there is a way to reroll the Hard Drive and force it to give you new choices. After the 10-minute scan to reveal the Hard Drive’s contents, you can just press the Escape key to close the Alternate Recipe choice menu and then repeat the research process to get a new pair of blueprints.
This strategy used to be much more effective in the early access version of Satisfactory. The 1.0 update nerfed Hard Drive rerolls, so you can only do this once per Hard Drive. However, the blueprints contained inside a Hard Drive are randomly determined at the start of each 10-minute research period, so you can just save your game before researching and then reload your save file if you don’t like what you get. It sucks to lose progress from reloading a save, but this workaround is an easy way to guarantee that you get something good from each Hard Drive you find.
Best Satisfactory Alternate Recipe tier list
These are the best Alternate Recipes that you can get from Hard Drives in Satisfactory.
| Tier | Alternate Recipes |
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| S-Tier | Heavy Encased Frame Pure Aluminum Ingot Copper Alloy Ingot Oil-Based Diamonds Dark Matter Trap Heavy Flexible Frame Sloppy Alumina Turbo Diamonds Insulated Crystal Oscillator Uranium Fuel Unit |
| A-Tier | Cast Screws Silicon Circuit Board Crystal Computer Heat-Fused Frame Caterium Circuit Board Super-State Computer Electrode Aluminum Scrap Caterium Computer Steel Screw Turbo Pressure Motor Diluted Fuel Rubber Concrete Plastic AI Limiter Steel Rod Fine Concrete Rigor Motor Aluminum Beam Aluminum Rod Turbo Electric Motor Steeled Frame Infused Uranium Cell |
| B-Tier | Electric Motor Coke Steel Ingot Automated Speed Wiring Insulated Cable Solid Steel Ingot Wet Concrete Coated Cable Silicon High-Speed Connector Radio Control System Adhered Iron Plate Heat Exchanger Recycled Plastic Coated Iron Plate Quickwire Cable Fused Wire Stitched Iron Plate Steel Cast Plate Copper Rotor Plastic Smart Plating Steel Rotor Tempered Caterium Ingot Cooling Device Steamed Copper Sheet Caterium Wire Nitro Rocket Fuel Electromagnetic Connection Rod Turbo Heavy Fuel Pure Quartz Crystal Fine Black Powder Quickwire Stator Bolted Iron Plate OC Supercomputer Flexible Framework Iron Alloy Ingot Heavy Oil Residue Polyester Fabric Polymer Resin |
| C-Tier | Classic Battery Iron Wire Fused Quickwire Pure Iron Ingot Leached Iron ingot Bolted Frame Cheap Silica Alclad Casing Basic Iron Ingot Molded Beam Distilled Silica Fused Quartz Crystal Molded Steel Pipe Turbo Blend Fuel Leached Caterium Ingot Electrode Circuit Board Pure Caterium Ingot Encased Industrial Pipe Recycled Rubber Pink Diamonds |
| D-Tier | Compacted Steel Ingot Quartz Purification Plutonium Fuel Unit Iron Pipe Instant Plutonium Cell Instant Scrap Pure Copper Ingot |
| F-Tier | Fertile Uranium Radio Connection Unit Dark-Ion Fuel Cloudy Diamonds Petroleum Diamonds Dark Matter Crystallization Leached Copper Ingot Tempered Copper Ingot Automated Miner Biocoal Charcoal |
Published: Sep 12, 2024 02:29 pm