Alternate recipes in Satisfactory are your rewards for exploring the world and researching hard drives collected from crash-landing sites. As their name implies, they give you alternate ways of manufacturing a product, which can potentially make your production line a lot easier to design.

While many Satisfactory players may value resource and power efficiency above all else, talented nerds in the Satisfactory community have already made alternate recipe tier lists by crunching those raw numbers. Our picks, on the other hand, prioritize convenience. So, with this, you’ll be better served in your progression through the tiers without having to make mile-long infrastructure to transport resources across the map.