Hard Drives/recipe cheats/mod

[G™]

Hi all,

Is there a mod/cheat to get all hard drives or unlock alternative recipes?

I truly enjoy the game, it really is Satisfactory, factory building dream. The only thing I really dislike is search for Hard Drives for alternate recipes. I`ve scavenged 20-30, but don`t feel like running all over the map to find additional.

BTW, I`ve unlocked all tiers available.

Thank you awesome community! :)

[Yffriium]

I'm not sure if there's a mod, but I'm confident there's a map program out there which shows you the location of all hard drives if you're interested in that.
https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map

[Capt. W. Schwartz]

Yup, both exist:
Hard Drive Cheat: https://ficsit.app/mod/EwUwhxhEFCSSdw
-craft hard drives for 100 iron plates

and

Unlock Alternate Recipes: https://ficsit.app/mod/6ZdGVUZKWSrrXD
Tier 0 Milestone unlocks 70 Alternate Recipes + 10 Inventory Slots and You can exchange Hard Drives for Power Shards.

[Lil Puppy]

It's great for when you're doing a New Game + run
And the mod is something that is a tier to unlock so you can just leave it alone if you don't want to use it that run.

[Capt. W. Schwartz]

Originally posted by Lil Puppy:

so you can just leave it alone if you don't want to use it that run.

Exactly.

[DrNewcenstein]

There's a WeMod trainer that gives unlimited items. Collect one HDD and scan it, and you'll still have one in your inventory. It does still take 10 minutes each, but the trainer also has a game speed modifier, so that 10 minutes passes in seconds. However, that will make everything in the game run faster as well, which means you need to have power automated (unless the MAM doesn't require power?)

However, in order for the trainer to give you infinite hard drives, you do have to have one on you. If you've already scanned the ones you've found, you'll have to reload a save or find another. There are a few "easy" ones that either don't require an unlock item, but they're sometimes hard to reach without sky bridges.

The trainer also has a Super Jump, and infinite health, and one-hit kills, if that's your thing. The Super Jump works great with the jet pack, and you really want infinite health when super-jumping.

Even if you don't want all the other stuff the trainer offers, using the infinite items bit on hard drives is well worth it. Of course this also means you can have infinite slugs, and power shards, and ammo, but that's up to you.

[Calmputer]

There's also the PAK Utility Mod, which has the !give command.
so just type:
!give hard drive 70 (or maybe "!give harddrive 70")

however, there are only 70 collectible hard drives in the game so far... and you can't scrap or sink them. So if you pick them up, you'll be stuck with them in your inventory/storage bins forever.

[DrNewcenstein]

OH NOES! There's only a fraction of the recipes now! WTF? I got casted screws, stitched iron plate, bolted plate, and a few others - maybe 10 total - nowhere near 70. No alternate fabric recipe, nothing related to oil, aluminum, black powder, etc. Did they lock these behind level walls? Or were they always that way and I'm only just now seeing it? I usually spam hard drives when I've got several tiers unlocked (i.e. when I can spare the time).

[Calmputer]

Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

OH NOES! There's only a fraction of the recipes now! WTF? I got casted screws, stitched iron plate, bolted plate, and a few others - maybe 10 total - nowhere near 70. No alternate fabric recipe, nothing related to oil, aluminum, black powder, etc. Did they lock these behind level walls? Or were they always that way and I'm only just now seeing it? I usually spam hard drives when I've got several tiers unlocked (i.e. when I can spare the time).

I believe it was always that way. You cannot unlock alternatives for tiers that you haven't unlocked yet. It makes a lot of sense though, as it makes sure that you will always unlock things that is useful to you at the time.

You will also be more likely to get the 2 inventory increases early.

[G™]

You guys are awesome, great resources, I just love the game and this community - bow to you and big thank you! :)

I unlocked all tiers and have already automated all of the stuff including electricity which I did with Turbofuel. Next project is 10x Turbomotor, so that`s why I wanted alternative recipe for Heat Exchanger and after 30+ attempts - still didn`t get it. :)

[G™]

Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

There's a WeMod trainer that gives unlimited items. Collect one HDD and scan it, and you'll still have one in your inventory. It does still take 10 minutes each, but the trainer also has a game speed modifier, so that 10 minutes passes in seconds. However, that will make everything in the game run faster as well, which means you need to have power automated (unless the MAM doesn't require power?)

However, in order for the trainer to give you infinite hard drives, you do have to have one on you. If you've already scanned the ones you've found, you'll have to reload a save or find another. There are a few "easy" ones that either don't require an unlock item, but they're sometimes hard to reach without sky bridges.

The trainer also has a Super Jump, and infinite health, and one-hit kills, if that's your thing. The Super Jump works great with the jet pack, and you really want infinite health when super-jumping.

Even if you don't want all the other stuff the trainer offers, using the infinite items bit on hard drives is well worth it. Of course this also means you can have infinite slugs, and power shards, and ammo, but that's up to you.

That`s an interesting one, I might try it. I still have couple of HDD`s in my stash.
Power is fully automated with double of current demand - just in case.
I`m fine with time, I can wait 10 mins for each HDD, it adds to anticipation factor. :)

[Vimpster]

Searching and collecting those hard drives has actually been a big part of the fun I have experienced with this game. I think I have collected over 50 of them so far. Seems like a shame to me that someone would choose to skip that. Though I imagine if I were to play through the game multiple times it would perhaps become less fun to collect them all.

[DrNewcenstein]

Originally posted by Vimpster:

Searching and collecting those hard drives has actually been a big part of the fun I have experienced with this game. I think I have collected over 50 of them so far. Seems like a shame to me that someone would choose to skip that. Though I imagine if I were to play through the game multiple times it would perhaps become less fun to collect them all.

I've had the game since April. Spent the 7 weeks of shutdown playing it, so yeah, been everywhere, done everything. Got 10 reactors on a mesa in the desert, now it's just experimentation.
I've located all of the drives/crash sites, unlocked all that I could (super position oscillator and quantum computer exceptions), so the trainer is just for "fun". Caves are still scary, even with one-hit kills and infinite health.

And yeah, it makes sense that the available recipes pertain only to your current level; no sense having turbo fuel when you haven't unlocked coal yet. Still, dedicating a couple of hours to spamming recipes alleviates that step in later levels, where you can focus only on building.
I prefer to have alternate recipes when they are most beneficial. In my first run, I had everything done and then went looking for them, just for "something to do". I was disappointed, obviously, once I started unlocking things I had need of in the early game.

For my second run, I spent some time hunting them down once coal was up and running.

For my 3rd run, I hit upon the idea of reloading the save if the scan came up weak.
So, diff'rent strokes.

And I was mistaken: The game speed cheat in the trainer reduces hard drive scanning to 2 minutes, not "seconds" as I said before. Still, 2 minutes x 30 drives is an hour. Better than 700 minutes!