Which one is more important

[BaoBaB]

after playing for a while i'm wondering which part or item is the most in demand in the game. I tried t identify but at last i can put my finger on it. Can you help Which product should i need the most in the game basically. Your thoughts?

[phillip_lynx]

hmm ...

All which you have to less ... :)

Build bigger :D

[Grandaddypurple]

You'll never have enough concrete

[Vault Traveler]

Hmmm at the beginning screws, later wire.

[Tenebrais]

There's not going to be any one answer to this. Virtually every item has at least one alternate recipe to find, meaning that you can have very different production chains to reach late-game items. Some items, like rubber or electromagnetic control rods don't see very much use in the standard recipes but appear all over the place in alternates. And conversely you can completely eliminate certain resources from production chains (for example, you can create supercomputers without using any iron or copper at all).

[SternLX]

Originally posted by Tenebrais:

There's not going to be any one answer to this. Virtually every item has at least one alternate recipe to find, meaning that you can have very different production chains to reach late-game items. Some items, like rubber or electromagnetic control rods don't see very much use in the standard recipes but appear all over the place in alternates. And conversely you can completely eliminate certain resources from production chains (for example, you can create supercomputers without using any iron or copper at all).

Not all of us take the time to hunt down every single crash site or use the Alternates at all.

So on order of importance on Stock recipes, and the one resource I seem to use the most of is Copper. The amount of Copper Ingots I need seems to be astronomical. Whether it's Wire, Copper Sheets, or Alclad Aluminum I never seem to have enough. And since they moved Mk3 Miners into a higher Tier it makes it even more painful to gather.

P.S. I'm aware there is an Alternate where you mix Water with the Copper Ore for a higher Ingot yield. I have yet to find it after 500hrs of play(I play mostly on Epic).

[Verios44]

There are some items you will use quite alot of in the end game. But, there is no one answer. It all depends on what stage of the game you are in, and what recipies, alternates you are using.

Balancing rare resources comes quite challengjng late game too.

But, items like quickwire, steel, silica, concrete, rubber, plastic, etc are stuff you will be using alot.