Hard Drive



The Hard Drive is an item resembling a heavy duty carrying case that can be found inside Wreckage.

It currently can be researched in the M.A.M., and results in a choice of one of 3 alternate blueprints, chosen from the pool below. See Below

There are 67 Wreckages. This means a total of 67 Hard Drives could theoretically be obtained. 8 however require materials not currently available in early access.

2 Hard drives will be used for character Inventory expansions, leaving 65 for alternative recipes.

Alternative Recipes
Alternative recipes generally cost only about two thirds of the original recipe, both in time and required material, but often require different input materials than the original.

Sometimes the same recipe will show up more than once in the set to pick from. The recipes that show up depend on the current tier and what other Milestones have been unlocked. For example, researching Caterium opens up multiple new possible alternate recipes that involve it.

The set of blueprints to choose from is picked randomly at the time the scan has completed. Because of this, the player can keep re-rolling to get a desired blueprint by saving before opening the M.A.M. to check the analyze results, then loading the save if the choices are undesirable.

* Please note that the "Original" columns assume a single crafting operation for the required ingredients. So, 1 becomes 1. These columns are best used to compare the resulting parts per minute.

Unreleased Alternative Recipes
Please note that the recipes in the table below are not yet available in the current release and are subject to change. If you'd like to discover these recipes for yourself when they're implemented in the game, don't expand the table.

Important Notes

 * The Hard Drive research is repeatable.
 * Researching a Hard Drive alone does not unlock new recipes. The player is required to complete the necessary Milestones at The HUB. It is a 2-step process.

Tips

 * "Alternative Steel Ingot","Encased Industrial Beam","Modular Frame", and"Heavy Modular Frame" recipes are a good combo.
 * "Alternative Screw" and"Reinforced Iron Plate" recipes are a good combo.
 * "Stitched Iron Plate" and"Iron Wire" recipes are a good combo, when combined they use even fewer iron ingots than the other"Alternative Reinforced Iron Plate" (6 and 2/9ths of an iron ingot per plate instead of 8).
 * "Alternative Caterium Wire" and"Iron Wire" recipes can be used where no Copper Node is within close range.
 * "Alternative Iron Ingot" and"Stitched Iron Plate" recipes are useful where Copper Nodes are abundant.
 * "Alternative Quickwire","Caterium Circuit Board", and"Caterium Computer" recipes are a good combo, as only a small amount of Caterium is needed and greatly reduces the raw material required for all other ingredients.
 * "Alternative Rubber Cable" and"Caterium Wire" recipes are not recommended as they will consume a lot of rare resources, while not saving much of the iron and copper ores.

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