How to Get Cast Screws in Satisfactory

Cast Screws are an Alternative Recipe for Screws in Satisfactory. In case you require Screws but you do not have space for machines, then the Cast Screw method is a much more efficient option. It helps you cut out a needless extra step and saves you a lot of time. Let’s go over how to get Cast Screws in Satisfactory and why they are better than regular Screws.

How to Get Cast Screws in Satisfactory

Hard drives provide a random recipe from the available options up to your current technology level. There isn’t a specific recipe tied to each Hard drive. By continuing to research Hard drives, you’ll eventually unlock it. The Cast Screw is considered one of the best Alternate Recipes in the game because it has lower crafting requirements than the regular Screws, allowing you to cut out the middleman of Iron Rods. Eventually, you can get rid of Screws entirely, but before reaching that point you need to get Cast Screws.

Early in the game, you’re more likely to see it, as it has a low tech requirement and the random selection pool is smaller. Normally it depends on your RNG, but if you do not want to deal with the randomness of getting the recipe. Follow the steps below for an easier method that involves a bit of save scumming.

Best Method to Unlock Cast Screws Quickly

You can easily cheese getting the recipe without using a save editor by following these steps:

• Save your game.
• Begin researching a hard drive in the MAM.
• Wait 10 minutes for the research to complete.
• If you don’t get the desired result, reload the save and repeat step 2.

The game determines the available recipes at the start of the 10-minute countdown, so you’ll need to wait the full 10 minutes for each try. Waiting 10 minutes can be tiring but the Cast Screw recipe is efficient enough to be worth the wait as it can save you tons of time and resources in the long run.

How to Get Hard Drives

Hard Drives are unique items found at Crash Sites and are used to unlock Alternate Recipes. You can locate Crash Sites using the Object Scanner once you’ve researched Radio Signal Scanning in the MAM.

This concludes the guide for unlocking the recipe for Cast Screws in Satisfactory. You can check out our other Satisfactory tips and tricks guides such as, how to set up your own dedicated server and all 1.0 map changes.