The SCIM Website shows you the location of all the hard drives on the map allows you to load your save file to see which ones have already been collected as well as what the requirements are. Satisfactory Calculator Interactive Map (SCIM) It's a cave just north of a crashed drop pod on the beach and there are 5 piles of rubble with loose parts scattered around them. One special location on the Map is “Lizard Doggo World” on the west coast. Computers and Heavy Modular Frames allow you to unlock trains and start building trains without having to manually craft either of these items, this can be a real bonus in getting oil back to base sooner.The parts available at each location are always the same. The crashed drop pod locations have parts around them littered on the ground, these parts can be extremely useful and save you needing to make parts in the early game and late game. By slowing down your game-play, you can avoid this obvious waiting and replace it with exploring the map which also provides you with power slugs at the same time. This means that the pool of available recipes the MAM has to choose from is very large, so it's a long waiting game of unlocking all the recipes. The reason why is that they have rushed through the game and unlocked all the tier levels and found very little hard drives. I often hear people tell me “It takes so long to unlock Turbofuel and Compact Coal”. The reason for this strategy is that the pool of available recipes are limited to only the tier level you are on. Keep researching hard drives until the MAM hands you back the hard drive.

Unlock all the milestones in the hub for tier 7.Send the space elevator to unlock tier 7 & 8.

BEFORE sending the space elevator to unlock tier 7 & 8, keep researching hard drives until the MAM hands you back the hard drive.

Unlock all the milestones in the hub for tier 5 & 6.

Send the space elevator to unlock tier 5 & 6.

BEFORE sending the space elevator to unlock tier 5 & 6, keep researching hard drives until the MAM hands you back the hard drive.

Unlock all the milestones in the hub for tier 3 & 4.

Send the space elevator to unlock tier 3 & 4.

BEFORE sending the space elevator to unlock tier 3 & 4, keep researching hard drives until the MAM hands you back the hard drive.

Unlock all the milestones in the hub for tier 1 & 2.

This allows you to speed up the research process while collecting hard drives. Deconstruct the MAM and then 10 minutes later build it again and you will be presented with the recipe choices.

When exploring and you find a hard drive, build a MAM on the spot and start research.

When you have exhausted all of the available recipes at that tier level the MAM will hand you back the hard drive.

When you unlock coal power in tier 3 this also unlocks all of the Pure Ore refinery recipes, but you cannot use these until tier 5/6.

However, there are some recipes unlocked that you are unable to craft because you don't have machines for them.

The hard drives from locations are in no way tied to a specific set of recipes.

For example if you have not unlocked tier 5/6 then you won't get any recipes from that tier.

The recipe choices are randomly selected based on the tiers you have unlocked and the milestones in the hub.

You need at most 74 hard drives and will have 11 spare hard drives remaining if you collect them all. There are 72 alternate recipes and 2 pocket expansions. There are 4 Drop-pods that currently cannot be unlocked hence you can only collect 85 Hard Drives. It takes 10 minutes for the hard drive to be researched and once it has been done you will be prompted with a choice of three alternate recipes. The crashed drop pods provide a hard drive that can be researched in the MAM.

Living space drop pod