How to unlock Steel in Satisfactory 1.0 & use it to make Ingots

The recipe to craft Steel unlocks much later in Satisfactory 1.0, after you’ve got a good grasp of how the entire upgrading process works and reached a particular milestone.

As you progress with your base-building journey in Satisfactory to increase tiers of the HUB Terminal, you’ll require several items that will come in handy to produce bigger and better equipment and buildings to reach the endgame. Steel falls midway, and here’s how you can unlock it.

How to unlock Steel in Satisfactory

To unlock Steel, you first need to initiate the Tier 3 HUB Terminal upgrade and complete the Basic Steel Production milestone. To complete this milestone, you will need:

• 50x Modular Frame
• 150x Rotor
• 500x Concrete
• 1000x Wire

Then wait for 8 minutes for the pod to return and you’ll finally unlock Steel in the game. Remember, to unlock the Tier 3 HUB Terminal upgrade, you first need to complete Phase 1 of the Space Elevator.

I would suggest locating as many loot crash sites as possible and looting Hard Drives. In those spots, you will find enough Modular Frames and Rotors to fulfill the first two criteria.

Along the way, you also unlock recipes for other items such as Foundry, Steel Ingot, Steel Beam, Steel Pipe, and Versatile Framework. These items are some of the most important resources in the game as they would be useful to begin with Phase 2 of the Space Elevator.

How to craft Steel Ingot in Satisfactory

To craft Steel Ingot, you’ll require:

• 3x Iron Ore
• 3x Coal

Then put them in the two input slots of the Foundry wait for them to smelt, and boom, you’ll get 3x Steel Ingots. It takes 4 seconds to craft and you can increase the production process by Overclocking the Foundry.

If you haven’t built the Foundry yet, keep 10x Modular Frame, 10x Rotor, and 20x Concrete in your inventory and get it crafted as soon as possible.

Using Steel Ingots, you would be able to craft other Steel-related items including the Steel Beams and Steel Pipes. There are some alternate recipes for Steel as well, but for that, you need to research Hard Drives.