About Alternate Recipes
From Factorio Mod PortalProvides alternate recipes for vanilla items in addition to the normal ones, usually with various trade offs for resources/time/difficulty.
CURRENTLY IN A BETA FORM. RECIPES MAY BE REBALANCED IN FUTURE UPDATES.
Alternate Recipes gives you an alternative to many vanilla recipes. These new alternatives might save you resources, might save you time, or might just save some logistic trouble. Often, it does one at the expense of the others. Supports both normal and expensive mode recipes! 22 recipes as of the initial release, each with their own benefits, trade-offs, and new ratios. Build items without intermediate products, skip lower tier items, or make the first two science packs with very different materials!
Contains one new building, the blast furnace, which allows steel production from 4 iron ore and 1 coal, and doesn't require separate fuel. It can only produce steel, and is otherwise identical to a steel furnace, including the recipe.
Contains one new item, uranium shotgun shells. With double the damage per projectile and 25% more projectiles over the piercing shells it can mow down even the largest of biters and worms and trees with ease.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Built for Factorio 2.1.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
License
Published under MIT.
Alternate Recipes on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Factorio servers. We download it from Factorio Mod Portal, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Factorio — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 2.1.0, released 2026-07-12
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1.0 | 2026-07-12 | 2.1 | n/a |
| 2.0.1 | 2025-06-25 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 2.0.0 | 2024-11-03 | 2.0 | n/a |
| 1.1.0 | 2020-12-01 | 1.1 | n/a |
| 1.0.0 | 2020-10-28 | 1.0 | n/a |
| 0.18.0 | 2020-01-23 | 0.18 | n/a |
Run Alternate Recipes on a Factorio server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogWeapons, items & crafting
New weapons, gear, items and the recipes to make them.
Runs on your server
From source side supportFactorio Mod Portal lists Alternate Recipes as required on the server. Check its Factorio Mod Portal page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Factorio
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 2.1
Verified at the source
- ✓Factorio Mod PortalOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-08Open ↗
- ✓AuthorSilari, as published on Factorio Mod Portal
- ✓LicenseMITFree
