How to make Reinforced Iron Plates in Satisfactory to kickstart your coal production

How to make reinforced iron plate in Satisfactory

In order to build your factories in Satisfactory, you’re going to need the best materials possible. Enter the Reinforced Iron Plate, which is a vital component for several items that you’ll need.

Reinforced Iron Plates take some time to produce, as you’ll need other items to make them. As such, you’ll need your base up and running to get a regular stream of plates, especially as you’re going to need hundreds of them.

Here’s how to build Reinforced Iron Plates in Satisfactory, how to effectively farm their production, and what items they’re used for.

Reinforced Iron Plate recipe

Satisfactory Reinforced Iron Plate how to make

To make a Reinforced Iron Plate in Satisfactory, you need 6 Iron Plates and 12 Screws per new plate. These can be produced using an Assembler. Your research level needs to be Tier 0 – Hub Upgrade 3.

Iron Plate is made using Iron Ingots, either with a Constructor or via the Craft Bench.

Screws can be made using Iron Rods, either with a Constructor or via the Craft Bench. Iron Rods are made using Iron Ingots.

Best Reinforced Iron Plate farm

Satisfactory Reinforced Iron Plate farm

As Satisfactory is all about building efficient assembly lines, you can create a line-up of machines that will pump out Reinforced Iron Plate. The example shown above includes:

  • x2 Miner Mk. 1 farming Iron Ore from Pure Iron Nodes
  • x2 Smelters turning Iron Ore into Iron Ingots
  • x1 Constructor making Iron Ingots into Iron Rods
  • x1 Constructor making Iron Rods into Screws
  • x1 Constructor making Iron Ingots into Iron Plates
  • x1 Assembler making Reinforced Iron Plates
  • x1 Storage Container storing Reinforced Iron Plates

We chose to make this farm using two Pure Iron Node sources, but you can also create this using one source. You’ll just need a Conveyer Splitter to split the Conveyer Belt into two sections.

On the top assembly line, you’ll connect one Miner to a Smelter to create Iron Ingots. Connect this to a Constructor to make Iron Rods, and repeat this but make the next Constructor make Screws.

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On the bottom, you’ll have one Smelter to also create Iron Ingots, but you’ll just need one connected Constructor to create Iron Plates.

At the end of these lines, you’ll connect them both to an Assembler to create Reinforced Iron Plates. You can then attach a Storage Container at the very end of this farm to store all your plates!

All uses for Reinforced Iron Plate

Reinforced Iron Plate is used to build the following items:

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That’s all you need to know about making Reinforced Iron Plate in Satisfactory. To learn more about the game, check out our guides for the Hard Drive tier list and how to make a dedicated server.