Scanner (Subnautica)

This article is about the Scanner. You may be looking for the Scanner Room.

This seems new This article contains information that is updated for the latest Experimental Version of Subnautica. Players using stable mode may find this information inaccurate.

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The handheld spectroscope scanner can be used to synthesize blueprints from salvaged technology, and to record alien biological data.

― PDA, Dialogue

The Scanner is a Tool capable of scanning Fragments, which are then used to create Blueprints. To acquire the blueprints of a particular item, the player needs to scan its corresponding fragments multiple times. The number of times scanning is required varies based on the object. It takes about ten seconds to finish scanning. The Scanner is also able to scan Life Forms and Harvesting Nodes, doing so will add its specific entry into the PDA.

The player can be scanned, as well, by pressing the 'F' key. It will give information, whether the player is infected or not and it shows the progress about the bacteria in the players body. Check out the player page for all Entries.

You are able to scan fauna multiple times. The Scanner will give the information "NORMAL" or "INFECTED" on the scanner display for about .?.?.? seconds.

When the cursor is pointed at a scannable object, a white circle (a progress indicator) appears in the middle of the screen. If scanning is interrupted, the player can resume scanning with no loss of progress. The Scanner has a range of 5 meters.

If the Scanner is not out, and the object is scannable, a small Scanner icon will appear in the bottom right of the screen.

The Scanner requires a Battery to operate, and the Scanner will not be able to scan objects if it is out of power.

Recipe

Scannable Entities

Coral Common Corals Purple Brain Coral Table Coral Tree Mushroom	Harvesting Node Limestone Outcrop Sandstone Outcrop Basalt Outcrop Shale Outcrop
Flora Acid Mushroom Bloodvine Blue Palm Bulbo Tree Cave Bush Chinese Potato Plant Crashfish Plant Creepvine Creepvine Seeds Deep Shroom Eye Stalk Fern Palm Furled Papyrus Gabe's Feather Ghost Weed Giant Cove Tree Grub Basket Jaffa Cup Jellyshroom Koosh Bush Lantern Tree Marblemelon Plant Membrain Tree Ming Plant Pink Cap Pygmy Fan Redwort Regress Shell Rouge Cradle Sea Crown Speckled Rattler Spiked Horn Grass Gel Sack Spotted Dockleaf Tiger Plant Tree Leech Veined Nettle Violet Beau Voxel Shrub Writhing Weed	Fauna Carnivores Ampeel Biter Boneshark Crabsnake Crabsquid Crashfish Lava Lizard Mesmer Reaper Leviathan River Prowler Sea Dragon Leviathan Sand Shark Stalker Warper Herbivores Bladderfish Boomerang Crimson Ray Eyeye Garryfish Gasopod Ghostray Holefish Hoopfish Hoverfish Jellyray Oculus Peeper Rabbit Ray Reefback Reginald Sea Treader Spadefish Scavengers & Parasite Bleeder Cave Crawler/Blood Crawler Floater Lava Larva Shuttlebug
Raw Materials Metal Salvage Stalker Tooth Ion Crystals Kyanite	Fragments Fragments

Audio

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Gallery

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  The Scanner in the player's hand

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  Scanner's model from Sketchfab

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  Scanner's Concept Art from Trello

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  Scanner Concept Art

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  Scanner's first-use animation

Trivia

• The Scanner replaced the Fragment Analyzer and the Botanical Analysis Machine  in the game, which was originally the only way of analyzing fragments.