Scanner (Subnautica)

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

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The 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, lifeforms, technology, the Player, and other objects scattered around the map. Fragments must be scanned to create blueprints; to acquire the blueprints of a particular item, the player must scan its corresponding fragments, the number of which varies based on the object. The Scanner can also scan life forms and Harvesting Nodes, adding their specific entries into the PDA.

If the player equips a Scanner and points the crosshair at a scannable object, a white circle (a progress indicator) appears in the middle of the screen. If the Scanner is not out and the player has not yet scanned the targeted object, a small Scanner icon will appear in the bottom right of the screen to inform the player. It takes about ten seconds to finish scanning; if scanning is interrupted, the player can resume scanning with no loss of progress. The Scanner has a range of 5 meters.

Fauna can be scanned multiple times. The Scanner display will show "NORMAL" or "INFECTED" for approximately 4 seconds each time a scan is made.

The player can be scanned, as well, by pressing the F key. It will give information as to whether the player is infected or not and, if the player is infected, shows the progress of the infection in the player's body. See the player page for all Entries.

The Scanner requires a Battery to operate, and will be unusable if its battery is depleted. Its battery can be replaced by equipping the Scanner and pressing the R key. 

Recipe

Scannable Entities

Alien Life Forms

<tabber> Coral=

• Coral Shell Plate
• Purple Brain Coral
• Table Coral
• Tree Mushroom

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• Acid Mushroom
• Blood Grass
• Bloodroot
• Bloodvine
• Blue Palm
• Bulbo Tree
• Cave Bush
• Chinese Potato Plant
• Crashfish Plant
• Creepvine
• Creepvine Seed Cluster
• Deep Shroom
• Eye Stalk
• Fern Palm
• Furled Papyrus
• Gabe's Feather
• Ghost Weed
• Giant Cove Tree
• Grub Basket
• Jaffa Cup
• Jellyshroom
• Bulb 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

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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
• Magmarang
• Oculus
• Peeper
• Rabbit Ray
• Red Eyeye
• Reefback
• Reginald
• Sea Treader
• Spadefish

Scavengers & Parasites

• Bleeder
• Cave Crawler/Blood Crawler
• Floater
• Lava Larva
• Shuttlebug

Deceased

• Sea Dragon Leviathan Skeleton
• Ancient Skeleton
• Skeletal Remains Found in Alien Habitat
• Reaper Leviathan Skeleton

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Other Entities

• Alien Artifacts
• Artifact Terminal
• Player
• Inactive Warper
• Energy Core

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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  A Scanner displaying 'NORMAL'

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  A Scanner displaying 'INFECTED'

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  Scanner's model from Sketchfab

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  Scanner's first-use animation

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  The Scanner's scanning FX

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  The Player performing a self-scan

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  Scanner's Concept Art from Trello

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  Scanner Concept Art

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Trivia

• The Scanner replaced the Fragment Analyzer and the Botanical Analysis Machine, which were originally only for analyzing fragments and scanning flora, respectively.
• The Alterra logo is sported on the top right corner of the Scanner's screen.