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, lifeforms, technology, and other objects scattered around the map. Fragments must be scanned 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 4 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

<tabber> Coral=

• Common Corals
• Purple Brain Coral
• Table Coral
• Tree Mushroom

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Harvesting Nodes=

• Limestone Outcrop
• Sandstone Outcrop
• Basalt Outcrop
• Shale Outcrop

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Flora=

• Acid Mushroom
• Blood Grass
• 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

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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
• Oculus
• Peeper
• Rabbit Ray
• Reefback
• Reginald
• Sea Treader
• Spadefish

Scavengers & Parasites

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

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Other Entities=

• Precursor Artifacts
• Artifact Terminal
• Player
• Sea Dragon Skeletal Remains
• Skeletal Remains Found in Alien Habitat
• Inactive Warper

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Raw Materials=

• Metal Salvage
• Stalker Tooth
• Ion Crystals
• Kyanite

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Fragments=

• Fragments

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Audio

<soundcloud url="https://soundcloud.com/kamakazi/scanner-demo" height="166" width="100%" class="soundCloud"></soundcloud>

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.