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{{Disambiguate|Purple Tablet|Alien Tablets (Disambiguation)}}
{{Craftable
|title1 = Purple Tablet
|image4 = Purple Tablet.png
|tab = [[Equipment]]
|location = * [[Floating Island]]
** [[Degasi Seabases]]
* [[Mountain Island]]
* [[Mountains Caves]]
* [[Quarantine Enforcement Platform]]
|description = Ancient tablet with a purple symbol.
|acqired_from = [[File:Fabricator.png|30px|link=Fabricator]]
|fragments = [[Fragments (Subnautica)|1 Fragments]]
|debugspawn = ''precursorkey_purple''
|size = 1
|build_time = 3 seconds
|image2 = Purple Tablet Fragment.png
|item2 = Purple Tablet Fragment
|location2 = * [[Mountain Island]]
|Fragments2 = 1
|debugspawn2 = }}

The Purple Tablet is usually the first Alien Tablet to be found, and is very frequently used in a number of locations. There are currently seven working tablets found in the game.

The [[Quarantine Enforcement Platform]] requires two to unlock either the upper entrance or the anti-gravity elevator, and the control room. The two Purple Tablets needed to unlock these doors can be found onsite; three on [[Mountain Island]], two in the [[Mountain Caves|Mountain Island's Caves]] and one inside the facility in the room before the deactivation terminal. The seventh can be found in the [[Degasi Seabases|Degasi Seabase]] on the [[Floating Island]], which was discovered by [[Marguerit Maida]], and investigated by the other [[Degasi]] survivors.

After scanning the broken Purple Tablet in front of the Quarantine Enforcement Platform's land entrance, the player can craft Purple Tablets at the [[Fabricator]] using an [[Ion Cube]] and two [[Diamond]]s. Alternatively, they can scan an intact Purple Tablet either before picking it up or by discarding it.

The Purple Tablet can be used optionally to access the three [[Sanctuary Caches]]. It is also used to unlock certain doors in the [[Alien Thermal Plant]] and [[Disease Research Facility]].

===Recipe===
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===Data Bank Entry===
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! class="unsortable" style="width: 100%; text-align: center;" |[[File:Purple Artifact-1.png|centre|660px]]
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| style="text-align:left; font-size:12px;" |
This carbon-based device is lighter than it looks, and features a symbol which resembles a 'U', lit up in purple. Despite the onboard power still functioning, algae growth on the exterior indicates it was abandoned hundreds, perhaps thousands of years ago. While the technology is far beyond federation levels, and there is no obvious way to interface with it, it should nonetheless 
be possible to fabricate a precise physical copy of the device, if necessary.
|}
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==Achievement==
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==Gallery==
<gallery widths="200" spacing="small">

Purple Artifact.jpg|The Purple Tablet
QEP1.jpg|A Purple Tablet in the Quarantine Enforcement Platform
Screen Shot 2017-03-13 at 19.18.30.png|The Purple Tablet just above the Quarantine Enforcement Platform on Mountain Island
PurpleArtifactMountainsIsland2.png|Another of the eight Purple Tablet on [[Mountain Island]] at night
PurpleArtifactFragment.jpg|The broken Purple Tablet Fragment
Purple Tablet In-game.png|Purple Tablet In-game

</gallery>

==Trivia==
*The data bank entry notes is that the Alien character on the artifact resembles the letter ''"U".''
*The purple tablet is the only tablet that has scannable fragments.
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