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{{SubnauticaLink|the Scanner Room}}
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The '''Scanner Room''' is a [[Seabases (Subnautica)|Seabase]] module. It is constructed with the [[Habitat Builder (Subnautica)|Habitat Builder]] and allows the [[Ryley Robinson|player]] to generate a 3D map of the surrounding [[Biomes (Subnautica)|Biome]], scan for resources, and conduct scouting via controllable [[Camera Drone (Subnautica)|Camera Drones]].

The player must find three [[Fragments (Subnautica)|Fragments]] to unlock the Scanner Room's [[Blueprints (Subnautica)|blueprint]].

If a Scanner Room is constructed in an unpowered Seabase, it will not function. The Scanner Room always requires power to display its holographic map, and will passively drain power at a rate of 0.15 energy per second.

==Description==
The Scanner Room in construction terms functions like a [[I Compartment (Subnautica)|I Compartment]]: while it is circular in form, only two sides are connectors. These are indicated by rectangular blanking plates which can be used to help orient it: it is often necessary to use the rotate function when building one to get it at the proper angle. It will automatically join to any suitable module on the same horizontal level at close range, generating a short length of corridor in which [[Bulkhead (Subnautica)|Bulkheads]] cannot be built. [[Hatch (Subnautica)|Hatches]] or [[Window (Subnautica)|Windows]] can be placed on the Scanner Room's end panels, but not [[Reinforcement (Subnautica)|Reinforcements]]. It does not support any form of vertical connection.

The Scanner Room's interior has three interactive components: two are parts of a display on one wall, while the other is a Mini-Fabricator and four [[Upgrade Modules|Upgrade Module]] slots on the opposite wall. The display panel incorporates a circular screen (the drone controls) and a menu (the scanner controls). In the middle of the room is a holographic terrain map which displays the local topography as a blue wireframe, and the camera drones within the Scanner Room's scan radius as green dots, regardless of whether the scanner is active.

==Functions==
===Scanning===
The player can use the Scanner Room to search for nearby resources, identifying them as orange blips on the central hologram. It has a base scanning range of 300 meters. The scanner can only search for one resource type at a time and has a base scan time of fourteen seconds. The scan proceeds in a radial fashion, detecting outwards from the Scanner Room's location. Scanning consumes one energy every two seconds, or 30 energy per minute. Scanning is initiated by selecting what to scan for from the menu next to the drone controls: this usually has multiple pages which are scrolled through a page at a time. At any time, the player can choose to abort a current scan by pressing the "X" that appears below the "scanning in progress" message. The scan will continue until it is either manually deactivated or the base runs out of power.

The Scanner Room auto-detects what is inside its search radius when it is built, and the list of items it can scan for will only include what is actually within its search radius. This means that without even turning the scanner on, the player can rule out the presence of any materials that are not on the list. However, it can only scan for items in terrain that have been loaded recently. Area permitting, it may give options to scan for [[Blood Oil]], [[Cave Sulfur]], [[Copper Ore (Subnautica)|Copper Ore]], [[Crystalline Sulfur (Subnautica)|Crystalline Sulfur]], [[Data Boxes]], [[Diamond (Subnautica)|Diamond]], [[Eggs]], [[Fragments (Subnautica)|Fragments]] (for [[Blueprints (Subnautica)|Blueprints]] not yet unlocked), [[Gel Sack (Subnautica)|Gel Sack]]s, [[Gold (Subnautica)|Gold]], Heat Areas ([[Lava Geyser]]s, etc), [[Ion Cube (Subnautica)|Ion Cube]]s, [[Kyanite (Subnautica)|Kyanite]], [[Lead (Subnautica)|Lead]], [[Limestone Outcrop (Subnautica)|Limestone Outcrop]]s, [[Lithium (Subnautica)|Lithium]], [[Magnetite (Subnautica)|Magnetite]], [[Metal Salvage (Subnautica)|Metal Salvage]], [[Nickel Ore (Subnautica)|Nickel Ore]], [[Quartz (Subnautica)|Quartz]], [[Reaper Leviathan]]s, [[Ghost Leviathan|Ghost Leviathans]], [[Reefback Leviathan]]s, [[Ruby (Subnautica)|Rubies]], [[Salt Deposit (Subnautica)|Salt Deposit]]s, [[Sandstone Outcrop]]s, [[Shale Outcrop]]s, [[Silver Ore (Subnautica)|Silver Ore]], [[Stalker Teeth]], [[Titanium (Subnautica)|Titanium]], [[Uraninite Crystal (Subnautica)|Uraninite Crystal]]s and/or [[Wrecks]]. It will not detect items inside any kind of [[Storage]], though it does still detect Eggs placed inside an [[Alien Containment (Subnautica)|Alien Containment]] chamber.

Any resources that do not normally appear on the ground in single form, such as [[Titanium (Subnautica)|Titanium]] or [[Silver Ore (Subnautica)|Silver Ore]], will be [[Large Resource Deposits (Subnautica)|Large Resource Deposits]], unless the player has manually dropped some of this resource on the ground within the scanner's range. The scanner cannot identify what is actually inside Outcrops, and so they do not appear when scanning for materials they could potentially contain. The scanner provides no indication of which type a particular "contact" is in the case of materials like [[Quartz (Subnautica)|Quartz]] or [[Lithium (Subnautica)|Lithium]] that can be found in both single and Large Deposit states.

===Camera Drones===
The drone controls are used to operate small remote-controlled camera drones, which can be used to safely explore its surroundings. Drones have an automatic beacon marker like other vehicles, so they can be left in place near a point of interest and used as a waypoint to swim there. If the scanner is currently active, anything it has detected will be highlighted with an orange-yellow circle with a note saying what it is when controlling a camera drone. When built, a Scanner Room has two drones already present in the sockets on its sides.

Interacting with the circular display switches to controlling the first camera drone in numeric sequence, and the player can switch to other drones as they desire. Interacting with the console after doing so previously will default to the last drone the player was controlling. Drones can be controlled from infinite range, but starting at around 300m their view will become increasingly full of static, becoming completely blank at around 600m. New items to scan will become available as the player takes Drones into new areas that haven't yet loaded in.

It should be noted that scrolling through the list of drones will include the drones of ''all'' Scanner Rooms, not just the one the player is currently using: in addition, since the game will always select drones in order, a different Scanner Room will start out controlling the "wrong" set of drones. The range of a drone for purposes of interference with its camera is its range from the Scanner Room the player is currently using, not the one it "belongs" to. Controlling a distant drone can require a fair amount of loading, which is concealed using a "connecting" icon in the camera feed.

Drones have a limited power supply: if they run out in the field, the player will have to manually retrieve them. They only use power while being controlled. Each Scanner Room has two charging sockets for drones, and they can only be charged at these sockets. When controlling a drone, a special beacon will appear indicating the Scanner Room to assist in returning to it. A drone will be "grabbed" by the socket if it passes close enough to it in a similar manner to docking a vehicle to a [[Moonpool (Subnautica)|Moonpool]] or [[Cyclops]]. While docked, the player can look out of the drone's camera, but cannot rotate its field of view.

Drones are usually ignored by animals, but can be stolen by [[Stalker]]s who will pick them up and chew on them. They can even grab the drones right out of the charging sockets on the Scanner Room itself. If a drone is damaged it can be repaired with the [[Repair Tool (Subnautica)|Repair Tool]].

If the player deconstructs a Scanner Room with drones still present in its charging sockets, the drones are deleted along with the room.

===Fabrication===
The Mini-Fabricator in the Scanner Room is only capable of producing items for the Scanner Room itself. Similarly, the four upgrade slots can only accept modules produced by a Scanner Room's Fabricator. These items cannot be made in any other type of Fabricator.

The scanner's search speed and range can be increased with the [[Scanner Room Range Upgrade (Subnautica)|Scanner Room Range Upgrade]] and [[Scanner Room Speed Upgrade (Subnautica)|Scanner Room Speed Upgrade]], which are constructed using the room's built-in Mini-Fabricator and plugged into a set of four upgrade slots next to it. These upgrades can be stacked to improve their effects: four speed upgrades will take the scan time down to two seconds, while four range upgrades will increase the scan range to 500 meters. Increasing the scanning range will also increase the size of the holographic area map the room generates.

The Fabricator also produces additional drones, which need to be taken outside and discarded in order to function, and one other item. This, the [[Scanner Room HUD Chip (Subnautica)|Scanner Room HUD Chip]], allows the player to see the circles designating items the scanner has detected, which are normally only visible when controlling the camera drones. These circles only appear when the scanner is active, and fade out after a short time when it is turned off. Unlike the other upgrades, the HUD Chip is not equipped to the Scanner Room itself, and instead goes in the chipset slot of the Paperdoll UI.

==Recipe==
{{Recipe2}}

==Upgrades and Uses in Crafting==
{{Recipe2|page=Scanner Room HUD Chip}}
{{Recipe2|page=Camera Drone}}
{{Recipe2|page=Scanner Room Range Upgrade}}
{{Recipe2|page=Scanner Room Speed Upgrade}}

==Data Bank Entry==
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This advanced habitat module can transform a small outpost into a burgeoning science and exploration station.

- A 3D display in the center of the room stores local topographical data<br />
- System can scan for and pinpoint particular materials<br />
- Remotely controlled drones scan the area up to 500m in range<br />
- Wall-mounted camera feeds allow for live control of scouting drones<br />
- Upgrade console may be used to enhance the module's functions<br />
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==Gallery==
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20161120011212_1.jpg|Scanner Room in-game
Bunchobolono.jpg|Interior of the Scanner Room
Scanner Room UI.jpg|The Scanner Room's interface
maproomcam.jpg|[[Camera Drone (Subnautica)|Camera Drone]] render
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Maproomconcept.png|[[Concept art]] for the Scanner Room
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Models=
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Maproommodel.png|Model from [https://sketchfab.com/models/b517de69496f4b3286bedc2876396c64 Sketchfab]
Maproominteriormodel.png|Model of the interior from [https://sketchfab.com/models/3eeaedae063d4512b52f9e5e263929bb Sketchfab]
Hologramtable.png|Model of Holographic Table from [https://sketchfab.com/models/c67031f619fc43bb99f24dec6d41474d Sketchfab]. (Cut)
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== Trivia ==
{{SpoilerSection|* At one point it was planned to allow the Scanner Room to find [[Precursor Race|Precursor]] technology such as [[Alien Bases]] and [[Alien Caches]].<ref>[https://trello.com/c/MXBmXKSE/6354-scanner-room-should-find-precursor-tech Trello Card]</ref> This idea was later scrapped.
*[[Degasi Seabases]] are [[wrecks]], as confirmed by the scanner room.}}
*In Early Access builds, the holographic projector had a table at its base with some controls including a joystick. This was removed during development, but would later be re-used as part of the Control Room module in ''Below Zero''.


==Bugs==
* The Scanner Room actually has a base range of 500m, but the map initially only shows a range of 300m. Using Scanner Room Range Upgrades only expands the size of the map, having no effect in the scanning range.
* Removing a [[Camera Drone (Subnautica)|Camera Drone]] from the Scanning Room's dock and disassembling the Scanning Room allows the player to effectively print infinite Camera Drones, at the cost of draining the player's [[Habitat Builder (Subnautica)|Habitat Builder]] charge. The old drones will reconnect and act as extra drones to the rebuilt Scanning Room.
== References ==
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{{Navbox Seabase Modules}}

[[es:Sala_escáner]]
[[fr:Salle de scanner]]
[[pl:Sterownia_skanująca]]
[[ru:Комната сканирования]]
[[Category:Seabase Module]]
[[Category:Lowers Integrity]]
[[Category:Uses Energy]]
[[Category:Requires Blueprint]]