Scanner (Subnautica)

The Scanner is a tool capable of scanning Fragments, lifeforms, technology, flora, the Player's body, and other objects scattered around the map, which get added to the Databank. Fragments are scanned to acquire 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. If a fragment is scanned but the player has already acquired the blueprints for said fragment, then the fragment will become 2 pieces of titanium and automatically be put into the player's storage.

The Scanner has a range of five meters. If the player equips a Scanner and points the crosshair at a scannable object in range, a white circle (a progress indicator) appears in the middle of the screen. If the Scanner is not held in the player’s hand and the player has not yet scanned the object, a small Scanner icon will appear in the bottom right of the screen to inform the player.

With a Scanner equipped, the player can hold the correct button to scan their target. It takes about ten seconds to finish scanning, depending on the size of the object. If scanning is interrupted (which can happen if the player looks away or the target moves out of range, for instance), the player can resume scanning later with no loss of progress.

Fauna do not have to alive to be scanned. The player is free to kill aggressive animals before scanning them if they wish.

The Scanner requires a Battery to operate, and will be unusable if its battery is depleted.

Scannable Entities

 * -|Coral=
 * Brain Coral
 * Coral Shell Plate
 * Earthen Coral Tubes
 * Giant Coral Tubes
 * Pyrocoral
 * Table Coral
 * Tree Mushroom
 * -|Flora=
 * Acid Mushroom
 * Bloodroot
 * Bloodvine
 * Blue Palm
 * Brine Lily
 * Bulbo Tree
 * Cave Bush
 * Chinese Potato Plant
 * Crab Claw Kelp
 * Creepvine
 * Creepvine Seed Cluster
 * Deep Shroom
 * Drooping Stingers
 * 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
 * Sulfur Plant
 * Gel Sack
 * Spotted Dockleaf
 * Tiger Plant
 * Tree Leech
 * Veined Nettle
 * Violet Beau
 * Voxel Shrub
 * Writhing Weed
 * -|Fauna=

Carnivores

 * Ampeel
 * Biter
 * Blighter
 * Boneshark
 * Crabsnake
 * Crabsquid
 * Crashfish
 * Ghost Leviathan Adult
 * Ghost Leviathan Juvenile
 * 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 Leviathan
 * Reginald
 * Sea Treader Leviathan
 * Spadefish
 * Skyray

Scavengers & Parasites

 * Amoeboid
 * Bleeder
 * Blood Crawler
 * Cave Crawler
 * Floater
 * Lava Larva
 * Rockgrub
 * Shuttlebug

Deceased

 * Sea Dragon Leviathan Skeleton
 * Ancient Skeleton
 * Research Specimen Theta
 * Reaper Leviathan Skeleton
 * Gargantuan Fossil

Other Entities

 * Alien Tablets
 * Forcefield Control
 * player
 * Inactive Warper
 * Energy Core

Raw Materials

 * Limestone Outcrop
 * Magnetite
 * Metal Salvage
 * Sandstone Outcrop
 * Shale Outcrop
 * Stalker Teeth
 * Ion Cubes
 * Kyanite
 * Ruby

Fragments

 * Fragments

Audio


Gallery

 * -|Screenshots=

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.

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