Blueprints

Blueprints are special schematics that are required to make certain advanced items in the game. They are created through analyzing Fragments with the Scanner, and by finding the Data Boxes in the Abandoned Seabases and Destroyed Lifepods.

Some items, however, like the Floodlight, require scanning relics left behind in Wrecks of the Aurora.

Pre-Installed Blueprints
Certain Blueprints do not require Fragments, and are pre-installed in the PDA.

Discoverable Blueprints
The player has to scan multiple Fragments in order to research most Blueprints. Once discovered, Blueprints can be used an infinite amount of times for building purposes.

Discoverable Recipe
Recipes are unlocked by catching an edible Fauna. It can later be either Cooked or Cured in the Fabricator's Sustenance Menu.

Identifying Eggs
Eggs can be identified once hatched in an Alien Containment.

Removed Blueprints
Some Blueprints will be removed as the game progress forward during development stage. However, it is possible to acquire them with Debug Console Commands or in Creative Mode.