Scanner Room (Subnautica)

This article is about the Scanner Room. You may be looking for the Camera Drones or the Scanner.

Scanner Room
Category	Base Pieces
Description	Locates resources and wrecks within range.
Hull Integrity	-1 Units
Acquired From	Fragments
Size	2L X 2W
Perks	x2
Debug Spawn	basemaproom
Fragments
Location	Blood Kelp Zone Grassy Plateaus Sea Treader's Path Wrecks Grand Reef Bulb Zone Story Spoiler Degasi Seabases
Fragments	3
Debug Spawn	BaseMapRoomFragment

The Scanner Room is a Seabase module. It is constructed with the Habitat Builder, being designed to map the terrain of Biomes via controllable Camera Drones, to scan the environment and to detect resources in its vicinity. These drones can be controlled manually.

Hatches, Compartments, (e.g. Basic Compartment), and Windows can be placed on the Scanner Room.

Four Upgrade Module slots can be found to the right of the camera drone panel, along with a mini-fabricator.

The player must find three fragments to unlock the Scanner Room's blueprint.

If a Scanner Room is constructed in an unpowered Seabase, it will not function.

Uses

In order to use the Scanner Room, the player must go to the camera station, which activates the drones. After activating, the camera drones will be controllable, and can be used to swim around the environment and map the terrain. Drones have infinite range. Despite that they still get blurry around 300m and get dark around 600m. Additional drones can be built but only two can charge at the Scanner Room. They can, however, be stolen by Stalkers who will pick them up and chew on them.

The Scanner Room will also scan for nearby resources, identifying them as red blips on the central hologram. It has a base scanning range of 300 meters and max of 500 meters. The scanner can only search for one resource type at a time and has a base time of fourteen seconds, but the searching speed and range can be increased to take two seconds at max with the Scanner Room Range Upgrade and Scanner Room Speed Upgrade; you can have more of the same upgrade in the scanner room to extend the range and speed even more. Furthermore, a HUD upgrade allows the player to see where the scanner has identified the resources in a similar fashion to signal devices when equipped in the chip slot of the paperdoll.

The Scanner Room may scan for Blood Oil, Cave Sulfur, Copper Ore, Creature Egg, Crystalline Sulfur, Databox, Diamond, Fragments, Gel Sack, Gold, Heat Areas (Lava Geysers, etc.), Ion Cube, Lead, Limestone Chunk, Lithium, Magnetite, Metal Salvage, Nickel Ore, Quartz, Reaper Leviathan, Reefback Leviathan, Ruby, Salt Deposit, Sandstone Chunk, Shale Chunk, Silver Ore, Stalker Teeth, Titanium, Uraninite Crystal, and Wrecks, depending on where it is constructed.

Recipe

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Upgrades and Uses in Crafting

Data Bank Entry

This advanced habitat module can transform a small outpost into a burgeoning science and exploration station. Remotely controlled scouting drones scan the area at a range of 500m A 3D display in the center of the room stores local topographical data Wall-mounted camera feeds allow for live control of scouting drones System can scan for and pinpoint particular materials Upgrade console may be used to enhance the module's functions

Gallery

Scanner Room in-game

The Scanner Room's interface

Scanner Room Exterior Model from Sketchfab

Scanner Room Interor Model from Sketchfab

Hologram Table Model from Sketchfab

Camera Drone render

Concept Art for the Scanner Room

Updated interior of Scanner Room

Trivia

Story Spoiler
At one point it was planned to allow the Scanner Room to find Precursor technology such as Alien Bases and Alien Caches. This idea was later scrapped.