You can also find databanks scattered around near wreckage, but primarily the scanner is used to scan fragments.

Gotta take your scanner and scan fragments that are either inside of crates or lying around the sea floor.

Go to the twisty bridges and look for a single tube base piece, there’s a builder tool fragment in there

The easiest place to find it is inside an abandoned section of tube, in the twisty bridges area. It's not that far from where you start but it's fairly deep for early game.

Have you been to the island in the middle of the map with a giant antenna on it?

Have you been to delta station dock?

There’s one in the coral bridges area, try to find the habitat that’s abandoned, there’s one inside

I wuld say yes if you want to but I have never ever been successful in finding them from the info from Google. So I wuld say fuck Google explore the map.

It's all up to you really but in my experience I find it a bit boring after about 40 mins of searching so I usually end up looking it up after a while.

It depends if you find the searching part of the game enjoyable if you don't then in my opinion I think you should just look it up so you can get back to the parts of the game you enjoy

I only started looking things up when I got frustrated. It’s fun to drive around in my seamoth and discover new things. It’s not fun to drive around on two power cells looking for Cyclops pieces and finding nothing, only to look it up and find out they’re on this obscure part of the map you somehow haven’t found yet... then spend another 40 minutes trying to find that location...

I like the discovery there is in the game. I don’t like getting frustrated by being unable to find things I need to progress.

I cheated one time and spawned in a tablet because I didn’t have one and I was like 20 minutes from my base and I knew I’d never be able to find this place again.

From what I understand, there is a set of default crafting recipes that you can craft whenever you have tools, but you can also find – buy blueprints to unlock more recipes

You need both, you gotta have the blueprint in your inventory and the items. The blueprint is not used in the craft and can be sold or stored after use

Blueprints only show you what you need, if you already have the necessary parts you can craft the item

If you by them from the stations you can create a blueprint of them there, alternatively you’d need to look at what people have published on either mod.io or the steam workshop

Apart from the steam workshop, you can also find a lot of the blueprints used ingame in the game folder, under Steam -> SpaceEngineers -> Content -> Data -> Prefabs. Just copy both .sbc and .sbcB5 file into a new folder in your local blueprints and you should be able to use them (your local blueprints are stored in %AppData%/SpaceEngineers/Blueprints).

> There are official KeenSWH Workshop and KeenSWH mod.io pages for published items used in trailers, etc.
>
> Some older creations can be found on Steam in the OFFICIAL: Creations Used In Release Trailers collection and some made by others can be found in my Official Creations PLUS and collections linked in it.

From: https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceengineers/wiki/trailers

I have some drones in my blueprints and the only place I can think of where I got them from was raiding a pirate ship. They had the display console and I hacked it. But yeah the work shop is where most people get theirs

I don't think it's in yet. I could be wrong but I did a lot of exploring and didn't see it.

I’m about 13 hrs into the game and found some good stuff near the Aurora. HOWEVER I will warn you to watch out for the reaper leviathans. I had an unexpected run in with one and they frequent the area so be careful lol

Visiting the wreck of the Aurora itself might not be a bad idea. Who knows, maybe there's something useful in there for you to pick up or scan.

subnauticamap.io is a cool interactive map with wrecks marked. If you want a specific item, check the wiki for where it spawns and then use the map to easily find wrecks. Visiting the Aurora might be a good idea, but to get far you need to have a repair tool and laser cutter, and there isn't a lot of tech (other than the PRAWN and some vehicle upgrades).

I think the Mountains biome has the most blueprints, but its pretty dangerous

mapgenie.io/subnautica

Every biomes got a few

Depends on what you want. When i want moonpool or cyclops fragments, i go to either of the mushroom forests

Different blueprints are found in different biomes, so no biome is “best.”

Best way to find more blueprints? Put down a scanner room and tell it to search for fragments, wrecks, or databoxes.

Interesting.

Blueprints was probably going to work the same way as Plans in Fallout 76.

You would read them and then you unlock the ability to craft certain weapons, armor or outfits from the workbenches.

Weird that they didn't include this, especially since it's a single player game.

No. But we need them (for ships). Since they're basically knowledge, they should survive the Unity, and I'd love to be able to share them with my future 3D, my alts, and with other players. Anyone want to write a mod to save/load ships from some human readable file format?

nothing in game but even the data files, the file for Ships is labelled "BlueprintShips-starfield.esm"

Starfields needs a HUGE reboot.

Much of the dialogue (i.e. no sense letting helium3 go to waste) was written before the scope of the game was reduced. So, there are no blue prints, and moreover, nothing said blueprints would lead you to find.