Can't scan flora and fauna

[Sir Bradley Pitts]

Can't seem to scan flora or fauna. I've been able to scan resources but animals and plants don't work. What am I doing wrong?

[RSR]

Had the same issue Matt. Love your work by the way. Shame about Dark Tower.

Anyways I think there's a chance you're finding critters that aren't on the menu so to speak, check this screenshot.
https://imgur.com/a/vOkW2gb

I have yet to find a damn planet with any real life on it so this is just a hunch. Your mileage may vary. Let me know if you find out somethin different and also let me know if Kate Hudson was fun to work with.

[ralph_on_me]

Originally posted by MCNacho:

Originally posted by Matthew McConaughey:

Can't seem to scan flora or fauna. I've been able to scan resources but animals and plants don't work. What am I doing wrong?

you need to get closer

Closer than 1 meter? It's not a distance thing.

[Cpt_Weisemann]

Same here, can't scan fauna and flora.

[GrandTickler]

from what ive read u need to scan animals while they are alive.. or at least some of them, and its instantly so easy to miss. as for those vine shaped planets, for some reason it wouldnt work for me either until i started traveling away from the first main mission when all of a sudden these same plants would get a blue indicator that they could be scanned, only then it started working.

[Zhorge]

Originally posted by Matthew McConaughey:

Can't seem to scan flora or fauna. I've been able to scan resources but animals and plants don't work. What am I doing wrong?

Did you hit 'F' to bring up the scanner while having your drill equipped? Then, once you're close enough you hit "E" to actually scan it. Some creatures (killed by others) can be scanned dead.

Because if you harvest ore, or gases, it counts as scanned without the actual scanner up. Which is what it looks like to me.

[Tynovalik]

You need to scan several specimens of the same species, to get it the fauna/flora count

[Gobbo Ellie]

Originally posted by Matthew McConaughey:

Can't seem to scan flora or fauna. I've been able to scan resources but animals and plants don't work. What am I doing wrong?

You have to scan multiple examples of each flora or fauna before they are marked as scanned