Where are the solar panels?

[Stretchytall]

Did I miss the solar panels in the early game? I'm on the verge of teching up to deuterium power, and I still have seen a single solar panel or been able to build one! They're just not in the energy tab of my build menu. I was able to build the radar dish after scanning it, but I can't find a single solar panel at any of the several wrecks I've visited, including all of the ones around the starting area.

[Stretchytall]

Note I'm playing story mode.

[Menzagitat]

You have to scan them.
There are many techs at the S.O.S site:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1733154182

[TheJebblue]

You can get them by scanning the Emergency 3D printer.

[Andreas]

Originally posted by jebblue:

You can get them by scanning the Emergency 3D printer.

But ... why? Oo

[Menzagitat]

Originally posted by Andreas:

Originally posted by jebblue:

You can get them by scanning the Emergency 3D printer.

But ... why? Oo

Doesn't work for me...

[TheJebblue]

Originally posted by Menzagitat:

Originally posted by Andreas:

But ... why? Oo

Doesn't work for me...

You may already have scanned or acquired them elsewhere? It worked for me today, I found out I could scan the emergency printer by accident.

[Menzagitat]

After you posted, I tried in a roam world and in a survival world I had, quite in the early phase. Then I created fast one more survival (hard) world, grabbed the scanner from the wreck and tried again. I get no indication that is a scan-able object. And it tells me the same when I try to scan it.

[TheJebblue]

Originally posted by Menzagitat:

After you posted, I tried in a roam world and in a survival world I had, quite in the early phase. Then I created fast one more survival (hard) world, grabbed the scanner from the wreck and tried again. I get no indication that is a scan-able object. And it tells me the same when I try to scan it.

I just created a new world on Hard mode, got the scanner and made a printer and couldn't scan it, so yeah, weird, no idea why in the other new game I'm playing through, it let me. Maybe you have to build some stuff to get to that level of unlock first? Maybe it was a bug, idk.

[Andreas]

Originally posted by jebblue:

Maybe you have to build some stuff to get to that level of unlock first? Maybe it was a bug, idk.

The solar panels and the air blades are more or less the only things I'm missing and I can't scan the Emergency Printer either.

[aRPeaR]

Maybe there was something else within the build grid that you didn't have yet.

[johndai]

I found the solar panels on one of the crash site buildings on the roof.
It was one of the last things I found so don't know if that has bearing on the sequence within the tech tree.

[TheJebblue]

Menzagitat was right. I think I found out what happened, when I thought I'd scanned the emergency printer, I was at a new survival camp site and standing under the roof on which was mounted solar panels. Since I'd not yet unlocked solar panels, the scanner must have picked up on those when I was aiming at the printer. I only aimed my scanner at the printer because I noticed the icon saying it was scannable, got out the scanner and scanned it I thought, really probably scanning the panels on the roof above me.

[Andreas]

Originally posted by jebblue:

really probably scanning the panels on the roof above me.

Developers explained elsewhere that we are not scanning blocks but whole grids. So, yes, standing inside a scannable building that's what happened.