Probe Launcher

Basic Probe Launcher

Basic Probe Launcher
Properties
Resource Requirements
Note Block	1
Dispenser	1
Grindstone	1
Sponge	1
End Rod	2

Probe Launcher - T1 Version, can be fit on the following:

• Shuttle
• Transport
• Light Freighter
• Blockade Runner
• Medium Freighter
• Heavy Freighter

This is a smaller version of the advanced multiblock. This probe launcher can only use Scanner Probes, the recipe is listed below.

Advanced Probe Launcher

Advanced Probe Launcher
Properties
Resource Requirements
Iron block	2
End Rod	2
Grindstone	2
Note Block	1
Stair (any)	1
Sponge	1
Dispenser	1

The Advanced Probe Launcher gets additional combat capabilities in addition to the basic scanning abilities of the Basic Probe Launcher, with the ability to fire combat probes as well. This is the T2 Version, and can be fit on the following:

• Barge
• Recon
• Scrambler
• Stasis Corvette
• Missile Cruiser
• Industrial Command Ship

Probes

See Crafted Resources for more information on recipes.

Scanner Probes can be crafted using 1 gold nugget and 1 iron nugget in a shapeless recipe.

Combat Probes can be crafted using 1 iron nugget and 1 aluminum ingot in a shapeless recipe.

The probes are a stackable item and must be loaded into a starship magazine to be usable.

Image of texture of both probes

Using The Probe Launcher

The first thing you need to know about using the probe multiblock, is that the multiblock itself launches probes which are a type of Ammo. This means that your starship will need to be equipped with a magazine. Additionally, the launcher counts as a heavy weapon, and as such if you have any other heavy weapon on the ship (if possible), you will need nodes. To launch probes, once loaded into the magazine on an active ship, you simple use it like any other heavy weapon, by holding right click. From there after a short delay you will get info on Cosmic Signatures within a 7500(Recon)/5000 block radius in the system you're in using Scanner Probes, and other starships in the same radius if using Combat Probes.

NOTE: Fires from the dispenser not the End Rods (think of the end rod as the antenna and the dispenser as the actual launcher). This means the dispenser must have a clear line of sight in the same way other weapons do to fire (at most one block directly in front of it).