Pragmata Guide: Stop Squinting and Learn to Find Every Hidden Item

Running in circles trying to find that last piece of Lunafilament is pure agony, but there is a way to make the game do the hard work for you.

Exploring the Lunar Base completely blind is a nightmare if you are a completionist. The environments are massive, cluttered with space junk, and explicitly designed to hide the most vital upgrade materials in the darkest corners possible. The initial scanner you get is frustratingly vague. It gives you a general sense of your surroundings but absolutely refuses to mark the small, critical items on your interface.

You can easily spend an hour scraping the walls of the Solar Power Plant looking for a single chest. Staring at a blank 3D map while the game demands rare materials to upgrade your suit is a special kind of hell.

Now before you waste your evening checking every single vent and dead end manually, you need to stop. You are making the game significantly harder than it needs to be. There is a specific ability that turns full exploration from a grueling chore into a very satisfying checklist. Here is exactly how to get it.

The Secret to Finding Everything

You have to accept that you are going to miss things during the opening hours. Do not stress about it. The tool you need is locked behind the main story progression, and you just have to push forward until you reach Sector 03.

Unlocking the Object Scan

Once you finally gain access to Sector 03: Terra Dome, you need to head straight back to the Shelter. Walk up to the Unit Printer. You will notice a new ability available for purchase called Object Scan.

It costs exactly 1 Pure Lunum. Buy it immediately. It is arguably the single most important quality of life upgrade in the entire game. If you are somehow completely out of currency and need to know where to farm it quickly, check my Economy, Printers, and Training Guide.

How Object Scan Actually Works

Once unlocked, this ability completely changes how you navigate the Cradle. The game still will not hold your hand by putting the items on your main 3D map, but it does something much better.

When you tap your scanner button (Square on PlayStation, X on Xbox, or Y on a standard PC layout), the Object Scan actively pings your immediate surroundings. It places highly visible icons directly onto your HUD, floating right over the hidden items in the physical world. It even slaps a distance marker on the icon so you know exactly how far away the loot is hidden.

It effectively gives you x-ray vision for the good stuff. You can walk into a massive, multi-level room, hit the scanner, and instantly see three icons glowing through the floorboards.

What You Are Actually Looking For

You might think you can survive by just grabbing what is in plain sight, but Pragmata heavily punishes players who skip exploration. The enemies hit harder with every new sector. You need the hidden caches to keep your build viable.

The Loot Breakdown

Using the Object Scan will reveal four main categories of hidden items. Every single one is mandatory if you want to survive the late game.

Item Type	What It Actually Does
Upgrade Components	The absolute lifeblood of your survival. You spend these at the Firmware Updater to increase Hugh's base health, defense, and Diana's raw hacking power.
Pure Lunum	A highly restricted currency. You need this at the Unit Printer to unlock advanced, game changing abilities like Fast Moves for perfect dodging.
Mods	Physical attachments you equip in the Loadout menu before a run. These grant massive passive buffs that define your entire combat style.
Hacking Nodes	New abilities slotted into the hacking grid. Finding these is the only way to apply massive debuffs to enemies during combat.

If you want to know exactly which mods to equip once you find them, you should read my Best Early Loadouts and Upgrades Guide. And if you are still confused about how to route those new Hacking Nodes, my Hacking Masterclass will sort you out.

The Tram Terminal Habit

Even with the Object Scan acting as your personal loot radar, it is still possible to miss a stray node tucked behind a crate. The game gives you a perfect failsafe to prevent you from leaving a sector empty handed.

Get into the habit of checking the Tram Terminal Menu every single time you are about to travel to a new area. The terminal explicitly tracks your completion percentage for the current sector. If you pull up the menu and see a frustrating 98% staring back at you, do not hit the travel button.

Turn around, walk back into the sector, and start pinging your Object Scan. You will usually find the missing item sitting just out of bounds or hidden behind an illusory wall.

Note: Sometimes your scanner will ping an item that is trapped behind a glowing wall of alien debris. You cannot break these immediately. You need specific progression abilities first. I wrote a dedicated guide on How to Clear Crystals and Red Goo so you know exactly when to backtrack.

Combining the Object Scan ping with the Tram Terminal checklist guarantees you will hit 100% completion in every single zone without losing your mind. It takes the guesswork out of the equation and lets you focus on the actual combat. If you are pushing for the platinum, this routine is mandatory. You can also check our Trophy and Achievement Guide for the rest of the requirements.

If you need more help surviving the Cradle, or just want to optimize your framerate while exploring, be sure to browse the full Pragmata Hub.