Scan Region

Scan Region Button

The Scan Region Button searches the entire region for other players wearing an active Descendants of Darkness HUD.

Your own avatar is excluded from the results. Avatars who are not wearing a compatible HUD will not respond to the scan.

The button supports two actions:

• Short click — Performs a manual region scan and displays the results.
• Press and hold — Opens the automatic scan settings.

Manual Region Scan

Short-click the button to begin a manual scan. The results are displayed in your nearby chat and are only visible to you.

A new player's scan with one other HUD user in the region may look like this:

Piercing the veil, please wait...

┌─────────────────────────────────
│ 🌑 Dark Sight
├─────────────────────────────────
│ ✧ Unknown
└─────────────────────────────────
Found 1 player in region.

The scan confirms that one player is present, but a new player cannot yet identify their name, species, rank, or distance.

As your character ages, their senses become stronger and additional information is revealed.

Your Age	Information Revealed
0–29 nights	Number of players detected. Other players are shown as Unknown.
30–59 nights	Player count and species.
60–119 nights	Player count, species, rank, and distance.
120 nights or older	Player name, species, rank, and distance.

Rank and distance are unlocked together at 60 nights. A player's name becomes visible when you reach 120 nights.

Complete Scan Example

After reaching 120 nights, the same scan may look like this:

Piercing the veil, please wait...

┌─────────────────────────────────
│ 🌑 Dark Sight
├─────────────────────────────────
│ ✧ Raven Ashfall (witch • Disciple) 0.59m
└─────────────────────────────────
Found 1 player in region.

In this example:

• Raven Ashfall is the player's name.
• witch is the player's species.
• Disciple is the player's current rank.
• 0.59m is their distance from you.

When several players are detected, they are listed in order of distance, with the nearest player shown first.

If no compatible HUD users are detected, the HUD will report:

No presence detected in this realm.

Manual region scans have a short cooldown. If you try to scan again too quickly, the HUD will tell you how many seconds remain.

Automatic Scan Settings

Press and hold the Scan Region Button for at least half a second to open its settings menu.

Automatic scanning runs quietly in the background approximately every 30 seconds. It does not print the full player list shown by a manual scan. Instead, it activates the HUD's scan effect when another active HUD is detected in the region.

The following settings are available:

Setting	Description
Auto ON / Auto OFF	Enables or disables automatic region scanning.
Sound ON / Sound OFF	Enables or disables the automatic proximity-alert sound.
Set Dist	Sets the distance at which the proximity-alert sound will play.
Reset Dist	Restores the proximity-alert distance to its default of 2 metres.
Exit	Closes the automatic scan settings.

The proximity-alert distance must be greater than 0 metres and cannot exceed 200 metres. The alert sound plays when an automatic scan detects at least one compatible HUD within the selected distance.

Your automatic scan, sound, and distance settings are saved by the HUD.

The Scan Region Button cannot be used when your character's current status prevents HUD actions, such as while dead, sleeping, dead from hunger, or banned.

See also

• Scan Others
• Descendants of Darkness Main HUD