Every week, the world of Dune: Awakening goes through a cycle where the destructive Coriolis storms and the Landsraad elections play an essential role.
What are Coriolis storms? Coriolis storms appear once a week in Dune: Awakening, destroying everything in the Deep Desert and then reshaping the regions of the endgame zone. All areas of the Hagga Basin and the two capitals of the Harkonnen and Atreides are not affected by the storms.
What is the Landsraad election? The Landsraad is a powerful political alliance of the great noble families within the Empire. In Dune: Awakening, the Landsraad consists of 25 houses, whose representatives you can meet in the game, and for which you must complete tasks as part of a guild once a week to influence the regularly held election.
The faction that can win the election is allowed to determine an active decree for the upcoming week. Such a decree might be that one of several possible traders becomes available to the winning faction, selling special recipes and some of the best items in the game.
All further details about the politics can be found here: Dune: Awakening Landsraad, factions, and guilds – what you need to know about Atreides vs. Harkonnen
Useful tips that Dune Awakening doesn’t really tell you:
Timeline of the Coriolis storms and elections
What does a typical week in Dune Awakening look like? The main milestones of each week are the Landsraad elections and Coriolis storms:
- Sunday, at 8:00 p.m.: The current Landsraad phase ends, and a 24-hour window for the decree election of the new phase begins.
- Monday, at 8:00 p.m.: Voting on the decree ends, and a Coriolis storm sweeps through the Deep Desert starting at 7:00 p.m.
- Tuesday, 5:00 a.m.: A new Landsraad phase starts and runs for 6 days, the Coriolis storm ends, the Deep Desert has been reshaped – Please note the information about server maintenance on September 9, 2025.
- Rest of the week: With your guild, you complete the tasks of the houses to decide the upcoming election for your faction and visit the Deep Desert at your leisure.
By the way, you can open the Landsraad overview with the shortcut “L”. There you can also see which decree is currently active.
Also important: The radio stations of Arrakis and the internal warning system announce upcoming Coriolis storms well in advance. Bring your belongings out of the Deep Desert into the safe Hagga Basin in time! If you haven’t discovered the radio yet, check it out here: Dune: Awakening has a hidden feature that has already sweetened every trip for you in GTA
