In Dune: Awakening, many players feel that the excitement has faded. However, those who stop playing cannot simply return. A system prevents you from saving your progress.
What is currently happening in Dune: Awakening? In the survival game Dune: Awakening, many players have already reached the end of the current content. The best machines have been built, enough spice has been farmed, and even the last quest has been turned in.
The results can be viewed on SteamDB. Each week, about 20% of the player base leaves the survival game, and this has been the case for 4 weeks. The hype following the release has diminished, and players are returning to other games or going on summer vacation.
However, those who leave Dune: Awakening cannot simply return after a few weeks or months. A mechanic punishes absence.
Here you can see what the future of Dune: Awakening brings:
Swallowed by the Sand
What happens during absence? Those who do not log into Dune: Awakening for an extended period face a problem. In the game, taxes must be paid, and your bases must be powered. Even if you use the best fuel of the highest quality to operate your generators, the power will run out after a month of absence.
The base loses its power, and thus the shields and gates become ineffective. At this point, the taxes are already overdue. The base loses its protection, allowing anyone to loot and plunder as they wish. Sandstorms will also begin to damage the base.
Within a few days after the protection fails, the last remnants of the base will also disappear, taking with them the painstakingly gathered resources.
While the base itself can only be saved by paying taxes weekly and refueling, you can also store some items and vehicles in the social hubs of Arrakis. However, the few that can be stored are demonstrated by a player on Reddit.
How much can be saved? If you want to plan your break from Dune: Awakening wisely, there are some tricks to optimize your storage space. User Raevyxn explains in a post on Reddit in detail that you can only store one of each vehicle in the storage chests and in an, parked in the social hub battle thopter with storage equipment. The vehicles then occupy 41 of the available 45 slots.
If you want to store large machines like a large spice refinery, it will be tight after just one machine. The materials for this occupy only 8 of the 45 necessary slots, but already 1,362v of 2,500v of the maximum weight in the storage – and that is only for the setup in the deep desert, which is 50% cheaper.
No matter how you try, many of the T6 endgame machines cannot be saved. The best option is probably to secure a T6 buggy with appropriate equipment for resource collection and some rare resources so that the re-entry during the next big content update goes more smoothly. If you really want to lose nothing, the only option is the weekly reunion with Arrakis along with refueling tanks and paying taxes.
The next major update is expected to be released alongside the second DLC between October and December 2025. Which contents will be added to the game is still completely unclear.
A player has shown how looters fare when trying to raid seemingly abandoned bases. He returned just in time and was able to deal with the brazen intruders: Player takes a 2-week vacation from Dune: Awakening, discovers audacious burglars upon his return, simply locks them up
