In Dune: Awakening, you can earn unique recipes for powerful items fairly early on, which can significantly ease your gaming experience. MeinMMO presents 8 of these overpowered equipment pieces to you.

In Dune: Awakening, it holds true: The better your equipment, weapons, and tools, the easier the fight for survival on Arrakis will be. Items that you can craft through unique recipes grant you a particularly noticeable power advantage. These can be found throughout the game world.

We will introduce you to 8 particularly powerful items that you can acquire early on. Please note that when you craft the respective item, you consume the associated recipe. If you want to craft the item again, for sale or for guild friends, you will need to farm the recipe again.

The launch trailer for Dune Awakening:

Hajra Literjon Mk1

Water is a rare and essential resource on Arrakis, which not only secures your survival but also plays a crucial role in the production and processing of materials. One of the most important items for the mobile storage of water is the so-called Literjons. However, the standard version only holds 1,000 units.

Therefore, visit the merchant at the Griffin’s Reach trading post in the Hagga Basin South to stock up on recipes for the better “Hajra Literjon Mk1” (1,500 units). They cost only 500 Solari per recipe. This is a sensible investment to noticeably increase your water storage efficiency early on.

Mohandis Sandbike Engine Mk1

This unique engine provides you with a speed of 93 km/h. For comparison: Sandbike, Engine Mk2, the standard part of the second generation, only reaches 78 km/h, and the Sandbike, Engine Mk3 is worse, at 85 km/h. You will be able to utilize the Mohandis engine for a long time profitably.

You can find the component in the south of the Hagga Basin South, near the starting point, at the enemy base Keyhole Rock. On the second floor of the fortress, you will find a large loot crate, where you may find the Mohandis Sandbike, Engine Mk1 with some luck.

Night Rider Sandbike, Boost Mk2

Perfectly complementing the Mohandis Sandbike, Engine Mk1 is this booster, which lets you speed through the dunes with enormous velocity. You can find this in the second region, Eastern Vermillius Gap, a bit north of the trading post “The Anvil”. Specifically: in the Ghanima Cavern. This item is also not a guaranteed drop.

Strong Starter Weapon for Ranged Combat: Aren’s Vengeance

Also near the starting point in the Hagga Basin South, you can already acquire the recipe for a strong ranged weapon. To do so, visit the “Broken Stone Station” in the southern central mountain formation.

In the loot crate found there, there is a good chance that the rifle Aren’s Vengeance will be present, which features reliable precision and firepower even at great distances and can serve you well for many level-ups.

Strong Starter Weapon for Blood Farming: Kaleff’s Drinker

This blade is significantly stronger than your starting dagger, with 10.9 damage, and has a special feature: hits drain blood from the victim, which lands directly in your blood pouch. After the opponent’s death, you can extract the red life elixir from them again using the blood extractor. This makes blood farming particularly efficient.

You can find the blade in the Hagga Basin South, at the wreck of the Alcyon. Fight your way through the wreck until you reach the loot crate there.

Shock Sword

The Shock Sword packs significantly more punch than Kaleff’s Drinker. The blade shines not only with 38.4 damage per second but also with a stamina boost on successful parries. Awesome!

However, to obtain the weapon, you must already venture through Jabal Eifrit Al-janub and visit the test station 76 in the northwest. Fight your way to the last chamber, where you will find the appropriate loot crate.

Wings of the Emperor Mk1

This unique suspension belt can be activated by a double jump, allowing you to hover upwards. Additionally, the hover state lasts significantly longer than with normal belts.

In combination with the Shigadraht claw of the trooper class, you gain a noticeable increase to your mobility: simply propel yourself forward or upward with the claw, then use the belt to leverage the momentum. This allows you to cross larger chasms as well.

You will find the belt at the end of your visit to the Imperial Test Station 2 in the Hagga Basin South.

Taking Down Shields Made Easy: Legion Tatoo

Lastly, we have a tip for you that is quite significant. This will lead you into the Western Vermillius Gap, specifically to the wreck of the Pallas. The special feature of this region is that PvP is active. Therefore, it can happen that you encounter trigger-happy players who disrupt your loot plan.

But why is the visit worth it? Well, in the large loot crate of the area, there is the recipe for the Disruptor weapon Legion Tatoo, which allows you to efficiently and easily remove the protective shields of your enemies from a distance. If you’re not keen on close combat, you need this blast! What else you need to know about the new survival MMO from Funcom, you can find out here: Everything about the release on PS5, Xbox, and PC of Dune: Awakening.

Dune: Awakening is a survival MMO with many mechanics, systems, and pitfalls. MeinMMO summarizes useful tips and tricks that will noticeably ease your entry into the game.

Since June 5, 2025, buyers of the Deluxe or Ultimate Editions can already play Dune: Awakening. From June 10, 2025, all owners of the base version can also wreak havoc on the desert planet Arrakis.

You can expect a survival battle against heat and thirst, aggressive bandits, gigantic sandworms, and much more. Depending on how and where you die, you can lose all your possessions. To help you get started and avoid some mistakes we made, we present you with a variety of useful tips for entering the world of Dune: Awakening.

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The launch trailer for Dune Awakening:

Tip 1: Listen to the Game

Similar to Conan Exiles, Dune: Awakening also takes you by the hand with a kind of travel function to introduce you to the game. So, tip number 1 is quite simple: Follow the instructions and objectives of the journey to learn the key mechanics of the game.

Later, the game opens up significantly, but you can still let yourself be guided through the game by the many side quests from NPCs or bulletin boards. Through these, you will gain experience points, units of in-game currency, and many other rewards.

During character creation, you can also decide to keep the research menu closed (which the game recommends) or to open it. Listen to the developers’ advice and keep the menu closed. This will make your entry into the game significantly easier.

Tip 2: Make Use of the Class System

While you must choose a class at the beginning of the game, during your adventure you will have the opportunity to unlock the talent trees of the initially overlooked archetypes. How? By finding the corresponding class teachers and completing a quest line for them.

As colleague Cedric explained in his class ranking, you should not choose the Trooper initially. You will meet the Trooper trainer very early on, at Griffin’s Reach Trading Post in the first region, Southern Hagga Basin.

Also in the first region, you can unlock another class tree: the Planologist. You will find the corresponding trainer above the Imperial Test Station 2, at Chinaras’ camp. Caution: The quest from the trainer leads you into the Imperial Test Station 2; if you don’t want to go in multiple times, take the class quest first.

Anyone who initially chose Mentat, Swordmaster, or Bene Gesserit can thus switch to the second region with three unlocked talent trees.

Why is this important? At the beginning, you can only put one point into each of the talents, and you only have access to two active abilities at first. If you focus on the trees of one class, you will quickly hit a limit, although there would still be many skill points to distribute.

Instead, having access to 9 talent trees (3 per class) allows you to draw from a wealth of options and also secure many strong passive talents.

Tip 3: The First Base is Scrap

Early in the game, you are tasked with building your first shelter to protect yourself from sandstorms and the sun when necessary. However, do not invest too much time and energy into this first construction project; just do the minimum that is required of you.

Once you leave the first region for a quest, you will be moving – and by registering the new building site, you will destroy your old property. This means, of course, that you should not leave anything in the first base that you would like to continue using. Therefore, take everything important with you as soon as the game sends you to the second region.

Extra Tip: Build your second base best near a peaceful hub (for nearby traders or quest givers). If there are also various types of stones, plants for water access, or bandit camps nearby, you will minimize your travel distances.

Tip 4: Use Survey Probes

When you enter a new region, look for an elevated place (at least 45 meters high) and deploy a survey probe from there. You will unlock the corresponding tool, the Survey Probe Launcher, relatively early in your journey.

This way, you unlock all the important locations in the respective region at once. These include smaller camps, but also larger fortresses with important information, shipwrecks, and test labs with great loot. And of course, important places for the main story, safe paths through the sand, or nearby NPC hubs.

With this information, you can plan the optimal location for your new base and upcoming trips into the desert.

Tip 5: Start Your Next Journey Well Prepared

Before you head out, make sure to pack enough ammunition, water, and healing items. Blood bags and some tools should also be in your inventory. Additionally, check if all your equipment parts have enough durability to avoid falling apart in the upcoming adventure.

Equally important is that you do not carry all your wealth around all the time. If a sandworm or sandstorm catches you, everything in your inventory will be lost. Those who have money and spare equipment left at the base will be glad.

And then you should also plan your route carefully. The shortest route often leads over wide sand areas and is therefore almost certain to be deadly. It’s better to move from rock formation to rock formation to avoid long travels over sand. Pay attention to the red circles on the map, marking quicksand or places where you can easily attract sandworms.

Tip 6: Maximum Mobility

With the Trooper’s Shigadraht Claw and the Emperor’s Wing item, you gain significant mobility early in the game, allowing you to easily reach high altitudes, glide safely to the ground, or overcome deep chasms.

You will find the recipe for the unique Suspension Belt at the end of the Imperial Test Station 2 in the Southern Hagga Basin. Remember: with the recipe, you can only craft the belt once. If you want more, you need to visit the test station multiple times.

With this combination, it is then possible to launch yourself into the air with the claw and hover long distances with the suspension belt. Be sure to try it out!

Tip 7: Don’t Underestimate the Vehicle Replacement Tool

While the sandbike is great for getting from A to B in Arrakis, you often have to leave it behind when things get tough. At the end of your journey, the return to the vehicle can sometimes be quite long. Save yourself the trouble and pack a vehicle replacement tool!

With it, you can easily pack up your sandbike and take it with you on your adventure. When you’re finished, simply unpack the vehicle at the location. This way, you won’t have to worry about sandstorms anymore.

Also important: The individual parts of the sandbike lose durability over time. To repair them, you need a welder and sufficient welding wire. Additionally, you should always pack some fuel for the bike.

Believe us: you don’t want your bike to break down somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

Tip 8: The Search for the AQL Trials

To advance your main quest concerning the search for the Fremen, you must undergo several AQL trials. However, the quest tracking helps you only to a limited extent, as it simply states: Find the next trial. If you follow our Tip 3, you can significantly ease your search.

The locations of the trials have a unique icon on the map, a light purple-colored cave entrance. Here is the entrance for Trial Number 2:

Tip 9: Save Yourself the Searching in Containers

A small but fine tip that can save you a lot of time: Use the “Quick Deposit” feature of the containers to automatically pack items from your inventory into the respective box that are already present there, without having to manually open and search through each container first.

This only works if you have already sorted the countless types of resources, equipment parts, tools, and so on into the containers.

Tip 10: Ensure Enough Energy in Your Base

To keep your base protected from sandstorms and to ensure all workstations there are functioning, you must always have sufficient energy. This means that you will need to provide more energy stations as more devices land in your own four walls that require energy.

Moreover, you should supply the energy stations with enough resources so that they can function until your next login. Otherwise, you might come back to a destroyed base.

The good news: Those who empower the initially available energy storage do not have to worry about protecting their base for almost 2 weeks. Those planning longer breaks should save their base with a base reconstruction tool and stash as many possession turrets in the bank as possible.

This way you can quickly and without losses start again after the break. How important it is to build your base in the right position in the survival MMO from Funcom is also demonstrated by this story from the community: A player from Dune: Awakening blocks the thoroughfare with his house, finds a perfect solution without having to move

In both the beta and the launch, you must choose between 5 classes in Dune: Awakening. MeinMMO summarizes the most important information about the archetypes, their skills, and techniques.

What classes are there in Dune: Awakening? In the character creation of the survival MMO, you choose from the following 5 archetypes:

• Bene Gesserit: A shady order of women with a deliberately nebulous agenda. Adepts of the sisterhood are valued by the nobility and feared by the rest of the Empire.
• Trooper: All Great Houses of the Landsraad maintain a standing army or a house guard. The backbone of these formations is made up of professional soldiers known as troopers.
• Mentat: The mysterious and withdrawn order of Mentats conditions its followers to store and analyze vast amounts of data with superhuman speed.
• Sword Master: The highly respected sword masters of the fallen Ginaz school are still the best fighters in the known universe.

Not available during character creation – at least in the beta:

• Planetologist: Planetologists are researchers and explorers who have learned to survive in hostile environments in order to terraform them. Their training is very intensive, as they are the first to enter any newly discovered planet.

Here is some gameplay from Dune Awakening:

Dune: Awakening – The Class Differences

How do the classes differ in gameplay? When you start Dune: Awakening, you can defend yourself equally with melee or ranged weapons, regardless of the class, as soon as you find or craft a suitable weapon – you can make your first knife at the very beginning.

Nevertheless, the choice of class has consequences, as it determines your starting skill and gives you access to the three skill trees of the respective archetype.

Important: The choice of class does not lock you into a rigid framework of skills and talents that you cannot escape from. Instead, in Dune: Awakening, you can find masters of other classes and learn the skills of other classes through their quest lines. In the end, it is only the available skill points that limit you in the choice of skills and talents.

Let’s take a closer look at the five classes with their respective advantages and disadvantages. Here is the table of contents from which you can directly jump to your desired class:

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Bene Gesserit

Playstyle

• Physical and mental mastery, dagger specialization, and manipulation through the “Voice”

Possible Starting Skill

• Voice “Coercion”: Use the Voice to compel someone from a distance to come to your position.

Talent Trees

• Strange Path: Improvements to dagger fighting and access to mobility skills
• The Voice: Enhancements for manipulating opponents, for example, to call them to you or temporarily take them out of action
• Body Control: Access to group buff “Litany Against Fear”, improved self-healing, increased protection against poisons and heat

Suitable for: Players who enjoy manipulating other NPCs and providing a useful group buff.

Here you can watch the official class trailer for the Bene Gesserit:

Trooper

Playstyle

• Offensive ranged combat, also with heavy weapons and tech gadgets

Possible Starting Skill

• Shigadraht Claw: You fire a claw attached to your wrist using a shigadraht. Due to the extreme tensile strength of the wire, you are catapulted in the direction of your shot. This way, you can also destabilize opponents.

Talent Trees

• Shooting: Specialization in different types of weapons
• Suspensor Training: More mobility in the air, access to gravitational field and special grenades
• Tactical Tech: Access to grappling hooks, hunting seekers, and explosive grenades, reduction of skill cooldowns

Suitable for: Players who enjoy shooting large weapons from a distance and want to move quickly through the game world with the grappling hook.

Attention: During testing, we found the master for troopers quite early in the game, in the first friendly NPC base to which the journey automatically leads. If someone is actually considering a different class but is eager for the grappling hook, they can obtain it relatively quickly.

Here you can watch the official class trailer for the trooper:

Mentat

Playstyle

• Reconnaissance and strategy, ranged combat with gadgets

Possible Starting Skill

• The Guardian: Deploys a suspensor-based arrow projector that covers a shooting field via motion detection and thus detects potential targets.

Talent Trees

• Mental Calculation: Sharpshooter and pistol training, more efficient repair, can overload enemy shields
• Assassination: Access to poison capsules and stun arrows for the hidden bow, as well as poison mines and poison clouds
• Tactician: Access to shield wall (can also provide cover for allies), (anti-)gravitational mines and projections

Suitable for: More defensive natures who prefer to operate from a distance or use technical gadgets.

Sword Master

Playstyle

• Aggressive yet mobile melee fighter specializing in long swords

Possible Starting Skill

• Knee Attack: You dive at an opponent with a brutal attack. The attack causes shock damage and significantly destabilizes the target, but costs stamina.

Talent Trees

• The Blade: Improvements for fighting with the sword
• The Will: Access to the defensive skill “Distraction” and improvements to resistances
• The Path: Access to “Knee Attack” and group buff “Inspiration”, improved stamina efficiency

Suitable for: Front-line soldiers who want to look their enemies directly in the eye during combat.

Planetologist

Playstyle

• The best driver, pilot, resource collector, and scanner in the game has a nose for spice

Possible Starting Skill

• Suspensor Field: Deploys a suspensor device that catapults you and targets into the air. Helpful for navigation and overcoming obstacles.

Talent Trees

• Scientist: More efficient extraction with the Cutteray, improving energy cells and water yield efficiency,
• Researcher: Access to Suspensor Field, improved climbing, scanner mastery, can create maps of surveyed areas
• Mechanic: More efficient repair or deconstruction of vehicles, saves fuel when driving and flying, and scans better from within the vehicle, can harvest spice more efficiently

Suitable for: Players who place a slightly lower focus on combat and want to focus more on collecting resources and exploring the game world.

Dune: Awakening – Learning Skills and Techniques

From the various active skills you learn throughout your survival battle, you may only use 3 skills from a skill bar. However, you can freely switch learned skills if they are currently not on cooldown.

Unlike skills, learned techniques provide passive bonuses for specific areas. There is also a bar with 3 slots, and only the techniques in these slots are activated.

You can unlock and upgrade skills and techniques in the various skill trees up to 3 levels using competence points that you earn during your adventure.

For many of the talents from the trees, you must meet certain requirements to learn or improve them, such as investing points in previous talents.

Is there a reskill option? Yes! You can perform a so-called competence recalibration, namely every 48 hours.

Dune: Awakening will be released on June 10, 2025, with a Buy2Play model. There is no prior early access phase, rather you buy the finished full version. The survival MMO comes without a subscription and aims to offer new updates and content for free. You can find out more important information here:  All about release, prices, features, and editions of Dune: Awakening

Dune: Awakening features a fairly open class system, allowing you to unlock and utilize the talent trees of all five archetypes. We will tell you in the guide where to find the trainers necessary for unlocking them.

How do the classes work? While you must choose a class at the beginning of Dune: Awakening, this choice is not permanent. On the contrary! Throughout your adventure, you will encounter trainers for all 5 classes, where you can unlock all talent trees through quest chains.

Additionally, there are advanced trainers who will provide you with their respective quests, allowing you to invest more points into the corresponding talents.

In the end, it’s only the available skill points that limit you in choosing skills and talents. Since reskilling is free every 48 hours, you have a lot of freedom when selecting your build. You can find an overview of all classes in this article.

Below, we will reveal where you can find the trainers for the classes Mentat, Swordmaster, Trooper, Bene Gesserit, and Planetologist, to gain access to all skills.

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Which class is the best choice at the beginning?

Mentat – Trainer Location and Quest

The first trainer of the Mentat class is located in Riftwatch, the large Harkonnen base in Hagga Rift.

You can find the advanced Mentat trainer in the city of Arrakeen (accessible via quick travel using the Ornithopter pilot, costing 2,500 Solari), specifically in the northeast where the tavern is located.

Swordmaster – Trainer Location and Quest

In the northern region of “Jabal Eifrit Al-gharb”, you will find the trading post Pinnacle Station, which not only features merchants, a job board, and a quick travel point, but also the first Swordmaster trainer.

The advanced Swordmaster trainer is located in the north of the base of Harko Village (accessible via quick travel using the Ornithopter pilot, costing 2,500 Solari).

Trooper – Trainer Location and Quest

You will encounter the Trooper trainer very early in your journey, at the Griffin’s Reach trading post in the first region “Southern Hagga Basin”.

The advanced Trooper trainer can be found again in Arrakeen (accessible via quick travel using the Ornithopter pilot, costing 2,500 Solari), specifically in the southern area of the central transition.

Bene Gesserit – Trainer Location and Quest

You will find the Bene Gesserit trainer at the Helius Gate, a base in the southeastern area of the Eastern Shield Wall. The nearest quick travel point is at Pinnacle Station. From there, you need to head south.

The advanced trainer will be waiting for you in Harko Village (accessible via quick travel using the Ornithopter pilot, costing 2,500 Solari), specifically west of the arms dealer, in the northeastern part of the base.

Planetologist – Trainer Location and Quest

The Planetologist Derek Chinara is the only class not available to you during character creation. Therefore, it is all the more important to know the location of the corresponding trainer. The good news: you can meet him very early.

You can find the Planetologist trainer above the Imperial Test Station 2, at Chinara’s storage.

Warning: The trainer’s quest leads you to the Imperial Test Station 2; if you don’t want to go in multiple times, first obtain the class mission.

The next quest from Derek will be at Test Station 197 in West Vermilius, leading you to a huge underground area. You are supposed to bring him buried archive pieces. Once you have completed and submitted this quest to Derek, you can invest up to 2 points in the Planetologist skills. Then, you will return to the cozy home of the Planetologist.

From there, he will send you to the bar in Arrakeen to meet Cybrian Io. However, he doesn’t want anything to do with you and sends you back to Derek. From there, you will move on to Test Station 76 in the north of Jabal Eifrit. Find the trainer in a cell. You are to rescue him (find the key) and once again locate archive material.

If you succeed, you will meet again above Test Station 2. At that point, you can invest up to 3 points into the Planetologist skills. After that, the trainer will again send you to Arrakeen to speak with Thufir Hawat. He will then send you to the Western Shield Wall, where you should reach the entrance to Sietch Tarl. There, you can interact with a tablet and discover a note.

With that, you will return to Derek, who has 4 more quests for you. Firstly, you need to find the archive material in Test Station 29, in Northern Hagga Rift. Secondly, you will go to Test Station 71 in O’odham, where you are to locate notes from Kyne for Derek. Thirdly, you will again head to Arrakeen, where you will speak with Cyprian, thereby revealing a betrayal.

If you want to bring this info back to Derek’s home now, you will encounter an ambush from snipers. Eliminate the enemies and then read the document on the table to start the last quest. It leads you back to O’odham, where you can find Derek in Test Station 163.

At the end of the dungeon, you will find the recordings from Kyne that the trainer wants. As a reward, you will gain access to the final Planetologist skill as well as special equipment. Congratulations! To learn more about the new survival MMO from Funcom, click here: All about the release on PS5, Xbox, and PC of Dune: Awakening.

MeinMMO reveals to you in the guide to Dune: Awakening where you can find the 8 trials of Aql for the main questline of the survival MMO.

In the main questline of Dune: Awakening, it is your task to find the Fremen on Arrakis. For this, you must master 8 so-called trials of Aql. The tricky part is mainly finding the entrances to the caves where the altars are located, from where you start the trials.

In some cases, you can uncover these by using a surveying probe to reveal a region. However, some cave entrances are so well hidden that they remain concealed from the probes. Therefore, MeinMMO informs you in this guide where you can find all 8 trials and what special features to consider about the trials.

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The release trailer for Dune Awakening:

The first trial of Aql

Where is the entrance? In the Southern Hagga Basin, at the central rock formation, slightly northwest of the Keyhole Rock. The quest “The first trial of Aql” also shows the location on the map:

When you reach the altar and inhale the spice, the trial begins.

What should be noted? Simply follow the linear path and make sure that the Watchers do not see you. So dash from cover to cover or only move when the eye closes or moves away from you.

The second trial of Aql

Where is the entrance? In the Eastern Vermillius Gorge, located in the mountains south of “The Anvil”, near Arens Post. You reach the entrance through the cave “The Deep Struggle”.

What should be noted? Use the Static Compactor to extinguish fires, trigger poison traps, and create platforms in the air.

The third trial of Aql

Where is the entrance? Far in the west of the Western Vermillius Gorge, slightly northeast of the Flatrock Outpost, lies the cave of the lost pilgrim. You can reach the entrance directly via a staircase. Follow the path, incapacitate the enemies, and delve deeper into the cave until you reach the destroyed altar.

What should be noted? Since the altar is destroyed, you can only listen to a Shigadrat recording there to complete the quest.

The fourth trial of Aql

Where is the entrance? This is located at the highest point of the Eastern Vermillius Gorge, near the peak of Mirzabah’s head. So prepare for a climbing adventure. Work your way from ledge to ledge, preferably using the grappling hook. At a certain point, parts of the ascent are well marked by destroyed stairs, climbing ropes, and similar.

When you enter the cave “The Hollow Hammer”, the worst is done.

What should be noted? In this trial, you will face a combat challenge, where initially you have only a Crysmesser available. After a while, you will come into contact with spice, which will give you access to three powerful abilities. After successfully completing the trial, you may use the spice for your own purposes.

The fifth trial of Aql

Where is the entrance? This trial is hidden deep in the gorges of the Hagga Rift, specifically southeast of the wreck of the Kytheria, directly above the transition marked on the map. However, approach the point on the map from above and let yourself fall down through the gap there, which will almost land you directly in front of the stairs leading to the altar.

What should be noted? You need to cross quicksand, overcome a level section by climbing without touching the ground, and distract a sandworm.

The sixth trial of Aql

Where is the entrance? In the northeast of Jabal Eifrit Al-sharq. It’s best to first take the Swordmaster’s basics quest “Post Check”, which leads you to the Devil’s Eye cave, where the entrance to the sixth trial is also located.

What should be noted? Again, only a destroyed altar awaits you here. Listen to the recording and then leave the cave.

The seventh trial of Aql

Where is the entrance? The next trial leads you again into the depths of the Hagga Rift. This time the entrance to the trial is further northwest, south of the Northern Bunker. Again, it’s easiest to approach from the overworld, from the north.

Directly above the map icon, you can let yourself fall down. This way you will land in the Weeping Gorge, from where you can fall deeper and deeper through small cracks until you finally reach the right level and the Red Abyss.

What should be noted? Cross the area and reach the protective tents before the sandstorms overwhelm you.

One last trial of Aql (bring Cutteray!)

Where is the entrance? You will find the last trial in the south of the Eastern Shield Wall. Travel to Pinnacle Station, keep south until Helius Gate and then drive west until you are directly above the map marker (which will not yet be displayed in the game).

Then let yourself fall down on your sandbike directly at the narrow gorge and you will land on the path that takes you to Sietch Ta’lab. Caution: There are individual enemies and traps.

What should be noted? In the following, you will need to solve some puzzles and answer questions.

• The order of the answers: 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 3, 3

Next, a labyrinth of corridors and levels awaits you. Cross the bridge with your new companion and keep to the right at the end of the hall. Follow the path until you must clear the way with your Cutteray.

At the following intersections, first right, then left, then straight ahead. Behind the next rock, a staircase leads up to a combination puzzle where you must correctly assemble 3 lessons from 3 symbols each.

Here is the correct combination:

Follow the path until you reach the next large hall. There you will face the next puzzle, where you need to readjust a mechanism on the stairway to activate an old death distiller. You do this by rotating the three rings to the correct position.

• Rotate the middle ring until the channel faces away from the door toward the altar.
• Rotate the inner ring until the channel part there points to the altar.
• Rotate the outer ring until all channel parts form a single channel.

Interact with the altar to open the chamber. After that, watch the sequence, retrieve the recording from the vault, and exit the chamber through the corridor. Attention: When you reach the large hall at the beginning, various enemies will be waiting for you there. Fight your way through the horde and leave the chamber to complete the last trial.

What happens in the epilogue? Kari contacts you when you arrive at your base. A new quest named “Black Market Technologies” starts, which leads you to Harko Village, where you are to meet a black market dealer.

What do I need to know about Dune: Awakening? The new survival MMO from Funcom was released on June 10, 2025, for PC and takes you to the desert planet Arrakis. However, you will not encounter the well-known storyline from the books or movies, but an alternative timeline in which Paul Atreides was never born.

Hunger, thirst, sun, aggressive enemies – from the very first minute, the struggle for survival is at the forefront of Dune: Awakening. By crafting better tools, equipment, bases, vehicles, and weapons, you increasingly ease your daily life, allowing you to focus more on exploring the game world, mastering dungeons, or experiencing the story.

In large parts of the game world, you can encounter up to 39 other players. Exceptions include the two faction capitals and the Deep Desert, a vast endgame area where PvP is active almost everywhere and which fundamentally changes every week due to a storm. You can find out more in our overview: Dune: Awakening – Everything about the release on PS5, Xbox, and PC