A player from Dune: Awakening managed to achieve a feat that hardly anyone else has received. For this, he had to do something unimaginable on Arrakis. The community even gave him a title: “You monster.”
What did the player do? Anyone who cooks 100 dishes with the cuddly Muad’Dib desert mouse in Dune: Awakening will receive the achievement “The Shared Messiah.” The player Top-Consideration692 completed the achievement on July 9, 2025, on Steam. So far, only 0.1 percent of all players have achieved this.
You need dead mice for crafting Spice foods in the survival MMO by Funcom. However, some people have not seen a single one of the nimble critters even after dozens of hours on Arrakis. So how do you farm the Muad’Dib desert mouse if you really want to commit this atrocity?
The animals are attracted to Spice and sand fields and appear more frequently at these fields. You just have to hunt them down and collect them without startling a sandworm.
“I would never do that”
How does the community react to the achievement? Some are appalled that anyone could even think about using the Muad’Dib desert mice as an ingredient for cooking. Others simply wonder how this is even possible.
- MongooseOne writes on Reddit: “100 hours played and never seen a cooking option for that.”
- afonsolage grants the player on Reddit a kind of title that receives many thumbs up: “You monster.” Several other comments join in here.
- anyprophet will never get this achievement, via Reddit: “I see them all the time on open sand and know they can be collected, but I would never do that.”
- grachi explains on Reddit: “0.1% of over 1 million sold copies is not 1 person. But you still find yourself in a very elite company.”
By the way, I have the Steam achievement still documented with a share of 0.0 percent. Currently, there are only 2 other achievements for Dune: Awakening that are comparably rare: “Miner” (Mine 10,000 units of all resource types with a manual mining tool; yeah right, of course) and “Master Assassin” (Eliminate 500 house strappers of the rival house).
By the way, the Muad’Dib desert mouse already suffered during the beta that took place in mid-2024. At that time, they were hunted by selected testers because, like the defeated NPCs, their blood can be drained to process the red life juice into water: Players kill 100 sweet desert mice in the new survival game Dune, even shocking the developers
