Grabbing some iron in Dune: Awakening is one of the necessary steps in upgrading your equipment and what you can build in your little desert enclave. You will have already crafted plenty using copper, but now it’s time for the Iron Age, though that will necessitate you relocating a little bit to actually find some….
If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that worms shouldn’t have teeth, but you’ll need to track one down in Dune: Awakening no matter how upsetting that idea is. The worm tooth is a key material for crafting the Unfixed Crysknife, a powerful melee weapon you’ll unlock by completing the fourth of…
One of your first challenges in Dune: Awakening is working out how to get water in the dry deserts of Arrakis. Not only is water vital to keep your character hydrated (and living), but it’s also used in various crafting processes, such as making iron ingots early on. As you progress between each area, biome…
Once you start unlocking various fabricators, blood purifiers, and other handy facilities in Dune: Awakening, you’ll quickly max out your base’s power. When your humble fuel cell generator just can’t cut it, your entire base will power down and you won’t be able to use any of your facilities. So, you’ll need to increase circuit…
Most materials in Dune: Awakening are easy enough to find and harvest, not least because they respawn so frequently. However, spice sand is much more complicated as it requires a specific tool to harvest and is easy to miss if you don’t know what you’re looking for. Sending you out into the worm-infested dunes, spice…
Early on, you’re unlikely to run into many issues finding what you need in Dune: Awakening. Copper, fuel cells, and scrap metal are surprisingly abundant in the wastes of Arrakis. Soon enough, you’ll need to get flour sand, a much more complicated and risky material to gather. You’re most likely to begin scratching your head…
Finding and crafting new materials gets exponentially more complicated in Dune: Awakening as you take already rare resources and refine them in an ever-expanding array of machines. Silicone blocks are no exception and are needed in a variety of useful recipes. Below, I’ll go over all the steps involved in getting silicone blocks, so you…
While most materials in Dune: Awakening are easy to find while you’re exploring, especially since the map tells you what you’ll get from specific activities, erythrite crystals are an exception. These gems are hard to come by unless you know exactly where to look. Below I’ll go over where you’ll find erythrite crystals and the…
Once you reach Griffon’s Reach tradepost in Dune: Awakening, you’ll be prompted to pick up a bunch of contracts—side quests that reward you with some XP and solari—including Scrap Mettle: Wrecking Crew. To complete this contract, you need to find a Holtzman Amplifier, and while you’re told you need to search the wreck of the…
Like a 10,000 year old super soldier, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine has aged surprisingly well. The new Master Crafted Edition is a light touch of a remaster, and I think that was the right approach—the things that earned the game a permanent place in the nostalgic hearts of Warhammer fans nearly 14 years ago are…