Dune: Awakening is an upcoming survival MMO that plunges players into the deadly desert landscape of Arrakis. While your first priority in Funcom’s latest title will be to secure your basic survival needs, such as water, a vital part of player progression will be learning to craft items, and creating a base – your own safe area that can be styled and structured however you like.
In this article we will summarize the information currently available about building and crafting in Dune: Awakening.
Crafting in Dune: Awakening
As with most other survival and MMO games, crafting will be a vital game mechanic in Dune: Awakening.
To survive and prosper in the harsh world of Arrakis, you will need to find a way to obain valuable resources and use these resources to craft new items, equipment and vehicles to make your character stronger.
You’ll be able to craft weapons, gear, clothing and vehicles, as well as components for the base that you’ll doubtless want to begin building before too long.
Base Building in Dune: Awakening
Whether you just want to create a modest shelter and safe place in the harsh desert, or let your imagination run wild and create a truly marvelous structure, base building is a feature of Dune: Awakening that you’ll almost certainly be delving into at some point.
To begin building your base, you must find a rocky area – the shifting sands are too unstable for construction, not to mention the dangers that come with them – chiefly sandstorms and the dreaded sandworms.
Once you’ve claimed a spot for your base, you can begin creating components for the structure. You’ll be able to choose from a collection of different styles so you can personalize your base to look exactly how you want it. You can spend as much or as little time on this as you like.
Even in the rocky islands in the middle of the vast shifting sands of Arrakis, sandstorms remain a danger. Your base will have a protective forcefield to protect it from sandstorms and sandworms – we’re not sure if this is something that will maintain itself automatically, or if you’ll need to keep supplying fuel to maintain the forcefield and keep your base intact.
Base Blueprints
Players will be able to create a blueprint of their base, which can then be traded or sold to other players. Blueprints are a template for a base, allowing another player to build a copy of your base if they have the crafting resources required.
So if you’re a particularly talented architect or decorator, then you can share your masterpieces with other players, either for free or for a price.
