Dune: Awakening Base-Building Guide: Best Base Locations And How To Destroy Structures

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In Dune: Awakening, establishing bases is a crucial aspect. The unyielding terrain of Arrakis poses many challenges, necessitating a secure refuge and resources for crafting essential items to ensure survival. Although the game introduces base-building early, it doesn’t provide extensive guidance on choosing a suitable location for your base and carrying out fundamental tasks.

Lucky for you, here’s a comprehensive guide on setting up bases in Dune: Awakening, ensuring you’re well-prepared as construction begins on your ideal Arrakis dwelling.

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  • How to start base-building in Dune: Awakening
  • Best base locations in Dune: Awakening
  • How to move and demolish structures at your base

How to start base-building in Dune: Awakening

In the expansive world of Dune: Awakening, let me tell you, setting up a base isn’t just about tossing down a few tents – it demands a wealth of resources! Granite Stones are the essential building blocks for even the most rudimentary structures, and they can be found scattered across the map like small boulders waiting to be transformed. The smart move is to always keep your Cutteray handy, ready to harvest those larger stones you encounter in your journey.

With an adequate amount of Granite Stone at hand, you can commence building essential structures such as foundations and walls. Yet, it’s crucial to fashion your Building Tool first, a necessity for any construction work within your base. The Building Tool is fabricated using scrap metal, a resource you can locate in piles if you know the right spots to search.

Once you generate the Construction Tool, it’s crucial to lay down a Sub-fief Console, which will establish the general range for your base construction. Ideally, position this console at a central location where you plan to establish your settlement.

Best base locations in Dune: Awakening

When choosing a location for establishing a base, it’s important to follow certain guidelines, as well as avoid certain pitfalls. Here they are.

When selecting a location for your base, proximity to points of interest is important, but it’s not the only factor to consider. It’s best to avoid building on sandy areas whenever possible. Constructing a base on sand exposes you to frequent sandworm attacks and increases your vulnerability to destructive sandstorms. If your base isn’t well-protected during these events, significant damage can occur.

Instead of constructing on flat ground, you might prefer to establish your settlement on the rugged outcroppings found worldwide. As illustrated below, I’ve opted to site my base atop a substantial rocky formation, which is accessible through climbing or ziplining, thanks to my character choice in Dune: Awakening – Trooper class.

As a fan, I’d recommend finding a level spot among these rock formations for setting up your base. If you fancy, you could carve it into the rocks themselves to shield it against sandstorms – though, in the initial stages, simply building on the rocks offers enough protection.

How to move and demolish structures at your base

After discussing the initial steps for setting up your foundation and offering guidance on suitable locations, let’s delve into the specifics of constructing a base – its mechanics.

With your Construction Tool at hand, you’ll find a variety of structures to construct. Initially, you’ll only have options for fundamental bases, walls, rooftops, and floors, all craftable using Granite Stone. Once you choose what to build, position it on the ground or connect it to something else that you’ve already established.

Once you find a suitable location for the structure, click the left mouse button to secure it in position, but remember this step alone won’t construct the object. To actually build it, aim at the structure and keep holding down the left-click. However, ensure you have sufficient resources to build your objects; if not, no construction will occur.

Once you’ve arranged some items, you may find it necessary to reorganize some elements or even dismantle specific structures. This can be achieved by accessing a simple menu when you’re using the Construction Tool.

Once the Construction Tool is activated, locate the menu on your screen’s right side. This menu offers choices such as “Build”, “Piece Picker”, “Move”, “Repair”, and “Demolish”. To navigate through these options on a PC, simply right-click your mouse button. Each time you do so, you’ll move to the next option in sequence.

To eliminate an object, simply click the right mouse button until you reach the “Demolish” option, then point at the item you wish to remove. Once pointed, left-click on the item to cause its destruction.

You can utilize the same method for transferring items. Navigate to the “Move” menu, point at an item, and then click left to grab it. Once you’ve got it, take it to its new destination and click again to put it down. This proves particularly useful when you wish to relocate the Sub-fief Console in Dune: Awakening, as the starting position for the console may not suit your needs later on.

In Dune: Awakening, as you advance, you’ll discover additional building choices for your settlement, yet the fundamental procedure stays consistent throughout your journey.

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2025-06-06 21:10