Dune Awakening’s latest 1.1.20 update delivers a significant set of improvements, new content, and quality-of-life features. Players can now enjoy a new Sandbike variant, Desert Mechanic Decorations, and the ability to place pillars between walls. This patch also introduces highly requested Deposit All Blood and Deposit/Extract All Water buttons for easier resource management. The Solido Replicator has been enhanced to encode placeables and decorations, enabling complete base replication.
The update also implements an item search function for The Exchange, reorganizes its categories, and makes NPCs unable to damage player buildings in PvE zones. Numerous technical, balancing, and gameplay adjustments have been applied, alongside extensive bug fixes covering vehicles, combat, UI, worldbuilding, and more.
Full Patch Notes:
Highlights:
- Pillars can now be placed between walls.
- New Sandbike variant available at the vehicle vendor.
- New Desert Mechanic Decorations available for purchase.
- Colliding with the sandworm’s body above ground on open sand now results in death.
- Item search function added to The Exchange; categories reorganized.
- Deposit All Blood and Deposit/Extract All Water buttons added to purifiers and cisterns.
- Solido Replicator now encodes placeables and decorations for full base copying.
- NPCs can no longer damage player-owned buildings or placeables in PvE areas.
- Fixed the issue allowing horizontal pentashields without wall attachment.
- Partially harvested Spice fields now display correctly after reconnect.
Features and Changes:
- Improved unstuck button reliability and client stability.
- Adjusted resource distribution, pentashield damage mechanics, and crafting behavior.
- Increased scrap metal yield from crashed ornithopters; adjusted multiple crafting recipes.
- Rebalanced Solari values for liquids and various vendor item prices.
- Added schematic stat previews and corrected loot pool inconsistencies.
- Numerous combat adjustments, including ability balance changes, updated animations, and new tutorials.
- Vehicle balance changes, including deterioration rate reductions and boost power increases.
- Worldbuilding updates, including new claimable lands and adjusted sandworm behavior.
- UI improvements: search bars for crafting, PlayStation 5 controller support, improved menus, and better HUD readability.
- Graphics and VFX updates, including improved climbing animations, outfit simulations, and sand field visuals.
- Audio enhancements for vehicles, environments, and abilities.
Fixes:
- Resolved multiple crash issues, network errors, and performance drops.
- Corrected building placement bugs, resource spawning issues, and harvesting visuals.
- Addressed economy bugs, crafting menu errors, and UI misalignments.
- Fixed numerous combat glitches, stamina/power regeneration errors, and NPC behavior inconsistencies.
- Corrected vehicle positioning, damage handling, and interaction distances.
- Resolved exploration bugs, stuck points, and quest progression issues.
- Fixed dialogue inconsistencies, faction betrayal progression blockers, and marker inaccuracies.
- Addressed various graphical glitches, animation stutters, and VFX mismatches.
- Corrected environmental audio playback and voice chat stability issues.
Dune Awakening is a survival game developed and published by Funcom. A multiplayer title, it was released for Windows on June 10, 2025, with early access beginning on June 5. Versions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S are scheduled for release in 2026.
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