Learn to Survive
Your beginnings on Arrakis will be dominated by blistering heat, scarcity of water, treacherous quicksand, punishing sandstorms, and the constant tension when stepping on open sand, where the great sandworms roam. The shade and the night will be your closest friends as you harvest dew from sparse and gnarled shrubs, and try to avoid sunstroke. To truly master Arrakis you must follow in the footsteps of the Fremen. Their teachings will help you make many of the tools needed for survival. Learning to craft your own stillsuit is the first major step towards staving off dehydration, and ultimately, thriving in the hostile environment.
Travel Across the Vast World
Build your own shelter from the sun and sandstorms, and use it as a base of operations from which to explore the massive world. To traverse Arrakis you can run, climb, use suspensor belts to levitate, use abilities like the shigawire claw as a grappling hook, and more. But to truly open your horizons you need to craft your own vehicles, like the sandbike, buggy, and ornithopter. To attempt to outrun the mighty Shai-Hulud on foot is to welcome a quick death. You can install various different modules on every vehicle to expand its capabilities. Equip your sandbike or ornithopter with a scanner to reveal valuable resources like minerals, harvestable rocks, and water you need for crafting and survival. Do you want to hunt for buried treasure? Venturing out to the dunes after a sandstorm has passed can be very lucrative. Use your scanner to uncover buried debris and dig it out with a sand compactor. Valuable loot can be found this way, but you should never tarry too long on the open sand, as sandworms will always emerge from the deeps to silence any rhythmic vibrations you cause.
The Art of Map-Making
The best way to reveal the map is by finding a very high vantage point and launching a survey probe into the sky. The probe scans a section of the map and reveals important locations, as well as the terrain. If you have trained with a Planetologist and have learned the Cartographer skill, you can even create maps, called Sinkcharts, of the regions you have uncovered. These maps can then be given to your friends or even sold to other players on the Exchange in Arrakeen or Harko Village. The most valuable Sinkcharts are made in the Deep Desert. The world of Dune: Awakening consists of several regions that you can travel between on the Overland Map. You start your journey in Hagga Basin (which is made up of several seamless regions) and you can travel into the Deep Desert once you have an ornithopter.
