Dune: Awakening News
Dune Awakening sietches, worlds, and visiting explained
June 30, 2025 An update today changed how visiting works, and you can now claim land on any sietch in your world.
How do Dune Awakening sietches work? We've been trying to play Dune Awakening with friends, and it's been a rough ride. With only 40 concurrent players per sietch (server), the servers are constantly locked down, stopping new players from joining their friends. However, we've discovered an easy way to play with friends, even if you can't create a character on their server.
Dune Awakening is one of 2025's best survival games and one of the most played games on Steam, resulting in the servers filling up fast. You're met with a list of worlds when you start the game, within which are over 20 sietches. We're going to break down what this means, why you can visit some sietches, and explain how you play with friends on other servers.
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Dune Awakening update makes Deep Desert changes to remove PvP requirements
The Deep Desert Hotfix is Live!
[p]Greetings Sleepers, [/p][p]A new hotfix went live today, bringing changes to the Deep Desert, ornithopters, visiting other Sietches, and more! The full patch notes have already been released, but we’d like to highlight some of the changes here. [/p][p]If the download for the hotfix hasn’t appeared for you, please restart your Steam client. [/p][p][/p][h2]Deep Desert PvE-PvP Balance [/h2][p]As discussed in detail in the message from our Creative Director, this is the first iteration of the changes to the balance between PvE and PvP in the Deep Desert. As of right now, the PvE area has been expanded to include the southern half of the Deep Desert map. Pockets of PvP will remain within the new PvE zone for Control Points and Shipwrecks. [/p][p]With this change, we have also rebalanced resources in the Deep Desert somewhat, with density increasing the further north you go, including spice. Loot is overall more valuable and plentiful in the northmost PvP zones. Having said that, it’s important to note that the highest tier of resources are still available in the bottom half of the Deep Desert. [/p][p]We will continue monitoring how this plays out and continue iterating when and if needed. [/p][p]![]()
[/p][h2]Ornithopters [/h2][p]Equipping a Rocket Launcher Module now decreases the top speed of Scout Ornithopters by 20% and 10% for Assault Ornithopters. We have more changes planned but this is in line with the goal of encouraging meaningful decisions about how you outfit your vehicles and choosing whether you want to be aggressive or not in PvP zones. [/p][p][/p][h2]Visiting Other Sietches [/h2][p]We have removed restrictions when visiting other sietches. Before, you could visit other sietches but you couldn’t claim land. Now, any player can go to any sietch in their World and claim land wherever they want (the max number of sub-fief consoles (3) remains unchanged). [/p][p]Additional Fixes [/p][p]In this hotfix, we have also brought a number of fixes and improvements addressing stability, combat, user interface, and more. [/p][p] [/p][p]Thank you all for your continued feedback and bug reports, it’s very helpful! Check out the full patch notes to see all the changes. [/p][p]Seek the shade, Sleepers [/p]
Dune Awakening update makes Deep Desert changes to remove PvP requirements
A new Dune Awakening update today tackles one of the survival game's most common endgame frustrations. The new MMO has proved tremendously popular, opening up its incarnation of Arrakis to a huge number of players, but its endgame shift in direction has left some underwhelmed. While most of the core progression is PvE and doesn't require you to clash with your fellow adventurers, the endgame demands you head into the Deep Desert, consequently forcing you into Dune Awakening PvP. However, that's no longer the case, as Dune Awakening patch 1.1.0.17 delivers sweeping Deep Desert changes.
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Dune: Awakening's devs aren't waiting: the Deep Desert's huge new PvE area has already been patched into the full game
Boy, that escalated quickly. Less than a day after Dune: Awakening's PvE patch went into public testing, changes that turn the "entire southern half" of the Deep Desert into a PvE area have been hotfixed into the full game.
This promised change arrives alongside the first of the scout ornithopter balancing tweaks Funcom talked about in their recent AMA, and a couple of other fixes. However, there's a bunch of stuff put into testing yesterday which hasn't yet made the jump to public release.