Dune Awakening Items

In Dune: Awakening, you need to survive and complete the assigned tasks in Arrakis, a desert with a very harsh environment. But it is worth noting that Arrakis is a very vast open world, and if you move barefoot in it, you are likely to face the danger of heat stroke and lack of water.

Not only that, if your character is well protected, there is a significant possibility that you will become food for sandworms, which will increase the difficulty of your survival and building an empire. So you need to use some vehicles or wearable items, such as boots, to achieve faster movement and better protection.

However, in the early game content, you may not have enough Dune Awakening Solari and character level to obtain vehicles, so you can only find some crafting schematics and crafting materials to combine them into an item that can protect you, such as Softstep Boots.

This guide will show you the location and process of crafting the schematics needed for this important item, so you can quickly explore Arrakis and increase your character’s political and economic influence early in the game.

Softstep Boots Schematic Location

Once you have unlocked Imperial Testing Station No. 197, south of the Western Vermillius Gap, you can enter it to find the schematics for making these boots. You can rely on the rocks in the sledgehammer form to help you locate it, and the testing station is just west of it.

Alternatively, you can use a detector to help you locate the specific location of the testing station, but it may be more difficult to find it due to the open desert area surrounding it. After you find the testing station, you will need to go through a dungeon with many enemies to defeat.

The fight here is not very difficult, but in order to pass it quickly and in one go, it is recommended that you bring some gear that can cast crowd control and damage abilities and spend Dune: Awakening Solari to upgrade them. Afterwards, you will find Softstep Boots Schematic in a large treasure chest.

But its drop rate is not fixed, so you may need to farm this testing station multiple times, and you can rest for a few minutes after each exploration. Generally speaking, the more times you farm, the greater the chance of the schematic appearing.

Most importantly, the other crafting materials in this treasure chest also need to be collected. They are also an important part of making boots and other gear, so don’t ignore them. After you finally farm Softstep Boots Schematic, you can bring it back to your base for research.

Then, you will get Imperial Permit, which means you can make this item. A schematic can only be made twice. To make it again, you need to explore the testing station multiple times and find the schematic for research. By the way, the same type of schematics will spawn in an area, so you only need to aim for Imperial Testing Station No. 197.

How To Make It?

Before making Softstep Boots, you need to prepare the following resources:

8 Iron Ingot

You can find the raw materials in various Iron Ore bunches in Vermillius Gap. You need to use Cutteray Mk1 or higher level weapons to collect them. Then send them to Ore Refinery to forge Iron Ingot.

5 Plasteel Microflora Fiber

You can find it in the treasure chests of many Shipwrecks and other Great House Ruins in Arrakis. The recommended location is the Wreck of the Alcyon in Hagga Basin South, east of Griffin’s Reach Tradepost, as it contains several times more treasure than other Shipwrecks.

3 Plant Fiber

This is the easiest one to farm for the crafting materials needed for Softstep Boots. You can find them on the ground next to the rock group.

Generally, if the ground you are standing on is made of dirt or leaves, you can find Plant Fiber bushes there. If you are unsure whether a leaf is part of the environment, walk up to it. If it is a Plant Fiber bush, the system will prompt you to pick it.

3 Spice-Infused Iron Dust

It is also located in Vermillius Gap. You can find it at any testing station. In addition to this boot, there are a lot of very important and valuable armor and gear that require Spice-Infused Iron Dust, such as Buoyant Reaper Mk2 and Legion Tattoo. So you should farm as much Dust as possible.

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Except for Iron Ingot, the rest of the materials are not difficult to farm. After you have prepared these materials, you can go to the regular processing plant or clothing processing plant to make Softstep Boots.

According to some players’ feedback, it takes about 30-40 minutes to make a Softstep Boot, which is very worthwhile compared with the subsequent prefect protection.

However, I need to remind you that these boots cannot 100% protect you from the harsh environment and sandworms in the desert. You still need to pay attention to the surrounding environment and keep as quiet as possible.

These are the locations and steps for the schematics you need to craft a Softstep Boot in Dune Awakening. Hopefully, it will help you get the boots faster and with less chance of getting hurt in the desert. Have fun!

As a well-known IP, Dune represents not only a series of novels, but also a science fiction media franchise. Since the birth of the first Dune novel, there have been 20 - 30 derivative works of different types.

Compared with the original novel with a lot of words, if you are not a fan of science fiction novels, you should be more inclined to provide derivative movies and games to understand Dune franchise. And Dune movie and the game actually borrow from each other.

Among all the existing Dune games, Dune: Awakening is the latest one released in 2025. It draws inspiration from the movie on the basis of being faithful to the original novel, bringing you a real Arrakis.

Since the game has been online for only a month, there is still a lot of potential for further development and expansion, so it is entirely possible to add more elements or moments from the movie to the scene or battle mode in the future to further enhance the immersion.

Based on this, we will introduce to you which classic Dune movie elements are worth adding to Dune Awakening in the future.

Add Fighting Pits In PVP

As one of the core sources of Dune Awakening items, Deep Desert, especially PVP mode, is so dangerous and difficult, and the terrain is so complex that only a few players can fully experience it.

For this reason, Deep Desert can actually refer to Giedi Prime in Dune: Part Two, by adding fighting pits in the combat area to balance your skills and levels with other players, making the entire Deep Desert both challenging and universal.

Avoid Hunter Seekers In Special Scene

In fact, Hunter Seeker is already an item in Dune Awakening, which can be remotely utilized by Mentats to make enemies unable to move. But the game continues to add more relevant movie scenes to make this small drone more interesting.

For example, you can refer to the scene where Paul is tracked by Hunter Seeker in his bedroom on Arakeen, and the design requires you to avoid Hunter Seekers in a small space.

A More Ritualistic Duel Mechanism

In the series of movies, the most classic battle scenes are definitely the duels between Paul and his opponents. Although Dune Awakening now has many combat systems and PVP gameplay, a formal and solemn duel mode may also be interesting.

In fact, there is already a similar duel gameplay in the existing Trials of Aql, which also proves that the addition of related mechanisms is completely feasible.

Eliminate The Giant Sandcrawler

Another highlight in Dune: Part Two is that Paul and his Fremen allies teamed up to defeat a giant sandcrawler, which was a spectacular scene.

Although Fremen have not yet returned in Dune: Awakening, as an important plot clue, they will appear sooner or later, and similar tasks can be added at that time, allowing you to eliminate the sandcrawler together with Fremen like Paul.

Add A New Planet Belonging To Imperium

Currently, there is only one planet in Dune Awakening, Arrakis, but the development team said that new explorable planets will continue to be added in the future, so the planet where the empire is located is undoubtedly worthy of being the first choice.

The game now uses the same Landsraad system as in the movie as the main political and economic system, and if you can add planets belonging to the empire, you can complete Landsraad-based missions or more political conspiracy missions more immersively.

Manipulate Others As A Bene Gesserit

Bene Gesserit in Dune Awakening is an optional class with exclusive skills and attributes, but the ability of Bene Gesserit prodigy Margo Fenring in the movie Dune: Part Two to seduce and manipulate others is not among them.

To be honest, if you can use voice control to deal with enemies like Margo Fenring as a Bene Gesserit, not only will the combat be more efficient, but it will also look cooler.

However, it should be noted that this powerful ability should only be utilized in specific occasions or missions, otherwise it will destroy the class balance of the game.

Add Sandwalking

When you walk or explore in the desert of Dune Awakening, you will choose to ride a vehicle instead of walking to ensure safety, because walking is easy to attract sandworms and you cannot utilize the vehicle to provide you with protection.

But in fact, in both the novel and the movie, there is a special way to walk in the desert, that is sandwalking. Chani once taught Paul how to sandwalk.

Although we don’t know why Dune: Awakening didn’t add this feature, if sandwalking can be added to specific tasks in the future, the game will definitely be more interesting, while being close to the original.

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Fremen Council

Frequently mentioned in the existing plot but not actually appearing in the game, Fremen have become the most mysterious organization in Dune Awakening, and it is enough to make you believe that they will return to Arrakis sooner or later.

If possible, like in Dune: Part Two, let Fremen return to the south of Arrakis in the form of a council, and use this as a starting point to derive more plots and quests related to them in the game.

The above is all the content we introduced to you this time. I hope it will bring you fun. Thank you for reading.