How to find and get Flour Sand in Dune: Awakening

Flour Sand is one of the most dangerous items in Dune: Awakening, as the only area to collect it puts you at high risk of getting eaten by a sandworm. Flour Sand is a rare instance where you almost have to team up with others or get very lucky, though there are, occasionally, a few safer areas to grab what you need.

Below, we explain where to find Flour Sand in Dune: Awakening and how to get it safely.

Dune: Awakening Flour Sand locations

Flour Sand seems to only show up in the Vermillius Gap region, both east and west, and you’ll spot it from a ways off. White dust clouds indicate areas where you can collect Flour Sand, though the specific locations change each week after the Coriolis Storm sweeps through.

The catch is that they’re almost always located in or near drum sand, patches of sand that resonates when you walk or ride across it and summons the sandworm. Sometimes, you’ll get lucky and find a patch of Flour Sand on the northern or southern edge of Vermillius Gap, where there isn’t any drum sand. In general, though, if the Flour Sand is on a patch of red sand, you can guarantee the sandworm will show up.

In some very lucky scenarios, you’ll have flour sand spawn in areas where the worm can’t go. Those spawns aren’t guaranteed, but it’s worth looking around the edges of rock formations just in case one showed up.

How to get Flour Sand in Dune: Awakening

The easiest way to get Flour Sand is to use the compactor tool — unlocked after you complete the second Trial of Aql — and work together with others. The Static Compactor forms clumps of sand and spice, which makes gathering faster and more efficient. The ideal situation is that one or more people lure the worm away with thumpers while the Flour Sand gatherer gets to work.

If you’re playing solo, there are still a few methods you can try, though make sure you only take as much as is necessary in case the worm eats you. Store a backup vehicle in the backup tool, and leave that at your base as well.

• Take a bike or other fast vehicle, and equip a booster on it
• Park it near the edge of the Flour Sand, and point it toward rocks or safety
• Gather the sand, assuming the worm hasn’t started breaching before you get there
• Once the worm appears, get back on your back and boost to safety

The extra speed should be enough to get you away, though there’s still a chance the worm might catch up. Some players have reported being able to use the Bene Gesserit’s dash skill — learned natively or through a skill trainer — to get to safety, though that won’t work if the Flour Sand location isn’t close to safety.

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