Dune: Awakening Guide | How To Salvage and Manage Inventory

Here's a guide on how to salvage and Manage Inventory in Dune: Awakening.

Game Guide by TauxicPandA on Jun 09, 2025

Salvaging and managing inventory are vital components of Dune: Awakening. You must gather resources to construct numerous structures throughout the game, making effective resource management essential to your gameplay experience.

Dune Awakening Guide, How To Salvage and Manage Inventory

Salvaging Resources

During the tutorial, you'll get the Cutteray, which is used to salvage resources in Dune: Awakening. This will be the item you use most frequently in the game. You'll need to expose the weaknesses of objects that yield resources, such as Rocks or Broken Objects.

You need press the right mouse button to scan Rocks or Objects to reveal the weakness. Depending on the size of the Rock or the Object, there might be one or more weaknesses.

This weakness is highlighted with a glowing line or curve; you must break it using the Cutteray. Then, you need to break the object by projecting a beam and following the line from the cutter using the left mouse button.

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Resources are scattered around the desert, caves, and scavenger camps. Look out for rocky areas where you will find most resources, and avoid the open desert. Salvaged Metal can also be extracted from Broken Objects scattered around the Map in Dune: Awakening.

Managing Inventory

Managing Inventory is also an important part of Dune: Awakening. Sometimes, your weight capacity is exceeded, and there's no way to increase inventory slots or weight capacity.

You need to use the storage containers you can build in your base to store the heavy resources. There's also an alternative option to store items in your vehicles, so make sure to utilize that by unlocking Vehicles as soon as possible.

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Only keep the Items that you'll immediately use in your inventory. If you carry excess items, like ore and stones, you can split your items and drop them into the world.

Transporting Items

Since you are only limited to building three bases in Dune: Awakening, sometimes you must Transport Items throughout the map. You can use vehicles to transport your items or make round trips, which can be dangerous.

Although it is not recommended that you make round trips, if you haven't unlocked vehicles yet, craft and use the Respawn Beacon to set respawn points near areas you think are risky.

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So that you can pick up the items if you die due to heat or Scavengers. Remember that you'll lose all the items if you die to a Sandworm.

Also, rare loot should be prioritized over unnecessary resources readily available in the open world, like Plant Fibre or Scraped Metals. Craft things you need beforehand, like Med-Kits from Plant Fibres, to save additional space in Dune: Awakening.

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