How to get flour sand in Dune: Awakening | Sietch Watermaster

Brave the dunes to secure this valuable resource.

In the early stages, you'll rarely struggle to find the essentials in Dune: Awakening. Copper, fuel cells, and scrap metal are unexpectedly abundant throughout the wastes of Arrakis. Eventually, though, you'll need flour sand, a significantly trickier and riskier resource to gather.

The confusion generally kicks in when you try crafting silicone blocks, a useful refined material requiring five flour sand each. To obtain flour sand, you'll venture into sandworm-infested territory, making it advisable to have a vehicle like a sandbike handy, lest you end up worm food.

How to get flour sand in Dune: Awakening

Flour sand is harvested from white sand patches scattered across the dunes. They're tricky to identify at a distance, but you should watch for white smoke rising from the desert.

Note that these unique sand deposits aren’t accessible in the Hagga Basin's starter area. You'll have to explore the second region, Vermillius Gap to the north, to locate them.

Before collecting flour sand, you must first craft a static compactor.

You unlock this iron-level schematic by completing the second Trial of Aql location, and crafting it requires ten iron ingots and seven EMF generators. Additionally, you'll need a power pack to operate the static compactor.

To collect flour sand, aim the static compactor at the ground and activate it to clump the flour sand. This process takes several seconds, but once finished, you'll easily gather the clumped sand.

Much like spice sand, flour sand patches often appear openly across dunes, leaving you exposed to both hostile players and sandworms. Although it's possible to traverse the desert on foot for flour sand, it's far wiser to use a vehicle. Additionally, you might want to discard gadgets that agitate sandworms, such as suspensor fields, and store safely any items you wouldn't want lost inside a worm's gullet.