How to get silicone blocks in Dune: Awakening | Sietch Watermaster
On Arrakis, even the sand can serve as a valuable resource.
In Dune: Awakening, discovering and crafting new materials becomes progressively more complex as you refine already scarce resources in an expanding assortment of machines. Silicone blocks follow this pattern, becoming essential for various useful recipes.
Below, I'll outline each step you need to follow to obtain silicone blocks, enabling you to craft improved gear using your fabricators and refineries. If you're playing with an unlocked research menu and find yourself needing this material earlier than the game would typically introduce it, keep in mind that you must unlock the second region of Vermillius Gap before you can craft silicone blocks.
How to get silicone blocks in Dune: Awakening
You can craft silicone blocks in a chemical refinery using 50 water and five flour sand. The Small Chemical Refinery becomes available relatively early, requiring 45 copper to construct it using the construction tool. Once built, you'll need to gather the necessary raw materials to produce silicone blocks.
There are many different methods to obtain water in Dune: Awakening, from using a dew reaper on primroses to purifying blood. Regardless of your chosen method, you'll need to store water in either a literjon or cistern before using it in crafting. Remember that the bar at the bottom left of your HUD represents your hydration level, not the actual amount of water you've stored.
Next, you'll need to discover how to acquire flour sand in Dune: Awakening, which requires access to at least the second region. In this area, you'll use a static compactor on patches of unique white sand, causing it to clump into flour sand piles. Read our guide on gathering flour sand here.
Bring these raw materials to your chemical refinery, where you can process them into silicone blocks.
A basic Small Chemical Refinery. (Image credit: Funcom)
As with other refiners, crafting materials takes some time, so planning ahead and producing items in bulk is a smart strategy to save yourself effort later.
Silicone blocks are integral to numerous crafting recipes once you advance to iron and steel products within your research tree. Equipment like the dew reaper, improved blood purifier, windtraps, and cisterns—all fantastic methods for gathering water—require significant amounts of silicone blocks to craft.
