New Dune Awakening patch notes target resource dupe glitch and repair exploit

New Dune Awakening patch notes are here, and developer Funcom is taking aim at several of the most serious problems that its multiplayer survival game is facing. Among the changes landing on Arrakis are fixes for a Dune Awakening dupe glitch and an exploit allowing full item repairs. The update also shuts down some unintended ways to increase your damage in combat, makes vehicles easier to use, keeps sandworms around a little longer, and tones down the frequency of enemy attacks on Hagga Basin bases.

The Dune Awakening patch notes for update 1.1.10.0 aren't quite as dramatic as the full-scale rework for the Deep Desert that rolled out last week, but they might be just as important. Resource scarcity is a fundamental part of Dune Awakening's core experience, much as it is in both the Frank Herbert universe at large and most of the entries you'll find on our best survival games list. As such, the ability to create effectively unlimited materials through a duplication glitch is a potentially devastating problem for such a game's long-term health.

Fortunately, Funcom confirms that it has fixed a resource duplication exploit in the new Dune Awakening update. While it doesn't offer more specific details on the method in question, it's likely to address the most common such glitches in circulation, and shows a developer intent to crack down on such tricks. The patch also fixes an exploit that allowed players to repair all items to full durability, and closes several vulnerabilities that could lead to increased combat damage.

Elsewhere, the patch reduces the frequency of Harkonnen attacks on certain Atreides bases, and vice versa, across Hagga Basin. Vehicle interaction has been improved to make them easier to enter from all angles, and an edge case that allowed them to pass through Pentashields without authorization has been removed. Sandworms will now linger for a while around any spice fields that have recently been harvested from, and you'll find three more unique weapon schematics in Asmara Efendi's shop.

There are some more welcome quality-of-life improvements here too. If you die to a Coriolis Storm while offline, you'll be moved to Hagga Basin, and trading post checkpoints can now be used as a respawn location while in different maps. When in The Exchange, you can now list items from or claim them to your Ornithopter's inventory. Loot containers that drop when you pick up NPC corpses will be invisible if they're empty for that player. Choose to use 'streamer mode,' and your sector name in the Deep Desert will now be hidden to mitigate potential stream sniping.

Dune Awakening patch 1.1.10.0 is live now. You can read through the full patch notes courtesy of Funcom for additional tweaks, bug fixes, and improvements. Be sure to keep an eye on our Dune Awakening server status tracker to stay notified of future maintenance times.

You'll also want to study our guide to Dune Awakening sietches, worlds, and the visiting system to maximize your time on Arrakis, along with our explainer on how to get the most out of Dune Awakening base building.

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