Dune: Awakening Achievement Guide: Complete 100% 

Dune: Awakening drops you onto Arrakis as a Bene Gesserit agent, and its 72 achievements span the full spread of a survival MMO: story trials, faction reputation, base building, vehicle crafting, and a long list of grinds against specific enemy types. Several achievements also hide their real trigger behind a vague Steam description, so this guide spells out exactly what each one wants, sourced from players who’ve already unlocked the full list.

Quick Stats

• Total Achievements: 72
• Estimated Completion Time: 100+ hours
• Difficulty: 6/10
• Online Required: Yes (persistent online survival RPG)
• Missable Achievements: None permanently, but several depend on faction choice and story progress

Achievement List by Category

Story & Trials

• Welcome to Arrakis
• Echoes of the Past
• The Assassin’s Handbook
• In Their Footsteps
• Lisan al-Gaib
• Past, Present, and Future
• Eye-Opening

Contracts & Quests

• Job’s Done!
• Scrap Mogul
• Kirab Instigator
• Infiltrate and Neutralize
• Silver or Steel?
• Survivor’s Guilt
• The Scorpion’s Sting
• Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence
• Culling the Fanatics
• Imperial Testing Station Investigator

Exploration

• Among the Hawks
• Among the Griffins
• Harko Village
• Arrakeen
• Sea of Sand
• Desert’s Grasp
• On Top of the World
• Dentist
• Explorer
• Merchant

Vehicles & Machinery

• Across the Sands
• Above the Sands
• Vehicle Master
• Basic Machinery
• Advanced Machinery
• Ultimate Machinery
• Weapons Manufacturer

Base Building & Crafting

• Stake Your Claim
• Bannerman
• Feels Like Home
• Reuse
• Eco-Friendly
• Deathstiller
• Miner

Social & Faction

• Strength In Numbers
• Hawks and Griffins
• Trader
• House Operator

Survival & Roleplay

• Staring Contest
• Those Who Control the Spice…
• Thirst Quenched
• Time to Relax
• Pressures of Thirst
• Water Shippers Hate Him
• Vampire
• The Divided Messiah

Skill Trees

• Silent Assassin
• Fear is the Mindkiller
• Blast Off
• Spin to Win
• Planetologist
• Trooper
• Mentat
• Swordmaster
• Bene Gesserit

Combat

• Boss Rusher
• Second Chance
• Own Medicine
• Scrappy
• Kirab Killer
• Slaver Slayer
• Desertion Equals Death
• Strike Breaker
• Heretic Hunter
• Master Assassin

Achievements by Category 

Story & Trials

Welcome to Arrakis

Unlock Rate: 86.9% (Common)

Requirement: Complete the introduction

How to Unlock: Play through the game’s opening introduction sequence to its end.

Tips: This is unmissable and unlocks within the first hour of starting a new character.

Echoes of the Past

Unlock Rate: 39.0% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Complete the first part of the story

How to Unlock: Complete the “A New Beginning” chapter, which involves entering an ancient cave, interacting with an altar, gathering Fremen components, crafting a stillsuit, and finishing the First Trial of Aql in Hagga Basin South.

Tips: Follow the story markers closely through this chapter, since it introduces several crafting systems you’ll need again for later achievements like In Their Footsteps.

The Assassin’s Handbook

Unlock Rate: 17.9% (Rare)

Requirement: Complete the second part of the story

How to Unlock: This begins after completing the final Trial of Aql and continues the main Journey questline from there.

Tips: This is a lengthy story chapter, so budget real time for it rather than expecting a quick follow-up to Echoes of the Past.

In Their Footsteps

Unlock Rate: [Not listed on Steam – hidden achievement]

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – craft a Stillsuit, Static Compactor, Thumper, Stilltent, Crysknife, and place a Fremen Deathstill]

How to Unlock: Most of these items unlock by completing the Fremen Trials. The hardest part is the Crysknife, which requires a sandworm tooth. Get eaten by a sandworm while naked, then refuse the offer made by the figure you meet in the spirit realm afterward; this both grants a sandworm tooth and triggers the Lisan al-Gaib achievement at the same time. A Fremen Deathstill requires Steel, found in Jabal Eifrit Al-gharb, Jabal Eifrit Al-janub, and Hagga Rift, and requires completing the “Footsteps of the Fremen” Journey first.

Tips: Since refusing the sandworm’s offer also unlocks Lisan al-Gaib, plan to knock out both achievements in a single attempt at getting eaten.

Lisan al-Gaib

Unlock Rate: 4.3% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – hidden achievement]

How to Unlock: Get eaten by a sandworm while naked, then refuse the offer made by the figure you meet in the spirit realm afterward.

Tips: You must be naked when the sandworm eats you for the sequence to trigger correctly, and refusing (not accepting) the offer is what grants both this achievement and a sandworm tooth needed for In Their Footsteps.

Past, Present, and Future

Unlock Rate: 42.4% (Uncommon)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – hidden achievement]

How to Unlock: Complete the Fourth Trial of Aql, located in The Hollow Hammer in the Eastern Vermillius Gap, to Awaken Prescience.

Tips: This also unlocks the ability to consume spice, tying directly into the Eye-Opening achievement.

Eye-Opening

Unlock Rate: 34.8% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Consume spice

How to Unlock: The ability to consume spice is locked behind the Fourth Trial of Aql in The Hollow Hammer. Once unlocked, consume spice, either raw or as refined Spice Melange from a Spice Refinery (100 sand spice makes 1 Spice Melange).

Tips: If simply eating spice-infused food doesn’t trigger it, refine and consume pure Spice Melange instead.

Contracts & Quests

Job’s Done!

Unlock Rate: 72.8% (Common)

Requirement: Complete any contract

How to Unlock: Visit any mission board, such as the one at Griffin’s Reach Tradepost in Hagga Basin South, and complete any contract found there.

Tips: This unlocks from your very first completed side contract, so no special planning is needed.

Scrap Mogul

Unlock Rate: 48.9% (Uncommon)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – complete the “Scrap Mettle” contract chain]

How to Unlock: Pick up the chain from Sarem Urchok in Hagga Basin South, starting with “Scrap Mettle: Belated Delivery” or “Scrap Mettle: Copper Required” from a scavenger camp or the Griffin’s Reach Trading Post contract board.

Tips: Either starting quest leads into the same chain, so take whichever one you find first.

Kirab Instigator

Unlock Rate: 42.1% (Uncommon)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – complete the “Payback” contract chain]

How to Unlock: Pick up the chain from the mission board at the Anvil tradepost in Eastern Vermillius Gap, starting with “Stealing from Thieves.”

Tips: The Anvil tradepost hosts several contract chains, so check the board carefully for the correct starting quest name.

Infiltrate and Neutralize

Unlock Rate: 26.8% (Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – complete the “Finding Sehmo” contract chain]

How to Unlock: Pick up the chain from the mission board at the Anvil tradepost in Eastern Vermillius Gap, starting with “Missing Sister.”

Tips: This is a separate chain from Kirab Instigator despite starting at the same tradepost, so make sure you grab the right starting quest.

Silver or Steel?

Unlock Rate: 32.3% (Uncommon)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – complete the “Monster Slaying” contract chain]

How to Unlock: Pick up the chain from the mission board at the Anvil tradepost in Eastern Vermillius Gap, starting with “Put Out the Eyes.”

Tips: All three Anvil tradepost chains (this, Kirab Instigator, and Infiltrate and Neutralize) can be worked on during the same visits since they share a location.

Survivor’s Guilt

Unlock Rate: 17.9% (Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – complete the “Absent Colonel” contract chain]

How to Unlock: If aligned with Atreides, pick up “Absent Colonel” from the Helius Gate mission board in Eastern Shield Wall. If aligned with Harkonnen, pick up “Cleanup Detail” from the Harkonnen base at Riftwatch instead; it awards the same achievement despite the different name.

Tips: Harkonnen-aligned players may need to progress further into their faction questline before this contract becomes available.

The Scorpion’s Sting

Unlock Rate: 23.8% (Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – complete the “Counter Insurgency” contract chain]

How to Unlock: Pick up the chain from the mission board at Pinnacle Station tradepost in Jabal Eifrit Al-gharb, starting with “Scout the Enemy.”

Tips: This tradepost is farther from the early game areas, so plan a supply run before starting the chain.

Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence

Unlock Rate: 16.5% (Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – complete the “Payload” or “Counter Agent” contract chain]

How to Unlock: Pick up “Find the Alecto” from the mission board at Helius Gate in Eastern Shield Wall. Harkonnen-aligned players instead start the equivalent chain at Riftwatch in Hagga Rift.

Tips: The faction-specific starting point matters here, so check the correct base for your alignment rather than assuming both chains start in the same place.

Culling the Fanatics

Unlock Rate: 6.7% (Very Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – complete “The Cult,” “Dangerous Dealing,” and “Cutting Edge” contract chains]

How to Unlock: All three contract chains can be found and completed at the Mysa Tarill tradepost mission board.

Tips: Since all three chains share a single tradepost, plan a dedicated visit to Mysa Tarill to work through them together.

Imperial Testing Station Investigator

Unlock Rate: 15.8% (Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – complete a set of Imperial Testing Station related contracts]

How to Unlock: Complete “DO NOT OPEN” (from Asmara Efendi at Griffin’s Reach Tradepost), “Hostile Takeover” and “Execution Order” (both from the Anvil tradepost board), “Lost and Found” (found by visiting Imperial Testing Station No. 29 for the CHOAM Communinet Transceiver and Employee Records), and “Find Olmen” (from the Mysa Tarill tradepost board).

Tips: This achievement spans multiple tradeposts, so track which of the five contracts you’ve completed rather than assuming one visit will cover it.

Exploration

Among the Hawks

Unlock Rate: 45.0% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Visit Helius Gate

How to Unlock: Travel to the Atreides base in the bottom right of Eastern Shield Wall, accessible by climbing the cliff from either side.

Tips: Approaching from the right side and making two left turns up onto the cliff avoids the most enemies along the way.

Among the Griffins

Unlock Rate: 50.2% (Common)

Requirement: Visit Riftwatch

How to Unlock: Travel to the Harkonnen base in the southernmost part of Hagga Rift.

Tips: Approaching from the east side of the Eastern Vermillius Gap tradepost offers the shortest path.

Harko Village

Unlock Rate: 46.1% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Visit Harko Village

How to Unlock: Either pay an ornithopter pilot 2,500 Solaris at any tradepost to fly there, or pilot your own ornithopter to the southern edge of Hagga Basin’s map boundary and enter the travel realm heading south.

Tips: If paying for travel, keep an extra 2,500 Solaris on hand for the return trip.

Arrakeen

Unlock Rate: 49.3% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Visit Arrakeen

How to Unlock: Either pay an ornithopter pilot 2,500 Solaris at any tradepost to fly there, or pilot your own ornithopter to the eastern edge of Hagga Basin’s map boundary and enter the travel realm heading east.

Tips: Use the map menu to track your destination during ornithopter travel so you don’t drift off course.

Sea of Sand

Unlock Rate: 32.9% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Reach the Deep Desert

How to Unlock: Pilot your own ornithopter to the northern edge of Hagga Basin’s map boundary and enter the travel realm heading north; this area can only be reached by ornithopter.

Tips: Track your destination on the map menu, since flying without a heading reference risks drifting off course in the travel realm.

Desert’s Grasp

Unlock Rate: 48.1% (Uncommon)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – reach the top of the Hand of Khidr]

How to Unlock: Found in Jabal Eifrit Al-janub, a climbable passage on the south side of the mountain leads to the top. This entrance unlocks during the story once you reach the part involving assassinating the Glutton, though climbing or flying to find an outer ledge path can bypass this requirement.

Tips: If the ground passage is still locked for you, try approaching from an outer ledge by ornithopter instead of waiting on story progress.

On Top of the World

Unlock Rate: 42.6% (Uncommon)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – reach the top of Mirzabah]

How to Unlock: Found in Eastern Vermillius Gap, a climbable passage leads to the top without needing an ornithopter.

Tips: No story gating here, so this can be attempted as soon as you can reach Eastern Vermillius Gap.

Dentist

Unlock Rate: 27.2% (Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – reach the mouth of the Stone Sentinel]

How to Unlock: Found in Eastern Shield Wall, a passage behind the lion-shaped landmark’s face, on its back, leads to the top. This location is too high to reach by ornithopter and must be climbed.

Tips: Look specifically for the passage on the formation’s back rather than trying to fly directly to the mouth.

Explorer

Unlock Rate: 23.8% (Rare)

Requirement: Survey all regions in Hagga Basin

How to Unlock: Craft a Survey Probe Launcher and Survey Probe ammo at a Fabricator or Survival Fabricator, then fire a probe at sufficient elevation in each of the 12 regions: Hagga Basin South, Eastern Vermillius Gap, Western Vermillius Gap, Jabal Eifrit Al-gharb, Jabal Eifrit Al-janub, Jabal Eifrit Al-sharq, Hagga Rift, Eastern Shield Wall, Western Shield Wall, The O’Odham, Mysa Tarill, and Sheol.

Tips: Track which regions you’ve already surveyed, since it’s easy to lose count across 12 separate locations.

Merchant

Unlock Rate: 38.0% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Visit all tradeposts in Hagga Basin

How to Unlock: Visit all four tradeposts: Hagga Basin South, Eastern Vermillius Gap, Jabal Eifrit Al-gharb, and Mysa Tarill.

Tips: If this doesn’t trigger after visiting all four, double check you haven’t missed one, since players have reported it not registering until every tradepost is confirmed visited.

Vehicles & Machinery

Across the Sands

Unlock Rate: 67.7% (Common)

Requirement: Construct a Sandbike

How to Unlock: Craft a Sandbike Mk1, requiring a Chassis, Hull, Engine, PSU, and three Sandbike Treads (43 Copper Ingots and 19 Advanced Servoks total).

Tips: This is an early-game craft that most players complete naturally within their first few hours.

Above the Sands

Unlock Rate: 40.6% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Construct a Scout Ornithopter

How to Unlock: Craft a Scout Ornithopter Mk4, requiring a Chassis, Cockpit, Hull, Engine, Generator, and four Wings (241 Aluminum Ingots, 82 Cobalt Paste, 46 Advanced Servoks, 22 Particle Capacitor, 22 Armor Plating, 8 Complex Machinery, 8 Industrial Pump, 14 Diamondine Dust, and 7 Carbide Scraps).

Tips: This is a mid-game craft requiring an established base and refined materials, so don’t expect to unlock it in your first session.

Vehicle Master

Unlock Rate: 4.9% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Construct all vehicles

How to Unlock: Craft one of every vehicle type (Sandbike, Buggy, Scout Ornithopter, Assault Ornithopter, Sandcrawler, and Carrier Ornithopter) at any Mark tier. You are not required to craft the parts yourself; obtaining or borrowing finished parts from another player or guild member and assembling them still counts.

Tips: Coordinate with a guild if possible, since one player reported unlocking this by only assembling parts gifted by guildmates for the rarer vehicle types like the Carrier Ornithopter and Sandcrawler.

Basic Machinery

Unlock Rate: 59.1% (Common)

Requirement: Place a Fabricator, a Small Ore Refinery, a Fuel Powered Generator, a Blood Purifier, and a Small Chemical Refinery

How to Unlock: Build and place all five listed structures in your base (roughly 280 Salvaged Metal and 45 Copper Ingots total).

Tips: These are early-game structures most players place naturally while setting up their first base.

Advanced Machinery

Unlock Rate: 13.7% (Very Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – place a set of mid-tier base structures]

How to Unlock: Build and place a Weapons Fabricator, Survival Fabricator, Vehicle Fabricator, Garment Fabricator, Medium Ore Refinery, Wind Turbine, Wind Trap, Improved Blood Purifier, Spice Refinery, and Fremen Deathstill.

Tips: If the achievement doesn’t trigger after placing an Omnidirectional Wind Turbine, try building a Directional Wind Turbine instead, since some players have found that variant is the one actually required.

Ultimate Machinery

Unlock Rate: 2.3% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – place a full set of top-tier base structures]

How to Unlock: Build and place an Advanced Weapons Fabricator, Advanced Survival Fabricator, Advanced Vehicle Fabricator, Advanced Garment Fabricator, Large Ore Refinery, Large Wind Turbine (a Large Windtrap may satisfy this), Spice Powered Generator, Advanced Fremen Deathstill, and Large Spice Refinery.

Tips: This requires a massive resource investment (well over 2,000 units of several materials), so treat it as an end-game base upgrade project rather than something to rush.

Weapons Manufacturer

Unlock Rate: 2.3% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Craft a Lasgun

How to Unlock: Obtain the Black Market K-28 Lasgun unique schematic from an Imperial Testing Station in the Deep Desert, then craft it at an Advanced Weapons Fabricator.

Tips: The schematic is a random drop from Deep Desert testing stations, so expect to visit several before finding it.

Base Building & Crafting

Stake Your Claim

Unlock Rate: 79.0% (Common)

Requirement: Place a Sub-Fief Console

How to Unlock: Build and place a Sub-Fief Console to establish your base claim.

Tips: This is one of the very first structures most players place when starting their base.

Bannerman

Unlock Rate: 7.6% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Place a Banner in your base

How to Unlock: Atreides-aligned players get their banner from the Atreides Dining Room Furniture set, purchased from the Atreides Quartermaster in Arrakeen. Harkonnen-aligned players get theirs from the Harkonnen Dining Room Furniture set, purchased from the Harkonnen Acquisitor in Harko Village. Both are built from the Wall Deco tab with a construction tool.

Tips: You’ll need to travel to your faction’s respective city to purchase the furniture set before you can place the banner.

Feels Like Home

Unlock Rate: 7.6% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Decorate your base with at least 20 pieces of furniture, 5 carpets, 10 lights, and 5 ornaments

How to Unlock: Build and place all the listed decoration counts in your base. Missing decoration types can be purchased at a tradepost or in Harko Village/Arrakeen.

Tips: If you’re short on any category, a quick trip to Harko Village or Arrakeen for a decoration set purchase covers the gap.

Reuse

Unlock Rate: 20.4% (Rare)

Requirement: Repair 100 items

How to Unlock: Build and place a repair station, then repair items 100 times. Repairing the same item multiple times counts toward the total.

Tips: Equip a personal light and turn it on before repairing, since the light stays on and lets you repeatedly click repair roughly once per second, speeding up the grind considerably.

Eco-Friendly

Unlock Rate: 31.0% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Recycle 100 items

How to Unlock: Build and place a recycle station, then recycle 100 items. Items found in the world count, not just ones you’ve crafted.

Tips: Be careful not to accidentally recycle equipment you’re currently using while working through this grind.

Deathstiller

Unlock Rate: 11.6% (Very Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – use a Fremen Deathstill to deposit 100 corpses]

How to Unlock: Place a Fremen Deathstill and manually deposit corpses into it, one at a time, until you reach 100.

Tips: Build multiple Deathstills and keep a storage container full of corpses nearby to streamline the process, since depositing isn’t automatic.

Miner

Unlock Rate: 0.2% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Mine 10,000 units of all resource types with a handheld mining tool

How to Unlock: Using only a handheld mining tool (cutteray), not a vehicle-mounted one, mine 10,000 units each of Granite Stone, Fuel Cells, Scrap Metal, Copper Ore, Iron Ore, Carbon Ore, Basalt Stone, Erythrite Crystal, Aluminum Ore, Jasmium Crystal, Stravidium Mass, and Titanium Ore.

Tips: The last two resource types are only found in the Deep Desert, so this achievement requires travel there in addition to the raw mining time.

Social & Faction

Strength In Numbers

Unlock Rate: 44.1% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Join or create a Guild

How to Unlock: Either join an existing guild or pay Solaris to create your own.

Tips: Which guilds you can join depends on which faction you’ve sided with, so decide your faction alignment before guild-hunting.

Hawks and Griffins

Unlock Rate: 40.8% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Join a faction

How to Unlock: Accept and follow the faction questline from either the Harkonnen or Atreides recruiter found at the Anvil tradepost in Eastern Vermillius Gap.

Tips: This choice affects contract chains and base locations for several other achievements, so consider which faction’s territory you want easier access to.

Trader

Unlock Rate: 34.3% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Trade with another player

How to Unlock: Successfully complete a player-to-player trade of any item or amount of Solaris using the in-game trade interface.

Tips: Harko Village or Arrakeen are good spots to find a willing trade partner; posting in global chat that you need a quick trade for an achievement usually finds someone fast.

House Operator

Unlock Rate: 21.3% (Rare)

Requirement: Reach rank 5 with any faction

How to Unlock: Stick with a single faction and complete their full questline to build reputation up to rank 5.

Tips: There’s no shortcut here beyond consistent questline progress with one faction.

Survival & Roleplay

Staring Contest

Unlock Rate: 22.8% (Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – escape a sandworm’s grasp and have it stare at you]

How to Unlock: Stand in open sand within running distance of solid ground, disturb a sandworm so it chases you (visible as it glides toward you with an open mouth), then reach safe land at the last possible moment. This causes it to rear up and stare before returning to the sand.

Tips: Practice the timing on a shorter approach first, since misjudging the distance to safe land results in getting eaten instead of the intended stare-down.

Those Who Control the Spice…

Unlock Rate: 17.9% (Rare)

Requirement: Gather 2000 Spice Sand from compacted spice mounds

How to Unlock: Use a Static Compactor, unlocked after finishing the Second Trial of Aql in The Deep Struggle location in Eastern Vermillius Gap, to harvest spice sand from compacted mounds until you reach 2,000 total.

Tips: Higher-tier compactors (Mk5, Mk6, and beyond) harvest significantly more per mound, so upgrading your compactor before grinding saves considerable time.

Eye-Opening

(See Story & Trials section above.)

Thirst Quenched

Unlock Rate: 3.1% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – take 1000 sips of water from a container]

How to Unlock: Equip a water container in your quickslot and drink from it 1,000 times. Filling the container and drinking from it counts; drinking directly from a water source does not.

Tips: This is a long, deliberate grind with no real shortcut beyond repeatedly refilling and drinking from a container over time.

Time to Relax

Unlock Rate: 42.2% (Uncommon)

Requirement: Sit in a chair

How to Unlock: Build a chair at your base and sit in it, or use any chair found at a tradepost or settlement.

Tips: This takes seconds and can be done the moment you find any usable chair, no crafting required if you’re near a tradepost.

Pressures of Thirst

Unlock Rate: 28.4% (Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – buy a cup of water]

How to Unlock: Purchase a cup of water from any tradepost merchant, or from a water merchant or bartender in Harko Village or Arrakeen.

Tips: This is a cheap, quick achievement available from your very first tradepost visit.

Water Shippers Hate Him

Unlock Rate: 27.1% (Rare)

Requirement: Dew reap 50,000 ml of water

How to Unlock: Craft a Dew Reaper at a Survival Fabricator, then harvest water from dew fields using it until you reach 50,000 ml total.

Tips: Dew fields are most productive at night, so plan your harvesting sessions accordingly for faster progress.

Vampire

Unlock Rate: 58.1% (Common)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – exsanguinate 50,000 ml of blood]

How to Unlock: Continuously harvest blood from slain enemies using a blood extractor until you reach 50,000 ml total. Higher-tier blood extractors draw more per corpse, and higher-tier blood bags let you carry more before needing to empty them.

Tips: Farm at lower-level enemy outposts where kills are quick and frequent, since volume matters more than difficulty here.

The Divided Messiah

Unlock Rate: 0.4% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – cook 100 meals with Muad’Dib]

How to Unlock: Hunt mice (Muad’Dib) in the open desert and cook their corpses into meals at a Survival Fabricator. Each mouse corpse yields 5 meals, so only 20 corpses are actually needed for 100 meals.

Tips: Mice spawn more frequently near spice and also appear at the start area of the Deep Desert, which is a safer farming spot since no sandworm patrols that specific area.

Skill Trees

Silent Assassin

Unlock Rate: 1.5% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Pilot a Hunter Seeker 25 times

How to Unlock: Complete the Mentat skill tree questline to unlock the Hunter Seeker ability, then use it 25 times.

Tips: This requires fully finishing the Mentat class questline first, so treat it as a late-game skill tree completion goal rather than something to rush early.

Fear is the Mindkiller

Unlock Rate: 2.1% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Recite the Litany Against Fear 25 times

How to Unlock: Complete the Bene Gesserit skill tree questline to unlock the Litany Against Fear ability, then use it 25 times.

Tips: Like the other skill-tree achievements, this requires finishing that class’s full questline before the ability becomes available to use repeatedly.

Blast Off

Unlock Rate: 2.6% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Release a Suspensor Blast 25 times

How to Unlock: Complete the Trooper skill tree questline to unlock the Suspensor Blast ability, then use it 25 times.

Tips: Combat encounters are a natural place to rack these up once the ability is unlocked, since it’s usable in regular fights.

Spin to Win

Unlock Rate: 11.0% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Perform Eye of the Storm 25 times

How to Unlock: Complete the Swordmaster skill tree questline to unlock the Eye of the Storm ability, then use it 25 times.

Tips: This ability is combat-focused, so it accumulates naturally once unlocked if you keep using it during regular fights rather than saving it for special occasions.

Planetologist

Unlock Rate: 13.3% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete all Planetologist training

How to Unlock: Begin the questline with the planetologist trainer in Hagga Basin South, then continue with the trainer found at Imperial Testing Station No. 197 in Western Vermillius Gap.

Tips: This is one of the longer skill tree questlines, so start it early if you’re planning to pursue all class trainings.

Trooper

Unlock Rate: 12.2% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete all Trooper training

How to Unlock: Begin the questline with the trooper trainer at the Hagga Basin South tradepost, then continue with the trainer in Arrakeen on the second floor of the center plaza, along the balcony.

Tips: Both trainer locations are straightforward once you know where to look, so this questline is more about travel time than difficulty.

Mentat

Unlock Rate: 11.5% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete all Mentat training

How to Unlock: Begin the questline with the mentat trainer at the Harkonnen base (Riftwatch) in Hagga Rift, then continue with the trainer in Arrakeen, on the first floor of the bar to the right when entering the center plaza.

Tips: This questline is a prerequisite for the Silent Assassin achievement, so pursue it if you’re planning to complete that one too.

Swordmaster

Unlock Rate: 14.2% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete all Swordmaster training

How to Unlock: Begin the questline with the swordmaster trainer at the Jabal Eifrit Al-gharb tradepost, then continue with the trainer in Harko Village, in the bend of the back alley behind the bank.

Tips: This questline also unlocks the Eye of the Storm ability needed for the Spin to Win achievement.

Bene Gesserit

Unlock Rate: 12.6% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Complete all Bene Gesserit training

How to Unlock: Begin the questline with the Bene Gesserit trainer at Helius Gate in Eastern Shield Wall, then continue with the trainer in Harko Village, at the mouth of the alley past the Imperial (House Corrino) building.

Tips: This questline unlocks the Litany Against Fear ability needed for Fear is the Mindkiller, so pursuing both together makes sense.

Combat

Boss Rusher

Unlock Rate: 4.0% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Eliminate 50 boss enemies

How to Unlock: Kill 50 unique enemies (recognizable by giving 80+ XP on death). Good farming spots include a boss on a landing pad in Khidir’s Shadow and a Bene Gesserit-powered melee enemy inside Mysa Tarill (obtained after getting an ID band at the altar).

Tips: Visiting Sietches accessed through Griffin’s Reach Tradepost also leads to additional bosses at Imperial Testing Station No. 2 and No. 76 nearby, which speeds up the farming process considerably.

Second Chance

Unlock Rate: 10.4% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Help yourself or someone else out of downed state 100 times

How to Unlock: Revive yourself or another player from the downed state a cumulative 100 times.

Tips: Playing in a group and reviving teammates counts the same as reviving yourself, so this can be worked on passively during normal group play.

Own Medicine

Unlock Rate: 8.4% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Use a Spitdart Rifle to eliminate 50 marksmen

How to Unlock: Kill 50 marksman enemies using a standard (non-unique) Spitdart Rifle, such as an Adept Spindart Rifle. Unique variants of the weapon, like “Thufir’s Best,” do not count toward this achievement.

Tips: If your kills aren’t registering, double-check you’re not using a unique named weapon variant, since only standard-tier Spitdart Rifles count.

Scrappy

Unlock Rate: 1.8% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Eliminate 500 Scavengers

How to Unlock: Kill 500 Scavenger enemies, most commonly found in Hagga Basin South.

Tips: Focus farming runs in Hagga Basin South specifically, since Scavengers are less common elsewhere on the map.

Kirab Killer

Unlock Rate: 13.6% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Eliminate 500 Kirab

How to Unlock: Kill 500 Kirab enemies, most commonly found in the Eastern and Western Vermillius Gap regions.

Tips: Both Vermillius Gap regions are good farming zones, so alternate between them if one becomes too sparse on spawns.

Slaver Slayer

Unlock Rate: 5.5% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Eliminate 500 Slavers

How to Unlock: Kill 500 Slaver enemies, most commonly found across all Jabal Eifrit regions.

Tips: The three Jabal Eifrit regions (Al-gharb, Al-janub, Al-sharq) all host Slavers, so rotate between them for steady spawns.

Desertion Equals Death

Unlock Rate: 6.1% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Eliminate 500 Deserters

How to Unlock: Kill 500 Deserter enemies, most commonly found in camps underneath the surface across all Hagga Basin regions.

Tips: Look specifically for underground camps rather than surface spawns, since Deserters cluster in subterranean areas.

Strike Breaker

Unlock Rate: 10.5% (Very Rare)

Requirement: Eliminate 500 Sandflies

How to Unlock: Kill 500 Sandfly enemies, most commonly found in the Eastern and Western Shield Wall regions.

Tips: Both Shield Wall regions offer reliable Sandfly spawns, so this pairs well with exploration achievements tied to the same area, like Dentist.

Heretic Hunter

Unlock Rate: 4.1% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: Eliminate 500 Maas Kharet

How to Unlock: Kill 500 Maas Kharet enemies, most commonly found in The O’Odham and Mysa Tarill regions.

Tips: These two regions are farther into the map, so plan supply runs before committing to an extended farming session here.

Master Assassin

Unlock Rate: 1.0% (Ultra Rare)

Requirement: [Not listed on Steam – eliminate 500 House Troops belonging to your rival House]

How to Unlock: Kill 500 troops belonging to whichever House you’re not aligned with (Atreides or Harkonnen), found at specific bases in Hagga Basin, not player characters in the Deep Desert. To kill Atreides troops, visit the Aegis and Passage of Artemis in Western Shield Wall. To kill Harkonnen troops, visit the Edge of Acheron in northern Sheol and the Beast’s Claw in Eastern Mysa Tarill. Additional Atreides troop concentrations exist in the Deep Desert at Imperial Testing Station No. 186, No. 217, and No. 93.

Tips: This only counts NPC House Troops at fixed locations, not enemy players, so don’t waste time hunting rival guild members expecting progress toward this achievement.

5-Phase 100% Completion Roadmap

Phase 1: Story and Trials Play through the introduction and both parts of the main story, completing all four Trials of Aql along the way. This unlocks Welcome to Arrakis, Echoes of the Past, The Assassin’s Handbook, Past Present and Future, and Eye-Opening, and sets up crafting unlocks needed for later achievements.

P2: Base and Vehicle Foundation Establish your base with a Sub-Fief Console, then progressively build up from Basic to Advanced to Ultimate Machinery tiers. Craft your first Sandbike and Scout Ornithopter, and work toward Vehicle Master by coordinating with a guild for rarer vehicle parts.

P3: Faction and Exploration Choose a faction, join or create a guild, and work through House Operator rank progression. Alongside this, survey all 12 regions for Explorer, visit all four tradeposts for Merchant, and visit Arrakeen, Harko Village, Helius Gate, and Riftwatch for their respective exploration achievements.

P4: Skill Trees and Contracts Complete all five class skill tree questlines (Planetologist, Trooper, Mentat, Swordmaster, Bene Gesserit) to unlock their signature abilities, then use each ability 25 times for the tied achievements. Work through the tradepost-specific contract chains for Scrap Mogul, Kirab Instigator, and the rest of the contract-based achievements.

P5: Grinding and Cleanup Dedicate extended sessions to the 500-kill achievements against specific enemy types (Scrappy, Kirab Killer, Slaver Slayer, Desertion Equals Death, Strike Breaker, Heretic Hunter, and Master Assassin), the Miner and Thirst Quenched grinds, and the Lisan al-Gaib and In Their Footsteps sandworm sequence. Finish with base decoration for Feels Like Home and Bannerman.

Conclusion

Dune: Awakening’s achievement list mirrors its genre: a slow buildup from basic survival to deep systems mastery, with several genuinely obscure triggers hidden behind vague Steam descriptions. The sandworm-related achievements (Lisan al-Gaib and In Their Footsteps) are the most commonly misunderstood, since they require deliberately refusing an in-game offer rather than accepting it. Pair up with a guild early for the vehicle and machinery achievements, and treat the 500-kill grinds as background progress during normal faction and contract play rather than dedicated farming sessions.