Aluminum is an important resource inDune: Awakeningas you’ll need a lot of it to get your Ornithopter crafted and assembled. It’s also used to upgrade to Aluminum gear and weapons.

We recommend building a buggy and attaching a mining laser Mark 4 to begin mining aluminum in some specific locations - we’ve got one of our favorite farming routes below. It’s a perfect loop and can be run repeatedly to maximize your farming of the material. The route provides a full inventory of the standard Buggy storage, around 2,000 aluminum per run.

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Best Aluminum Farming Locations

Aluminum is first found in theEastern Shield Wall zone, which is north of the Mysa Trail and the Jabal Eifit Al-Gharb.

You’ll need at least aMark 3 Cutterayto mine aluminum. This needs to be researched and crafted with Steel, EMF Generators, Cobalt Paste, and Ray Amplifiers.

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Here’s our preferred farming route, best tackled with a Buggy and a Mining Ray.

We start at the Ironwatch Point of Interest. Then we head directly north.

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Then follow the path up and around the cliffs, as shown in the maps below.

This area ispackedwith aluminum. You can follow the contours of the cliffs and scour them for aluminum nodes. There are also lots of Basalt nodes here, which can be useful for building your base.

Dune_ Awakening Aluminum Farming Route

you may cover the entire area in around 15 minutes with a Buggy, then drive directly off the Eastern wall back down into the desert and repeat the trip when the aluminum spawns again.