Dune Awakening: How to climb terrain

Throughout your Dune Awakening adventures, you’re going to spend time climbing terrain, whether it’s cliffs, walls, or just huge rocky outcroppings. Thankfully, there are plenty of ways to make this a much easier experience overall. This is a good thing, because your starter base in Dune Awakening is almost certainly going to be in a high, rocky place that isn’t easy to get to. You certainly want to avoid falling due to lack of Stamina, too.

While you can heal yourself in Dune Awakening, fall damage can be fatal, so if you’re going to climb the terrain, you want to do it safely. We have some advice, tips, and potential tools to help your climbing adventures, for when you’re ready to head to Arrakis.

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How to climb in Dune Awakening (and how to make it easier)

While in the tutorial of Dune Awakening, you learn that you can begin climbing by holding W+Spacebar. Then you use whichever directions you’re trying to go. On a controller, just hold forward+jump button and you’ll begin climbing. Honestly, climbing felt way better on a controller for me, than keyboard/mouse did.

Climbing is easy; it's the stamina management that can get rough (Image via Funcom)

There’s more to climbing terrain in Dune Awakening than simply “going up”. Climbing depletes your Stamina at a pretty solid rate, so you need to have an idea of where you’re going before you start. If you’re Hydrated, you do gain +25% Stamina, so that makes climbing much easier. So make sure you’re not thirsty before you go up.

If you need to climb faster, you can spam the jump button to “scurry” up the area, getting to your goal just a bit faster. I also recommend, in the early hours especially, to look for rocky areas that have more rugged faces. Look for places you can stop and stand, so you can restore your Stamina if necessary.

There are even basic skills that can help you climb! (Image via Funcom)

There are a few other ways to make climbing easier, too. If you go through the Trooper skill tree, you can get Shigawire Claws to rapidly scale walls. You also have a skill in the Planetologist tree (Suspensor Pad) to make huge jumps, to skip large sections of climbing. It’s very much worth it to have both of these, regardless of what type of character you’re playing.

In addition, you want to go out of your way to get a Suspender Belt since it lets you negate fall damage, as long as you have power. It also lets you sort of glide, to use momentum to jump and climb faster, so it’s an important tool. If you want to prevent fall damage and get down from places faster before then, there’s a bit of tricky maneuvering you can do.

As you’re falling, if you’re close enough to the wall, you can grab back on mid-fall, the same way you began climbing in the first place. It takes some practice, but it can really save you time (and healkits) in the early hours of your climbing terrain in Dune Awakening.

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