Dune Awakening: Circuit system for Storage and Workstations, and why you should use it

As your base in Dune Awakening grows, the need for a Circuit system will become more apparent across your storage and workstations. This isn’t something the game explains to you in any concise way that we found, but nonetheless, it’s incredibly important. Circuit systems allow you to specify which workstations pull from where, allowing you to manage your resources in a much easier way.

This is so much better than dragging all of your resources out of a container, putting it in your inventory, and then beginning to craft. Circuit systems might sound and feel a bit confusing at first in Dune Awakening, but it is a complete game-changer.

How to set up a Circuit system in your base in Dune Awakening and what it is used for

The Circuit system in Dune Awakening allows you to determine where your refineries/crafting stations draw resources, and where they dump out excess crafted materials. This, of course, means you need to have multiple containers in your base to make the most of this. There’s no point to it if you just have one container.

The left menu is where you draw resources from, and the right one is where excess crafted materials will go once the refinery is out of storage space (Image via Funcom)

Let’s look at a mineral refinery, and a container, to set up a Circuit System in Dune Awakening. If you click the Storage portion of your Refinery, once you have multiple containers, you’ll see two drop-down boxes on the right side, both likely reading “Circuit 1.” The drop-down tab on the left is your Input, and the one on the right is your Output.

That means the tab on the left is whichever container has the specific resources you’re using for this machine. You also have to go to these containers and give them specific Circuit tabs as well.

What you need to do is determine which container you want to store your specific minerals (raw ore, vehicle parts, et cetera), and go to it. At the top of the screen for that container, click the right-side drop-down menu, and change it to, say, for example, Circuit 4. Here’s an example to help it make sense:

Go to mineral refinery, change left-side tab under storage to “Circuit 2.”
Change its left-side tab to "Circuit 3", meaning the finished product, if there's excess, will go to the container labled Circuit 3.
Pick a container in your base, and change its right-side tab to “Circuit 2.”
Pick a container in your base, and change its left-side tab to "Circuit 3."
This makes your ore refinery only use resources found in that specific container, and also dumps excess product into a separate container.

If you go to your ore refinery and change the right-side tab to a specific circuit, any overflow will automatically go to that container. If, for example, you make your Fabricator’s right-side tab a specific Circuit, like Circuit 2, any overflow will automatically go there, instead of going anywhere else.

The left side of this screenshot is where excess crafted materials would come from, and the right is which machine is receiving materials (Image via Funcom)

This allows you to craft items, and make them automatically drop in a specific container, making them easy to find. The downside is that your fabricator (or any other crafting machine) would have to have completely full storage before it sends future materials where you want them.

A simple solution is to just throw useless items, ammo, into your crafting machine’s storage. Once full, any excess, i.e., the things you want to send to specific containers, will automatically be sent there. This is what makes a Circuit System so amazing in Dune Awakening. You can easily set up your containers to store specific types of materials, and have crafted goods sent exactly where you want them; except your backpack, unfortunately.

I know it sounds kind of complicated, with all this talk of “Circuits,” but once you’ve labled all your containers with specific Circuits, and determined where you want your machines to draw from, organizing your base will become a piece of cake. You can change this anytime you want, too. If you decide you want Buggy or Sandbike vehicle parts to go somewhere else, just change the output (right side) on your Vehicle Fabricator.

Another use for the circuit system in Dune Awakening is when you're offloading materials from your vehicle storage. You can go to your vehicle storage and change one of the Circuits to drop your materials directly into that container, without having to drag it from vehicle to backpack, and then backpack to container.

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