Dune Awakening: How to get Fuel Cells

Fuel Cells are one of the resources you'll need to get early in Dune Awakening - and it remains relevant throughout the game. This is because Fuel Cells are the only way to power up your base through a generator. Without these, none of your facilities and fabricators will be usable - nor will your base get protection from sandstorms.

In this guide, we'll go over the most efficient sources of Fuel Cells in Dune Awakening.

How to farm Fuel Cells in Dune Awakening

Loose Fuel Cells will often be scattered in the sands of Dune Awakening as tablet-shaped black pickables. Picking these up will add one or two Fuel Cells, but you'll want to locate a Fuel Cell box that you can mine with your Cutteray for a bigger yield.

Do note that Fuel Cells weigh a lot. You shouldn't need more than 50 to get a few hours of gameplay out of your first base before you move on from Hagga Basin South. However, you do need more Fuel Cells to make fuel canisters for your vehicles in Dune Awakening.

As we mentioned earlier, Fuel Cells become an even more prominent resource you should manage as you move to later stages of progression. This is because you'll need multiple Fuel Generators to run the more upgraded version of different facilities - they have much higher power demands.

Exploring camps, caves, and wrecks is a fantastic way to farm Fuel Cell in this MMO (Image via Funcom)

Thankfully, there's a much easier source of Fuel Cells without having to spelunk through treacherous sands. A lot of enemy outposts, as well as all Imperial Testing Stations (blue resource dungeons) will have their own Power Generators. These can be interacted with, same as any container, and always have 50-100 Fuel Cells free for the taking.

If you set up your base near such an outpost or base, you can hit it up every twenty minutes, as the resources refresh. The enemies respawn, too, so it also doubles as a water farm through blood extraction at that point.

As your generator numbers grow, your Sub-fief Console will also need more Fuel Cells over time to keep up weather-resistance shields on your base. So if you're planning to leave the game for a while, make sure you have enough Fuel Cells to cover your needs. You'll also want to distribute them evenly across generators. If one generator runs out, your entire base will power down even if the other ones still have fuel.

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