Dune Awakening: How to repair vehicles

Your vehicles in Dune Awakening can get damaged in various ways. You could get caught in a sudden sandstorm, as they come at quite short notice, or your sandbike could take damage from stray enemy grenades. Even if you keep it safe and sound, the treads and tires are worn out naturally just after traveling for a while.

Thankfully, there's no need to chuck the vehicle part to make a new one — you can repair your vehicles in Dune Awakening. However, there are some limitations on how many times you can do this.

How to repair your vehicle in Dune Awakening

Yellow or Orange means it's time to repair (Image via Funcom)

To repair your vehicle in Dune Awakening, you use the same tool that's used to assemble the vehicle parts: a Welding Torch. Simply equip the Welding Torch, and then right-click to change the function (shown in the bottom-right corner) to Repair.

For this to work, you need to craft some Welding Wires first, which are used as a resource to repair the vehicles. Welding Wires require Metal Salvage and can be crafted by hand quite cheaply. In other words, if you are stranded far from your base, you can just look around in the vicinity to pick up some Metal Salvage and repair your vehicle.

Afterward, you can target specific parts of the vehicle, including its core chassis, hull, treads, and/or any non-essential attachments, to repair them.

Once you have Welding Wires on you and target a vehicle part, a circle will pop up on the highlighted part to display its health. A yellow circle means you can hold down the Welding Torch (left-click) to repair it. A green circle means it cannot be repaired any further, and if you have a red part on the circle, that means the maximum durability has decreased.

If you pick up a random Sandbike PSU from an Imperial Station chest, for example, this will have a limited amount of maximum durability from the get-go.

On the other hand, crafted parts will always have tip-top shape. However, once you start repairing them, they will take a slight hit to their max durability. This system functions exactly like repairing items and equipment in Dune Awakening; eventual durability loss is inevitable.

It's a big difference at the second level (Image via Funcom)

However, at least with the ground vehicles, the only part that steadily gets damaged with usage are the tires. The rest of the parts can go without needing repairs for much longer than you switch to higher-tier vehicles.

Note that on the Planteologist Skill tree, the very first Mechanic passive lets you reduce this max durability loss by 15/25/35%.

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