Dune Awakening Releases Patch Notes for New June 2025 Update

Dune Awakening has released its newest round of patch notes following the latest in a rapid-fire series of post-launch updates. This new round of adjustments and bug fixes in Dune: Awakening makes multiple changes to some early problems players have been facing, ranging from improving the PvP gameplay experience to improving the stability of the title’s servers.

It has been just over a week since the survival game’s official launch on June 10, but Dune: Awakening had already achieved major player milestones during its five-day early access period, drawing in more than 93,000 concurrent players on Steam after just a few hours of availability. Those early numbers have more than doubled following the game’s full launch, with the current peak of more than 189,000 concurrent players having been reached on June 15.

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While it’s still quite early in the survival game’s lifespan, the development team has been hard at work making adjustments to the game and has just released patch 1.1.0.15. Probably the biggest changes made in the new update concern developers’ response to PvP problems in Dune: Awakening. The first respawn in the Deep Desert, the game’s PvP zone, will now occur after 70 seconds, and all subsequent respawns will take 115 seconds. Prior to the latest patch, many fans had complained about exceptionally short respawn timers, which had been reviving players in as little as 12 seconds. This resulted in unfair advantages for larger teams, who could take advantage of the short respawn timers to recklessly rush opponents with their overwhelming numbers, and creative director Joel Bylos had recently stated that the team was working to address this balancing issue.

Vehicles in Dune: Awakening are also seeing some changes made to them in this latest patch, with one change that should also greatly change the landscape of the PvP scene. Most notably, players will now no longer receive damage when their characters are hit by vehicles. This change will have some players switching up their PvP strategies, as many fans of the game have been complaining about opponents using nigh-invincible Ornithopters to mow down the competition. In addition, players who become stuck in one of the game’s maps while operating a vehicle will need to exit it before the unstuck button even appears, as vehicles cannot currently become unstuck.

As in past patches, the developers at Funcom have once again announced further increases in the game’s server and client stability. This will again affect the Deep Desert, as a bug fix resolves an issue that had been causing players’ games to freeze up when they tried crossing through the region’s border. Additionally, Dune: Awakening players selecting private servers in the game’s server browser will now see a pop-up message notifying them that they are not entering one of the game’s public servers.

Dune: Awakening Version 1.1.0.15 Patch Notes (June 18, 2025)

Changes

Respawn timeout in PvP zones was adjusted. The first respawn will take 70 seconds, second and following respawns will take 115 seconds.
The Dvyetz Ornithopter Engine Mk5 Schematic was removed from loot tables, as it was a deprecated item.
Players no longer receive damage when hit by vehicles.
Since the Unstuck feature doesn’t work for vehicles and when the player is on the Overland Map, the Unstuck button won’t show when the player is on or in a vehicle or on the Overland map.
Service messages like server restart alerts now appear at the upper central part of the screen for better visibility. (used to be in the upper-right corner)
An additional safeguard was added when a player respawns across maps: Players now need to manually type “Respawn” into the confirmation popup field.
When players select the Private servers tab in the Server Browser, they will receive a notification pop-up.
Another set of changes to further improve the game server and client stability.

Fixes

Fixed an issue where the game client could freeze when the player attempted to cross the Deep Desert server border.
Fixed an issue where players who shared their base access with friends could not sometimes abandon their base via a map marker.
Fixed an issue that caused the dart trails from the Maula Pistol to sometimes deviate from the intended direction.
Fixed an issue where the Atreides Leader that the player needed to kill in The Advanced Contract – Mentat – Cataloging Defectors contact respawned immediately.
Fixed an issue that caused a possible crash when restoring a vehicle with the Vehicle Backup Tool.
Fixed an issue that made it possible to move Crysknifes into storage containers by swapping them with other items.
Fixed an issue causing the Landsraad refining time reduction bonus not to apply if multiple instances of the same resource were being refined simultaneously.
Fixed an issue that could cause the player to lose Solaris deposited in the bank.
Fixed an issue where service alert notifications would not show due to being blocked by other notifications.
Fixed an issue where exiting the dialogue with Anton Tolliver too soon after delivering the “Deep Extraction” contract would block the player from progressing the faction storyline.
Fixed an exploit where players could damage other players’ bases with a cutteray.
Fixed an issue where Research Journey steps wouldn’t get completed retroactively if the player was in a vehicle when performing research. Logging out and back into the game was needed to fix the issue.
Fixed an exploit causing people to be able to take out water from a deathstill that did not exist in the base.
Fixed an exploit where players could fire a salvo of projectiles.