How to Find Buried Treasure in Dune Awakening

One of the side quests in Dune: Awakening tasks players with finding Buried Treasure in the sand. However, due to a lack of tutorials and in-game hints, there is no way for players to know what they would need to do to locate this Buried Treasure, resulting in some confusion when trying to complete the quest. Luckily, the process is fairly simple once you know what to do. Here’s the breakdown.

How to Find Buried Treasure in Dune: Awakening

Buried Treasure can be found by scanning the open desert in Dune: Awakening. Scanning can be done either by the Handheld Resource Scanner or via Vehicle-mounted Scanners.

To scan with the Handheld Resource Scanner, equip the device and press the activation key, which will emit a blue pulse. If the pulse pings on a Buried Treasure, you’ll see a yellow-bordered diamond icon with a chest on the screen. Approach the icon and use a Static Compactor to dig up the Buried Treasure.

For Vehicle Scanners, press the Scanner hotkey displayed at the bottom of the screen. This icon only appears if you have a Scanner module installed on your Sandbike or Scout Ornithopter. Once you get a ping, exit the vehicle and use the Static Compactor to get to the Buried Treasure.

Static Compactor unlocks after the Third trial of Aql.

What are Opafire Gems for?

In addition to some random resources, Buried Treasures also contain Opafire Gems. Opafire Gems are used to fulfill Great House requests in Landsraad. In the Landsraad menu, players will be able to see what items are requested by which houses. Often, delivering Opafire Gems will be one of the requests.

How to Get Handheld and Vehicle Scanners in Dune: Awakening

Scanners are unlocked by researching the relevant components using Intel. If you picked “Locked Research” at the start of the game, you will have to unlock Scanner research by first completing the main game objectives.

Handheld Resource Scanner

The Handheld Scanner can be acquired by researching it under “Iron Products” in the “Exploration” category.

Device	Crafting Components
Handheld Resource Scanner	Iron Ingot: 9 EMF Generator: 6

Vehicle Scanners

There are only two Vehicle Scanners available in the base version of Dune: Awakening; both are unlockable via Research. They are:

Device	Crafting Components	Vehicle
Sandbike Scanner Mk2	Iron Ingot: 20 Advanced Servoks: 11	Any Sandbike
Scout Ornithopter Scan Module	Water: 507 Aluminum Ingot: 55 Particle Capacitor: 31 Cobalt Paste: 27 Complex Machinery: 23	Any Scout Ornithopter

The benefit of Vehicle Scanners vs the Handheld Scanner is the range and safety. With a Handheld Scanner, you have to be standing in the middle of the desert, at risk of getting eaten by the Sandworm. But with the Vehicle Scanners, the risk is vastly reduced, and since you move quickly, you’ll cover more ground.

The Buggy, Assault Ornithopter, Carrier Ornithopter, and Sandcrawler cannot be equipped with a scanner module.

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