As you progress through the early stages of Dune Awakening, the need to recycle old gear and weapons becomes a key concern. Thankfully, you can eventually.
Recycling old gear in Dune Awakening is useful if your inventory is full or you're upgrading to better equipment. Instead of dumping it, you can break it down for materials and invest that back into future items. This is a fairly simple process, with just the need to find the machine to craft and place it in your base. Make sure you have power, and away you go.
Below we'll go over how the recycler works, along with some tips and best practices.
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How to Recycle
To recycle, you simply need to construct a Recycler inside your base. Make sure it has power, and you’re good to go. To create a Recycler, you need to explore the schematic found in Placeables under Copper Products.
To place it, ensure you have a Construction Tool equipped and the required components in your inventory or base storage:
30x Copper Ingot
To recycle something:
- Interact with the Recycler Station
- Select the gear or weapon from your inventory
- Confirm that you want to dismantle the item
- Retrieve the dismantled parts from the recycler inventory on the right side
That’s it. You’ll get basic materials back, with more given for higher-tier items. This is great when an item is of no use or is broken.
One key item you can get from the Recycler is Plasteel Microflora Fiber, you’ll get these when you recycle weapons. You’ll also get other materials as well, but Plasteel is a key early item, given how hard it is to farm.
Dune Awakening Recycling Tips and Tricks
An example of what you might get if you recycle a weapon or armour item.
Recycle Higher-Tier Items for Rare Mats
Higher-tier items, especially once you start to use steel and aluminium, will offer much larger returns when recycled. Keep that in mind when looking to deal with old stuff.
Broken Gear Still Recycles Well
Even if the gear is at 0% durability, you’ll still get most of the materials back. Don’t waste time repairing heavily damaged gear, especially if the red line is near 50% of the durability anyway.
Modded Gear Returns Extra Components
If a weapon or piece of armour has mods, you’ll sometimes get the mods back or their base materials. It’s not guaranteed, but the odds are better with higher-quality mods.
Bulk Recycle to Save Time
A good idea is to recycle in bulk. The Recycler works instantly, so there’s no need to “queue,” but doing it at once makes things easier when it comes to collecting the recycled goods from the machine.
Keep One Low-Tier Weapon to Test Mats
Craft a cheap weapon just to see what it breaks down into. Helps if you're trying to figure out how to farm a certain material through crafting. How we did it was to place a box next to the Recycler with a few items in as test items.
You can only recycle from your Inventory
If you want to recycle anything, it has to be in your inventory. We suspect this is to avoid you recycling anything important by mistake. As you can only recycle certain items, it’s likely just a way to save resources for the game.
Not Everything Can Be Recycled
Lastly, some quest items, unique gear, or event loot can’t be dismantled. If you don’t see the option to recycle, it’s probably locked for story or balance reasons.
