Does your base decay in Dune: Awakening? Here is how lengthy your base lasts in the event you take an extended break from Arrakis

Survival MMO Dune: Awakening releases subsequent month on Might 20, and Funcom is churning out details about it sooner than a sandworm poops out spice. (Wait, is spice simply sandworm poop? It should be, proper? Gross.)

In a current livestream, members of the Dune: Awakening group answered questions from chat, and curiously a type of questions wasn’t about what occurs while you play Dune: Awakening, however what occurs when you do not play it.

“There shall be timers for bases to decay like in Conan Exiles?” was the (type of) query from a livestream viewer.

In Funcom’s different sandy survival sport, Conan Exiles, the items of your base have a timer that causes them to decay if you have not been round it for some time—on official servers this may be between one to 2 weeks. Wander inside rendering distance of your base, and the timer is reset. In any other case, when the timer runs out, your base is marked as “deserted” and after one other 24 hours, in the event you nonetheless have not returned, it disappears. (Here is a prolonged submit about it.)

On the livestream, Funcom defined a bit in regards to the distinction between how bases in Conan Exiles and Dune: Awakening work.

“Sure, we have now some decay mechanics for the bases,” mentioned Dune: Awakening lead producer Ole Andreas. “So long as your base is powered, it’s shielded. And so long as it is powered and shielded, [it can’t be destroyed].”

However what in the event you take a break from Dune: Awakening for just a few days, or longer?

“You possibly can gas your base up proper now within the beta for weeks, after which come again once more,” Andreas mentioned. Dune: Awakening’s world director Jeff Gagné added: “I feel it is 21 days.”

That offers your unattended base per week or two longer than the timer on Conan Exiles official servers. The opposite distinction is, whereas different gamers in Conan Exiles are a menace to your base, in Dune: Awakening it is one thing else.

“As soon as the defend goes down, the sandstorm will begin tearing at your base,” Andreas mentioned.

“So it isn’t going to be like in Conan,” Gagné mentioned. “However we have now one thing just like be sure that we do away with issues when individuals go away the sport for too lengthy.”

In some methods, it type of stinks that you could lose your base in the event you’re away for some time, although three weeks feels fairly forgiving for prolonged absences. I undoubtedly see the necessity for eventual base decay: numerous open world multiplayer base-building video games run into points the place the panorama winds up completely plagued by half-built and deserted creations. Full server wipes aren’t precisely enjoyable, both, so having the desert ultimately reclaim your deserted base looks like an honest different.

Extra particulars about Dune: Awakening’s bases are deliberate for a separate constructing livestream within the close to future. You possibly can watch the Q&A portion of the Dune: Awakening livestream on YouTube.