Windtrap Camp: What Does It Mean in Dune: Awakening?

A "windtrap camp" in Dune: Awakening is a player term for a base or outpost built around windtraps, the machines that pull moisture out of the air to produce water. There is no special structure or map location called a Windtrap Camp in the game; the windtrap itself is the buildable, and a camp is simply where you set several of them up with storage and power.

How Windtraps Work

A windtrap collects water from the environment over time and can route it into your base's water storage or production, or you can drink from it directly. To run, it needs three things:

• A filter: the standard Windtrap burns a Makeshift Filter in about 3 hours or a Standard Filter in about 8 hours. The Large Windtrap uses Particulate Filters (about 12 hours) or Advanced Particulate Filters (about a day).
• Power: both models draw power from your base generators. The community wiki lists 75 power for the Windtrap and 135 for the Large Windtrap.
• Open air: windtraps must be placed unsheltered, outside a roofed room, and close to your Sub-Fief Console using the Construction Tool.

The Large Windtrap collects water at more than twice the rate of the standard model, according to the community wiki (a gather rate of 1.75 against 0.75), but costs more to build. The standard Windtrap is made from Steel Bars, Silicone Blocks and Calibrated Servoks, while the large one uses Duraluminum Ingots, more Silicone Blocks and Servoks, and four Spice Melange. The standard model holds up to 500 water in its own tank.

Filters and Spice Residue

Filters are the running cost that players forget. The Particulate Filter for Large Windtraps is crafted with Spice Residue at a Survival Fabricator, and the Advanced Particulate Filter needs more Residue plus a Spice Melange at an Advanced Survival Fabricator. That links your water supply to your spice refining: the Residue your refineries produce becomes the filters that keep your large windtraps working.

Why Water Matters

Water is the core survival resource on Arrakis. You drink it, but it is also an ingredient in many crafting recipes and the main running cost of spice refineries. A base that makes plenty of water supports bigger refining and crafting. In Dune lore, windtraps are moisture-harvesting devices closely tied to the Fremen, and in the game a recording in one of the ecological testing stations describes the installation and testing of windtrap units there.

Other Water Sources

• Dew harvesting: works only between dusk and dawn, roughly 18:00 to 06:00 in-game time, with the best yield between about 02:00 and 05:30.
• Water storage: cisterns hold what your windtraps collect so you can use it later.

Tips for Building a Windtrap Camp

1. Build several windtraps rather than one; their output adds up over long play sessions.
2. Stock filters before logging off so your windtraps keep running. A Standard Filter lasts much longer than a Makeshift one, and an Advanced Particulate Filter keeps a Large Windtrap going for about a day.
3. Check power. A windtrap without power or a filter collects nothing.
4. Connect windtraps to cisterns so collected water is not capped by the windtrap's own small tank.
5. Keep everything inside your sub-fief. Pieces outside it are unshielded and take sandstorm damage.
6. Upgrade to Large Windtraps once you can afford the Melange cost; they produce more water per building.

Patch notes and news are on the official Dune: Awakening site.

FAQ

Is a Windtrap Camp a location I can visit?

No. It is a player term for a water-producing base. The in-game buildables are the Windtrap and the Large Windtrap.

Why is my windtrap not producing water?

Check that it has a filter, that the base has enough power and that it is not placed under a roof.

Can I drink from a windtrap?

Yes. Windtraps can be drunk from directly, which is handy at a remote outpost.