![]() ![]() You gain spice by building refineries in villages near spice fields. ![]() For the purposes of Dune: Spice Wars, spice has two uses: to pay your monthly tax and for trading with other factions. If you know anything about Dune, you know about spice. Some are (arguably) more important than others, but they’re all necessary and, more vitally, running out of any of them is disastrous. It’s resources all the way downīy our count, there are 12 resources or currencies that you’re managing while playing Dune: Spice Wars. You can (and should) think of this as a microcosm of how Dune: Spice Wars works.Īll of those things require you to manage the flow of resources, and there are a lot of different resources. And you’ll also be paying for the upkeep on the village, your military units, refinery, and harvester at the same time. Getting spice means finding a spice field (one will be marked automatically when you start the game and your ornithopters will help you find more), capturing the village in the same region as the spice (probably with military units), building a refinery at that village, and keeping your harvester out of the jaws of any wandering sandworms. That means the spice tax (or bribe, if you play as a non-House faction) is a ticking clock - you won’t be able to cover the tax unless you expand and build up your reserves.įinding spice and setting up a way to gather it is the first thing to do in any game of Dune: Spice Wars. Control the spice (to pay your taxes)Įvery 25 in-game days, you’ll owe the Spacing Guild some spice, and the amount you owe increases each month. They do suffer a 5% penalty to the amount of spice they harvest, though, and you’ll have to manually re-deploy them when it’s safe. This will pull them back to safety if (when) a sandworm shows up. Clicking on a harvester gives you a similar auto-recall button. While harvesting spice, the harvester runs the risk of drawing a sandworm and, potentially, getting eaten. Image: Shiro Games/Funcom via PolygonĮach time you build a refinery in a village where spice is also present (more on this below), you’ll get a harvester (each refinery only gets one). It’s a little directionless, but having one fewer thing to manage is definitely worth it. This means it’ll wander on its own and investigate whatever it finds. Alternately, you can just click on auto-recon. When you click on your thopter (or select it from your units list on the right side of the screen), you’ll be able to tell it where to go and what to investigate. Your ornithopter acts as both a scout and an explorer. There are (only) two mechanics you can set to automatic - recalling harvesters when sandworms are detected and exploration by ornithopters. ![]() With so much going on, it’s nice to make anything you can as hands-off as possible. Speaking of simplifying … Set what you can to automatic Pick a small map, easy AI, and only one enemy faction to keep things (relatively) simple. There’s so much to learn and manage in Dune: Spice Wars that it’s worth treating your first game(s) as a tutorial. This lets you choose things like map size, AI difficulty, and how many AI players there are (along with a bunch of other options). Once you select your faction and advisors, look for the settings option next to the “Start Game” button. Adjust the game settings before starting out. ![]() We’ve got a lot of tips below that are going to help you through the various political, economic, and statecraft intricacies of Dune: Spice Wars, but our first tip, before we get into the details, is to start small. In this Dune: Spice Wars beginner’s guide, we’ll help you get started with 11 tips we wish we knew when starting out on Arrakis. It’s also not particularly interested in hand-holding, tutorials, or explanations. It might not bring much new to the table, but it’s still a detailed and, frankly, complicated game. Dune : Spice Wars is a new 4X (an abbreviation meaning Explore, Expand, Exploit, and Exterminate) real-time strategy game from Shiro Games. ![]()
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