Dune Awakening Diamondine Dust: Location, Vendors and All 46 Recipes
Dune Awakening Diamondine Dust can't be mined or crafted. You loot it from chests around Mysa Tarill, the headquarters of the Maas Kharet, or buy it from three vendors at 3,500 Solaris apiece. Per the game data, it goes into 46 recipes, mostly hulls and cockpits for every vehicle from Mk4 up and kindjals, dirks and dual blades.
Below: what the dust is, where it comes from, what vendors charge and how much your next vehicles and weapons will eat. We also ran the numbers on when buying stops making sense.
๐ What Dune Awakening Diamondine Dust is
Our data comes from the database dune.gaming.tools, which reads its values from the game files (version 1.5.3.7). The item text calls Diamondine Dust an industrial byproduct that the Maas Kharet guard closely at their most sacred site. Note the spelling: it's Diamondine, not "diamond dust".
| Property | Value per database |
|---|---|
| Name | Diamondine Dust |
| Type | component |
| Tier / rarity | 4 / Common |
| Volume / stack | 0.1 / 500 |
| Region | Hagga Basin |
| Vendor sell value | 18 Solaris |
Unlike Jasmium or Erythrite, it's not a raw resource with a node you can mine. It's a component, like the Ray Amplifier or Insulated Fabric. No refinery or fabricator recipe produces it. Why components work differently from ores is covered in our guide to farming components.
The twin: Carbide Scraps
Diamondine Dust shares its item text word for word with Carbide Scraps. Both are tier 4, cost the same at vendors and are sold by the same three merchants. They split the work, though. Per the database, Carbide Scraps go into every vehicle chassis plus swords and rapiers. Diamondine Dust goes into hulls, cockpits and short blades. If you build a complete Mk4 Buggy, you need both.
๐ Where to find Dune Awakening Diamondine Dust
The database only lists Hagga Basin as the region, with no specific chest and no drop chance. The community wiki awakening.wiki gets more specific: Diamondine Dust sits in chests around Mysa Tarill. The wiki gives no drop rate or amount either. Neither source lists it in the Deep Desert.
According to the wiki, Mysa Tarill is the headquarters of the Maas Kharet, a hostile sect that worships sandworms and fights mostly with poison: poison darts and a rapier with a poison thrust. Their fortress sits on a destroyed Harkonnen power plant above a geothermal spring, built around the carcass of a sandworm that the power cells killed. Bring plenty of healing.
Besides the landmark itself, the Maas Kharet hold other spots in Mysa Tarill and The O'odham per the wiki, such as the Ruined Landing Pad outpost south of Mysa Tarill and Testing Station 163. Whether those also have dust isn't documented. To see where Mysa Tarill sits, check our Dune Awakening map guide.
There's a bonus for making the trip. The wiki says the landmark has rare chests with unique schematics, including parts of Shadrath's Stillsuit. Zoe, one of the three vendors, is also in Mysa Tarill according to the wiki, at The Crossroads Tradepost.
๐ Vendors, prices and recycling
Per the database, three vendors sell Dune Awakening Diamondine Dust at the same price. Their locations come from the community wiki:
| Vendor | Location (community wiki) | Price | Stock |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asmara Efendi | Harko Village, northeast corner, weapons merchant | 3,500 Solaris | 15 |
| Zoe | The Crossroads Tradepost, Mysa Tarill | 3,500 Solaris | 15 |
| Ant Nostrum | Arrakeen, southern district, first vendor alcove | 3,500 Solaris | 15 |
All three together carry 45 units for 157,500 Solaris. The database doesn't say how fast stock refills. Going the other way, any vendor pays you just 18 Solaris per unit. So buying costs roughly 194 times what selling brings in. Never sell your surplus. Keep it for the next vehicle tier.
Recycling as a second source
Per the database, recycling 44 different items gives back part of the dust. Without a specialization perk, a Buggy Hull Mk4 returns 2 of the 6 you put in, a Carrier Ornithopter Main Hull Mk6 returns 3 of 12 and a House Kindjal 1 of 3. If you break down looted knives and old hulls instead of selling them, you save on vendor runs.
The recycling perk raises the yield in three ranks by 33, 67 and 100 percent, according to the database. Our own projection: at rank 3, the Carrier Ornithopter hull goes from 3 back to 6 units. The database doesn't say whether the game rounds up or down.
There's nowhere else to spend the dust. The database doesn't list it in any contract, while Carbide Scraps do show up in one.
โ๏ธ All 46 Dune Awakening Diamondine Dust recipes
The database lists 46 recipes for Dune Awakening Diamondine Dust. The community wiki shows 41, so it's apparently behind here. They break down into 31 vehicle parts, 14 melee weapons and one component. The amount depends almost entirely on the tier:
| Vehicle part | Mk4 | Mk5 | Mk6 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buggy Hull | 6 | 8 | 12 |
| Buggy Rear | 6 | 8 | 12 |
| Buggy Utility Rear | 6 | 8 | 12 |
| Sandbike Hull | 6 | 8 | 12 |
| Treadwheel hull | 6 | 8 | 12 |
| Scout Ornithopter Cockpit | 6 | 8 | 12 |
| Scout Ornithopter Hull | 6 | 8 | 12 |
| Assault Ornithopter Cockpit | โ | 8 | 12 |
| Assault Ornithopter Cabin | โ | 8 | 12 |
| Assault Ornithopter Tail | โ | โ | 12 |
| Carrier Ornithopter Main Hull, Tail Hull and Side Hull | โ | โ | 12 each |
| Sandcrawler Centrifuge | โ | โ | 12 |
| Upgraded Regis Spice Container (unique) | โ | โ | 21 |
Mk4 and Mk5 are built at the Vehicle Fabricator, Mk6 at the Advanced Vehicle Fabricator, 20 seconds each. A dash means the part needs no dust at that tier per the database, or the tier doesn't exist.
Melee weapons
| Weapon | Tier | Dust |
|---|---|---|
| House Kindjal, House Dirk | 4 | 3 |
| Denira's Gift, Spark-Knife, Shadrath's Drinker (unique) | 4 | 4 |
| Adept Kindjal, Adept Dirk, Adept Dual Blades | 5 | 4 |
| Jolt-Knife, Moisture Sealer, Pardot's Drinker (unique) | 5 | 5 |
| Regis Kindjal, Regis Dirk, Regis Dual Blades | 6 | 5 |
Tier 4 and 5 blades come from the Weapons Fabricator, tier 6 from the Advanced Weapons Fabricator, 15 seconds each. The unique weapons also need Spice-infused Aluminum Dust or Spice-infused Duraluminum Dust.
Recipe 46 is Diamondine Blade Parts (tier 6): 50 water, 2 Diamondine Dust, 2 Plasteel Plate and 1 Blade Parts at the Advanced Survival Fabricator, 3 seconds. Where the plates come from is in our Plasteel Plate guide. Per the item text, the blade parts also turn up in the Deep Desert and as a Landsraad reward. They go into unique blades like Feyd's Drinker and several melee augmentations. How those work is explained in our augmentations guide.
๐งฎ What your next tier costs in Dune Awakening Diamondine Dust
Our own math from the database recipes. We only count parts that need dust. On the Buggy, the Rear and the Utility Rear rule each other out, so we count one hull plus one of the two. How the other parts fit together is in our Buggy guide.
| Vehicle | Parts with dust | Units | Purchase price in Solaris |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandbike Mk4 / Mk5 / Mk6 | Hull | 6 / 8 / 12 | 21,000 / 28,000 / 42,000 |
| Buggy Mk4 | Hull, Rear | 12 | 42,000 |
| Buggy Mk5 | Hull, Rear | 16 | 56,000 |
| Buggy Mk6 | Hull, Rear | 24 | 84,000 |
| Scout Ornithopter Mk4 / Mk5 / Mk6 | Cockpit, Hull | 12 / 16 / 24 | 42,000 / 56,000 / 84,000 |
| Assault Ornithopter Mk5 | Cockpit, Cabin | 16 | 56,000 |
| Assault Ornithopter Mk6 | Cockpit, Cabin, Tail | 36 | 126,000 |
| Carrier Ornithopter Mk6 | Main Hull, Tail Hull, Side Hull | 36 | 126,000 |
So a single Mk6 Assault or Carrier Ornithopter takes 36 of the 45 units all three vendors carry combined. The full vendor stock won't cover two Mk6 thopters. One vendor with 15 units can't even cover the Upgraded Regis Spice Container at 21.
Weapons barely register. A House Kindjal needs 3 units, or 10,500 Solaris if you buy them. If you're pushing thopters to Mk6, though, farm Mysa Tarill first instead of shopping. More ways to raise money are in our Solaris farming guide, and the first thopter steps are in the Ornithopter guide.
Carrying it is easy. 36 units take up only 3.6 volume, a full stack of 500 just 50. Grab everything you find in the Mysa Tarill chests, including the Carbide Scraps for the chassis.
โ Dune Awakening Diamondine Dust FAQ
Where do I get Dune Awakening Diamondine Dust?
From chests around Mysa Tarill in Hagga Basin, the Maas Kharet headquarters, or from Asmara Efendi, Zoe and Ant Nostrum at 3,500 Solaris each. Recycling vehicle parts and blades gives some back too.
Can I craft Diamondine Dust?
No. The database lists no recipe that produces it. It's a component with no mining node.
What is Dune Awakening Diamondine Dust used for?
46 recipes: hulls, cockpits and cabins for every vehicle from Mk4 up, kindjals, dirks and dual blades from tier 4, plus Diamondine Blade Parts.
Is Diamondine Dust the same as Carbide Scraps?
No. Both come from Mysa Tarill and cost the same, but Carbide Scraps go into chassis and swords, Diamondine Dust into hulls and short blades.
Should I sell spare Diamondine Dust?
No. Vendors pay 18 Solaris per unit and charge 3,500 to buy it back. Hold on to it for your next vehicle tier.
Checked against Dune Awakening Update 1.5 with Hotfix 1.5.15.4 (November 3, 2026) as of November 2026. The patch notes from 1.5.15.0 through 1.5.15.4 list no changes to Diamondine Dust, Mysa Tarill or the recipes above.
Sources: item text, values, recipes, vendor prices, stock, recycling and sell value come from the database dune.gaming.tools (from the game files, version 1.5.3.7). The Mysa Tarill loot location, vendor locations and Maas Kharet background come from the community wiki awakening.wiki and aren't confirmed by Funcom. Vehicle totals, purchase prices and the recycling projection are our own math.
