Dune Awakening Plasteel Plate: Locations, Landsraad and All 18 Recipes

You can't craft the Dune Awakening Plasteel Plate, and no vendor sells it: it only comes from containers in the Deep Desert and from Landsraad rewards. According to the community wiki it goes into 18 recipes for Mk6 components at the Advanced Survival Fabricator, two plates each.

Below you'll find the known loot spots, all 18 recipes with amounts and our own math on how many plates a Mk6 vehicle part or a Cutteray Mk6 really costs.

In Dune Awakening this component flies under the radar for a long time. Only when Advanced Machinery, the Improved Holtzman Actuator or the Tri-Forged Hydraulic Piston stays grayed out does the fabricator show you the missing line. And unlike the basic parts, no vendor can bail you out.

🧱 What the Dune Awakening Plasteel Plate is

The dune.gaming.tools database reads its values from the game files. We went through it at data version 1.5.3.7 for our work on Advanced Machinery: the Plasteel Plate has no recipe and no vendor there, and its item text only mentions finds in the Deep Desert and Landsraad rewards.

The community wiki awakening.wiki describes it as a crafting component for plasteel crafting components. Its infobox shows an expression error for the price, so the base price of 65 comes from the "Item Data" section of the wiki page.

📍 Where to find the Dune Awakening Plasteel Plate

None of our sources give drop chances. The community wiki (page last edited October 16, 2026) shows two loot situations as screenshots:

• Final room of a Buried Test Station: Per the wiki caption, the plate was looted there in the Deep Desert.
• Random caches in the Deep Desert: Again just a screenshot, with no exact location.

Both are community reports with no amounts and no version number. Neither the database nor the wiki lists a loot spot in the Hagga Basin, so if you're hunting Dune Awakening Plasteel Plate on purpose, plan a trip into the Deep Desert. How the sectors are laid out and where the testing stations sit is on our Deep Desert map.

🏛️ The Landsraad instead of a vendor

The Landsraad is the second confirmed way to get the Dune Awakening Plasteel Plate. The item text and the wiki both mention Landsraad rewards, but none of our sources say which tiers or what odds. How the reward tiers work is covered in our Landsraad guide.

More useful for planning: per the database, the Landsraad Crafting Vendor sells finished Mk6 components for House Scrip, with no stock limit. Confirmed are Advanced Machinery for 125 House Scrip and the Fluid Efficient Industrial Pump for 100 House Scrip. Every part you buy saves you two plates. The vendor doesn't take Solaris.

📋 All 18 Dune Awakening Plasteel Plate recipes

Per the community wiki, all 18 recipes run at the Advanced Survival Fabricator, take 3 seconds and need exactly two plates. Water is 50, except for the Improved Watertube at 25. The "Confirmed by" column shows whether our earlier database checks match the same recipe.

Machinery and tech

We cover the recipes behind Complex Machinery and the Holtzman Actuator in more detail in our guides to Complex Machinery and the Holtzman Actuator.

Weapon and blade parts

The odd spelling "Diamodine" isn't a typo on our end: that's how the item name appears in the wiki's item data, while the dust is spelled "Diamondine".

Armor, clothing and water

Per the wiki, Ballistic Weave Fabric goes into 20 plastanium-tier clothing recipes, among them the Desert Garb and the Pincushion pieces. According to the database, Atmospheric Filtered Fabric also turns up ready-made in the Deep Desert. More on that in the Insulated Fabric guide.

🧮 Our math: plates per Mk6 project

Since every recipe takes two plates, we ran the Mk6 amounts from our database guides through Python and converted them into Plasteel Plate. The values for engines, Cutterays, the shield and the compactor come from dune.gaming.tools (data version 1.5.3.7), the standard engine from the wiki.

Three takeaways matter for planning in Dune Awakening:

• Unique engines cost five times as much. 90 plates for a unique Mk6 engine versus 18 for the standard Buggy Engine Mk6. The difference is the 30 Advanced Machinery that only the unique engine asks for.
• The Landsraad saves you two thirds. Buy those 30 Advanced Machinery for 3,750 House Scrip and you save 60 of the 90 plates. That leaves 30 for the hydraulic pistons.
• A full set of Mk6 Cutterays takes 82 plates. That's the Cutteray Mk6, Kynes's Cutteray, the Buggy Cutteray and the Focused Buggy Cutteray combined (12, 14, 26 and 30).

A full stack of 500 Plasteel Plate only takes up 50 volume. So grab every plate you find in the Deep Desert, even if you aren't building anything Mk6 right now. Selling them isn't worth it, because no vendor will sell you more.

When plates run short, spend them where there's no workaround. Advanced Machinery and the Fluid Efficient Industrial Pump are also sold finished by the Landsraad Crafting Vendor. For Improved Holtzman Actuators, Tri-Forged Hydraulic Pistons and Thermo-Responsive Ray Amplifiers we found no vendor. That's where each plate is worth the most, especially for Cutterays and the Adaptive Holtzman Shield.

⚠️ Where the Dune Awakening sources disagree

For the Adaptive Holtzman Shield, the database lists 26 Improved Holtzman Actuators and the wiki 25. Converted, that's 52 instead of 50 plates. Our table uses the database value. For the Compact Compactor Mk6 the wiki currently shows 8 instead of 10 actuators, which would be 16 plates. For the unique engines, both sources agree on 30 Advanced Machinery, while the secondary ingredients differ.

Whether the wiki captures every recipe is still open: for five of the 18, our database guides confirm the same amounts, and for the Irradiated Core only the slag. The other twelve appear only in the wiki. What your fabricator shows is what counts.

❓ FAQ about the Dune Awakening Plasteel Plate

Can you craft the Dune Awakening Plasteel Plate?

No. Neither dune.gaming.tools nor the community wiki lists a recipe. You only get it in the Deep Desert or as a Landsraad reward.

Is there a vendor for Plasteel Plate?

Not according to the database. The Landsraad Crafting Vendor does sell finished Mk6 parts like Advanced Machinery for House Scrip, though, and that saves plates.

Is the Plasteel Plate the same as Plastanium?

No. Don't mix it up with the Plastanium Ingot, the Mk6 metal. How to make it is in our Plastanium guide.

How many plates does one recipe need?

Always two, across all 18 recipes at the Advanced Survival Fabricator, each with a 3 second crafting time.

What uses the most Plasteel Plate in Dune Awakening?

The unique Mk6 engines at 90 plates per part, followed by the Adaptive Holtzman Shield at 52.

Checked against Dune Awakening Update 1.5 with Hotfix 1.5.15.3 (October 28, 2026) as of November 2026, during the Halloween event "The Scourge". The patch notes for Hotfix 1.5.15.3 mention no change to the plate or its recipes. Per Funcom, the Blood and Ice expansion launches on December 1, 2026.

Sources: missing recipe, missing vendor, item text, Landsraad vendor prices and the Mk6 amounts in our math from the dune.gaming.tools database (read from the game files, data version 1.5.3.7), checked for our earlier component guides. All 18 recipes, version, base price and loot spots from the community wiki awakening.wiki, not confirmed by Funcom. Patch status and dates from Funcom's announcements on duneawakening.com. Plate totals are our own math. More guides are on the Dune Awakening hub.