Where to Find Armor Plating in Dune Awakening

In Hagga Basin, Armor Plating drops only from weapon lockers, and each locker has a 38.5 % chance. The most lockers are at Imperial Testing Station No. 142 (10), Passage of Artemis (6) and The Aegis (4). In the Deep Desert, named wrecks and testing stations have the same 38.5 %. You need it for heavy armor and vehicle hulls.

Unlike most loot components, it never drops above 38.5 %. Plan for about two plates in every five lockers, and farm sites with many lockers in one place.

Where to find Armor Plating in Hagga Basin

Every source in Hagga Basin is a weapon locker, small or big, and each has the same 38.5 % chance.

The rest are single lockers spread over dozens of outposts, camps and caves.

Imperial Testing Station No. 142

The best farm by far: 10 lockers in one place, so expect about four plates per clear. Read the Imperial Testing Stations guide before you go in.

Passage of Artemis and Imperial Testing Station No. 60

Six lockers in the outpost and two more in the testing station about 270 m away. That makes 8 lockers in one stop.

The Aegis

Four lockers. The outpost also has 8 chests with Military Power Regulators, so you get two components from one fight.

Where to find Armor Plating in the Deep Desert

This week the Deep Desert has 177 sources, but the odds vary by site:

• named shipwrecks (such as the Stasanor, Hicetas and Proxenus) and numbered Imperial Testing Stations: 38.5 %, one locker each;
• Forgotten Caves and Buried Testing Stations: up to 33.2 %;
• Unrecovered Shipwrecks: up to 24 %, but with many containers.

The map changes every week, so use the live finder:

The Broodworks also has 32 sources at 38.5 %.

What Armor Plating is used for

Armor Plating goes into 78 recipes:

• Heavy armor: 54 recipes at the Garment Fabricator, from the tier-2 Kirab Heavy and Oathbreaker pieces (3–6) up to tier-5 Mendek's, Acheronian, Trooper Heavy Tactical and Mercenary Heavy sets. A tier-5 chestpiece takes 20–23.
• Vehicle hulls and cockpits at the Vehicles Fabricator: Sandbike Hull Mk2 (7), Buggy Hull Mk5 (30), Treadwheel Hull Mk5 (35), and the Sandcrawler Cabin Mk6 (45) at the Advanced Vehicle Fabricator.
• Plasteel Composite Armor Plating (tier 6): 3 Armor Plating, 2 Plasteel Plates and 1 Spice Melange.

A full tier-5 heavy set takes about 90 plates, which is more than two full clears of every Hagga locker. Check your total in the crafting calculator. Buying the rest on the market can save hours.

Farming tips

• Loop Imperial Testing Station No. 142, then Passage of Artemis with Station No. 60, then The Aegis. That is 22 lockers.
• Need a Sandbike Hull Mk2? It takes only 7 plates, and one full loop averages about 8, so a single evening usually covers it.
• Bring tier-4 or tier-5 gear. The outposts and testing stations are well guarded.
• Many weapon lockers sit in sites that also drop Mechanical Parts and Holtzman Actuators, so you won't leave empty-handed.