Where to Find Flour Sand in Dune Awakening
Flour Sand: only 30 patches in Hagga Basin, about 500 in the Deep Desert. Gather it with a Static Compactor. Every Hagga patch pinned on the map.
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Flour Sand is gathered from pale patches of fine sand with a Static Compactor, not a cutteray. Hagga Basin has only 30 patches, scattered over open dunes in the middle and south; the easiest one to find lies next to The Wreck of the Actaeon. The Deep Desert has about 500 every week, so serious farming happens there.
Where to find Flour Sand in Hagga Basin
Hagga Basin has just 30 Flour Sand patches. They don't sit at outposts or shipwrecks: almost all are out on open sand, 100 to 800 metres from the nearest named place. That is why most players think Hagga has none.
Next to The Wreck of the Actaeon
The closest patch to any landmark, roughly 130 metres from the wreck in the south-east of the basin. Use the wreck as your beacon.
All 30 patches in Hagga Basin
Every pin below is a Flour Sand patch. They form a loose belt across the centre and south of the map, from the western dunes to the eastern ones.
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Where to find Flour Sand in the Deep Desert
The Deep Desert has around 500 Flour Sand patches each week, more than fifteen times as many as Hagga, and they move after every Coriolis storm. The finder below shows this week's best sectors:
Before you fly in, read the Deep Desert guide and check the current storm on the overview page.
What you need to gather Flour Sand
- Static Compactor: 10 Iron Ingots and 7 EMF Generators at a Fabricator or Survival Fabricator. Aim it at the patch, wait for it to compact the sand, then pick up the clumps.
- Later upgrades: the Industrial Static Compactor (18 Aluminum Ingots, 10 EMF Generators, 9 Cobalt Paste, 170 ml of water) and the tier-6 Omni Static Compactor.
- A sandbike or buggy with storage, parked on rock nearby.
Iron for the compactor comes from Hagga's ironworks; see where to find Iron Ore.
What Flour Sand is used for
Flour Sand has one job: Silicone Block.
| Refinery | Sand per block | Time | Water |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small Chemical Refinery | 5 | 15 s | 50 ml |
| Medium Chemical Refinery | 3 | 10 s | 50 ml |
Silicone Blocks are everywhere in the mid and late game. The big consumers:
- Large Spice Refinery: 900 blocks;
- Large Ore Refinery: 450;
- Large Windtrap: 195; Medium Spice Refinery: 190;
- Advanced fabricators (survival, vehicle, weapons, garment): 150 each; Spice-Powered Generator: 150;
- Carrier Ornithopter Cargo Container: 115;
- the regular Windtrap (30), stillsuits, dew reapers and Hajra literjons.
Count your real need in the crafting calculator before you start. A Large Ore Refinery alone is 450 blocks, which is 2,250 sand at a small refinery or 1,350 at a medium one.
Farming tips
- Build the Medium Chemical Refinery as soon as you can: 3 sand per block instead of 5 saves 40% of your farming.
- In Hagga, chain several patches in one ride along the central belt instead of camping one.
- Farm in pairs if you can: one player compacts, the other watches for worms and keeps the vehicle ready on rock.
- If you hate sand runs, check the market for Silicone Blocks or post a buy order.
Related: Steel, Duraluminum and Plastanium, where to find Aluminum Ore.
Is there Flour Sand in Hagga Basin?
Yes, but only 30 patches, scattered over open sand in the centre and south. The easiest one to find is next to The Wreck of the Actaeon.
What tool do you need for Flour Sand?
A Static Compactor, crafted from 10 Iron Ingots and 7 EMF Generators. A cutteray does not gather it.
What is Flour Sand used for?
Silicone Block: 5 sand per block at a Small Chemical Refinery or 3 at a Medium one. Silicone goes into refineries, windtraps, advanced fabricators and stillsuits.
Where is the most Flour Sand?
In the Deep Desert: about 500 patches every week. Use our live finder to see this week's best sectors.