Finding plant fiber locations in Dune: Awakening is essential during every stage of your adventure, but particularly in the first few main story quests. You’ll need plant fiber to craft healing bandages and clothes, including your first Stillsuit, among other things, and you need it in large quantities. It sounds cumbersome, but Dune: Awakening’s generous respawn times and resource mapping mean that, once you know where to look, you’ll be able to find all you need and then some without much hassle.
Below, we explained where to find plant fiber locations in Dune: Awakening and how to spot them using the survey probe’s mapping tool.
Plant fiber locations in Dune: Awakening
Plant fiber locations, like all resource locations, change every week when the Coriolis Storm sweeps through and shakes up everything in the desert. However, there are a handful of areas where you can almost always find the bushes that yield plant fiber.
The general guidance is “look for rocky locations,” but in our experience, that’s only half true. In the starting area, for example, the rocky area where you complete the first story trial had no plant fiber bushes before or after the first Coriolis Storm blew through.
Your best bet early on is in the two rocky areas southwest of the Alcyon wreck and west of the area where you undergo the Trials of Alq. There’s a small cluster of bushes yielding plant fiber around the northern outcrop, but even more around the southern one, where you’ll also find a moisture-sealed cavern and a scavenger’s camp inside.
The shrubs where plant fiber comes from respawn after roughly 30 seconds of real-world time, so once you exhaust all the available fiber in an area, don’t waste time and resources trying to track down more unless you have business somewhere else. Just grab other items in the nearby vicinity, circle back to the plants, and pick up some more fiber after it respawns.
Scavengers will occasionally have plant fiber on them that you can loot after battle, and the storage containers in scavenger camps sometimes include plant fiber as well. The chance of plant fiber showing up on a scavenger or in their camp seems random, though, so your best bet for finding it is checking and re-checking shrubs.
A little ways into the Touch of Civilization main story quest, you’ll need to craft and fire a survey probe to map the nearby area. Resource nodes will show up on your map once you survey an area, and the one that denotes plant fiber is a little bundle of sticks called “Brittle Bush.” Note that these icons are more like reference points telling you that an item is in the general area. They don’t actually show exactly where the resource in question is, so you might need to do some scavenging.
