Dune: Awakening Now Works Offline: How Single-Player Without Internet Works, the DLC Catch and What Else Patch 1.5.20.0 Fixes

Dune: Awakening offline mode is here. Funcom's patch 1.5.20.0, live on all platforms since November 9, lets you play single-player without an internet connection at any point, including creating and deleting single-player characters. A new Go Online button takes you back online when you want. There's one catch: DLC you own isn't available while you're fully offline, and Funcom says it plans to fix that in a later update.

Dune: Awakening 1.5.20.0 at a glance

Can you play Dune: Awakening offline?

Yes, since patch 1.5.20.0. Funcom's patch notes say you can now play in single-player mode without an internet connection at any point. That includes making a new single-player character or deleting one, which used to need a connection. When you want to rejoin friends or public servers, press Go Online.

It was one of the community's most-requested features. When Funcom announced the Blood and Ice expansion on October 29, it listed offline single-player alongside character transfers and full cross-play as features it was working on. Offline play is the first of those to arrive.

Does DLC work in Dune: Awakening offline mode?

Not yet. The patch notes say any DLC you've bought isn't available when you're fully offline, and Funcom plans to address it in an upcoming update. If you rely on DLC items, building sets or cosmetics in your single-player world, stay online for now.

What else is new in patch 1.5.20.0?

• Cloud-saved settings: custom server settings for single-player now save to the cloud, so they follow your save to another device.
• Buried treasure persists between single-player sessions, so closing the game no longer makes it vanish. A new storm still hides old treasure and reveals new finds.
• Story levels: you can now leave a story level without resetting your checkpoint progress in single-player.
• Water generation fixed in single-player when you're offline or on another map.
• Wrecked vehicles now despawn after 2 hours instead of 6.
• Mining yields now show per resource on the infocards.
• Easier placement for the Rug of the Desert Flyers and Sardaukar Carpet next to walls.
• The Sardaukar Killer and The Great Convention achievements now unlock, and players who earned them get them retroactively.
• Fixes for server crashes, terrain not loading after respawning, a long black screen on Xbox Series X, a rare PS5 party crash and a crash when you quit while petting the donkey in Arrakeen.

When is the Dune: Awakening Blood and Ice expansion?

December 1, free on all platforms. Funcom says it takes you to the Polar Sink in the frozen north of Arrakis, a new survival map with two biomes, the tundra and the ice cap. You'll need to stay warm instead of cool, gather new resources and get past the water shipper families who guard the ice cap. Once you reach it, you can harvest ice to cool your base equipment and speed up production. Funcom estimates about 35 hours of new progression, with new vehicle modules, augments and specialization traits.

Funcom is also adding an optional cosmetics store, starting with looks from the Dune films to coincide with Dune: Part Three in December. It says store sales will help fund free updates.

How is Dune: Awakening doing?

Funcom says more than one million new players have joined since the console launch, when the game also gained full single-player and the end of Book One. On Steam, 79% of the 865 reviews in the last 30 days are positive (as of November 9).

Watch the Blood and Ice trailer

Funcom's official Blood and Ice expansion video is on its YouTube channel.

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