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Dune: Awakening

Explorer Skill Tree and How to Unlock

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This guide lists all available skills for the Explorer Skill Tree in Dune: Awakening. Learn more about Explorer skills, their effects, and how many skill points you’ll need to max out the entire tree!

List of Explorer Skills

All 6 Skills

1 Suspensor Pad Icon Suspensor Pad Drop a suspensor device that launches yourself (and targets) into the air. Useful for navigation and traversal.
Lv. 1:
・ Cooldown 15
・ Stamina Cost 15
2 Cartographer Icon Cartographer You can now create sinkcharts of the areas revealed by your surveys. Create sinkcharts from the Map Screen, but you will require a blank sinkchart in your inventory.
3 Mountaineer Icon Mountaineer You are better at finding the handholds and footholds while climbing, reducing your stamina drain.
Lv. 1: Climbing Stamina Drain -15%
Lv. 2: Climbing Stamina Drain -20%
Lv. 3: Climbing Stamina Drain -25%
4 Scanner Mastery Icon Scanner Mastery You have become proficient with the hand scanner - improving the range of detection.
Lv. 1: Detection Radius 15%
Lv. 2: Detection Radius 20%
Lv. 3: Detection Radius 25%
5 Stillsuit Seals Icon Stillsuit Seals Though you have no formal training with the stillsuit, you have adjusted several seals and tabs that must be properly fitted for the suit to act with optimal efficiency. Your water reclamation while wearing a stillsuit is improved.
Lv. 1: Hydration Capture 105%
Lv. 2: Hydration Capture 110%
Lv. 3: Hydration Capture 115%
6 Spice Surveyor Icon Spice Surveyor Through research and field experience, you have learned to recognize the density of a spice bed from surveys. This ability is of most use in the Deep Desert.

It would take 22 Skill Points in total to fully max out the Explorer Skill Tree.

How to Unlock Explorer Skill Tree

Complete the Planetologist Quest

Talk to the Planetologist Trainer and complete their related quest. The Explorer Skill Tree can be unlocked by allotting a skill point in the Suspensor Pad Skill.

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Bene Gesserit Weirding Way
The Voice
Body Control
Mentat Mental Calculus
Assassination
Tactician
Planetologist Scientist
Explorer
Mechanic
Swordmaster The Blade
The Will
The Way
Trooper Gunnery
Suspensor Training
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