{"id":1220744,"date":"2026-02-23T13:49:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/YmNKezCZgE3WWf3NnSnvJH"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:49:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:49:51","slug":"i-cant-stop-watching-these-dune-awakening-videos-showing-players-having-butt-puckeringly-close-calls-with-angry-sandworms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-cant-stop-watching-these-dune-awakening-videos-showing-players-having-butt-puckeringly-close-calls-with-angry-sandworms\/","title":{"rendered":"I can’t stop watching these Dune: Awakening videos showing players having butt-puckeringly close calls with angry sandworms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dune: Awakening’s sandworms aren’t just scary, they’re the most brutally punishing feature of Funcom’s new survival MMO. When you get eaten by a sandworm<\/u><\/a>, you permanently lose all your stuff. Weapons, armor, tools, gear, your entire inventory gets swallowed up when Shai-Hulud sucks you down, and you can’t go back and recover it. Even your vehicle is gone forever.<\/p>\n

That’s why crossing the desert gaps between regions is so harrowing: the worm is always out there patrolling and your movements will bring it stampeding toward you, leading to lots of tense moments. Linger too long in the dunes and the sandworm will charge, its mouth the size of a train tunnel, gobbling down everything in front of it.<\/p>\n

So my new hobby is jumping onto the Dune subreddit every day to see some white-knuckle, butt-puckeringly close calls with sandworms. Knowing what’s at stake, seeing a player flooring it across the desert with a worm barreling toward them, and jussssssst escaping to safety is utterly thrilling.<\/p>\n

Here’s a few of my favorite sandworm close-calls:<\/p>\n

Barely made it<\/a> from r\/duneawakening<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n