Dune: Awakening adds two new areas, self-hosted servers, and paid DLC in update 1.4.0.0

Funcom has rolled out update 1.4.0.0 for Dune: Awakening, bringing a mix of free gameplay additions and paid DLC. The biggest changes are two new overland locations, Wind Pass and the Old Quarry Testing Station, along with support for self-hosted servers.

That makes this a fairly substantial patch for the survival MMO. It adds more places to explore in Arrakis while also opening the door for players who want to run their own servers instead of sticking to the standard setup.

The update also includes new DLC, though the source material doesn’t go into much detail here beyond confirming it arrived alongside the patch. The more immediate headline for most players is probably the new explorable zones and server hosting support, since those affect the base game directly.

Dune: Awakening blends open-world survival systems with multiplayer sandbox play on Arrakis, so map expansions and server options are the kind of updates that can meaningfully change how people play day to day. If you’ve been waiting for more territory to poke around in, or for the option to set up a self-hosted world, that’s now live.

Funcom said this update would arrive today, and it has. If you’re already playing, you can jump in now and check out the new areas and server tools as part of patch 1.4.0.0.