Dune: Awakening Guide | How To Complete The Second Trail of AQL

Here's a guide on completing the second AQL trial in Dune: Awakening.

Game Guide by TauxicPandA on Jun 12, 2025

The second AQL Trial is like the first one, which has no complex puzzle-solving mechanics, but finding the entrance can be frustrating.

Dune Awakening Guide, How To Complete The Second Trail of AQL

Locating the Entrance

When you start from Hagga Basin in Dune: Awakening and progress into the game, you will head north and enter a new region called Vermilious Gap.

As soon as you arrive, you'll find a little gap or window on the wall of these rocks. You just have to climb over it.

You will see a moisture-sealed cave after you get to the other side. You only have to cut that off and go into this cave.

Within this cave, you will have a loot box to the left. Be careful of the mines. Use your pistol to trigger the mines to clear the way. If you make a U-turn at the end of this loot chest, you have a hidden door down. You simply must walk along this thin passage and deeper into the cave.

There will be holes in the ground that you must climb down. Go in deep and more profoundly, and eventually, you'll see an altar.

Dune Awakening Guide, How To Complete The Second Trail of AQL, Locating the Entrance

The Trial Mechanics

Don't worry about fall damage. Even if by any means you do fail the mission or fall into the void, there will always be a Checkpoint, and even if you do, you won't lose any equipment. Move forward until you see a staff called the Static Compactor, where you can collect it.

To use the Compactor, you must right-click to aim and left-click to shoot.

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Completing the Trial

First, you will have to extinguish the fire on the ground. All you need to do is shoot your Compactor at the fire to extinguish it so you can go through it. The fire will respawn again, so you must be quick and reach the other side.

You'll see you have Mines or Bombs with the Compactors symbols on the ground. You just need to shoot these Mines. There'll be green poison smoke after you destroy the Mines, meaning the Mines are disabled so that you can pass through this part. You don't necessarily need to disable all the Mines - you just need to disable the ones blocking your way.

The final section of the trial requires timing. There'll be a void, which you need to cross using the Compactor. You'll see a gas cloud in mid-air. Use your Compactor, and rocks will build a bridge so you can go across.

Dune Awakening Guide, How To Complete The Second Trail of AQL, Completing the Trial

Jump on this boulder and fire into another gas cloud using the Compactor. It will spawn another boulder, and then you simply have to keep jumping until you finally make it to the final area.

Make sure to time your jumps and be quick because the boulders despawn, and you might have to repeat the same thing.

Once you have crossed this section, you will see an Altar, and a cutscene will start indicating that the Trial is completed.

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