The fastest Solari in Dune: Awakening comes from the Exchange, not from chests. Loot runs fill your bags; one good listing pays more than a night of chest-hopping. Chests are still where you start, because you need stock to sell.
What's changed in 2026 matters more than any 2025 farming route. Base taxes are gone, Hagga Basin is fully PvE, and the PvP Deep Desert pays 2.5x on mining and spice. Checked against Funcom's Update 1.5 notes and the community wiki, 8 October.
Coins or credits? Bank it
Solari comes in two forms, and only one of them survives a sandworm.
Solari Coins versus Solari Credits
Where the Solari is
Constellation chests
Scattered across Hagga Basin, each holding Solari plus spice-infused dust that vendors buy. Chests respawn, so a short loop near your base beats a long drive.
Contracts
Pick them up at the tradeposts and social hubs. The hard ones pay thousands, and since Hagga Basin is PvE now, nobody can take the reward off you on the way home.
Imperial Testing Stations
Chapter 3 added five that scale with difficulty, and 1.4 added The Old Quarry. One run fills your inventory with gear that sells.
Spice and ore at 2.5x
The PvP Deep Desert instance pays 2.5x on mining and spice harvesting. Sold raw on the Exchange, spice is among the best value per slot in the game.
Sell on the Exchange
Inside the CHOAM Exchange at both hubs, next to the Spacing Guild bankers. List salvage, schematics and refined materials and collect the Solari when it sells. Vendors pay a fraction of what players will.
Vehicle parts
Buggy and ornithopter modules from wrecks and Testing Stations sell well to players who'd rather not farm them. Check the going rate on the Exchange before listing.
The Exchange is the whole game
The Exchange is a player market, so prices are whatever your World will pay. Vendors buy low-tier salvage for a couple of hundred Solari; the same item lists for thousands if a player needs it. Listing isn't free: Funcom puts it at 20 Solari a day plus 2% of the price on day one and 1% on each day after, so a short listing at a sharp price beats a long one.
| What sells fast | Why | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Refined materials | Nobody enjoys the refinery wait | Your base, in bulk |
| High-tier schematics | Players skip the station runs | Testing Stations |
| Spice | Best value per slot | PvP Deep Desert at 2.5x |
| Vehicle modules | Wreck runs are a chore | Shipwrecks, stations |
That list changes with every patch, so look at the live listings before you decide what to farm. On most Worlds the quick sellers are the things people hate farming. Our Exchange guide covers what a listing costs at each duration and the 20-offer cap.
A 2026 loop that works
- Run the chests and camps within a ten-minute drive of your base, then taxi to a hub and bank the coins.
- Clear one Imperial Testing Station at the highest difficulty you can solo, and keep everything.
- List the schematics and refined materials on the Exchange. Vendor the rest.
- Once you have an endgame vehicle and an exit plan, add a PvP Deep Desert spice run for the 2.5x yield.
Rather skip the farm?
We deliver Solari on every PC World by in-game trade, face to face at Arrakeen or Harko Village, or through an Exchange buy-out, so nobody logs into your account. On the Exchange route you front the listing fee, about 2% of the order, and our price pays it back. Face to face, there's no fee. Pick your World at checkout and the handover happens on your character.
Got questions first? The FAQ on our Dune: Awakening page covers how the trade works and which World to pick. Levels gate the Testing Stations, so the levelling guide is the other half of this. New to the game? Start here.
Quick answers
How much Solari do you need?
Enough for taxis, vendor schematics and the odd Exchange buy. Taxes were removed in Chapter 3, so there is no weekly bill any more.
Can you give Solari to a friend?
Yes. Trade face to face at a hub, or list a cheap item on the Exchange for them to buy at the price you agree.