How To Use the Cutteray in Dune Awakening

The Cutterray is your best tool for gathering resources in Dune: Awakening, so here’s how to use it and upgrade it.

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The Cutteray in Dune Awakening is one of the most important tools for gathering resources. It can cut through minerals or salvage metals for crafting other items. The resources you can gather expand as you upgrade this tool.

Aside from being a crucial tool for gathering crafting materials, you can also use the Cutteray on doors. Needless to say, you should not go out exploring without this tool in your inventory. Here is what you need to know about how to use the Cutteray in Dune Awakening.

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How To Get Cutteray in Dune Awakening

When starting out your playthrough in Dune Awakening, you can craft your own improvised Cutteray after researching the schematic in Salvage Products. Once the research is done, go to a Fabricator and bring two Salvaged Metal to craft a Cutteray.

Of course, as you make progress in your playthrough, you get to unlock more powerful Cutterays that can harvest higher quality materials.

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Cutteray Upgrades and Crafting Materials in Dune Awakening

Here is a list of the upgrades for the Cutteray in Dune Awakening and the crafting materials needed:

Tool	Crafting Materials	Description
Improvised Cutteray	2x Salvaged Metal	Can extract granite, copper, metal. and doors. Analysis mode shows weak points. Depletes power from a Power Pack.
Cutteray Mk1	6x Copper Ingot 4x EMF Generator	Can mine iron. Requires a power pack to work and fabricated from Fremen parts.
Cutteray Mk2	10x Iron Ingot 7x EMF Generator	Can mine carbon. Requires a power pack to work and fabricated from Fremen parts.
Cutteray Mk3	90x Water 15x Steel Ingot 10x EMF Generator 10x Cobalt Paste 5x Ray Amplifier	Can mine aluminium. Requires a power pack to work and fabricated from Fremen parts.
Industrial Cutteray Mk4	225x Water 25x Aluminum Ingot 14x EMF Generator 12x Cobalt Paste 7x Ray Amplifier	Can mine jasmium crystals. Requires a power pack to work and fabricated from Fremen parts.
Cutteray Mk5	450x Water 40x Duraluminum Ingot 18x EMF Generator 16x Cobalt Paste 10x Ray Amplifier 7x Thermoelectric Cooler	Can mine titanium and stavidium. Requires a power pack to work and fabricated from Fremen parts.
Cutteray Mk6	700x Water 50x Plastanium Ingot 30x EMF Generator 30x Cobalt Paste 6x Thermo-Responsive Ray Amplifier 9x Thermoelectric Cooler 27x Spice Melange	Can mine anything, Requires a power pack to work and fabricated from Fremen parts.

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How To Use the Cutteray in Dune Awakening

To use a Cutteray, you need a charged power pack as it requires energy to work. Simply equip it and aim at a mineral to harvest its resources or salvage parts.

Alternatively, you can also use a Cutteray to open doors. You need to target weak points by using analysis mode. If you have power packs to spare, consider exploring areas behind locked doors for potential loot.