Dune Spice Wars: Points of Interests - description and list Dune Spice Wars guide, tips

On this page of the Dune Spice Wars guide we describe what Points of Interests are, what they offer, and how to find and search them. You will also learn about the role of Ornithopters in this activity.

Last update: 11 May 2022

Here you can read what Points of Interests / PoI are and how they work in Dune Spice Wars . You will learn how to use Ornithopters to discover PoI, what rewards you can receive and explore the full list of Points of Interest available in the game.

• What are Points of Interest (PoI)?
• Ornithopters
• Investigation & Examination of POI
• How to speed up the examination?
• List of Points of Interest and Rewards

What are Points of Interest (PoI)?

Points of Interests (PoI) are any question marks visible in regions that you can explore by using the Ornithopter. You will find villages where there is rock under the sand. The research time for points is fixed for everyone, but can be sped it up by proper Research. Discontinuing a research does not remove your progress - so you can discontinue at any time if you have something more important to do.

In PoI you will find new villages to interact with, as well as interesting treasures, ruins and wrecks from which you can recover resources or use them for research. The exact list of interesting places and rewards can be found below.

Note - the research icon, for example, like the one near the crashed shuttle, means that the research is speeded up by 2 days (i.e. 1 minute). However, this is a boost of one random available research, so you can even speed up one that you don't plan to explore. The title in the window will show you which tree the research will be selected from. However, this will never be research from the Espionage tree.

You may notice that some undiscovered Points of Interest have different icons: on a gray and on a black background. The ones with black backgrounds are usually rare and more rewarding places, like the Black Market and Inhabited Hiereg . They often appear in later stages of the game.

Ornithopters

The basic Ornithopter model costs 400 Solari and 2 Fuel Cells . Remember that the cost of maintaining them is an additional 5 Solari . In some random events, you may encounter the Experimental Ornithopter - its maintenance cost is only 2 Solari. In Points of Interest you can find a wreck, from which you can get the Recovered Ornithopter for 10 minutes.

Investigation & Examination of POI

To perform an action on a PoI other than using troops or the Ornithopter, you need agents. They usually allow you to speed up research or obtain Intel. However, you must assign them to the Arrakis Infiltration to allow them work.

How to speed up the examination?

Factions have two researches that speed up the discovery of Points of Interest, while the second one also discovers all question marks on the map.

These are the Paracompass and Spectral Imaging from the Green Research Tree. Note that the latter research also helps Harvesters with mining when you have nothing to do with the excess Ornithopter.

List of Points of Interest and Rewards

Caravan of Water Merchants

1. Agent : 300-400 Solari.
2. 500 Solari fee : 50-100 points of Authority .

Abandoned Freemen camp

1. Agent : Increases the chance of detecting a Sietch.
2. Ornithopter : 100-200 points Intel .

Old Ruins

1. Agent : speed up random research (Expansion) by 2 days.
2. Military unit : approx. 300 Solari.

Harvester wreckage

1. Agent : speed up random research (Economy) by 2 days.
2. Ornithopter : approximately 100 Spice.

Broken Ornithopter

1. Agent : approx. 100 pts. of Intel.
2. Military unit : Recovered Ornithopter - you will receive a vehicle that will function for 20 days (10 minutes).

Wrecked Shuttle

1. Agent : speed up random research (Military) by 2 days.
2. Ornithopter : 200-400 Solari.

Black market

1. Agent : approx. 100-200 Spice
2. Military unit : 100-200 Spice and 400-500 Solari
3. (Smugglers) fee 200 Spice : 900-1000 Solari

Inhabited Hiereg

1. Agent : Increases the chance of detecting a Sietch.
2. Fee 100 Spice : three Fremen mercenaries show up here

Fremen mercenaries are strong units (30 Force, 720 Health). You can use them to attack / defend or to take over settlements remotely. Units will only be available for 5 minutes .

Wrecked Shuttle

1. Agent : speeds up random research from three trees simultaneously.
2. Ornithopter : approximately 50 Landsraad Standing, 150 Influence.

It is a rare find, often available in the later stages of the game.