If a Dune game has a rite of passage, surely it's being swallowed by a sandworm. It happened to me about 10 hours into the Dune: Awakening beta and it took me quite a while to recover, because there was no chance of running back to collect my dropped gear like you can when you die from other causes. I respawned in my underpants, but everything else swallowed by that massive sandworm was just plain gone.
In addition to easily replaceable stuff like the ores I'd been harvesting and some consumables like bandages, I lost the weapons I'd crafted, my water collection tools, and even a unique piece of gear I'd 3D printed from a single-use schematic. Worst of all, my precious stillsuit, the Fremen-designed survival clothing I'd only just excitedly crafted for the first time an hour earlier, was gone forever too.
