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TheRobloxspin-off of the popular 2019 game, The Long Drive, A Dusty Trip is an apocalyptic road trip that is all about the journey. Your goal is to travel as far as you’re able to in a barren wasteland, trying to scavenge items like food, weapons, and gas for your vehicle; all whilst dealing with angry mutants and natural disasters.
Whether you do it with friends or alone, A Dusty Trip can be hard to master, but the journey is worth it. If you are just starting out on the desert roads, we’ve got some beginner tips to make it a little easier.
Updated June 27, 2025 by Austin Knepper:We’ve updated this article to include some of the game’s new features. A Dusty Trip is still a work in progress, so more updates are sure to come.
Know The Hidden Controls
A Dusty Trip isn’t exactly an open book when it comes to its controls, but knowing what you can do and how will make the game much easier. Besides the basics, here are the lesser-known controls the game doesn’t tell you about.
‘q’
‘r’
Turns on/off the vehicle’s engine.
Scrolling with mouse
When holding an object, allows you to move it further away or closer to your body.
Holding LMB and moving mouse
Sends out your hand to grab a door of some sort. Moving the mouse up or down will allow you to push or pull.
Holding RMB and moving mouse
Allows you to rotate whatever item is in your hand. Very important for aiming weapons.
Check Every Structure For Supplies
There are several different building types in The Dusty Trip, from garages to stores and even gas stations. These can contain necessities, such asfood, fuel, and weapons, and are easy to spot while on the road.
Gas stations will even have several slightly filled gas pumps that you can use.Food is especially important, as once your hunger hits zero, you will start to rapidly lose health.
Finally, there are severalshopsalong the way where you can purchase supplies forbottle caps, a currency that can also be found in structures.
On the unfortunate chance that the building has nothing useful, you can just hop right back into your car and keep going.
If you have Robux to spare, using the walky-talky in your car will give you the option to have your chosen supplies dropped off for you.
Most structures willcontain at least one mutant, so come prepared.
Learn How To Avoid The Storms
There are numerous natural events in The Dusty Trip that can be extremely detrimental to your journey. These include sandstorms, eclipses, thunderstorms, heat waves, tornadoes, and drive-by-shootings, which can allspawn at any time.
How To Avoid
Sandstorm
It willfog up your screen, you will hear loud, rushing winds, and before long it will start torapidly damage you.
Stay in your carwith the doors closed orinside a structureso that the winds cannot reach you.
Eclipse
Thesky will quickly turn darkas the moon begins to block the sun, only lasting for a few minutes.
Do not lookat the eclipse or you will take damage.
Heatwave
Yourscreen will go red, and you will start to see water drops coming off of your character.
There is no way to avoid a heatwave.
You willlose hunger two times as fast, so be sure you have an ample supply of food.
Thunderstorm
Rapidly forming storm cloudswill lead quickly to rain, andlightning will begin to strike every ten seconds.
Lightningstriking your carwill almost certainlydismantle it, and if your engine is running, it will drain all of your gas.
Move a good distance from your vehicleand eitherwait inside a buildingor keep running so that the lightning cannot hit you.
Tornado
They will spawn near you, very rarely spawning on top of you, and yourscreenwill start toshake slightly.
Most of the time, it will keep its distance and ispretty easy to avoid as long as you keep your eye on it.
Drive-By-Shooting
Quick but deadly. You will start tohear a loud enginecoming your way, followed by arusted vandriven by armed enemies barreling down the road at extremely high speeds.
When you hear it, we recommenddriving sharply left or right offthe road andstaying clear till it has passed.
Meteor Shower
Loud booming sounds will signal the start of ameteor shower. Deadly flaming rocks will begin to rain down around you for about 30 seconds.
The meteors' range is usuallylimited to a small areain front of you, sostay aware and move awayif you are in the firing zone.
Keep A Weapon On Hand
Mutants, and later bandits, are the game’s main enemies.Mutantsoften guard buildingsand can kill you quickly if several of them gang up on you.
To traverse and scavenge safely, you will need a weapon. Luckily, there are many to choose from, though some are better than others.
Items such asbowling balls, kettlebells, fly swatters, fire axes,wooden spears,and several different types ofgunscan be found in buildings.
Any gun, especiallythe shotgun, will bethe best method for killing mutants.If you run out of precious ammo,ammo casescan be found in various structures.
Your car can also be used as a weapon to ram mutants.
If you are forced to run,mutants will run faster than you unless you are sprinting, but they will temporarilystop each time you jump.
TheGolden AK can be bought for 99 Robuxin the starting house. However, buying this issingle-useand will only apply to your current run;if you restart, you will have to buy it again.
Take Care Of Your Car
Your vehicle, whether it be the starter car or one bought with a game pass, is undoubtedly your most important asset in The Dusty Trip.
When starting, you can choose from asmall Sedan, found in front of the garage, or a van, found behind it. There will also be atrailerthat you can hitch to the back. This allows for muchmore storagebut at the cost ofusing more gas.
The van uses diesel and is slower, so unless you have a surplus of players, thesmall starter car is the best to use. Additionally, diesel is much rarer to spawn than normal gas.
You can alsobuy other vehicle options with Robux, including the Exotica, Quadbike, and Flametruck, which all have their own benefits and are most often better than the free choices.
The Exotica and Flametruck especially will exponentially change the game.
You will have to keep track of yourradiator, engine, and fuel levels, so be sure tohave backupswith you in case you get stranded. These takewater, oil, and gas or dieselrespectively.
Next, be weary of your driving and always be alert; asingle rockor spare item on the roadmight completely flip or dismantle your carif you aren’t careful. Once that happens, it’s pretty much game over.
The most important one:remember to use your emergency brake. Otherwise, you might find yourself chasing after a car that is rapidly rolling away.
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