Here's compendium of the Mutant Vehicles of Burning Man 2025: https://updates.dust.events/brc-mutant-vehicles-2025.pdf

Check out the video for the new dust features for Burning Man 2025:

Dust features for 2025

Calendar Export​

You can export your favorite events and reminders to your phone's calendar! Press the calendar icon on the favorites page.

Go Offline​

Before you get to the playa be sure to choose the “Go Offline” option to make sure all images and audio are stored on your device because you can’t rely on having any cell service when you are there.

Friends​

You’re going to want to note down where your friends are. If you know their camp then add them from the camp page, or you can add friends by their address on the home page. You can see your friends on the map by pressing the "Friends" button on the home page.

Find my Bike​

It is easy to lose your bike at large camps, so mark it on the map before you leave your bike, so that you can find it later.

You can also use this feature to pin secret camps, mutant vehicle locations, etc.

Reminders​

Going to a private party or have a volunteer shift? Add it as a reminder and get a notification before it happens. Reminders are listed on the home page.

Restrooms​

Porta potties are hard to find in the dark and sometimes you’ll need to find the nearest one. Press the "Restrooms" button on the home page.

Ice​

Want to find out opening hours, prices and locations for Ice? Use “Ice” on the home page.

Art Audio Tour​

Want to hear about the art on the playa? Many art pieces have an audio guide. Look for the audio icon.

Mutant Vehicles​

Want to know more about that mutant vehicle you just saw? You can now find them under “Art” or filter by “Mutant Vehicle”. Mutant Vehicles registrations were managed through dust this year.

Rock Star Librarian​

The music section is a collection of DJ sets and Live music collated by Rock Star Librarian. Favoriting a musician will notify you before their set. This feature unlocks in the app on Tuesday 19th August.

Rock Star Librarian registrations were managed through dust this year through a collaboration with Kate Houston.

BRC Passport​

If you have got your passport from the BRC Passport Office (5:30 & B), you can find theme camps issuing stamps from the Camps page. Press the down arrow and choose "Passport Camp".

Queer Burners​

Looking for inclusive and queer-friendly camps? You can find them, thanks to queerburners.org, by pressing the down arrow on camps and choosing "LGBTQIA+ Inclusive".

Burn Planner​

We've built an integration with Burn Planner to allow you to import any events you have chosen there into dust!

Other New Features​

We've added several new features since 2024 Burning Man:

• Clear Favorites - You can clear the list of favorites.
• No Recurring Events - From the events page press the down arrow and choose "No recurring" to only see one-off events. This can be helpful to cut through the noise of repeating events.
• Camp Images - Camps now have images! You can find their image on event page too.

Say Hi!​

This year I'm camping with Kosmik Dust at the Center Camp Keyhole. Come say hi, I may even have some swag for you!

Cheers, Damian.

Dust is celebrating it's 2nd birthday!

Dust began as a gift for Burning Man 2023 and added its first regional burn SNRG in October 2023. Since then we've added regional burns along the way and for 2025:

• 40 regional burns have used dust!
• 1922 theme camps
• 7299 events
• 1320 art pieces
• 114 mutant vehicles
• 1422 music events

By comparison Burning Man 2025 has 1391 theme camps, 4404 events, 317 art pieces.

Dust now has theme camps, art and events for Burning Man 2025 - Tomorrow Today! New for this year is images for theme camps, and BRC Passport office camps.

Burning Man provides data through its Innovate program to apps like dust and other projects.

For dust, we import this data and make it available for download onto your phone. The data updates frequently and will update if you have a cell or wifi connection when you open the app and choose the burn (or if you choose "Download Update" from the more menu).

Anyone submitting updates to events can do so at playaevents.burning.org up until August 18th. Dust DOES NOT control camp, event and art data.

Important Dates​

• August 18 - Playa Event submissions end.
• August 17 - Theme Camp Locations will be displayed in the dust app.
• August 24 - Art locations will be displayed in the dust app.

Theme Camp Images​

Burning Man accepted theme camp images for the first time in 2025 and we've got them in the dust app!

BRC Passport Office​

This year's we're working with BRC Passport Office to show camps that have stamps. On the camps page of dust press the down arrow and choose "Passport Camps".

The Black Rock City Passport Office aims to foster a more interconnected, explorative, and immersive Burning Man experience by providing attendees with unique passports.

These passports not only serve as compact mementos but also inspire burners to discover new camps, engage with different communities, and collect creative stamps - deepening their connection with the Burning Man spirit and community.

More to Come​

We've got some more tricks up our sleeve for Burning Man 2025, but you'll need to wait for announcements!

We've just released a new feature for camps: accepting events from the public!

This means that for Center Camp or camps with a stage a camp lead or organizer can accept events. This had previously been a manual process for the camp lead to handle but now dust can manage this for you.

How does it work?​

After saving your camp information and editing your camp you'll see a new checkbox marked "Accept event submissions from the public". If you check this option and click Save and Publish it unlocks event submissions.

Now when someone wants to submit an event and visit your burn (ie via https://yourburn.dust.events) they will see this:

Notice the registration option for "Center Camp"? For any camps that have open registration of events turned on this is available.

Best of all, when someone registers an event at that camp the camp owner(s) will be emailed - so they can follow up if there is any scheduling issues etc.

Multi Day Imports

Another new feature that has been recently added is the ability to import events from CSV that have multiple days. Previously you could have only one date in the Date field (eg Wednesday, April 24). Now you can list multiple days like "Wednesday, April 24, Thursday, April 25, Saturday April 27th" and date will understand that the event re-ocurrs on those dates.

Events using dust in May

The last few months we've been heads down implementing so many awesome features in dust that we had to record a new series of tutorial videos!

If you are short on time here is the TLDR of whats new:

1. Registration Improvements - Theme Camps, Art and Mutant Vehicle registration gets a much easier flow. You now only need 1 link on your website which allows participants to manage every aspect of the camp, art or mutant vehicle.
2. Placement Forms - We've incorporated the forms (like Google Forms, Survey Monkey etc) into the registration process. This means you no longer have to keep this in sync with dust by importing.
3. Management in the App - The management app of dust is now available inside dust!
4. Volunteeripate - A new integration with Volunteeripate means that volunteers can get reminder notifications of their shifts.
5. Offline Improvements - We've improved the experience when you have really bad cell service.
6. Communication - More options for integrating messages like Newsletters, BlueSky and Mastodon.
7. Tutorials Videos - We've recorded a series of bite sized videos for burn organizers.

Registration Improvements​

We've created a single link for each burn that handles everything that participants need for theme camps, art, and mutant vehicles. As an example take a look at bequinox-2025.dust.events:

After login you get a home page that is tailored to the participant of your burn:

• Camp/Art/Mutant Vehicle/Event registration options if they are new (with a follow up placement questionaire).
• or a page to manage their camp etc if they had registered before.
• or access to all features if they are an admin.

We've also made it easier for you to turn on and off registration in the Settings page:

Placement Forms​

Your placement questionaire form for camps, art and mutant vehicles are now part of the registration flow in dust. This means that instead of putting links for these on your website you can add them to dust and they become part of how someone registers a camp, art piece or art car. They receive an email as a reminder to complete the form and are given the opportunity to complete it as they fill in details in dust.

You can turn the feature on by pasting the links to your forms in Settings > Placement:

Here's an example of the follow up email they receive to request completion of forms:

The benefit to you is a streamlined process that captures all the right information without having to manually import files last minute. You can also accomodate camps that don't need placement and you also get a heads up on which camps may be coming to your burn before they complete their placement questionaire.

Management in the App​

You can now manage your burn inside the dust app. This works for all participants including regional organizers. You'll see a new "Participate" section on the home page of your burn:

Coupled with the improvements to the registration and placement forms it should make it much easier for everyone to make last minute changes to events etc, and because it is part of the app it should be quicker than visiting the dust website.

Volunteeripate​

Volunteeripate is a platform to coordinate volunteers (and purchase tickets). Burners can now get reminders of their volunteer shifts by clicking the "Sync with Volunteeripate" button in dust:

For more information on how to integrate Volunteeripate please visit the docs.

Offline Improvements​

At some burns like Love Burn in Miami and Element 11 in Utah there is cell service but it is really really bad. While dust will work offline there are still burners who open the app for the first time when they arrive at the burn.

The first time you open a burn in dust it will download all the camps, art etc. We can't make this part of the app because you need to be able to change this data and the review process for the app can be several days.

So, we've been working hard to make that first download experience much better on a bad cell network.

You may notice that there are some new download progress dialogs like this one in dust:

On a really bad cell network these:

• Give an indication that something is happening even if it is slow
• Will eventually time out if the network is too slow but will let you know this has happened
• Will allow you to retry again in the case of a failure

The end result should be less frustrated burners who didn't open the app before they arrived at the burn. We can't make a bad cell network good but can give clear communication about the process.

Communication​

We've added a new option for communicating with burners. This appears as a "Messages" tab in dust and can show Newsletters, Bluesky or Mastodon posts or an RSS Feed. We have a Video in our tutorials section on this. You can also contact us and we'll help you hook it up.

Tutorial Videos​

We've added a dozen short form videos (~5 minutes) on different features in dust, including:

• Setting up your Burn - Getting your burn into dust in 10 minutes.
• Theme Camps - Theme camp management, importing and placement.
• Art - Art and Mutant Vehicle management and importing.
• Events - Managing events for camps, art and open camping events.
• Map & Placement - Map images, Google Maps, placement and GPS accurancy.
• Communication - Communicating to burners via notifications and messages.
• Printing Event Guide - How to generate a printable event guide.
• Forms - How to hook up Google Forms, Survey Monkey or others for registration and placement.
• Links - Home page links for tickets, survival guide and more.
• Volunteeripate - How to integration with Volunteeripate.
• Last Minute Checklist - What not to forget before driving out the burn.

Burners love to know where mutant vehicles are located and now the dust app can show their live location on the map.

Mutant Vehicle owners can follow these directions to broadcast their location.

Mutant Vehicles that are broadcasting their location appear on the map as a yellow pin. If a mutant vehicle hasn't broadcast it's location in 24 hours then it will show at it's home base (where placement put it).

Live tracking of Mutant Vehicles is available for regional burns only (we'll work on a plan for Burning Man soon). It's only suitable to be used if you have cell service at your burn.

The event selection screen of dust has been given a revamp!

We've added the ability to list events vertically to quickly browse, and we've also added the region/state/country of the event. You'll also notice we no longer use the word "regional" to describe events as we're including community events like camp fundraisers, decompressions and "non-official" regionals.

Another revamp has been the search screen which now shows the distance and direction of camps, art and events and also shows the closest camp/art or event.

We've been working on making registration of theme camps and event easier for everyone.

You'll notice a new button in the dust app Manage my camp & events which will let theme camp organizers (or any burner creating an event) to easily manage their camp, it's events and music. You can also use this as a way to manage the regional burn from your phone.

The new button handles registration of new camps or editing a camp or burn. Once you have registered a camp the label will change to Manage [your-camp-name].

The new button appears when your burn has the setting Allow Camp Registration turned on in Settings and is hidden if you turn the setting off (You'll need to click Publish when you make a change).

Newsletter​

We've recently started a newsletter for dust. If you are interested in finding out about new features and update you can sign up for the newsletter.

Volunteeripate​

We've been chatting with Cabbie from Volunteeripate about a collaboration. If you haven't heard of Volunteeripate, it's a platform for volunteer management and ticket sales for regional burns. Details of the collaboration are still being worked out but we're excited at the opportunity to make it easier for burners to volunteer at a burn and easily access their tickets for gate checkin.

We're super excited to announce some new features for dust related to messaging burners interested in your regional!

Push Notifications​

You can now send push notifications out to burners who have accessed your regional in dust. This is a great way for announcements like ticket sales, burn times, deadlines for submissions or soliciting volunteer signups.

Notifications can be sent on their own, along with a social media post or when an email is sent out for your newsletter.

Mastodon​

You may post to social media when you have important announcements. Now dust can also show these posts in a "Messages" tab that will appear. When the notification goes out it will also send a push notification to burners who have accessed your regional burn.

Mastodon is a radically different social media platform. It is more akin to email in that it is not in control of any one company. It is also open meaning that unlike Facebook etc it is possible to easily integrate into systems like dust.

As Mastodon has no advertising and selling your data not their motivation, it feels like it fits in a lot better with the 10 Burning Man principles, particularly Decommodification.

You can read more about how to setup the Mastodon integration in the docs.

Newsletters​

Do you have a mailing list for important announcements? Now you can have any emails sent out automatically appear in the dust app and a push notification sent out to your burners.

You can read more about how to set this up in the docs.