Arknights Endfield Exploration Guide – Efficient Pathing, Fast Travel, and Secrets
Exploration in Arknights: Endfield is fastest when you chain TP points, ziplines, and powered shortcuts into a loose network, then sweep each region methodically for chests, nodes, and quests. Treat AIC tools as part of your movement kit, not just a factory system, and you massively cut backtracking time.
Efficient Pathing Basics
Good routing starts with story progression and TP coverage.
- Rush main story and missions marked as important to unlock fast travel, AIC tools, and new regions quickly.
- Activate every TP Point you pass; they are fast travel hubs and healing stations, and guides call them “extremely important” for safe exploration in hostile zones.
- When entering a new area, do a quick “TP sweep” along the main roads and obvious side paths, then use those TPs as anchors for deeper dives.
This approach means later quests and chest cleanup become short hops instead of long walks.
Fast Travel, Ziplines, and AIC Shortcuts
Endfield’s fast travel is built around TPs plus AIC traversal gadgets.
- TP Points:
- Ziplines:
- Built from the AIC, they create permanent routes over gaps and vertical terrain; Game8 notes they are a core exploration tool for reaching distant destinations.
- Exploration tips recommend: if you see a spot that was hard to reach, set up a zipline from a nearby TP for next time.
- Zipline use is manual: you must aim, lock onto a valid anchor, then confirm movement (e.g., L2+R2), and mis-aiming can cause failures.
- Other AIC tools:
Guides suggest gradually building a zipline backbone from central TPs to major mining clusters and quest zones, cutting travel for the rest of the game.
Secrets, Chests, and Hidden Interactions
Regions hide a lot of loot beyond obvious markers.
- Always grab plants, ores, and mushrooms when you see them; they respawn and fuel upgrades, AIC production, and quests.
- Many Advanced Chests are gated by small puzzles:
- Break glowing wooden frames or debris to reveal a hidden chest.
- Follow glowing golden butterflies; interacting and tracking them twice can spawn a chest on a nearby platform.
- Look behind crates, in side rooms, and along cliff edges in buildings like the Technology Office; chest guides repeatedly warn that “search every nook.”
- Some quest objectives and secrets (e.g., Invisible Glyphs) are simply hidden chests in deeper investigation areas—open the chest to finish the phase.
Carrying bombs is recommended during exploration, since destructible walls often conceal shortcuts or extra loot.
Using Your Base to Improve Exploration
The AIC supports exploration as much as it supports crafting.
- Power lines and Relay Towers can reactivate ancient tech and open blocked routes, effectively reclaiming sections of the map and revealing new paths.
- Building ziplines and bounce devices from your base grid into the open world lets you “hardwire” fast paths you’ll reuse for farming and questing.
Guides describe the base as an exploration tool that turns tricky terrain and locked paths into permanent shortcuts once properly wired and equipped.
Practical Exploration Routine
A simple loop keeps exploration efficient and low-friction.
- When entering a new region:
- Unlock all nearby TPs.
- Do a broad pass for obvious chests and resource nodes along main paths.
- Note any high ledges, big gaps, or dense mining spots that would benefit from future ziplines.
- On return visits:
- Build ziplines from TPs to hard‑to‑reach areas and mining clusters.
- Use chest guides or Aurylens routes only after you have solid fast-travel coverage.
Handled this way, Endfield’s exploration becomes a network you refine over time, each AIC shortcut and TP capture makes every future trip faster and reveals more secrets with less backtracking.
