Where to find aketine locations in Arknights Endfield

And how to make aketine at your AIC base

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Finding aketine in Arknights Endfield might not seem essential at first, but you’ll need it to craft explosives on the fly eventually. There aren’t that many places you can find aketine to start with, though eventually, you can start producing the stuff at your base once you unlock a few research nodes in your AIC tree. That happens at the end of Paving the Way, the gigantic chapter where you learn the ins and outs of base building.

This guide explains where to find aketine in Arknights Endfield and how to produce more aketine at your base.

Arknights Endfield aketine locations

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We’ve found two spots in the valley you explore before the first boss fight. One is just north of a spot where you can find amethyst, and the other is just across the chasm near the Valley Transfer part of the map.

Collect all the aketine you find, and then return after resources respawn to grab more. The foes you had to defeat the first time on your way through the valley will respawn alongside the aketine, so be prepared to take them down again as well.

You won’t need heaps of it at the start, and by the time you do need more, you’ll have progressed to the point where you can make it yourself at your AIC base.

How to make aketine at the AIC base

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Once you unlock the second tier of AIC upgrade nodes (which happens automatically after you complete Paving the Way), you can spend a research point to unlock the Planting node in the Processing section, but only after spending another point to unlock Solid Filling first. The Planting node lets you build and use seeding and planting machines to produce seeds and plant them, and aketine is one of them. You’ll need to further process your aketine to get it in a form usable for explosives, though. The plant itself needs to go through a shredder to make powder (similar to how you processed ore through the shredder in an earlier tutorial) and then another unit to automatically turn the powder into explosives.

Which is a lot of work for an object you don’t really need that much of this early in the game. We recommend holding off on spending research points here until you’ve unlocked some other nodes in the tree, like the Power I node that lets you produce thermal banks for additional energy capacity. Hence why we recommend not rerolling in Endfield , since you’d have to go through all this again.

For more help, check out our guides for how to get Protodisks and where to find the Pink Bolete maps , and head over to our Arknights Endfield code list for some freebies.

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The best Arknights Endfield blueprints for the early- and mid-game

For all your seed, battery, and stock bill needs

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Finding the right set of blueprints in Arknights Endfield is the difference between spending hours manually configuring your base and just plunking down setups you know will work without tinkering. Which blueprints are best depends on where you’re at in the game. You can’t, for example, get a head start on advanced production with a battery blueprint if you haven’t actually unlocked the processes by which you make batteries. So your best bet is to upgrade your factory as you progress through the game, adding more efficient layouts or swapping one production set for another.

Below, we list some of the best blueprints in Arknights Endfield for the early- and mid-game, including battery farm blueprints.

Best Arknights Endfield blueprints for the early game

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The actual best blueprints for the early game, and for any time when you just want to see how a layout might work or start with the basics, are the blueprints you get by completing tutorial simulations. Once you unlock a new facility or process, you’ll see a prompt encouraging you to try it out in a simulation. These are often lengthy and tedious, but you’ll typically get a blueprint that lets you plunk down a basic setup that mimics what you just used. It takes the fuss out of planning and lets you focus just on producing materials you need.

However, as you start progressing, you’ll want to lessen the amount of space each process takes and have several other factors to consider while building. That’s when community blueprints come in handy.

Best Arknights Endfield blueprints for the mid-game

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You can opt for full-factory blueprints, but using process-specific blueprints is a lot easier and takes the troubleshooting out of trying to figure out what went wrong, if something were to go wrong. You also have more control over your layout this way.

Anyway, we’ve tested these blueprints from other Endfield players and found they work perfectly.

• Stock bills blueprint (courtesy of lChristl ): EFO01Iao8io0i6975o08
• LC battery blueprint: EFO01893u6Ou8A126UI73
• SC battery blueprint (courtesy of JesusSandro ): EFO01U4Ai8u7E8OO7Oa8
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• Seed blueprint: EFO0172UA40A7I55O0Ai
• Early power plant (courtesy of CautiousBowl7071 , requires 60 Originium and 30 Amethyst)): EFO01893u55O4o1AUI73

While we cautioned against using full-factory blueprints earlier, this one from seas-are-cute is an excellent option for giving you every material you need without having to bother setting up individual processing stations yourself.

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Don’t hesitate to experiment with other blueprints to find what works best for you. Just make sure you have enough power output to keep everything going. Fixing a juice-less factory is much more of a pain than it sounds, so keep up with that as you build.

For more help, check out our guides for how to get Protodisks and where to find the Pink Bolete maps and aketine locations , and head over to our Arknights Endfield code list for some freebies.

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