How to Plant Seeds & Grow Crops in Endfield
You can process more than just minerals inside your factory in Arknights Endfield. Once you unlock the right facilities, you can also (kind of) grow plants in your base, and you can then use those to create medicine, explosives, and other items that require organic components. This feature won’t be available to players at the start, though it’s not exactly a late-game feature either. You’re going to need plants fairly early into Endfield’s story, and if you want to know how, here’s what you need to do.
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How to Grow Plants in Endfield
You don’t exactly plant crops and create fields in Endfield. All the planting you’ll do here happens inside Seed-Picking Units and Planting Units. These machines are built within your PAC building spaces; the former turns hand-gathered plants like Buckflower into seeds, while the Planting Unit turns seeds back into plants again. By connecting a Seed-Picking Unit to a Planting Unit, you’ll effectively produce an unlimited amount of plants, which you can then use for more advanced recipes.
To build these facilities, you’ll need the following
- Seed-Picking Unit: Amethyst Parts
- Planting Unit: Carbon, Amethyst Parts
Amethyst Parts are made by sending Amethyst Fibers into a Fitting Unit, while Carbon is made by sending plants to a Refining Unit.
If you want to make a relatively small farm at your base, you can use the diagram above as a reference. The load/yield balance numbers are going to be a little funky since you’re using Buckflower to create more Buckflower, but this should be more than enough for your early game resource needs.
Buckflower is an important resource for Valley IV since it’s needed to make Buck Capsule (B), which is the most expensive item you can sell to the Refugee Camp Outpost. You can also use Buck Capsule (B) as a Tactical item for your Operators in Endfield. If anyone falls below 60% HP, they’ll automatically use equipped Buckfield Capsules to restore 655 HP.
Once you get further into the game, you’ll eventually need to expand your production lines or create more so you can cater to the needs of your teams and the people Talos-II. The aforementioned Buck Capsule (B), for example, also requires you to make Ferrium Bottles, which means you’ll need to create an entirely separate production line just for those and somehow merge it together with your Buckpowder output. Factory building can get complicated real quick, but thankfully, you can always just copy someone else’s blueprints if you don’t want to concern yourself with the complexities of the process.