Hi, hi! I’m Lu Lu Lu, a virtual YouTuber!In this post, I’d like to share a comprehensive industrial construction workflow for *Arknights: Endland*, covering everything from the early exploration phase through the initial endgame build to automated maintenance.After playing through it herself, Luo Luo discovered that Integrated Industry is truly a mind-bending nightmare for many newly appointed administrators. There’s an overwhelming amount to do in the early stages, and when you’re figuring out industrial construction from scratch, it’s easy to get halfway through building only to realize, “Wait—I’m out of seeds, out of power, and can’t craft equipment.” So, which production lines should you prioritize in the early game to steadily progress through the main story while laying a solid foundation for your industry—all without having to completely overhaul everything in the mid-to-late game?If you have any of the questions mentioned above, in this video, Lolo will share a set of industrial construction strategies—based on her own trial-and-error experiences and subsequent adjustments—to guide you from the essential production lines in the early stages all the way to a fully automated setup that allows for semi-hands-off operation and a stress-free, relaxed gameplay experience later on. As long as you follow this approach, you’ll be able to make rapid progress on the main quest without getting tripped up by the industrial system—and you won’t have to waste a ton of time constantly reworking your layout.If you want to take your efficiency to the next level, follow Lolo and check it out!
[Arknights: The End of the World] Integrated Industry Base-Building Guide 💥▸ 5 Key Construction Points, Skip the Transition Gear, and Head Straight for the Wuling Xirang Production Line! Includes the “Dijiang” Transport Strategy! Build an Automated Base from Scratch! ▹ Lu Luo Luo ◃
00:00 Chapters
01:03 An Industrialized Approach to Efficiency
04:23 Medicines
05:29 Electricity
06:28 Explosives
06:53 Equipment
07:22 Featured Products
07:40 Core Area Plan—Valley No. 4
08:58 Core Area Planning—Wuling
10:39 The Method of Cross-Regional Transmission
11:50 END
An Industrialized Approach to Efficiency
First, let’s talk about Lolo’s own playstyle. Lolo is the type of player who doesn’t want to spend too much time figuring out the industrial side of things early on; when building, I go straight for a “nearly endgame” setup and try to avoid making too many changes later on. Plus, I’m not very good at designing blueprints—in Minecraft, I’m basically just the one in charge of digging.As mentioned in the previous “Beginner’s Guide to Farming,” the key focus in the early game isFocus on the main storyline first, focus on the main storyline first, Let me say that againLet’s focus on the main storyline first.…because the main storyline is tied to new areas and features that will be introduced later, as well as various daily-resetting, limited-quantity rare gatherables, resource recycling stations, and courier drop-off points in those new areas. Even “Sand Leaves”—which are required in later crafting processes and are consumed in enormous quantities—must be collected.Energy HubThat’s the only way to collect them.Therefore, the last thing you need during the early exploration phase is to spend too much unnecessary time on the factory system. Although this is one of the game’s unique features—and players who love tinkering with production lines will absolutely love it—if your goal is to level up efficiently or prioritize advancing through the game, it’s not recommended to spend all your time on the factory right from the start. Based on Lolo’s own early-game experience, there are roughly five key industrial priorities to focus on in the early stages:Explosives, Medicines, Equipment, Outpost Products, Electricity. First, make sure you have a “basic, sufficient” supply of explosives and medical supplies—the explosives are mainly for clearing a path during exploration, while the medical supplies are for maintaining stability during combat.
Next is the one that’s “basically adequate”Equipment. As mentioned in previous videos, prioritize equipping your main operator with the best gear; for the other operators, just make sure they don’t go down too easily. So, once Lolo has crafted Level 36 gear, she should equip it on her main operator, Levantine, first. As more gear parts become available, she can gradually equip the other operators. After that, she should focus on the main story and pour all resources into Levantine,Skip this stage of high-quality equipment parts entirely and start planning once you reach Wuling.Xirang Equipment Components…and craft all the Level 70 end-game gear in one go.
However, since this playstyle might be a bit challenging, if you feel like you’re hitting a wall during combat, it’s perfectly fine to switch gears and gradually work on leveling up your Level 50 gear while also managing your industrial activities on the side.Next, we need to first set up a system for storing production and managing trading vouchers for distribution among the various outposts.Product Line. That way, when you log in each day, you can start with a round of routine trading. You won’t make much profit from allocation vouchers in the early stages, and their primary use at that point is to expand the storage and retrieval lines in the protocol area’s warehouse or to expand the area’s space.Basically, expanding the warehouse access lines once or twice—or just adding a little more space—will make things much more manageable. Since there’s a cap on the base production of dispatch vouchers at each location, just let it increase gradually here; the main thing is to make sure you don’t let the redeemable dispatch vouchers overflow.In addition, the development levels for Valley No. 4 and Wuling each have their own caps, so basically, once the main storyline is completed,I’ll come back when I have time to fill in the gaps that affect the construction progress; if I play long enough, I’ll eventually reach the max level.So even if you start out by building a highly profitable production line that makes a few million a day, you’ll eventually use up all the resources you can acquire with allocation vouchers—at most, you’ll just clear out all the materials from the store. After that, you’ll just be buying the daily-refreshing allocation resources every day,And the number of dispatch tickets you can actually purchase through the daily reset isn’t that excessive. So, as long as you’re careful not to exceed the limit, just keep a small production line running that “stays just under the dispatch ticket cap.”Plus, a large portion of Lolo’s Dispatch Vouchers in the early game actually came from courier jobs and stock trading. As for the money-making factory line, it’s perfectly fine to wait until later in the game—once your characters are at a similar level and your combat power is stable—to properly set one up. Ultimately, you can just treat the Dispatch Voucher Shop as a passive source of resources.Finally, there’s what keeps the entire industry running—Electricity. As construction expands, the demand for electricity will rise accordingly, and ensuring a stable supply of power for basic operations is another major priority. Therefore, it is essential to plan ahead for a thermal energy reservoir capable of supporting operations, as well as the necessary mineral resources or batteries to meet energy consumption needs.Now that we’ve covered the main points of industrial construction, we’ll move on to examine the specific details to pay attention to while playing, broken down by category.
Medicines
First up are healing items—these are basically one of the first things you’ll encounter. Plus, in *The Endlands*, some enemies are far from pushover, so carrying the right amount of healing items is key to smoothly progressing through the main story. For example, the “Buckwheat Flower Powder” is a very practical option for beginners.Once the core of the protocol is unlocked andPurple MineAfter that, you can start making “Qiao Yu Capsules“. To start, you can also use the official built-in blueprints to quickly set up a basic production line.”Then wait until it’s unlockedBlue Mine, and then begin preparations for “Premium Buckwheat Capsules” production line.Finally, it’s time to wait for it to unlockSand Leaves, it’s about time to start preparing for “Premium Buckwheat Healing Capsules” production line.You can also wait until you feel you’ve made enough progress in the early game and things are running smoothly before “copying the blueprint” to directly build a complete production line dedicated to medicines, truly bringing to life the concept of “Rhodes Island Pharmaceutical Company” as an upstream wholesaler.Since Lolo herself prioritized completing the Wuling main questline first, she finished the Premium Buckwheat Healing production line, then cleared the entire Wuling area before going back to craft the Premium Buckwheat Healing Capsules. Also, set up the Premium Qiao Yu Capsule production line as shown in the screenshot. Basically, as long as you have enough potions for early-game battles, that’s sufficient. Since the Premium Qiao Yu Capsule production line is relatively complex, it’s best not to spend too much time on it right away.
Electricity
As for electricity, the principle is similar to that of medicine: in both cases, you start by using materials that can be easily gathered from the roadside.Source Stone, and placed in the thermal energy pool to be used as fuel for power generation.To be continued once unlockedPurple MineAfter that, you can build a system that can basically maintain a power supply.Green Battery Production Line…in the power generation area, Lolo will also build it first inSecondary Core, for exampleValley PassageSince there’s plenty of space in the agreement zone early on, you can temporarily use the official blueprints to build something simple, or you can find blueprints shared by many administrators online. When I had plenty of raw ore in the early stages, I really liked using this thermal pool blueprint. and you can adjust the production line yourself to reduce excess power output if needed.To be continued once unlockedBlue MineAfter that, you can start making preparationsBlue BatteryFor the production line, you can also use the thermal pool blueprint that Lolo shared earlier. If you don’t have enough power, simply change the input for one of the lines to a blue battery or a green battery—that should be more than enough power. After that, just keep clearing the land.The LastPurple BatterySimilarly, I didn’t start using Lolo until I’d made significant progress on the Wuling main questline. The blue batteries collected earlier were more than enough for power generation, and any excess could be traded for Dispatch Vouchers. Plus, since Lolo had made rapid progress during the early exploration phase, the regional development level hadn’t yet reached the point where purple batteries could be sold, so it was perfectly fine to come back and handle this later.
Explosives
The explosives section is relatively straightforward. In the early stages, you can simply use the blueprints provided by the game. Lolo recommends building the explosives production line at a secondary core—for example, start by placing it atValley Passage…and use it as a small factory.Reserve the core of the main agreement for the main production lines with more complex processes or those requiring large quantities of output. This way, the explosives line won’t conflict with the main line, and it can be dismantled and modified at any time to easily adjust output. It also saves on the scheduling vouchers spent on the Integration Manager during the early stages.
Equipment
As with the medicines and electricity mentioned earlier, equipment is also sourced fromAmethyst → Lapis → High Crystal → Xirang Equipment ComponentAnd so on, progressing step by step.Since the manufacturing process for High Crystal equipment parts is relatively complex and the production line takes up a lot of space, Luo Luo decided to skip the High Crystal equipment parts stage altogether and wait until Wuling starts production directly.Xirang Equipment Components. Equipment crafted using Xirang components is the highest-tier gear available in the current version.So, once you’re able to craft Level 70 gear, go back and make some high-crystal gear components—mainly to set aside for things likeLong-Distance Zip Line TowerFacilities that use high-crystalline components.
Featured Products
Finally, let’s touch on the products available at each outpost. As you can see from the previous sections, most of the items traded at each outpost are tied to either “medicine” or “batteries.”So if you want to make money efficiently, just focus mainly on medicines and batteries. The remaining low-priced parts are best used to consume excess resources when you have spare production capacity, and to earn a little extra money from recycling on the side.
Core Area Planning
Valley No. 4
Next, I’d like to briefly share Lolo’s plan for an automated production line now that the initial setup is complete.In the core area of the Agreement in Valley No. 4, the land is currently used primarily asPremium Buckwheat Healing CapsulesFocus on the automated production line center; for the remaining areas, just fill in whatever you’re currently short on. For example, I’ve set aside a small area for power generation up above, and since there was a severe shortage of sand blades earlier, I added a few production lines for sand blades for now.Since I used most of Lolo’s dispatch vouchers early on to upgrade the delivery tier for regional dispatch, I later relied on the capital from delivery dispatch to trade stocks. After making a modest fortune, I expanded the Integrated Butler’s warehouse storage and retrieval lines and service areas, and then gradually expanded the production line for Premium Qiao Yu Capsules.Once you’ve unlocked all the Integration Managers, find a perfect blueprint you like and use it to cover the entire area.
Other by-product production lines originally located in this area can be moved to other secondary cores for continued use. For example, the Valley Passage is primarily used for power generation and explosive production, while the Source Stone Research Garden can be used for automatically harvesting parts, gear, or plants. In short, the five key points mentioned at the beginning are distributed across different protocol zones to fulfill their respective functions—this is actually a very interesting aspect of management planning.If you choose the same approach as Lolo—focusing on efficient early-game expansion and basic industrial production—the general flow would be: Start by clearing the land, using medicines and electricity produced from blue ore to sustain yourself. Once you reach Wuling, immediately set up an automated Xirang production line, then run power lines from Wuling back to Valley No. 4 to connect the areas that require large amounts of electricity.Finally, gradually expand your main base, then copy a perfect industrial layout from a final version you like.
Wuling
Over in Wuling, Luo Luo started by setting aside some startup capital through courier services and stock trading, and first expanded the warehouse storage and handling facilities,After using the official blueprint to set up the basic Xirang production line, produce about 50 of themXirang Power Supply Pile, Xirang RepeaterFor exploration supplies, just copy Lolo’s automated Xirang blueprint.Treat the core of the Wuling City Agreement as the Xirang Automated Production Line Center, and plan the area on the left asSand Leaf Section, which can simultaneously produce the materials needed for XirangStabilized Carbon Bricks, while the upper section is arrangedBud Needle PesticideProduction lines, etc.You’ll need to spend Industry Points to unlock “Furnace Expansion I“, which allows you to place two Tian You Hong Lu units that produce Xirang, thereby speeding up the production of purple Xirang batteries. The entire automated production line can then handle all materials, dispatch vouchers, and Xirang batteries in one go, making it very convenient. If you need the blueprint, Luo Luo will post it in the pinned comment so everyone can copy it directly. This blueprint is also based on previous versions that have been refined over time, and I’m very grateful to all the experts who have passed down this knowledge through the generations. Jingyu Valley is primarily used to make up for the current power shortage. Purple Xirang batteries have such high power output that they easily exceed the power requirements for early-game endgame gear. Additionally, since the number of Tianyou Honglu furnaces is limited, this area is designated as a blue battery production base to ensure power remains at a level that’s “sufficient without overflowing too much.” We’re using the same thermal pool and blue battery blueprints applied earlier in Valley 4. This essentially creates an automated entry-level farming industrial line. However, since this automated Xirang production line requires maintaining nearly 2k of power once completed, you’ll need to set up most of the mining sites and the power grid beforehand. Lolo’s power grid map will also be displayed on the screen; feel free to pause or take a screenshot if needed. At this point, you’ve essentially completed the main questline, so it’s about time to start exploring.
Methods for Cross-Regional Transmission
Finally, here’s a little tip: Although, once we reach the core of the Wuling Agreement, we’ll find that a fixed maximum amount of resources can be teleported from the Valley 4 warehouse to the Wuling warehouse every hour, the amount teleported each hour isn’t very large.However, when you first arrive in Wuling, you may be short on many resources, such as stabilized charcoal blocks, blue ore, sand leaves, or batteries. At this point, using the Protocol Core to teleport is very inefficient. Lolo recommends simply returning to the Dijiang, where you can openBackpack, you’ll see it on the interfaceWarehouse Switch…Since we can choose either the Valley No. 4 or Wuling warehouse, we can fill our backpacks with the resources we need right here.(Ctrl + Left Click), then switch to another warehouse and selectQuick StorageGiven that backpacks have a 35-slot limit and each slot can hold 50 items, making quick round trips like this allows you to transport 1,750 units of resources at a time. No wonder the administrator’s backpack is capped at just 35 slots—it takes less than 30 seconds to move 1,750 units! By using the “Dijiang” cross-region transport method, you can move a massive amount of resources in a short time, so you won’t have to worry about running out of ore or batteries early on.As for the transmission function—the core of the agreement—it’s best suited for times when you’re sleeping or away, allowing industrial systems to run offline in the background, such as continuously delivering stable carbon blocks or other necessary resources. It essentially serves as an idle operation system.
That wraps up Lolo’s guide to the key steps from the early exploration phase to the initial automation phase. Once I’ve fully completed the game, I’ll consider making a video or posting about it on social media depending on the situation. Finally, I’d like to add that there are many ways to play *The Endland*. and Lolo follows an efficiency-focused leveling approach: quickly gathering all grindable resources to effectively stockpile enough pulls before the Levantine gacha pool ends, and then moving on to character development and management gameplay. While Lolo’s playstyle may not be right for everyone, I believe it can still provide new players with a clearer direction for certain aspects of industrial development.Since there are so many topics to cover, feel free to leave a comment and let me know what kind of content you’d like to see. If you found today’s guide helpful, I’d appreciate it if you could give Luo Luo a free “Like” to let me know. Thanks for watching until the end! I’m virtual YouTuber Luo Luo. See you next time!
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