Arknights Endfield Industrial Explosives Guide

What to know

• Industrial Explosives are crafted through the AIC, not looted reliably
• They require Amethyst Components and Aketine-derived materials
• The Packaging Unit is mandatory for final production
• Automating explosives early prevents major story and exploration blocks

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How to craft Industrial Explosives in Arknights: Endfield

Industrial Explosives are one of the first items in Arknights: Endfield that force you to understand the Automated Industry Complex (AIC). You’ll encounter blocked paths, Blighted growths, and quest objectives that explicitly demand explosives, and there is no shortcut around them.

This guide explains exactly how Industrial Explosives work, the full production chain, how to set up an efficient AIC layout, and how to use explosives correctly in the field so you don’t waste time or materials.

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What Industrial Explosives are

Industrial Explosives are a consumable industrial item designed to destroy specific environmental obstacles. They are not combat grenades and are not interchangeable with other thrown items.

You’ll mainly use them to:

• Clear Blighted or reinforced obstacles
• Open sealed routes during exploration
• Complete story and side-quest objectives
• Access hidden nodes, chests, and shortcuts

Because these obstacles are often mandatory, explosives act as hard progression keys rather than optional tools.

Arknights Endfield Industrial Explosives details

Aspect	Details
Item type	Consumable (industrial)
Crafted via	AIC Packaging Unit
Main inputs	Amethyst Components, Aketine Powder
Primary use	Destroying obstacles
Automation	Strongly recommended
Early bottleneck	Very common for new players

Exact Industrial Explosives recipe

The standard, widely accepted recipe is:

5 × Amethyst Components + 1 × Aketine Powder → 1 Industrial Explosive

This recipe is executed in the Packaging Unit inside the AIC. Crafting time varies slightly depending on research and upgrades, but the inputs remain consistent.

If the Packaging Unit does not have both required materials available, it will not start production.

AIC buildings you must unlock

You cannot craft Industrial Explosives without unlocking and placing several factory buildings. These are typically gated behind early story and AIC research progression.

Required AIC buildings

• Refining Unit – converts Amethyst Ore into Amethyst Fiber
• Fitting / Gearing Unit – converts Fiber into Amethyst Components
• Planting / Seed-Picking chain – produces Aketine consistently
• Packaging Unit – assembles the final Industrial Explosive

If any one of these is missing, production stalls.

Producing Amethyst Components (mechanical input)

Step-by-step Amethyst Components chain

1. Mine Amethyst Ore from purple mineral nodes in Hub and Valley regions
2. Transfer ore into the Depot (must be inside the Core AIC area)
3. Use a Refining Unit to convert Ore → Amethyst Fiber
4. Use a Fitting / Gearing Unit to convert Fiber → Amethyst Components

Early on, crates and chests may drop Amethyst Components directly, but this is unreliable and should not replace automation.

Common mistake

Many players stop at Fiber and wonder why explosives won’t craft. Fiber is not the final component—you must process it one step further.

Producing Aketine Powder (plant input)

Getting Aketine

Aketine is a plant-based resource obtained from:

• Overworld harvesting nodes
• Automated planting through the AIC

You can gather it manually early, but sustained explosive crafting requires automation.

Recommended plant automation chain

1. Seed-Picking Unit extracts Aketine seeds
2. Planting Unit grows Aketine crops
3. Processing unit converts crops into Aketine Powder

Once this loop is running, you’ll have a steady supply without returning to the field.

Recommended AIC layout for explosives

A clean layout prevents most crafting issues.

Simple, efficient chain

Depot → Refining Unit → Fitting Unit →
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Packaging Unit ← Aketine Powder line

Key layout tips:

• Keep belts short
• Feed Packaging Unit from both sides if possible
• Place Refining and Fitting Units close together

Avoid long, tangled conveyors—debugging becomes painful fast.

Matching production speed (very important)

Explosives are often slow not because of Packaging, but because of upstream imbalance.

Typical fixes:

• Fiber piling up → add another Fitting Unit
• Packaging idle → plant processing too slow
• Ore backing up → add another Refining Unit

Always identify which stage is bottlenecking before expanding blindly.

Power considerations

Packaging Units and plant processors consume noticeable power. If production starts and stops repeatedly:

• Check total power output
• Add Thermal Banks or power upgrades
• Ensure all units are in the same power region

Power shortages are a silent killer of explosive production.

How to craft explosives quickly (early-game method)

If you only need one or two explosives for a quest:

• Loot crates for Amethyst Components
• Manually process a small batch of Aketine
• Craft directly in a single Packaging Unit

This is inefficient long-term, but useful for immediate objectives before automation is ready.

How to use Industrial Explosives in the field

Equipping explosives

Industrial Explosives are equipped as consumables. Assign them to a quick-use slot before leaving the base.

Using them correctly

1. Aim at the target obstacle
2. Throw the explosive
3. Step back before detonation

Only specific obstacles are destructible. If an explosion does nothing, the target likely requires a different tool or story trigger.

Avoid wasting explosives

• They have limited AoE
• They do not work on generic terrain
• Misthrows consume the item

Always confirm the obstacle is valid before throwing.

Why you should automate Industrial Explosives

Manual crafting works briefly, then collapses under demand.

Automation benefits:

• No quest delays
• Faster exploration completion
• Consistent supply for backtracking
• Less inventory micromanagement

Once automated, explosives become a background resource rather than a blocker.

Common problems and fixes

Packaging Unit won’t start

• Missing one of the required inputs
• No power
• Incorrect belt connection

Packaging Units will not partially craft—both inputs must be present.

“I don’t see the blueprint”

Many AIC blueprints are story-locked. Progress the main quest and AIC tutorials until the Packaging Unit unlocks.

Production is too slow

• Add parallel units
• Upgrade AIC research
• Shorten conveyor paths

Scaling horizontally is usually better than overfeeding a single machine.

Why Industrial Explosives matter long-term

Explosives are one of the first signs that Arknights: Endfield is shifting away from manual play and toward system mastery.

If you understand:

• Multi-step production chains
• Plant + mechanical resource integration
• Power and throughput balancing

Then later items (batteries, advanced components, catalysts) become much easier to manage.

Crafting Industrial Explosives the right way

Industrial Explosives are not rare—they’re procedural. Once you understand the AIC chain behind them, they stop being a problem entirely.

Automate Amethyst Components, automate Aketine, feed both into a Packaging Unit, and keep your power stable. Do this once, and every blocked path or explosive-based quest becomes trivial from that point on.