Arknights Endfield Pink Boletes Farming Guide

Crack open a hidden patch of Arknights Endfield and coax Pink Boletes from their shadows-a guide to farming that rewrites your resource flow.

The main catch is their lengthy respawn time, which makes it difficult to harvest enough to upgrade your Akrnights Endfield characters. But with carefully timed gathering and mindful farming, it’s easy to make the most of the small amount found in the world of Talos II.

Where to find Pink Boletes in Arknights Endfield

What I don’t realize when I first dive into Arknights Endfield is that Pink Boletes only spawn in a few specific locations. Their scarcity isn’t obvious at first, but when tracking the elusive mushrooms, I notice two places to harvest them right on the Arknights Endfield map.

The first is located just up north of the Woodland Fringes, just below the Hub Base Power Plant. The Pink Boletes here are right out in the open, and I find them nestled neatly next to a patch of beautiful flowers.

The second is just south of the first, located just below the old water plant. These Pink Boletes are also nestled next to similar flowers, so I spot them just as easily.

Each location holds up to four Pink Boletes at a time, but each will only generate one Pink Bolete per daily reset. Although this works at first, I very quickly run low again after promoting Lifeng, Perlica, and Chen Qianyu. Although I’m keeping a few in reserve, I know I need to pick up the pace soon to upgrade my other operators.

So with my map as my guide and an open backpack, I set out again into the ever-transforming Talos II. Venturing further, this time, I make my way to the Valley Pass area. Here, located on a cliff right by the Arsenal, I spot a cluster of six Pink Boletes growing high up on the cliff, which I promptly head over to pocket.

How to farm Pink Boletes in Arknights Endfield

Pink Boletes are gathered mainly from fungal zones found in wilderness sectors like the Crimson Wetlands and Moss Vein Caves. Set up a supply base near these areas to shorten collection runs and increase your yield. Equip operators with high exploration and gathering stats, as they boost drop rates and shorten respawn timers. Using energy modules during weather cycles that favor fungal growth can further raise the amount of Pink Boletes obtained per expedition.

These six are a great find, but if I’m going to keep upgrading new operators, I’ll need a much more consistent source. Luckily, after reaching the end of chapter one, I find the solution.

Finishing the chapter lets you upgrade the Dijiang facility, where you can extract Pink Bolete seeds from the Pink Boletes in its newly added growth chamber. Once an operator is assigned to the chamber, Pink Bolete seeds can be extracted, which can be used to create Pink Boletes.

With the help of some tacking on the map, well-timed harvesting, and the Dijiang facility, it’s easy to get plenty of this essential early game upgrade material. Once you master this process, you can use the same method to harvest the Red Bolete for future upgrades.

Where to farm Pink Boletes efficiently in Endfield regions

The most efficient Pink Bolete farming is a daily loop through specific rare growth spots in early and mid-game regions, plus passive cultivation in the Growth Chamber for long-term supply.

Best regions and spots

Focus on the fixed rare growths; they respawn daily and give predictable income.

• The Hub

  • South of the Old Water Plant – cluster of up to six Pink Boletes.​

  • Southeast of the Old Water Plant – another six.​

  • Northeast of Rockhill Passage near rocky terrain – up to six more.​

• Valley Pass

  • Single rare growth in the Arsenal area, southwest of Valley Transfer, on a raised cliff; yields around six per full spawn.

• Originium Science Park

  • Southeast edge of The Depression – one Pink Bolete growth spot.

  • Northern end of Cliffside Trail / cliffside trial area – another growth spot with up to about twelve mushrooms around it.​​

These locations cover almost all early-mid Pink Bolete nodes, so building your route around them minimizes wasted travel.​

Efficient farming route

Run a short “harvest circuit” once per day instead of camping one node.​

1. Start in The Hub and clear all three clusters around the Old Water Plant and Rockhill Passage.

2. Move to Valley Pass, head to the Arsenal cliff, and loot the rare growth there.

3. Finish in Originium Science Park by hitting The Depression node first, then the Cliffside Trail/cliffside trial node.

Since each rare growth respawns roughly once per day and only one bolete at a time, visiting everything in a single loop gives the best mushrooms-per-minute over the long term.

Growth Chamber for passive farming

Once your Control Nexus reaches level 2, unlock and use the Growth Chamber in OMV Dijiang.

• Convert Pink Boletes into Pink Bolete Mycelia, then plant those; each bolete can yield about three mycelia.​

• Plant multiple mycelia at once; each batch takes many hours, but this runs in the background while you do other content.

This is slower per unit than raw gathering but very efficient when combined with the daily map route.

Extra optimization tips

• Prioritize key promotion targets first so you don’t starve your account by over-leveling too many Operators at once.​

• Keep an eye on your Exploration Level, as it affects how many boletes can be spawned and respawned in these locations.​

If you tell me which of these regions you’ve already unlocked, I can narrow this to a step-by-step route just for your current progress.

How to unlock and optimize Dijiang Growth Chamber for boletes

You unlock the Dijiang Growth Chamber by progressing the story and upgrading the Control Nexus, then you optimize it by using medium cabins, the right operators, and prioritizing rare fungal seeds like Pink Boletes.

Unlocking the Growth Chamber

• Finish Chapter 1 and gain full access to OMV Dijiang and its base-management system; this is what enables cabin installation and the Growth Chamber feature.

• Clear the “Dijiang Upgrade and Maintenance I” mission and raise your Control Nexus so that Medium (Empty Cabin M) slots become available; the Growth Chamber requires one of these, not a small cabin.

• Once Control Nexus and cabins are ready, open the OMV Dijiang layout, select an Empty Cabin M, and build the Growth Chamber (installation is immediate once unlocked).​

Basic operation for boletes

• The Growth Chamber consumes one rare plant (for boletes, this is a Pink/Red Bolete or their mycelia) to generate seeds and then new copies over time.

• At minimum you must assign one operator; without staff, the chamber will not progress the growth cycle at all.​

• Each full cycle yields a small batch per day (players report around 2-4 materials per material line if you keep gathering plus chamber running), so treat it as long-term supplement, not your only source.

Operator setup and passives

• Growth speed scales with the number and type of operators inside the cabin; more operators = shorter cycles.​​

• Prioritize operators whose talents explicitly boost fungal or plant yield in the Growth Chamber (for example Da Pan’s “fungal matter rate up” passive, or similar fungal/plant-focused traits).​

• High base-productivity or Growth-Chamber-specific bonuses outperform generic operators; if you are limited, put at least one strong “growth” unit and fill remaining slots with whoever is free.

Optimization specifically for boletes

• Seed conversion: Turn your first Pink/Red Boletes into mycelia/seeds instead of using them all for promotions; this unlocks a renewable source so you do not hard-cap yourself later.

• Priority list: Always seed the rarest fungal material you’re short on (typically Pink Boletes early, Red Boletes later) rather than common plants or ores.

• Route synergy: Keep doing your daily bolete route in Hub / Valley Pass / Originium Science Park while the chamber runs; exploration plus chamber output is more efficient than either alone.

Advanced efficiency tips

• Keep the chamber busy: Check it whenever you return to base and immediately restart a new bolete batch so there is no idle downtime.​

• Balance vs. other cabins: Some late-game players leave the Growth Chamber empty in favor of pure production cabins, because chamber yields top out at a few mats per day; if you’re starved for boletes, keep it running, but once you’re stocked, consider reallocating operators.​

• Upgrade missions: Follow “Dijiang Upgrade and Maintenance II” and later missions to further upgrade OMV Dijiang and the Growth Chamber, improving capacity and making long bolete cycles more worthwhile.​

If you tell me which operators you have that mention Growth Chamber or fungal bonuses, I can suggest a concrete “best-in-slot” lineup for your bolete cabin.