How to Get Gear Templates in Arknights Endfield
Learn how to get Gear Templates in Arknights Endfield and craft powerful equipment for your Operators. Complete guide to gear rarities and the AIC system.
Leveling up your Operators and equipping them with top-tier weapons is only part of the equation in Arknights Endfield. If you really want to maximize their potential, you’ll need to dive into the Gear system. These equipment pieces provide crucial stat boosts that can make or break tough encounters. Unlike traditional loot-based systems where you farm for drops, Endfield takes a different approach—you’ll be working with Gear Templates and your factory infrastructure to craft exactly what you need.
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Understanding Gear Templates
Think of Gear Templates as blueprints or crafting recipes. They don’t give you equipment directly—instead, they unlock the ability to manufacture specific pieces of gear through your Automated Industry Complex (AIC). This ties the combat progression system directly into the base-building mechanics, giving you more control over what equipment you create.
Where to Find Gear Templates in Arknights Endfield
Early in your adventure, you’ll unlock basic Gear Templates automatically as you increase your Authority Level. This natural progression means you don’t have to hunt for every single template right away—the game hands you foundational options as you advance through the story.
However, this also means the best equipment won’t be accessible immediately. Higher-tier templates require you to reach specific story milestones, so progression is somewhat gated by how far you’ve pushed into the campaign.
Gold-rarity Gear Templates, which represent the top tier, become available once you reach Wuling. These aren’t handed out automatically, though. You’ll need to actively search for Gear Template Crates scattered throughout the game world. Some templates can also be purchased from vendors, so keep an eye out for merchants as you explore.
Crafting Gear Through the AIC
Once you’ve unlocked templates, the actual crafting process happens through the Gear Assembly menu. Enter AIC mode, and you’ll spot the Gear Assembly option in the lower-right corner of your screen. Select it to access your available templates and begin production.
Here’s the catch: you can’t just spam-craft whatever you want. Each piece of gear requires specific resources that only come from your Automated Industry Complex. Different gear tiers demand different materials, which means you need to actively manage your factory’s production chains. When you discover a new resource type, integrate it into your logistics system as soon as possible. Running low on materials will bottleneck your gear progression hard.
For more tips on managing your base efficiently, check out our guides on expanding your Core AIC area and increasing power output.
Gear Rarity Tiers
Endfield uses a four-tier rarity system for equipment:
Grey/Green represents the most basic gear. You’ll outgrow these quickly, but they’re perfectly serviceable in the early game.
Blue gear offers noticeable improvements and becomes your standard equipment during the mid-game progression.
Purple gear provides substantial stat boosts and is what you’ll be chasing for most of the endgame content.
Gold gear sits at the pinnacle of equipment quality, offering the highest stat bonuses available. As mentioned earlier, these only unlock once you reach Wuling and find the appropriate Gear Template Crates.
Gear Stats and Set Bonuses
All gear pieces boost your Operators’ basic attributes, with higher rarities providing bigger numerical increases. The stats on each piece are fixed—there’s no randomized stat rolling system here. That means when you craft a piece of gear, you know exactly what you’re getting. No need to farm hundreds of copies hoping for perfect substats.
This might sound limiting at first, but it actually makes planning your builds much more straightforward. You can theory-craft with confidence, knowing the stats won’t change.
Where things get interesting is with Gear Sets. Equipping multiple pieces from the same set unlocks powerful set-specific bonuses that can dramatically enhance your Operators’ capabilities. Much of Endfield’s buildcrafting revolves around matching the right sets to each character’s kit and role. A well-synergized gear set can completely transform how an Operator performs in combat.
If you’re looking to squeeze out every last bit of performance, keep progressing through the story. Eventually, you’ll unlock the Artificing system, which allows for further gear optimization and min-maxing.
Maximizing Your Gear Strategy
Understanding how gear works is just one piece of the puzzle. To really optimize your team, you’ll want to explore our other guides on character stats, elemental reactions, and how to level up and promote characters.
If you’re building specific Operators, check out our characters guide or dive into specialized builds like Laevatain’s best build and team compositions.
For general gameplay tips, we’ve got you covered with guides on switching your Endministrator, solving the Quarry Rescue door puzzle, and using Photo Mode. Don’t forget to optimize your game settings, understand the gacha system, learn about rerolling, check out multiplayer and crossplay, claim Twitch Drops, and redeem promo codes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to farm for specific stat rolls on gear?
No, and that’s one of the best parts of Endfield’s gear system. Every piece of gear has fixed stats, so when you craft an item, you know exactly what bonuses it provides. This eliminates the frustrating RNG grind common in other games where you might craft dozens of the same item hoping for better stats.
How do I unlock Gold-rarity Gear Templates?
Gold-rarity templates become available once you reach Wuling in the story. However, they won’t unlock automatically through Authority Level like earlier templates. You need to actively search for and open Gear Template Crates found throughout the game world.
Where do I get the resources to craft gear?
All crafting resources come from your Automated Industry Complex (AIC)—essentially your base factory. Different gear tiers require different materials, so you need to manage your production chains carefully. Whenever you discover a new resource type, add it to your logistics system to ensure a steady supply.
What are Gear Sets and why do they matter?
Gear Sets are collections of equipment pieces that, when worn together, provide additional bonuses beyond the basic stats. These set bonuses can significantly enhance your Operators’ performance and are a major part of advanced buildcrafting. Matching the right gear sets to each Operator’s strengths and role is key to maximizing their effectiveness in combat.
