In Arknights: Endfield, a lot of players continue to explore the different game’s systems, and they also keep wondering how generous the game is for free-to-play players.
Recently, a Reddit post tried to answer that question by checking how much you get from exploration alone. They fully explored the map, and that means opening nearly every chest, and they counted how many pulls that alone provides.
The result is both surprising and confusing, and a lot of people disagreed with it. But once you look at what was actually counted, the numbers become far more interesting and useful than they first appear.
What Was Measured
According to the original post, here is exactly what the player did:
- Fully explored the map
- Completed all quests tied to exploration
- Opened every chest
- Did not rely on events, story rewards, or banner-related bonuses
The only exclusions mentioned were 8 free summons from Laevatain’s limited event and one chest locked behind a zone worth 160 Oroberyls, so one pull.
Using only currency coming from exploration, here is the result you get:
- Without using Origeometry (paid premium currency):
- 52,230 Oroberyls, so around 104 pulls
- +15 summon tickets obtained
- So a total of 120 pulls
- Including Origeometry conversion:
- 62,880 total currency, so around 125 pulls
- +15 summon tickets obtained
- So a total of 140 pulls
In other words, exploration alone is plenty enough to reach or come very close to a full limited pity, without touching events or anything else.
Why Do Some Players Strongly Disagree?
A lot of players reported having much higher pull counts even though they did not fully explore the map. Some comments claimed:
- 120+ pulls without opening many chests
- Around 240 pulls total as F2P
- Enough currency for two limited characters
At first, this looks like the original post is simply wrong. In reality, most of these players are talking about different things. The confusion comes from what is being counted. The Reddit post focuses only on currency earned directly from exploration, chests, and exploration-linked quests. This means all the rest was mostly not counted.
The replies on the other side are counting everything, so this includes pulls coming from:
- Story rewards
- Event rewards
- Banner pull discounts
- Shop exchanges
- Compensation pulls
- Other potential rewards
Once those sources are included, of course, the total F2P pulls rise dramatically. So that does explain why players can hit similar pull counts without exploring much at all.
Both sides are likely correct, but it is just that the one measures exploration value alone, and the other describes total F2P income across all systems. They are just answering different questions.
So Is Exploration Worth It for Pulls?
The Reddit post highlights the fact that exploration is a major contributor to pull income, but not the full picture. Exploration alone provides roughly one limited pity’s worth of pulls, but it is spread across dozens of small rewards and earned slowly over time. This means that you might be better off focusing on the rest of the content first, especially if you want the character from the first banner.
However, it is easy to underestimate how much currency exploration actually generates. Players who rush story content or rely heavily on events may never notice how much exploration contributes in the background. But you have to keep in mind that it does take more time than the rest. You are not going to explore the whole map in one day, and doing so will take you more time than progressing your story and exploring as you move on, on top of profiting from all the event rewards and other sources.
In total, expect around 120/140 pulls coming just from exploration, and adding to all the rest, for a total of 240 F2P pulls, so two Pity. This is a pretty good number of free pulls.
You might just not want to burn yourself out on exploring everything in one go, so make sure you swap between story, events, factory, and exploration, and eventually you will have gathered all the pulls that are currently available anyway!
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