Arknights: Endfield Banner Schedule & History

Each banner below is a limited-time Chartered Headhunting rate-up. The debut operator listed first is the featured 6★ pulling rate-up; any names after it are off-rate 6★ operators also boosted on that banner (though at a lower rate than the featured pick).

Version	Banner	Dates	Featured 6★
1.0 Phase 1	Scars of the Forge	Jan 22 – Feb 7, 2026	Laevatain (debut); off-rate Gilberta, Yvonne
1.0 Phase 2	The Floaty Messenger	Feb 7 – Feb 24, 2026	Gilberta (debut); off-rate Laevatain, Yvonne
1.0 Phase 3	Hues of Passion	Feb 24 – Mar 12, 2026	Yvonne (debut); off-rate Laevatain, Gilberta
1.1 Phase 1	River's Daughter	Mar 12 – Mar 29, 2026	Tangtang (debut)
1.1 Phase 2	Wolf Pearl	Mar 29 – Apr 17, 2026	Rossi (debut)
1.2 Phase 1	Thunder of Renewal	Apr 17 – May 22, 2026	Zhuang Fangyi (debut); off-rate Rossi, Tangtang
1.2 Special	Fest of Brilliance	May 14, 2026 – start of 1.3	Rerun, selectable rate-up: Laevatain, Gilberta, Ardelia, Pogranichnik
1.3 Phase 1	Fists of No Regrets	Jun 5 – Jun 26, 2026 (11:59 server time)	Mi Fu (debut)
1.3 Phase 2	Expunger of Sin	Jun 26 – Jul 16, 2026	Camille (debut); off-rate Mi Fu, Zhuang Fangyi

Fest of Brilliance is worth flagging separately: it is not a debut banner, it is a mid-patch Special Headhunting rerun that lets you pick which of the four listed operators gets rate-up, and it ran alongside the tail end of Thunder of Renewal rather than replacing it outright.

The active Chartered Headhunting banner is Expunger of Sin, running from June 26 through July 16, 2026. Exact cutoff differs by region because Endfield's servers are not on a single clock:

• Asia (UTC+8): Jun 26, 12:00 – Jul 16, 05:59
• Americas / Europe (UTC-5): Jun 26, 12:00 – Jul 15, 16:59

The rate-up 6★ is Camille, making her debut. Mi Fu and Zhuang Fangyi sit on the banner as off-rate 6★ operators. The banner's Bond Quota Exchange also lists Wulfgard, reported as the operator you can trade accumulated Bond Quota toward instead of pulling for them directly. If you are undecided, pull here only for Camille specifically — the off-rate operators are cheaper to pick up on a future rerun or through the exchange.

Nothing past July 16 is officially locked in yet, but the studio's own "Back to the North" preview material and the update cadence make the shape of Version 1.4 fairly predictable. A developer livestream is expected on July 10, 2026, with the update itself expected to land July 16, 2026, immediately after Expunger of Sin closes.

• Phase 1 (expected around Jul 16): debut of Li Zhiyan, codenamed Arcane, a Liberi operator tied to Hongshan and the Yinglung Special Task Force. Off-rate slots are expected to go to Camille and Mi Fu.
• Phase 2 (expected around Aug 6): debut of an as-yet-unnamed idol-themed operator, teased but not formally revealed.

Treat every name and date in this section as reported rather than confirmed — it comes from community datamining and preview trailers, not a patch note. Official confirmation typically lands a few days before each banner goes live, in the same Chartered Headhunting news post format used for every banner above.

Counting the real dates above, individual banner phases have mostly run 16 to 21 days — about two and a half to three weeks per rate-up — with one outlier: Thunder of Renewal stayed up roughly 35 days, so the observed range is 16-35 days. Two phases make up a standard version:

The launch version ran an extra phase to introduce three operators back-to-back; every version since has settled into two debut-focused phases roughly six weeks apart, sometimes with a Special Headhunting rerun squeezed into the second half of a version. Budget your saved pulls on a six-week rhythm and you will rarely be caught short.

Endfield splits headhunting into three separate systems, and mixing them up is the most common reason players think they "should" have gotten an operator they never actually had rate-up odds for.

• Chartered Headhunting — the limited, rotating banner covered above. Only this pool carries a featured 6★ with boosted odds and the 120-pull safety net.
• Basic Headhunting — the permanent standard pool, live since day one (Jan 22, 2026). It cycles a fixed set of 6★ operators — Ardelia, Pogranichnik, Last Rite, Ember, and Lifeng — with no featured rate-up; every 6★ in the pool has equal odds.
• New Horizons Headhunting — a beginner-exclusive version of the Basic pool, cleared out through early campaign progress rather than paid or farmed currency, aimed at getting new accounts a foundation before they start saving for Chartered banners.

If your goal is a specific limited operator, only Chartered Headhunting pulls count toward that operator's pity and 50/50; Basic and New Horizons pulls are a separate currency track entirely.

Chartered Headhunting runs a two-stage pity system, and the numbers below are the same ones the pity calculator on this site uses — treat them as exact, not estimates.

Every 6★ pull is a 50/50: half the time it is the featured operator, half the time it is a random standard 6★. Losing that coin flip does not lock your next 6★ to the featured operator — every 6★ before the 120 mark is a fresh, independent 50/50. The only hard promise is the safety net: you are guaranteed the featured operator by pull 120 on that banner. The 6★ pity counter itself carries over from banner to banner, but the 120-pull featured guarantee is tracked per banner and resets the moment a new featured banner opens — so a near-miss on one banner does not carry forward into the next.

Featured operators get a matching 6★ weapon on a concurrent Arsenal Issue banner, pulled from its own currency and pity track separate from operator headhunting. Unlike character banners, an Arsenal Issue banner is reported to stay live for roughly three Chartered Headhunting phases before rotating — meaning the weapon banner outlasts the character banner it launched alongside by a wide margin.

• Drifting Raft Issue (live from Apr 17, 2026) — featuring the weapon Lone Barge.
• Scarlet Knot Issue (live from Jun 5, 2026) — featuring the weapon Amaranthine Tassel.
• Crimson Hued Issue (live from Jun 26, 2026) — featuring the weapon Blessing of Lustrous Carmine.

Because these overlap for weeks at a time, you can usually have two or three weapon banners open simultaneously. Prioritize the weapon tied to whichever operator you are actually pulling for on the current Chartered banner; the others will still be live, or will rerun, by the time you have currency to spare.

Getting a repeat 6★ from the second copy onward converts it automatically into that operator's Token x1 plus 50 Bond Quota. A repeat 5★ from the second copy onward converts into that operator's Token x1 plus 10 Bond Quota. Nothing is wasted — duplicates never just vanish.

Bond Quota is spent in the Bond Quota Exchange Store, which stocks both permanent and time-limited items. The standout permanent item is the Chartered HH Permit — normally earned only through missions and events, but available here in unlimited quantity for 25 Bond Quota each, making it one of the more reliable ways to stretch a long pulling session further once you start hitting duplicates on the standard pool.