arknights

This article explains the user interface of the main menu of Arknights. For specific components, refer to their own articles, such as Terminal, Rhodes Island Infrastructure Complex, or Archive.

For privacy reasons, the IGN and UID of the source player on the images below are blurred out.

Some elements of the user interface have received updates in the CN server. See Upcoming UI changes for further information.

Main menu

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  1. Upper-left section
    • Options — Shows the game settings menu.
    • Notice — Displays important messages.
    • Mail — Displays the Mail Box.
    • Daily Sign-In — Displays the Daily Sign-In menu.
  2. Middle-left section
    • Shows the player's level, in-game name, and UID.
    • Friends — Takes the player to the Friends menu.
    • Archives — Takes the player to the Archives menu, containing several submenus, such as the Network of characters, the Enemy units menu, the Fashion Gallery displaying outfits, the Intelligence menu to read past event cutscenes, and the Path to Glory menu to view and manage medals earned.
  3. Bottom-left section
    • Shows the Assistant Operator's spoken voice line when the player enters the main menu, triggered by player idle, or upon clicking their character art.
    • Notifies the player about the ongoing event and/or headhunting banners.
  4. Right section
    • Combat — Takes the player into the Terminal. The ongoing event is also shown, and the player will be taken into the event's menu upon clicking it; the image above is taken during the initial run of the A Walk in the Dust event on the Global server.
    • Squads — Takes the player into the Squads menu.
    • Operator Management — Takes the player into the Operators menu.
    • Store — Takes the player into the Store.
    • Recruitment — Takes the player into the headhunting and recruitment menus, which are displayed together.
    • Mission — Shows the list of missions. Only Daily, Weekly, Pinboard, and Campaign missions are displayed here.
    • Base — Takes the player into the Rhodes Island Infrastructure Complex base.
    • Depot — Takes the player into the Depot menu, which shows a list of Item.

Settings

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Notice

UI-notice The Notice window opens upon logging in, accessing the main menu after the daily reset, or clicking the warning icon in the upper left corner of the screen.

Mail Box

UI-mailbox The Mail Box contains messages from Yostar (signed as Penguin Logistics) and usually consists of various items, whether maintenance compensation or event rewards.

Daily Sign-In

Ui-dailylogin The Daily Sign-In window automatically opens after a daily reset (every 04:00 UTC-7) and displays rewards that are acquired from the free daily supply as well as the purchasable Monthly Card, if it is active.

Friends

UI-profile The Friends menu opens to the player's own profile card, displaying what other players will see. This profile card allows changing the player icon and which medal set (or the custom medal set which can be personalized in the Path to Glory menu). It also displays the assistant, date of account creation, player IGN and custom message, support units, current story progress, furniture count and operator count.

The faction icons beneath the window changes from greyed out if the player has no Operator(s) in the corresponding faction, to white if the faction consists of more than one Operators and the player have at least one Operator from that faction, to blue if the player have all Operators from that faction.

UI-friends The actual Friends sub-menu displays the player's friend list. It displays player icon (available since Who is Real in Global), IGN, date of last login, Support Units, and several options such as visiting their base, viewing their profile card, removing them from the friend list, and setting a custom remark. The visit icon will be overlaid by a spinning icon if the player is undergoing clue exchange, and a puzzle piece yellow dogear if the friend is missing a clue that the player owns.

UI-suppunit The Support Unit sub-menu allows the player to set up to three Support Units to be borrowed by friends, selecting the skill which the Support Unit uses. The first Support Unit must not be a 6★ Operator, while the second and third can be of any rarity.

Squads

UI-squads The Squad Management menu allows the player to edit and rename up to four premade squads of 12 Operators (unless under certain conditions). Squads can be selected and modified upon accessing an operation.

Operator Management

UI-opmenu The Operator Management menu contains almost all operator options in the game, from leveling up to changing outfits and accessing their files and voice lines. The orange diamond notification button allows the player to narrow down to newly acquired operators and operators that have either received a new potential Token, or have received an Operator Record or Paradox Simulation which the player has not viewed yet.

UI-opfilter The list selection button at the end of the sorting menu allows the player to access a wider range of sorting and filtering options.

Recruitment

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Main article: Headhunting
Main article: Recruitment

Mission

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Main article: Missions

As of the Preluding Lights event (Interlocking Competition: Hymnoi Wisdom in the Chinese server), the Missions interface has received an update adding a button allowing to claim all reward seals and all rewards available at once, instead of tapping them one by one.

Depot

UI-depot The Depot contains almost all Item owned by the player, namely consumables, currencies (with the notable exception of temporary event currencies) and materials. Furniture and Outfits are not included as they use a separate menu.