Sanctuary of Ink: the Endfield changes worth acting on first

By DayOneFix Editorial · October 23, 2026

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Si's Chartered banner and Tangtang's RE-Factor banner are not the same pool.
Check new Combo Skill priorities, equipment plans and cabin shifts on existing teams.
A permanent activity can still have temporary task rewards.
On Steam, link the account holding your progress rather than creating another account.

The new operators get the spotlight. Your old factory might just need its rota checked. Updating the client does not update your saved operating habits. Sanctuary of Ink adds tools for existing teams and production; start there before treating a new pull as the answer to every old problem.

Original operational checklist based on official instructions—not a gameplay benchmark.

Do not compress three banners into one version label

Featured operator	Type	Announced window, server time
Si	Chartered / Rejuvenation	After the version update–5 November 11:59
Tangtang	RE-Factor / Ancestral Spring Flows Anew	29 October 12:00–19 November 11:59
Argent Flow	Chartered / The Hearth Fire Beckons the Starry Flow	5 November 12:00–before the next version-update maintenance

The official update notes name all three. “Si is not on the roster” was a historical 1.5 observation, not a current claim. Argent Flow being introduced in these notes does not make her featured banner available on 23 October.

Check the pool type and its in-game rules before using a permit. This page does not transfer a guarantee rule from Chartered to RE-Factor, infer the next maintenance date, or rank these operators by damage.

Existing accounts: review controls before replacing your team

The same update adds four useful checks:

New control	Practical check	Limit
Combo Skill priorities in Squad	Set the order you want when multiple skills trigger together	Ordering control, not a promise of more damage
Equipment Plans	Save distinct equipment configurations for different teams	A saved plan does not prove the gear is optimal
Cabin work groups A/B	Compare assigned work periods with available working hours before enabling auto-rotation	The notice warns that insufficient work time can interrupt production
Automated farming	Check whether your story progress unlocks it in Si’s Painting and later Wuling City	Not a universal farm automation switch

These are decision prompts derived from the announced features. We have not timed a factory or tested a rotation. Do not dismantle a working production line just because a new control exists.

Permanent access is not permanent reward eligibility

Quick check: the inn stays playable, so can every reward wait until next patch?

No. The notice separates temporary Session Tasks from retained Inn Milestone rewards. A door staying open does not keep every prize counter open.

Yuanyuan’s Blazing Stoves remains playable after its event ends, but the publisher distinguishes the expiring Session Tasks and their rewards from the Inn Milestone Phase rewards that remain.

Two nearer examples, all server time:

Carly’s Verdant Anthology: 22 October 12:00–5 November 04:00.
Monumental Etching: Forest of Maras: 22 October 12:00–5 November 04:00; the newly added Umbral Monument stages and the limited reward event are not the same thing.

First check whether your account has access and remaining tasks. Do not treat a mode’s permanent presence as permission to postpone every reward.

Steam: choose by the account that already has progress

Official Steam client linking screenshot highlighting Log Into Existing Email Account and Link — Actual interface image published in the official Steam linking guide · © GRYPHLINE / Hypergryph. The red box is in the publisher's original; this is not a live account test by DayOneFix.

The 17 October Steam linking instructions split the route:

Your situation	Safe published route
Existing Gryphline email account	Steam first login → Log Into Existing Email Account & Link → email verification → check both identities → Confirm
Existing Gmail / Apple / Facebook login, already linked to an email	Use that linked email in Steam’s existing-account route
Existing third-party login, no linked email	Sign into the same account at the official Account Center; add an email not already registered to another Gryphline account; return to Steam
No existing account or progress	Register & Link is the new-account route

The unused-email condition applies when adding email to the existing third-party account, not when logging into an existing email account. Those are different steps. Do not register a second account to “move” your old progress.

The publisher also documents Steam unlinking through Settings → Platform & Account → Account Center, or its web Account Center. That is not evidence that two saves can be merged; do not unlink as a speculative repair. PS5’s first-login rules are covered separately in our PS5–PC linking guide.

Scope: official EN / Traditional Chinese instructions reviewed on 23 October. No live-save linking, reward claims, factory tests or damage tests. Keep server-local dates on your own server’s clock.

Next: update versus extraction storage and factory interruption checks.