News/2025

This page is a list of all the news posts on the main Spiral Knights page.

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-000362362		2025.01 16 February 2025	Gameplay - Event	March of the Tortodrones	"Tortodrone Migration" Spiral HQ calls upon you to once again assist the Tortodrones on their Long Migration. This migration is proving irresistible to the fiendish denizens of the Clockworks, who are gathering tortodrone parts for mysterious purposes! Take up arms to investigate and defend against this terrible mischief, and explore the Clockworks to gather fiendish glyphs. Be sure to collect Ancient Shell materials from the Ancient Grove to craft 3*, 4* and 5* Tortodrone handguns and shields at the Mysterious Alchemy Machine! The Spiral HQ intel forecasting interns predicts the Tortodrone migration will continue through March 2. We’re counting on you to protect the magnificent Tortodrones!
-000363363		2025.03 11 March 2025	Promotion	Admin Page Lucky Prize Box	"The Luck O Knights Be With Ye!" Greetings, To celebrate all things green, Spiral HQ has put the Lucky box for sale in the Supply Depot along with a few other lucky charms. More information on the Lucky Prize Boxes and its contents may be found here. Act fast, as these will only be available for a limited time.
-000364364		2025.04 28 March 2025	Promotion	Admin Page Equinox Prize Box	"A Balanced Attack" The cosmos briefly swings into balance for the first time this year. For this biannual celebration, the Strangers have brought forth celestially-themed offerings in the Equinox Prize Box, available to you through April 3rd: Celestial Orbitgun Celestial Vortex Celestial Saber Celestial Shield Orbit Aura Solar and Cosmic Plasma Wings Celestial Dragon/Valkyrie Wings Celestial Nav Helm and Suit Galactic Guardian Helm and Vest Celestial Accessories Unique Variant Tickets
-000365365		2025.05 3 April 2025	Gameplay - Event	Caketastrophe	"Spiral Knights Anniversary Celebration!" Happy Birthday Spiral Knights! It’s time to pick up your clever and slice some cake. Help Biscotti, the Skylark's Head Chef, avoid disaster in two special missions - Total Caketastrophe and A Gremlin in Knead. Through April 13th, fight Creep Cakes and Batterbots to earn Cake Slice tokens, then visit Maskwell in Haven Town Square to exchange your tokens for: - Cake helms - Anniversary Prize Boxes - Other party accessories Keep your eye out for fun items in the depot, and auction house!
-000366366		2025.06 16 May 2025	Gameplay - Event	Kataclysmic Confrontation	"Kataclysmic Confrontation Commences!" ATTENTION KNIGHTS Black kats are once again storming the Moorcroft Manor Archives and consuming the precious tomes within! We need all knights of rank 4-1 and greater to gear up and retrieve Ancient Pages from these nefarious creatures. The event will run through May 29th. Accept the Kataclysmic Confrontation prestige mission and/or fight through kat levels in the Clockworks to find black kats. Then, visit Montague in Moorcroft Manor, or the Mysterious Alchemy Machine in Haven, with your collection of Ancient Pages, to craft some Kat related gear. If you dare to perform a Dark Ritual and survive the encounter, you may find yourself in possession of a Black Kat Cowl or a Wicked Whisker which allow you to craft the following gear: Kat Claw cloak, mail, raiment Kat Hiss cloak, mail, raiment Kat Eye cloak, mail, raiment Black Kat cloak, mail, raiment, hood, mask If you have participated in a previous Kataclysmic Confrontation and still have Ancient Page tokens, they are still valid! Ancient Page tokens do not expire.
-000367367		2025.08 23 May 2025	Promotion	Admin Page Wizard Prize Box	"Wizarding Ways" Mystical arts abound! The wizarding guilds, with the help of the Owlite faction, have long been responsible for helping to manufacture some of the more volatile potions used by knights daily. Spiral HQ has conjured spellbinding items to help resupply these extraordinary knights. The Wizard Prize box celebrates these guilds' mysterious arcane power. These mystical boxes may contain some of the following items: Sorcerer Aura Moony and Sunny Eyes Cauldrons Casting Cones and Charming Caps Magister Robes and Sorcerer Robes Spell Books Wands Brooms Grizzled Gorgets Wizard Boxes will be available through June 16th.
-000368368		2025.09 20 June 2025	Promotion	Admin Page Solstice Prize Box	"The Summer Solstice Returns" Spiral HQ is having their annual celebration of the sun during these long summer days. Through June 27, 2025, the Haven Treasury is offering Solstice Prize Boxes. In these boxes, you may find the following items: - Variant Tickets - Crest of Summer / Crest of Winter - Wings of Summer / Wings of Winter - Sunshine Aura - Snowfall Aura - Crown of Winter / Crown of Summer - Buckets of Snowballs - Buckets of Bloons - Jar of Fireflies Each Solstice Prize Box also includes confetti and has a bonus chance of including one of the following: Bucket of Bloons, Bucket of Snowballs, Golden Slime Coins, 2-day trinket slot upgrade or to get a Jar of Fireflies.
-000369369		2025.100 2 July 2025	Promotion	Admin Page SummerTech Prize Box	"Get Into Summer Shape!" Greetings! The heat of summer is baking the residents of Cradle. Spiral HQ’s Department of Gremlin Engineering has done some extensive research and determined that the highly visible tech colors useful in winter also help knights blend in when infiltrating summer festivities. To that end, we’ve issued some high tech gear designed to aid knights when storming the beaches. Check out the Tech Red, Tech Violet, Tech Yellow, and Tech Azure summer gear while you’re trying to beat the heat by the pool or in Firestorm Citadel. This technical summer gear includes such items like Tech Charcoalers, Tech Furious Forks, Tech Spiral Soakers, Boaters, Floppy Beach Hats, and various SummerTech accessories. The SummerTech Box contains items such as: Tech Yellow Charcoaler Tech Red Furious Fork Tech Violet Spiral Soaker Boater Floppy Beach Hat Splash Sarong Splash Trunks Various new accessories
-000370370		2025.11 4 July 2025	Gameplay - Event	Shroud of the Apocrea	"The Apocrean Harvester Returns For Summer Harvest" Warning knights! We have confirmed that the Apocrean Harvester has returned once again. Spiral HQ needs your help! From now through July 15, travel onto the Grasping Plateau full of trapped souls and phantom-like monsters. In a maze-like graveyard, knights will find the Apocrea trapping and collecting souls. This sinister being will pursue any who enter the Grasping Plateau hoping to add to the collection. Work together to free souls and find Apocrean Sigil tokens which can be used at the Obelisk of Creation to craft Obsidian weapons and the Grasping Aura. You don't want to get caught out there alone--definitely bring your friends with you on this mission, and try not to lose sight of them!
-000371371		2025.12 25 August 2025	Promotion	Admin Page Buccaneer Booty Box	"A Knight's Life for Me!" Ahoy Knights! Spiral HQ is shipping in some cargo for ye scallywags. Several new items await ye landlubbers like the Keelhauled aura or a Powder Keg. Be warned mates; some of this gear may be hazardous to yer health, or rather yer limbs. Rum now while ye have the chance! The Buccaneer Booty Box contains items such as: Keelhauled Aura Buccaneer Broadsider - Gun Dread Captain Cutlass - Sword Powder Keg - Bomb Ship Wheel - Shield Captain Coats (plus rare versions) - Look out mates, some of these are more dastardly than others. Buccaneer Bicorne (plus rare versions) Skull Eyes Various new piratey accessories
-000372372		2025.130 19 September 2025	Gameplay - Event	March of the Tortodrones	"Tortodrone Migration" piral HQ calls upon you to once again assist the Tortodrones on their Long Migration. This migration is proving irresistible to the fiendish denizens of the Clockworks, who are gathering tortodrone parts for mysterious purposes! Take up arms to investigate and defend against this terrible mischief, and explore the Clockworks to gather fiendish glyphs. Be sure to collect Ancient Shell materials from the Ancient Grove to craft 3*, 4* and 5* Tortodrone handguns and shields at the Mysterious Alchemy Machine! The Spiral HQ intel forecasting interns predicts the Tortodrone migration will continue through September 28 . We’re counting on you to protect the magnificent Tortodrones!
-000373373		2025.140 25 September 2025	Promotion	Admin Page Hive Prize Box	"Insectoid Invasion!" The hive mind at Spiral HQ has Haven buzzing with excitement over the newest gear intended to help knights skitter around the Clockworks. Hive Prize Boxes are swarming with items to help bring a little crawly back into the creepy dark corners of the Clockworks. These boxes may contain some of the following items. If you’re lucky, you might just find something dripping with the color of honey: Hive Hex Auras Hexagram Wings Hive Wings Bee and Bug Eyes Insectoid armors Insectoid helms Poly-Poly shields Various Antennae like accessories bug badges And more! Hex Boxes will be available through October 20th. Don’t bee late, get 'em now before they flea!
-000374374		2025.141 25 September 2025	User Interface (UI update)	User interface	"Recent Releases" Greetings Knights! Spiral HQ has been working on a few things. Below are the release notes for the new patch. Continued behind the scenes changes to help lay the foundation for a few modernization changes that we’re working on. This is a long term project, but something we’re still actively working on. Add a preference for UI scaling. The scale selection is saved per screen resolution so that if you regularly change between fullscreen and windowed, both scales are saved. Add a preference for the chat text size. Add a preference for controlling the size of the chat area. Add new gate icons for deconstruction zones, and to differentiate different compound wilds levels. Fixed statue tooltips to not show animations on the worn gear. Added an “Equip” button to equip gear after accessorizing, certain other craft-like things.
-000375375		2025.16 17 October 2025	Gameplay - Event	Dark Harvest Festival	"Arrival of Dark Harvest" The Dark Harvest Festival makes its return! It’s no trick, the Punkin King and his gourdlings are causing sweet, sweet chaos in the Clockworks! Find the Punkin King in the daily prestige mission, The Dark Harvest. However, don't let your guard down, because he could also show up elsewhere when you least expect it! Collect candy tokens, then trade with Maskwell in Haven Town Square. Bring your big candy collection sack, because we have 2 new types of candy you can exchange for new masks. Trade your candy for various treats including: NEW Howlitzer Masks NEW Gourdling Masks Harvest Prize Boxes Frankenzom masks Spookat masks Phantom masks Scarab masks Should you find yourself in possession of any interesting crafting material as a result of a Punkin King encounter, visit the Mysterious Alchemy Machine. The Dark Harvest Prize Box contains costumes and accessories within the Dark Harvest theme. Trade in your tokens to discover the offerings. This year, the festival runs through November 2, 2025. Your candy tokens and Maskwell will stick around through November 7, 2025.
-000376376		2025.171 11 November 2025	Gameplay - Environment	Coliseum Crucible	"11/11 Release: The Coliseum Crucible" Spiral HQ is introducing the Coliseum Crucible! The Crucible is the home for our engineering gremlins who build and maintain the Clockworks. The Crucible is now seeking new recruits as they create new levels for Lockdown. To participate, you need to opt in and agree to the Terms and Conditions. Go into advanced “Game” settings to accept membership. From the “System menu” (wrench icon) in the lower left corner of the UI, launch the Crucible Editor Create something fun! Find help in the Editor Tool Tips & Tricks forum Test your level yourself. To upload/test your level, select “Coliseum” from the activities menu on the right side of your HUD. Now that you’re a member of crucible there should be a 4th tab, in there you can select “my levels” and upload and test your level. Ask others to test your level by making it public. You can post a request for testing and feedback in the Lockdown Level Testing Forum. Submit your level for review. Be aware that once you do this you cannot make changes. Do NOT submit your level for review unless you have thoroughly tested it both in public or private. It should be your final iteration of the level. Help others with their levels by testing or helping them use the editor. Other changes: Reorganized the personal menu a bit. ‘Allow Full Inspect’ has been moved to the game options and has been reset to true for everyone. Fixed the abnormal aggro range for Gremlin Scorchers and Ignited Oilers. They won’t snipe you from a hundred miles away anymore! Fixed Grinchlin Stalkers to rarely drop Humbug Hats this winterfest! Made some fixes to the charge attack for Gilded Griffin, Argent Peacemaker, and Sentenza. The charge will no longer explode immediately when your knight’s back is against a wall. The sword fixes are still a work in progress. Fixed the /guildhall command from confirming twice if you were abandoning a party. Social whereabouts will display which haven district someone is in. Lockdown arenas have been reweighted so that unpopular ones will be rarer. Added an ‘Auto Advance’ option to advanced game settings. When it’s on, it will automatically click ‘Advance’ upon finishing a level. You can also press the spacebar to advance. The “Go to [...]” buttons in the ‘Activities’ sidebar were given individual icons. Fixed "internal error" in the social feed when friends level-up. Fixed the name of the dusky down puffer.
-000377377		2025.170 11 November 2025	Promotion	Admin Page CozyTech Prize Box	"Bundle Up, Winter is Coming" Greetings! The cold still has Haven in it’s icy grip. Unscrupulous monsters or devastating status effects aren’t the only threats on these cold knights. Cabin fever is wreaking havoc across Haven and causing guild mates to go insane and turn on each other. Spiral HQ has issued some high tech cozy gear designed to help keep knights comfortable while lifting their spirits. The blindingly visible Tech Red, Tech Violet, Tech Yellow, and Tech Azure are a bright spot on any dark night. Hunker down and get comfortable with new slippers and sleepwear along with CozZzy Auras and Halos. The CozyTech Mk II items will all come in high visibility colors such as Tech Red, Tech Violet, Tech Yellow, and Tech Azure: CozZzy Aura CozZzy Halo Teddy Bear Buckler Sweet Dreams Slippers Checkered Scarf Onesie Pullover Lucid Night Cap Snooze Night Cap Sleepy Night Cap Dreamer Night Cap Various accessories More information on the CozyTech Mk II Box and its contents may be found here. Get cozy knights, it’s cold out there.
-000378378		2025.20 25 November 2025	Promotion	Admin Page Gobble Snipe Box	"Gobble Snipes Have Waddled Their Back" Our plump little friends, the Gobble Snipes, are on their yearly migration to...we're not really sure where. Hmm. To protect them in transit we Spiral HQ has enclosed them in Gobble Snipe Boxes Boxes. Rest assured I’ve been told there are air holes this time. Should you wish to host one of these fluffy creatures in your Guild Hall, these boxes can be had harvested through December 2, 2025.
-000379379		2025.210 12 December 2025	Promotion	Winterfest Admin Page Toyland Prize Box	"Winterfest Toyland" Hear ye! Hear Ye! Winterfest is upon Ye! Impostoclaus’ favorite time of the year is here once again. Mount Krampus is abuzz with excitement as knights begin the annual task to Save Winterfest!! As with previous years, the Grinchlins aim to ruin Winterfest for everyone, and they're making a pretty strong showing. No amount of coal or yellow snowballs has deterred them. Impostoclaus needs assistance in the Save Winterfest prestige mission! Help out and earn red, green, and white Winter Wish tokens. Trade your tokens with Randolph in Haven for festive gear and other items. If you're still in need for some gifts for your guild-mates, Spiral HQ has unwrapped some holiday cheer! Tis’ the season when all knights, regardless of age, enjoy the gift of a new toy. Is your toybox empty? Have no idea what to get that guildmate who has everything? We got you covered with the Toyland Box! The Toyland Box contains items such as: Sugarplum Auras Snow Queen Tiaras Harlequin Doll Costumes and accessories Toy Soldier Costumes and accessories Jingle Bell Bandoliers Ornament Bandoliers Jingletoe Slippers ...and more! For those who prefer to make a gift for their friend, we have you covered. Spiral HQ is introducing the Coliseum Crucible! The Crucible is the home for our engineering gremlins who build and maintain the Clockworks. Inside the Crucible's ahllowed halls, knights can build and design their very own Lockdown levels. The Crucible is now seeking new recruits as they create new levels for Lockdown. To participate, you need to opt in and agree to the Terms and Conditions. Go into advanced “Game” settings to accept membership. From the “System menu” (wrench icon) in the lower left corner of the UI, launch the Crucible Editor Create something fun! Find help in the Editor Tool Tips & Tricks forum Test your level yourself. To upload/test your level, select “Coliseum” from the activities menu on the right side of your HUD. Now that you’re a member of crucible there should be a 4th tab, in there you can select “my levels” and upload and test your level. Ask others to test your level by making it public. You can post a request for testing and feedback in the Lockdown Level Testing Forum. Submit your level for review. Help others with their levels by testing or helping them use the editor. Spiral Knights has also updated with some fun quality of life improvements. This includes the ability to warp around Haven, performance improvements and more. (Source: Steam)