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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY SPIRAL KNIGHTS!

Spiral Knights is celebrating its first anniversary with a special event! Join in on the fun now through April 10, 2012!

It's a Caketastrophe!

Visit the Haven Town Square to meet the Skylark's Head Chef, Biscotti. She will inform you of a 'situation' at hand that involves hordes of monstrous cakes known as 'Creep Cakes.' Helping her solve this 'situation' will reward you with cake helms! Features include:

• A new Prestige Mission, 'Total Caketastrophe' is available during the event
• Biscotti, Maskwell and Bulky can be found in the Haven Town Square
• Creep Cake nests can be found randomly within the Clockworks
• Participating in these events will reward you with Cake Slice tokens
• Maskwell now trades Cake Helms in exchange for Cake Slices
• Bulky now sells confetti and Cake Slice tokens

Please note, the Frosted Helm and Foiled Frosted Helm will expire, however the Prismatic Frosted Helm lasts forever!

Get the Anniversary Prize Pack!

To celebrate the first anniversary of Spiral Knights, the Haven Treasury is giving away a FREE Anniversary Prize Pack with the purchase of any $9.95 energy purchase! The prize pack contains a random assortment of goodies that includes:

• Handfuls of confetti (always included)

One accessory (always included): 4% Chance:

• Cool Birthday Candle
• Regal Birthday Candle
• Military Birthday Candle
• Heavy Birthday Candle
• Fancy Birthday Candle
• Dusky Birthday Candle
• Toasty Birthday Candle
• Cool Party Hat
• Regal Party Hat
• Military Party Hat
• Heavy Party Hat
• Fancy Party Hat
• Dusky Party Hat
• Toasty Party Hat
• Cool Party Blowout
• Regal Party Blowout
• Military Party Blowout
• Heavy Party Blowout
• Fancy Party Blowout
• Dusky Party Blowout
• Toasty Party Blowout

2% Chance:

• Volcanic Party Hat
• Divine Party Hat
• Prismatic Party Hat
• Volcanic Party Blowout
• Divine Party Blowout
• Prismatic Party Blowout
• Volcanic Birthday Candle
• Divine Birthday Candle
• Prismatic Birthday Candle

1% Chance:

• Shadow Party Blowout
• Shadow Party Hat
• Shadow Birthday Candle
• Sprinkle Aura (yes, your knight will be covered in delicious sprinkles)

Prize Pack Details

Offer available through April 10, 2012

All prize pack items are delivered UNBOUND.

As a special bonus, each purchase has a chance of receiving DOUBLE PRIZES!

Other Changes

• Heavy statues will now "snap" into position on pressure plates, making it much easier to place them.
• Throw-able objects such as pots and vials now have a targeting arrow.
• "Command Emotes", such as /attack and /helpme now have translations for French, German, and Spanish.
• The Elevator Pass will now be promoted when players are at an elevator and run out of energy.
• Fixed a statue exploit in Firestorm Citadel Smoldering Steps
• Fixed a bug in Firestorm Citadel Charred Court where you could get trapped by a timed door

Today's patch contains behind-the-scenes content for a future event.

• Removed chat transforms for emoticons and lolspeak
• Fixed issues with the Troika sword line charge attacks

Items

Some balance changes have been made to some items:

Armor & Helms

Skelly series:

• Removed fire weakness

Magic Cloak series:

• Removed stun weakness

Drake Scale series:

• Added Poison resist.

Chaos set:

• Added Charge Time bonus
• Removed stun and sleep weakness

Justifier set:

• Added stun resist

Shadowsun set:

• Added poison resist
• Removed curse weakness
• Changed piercing defense to shadow defense
• Increased handgun damage bonus

Deadshot set:

• Added Handgun Attack speed

Nameless set:

• Added freeze resist

Bombastic Demo set:

• Added freeze resist
• Increased bomb damage bonus

Shields

Drake scale series:

• Added poison resist

Swords

Troika and Triglav Series, Thwack Hammer:

Charge attack changes:

• Charge attack is now a two hit combo
• Increased charge attack damage area
• First hit does not impulse or apply status, is weaker
• Second hit is more powerful, has status

Spur, Arc Razor and Winmillion:

Basic attack combo changes:

• Attack one no longer has a forward impulse.
• Attack one hit box narrowed and elongated slightly to bring inline with other swords.
• Attack two forward impulse increased slightly.
• Attack three knock-back impulse increased slightly.
• Attack three hit box widened.

Charge attack changes:

• Backstep at beginning of swing removed.
• Spur charge attack power reduced
• Arc Razor and Winmillion charge attack power increased, bullets now pierce through multiple targets

Economy

Crown and heat payouts for all levels will be undergoing adjustments over the next few patches in order to better balance the game economy and create a better experience for all players. In this patch you will see changes to missions and levels that were previously awarding an overabundance of crowns and heat.

UI

• Smilies typed into chat may be transformed into an appropriate emote.
• Mac OS: text editing commands will now follow Mac conventions.
• Added a confirmation check for exchange missions.

Bugfixes

• Fixed the collision on Cursed Nature Sprites to resolve a bug where they could get stuck.
• Fixed bugs with depositing Cursed Nature Sprites in the Sprite Sanctuary.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a freeze when using chat history.
• Mecha Knight monsters will properly block player bullets.

UI

• The rank (or tier for Expansion Missions) will be displayed next to the mission name when inspecting a friend or guildmate's location.
• An official seal will be shown on mail originating from a non-player.
• Most numbers and prices will now display with commas.

Bugfixes

• Companion knights should no longer shield-block player bullets.
• Wishbones will no longer be requested in Monstrous Research Prestige Missions.
• Correct crest rewarded in Hall of Heroes 8-2. Any player that has previously completed this mission will receive the appropriate crest in the mail.
• Sacred Silver Amulet now has the correct curse resist.
• Battlepod orbital shields no longer collide with players.
• Giant lichen barbs no longer cause neutral damage.
• Greaver clouds now inflict a minor amount of shadow damage and status upon intersection rather than pulsing status every half a second. This will prevent 'stun-locking' attacks from multiple Greavers.
• Fixed collision on Grim Totems.
• Fixed the collision on cursed sprites so they act like other lift objects.