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| − | [[Image:UI-Energy-meter.PNG|thumb|right|The energy meter is on the lower right-hand corner of your game screen. The lower bar is the mist energy meter, while the large number atop it denotes the amount of crystal energy held.]] | + | [[Image:UI-Energy-meter.PNG|300px|thumb|right|The energy meter is on the lower right-hand corner of your game screen. The lower bar is the mist energy meter, while the large number atop it denotes the amount of crystal energy held.]] |
===Mist Energy=== | ===Mist Energy=== | ||
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Energy is the power source used by Spiral Knights and almost every machine on Cradle. It is an expendable resource that can be used to:
- power elevators for yourself and party members (10 energy per elevator, unless temporarily lowered for an event such as Power Surge Weekend)
- revive yourself and/or party members
- craft equipment
- power energy-requiring gates in dungeons (3 energy per gate)
- activate non-enemy mecha knights (5 energy per knight)
- activate stationary mecha turrets (5 energy per turret)
- start a guild (500 energy and 1000 crowns)
- purchase upgrades
Forms of Energy
Mist Energy
Cradle's atmosphere is imbued with mist energy. A Spiral Knight's suit can collect and store up to 100 units of mist energy at a time. A suit's mist recharge rate is approximately one mist energy per fifteen minutes, as of the closed beta preview for Spiral Knights.
Crystal Energy
Crystal energy is a form of energy that can be stored permanently, and in greater quantities than the 100 units of mist energy a Spiral Knight's suit can hold. It can be purchased with U.S. dollars from Three Rings, or with crowns from other Spiral Knights players, via the Energy Depot. In order to purchase crystal energy, simply click on your energy meter, or visit a Stranger who sells energy.
Lore
"Shortly after the Spiral Knights landed upon Cradle, scouting teams reported an intense energy signal coming from the planet’s core, and now the Knights have been tasked with investigating in the hopes that this energy can be used to power their ship.
The Clockworks and nearly every machine the knights encounter run on energy, including the Spiral Knights' own power armor. All knight armor is equipped with a device that pulls airborne energy--known as "mist energy"--into their armor, allowing them to function and power up machinery they encounter. However, mist dissipates almost as quickly as it is acquired, and thus a knight’s mist energy can never be permanently stored.
A permanently storable form of energy is available; the Strangers that run Haven have long been mining various parts of the Clockworks for pure, crystallized energy and like everything in their possession, it is for sale. This crystallized energy is much more stable and can last forever in a knights reserve tank, inside their armor."
