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Arsenal icon for accessories.

An Accessory is an aesthetic item that can be attached by Bechamel to a helmet or armor to modify the player's appearance. Accessories have no effect on combat or gameplay, other than possibly making knights more or less visible to each other. Most accessories come in a large selection of colors, with several having a variety of slightly different forms.

Acquisition

Individual accessory pages will have more specific acquisition information. There are many minor acquisition anomalies. In general, accessories can be obtained via:

• Lockbox: Many accessories can be obtained from lockboxes. A lockbox requires a Silver Key to be opened.

• Prize Box: This type of box is available during events or promotions. They tend to gift various accessories that pertain to that promotion. These boxes don't need keys to be opened.

• Rank Mission reward: A selection of Crests can be obtained once per knight as mission awards. These are bound.

• Auction House: Accessories may appear in the in the Auction House as a Featured Auction. Players may sell accessories in the Auction House as well.

• Supply Depot Sale: The Supply Depot will sometimes have transient "specials" during which accessories and other items can be bought.

• Knight Creation: These helmet accessories in standard color patterns are available to players when creating a new Knight. Of these accessories, what the player chooses becomes attached to the chosen spiral helmet.

Unattached accessories are typically unbound and can be purchased from other players via trade or the Auction House. A few bound anomalies have occurred in the past - the Pumpkin Bomb Bandolier is an example of such an anomaly. The bound condition of accessories rewarded from missions is not considered unusual, as mission rewards are bound.

Using

A tool-tip showing what kind of accessories may be attached.

Once the player has an accessory, they can visit Bechamel the Accessorizor on the far western side of the Haven Bazaar to preview and/or attach the accessory to an item if desired. It would be prudent to preview accessories before attaching them.

Bechamel will attach accessories for free. Once an accessory is attached to an item (helmet, armor, or costume), it is permanently attached unless removed by Bechamel. There are two removal options: "removal" is free, recovery has a price in Energy.

Removing an accessory from gear will completely destroy the accessory in the process.

Recovering an accessory preserves the accessory instead of destroying it, returning it (as a ticket) unbound into the player's arsenal.

Attaching an accessory has no effect on the bound or unbound condition of the item it gets attached to.

Attachment

Accessories are organized by attachment location and can only be attached to gear that supports, or has slots for, that attachment location. Only one accessory may be attached per slot on a piece of equipment.

Not all gear can use all accessories. Consult the tool-tips to determine which accessories can fit your gear. Locations include:

• Helmet Top
• Helmet Side
• Helmet Back
• Helmet Front
• Armor Front
• Armor Back
• Armor Aura
• Armor Rear

Upgrading Gear

Upgrading helmets or armor with an accessory attached does not destroy the attached accessory, unless the attached accessory's slot is not available on the to-be-crafted item. This the case while crafting an Ash Tail Coat with an Aura to a Skolver Coat - in this case, the aura disappears! Plan ahead and pay special attention so you don't accidentally destroy your accessories.

Removal

For a long time, accessories could only be removed via destruction of the accessory by using a Removal ticket on the slot at Bechamel's. This can be done at no cost, and the purpose of this is to free up the accessory slot for a different accessory.

During the Anniversary Celebration of 2014, Accessory Recovery Tickets were introduced. "Recovery" removes an accessory from an item, giving the player a ticket for the removed accessory in their arsenal. The item is otherwise preserved, with UVs, heat, and other accessories unchanged. The accessory that was recovered is unbound, ready to be attached or sold.

All removal tickets are free from Bechamel. All recovery tickets are in the Supply Depot. You will get a notification about the recovery tickets when removing an accessory at Bechamel.

A REMOVAL ticket will have a reddish pink icon, and the interface button will say "Remove" - this destroys the accessory.

A RECOVERY ticket will have a blue/prismatic look to it, and the interface button will say "Recover" - this puts the accessory ticket into the player's arsenal

Recovery Ticket Prices:

Name	Price (Energy)
Recover Helm Top Accessory	5,000
Recover Helm Front Accessory	3,500
Recover Helm Back Accessory	3,500
Recover Helm Side Accessory	3,500
Recover Armor Front Accessory	5,000
Recover Armor Back Accessory	8,000
Recover Armor Rear Accessory	8,000
Recover Armor Ankle Accessory	8,000
Recover Armor Aura Accessory	10,000

Economics

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Supply Depot Sales typically feature accessories as well as other items.

Being frugal in general: the game usually introduces new aesthetics on a regular basis. Players might want to design new outfits or change old ones depending on what's available. Accessories may not be worth the recovery cost if freeing up a slot is desired. For example, destroying a cool vitakit for wings would probably be preferable to recovering the vitakit, as several vitakits could likely be obtained for less cost than a single recovery ticket. The choice is up to you. Bear in mind, accessories are probably desired by other players, especially rare ones, so consider selling accessories instead of destroying them. Check /2 (trade chat) or the Bazaar subforum frequently to see who might be buying/selling items, and for how much.

Bear in mind, just because an item is expensive in the depot (or considered to be expensive by the community) doesn't mean that it is popular enough to resell easily - in short, a buyer might find an expensive depot item for "cheap" from a seller attempting to "cut their losses" while other sellers insist on achieving net gain. The Auction House is often a good price checking source, though outliers frequently occur due to players posting things at "ridiculous" prices "just to see if someone buys it."

Ideal price checking sources are those that draw from lots of data over long periods of time as well as those that have a "baseline in-game price", so patterns of "popularity" or whether or not an item is steady in value can be ascertained:

• Occasionally accessories will show up in the Supply Depot for short periods of time. Prices for certain items can be somewhat variable between sales.

Supply Depot Sales

• The Steam Market has several items for Spiral Knights. Not all Spiral Knights items are available on the standard Steam market. Individual pages of available Steam items have graphs of sale prices over time. Read more about Steam in relation to Spiral Knights here.

Steam Market: Spiral Knights

• General economic records are created and maintained by players to aid each other in having a statistical valuation of items. These logs can serve as a relative guide for both sellers and buyers. Data can become inaccurate over time, because these threads are naturally transient, as is their subject matter - it would be prudent to politely cross-check thread data by asking /2 (trade chat) in-game for a "price check." The following threads may be inactive or active depending on user dedication and time, but they do contain useful data for historical note:

Price Checking Thread - list format

Price Checking Thread - comment-by-comment reviews by request.

List of Merchants - list of active "merchant" players. Their services are summarized by the community here.

Aesthetics

Click the "preview" button at Bechamel and combine things from your arsenal to see how accessories look on your items.

When in Haven, pressing (F5) is a shortcut to the same option in the Recipes menu.

Players can preview accessories at Bechamel before deciding whether or not to attach an accessory. Previewing can also be accomplished in Haven by viewing the Recipe menu (default F5), or most other interactive menus (like alchemy machines, vendor lists, and so on) if visiting Bechamel is not convenient. The preview button, should it be available in an interface, will be on the bottom of the left-hand list.

Previewing is currently limited to the inspect window. This window is somewhat limited considering the full effects added my several accessories, as it does not show trailing effects and a few other things. This wiki contains many "overworld" visuals on individual accessory pages to aid players in understanding how their accessories might look during gameplay.

Overworld

See the "Gallery" section on individual accessory pages of these items for visual examples. Certain pages will have a column for "overworld" visuals, especially pages for unique accessories.

Some accessories with "glowing" special effects can be seen through certain solid objects (like the wall hiding the hidden path in D27 of Firestorm Citadel).

Colors

Accessories use the primary, secondary, or tertiary colors fairly consistently. For example, the Helm Guards and Mecha Wings use the primary color for the bulk of the item and the secondary color for the accents. Items like the Flower, Long Feather, Game Face, and Maedate use the secondary color for a majority of their coloring. The tertiary color is used for some accessories like the Headband and as a primary color for some costumes such as the Cloak and Flak Jacket. Accessories can also come in unique styles and forms.

Recolored Accessories

Certain types of accessories and costumes are commonly "recolored" for certain promotions. These promotions are usually named after a "new" color scheme.

Notes

When the player has an accessory in the Arsenal accessory section, this is a ticket for that accessory, not the accessory itself. Bechamel has the physical accessories at his accessory station. The ticket in the player's arsenal simply indicates that the player has permission to request that Bechamel attach that specific accessory to an appropriate slot on a qualified item. Players can see what an accessory looks like by itself with just a ticket, but cannot attach anything by themselves. The NPC Tylen also emphasizes that accessories are "tickets" when they are unattached in the player's arsenal.

Accessories do not have official individualized tool-tip descriptions like most other items. Accessory descriptions simply describe where and how the accessory can be attached.

Many NPCs wear accessories too. Some only accessorize depending on the season, like with scarves during Winterfest.

History

Accessories were introduced on the 4th of October in 2011. ^[1]

In some cases, a mistakenly bound accessory can be removed if a support ticket is filed immediately. This was not the case in the past, but was changed due to improved logging at an unspecified date:

As of the Anniversary Celebration in April 2014, players can now recover their accessories with recovery tickets bought with Energy in the Supply Depot.

List

Below is an elaborate sortable list. This show/hide contains information about how to use the list efficiently.

About the List Navigation Click on the accessory name or visual example to navigate to individual accessory pages with more information about how to get them and other useful things. Finding Things Sort the "type" column to find items that are loosely of a certain type. Type is unofficial and not part of gameplay, and mostly derived from colloquial use and popular effects. For example, "vertical vents" are not called "ears," but a very large number of players use them to make cat, fox, wolf costumes etc. so they are tagged with "life." Another example: Plumes are probably not actually "hair," but they are so similar to "ponytails"wikipedia or "pigtails"wikipedia that plumes get the tag "hair." In short, this column is very subject to opinion, and is designed to sort things in a way that players want so they can make themed outfits. Keep in mind that most accessories are mysterious things. They don't have official tooltip descriptions in-game, so what an individual accessory is made of is speculation - for all we know, most of them could be holograms. Types include: Aura - adds Special Effects Cloth - accessories that seem to be made of fabric or cloth, or are clothing. Container - accessories that contain, or are implied to contain, things. Hair - hair, or maybe fur. Includes wigs, mustaches, and so on. Halo - a ring that hovers either over the head, or is attached behind the head. Hat - a hat. Jewelry - jewels, gems, amulets, pendants, bracelets, etc. Includes most crests, even those that look like Shields. Lens - glasses. Other things have lenses, but they're not very glasses-like. Life - things that are/look very much like: animals or living things (includes plants). Misc - things that don't really fit anywhere. Pauldrons - accessories that go on or over the shoulders. Tech - electronics and/or metal that would augment performances such as hacking, scanning, vision etc. in the real-world. Weapon - any accessory that looks like a Bomb, Handgun (none for guns yet), or Sword. Sub-types will be in (parenthesis) if applicable. If the type column isn't specific enough for you, worry not! We've tried to add lots of tags or "key words" into an unofficial description in the "Notes" column: Use the Control+F keyboard function to find accessories with certain characteristics and/or effects. Example: "burn" will find burning, burns, and so on. For lesser burning effects, try "smoking." "Lens" will find any accessories that are like Glasses, while "Eye Gear" will find less specific, but still glasses-like items. Read through the list to discern what terms and synonyms are used in an "unofficial description" of accessories. Major Tags or "Key Words" include: Animated Pair Unique Lesser Tags and their synonyms: crystal, shard eye gear, lens mimic (objects that are similar to non-accessory things) mist monster (accessories that directly mimic a monster or part of a monster) shredded spike and many others. If you still can't find things, you might also peruse these categories: Category:Color Themes - find things that share Color Patterns. Category:Families - find things that are loosely and/or tightly related. Category:Special Effects - find things that share Special Effects. Organization Not all accessories come in all color styles. Some accessories have slightly (or very) different forms, like the scarf or crest. Many have special effects for certain "special" color patterns, while others do not. Organizing the large variety of accessories can be difficult. For this page, new accessories are added according to Date of Release (roughly oldest at top, descending to new, alphabetical if released at the same time), only if they are a new shape. Otherwise they are added to a list on the relevant individual accessory page. On individual pages, lists are organized primarily by the date of release of the color pattern(s) used. (this solves a previous issue with several "shadow" and other accessories). As the game releases more content, accessories might be removed from this list and added to a list on an individual page, should any updates warrant such changes. This has happened before with accessories that were once "unique" or "special," but then had many versions released later. Example: Lovely Bent Vertical Vents were originally unique, but then more Bent Vertical Vents were released, so relevant pages had to be adjusted. As such, this list and pages it links to are very dynamic.

Name	Visual	Slot	Type	Notes
Aura		Armor aura	aura	An aura adds Special Effects to armor. Many different types of this accessory exist, and they maintain consistent naming convention.
Barrel Belly		Armor front	container	A central cylindrical container is attached via a strap.
Binocular Visor		Helmet front	tech	Eye gear resembling tech used for long-distance viewing.
Bolted Vee		Helmet top	misc	Two spikes are attached to the forehead via a thick bolt.
Bomb Bandolier		Armor front	weapon (bomb)	Three explosive-looking bombs attached via a sash.
Canteen		Armor front	container	a container attached via a sash to the hip. Tends to flop.
Com Unit		Helmet side	tech	A bit of tech resembling an asymmetrical antenna and mouthpiece.
Dapper Combo		Helmet front	hair	A hair piece styled similar to the real-world Handlebar moustache with an animated smoking pipe.
Flower		Helmet top	Plant (life)	A 4-petalled blossom.
Game Face		Helmet front	misc	A pair of seriously angled objects with bolts that are like eyes on some helms, eyebrows on others.
Glasses		Helmet front	lens	Eye gear composed of lenses.
Goggles		Helmet front	tech	Eye gear resembling diving, swimming, cyber tech etc.
Halo		Helmet top	halo	A ring made of light and/or other special effects floats over the head.
Headband		Helmet top	misc	A simple band goes over the head from ear to ear.
Helm Guards		Helmet side	misc	A pair of thick plates with bolts cover the ear area.
Helm-Mounted Display		Helmet front	tech	Asymmetrical eye gear resembling some sort of tech.
Knight Vision Goggles		Helmet front	tech	Eye gear resembling night vision tech.
Long Feather		Helmet back	life	An animated feather sways in the wind.
Maedate		Helmet top	misc	A horse-shoe shaped decoration with bolts.
Maid Headband		Helmet top	hat	A simple hat resembling a real-world Nurses' Cap.
Mech'tennas		Helmet side	tech	A techy pair of antenna.
Mecha Wings		Helmet side	tech	A pair of angled objects with bolts.
Mohawk		Helmet top	hair	A central hair piece.
Mustache		Helmet front	hair	A hair piece styled similar to the real-world Handlebar moustache.
Pipe		Helmet front	misc	An animated pipe that is constantly smoking.
Plume		Helmet back	hair	A curly, pony-tail like object that seems to resemble hair.
Prismatic Glow-Eyes		Helmet front	misc	A unique accessory that adds a glowing special effect to the front of a helmet.
Ribbon		Helmet back	cloth	Some cloth or fabric tied into a sort of knot/bow.
Toupee		Helmet top	hair	A hair piece styled similar to a real-world wig.
Scarf		Helmet back	cloth	Some cloth or fabric wrapped around the neck. A few different forms exist.
Side Blade		Armor back	weapon (sword)	A sword attached to the back. Tends to flop.
Spike Mohawk		Helmet top	misc	A central metal band with 4 spikes.
Vented Visor		Helmet front	tech	Eye gear that seems to be a slitted band covering both eyes.
Vertical Vents		Helmet side	ears	A pair of angled "animal-ear like" objects.
Vitakit		Armor back	container	A small pack with a heart.
Wide Vee		Helmet top	misc	A pointy symmetrical object similar to the bolted vee.
Wings		Armor back	wings	A pair of angled wings.
Wolver Tail		Armor rear	tail (life)	An animated furry tail.
Parrying Blade		Armor front	weapon (sword)	A sword attached via a sash to the hip. Tends to flop.
Round Shades		Helmet front	lens	Eye gear composed of large round lenses.
Tails Tails		Armor rear	tail (life)	A unique animated accessory reminiscent of the Sonic character Miles Prower.Wikipedia
Dragon Wings		Armor back	wings (dragon)	an animated pair of bat-like/reptilian wings.
Crest		Armor front	jewelry (pin)	An object signifying affiliation, achievements, and/or rank.
Valkyrie Wings		Armor back	wings (valkyrie)	An animated pair of feathered wings.
Birthday Candle		Helmet top	misc	An animated flame burns on top of a striped candle.
Party Blowout		Helmet front	misc	An animated celebratory object resembling a flicking tongue.
Party Hat		Helmet top	hat	A celebratory hat shaped like a cone.
Monster Pocket		Armor front	life	An animated baby monster kept in a pouch like a pet.
Cat Tail		Armor rear	tail (life)	An animated skinny tail with a noiseless bell.
Extra Vertical Vents		Helmet side	ears	Tall "rabbit ear-like" objects.
Crest (centered)		Armor front	jewelry (necklace)	An amulet-like object that seems to hang around the neck via chains. Often has a sheen and a miniature "aura."
Crown		Helmet top	jewelry (crown)	An animated, slightly translucent crown hovers above the head. It seems to flicker like a hologram.
Golden Laurel		Helmet side	plant	A unique accessory. Metallic golden olive branches (or leaves, viney plants, etc.) encircle the head. They frequently twinkle.
Striped Scarf		Helmet back	cloth	An animated scarf with twinkling orange (noiseless) bells that commemorates Winterfest.
Eye of Fury		Helmet front	jewelry (crystal)	An animated jewel that sparkles on its own hovers in front of the forehead.
Wings (special)		Armor back	wings	An animated pair of shiny angled wings that spark.
Anti-Spikes		Armor back	pauldrons (spikes)	A pair of spikey pauldrons favored by dauntless NPCs.
Crown		Helmet top	jewelry (crown)	A tiara-like, crystalline crown that seems to be made of shards.
Disciple Wings		Armor back	wings (disciple)	An animated pair of flapping crystalline wings that seem to be made of shards.
Polar Wolver Tail		Armor rear	tail (life)	A unique animated accessory that is very different from the other Wolver Tails.
Prismatic Ruinous Crystal		Armor back	jewelry (crystal)	A unique mineral-like object that sparks with energy.
Trojan Tail		Armor rear	tail	A plume-like curly tail resembling hair.
Crest of Love		Armor front	life	A unique animated accessory. It a beating heart reminiscent of a Love Puppy.
Power Pistons		Armor back	misc	A unique animated accessory that mimics the missile launchers on the back of the Tortodrone monster, minus the missiles.
Plasma Wings		Armor back	wings (plasma)	An animated pair of wings that burn blue in a cosmic fashion.
Grand Topper		Helmet top	hat	A tall animated hat with sparking celebratory decorations.
Bent Vertical Vents		Helmet side	ears	Tall, asymmetrical "rabbit ear-like" objects attached via a headband.
Dust Bunny Tail		Armor rear	tail (life)	An animated tail that constantly bobs up and down and side to side.
Whiskers		Helmet front	life	A pair of wispy whiskers and a small nose.
Dread Seal		Helmet front	misc	A unique animated accessory resembling a cursed piece of paper.
Dread Wings		Armor back	wings (dragon)	A pair of animated flapping wings much like the Dragon Wings in shape and behavior. They seem to vibrate with dark mewgics.
Prismatic Dazzling Gem		Helmet front	jewelry (crystal)	A unique accessory that mimics the Seraphynx's ultimate look for the Dazzling Light Ray.
Prismatic Heavenly Halo		Helmet back	halo	A unique accessory that mimics the Seraphynx's ultimate look for the Iron Heart Attack. Its position is similar to the object on the Heavenly Iron Helm.
Prismatic Seraph'tenna		Helmet top	life	A unique accessory that mimics the Seraphynx's ultimate look for the Disintegration Ray.
Prismatic Seraph Wings		Armor back	wings (seraph)	A unique animated accessory that mimics the flapping wings on a Seraphynx.
Tome of Rage		Armor front	misc	A glowing book-like object attached via a chain to the hip. Tends to flop, though the papers within stay shut.
Wings of Summer		Armor back	wings (valkyrie)	A pair of burning flapping wings much like the Valkyrie Wings in shape and behavior.
Wings of Winter		Armor back	wings (dragon)	A pair of shredded flapping wings much like the Dragon Wings in shape and behavior.
Headlamp		Helmet top	misc	A glowing light casts a bright beam.
Munitions Pack		Armor back	container	A small pack of explosives.
Rebreather		Helmet front	tech	A mask that covers the mouth area.
Vial Bandolier		Armor front	weapon (pickup)	Three pickup vials are attached via a sash.
Node Container		Armor front	pauldrons	An animated, pauldron-like object pulses with light.
Node Receiver		Helmet side	tech	An animated headphones-like object pulses with light.
Writhing Tendrils		Armor back	life	Two undulating, wiggling, tentacle-like structures are attached to the shoulder area.
Giga Shades		Helmet front	lens	Eye gear composed of sharply angled lenses.
Intel Tube		Armor back	container	An open cylindrical container storing what appear to be important papers.
Targeting Module		Helmet front	tech	Asymmetrical eye gear that seems to be an animated, sort of tech.
Aero Fin		Helmet top	misc	A flat, angled object that sweeps from the forehead to the back.
Ankle Booster		Armor rear	misc	An animated pair of anklets featuring burning jets out the back.
Shoulder Booster		Armor back	misc	An animated pair of objects featuring burning jets out the back.
Gremlin Goggles		Helmet front	tech	Eye gear resembling construction tech.
Exhaust Pipes		Armor back	misc	Animated pipes that belch burning particles. They mimic the pipes on the Mecha Knight monster.
Gear Halo		Helmet back	halo	A round, shiny, gear-shaped ring.
Prismatic Pylons		Armor back	pauldrons	A unique animated accessory that sparks with prismatic electricity. It is a "unique" accessory, but it mimics the object on the Mercurial Demo Suit.
Wind-up Key		Armor back	misc	An animated key slowly rotates on the player's back.
Wrench		Armor back	weapon (sword)	A wrench-like tool hovers on the player's back. It is somewhat similar to swords like the Robo Wrecker.
Devious Horns		Helmet top	horns	Two large curved horns. They mimic the horns on the Pit Boss devilite monster.
Sensor Unit		Helmet back	tech	An animated bit of tech that resembles an antenna.
Binoculars		Armor front	tech	Eye-gear resembling tech used for long-distance viewing hangs around the neck.
Venom Fiend Wings		Armor back	wings (dragon)	An animated pair of glowing green wings that have a shredded look and constantly shed a poisonous mist.
Monocle		Helmet front	lens	A rather dapper piece of eye gear, consisting of a single asymmetrical lens.
Shackles		Armor front	misc	Spiky, broken handcuffs.
Arctic Pauldrons		Armor back	pauldrons	Two large clusters of ice crystals.
Extension Cord		Armor rear	tail	An animated wire with a prismatic sparking plug that behaves much like the cat tail.
Prismatic Voltaic Headset		Helmet side	tech	A sparking pair of mech'tenna-like tennas.
Spiralhorns		Helmet top	horns	A twisted pair of horns with a sheen, reminiscent of a goat or ram.
Sealed Pauldrons		Armor front	pauldrons	A heavy pair of levitating rectangular plates that float over the arms.
Seeing Stars Halo		Helmet top	halo	A halo composed of 3 animated stars.
Stagger Star		Helmet front	jewelry	A thick star attached to the forehead.
Stunning Shades		Helmet front	lens	Eye gear composed of star-shaped lenses.
Clockwork Crest		Armor front	misc	An animated, heart-shaped crest with moving gears and a tiny pipe.
Splendid Topper		Helmet top	hat	An animated top hat with a single puffing exhaust pipe and rotating gears in the side.
Floating Gems		Armor front	jewelry	A pair of faceted, shiny gems float over the shoulders. They also twinkle and burn with colorful flames.
Magmatic Fanatic Wings		Armor back	wings (dragon)	A pair of animated flapping wings much like the Dragon Wings in shape and behavior. They blaze with burning energies.
Disguise Kit		Helmet front	lens (pseudo)	A suspicious accessory reminiscent of real-world Groucho Glasses.
Lumberfell Beard		Helmet front	hair	A hair piece styled similar to a real-world full beard.
Smashing Mustache		Helmet front	hair	A hair piece styled similar to the real-world walrus mustache.
Wise Whiskers		Helmet front	hair	A hair piece styled similar to the real-world Fu Manchu moustache.
Wolver Chops		Helmet front	hair	A hair piece styled similar to real-world sideburns.
Snipe Perch		Helmet top	life	A snipe perched on a T-shaped piece of wood, similar to the ones seen on strangers.
Slippers		Armor rear	cloth	A pair of slippers.

See Also

• Prismatic Aspect
• Special Effects