This page is very long, because there are many costumes in Spiral Knights.
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Costume section of arsenal.
A Costume is an aesthetic item. It does not have combat statistics, like Helms, Armors, or Shields. Currently, costumes only come in the form of "helms" and "armors". These can be "equipped as helmet costume" or "equipped as armor costume" from your arsenal - they're in the Costume arsenal tab. Armors and helms with combat statistics can also be equipped in this way (if they are, they don't factor into your combat abilities). Costumes have no effect on your abilities in the field. Like armors and helms, many of them have accessory slots.
Costumes are often introduced to the game in commemoration of an event. Some of them expire (because celebrations come and go), but most of them last forever. There are many costume sets as well as single helms (or "hats"). Many costumes come in collections of varying colors, such as the Field Cap, or "forms," such as the Scale Helm vs. the Iron Dragon Helm. It can be difficult to find what you're looking for due to this variety, or if you're not sure what something is called, so here are a few pages that organize what's available:
- For a list of costumes that are available in sets, see the Costume Section on the sets page.
Available Permanent Costumes
To use table: sort by name, group (a.k.a event), set, or just use visuals to find what you want. The images in this table are links - clicking on them will take you to a page with more information about that item. This table is generally sorted by default using Order of Release.
Available Expiring Costumes
Trivia
- Logically, no expiring costume has accessory slots.
- There are costumes that are obsolete. For a list of these items (not all items in this list are "costumes", see individual pages for details), see Category:Obsolete.
- Game Masters wear costumes on occasion. For a list of these items (not all items in this list are "costumes", see individual pages for details), see Category:Staff Exclusive.
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