Hey bud!

Summer is heading to Cradle again and it's awash with color and alien plant life. The biotech specialists at Spiral HQ have discovered various uses for the pollen and fast growing plants beyond uncontrollable sneezing. They’ve created some botanical gear to help knights blend into technicolor surroundings and leaf their foes in disarray.

Help your camouflage skills blossom by picking up a FlowerTech Mk II Prize Box to discover gear and accessories in a new bouquet of colors - Tech Red, Tech Violet, Tech Yellow, and Tech Azure. This isn’t your garden variety gear, this organic gear includes such items like Tech Yellow FlowerTech Aura, Tech Azure Virulent Seedlings, Tech Violet Pollinators, Seedling Samples, and other botanical accessories.

The FlowerTech Box contains items such as:

• Tech Yellow FlowerTech Aura
• Seedling Samples (Monster Pocket) in the new colors
• Tech Violet Pollinator
• Tech Azure Virulent Seedling
• Lotus Eyes
• Three Petal Eyes
• Budding Coat and helms in the new colors
• Bio Coat and helms in the new colors
• Various bio tech accessories

This release contains a lot of important changes. Details are below:

Forge:

We've made some changes to the forge system to make it more friendly to newer knights and lower the cost of leveling your gear.

All forging attempts, regardless of the crystal option you pick, will be successful! We believe this will be a more enjoyable experience for most players. When an item is ready to be leveled and you use the forge, your item is guaranteed to level up. You can always opt to add more crystals if you want to have a chance at some fun bonuses. So, if all you want is to level up your item, you'll now want to use the lowest crystal cost option. This option is selected by default.

To balance out the above change, the bonuses you can get for the different crystal cost levels have changed.

• Minimum level of crystal use: You are now guaranteed to be successful! You will not have a chance at extra bonuses.
• Medium level of crystal use: The chance of bonuses has been increased compared to what it was before this change.
• Maximum level of crystal use: The chance of bonuses has been increased even more compared to what it was before this change.

System Upgrade:

We've released a second batch of very large back-end changes. Like the previous changes, this is part of our continuing effort to modernize the game. This represents quite a lot of work behind the scenes, but should help the game run better for players. Thank you all for your patience while we've been tinkering under the hood.

More changes:

• Call "removing" an accessory "deleting" in a few more places.
• You can no longer bypass the "Are you sure" dialog for deleting an accessory.

Just like Clockworks, it’s time again to celebrate the anniversary of Spiral Knights!

The gears at Spiral HQ have been turning overtime and 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 party themed goodies:

• Cake helms
• Anniversary Prize Boxes
• Other party accessories

Watchful knights will notice there’s also a special new costume shield, the Clockworks Clock Blocker, that dedicated knights can earn during the event by collecting an abundance of delicious cake tokens. With this shield, you'll never risk being late again.

During this Anniversary Celebration, it’s time we also pay tribute to the mysterious mechanisms that bring us all together. The Clockworks Prize Boxes are packed with some of the gear that rivals anything to ever to roll off the Gremlin assembly line! For those keeping watch, the following items can be found within these ticking boxes:

• Spotlight Aura
• Clock Blocker costume shields
• Gear Eyes
• Back-mounted Lights
• Clockworks and Deconstruction Rig armors
• Tick-Tock Headgear, Deconstruction, and Grate Plate helms
• Various Clockworkes themed accessories

The Clockworks-themed gear lets you mix and match your look with precision to create a signature cog-and-copper aesthetic. Whether you're a veteran of the depths or a fresh recruit just finding your footing in Haven, it’s sure to warm the inner cogs of your heart.

All of these well itemed can be found inside Clockworks Prize Boxes, available now. Open yours today and see what the gears of fate have in store for you.

Don’t waste any time, Clockworks Boxes will only be available through April 22nd. More information on the Clockworks Prize Box and its contents may be found here. The Clockworks never stop turning — Gear up!

Hail, knights!

The cosmos briefly swings back into balance. Spring is a little late this year, but the Strangers have now brought forth celestially-themed offerings in the Equinox Prize Box, available to you through April 9th:

• 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

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.