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[GUIDE: DARK FESIVAL] The guide to Spiral Knights Dark festival

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I will be answering your questions about anything in the dark festival. They must related to it. So if you have any questions, please comment below and Ill add them.

FaQ's

The Dark Festival

The dark festival is a party that celebrates Halloween and Haven changes. It happens in October and you can buy items from the strangers for a limited time. You can buy a temp costume or get a permanent one which will cost 75 pieces of candy. You can get candy from the Punkin King. There is also a new mission where you can get candy daily. Only once per day. You can also find him in a arcade run.

1) What is the difference between a paper and replica mask?

Nothing. They both expire when the festival ends because it eventually breaks and doesn't last forever. If you would like a good and perm mask, you should get the one with good graphics, but it will be very expensive. It costs 75 pieces of candy. Best part, it's permanent!

2) Why can't I do the new mission for the dark festival?

It's because you either played it already or you aren't in the right rank. You need to be higher than rank 4-1. The only thing is, Tier 1 will give the fewest amount of candy while Tier 3 gets the highest amount. So reach as high as you can. Also there was an exploit a few days ago where you could redo the new prestige mission for the dark festival as much as you wanted, and that was a bad thing. Because rich people with lots of energy could redo it and get everything in 1 day.

3) Whats the difference between Tier 2 and Tier 3 in the Dark harvest when it's only harder and the same amount of candy?

There IS a difference between the tiers and what rank you are in. The higher you are at, the more candy you get. The more harder it is, the more candy you recieve. It will be easier to get items when you are in Tier 3.

4) Where can you find the Punkin king?

You can find him in the daily prestige "Dark Harvest", but you can also find him in the arcades. You can have lots of chances in recieving candy. Look for the icon with the gears. "Deconstruction Zones" will not have him at all, but in a clockworks place like cooling chamber, blast furnace, etc... you can find him in more than those. No, they aren't in the missions section.

5) What is the difference between Trick and Treat?

Trick is a bad thing, so you should cross your hands and hope for treat. You will be getting treat a bit more often than getting trick. When you get trick, the PK will launch his pumpkin head around and you have to hit it. There will also be spawners where the enemies come and explode. There will be lots around and lots of their explosives will be out. So it will be hard. Hit the pumpkin as much as you can. You will have 2 minutes to hit it. Nobody can master it easily. Treat is a good thing, because the PK instantly gives you treats. They give candy based by what tier you are doing.

6) What does PK stand for?

It stands for Punkin King. It's a short way in saying his name

7) Any tips for the Punkin King when you fight him as trick?

Some times I can give you. Find a big space where there isn't any explosives and if you see the pumpkin there, you can hit him with something. I can list the tips here.

-Big space like what I said. You need big space with nothing in your way to get a chance in hitting the pumpkin
-Follow the PK around. If you can't hit him, just run quickly and hit him. You should put strong defense and have a full party if you can't go beat him
-Make a party member distract them while you go and hit him.

I will list more tips, but if I need to list some more, I will add it. I might even consider changing some.

8) Are there other kinds of tricks from the Punkin King? -Answered by Darrke

Yes. There are two versions of trick. One is greyish gourdlings that cause stun, which slows you down if you get a hit. The second, more vile one IMO, is when the gourdlings are reddish colored and explode much like blast cubes, leaving bits that explode later. There is no easy way to predict the Punkin Kings movement. I can say after you hit him a few times he will bounce to the next adjacent side of the room. So from a parallel side to perpendicular, and vice versa, sides that are CONNECTED. So if he moves(jumps), run at an angle to the next connected side, and he should be there if not, he's opposite of you. Just keep moving after him, you'll hit him eventually. Its better with party members, more angles of attack.

9) Why can't I find Punkin King?

There are lots of ways to find Punkin King. There is the arcade clockworks with the gear sign, but it's a chance that you can't get him. It is suppose to give you a big chance in getting him. More details will be added.

10) Is there any way to preview halloween armor without wearing it?

Yes. For the dark harvest, when you look at the masks, you can press preview on it. You can view others at the auction house. If you have a Halloween costume that you would like to preview, go to the dark harvest stranger, and click preview on the costume you want. You can actually preview it!

11) If trick means the punkin king's head flies around, how long do we have to hit it?

You have at least 2 minutes to hit his head. You should also accompany a full party to help. No, there is no unlimited time until you hit the punkin king the maximum you hit him. It's always 2 minutes. If you don't get any candy, the clock does not extend. If you don't get any, you don't get any. It is based on how much you hit him. It's also how lucky you get from him dropping candy.

12) How much times do you need to hit him for him to drop a candy?

I suggest you would just go crazy and spam your weapon to hit him. He goes all over the place so you should just hit him as much as you can. Every 2 hits I do with the hammer, he drops a piece of candy. I usually get about 4 or 7 pieces of candy. If the PK is gone when you hit him so much, then he probably had no more candy and exploded. If you hit him in the right amount of hits, you can finish Trick easily and it will feel like treat
This is also a place to discuss.

13) Are you able to keep the candy forever or will they be gone?

Well, dark festival is coming to a end, so it means that around November 7, every player will not have the candy. It will stop the abuse in the next Dark festival from players spending all their previous candy and buy stuff easier.

14) When will the Dark Festival come?

It will come every year in October to celebrate October. It's like a party and you can get items such as the Dark Festival prize box. If you want to get Dark Festival items, you can go farm the Punkin King. He is the king that gives candy or sends enemies. There are lots of things to do in the Dark Festival.
Thank you Darrke, for helping me answer question 8. Your name will be placed at the question.

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Takuyaz
What is it!!!

Ben you know me I think? Ice is keeping me in the dark about it! Tell me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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Sketman
How to...

How do you play the prestige level another time?

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Skyguarder
If your mentioning

The dark harvest mission for the prestige, then I can answer that in the FaQ's. Tarkuyaz, I need to know what your telling me

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Flamearc
HELP

How do you unlock the Prestige section on missions...
I'm on 2 in the story
But i gots all 3* stuff

I heard the 1 Halloween mission is guaranteed per day in prestige.

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Il-Mono-Il
Hurry up!

You need to unlock rank 4-1! Go! Fast!

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Canine-Vladmir
add more FAQs!

whats the best plan to get the most tokens with only 100mist per day?!
(mostly for me, T3)

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Oatmonster
Lick

@Canine-Vladmir, You probably want to have an active guild or group of friends searching for the PK. They can invite each other whenever they find him. Just make sure you try and find a few lairs to return the favor.

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Skyguarder
If you have any questions

Please comment and I'll answer it

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Rika-Eternal
Levels

In which levels do you have a chance of encountering the pumpkin king? Is it all levels that show the clockworks logo? Because the update said "Clockwork tunnels style levels," and the wiki only lists Clockwork Tunnels, Power Complex, Blast Furnace, Cooling Chamber, and Wasteworks. So not Deconstruction zones? Any others?

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Il-Mono-Il
Help

I have opened 2 boxes, and got just 3 confetti each... No more items. Is this normal?

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Ubernerd
@Media

Every level that has the gear symbol except the Decon Zones has a chance to spawn the PK in place of a Danger Room. Since DZs don't have Danger Rooms, they don't have the PK.

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Skyguarder
@Mono

You should be able to get items for every box you open. Please be sure that when you buy the box, you should check your inventory to see if it's there. You should be able to get more items

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Il-Mono-Il
Oh

@ubernerd
today, in a wasteworks level, i found a danger room (poison-themed) AND the PK...

@Benightz
oh, right. Already sent a bug report and support request. Thx

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I could have sworn it was possible for there to be a Punkin King area and a Danger Room in the same level, as Monocelha said.

Anyway, who's got good strategies for fighting the Punkin King? Here's what I've heard, but can anyone confirm?

 
Good to use

  • Autogun (and upgrades)
  • Flourish/Snarble Barb (and upgrades)
  • Rocket Hammer
  • Antigua (and upgrades)
  • Weapons that apply the Freeze status

 
Bad to use

  • Anything that applies the Stun status (see here)
  • Troika (and upgrades)

 
I can change these lists as necessary, or Benightz is free to adopt it. Either way, feedback would be appreciated.

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Skyguarder
Elemental is good

I think

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"Weapons that apply the Freeze status"

So you can freeze him?

*Equips Shiver*

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Sketman
Danger rooms and Punkin King

You can definitely have the PK and danger rooms in the same level, as that happened to me twice today.
Also, I don't think you even have to kill gourdlings in T3. The (I guess only 1 time) time I played it they just ran up and suicided, or maybe my weapon 1-shoted them...

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Etc. Etc.

To make the required areas more specific:

-Must have a gear icon on the elevator during Arcade runs.

-Check your map (hotkey "M") to see the possibilities of the next floor. If the next floor is a Decon Zone, then the gear icon will not apply.

-Even with the icon, you have a chance NOT to trigger the event.

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Yes

It's true. Some places like Blast Furnace and Cooling Chamber could have him.

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Rika-Eternal
Punkin King

Ok, how on earth do you solo the Punkin king?!? I got "trick" for the first time (after 10 times in a row of getting "treat") and I basically just ran around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to catch up with him. I landed one hit. One. And I tried shooting at him when I realized I couldn't catch him, but I couldn't seem to hit him with my gun either. The gourdlings got in the way a little, but weren't a significant problem. I just couldn't catch him or predict where he was going at all.

Tips? Tricks (yes.. I know, forgive the pun...king *facepalm*) Please?
If it helps I was fighting him on T2

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A small update...

There are two versions of trick. One is greyish gourdlings that cause stun. Which slows you down if hit. The second, more vile one IMO, is when the gourdlings are reddish colored and explode much like blast cubes, leaving bits that explode later. There is no easy way to predict the Punkin Kings movement. I can say after you hit him a few times he will bounce to the next adjacent side of the room. So from a parallel side to perpendicular, and vice versa, sides that are CONNECTED. So if he moves(jumps), run at an angle to the next connected side, and he should be there if not, he's opposite of you. Just keep moving after him, you'll hit him eventually. Its better with party members, more angles of attack.

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The "bombling" things

I actually think the bomblings are easier to handle, as they just run up to you and suicide.
I think (I am not sure) that the bomb/gourdlings drop tokens too, so it is easier to handle bomblings cause they run up to you, blow up, and drop stuff. This leaves an open path for you to chase the PK instead of worrying about the little guys.
Gourdlings on the other hand, they stun you and get in your way so that the PK just bounces away

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@sketman

The "bomblings" don't drop tokens (this was posted in another thread, though I guess it could be wrong), but maybe it looks like that because they are exploding close enough the the Punking to hit him? Anyway, I had better luck the second time, but I still didn't get the full amount of tokens that he drops for treat. I stood next to him with a fully charged attack, so as soon as he said trick I could get some guaranteed damage in. I really should have thought of that the first time. I also heard that freeze is super useful, but I haven't tried it. I also managed to back him into a corner with knockback once and that was helpful.

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There's actually an easy solution

If u have an alt account with a 4-1 mission clearance guy you can do it easily while getting him tokens too
The thing is pk almost never goes to the center, hes always on the edge. So with ur alt and normal guy step on the party button but leave ur alt there all the gourdlings will mob him in the center and u can kill pk quite easily plus ur alt also gets tokens which u can buy stuff with and mail to ur main
(It's best to have strong armor with normal defense on alt)

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Skyguarder
You can't mail?

The costumes are automatically bound to you when you get them? Also, yes, but you get a lower amount of candy

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Sketman
Mailing

I guess what Xtremejim meant is that you could buy something with the alt and mail it over to your main
I'm pretty sure the masks come unbound, and I know that the prize boxes are unbound.

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Skyguarder
I tried selling the prize box

But it didn't work. I tried the Auction House and it said "Not tradeable" or whatever it said. When I get the Spookat mask, I'll try mailing the mask to my other knight. If it doesn't work, then it is bound when purchased.

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@azure-knight

Don't get spookat mask it comes bound
But I mean open the lockbox on ur alt and mail whatever's inside to ur main

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Sketman
From the patch notes

From the patch notes:
Dark Harvest Prize Box
In addition to festive masks, Maskwell also has Dark Harvest Prize Boxes for trade. Dark Harvest Prize Boxes contain random, unbound items.

http://www.forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/66484
Edit: lol I tried to some pro formatting and add in hyperlinks and stuff, but I guess it didn’t work :D

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I want the spookat mask anyways

That's what I'm trying to get

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Solo?

I usually try to use six-shooters/autoguns to rip through the horde and snag PK simultaneously. For melee, I use SS end-lines' (like GranF or DivA) charge attacks. Alternatively still, wear mercurial set with charge time decrease variants, and use the caliber line.

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@ benightz

Ya I'm pretty sure u get lower candy but its still more total

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Sketman
Is it guaranteed?

Is it guaranteed to get PK in specific levels?
I got PK in every gear level up until today when I went into the Cooling Chamber Haunted passage, so nothing is guranteed, or the level I went to just can't have PK
And then that makes me wonder if its possible to meet PK in other levels that aren't the "gear" ones

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The-Pecan
It's not guaranteed unless

It's not guaranteed unless its the prestige mission, it's like 70% chance of pk

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Rika-Eternal
@xtremejim

70%? I've been tracking since the festival started and I'm at 50%. How unlucky for me.

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Skyguarder
I spent 30 mist to go to a gate run to the blast furnace.

There was no chance. I never got it once. I got a lower chance

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Lemon-Neko
wow everything except how to farm properly...

had an awesome experience with a bombie trick, as soon as the spawners came on, pk died, it was epic. it was a trick that felt like a treat. if u time it right, u can hit pk with muliple charges to kill him instantly when in a party

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Derpules
Misleading info, Benightz?

In the OP you say *you* will be answering questions, but then you C/P Daarke's post in its entirety. That's not very cool. Give credit where it's due.

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Skyguarder
I am anyways

And I knew that was incoming...

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Rika-Eternal
prize boxes

Is there a way to view Halloween equipment without actually equipping it and binding it to you? Preferably, I'd like to preview it on my knight, but I'd settle for just a catalog of pictures. It would help me build my wishlist/decide what to keep and what to sell.

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The-Pecan
@mediaddict

Just go to ah, type it in and hit preview

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Derpules
...

You should just add "--Answer contributed by Daarke" or something after that section.

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Skyguarder
Done

I will also be adding a new question soon

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Skyguarder
Double post

Also, I changed the title. I will be making official guides for the festivals

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Skyguarder
Updated

New questions until the Dark Festival ends/