Remember the blizzard? That was because Maulos had a plan. What his plan was? He released the Battle Sprites. The Drakon, Seraphinx, and Maskeraith. Then he made the Sprite Food machines and the food, which required a lot of Crimsonite, Luminite, and Dark Matter in order to make them in low supply. Then, knowing the knights' greed, they would craft their Crim and Lum and DM into food and sell them and deposit all their Valestone and Moonstone to the Arcade, thus causing a "blizzard".
And then OOO just HAD to foil his plans and make the Moonstone and Valestone useless and not allow minerals to change gates. Good job OOO for foiling the baddies' plots. You make them cry.
It is for this reason that I decided to complete Heart of Ice in hopes the eternal freeze of the arcade would end. The funny part is that the very next day the patch came out causing each stratum to have a random theme. My plan worked!