I got to thinking how minerals could be used other than sprite food and then I remembered how certain mineral combinations would make different gates have a certain type of monster, I propose we be able to craft an usable item that summons a monster, but to summon a monster you will need 2 things
-A recipe that will either be dropped by the monster that it will be calling, and the lower tiers can be bought at the lab for 1.5 the corresponding recipe, so a 3 star wolver recipe would be cost 6000 crowns, tier 3 recipe's can only be obtained by monster drops, the drop rates should be roughly 1/700 it shouldn't be too difficult to obtain.
-The corresponding crystals for the monster types found here https://wiki.spiralknights.com/Gate_creation
-as a utility item it shouldn't cost too much to make and should be more a reward for collecting crystals, so 1 star=50 cr 3 crystals, 3 star=100 cr 5 crystals, 5 star=125 cr 7 crystals
>>>>you can only have 1 monster active at a time, this can be increased with the chroma suit lines for a total of 3 (to make the suit feel special)
+some monsters such as silkwings and gremlin menders will mark targets to give slightly better loot, to make sure its balanced they will be weak and draw ALOT of aggro. ( I didn't want to make the heal cats redundant)
+ Mini monsters come in groups of 3, or possibly 1 big variant like the golden dust bunny or grave scarab riders. (if there were some way for 3 minis to count as 1 monster that would be great)
+ gun puppies will ether be on a life timer or occasionally teleport.
>there would be a bomb line that rewards crystal hoarding, and the recipe would be sold in the lab, the bomb its self looks kinda like a party popper and would have a charge times similar to the big angry bomb, this allows a knight to summon 1 random monster of the tier equivalent, I want it to be access able to new players and give the lab a wondrous feeling to it.
- 1*= 50 of each crystal
- 3*=250 of each crystal
- 5*=500 of each crystal
- 2* and 4* just need 1 of each monster type material
+ only 3* and 5* have access to big and mini monsters
Thank you for your time.