I was just thinking while i sat in haven, what if we got boxes with outfits the same color as the generic spiral order troops? we have a lot of outfits but none of them are the standard grunt gear. I'd like to be able to dress as those guys! Maybe they could include accessories like those little bags that various outfits have and the ranking badges in different colors! i've really wanted to get better badges than the foursquare ones in different colors.

Maybe the boxes could be cheaper than the normal ones....or they could be rewards randomly handed out to players that spend a lot of time in the clockworks each week! Or maybe some kind of mineral-based raffle thing, where you input the minerals we get from the clockworks for raffle tickets and at the end of the week you can exchange the tickets for boxes?

How's it goin' Fellow forumin' knights? Ready to consider the next suggestions i have? Because it's time for some sharp sword suggestions!

Swords are pretty popular to use as a main weapon, but they're mostly tied up into variants of a few lines of weapon. for one example there hasn't been much love for the low-level gremlin stuff like the wrench wand and thwacker, but they are pretty neat. For higher level versions, the thwacker would be fun as it is, maybe have the charge attack be replaced at higher levels with the big smash blow followed up by a wide sweep attack like the gremlins do or that boomerang throw attack. The higher level versions could get shinier with added plating to reinforce the wrench head and maybe even put the emberlight emblem on them. You could have them rarelty show up in Emberlight's store and it would be fun to use the gremlin's weapons against them! Since we have weapons at high level that do normal plus a bonus to ghosts and gloops and growlies, adding one for whacking weapons is just filling out the options!

The wrench wand could do a lot of things too, since those little gremlins are using two of them with various minerals the upgrades could include any element typing or status effect!
You could even have them paired, since those shadow blades already let you hold an off-hand accessory to a sword you could pair each upgrade with a second wrench in a reverse grip so they could use any combo of minerals together with the charge attack! And since it has that unique charge attack, you could have a shadow wand that shoots burning blasts or a piercing wand that does curse projectiles! Maybe they could be special upgrade recipes that drop from high-tier gremlin fights, or they could sell them special in emberlight or maybe have an new DLC or danger mission where we have to fight off crimson order spies in emberlight-style maps where they drop? There's a lot of interesting potential in these!

While we're talking about the enemy's weapons, I like those short swords trojans wield. What if we could use them? You could have them them make wide swings like the defender swords but swing faster and way less knockback, so they'd be good as an offensive weapon for packs that doesn't move the enemy around too much! There could be a shadow damage trojan version and "spiral order approved" normal damage design, and maybe use a faster but smaller charged slam attack that centers the impact blast under the sword instead of out past it. Or have the aura blast trojans do when they power up for a charged attack, but maybe not with the actual power boost. You could even have a special 5* version that looks like Vanaduke's mace, maybe cause it to leave a big flame patch with a charged slam attack that causes burning to enemies that get hit by the blast or pass over it. I think it'd be neat to add to that alchemy machine at the end of shadow lairs, themed special weapons would make good bragging rights stuff.

Also i think some more variety for the cutter line would be nice. What about a shadow damage version, like the phantoms in the graveyards have? They could get darker and have glowing swirls on them as they level up and the charge attack could have a pushing forward combo like the fencing swords and create a close-range bullet in front of it that causes curse at the end of it. Or maybe we could get something more silly, like a nail bat version that does piercing damage and have fun bonking hit sound! Or a regular bat, that does stun instead of bonus damage on animals!

The sealed sword could also have a normal option, where the spiral order replaces the seals with a stabliser of some kind for the crossguard. It could get an increasing chance of status effects on the sealed sword charged attack with each upgrade and the blade could get those glowy lines around the hilt instead of the blade in blue or green with spirals or something. And maybe as upgraded blade loses the seals it gets a knight's emblem over the mystic eyes on the hilt in makes the inscription glow maybe? it's a really neat 3-star sword and I think it'd be cool to have a midpoint version between the two magic ones.

Hey knights, i was thinkin' about sprites!

So the battle sprites get design changes based on their evolution and ultimate skills, and a lot of the knights like to be fashionable... What if we made some changes around that?

For example, ultimate skills are nice but sometimes aren't needed to be useful or can make a fight more awkward (looking at hexing haze here) so what if we could get a catalyst that lets us skip an ultimate skill instead of picking? Then we could choose which upgrades look good without ones we don't like to get there! You just get to the level where you need to feed the sprite an ultimate catalyst and instead buy an "Power-inert catalyst" instead and then it just doesn't trigger the ultimate selection.

Additionally, what if the sprites had a few more upgrade choices that put their appearance closer to their starting appearance? My seraphynx had those cute shining eyes and i miss them!
So for example seraspynx could get a change to their ray that makes it work the spur's wind projectile and gives them their cute eyes back, maskerraith could get a change to their needles where it does direct damage instead of leaving quills and gives them their tiny little ears back, and drakon could get a change for their firebolt that makes it penetrate enemies instead of explode and gives them back their cute little nub horns! We deserve our cute sprite options!

okay this is just some small quality of life stuff, but hear me out. I think it would be very helpful to have outfits equipped in the costume slot have a different highlight color than the ones being used as equipment. like pink or blue outlines instead of the yellow ones for the equipment would make it much faster to tweek your loadout.

also, it would be nice to have an "AFK" emote, so we'd have a little message over us we could change to let people know we just went to the bathroom or something when we have a mission lobby open and will be right back. I can't be the only one that's opened a mission and then had to take a phone call for a job or something.

Hey howdy fellow knights! It's ragtag, proving you can learn your lesson and then ignore it with more suggestions for you to consider! this ones a bit bigger than most because i need the space to talk about new floor additions to fight in!

What if we had spiral knight levels in the clockworks? Like, there's areas captured by everyone else down there, we've got to have a couple strongholds too, right? The assets for a knight-theme level already exists since we use those assets for guild halls and the lab so that wouldn't take a whole lot of effort to set up.
They could be like optional battle areas where you can help with monster-related "testing" for rewards or simply bypass the level to hurry to deeper floors. It could have all sorts of interesting battle setups to test, and even include those bumble drones in the training rooms as additional hazards! And we have an exchange table at the beginning so if you have items you don't want in your hotbar you can stand in front of them and drop them off, where your teammates could take them!

You could even have alternate version of the level where the knight's strongholds were broken into where you defend an area from waves of enemies to clear the area for spiral order use again, like a special version of arena maps as a surprise for when players get comfy with the idea the knight levels are "Safe"!

Also, couldn't the level design bits from the collector mission be reused for new levels? like floors where you're skirting a crimson order territory and trying to not get caught before you can sneak past? the sentry lights and dense room designs lend themselves well to the idea of dodging through a fortified area trying not to attract notice. you could even make it so you have to choose between a quick escape to the next floor and risking a big fight for prize boxes by accessing security panels or rescuing captured knights or sprites! It'd be a great way to push how the gremlins control most of the clockworks!

There could also be more use of mission setpieces and other less-used stuff added to the level generator to improve variety. For example we hardly see the rocky slimes that disguise themselves as blocks, so why not make uncommon versions of the rooms full of blocks that have several random blocks in them replaced with the rocky slimes? even a few simple twists on things like corners and now versions of existing map pieces could go a long way to changing things up.

And deconstruction rooms are pretty barebones, what if there were uncommon parts added where they had random monsters of a different type in a "holding room" you or the gremlins could unlock if they reach the control panel or partly dismantled "trap" area with some of them non functional and partly surrounded by gremlin warning barricades? Maybe some of those storage blocks with scuttlers could be added to a few new chunks so people have to be more careful about shooting through stuff to just mow down gremlins.

new room components don't even need to be gameplay matters, more alternate clockwork hallway parts where gears or beams are just off of the map to remind us that the map is a jigsaw of shifting fake realms, or spaces in the beast areas and complexes where previous knight, gremlin or other teams were taken out and left there by the wolvers, The occasional team in candlestick keep might be sitting around a candle or trying to find some usable info in those books, things like that could be a lot of fun to find and to plan out!

Welp that's my suggestions this time! Have fun in cradle, knights! and lemme know if you've got anything to say about my ideas!

Look out fellow knights, the moon is high and the pumpkin king is out for blood! Do we have blood? oh, he just wants candy. anyways, you know what i want? Mapmaking tools!

A lot of people have probably been asking for a tool to make new floors in the clockworks since forever, but the real question is how would to make that work? I think i have a great answer, we can make it a guild function! instead of trying to cram the level editor into the active clockworks, we can make a special guild "test chamber" where you set up the map, build new floors out of clockwork chunks, design new clockwork chunks, then populate the map by feeding minerals into a hopper by the test chamber door! You can even make a vote system so the admins can spot which maps get a lot of positive attention and consider looking into feeding them into the clockworks!

The idea is you build a test chamber in your guild, which has 1-3 doors to lead into the test room but start closed. You go up to a closed door that has a terminal on it, and that takes you to the map editor where you can either assemble room and hallway "chunks" together or make new freeform "chunks" to fit into the test map. You can save the not-working map anytime, but the door won't open until you tell the editor you finished the map. Once you finish and the map editor performs a quick pathing test to make sure it can be completed, you can open the door at the hopper and feed minerals in until you get the mix of enemies you want to see. So you'd have a main mix of two minerals for the main enemies, then you could feed additional minerals in to add pockets of spoiler enemies. Sorta like how we used to feed minerals into the clockworks before! Once the door's open, the monsters are generated, and the door's open you get to run through a virtual clockworks map, and at the end you can give it a rating on various features and overall! guilds can even get non-guild members to come in and vote on the good map ideas! it'd be a great way to encourage people to visit guilds!

Then the devs can look at the top few ideas every few months and decide to work the best parts into the official clockworks generator system! The guild that gets their ideas approved for the official game could even get a reward like special furniture or maybe a small energy prize for improving the SK experience! or even a super shiny accessory like a badge or a special hat!

Anyways, that's the ideas from the front lines against the candy menace! Would you visit guildhalls to try this out? Lemme know what you think!

Hey hey howdy knights! i've been riding a sugar rush for the last few days so let's get this post done before i crash! I hope you're feeling fashionable because i'm aiming at accessories!

Everyone love accessories! One thing i'd like to see is a holstered handgun, we have sheaths for swords and bandoliers for bombs to wear but no holsters for handguns to wear! It's a real shame. Some health pellet pouches and flare holders would be nice too like the vial hilsters but maybe with a wider belt holding them would be nice. Also some travelling backpacks and bookbags would be nice, instead of the ammo or health options we have for our backs now would look nice as a more flexible choice. Actually a book bag at the front might be better! I'd also like a tool pouch or a datapad that sits at the hips, to feel like a tech at work in the clockworks. Or a radio backpack might be nice, with an antennae bouncing around! or maybe a mini battle sprite accessory that hangs around us without doing anything on the side reverse from our actual sprite! I also think that a mirrored visor would be neat. Like the vented visor but instead of a grating there's a reflective lens area across the front! I'd also like a muffler across the front like the ones on the kat hats, so i could get that look on other helmets, it's a good design that looks comfy! We could also use a gasmask accessory, with the filter canasters on the front! it's strange we don't have more mask accessories actually. Oh, and what about some techy thruster pylons that hovered just behind us like wings? They could have a jet animation when we dash or shield charge! People love that sorta thing.

Oooh, or some bows would be nice! Like a nice big bow to look cute, there could be one on the back and one on the neck spot for the head so you could make your outfit extra fancy! Maybe a bow on top of the head too. And maybe like a sash of medals? we've got bandoliers, Those could be tbe base for a pretty sash full of medals to wear!

Also, there's a big lack of footwear for us knights to put on on our tiny little feet! What if we got some puffy high-top shoes, or some fancy dress tapshoes that click when we walked? Or some pretty anklets made of gold, everyone loves shiny gold accessories! Some of them could have little ankle wings on them! Or maybe some colorful leather shoes with big shiny buckles on the front, those could be nice. Maybe it'd be possible to even get some rollerskates!
And while it's not exactly an accessory, i'd like to see a multichromatic player color- which i mean to say having a player color that slowly cycles through the different colors fading into each other like a lot of computer parts do! while this would probably be super expensive, i'd love to see it and i bet a lot of other players would want it too!