On the haven loading screen there is an albino bird thing that is flapping its wings instead of spinning them around like the ones behind it.

I just noticed there's rectangular holes behind the Arcade's stands where Sullivan, Feron, Wegner, and that empty one is. Only one of them is blocked off. Makes you wonder...

It's also like that at a guild hall

So Haven, the Guild Hall and Moorcraft will be connected somehow? Perhaps an alt moorcraft which is exactly the same, but minus the elevators, to prevent circumventing the 200 crown cost on tier 2 trips without a prior tier 1 trip.

i think it has something to do with that place you can't get to in jelly farm. hmmm

Today I just saw the elevator on the core had a blue arrow and costed 10 energy ;o

If so then supply a picture :).

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/189/2011081900003.jpg/

there it is :O

Sorry but thats just a glitch that happens sometimes when the gates change while your in the clockworks on a floor with the gate to haven, if you got in the elevator it would have taken you to haven most liekly, unless im missing something here.....

Maybe the #10 is this (the minerals):
http://imageshack.us/f/684/spiral20110820191005.png

why have a fan under the water? that makes me very curious >_<
http://imageshack.us/f/26/spiral20110820191134.png
i think we will never know what is the #10.
But if you give a hint we will know :D

lean towards it having something to do with strangers and snipes. Every stranger has snipes on its head and/or shoulders. EXCEPT the one in that little area you start in. Thats kind of strange.

also. I don't think this #10 secret is anything game changing. I think it is a yet to be explained secret involving the backstory and lore of haven, strangers, gun puppies, us knights, and how they all relate to one another.

Nick has clearly tricked us all into actually looking at and APPRECIATING the hard work put into the design of the world, and discussing less noticed details of the game.
You sly devil, you!

Whether there is actually a secret or not, props to Nick for invoking a very entertaining and interesting thread.

tried to look for Imonom? (i think it might be something/nothing)

http://invo.jinr.ru/ginv/developer_en/imonom_8h-source.html

http://invo.jinr.ru/ginv/developer_en/imonom_8h.html

http://invo.jinr.ru/ginv/developer_en/classIMonomInterface.html

If it helps... use it, if not... don't.

(Trying to solve #2)

@Jygantic

There are a few hidden chat commands ;)

This ^, my friends, is how to be a conspiracy theorist.

this is just a guess but in haven arcade i nothis that the walls look like paths sealed of by ice or walls coverd by ice is that it

thous it have somthing to do with the elevator becouse i rly doudt that

"also the pulsar and catalyzer are made by gremlins; the pulsar is "used by squads of Ironclaw soldiers". and the catalyzer is used on "Gremlin mining and demolition devices" so there are incomming new gremlin types"

Nah. Ironclaw gremlins are just Tier 2 Gremlins. (Tier 1 are Tenderfoot gremlins and Tier 3 are Darkfang Gremlins). And Gremlin Demolitionists are already in the game. They're the annoying ones that hop around planting and throwing those wind-up bombs.

Moar less-obvious stuff:
There are at least two Stranger shopkeepers that wear backbacks (Basil and Greave). If you look closely, the backpack consists of a sleeping bag and... a green treasure box! Guess it was more practical to loot the whole box and keep it as a container for future loot, rather than carrying a separate bag.

Mecha Knights' and Retrodes' cylindrical heads bear a slight resemblance to Ian's mechanical angels. This might just be how he likes to draw mechanical humanoid creatures, though. Still, given the "Avatar/Nemesis" idea, plus Phantoms being very player-like monsters that relentlessly stalk the team, plus Mecha Knights that slightly resemble Ian's angels and that Mecha Knights can be recruited to the players' side (and that even enemy mecha knights register hit detection against other enemies), I can't help but wonder if Phantoms came from Nemeses and Mecha Knights came from Avatars.

To this day I have not figured out if there is any pattern to the colors on the recipe icons.

There are multiple Energetic Knights in Haven. Either they're all excited about the exact same thing, or it's one guy who's so energetic he can sprint to your next destination while you're still on the loading screen.

There is only one interactable Gremlin in Emberlight (the General Goods vendor, whose hood and mask remind me of Resident Evil 4's Merchant). All the others are out of reach. Until Brinks earned his Tier 3 clearance, that vendor was the only interactable NPC past the barrier from Tier 2.

Brinks is the only Spiral Knight in Moorcroft and Emberlight. Kozma and the Spiral Wardens always wait outside. (Wait, maybe Brinks should be outside too? Kozma is always by the alchemy machine so you can get a recipe and build it immediately if that's what's holding you back from tier clearance-- perhaps Brinks' token trading services would be helpful towards that purpose... but only if he's on Kozma's side of the barrier.)

You can hear monster sounds amongst the generic cheers in Blast Network whenever someone blows up. Listen for the loud "sighing" of Zombies and the "growling" (snarling? barking? grunting?) of Gremlins.

Many guns 2* and up have a stock attached under the grip. Almost nobody notices this (probably due to the top-down camera angle and that the inventory icons lack this feature).

There is now one turret creature for each token type (Primal, Grim, Forge). Now we could use a Primal-based healing creature, as we've got a Forge one in Menders and a Grim one in Silkwings; Silkwings frequently double as the Primal one due to their butterfly shape. Damage types also correspond to their token types; Primal creatures attack with Piercing, Forge creatures attack with Elemental, and Grim creatures attack with Shadow.

I haven't read every post, so I don't know if anyone's mentioned it. But aren't we Constructs? here's what I think. King Tinkinzar is an intergalactic mechanical genius who created us to be shipped to Cradle. But.. we went haywire in the crash, deciding to fight all those monsters in the ClockWorks on our quest to find out all the secrets.

"If the elevators take us deeper into Cradle, how is it we arrive in the Sky Islands? O.o (probably a design flaw but whatever)"

Those islands aren't in the sky. You can see mechanical seams in the background and a big glowing lens on a revolving arm for the sun. That "sky" is just a blue wallpaper with clouds painted on.

Besides, if a cave can be in the sky, then sky islands can be underground. It's only fair.

uhhh, well people have been talking about the aurora isles and stuff, which reminded me about the run that squishat and I did a long time ago, it was either in t1 or t2, with small floating islands and a breakable block on it. You could shoot them down, and when we shot through a gap in the crumbling wall, we found a gear switch, which opened to a new area with boxes I think.. That was a long time ago =_=".

I think they removed it from the game. ):

In the unlikely event that "curious" was intended as a clue, the first connection I would make would be to the Gloamy Wildwoods.

Which probably says more about my own biases than anything else, but there you go.

I dunno if this so much a secret as an easter egg, but I've noticed something interesting pertaining to the Strangers hanging around in both the Town Square and the Bazaar: their names all seem to have some significance. Here--I'll even provide a handy little list that I whipped up.

In the Town Square, there's...
Warnel, who gives the warning, "Please be careful not to step on any of the snipes, little one."
Hailoh, who stands at the entrance and greets knights. This one's obvious: his name sounds similar to "hello".
Bootshuze, the one with black and white snipes near the alchemy machine, is the only one in the Town Square that gives me trouble. What his name could mean besides "boot" and "shoes"... I don't know. Is it an anagram of something? I'm pretty certain it's not, but if someone can see one, then awesome. But yeah, none of his dialogue has anything to do with footwear.
(There's Keston, too, the knight outside the Training Hall. Not a stranger, but his name is an anagram of "tokens".)

And in the Bazaar, there's...
Quillion and Ricasso, the weapons merchants. Quillion is a type of dagger, while ricasso is part of a sword or knife blade.
Vatel, the recipe vendor. Perhaps named for famous chef, François Vatel? (Also, the story says that Punch and Vise kicked Vatel out of his old space and forced him to move his shop elsewhere. Such a defeat reinforces my belief that he may be named after a Frenchman. :p)
Greave and Kragen, the armour merchants. A greave is a piece of armour that protects the leg. As for Kragen... I'm kind of stumped. The only thing I could come up with for that one is a former defensive football player named Greg Kragen. Defense? Armour? I feel like that may be too much of a stretch, though. (Kragen is also an auto parts line/store. Any relation whatsoever?)

Another neat little subtlety: all the vendors have designs representing their wares on their faces. Vatel's is a potion bottle, Quillion and Ricasso's are swords, and Greave and Kragen's are shields!

Just thought I'd share. :3

I do like that gate idea as the gates do shift counter clockwise as it were from time to time. That would make a lot of sense actually. I gotta take a closer look now.