Dark Harvest Festival
The Dark Harvest Festival has ended. The Punkin King hopes you enjoyed the festival and looks forward to seeing you next year!

Shadow Keys
The limited time sale of Shadow Keys from Boost has ended. We will be evaluating other options to obtain them in the future.

Bugfixes
- The Flamberge charge attack was previously able to damage other players. This has been fixed.
- Fixed a lighting and camera issue in the Arcade lobby.
- Fixed the missing material and artifact issue at the end of a shadow lair

- Fixed graphical issues with Jelly gear
- Fixed issue with guild creation

Celebrate Halloween with a festive giveaway and an energy sale!

Starting Thursday, 10/27 at 10am pst and ending Tuesday, 11/1 at 10am pst enjoy the following:

- A new 3,500 CE energy pack, normally $9.95 will be sold for only $7.50!
- Any player that logs in during the promo will receive a bound Pumpkin Bomb Bandolier accessory!

How to claim your reward:
The Pumpkin Bomb Bandolier will be mailed to the first Knight you log in with during the promotional period.

- Celebrate Halloween with darkness and danger! For a limited time only, Shadow Keys are available from Boost, the Special Items Merchant!
- Arsenal chests have been added to Lobbies, Clockwork Terminals, and Subtowns. These do not represent a change in how the Arsenal is accessed while in the Clockworks, but are rather just a visual reminder to equip a suitable loadout before moving on to the next stratum.
- Tooltips for offline friends and guildmates now show last session times.
- Added bindings for individual weapon slots (defaulting to 7/8/9/0).

A new forum section called Treasure Vault has been created for all your creative endeavors of a Spiral Knights nature. Art, fiction, events, videos of your interpretive dance in reaction to defeating the Snarbolax, it all goes in the Treasure Vault!

We will be moving existing fiction and art threads to Treasure Vault. To avoid clutter in General Discussion, we won't be using shadow copies on every single thread we move. If your thread has disappeared, please check the Treasure Vault. Thanks!

Graphics

* Optimization and level of detail changes to various common particle effects.
* Graphic fix to Divine Avenger charge attack.
* Graphic change to Phantom charge attack.
* Sticky target cursor now renders in front of targets.

Audio

* Fix for crackling/stuttering Windows audio.

Steam

* Fix for occasional failure to switch zones due to Steam authentication issues.

Monsters

* Royal Jelly defense values brought in line with the rest of the Slime family

Today's bugfix patch will contain the following changes:

- Restored background visuals to the Depth 23 terminal for players using Low Graphics Quality.
- Fixed delays with loading Clockwork Tunnel levels.
- Reduced the amount of monsters needed to finish Unknown Passage battles.
- Knights are now locked in before Royal Jelly fight starts.
- Fixed kleptolisks to only steal 1 item out of a stack.
- Fixed issues with material rewards in the Shadow Lairs.
- Only item categories that can be auctioned are shown in your arsenal when on the "My Auctions" tab.

We've got some exciting additions to the Clockworks included in this release. The bravest, most elite knights can take on the most challenging levels to date in Shadow Lairs and everyone can celebrate the Dark Harvest Festival with visits to the Punkin King!

Shadow Lair Overview

The Clockwork Terminal on floor 23 now contains a new area north of the elevator leading to several 'Shadow Lairs.' These mysterious elevators contain the most fearsome challenges found in the Clockworks.

* Fixed bug that might de-equip your shield or give the wrong message about changing loadouts after playing Lockdown.
* Fixed bug that sometimes caused friend's locations to be incorrect.
* Fixed bug that caused some players to not see prize labels on the prize wheel.
* Fixed bug that would sometimes skip a player from getting the prize wheel.
* Fixed the Volcanic Binocular Visor and the Bomb Bandolier.

Something is stirring in the darkest depths of the Clockworks.

The next major content update coming to Spiral Knights will feature some truly fearsome Tier 3 content for only the bravest, most powerful Knights to challenge. We will begin testing portions of this content soon, so keep an eye on the
Testing Feedback forum for announcements!