Useful Links for New Knights

Greetings, shiny new Knight! You probably have some questions. Here are some links that other Knights have found useful in their quest for information:
First, the Spiral Knights Wiki contains a wealth of information about all manner of subjects. Do check it out! A good place to start is the New Player Briefing.
Next, here are some helpful threads and posts.
Gameplay and Strategy
- Spiral Knights: The Caring, Sharing Dungeon, by ajericho
- Damage, on the SK wiki
- Status effects, as explained by Awesomest
- The Elite Bomber Thread, original post by Fallout
- The Bombing Guide on the SK wiki
- Ask a Master Gunslinger Anything, questions answered by FossaFerox
- Spiral Knights: Swords and Gun Puppies, by ajericho
- Advanced Techniques, solid advice from multiple players throughout thread
- Battle Arena Population Control: How Not to Get Swarmed by 12 Gunpuppies and 6 Mecha Knights at the Same Time, by divaliant
- Spiral Knights: Gate Maps and You, by ajericho
- Gate, on the SK wiki
- Lockdown for Dummies (A long list of tips and advice), original post by marles
Equipment
- The Arsenal, a subforum for the discussion of armor and weaponry
- Shoebox's Gear Recommendations, by Shoebox
- Spiral Knights: A Gear Primer, Part 1 - In General, and Weapons, by ajericho
Energy and the Spiral Knights Economy
- Energy FAQ, on the SK wiki
- The Crystal Energy Market and You, by Senshi
- Crystal Economics: Pressures Up and Down, by Leviathan
- How to Become Self-Sustaining in Less Than a Week, by Ceviche
- Good Ways to Earn Money (Crowns), advice from multiple posters throughout thread.
Crafting
- Spiral Knights: Crafting and You, by ajericho
- List of Alchemy Paths, on the SK wiki
- Crafting Materials, on the SK wiki
Finding Your Niche
The Rules
- The Spiral Knights Terms of Service - First a summary, and then in its full legalese glory.
- Spiral Knights Community Standards - Another plainly-worded summary of the Terms of Service.
Spiral Knights News
- Announcements - Where release notes and other important notices about Spiral Knights are posted by the Ringers
- Spiral Knights on Twitter
- Spiral Knights on Facebook
Account Security
- Account Security - How to keep your account safe and secure
- Avoid Scammers - by Gwenyvier
About Three Rings, the company that makes Spiral Knights
- Three Rings' website
- Spiral Knights Developers - or "devs," the game's software engineers and artists
- Spiral Knights Game Masters - or "GMs," the game's crack squad of customer support agents
Got a link you think would be useful here? Have a suggestion for a new category (and links to go in it, so we don't have an empty category just sitting there, staring at us, a single tear rolling down its cheek)? Please post below. Thank you!

^I recommend that topic for lockdown as well

Agreed! Adding. Any others pop up lately that you'd recommend?

Hopefully this may help too.
Not the best, I know, but I tried.
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/18185?page=3#comment-152104

hi eurydice my account got hacked i hav mighty cobalt , ville striker , faust and 1.3k ce and now i dont wht happend plz answer i all so used my phone cred onthis now this happend i might sew this

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ty for the links eurydice, they were helpful, esp the one about lockdown

I made a general guide for new players, add it if you want, or not, the choice is yours.
I try to update if anything game changing comes along.
would make me feel proud if my guide was good enough to be put in a stickied thread.

Come on, why didn't I see this two weeks ago?
Not that I'd have done a lot differently...

I realized myself after rereading my threads I suggested, I decided they were not not the best for here.
But this probably will, every knight should get this down. :)
Edit: Whoops, you already got that on there, my bad!

I have a question to everyone, even to admins, is there a suggestion button on the spiral knights wiki? I have seen lots of new knights/players ask on what other people recommend to get once you start at the game and soon later on when you get the hang of the game. I haven't looked at the wiki so much...and I can't right now, so please answer :).

This is the wrong thread to post, i think.
But, i dont understand your question. If you created a thread about it, you'll find answers.

Bopp has a nice sword guide that address many of the sword FAQs that come up. I think it would make a good addition to the sticky:

wow! very helpful! i will enjoy the game!! :D

I was doing a mission with a guy who has an elevator pass and he added me to his tab (full-time) What does that mean and how do I use this feature/benefit?

Adding someone to their tab means that they will pay for all your energy related expenses. There are 2 types of tab adding;
1. Expenses related to elevators.
2. All your energy expenses as long as he is still with you.
Note that these bonuses ends once the group is disbanded.

I added a section for account security. If you have any recommendation for that, or other sections, please post them here!

I made a video introduction guide/series to Spiral Knights linked in the thread over here:
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/58023
But I'm not sure if I'm as funny as I think I am! It's varying degrees of in depth and serious at times.

After about a month of harvesting blood, sweat and tears, none of which were my own, I managed to create this equipment tutorial thread for everyone to be able to learn from.

It might be a good idea to link to this page. Maybe it's in there and I just missed it. :P
While some of the links in this thread are linking to the same stuff that page gets, this page is updated more automatically so it's bound to not be missing any of the latest and greatest guides by the players.

Forum Avatar
- How to change your forum pictrue - How to change your avatar by Asukalan
- How to get a forum avatar. by Bigfootm
Guid thread
- Thinking of Joining or Even Starting a Guild? by Mawashimono
More formatting options
- Listing "hidden" formatting options by Blade-of-grass (me)

even thought i an PRO this helps new guys awesome idea .

Thanks this really helped me since I just started this game 4 days ago.

I love this game, this is the best game I have ever played in my whole entire life!

Um.... that care center thing is outdated on the sharing stuff....

Useful Links for New Knights? Drop rates for each orb.
Too many people asking for the drop rate of alchemy orbs.

God Eurydice! What is that smell!!??!!?!? No, it isn't perfume you just DONT BATHE, apparently. Please shower.

- At the top of the thread there will be buttons labeled "view" and "edit" (You can only see these when signed in to the account that made the thread e.g. OP)
- Click "edit"
- There you will see a dropdown menu labeled "forum" change the selection to where you want to move the thread
- Uncheck "leave shadow copy" if checked
EDIT: instead of using the report function (the report function may or may not keep repeat offenders at bay)
Dealing with:
- people who use a microphone
mute your system audio (for ease of use, press your "mute" shortcut key if your keyboard has media keys)
- offensive chat
- open chat
- type in /clear and press your enter key
- every time an offensive message comes up press the up arrow key which remembers previous chat commands
- once at /clear press enter again
- repeat for all offensive chat
March 13, 2014 (Added)
Finding words on a page
When you want to look for words on a page and you do not want to be bothered by scrolling through the whole page, press CTRL + F
then type in the word or phrase you would like to find. the numbers show how many matches there are if there are none the numbers will be shown as 0 of 0..

This guide is great for newcomers,thanks for posting these :)

This guide is great for newcomers,thanks for posting these :)

This guide is great for newcomers,thanks for posting these :)

that has a list of all the abreviations used by players in chat?

Haven't had a post here for two years? Here's one for ya:
https://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/113634
Blammo - if you're looking for an unofficial SK discord server, then look no further. Currently sitting at around 1,300 users and growing! Come talk to us about stuff!
Arachne Jericho, has quite a compendium of visual tips on Spiral Knights. Even Daniel James, OOO CEO, has sent him praise for his work.
http://www.spontaneousderivation.com/spiral-knights/