Greetings!

The cold still has Haven in it’s icy grip. Unscrupulous monsters or devastating status effects aren’t the only threats on these cold knights. Cabin fever is wreaking havoc across Haven and causing guild mates to go insane and turn on each other.

Spiral HQ has issued some high tech cozy gear designed to help keep knights comfortable while lifting their spirits. The blindingly visible Tech Red, Tech Violet, Tech Yellow, and Tech Azure are a bright spot on any dark night. Hunker down and get comfortable with new slippers and sleepwear along with CozZzy Auras and Halos.

The CozyTech Mk II items will all come in high visibility colors such as Tech Red, Tech Violet, Tech Yellow, and Tech Azure:

• CozZzy Aura
• CozZzy Halo
• Teddy Bear Buckler
• Sweet Dreams
• Slippers
• Checkered Scarf
• Onesie
• Pullover
• Lucid Night Cap
• Snooze Night Cap
• Sleepy Night Cap
• Dreamer Night Cap
• Various accessories

More information on the CozyTech Mk II Box and its contents may be found here. Get cozy knights, it’s cold out there.

Spiral HQ is introducing the Coliseum Crucible!

The Crucible is the home for our engineering gremlins who build and maintain the Clockworks. The Crucible is now seeking new recruits as they create new levels for Lockdown.

• To participate, you need to opt in and agree to the Terms and Conditions. Go into advanced “Game” settings to accept membership.
• From the “System menu” (wrench icon) in the lower left corner of the UI, launch the Crucible Editor
• Create something fun! Find help in the Editor Tool Tips & Tricks forum
• Test your level yourself. To upload/test your level, select “Coliseum” from the activities menu on the right side of your HUD. Now that you’re a member of crucible there should be a 4th tab, in there you can select “my levels” and upload and test your level.
• Ask others to test your level by making it public. You can post a request for testing and feedback in the Lockdown Level Testing Forum.
• Submit your level for review. Be aware that once you do this you cannot make changes. Do NOT submit your level for review unless you have thoroughly tested it both in public or private. It should be your final iteration of the level.
• Help others with their levels by testing or helping them use the editor.

Other changes:

• Reorganized the personal menu a bit. ‘Allow Full Inspect’ has been moved to the game options and has been reset to true for everyone.
• Fixed the abnormal aggro range for Gremlin Scorchers and Ignited Oilers. They won’t snipe you from a hundred miles away anymore!
• Fixed Grinchlin Stalkers to rarely drop Humbug Hats this winterfest!
• Made some fixes to the charge attack for Gilded Griffin, Argent Peacemaker, and Sentenza. The charge will no longer explode immediately when your knight’s back is against a wall. The sword fixes are still a work in progress.
• Fixed the /guildhall command from confirming twice if you were abandoning a party.
• Social whereabouts will display which haven district someone is in.
• Lockdown arenas have been reweighted so that unpopular ones will be rarer.
• Added an ‘Auto Advance’ option to advanced game settings. When it’s on, it will automatically click ‘Advance’ upon finishing a level. You can also press the spacebar to advance.
• The “Go to [...]” buttons in the ‘Activities’ sidebar were given individual icons.
• Fixed "internal error" in the social feed when friends level-up.
• Fixed the name of the dusky down puffer.

The Dark Harvest Festival makes its return! It’s no trick, the Punkin King and his gourdlings are causing sweet, sweet chaos in the Clockworks!

Find the Punkin King in the daily prestige mission, The Dark Harvest. However, don't let your guard down, because he could also show up elsewhere when you least expect it! Collect candy tokens, then trade with Maskwell in Haven Town Square. Bring your big candy collection sack, because we have 2 new types of candy you can exchange for new masks. Trade your candy for various treats including:

• NEW Howlitzer Masks
• NEW Gourdling Masks
• Harvest Prize Boxes
• Frankenzom masks
• Spookat masks
• Phantom masks
• Scarab masks

Should you find yourself in possession of any interesting crafting material as a result of a Punkin King encounter, visit the Mysterious Alchemy Machine.

The Dark Harvest Prize Box contains costumes and accessories within the Dark Harvest theme. Trade in your tokens to discover the offerings. This year, the festival runs through November 2, 2025. Your candy tokens and Maskwell will stick around through November 7, 2025.

Greetings Knights! Spiral HQ has been working on a few things. Below are the release notes for the new patch.

• Continued behind the scenes changes to help lay the foundation for a few modernization changes that we’re working on. This is a long term project, but something we’re still actively working on.
• Add a preference for UI scaling. The scale selection is saved per screen resolution so that if you regularly change between fullscreen and windowed, both scales are saved.
• Add a preference for the chat text size.
• Add a preference for controlling the size of the chat area.
• Add new gate icons for deconstruction zones, and to differentiate different compound wilds levels.
• Fixed statue tooltips to not show animations on the worn gear.
• Added an “Equip” button to equip gear after accessorizing, certain other craft-like things.

The hive mind at Spiral HQ has Haven buzzing with excitement over the newest gear intended to help knights skitter around the Clockworks. Hive Prize Boxes are swarming with items to help bring a little crawly back into the creepy dark corners of the Clockworks.

These boxes may contain some of the following items. If you’re lucky, you might just find something dripping with the color of honey:

• Hive Hex Auras

• Hexagram Wings

• Hive Wings

• Bee and Bug Eyes

• Insectoid armors

• Insectoid helms

• Poly-Poly shields

• Various Antennae like accessories

• bug badges

• And more!

Hex Boxes will be available through October 20th. Don’t bee late, get 'em now before they flea!