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If you wish to be in the guild, join the Steam group and post your SK name. I will invite you to the guild as a recruit.
Spiral Knights is an up and coming Free To Play MMO.
It is kinda like many slashers where you go in and clear dungeons, except multiplayer, and more in-depth (kinda). It's like Four Swords, in a sense.
There are a bunch of monsters to fight (Slimes, fox things, statues that shoot fireballs), along with puzzles as well (Hitting a switch 
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You can team up with your friends or random people, and go into dungeons and its many levels, making Crowns (The in-game currency), and leveling up your weapons.
In a dungeon, in order to descend to another level, or to ascend back to the ground level, you must have Energy, which you can acquire by slowly getting it over time, paying money for it, both in-game and out game.
Energy is also used in crafting weapons, armor, and guns.
Did I mention this game has swords AND guns? (and bombs too)
Didn't think so.
You are also available to create Gates in the Arcade, which every town has. Gates are pretty much entrances to Dungeons. You create them by putting Minerals into them, which you collect in Dungeons.
It'd be better if I let the Wiki explain how the system works:
A gate first appears in The Arcade with a countdown timer; typically this has a value from 3 to 5. Every two days, all gates count down by one; if a gate reaches zero, a Dungeon is built. The leftmost gate is removed, and a new, empty gate is cycled in on the right. According to the developers, the initial color/symbol on a gate has no bearing on the levels that will be generated; this is purely an artistic embellishment that makes it easier to distinguish between gates. Once a gate is gone, the unique set of levels with it also disappears; even if the same color/symbol pair appears again, the levels within that gate are determined purely by the minerals deposited.
The replacement of old gates is controlled by The Clockworks, and is outside the influence of the knights.
The knights do have the ability to control the Dungeons that are built; different minerals will generate different types of levels. The minerals that are added, and the way that they are added will affect both the number of levels at each floor, the type of floor, and the depth of the dungeon.
The developers also have the ability to lock gates into producing a particular type of level- this is sometimes done to encourage testing of a level type or boss, and is rarely announced in advance.
In the beta, you could get Crowns by donating minerals to a dungeon. The next day, you would receive an amount of Crowns for your donation. In the full game however, you receive Crowns by just donating your minerals. It is unknown to me right now if you still receive Crowns everyday.
Also, The Clockworks is the Story Dungeon, which Spiral Knights is based around of. It is responsible for moving levels around inside the dungeons found below each gate, as well as constructing gates and dungeons when minerals are put inside new gates before they open.
You are also avaible to create a guild, which is what it sounds like. You get your own chat, along with a base that only guild members can enter.
It costs an expensive amount of Crowns and Energy to create one, though. (1,000 crowns, 500 CE)
You are able to choose what your character looks like when you first start, although the selection is small, and they all have the same stats.
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Latest patch notes (7/6/11)
ew Boss Stratum:
Within the depths of Tier 2 a new gremlin weapons facility has been discovered, The Ironclaw Munitions Factory. Intel from Spiral HQ has confirmed that under a direct mandate from the Crimson Order, gremlin engineers have begun developing a weapon of incredible power. Known only as 'Project Roarmulus,' this weapon has been designed with the sole purpose of destroying Haven!
Knights are ordered to infiltrate this harrowing complex of devious destructive devices and put an end to 'Project Roarmulus' as well as recover a recon module of the Alpha Squad. Take heed though, gremlins don’t exactly believe in a ‘safe’ work environment.
Survive this deadly complex and earn your Bark Modules as you'll find that Brinks has a new selection of 2* items available for trade. These include:
- The Pulsar, an experimental energy gun that shoots bullets that grow stronger as they travel
- The Catalyzer, a gun whose regular shots can be combined with its charge shots to create a powerful explosion
- Quicksilver Mail and Helm, armor created from the mercurial quicksilvers, capable of resisting shock
- The Static Capacitor, a bomb that creates a shocking field of electricity
All of these items can be further upgraded through 5* provided you acquire their recipes from Basil.
New Items:
Handguns:
2* Pulsar (token reward only, has two upgrade paths)
3* Heavy Pulsar
4* Radiant Pulsar
5* Supernova
Alternate Pulsar path:
3* Kilowatt Pulsar
4* Gigawatt Pulsar
5* Polaris
2* Catalyzer (token reward only, has two upgrade paths)
3* Industrial Catalyzer
4* Volatile Catalyzer
5* Neutralizer
Alternate Catalyzer path:
3* Toxic Catalyzer
4* Virulent Catalyzer
5* Biohazard
Bombs:
2* Static Capacitor (token reward only)
3* Lightning Capacitor
4* Plasma Capacitor
5* Voltaic Tempest
Armor:
3* Quicksilver Mail (token reward only)
4* Charged Quicksilver Mail
5* Mercurial Mail
Helms:
3* Quicksilver Helm (token reward only)
4* Charged Quicksilver Helm
5* Mercurial Helm
Additional Changes:
Items
- All handgun charge times have been reduced.
- Most handguns have had their charge attack animation speed increased by 33%
- Two-Shot heavy style handguns and Autogun style handguns can now move while reloading at 55% run speed.
- Prismatech and Shadowtech Alchemer damage increased.
- 2*-4* 'Vaporizer' style bombs have an increased cloud radius and duration.
- The Ash of Agni, Shivermist Buster and Venom Veiler have a slightly reduced cloud radius and duration.
- New inventory icons for Relic and Chemical bomb families.
- New sounds for Coldsnap.
- New sounds for Fang of Vog.
- New art for 3* and 5* chemical bombs.
Monsters
- Lumbers now do split elemental damage.
- Lumbers now have a attack flash notification.
Merchants
- Basil is now guaranteed to have at least one of the highest star recipe in each tier.
- Vatel is now guaranteed to have at least one 2* recipe
- Brinks the Token Trader has had his boss token catalogs revamped. Material rewards are no longer available for boss tokens, and many existing equipment rewards are now cheaper to obtain.
Levels
- Replaced the corner pillars in Vanaduke's throne room with water wells.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed an issue where a rare love puppy spawn would prevent players from progressing in the Clockworks
- Fixed an invisible pitfall in the first Clockworks Terminal
- Fixed an issue that was causing the Freezing Atomizer to apply the wrong tier of Freeze.
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