Basic Modding Tutorial

Part 0 - Finding your game's files.

Steam

If you're playing on the steam version of Spiral Knights, getting your game's files is quick and easy. Simply right click on spiral knights > properties > local files > browse local files

And you're done.

Standalone

If you're playing on standalone, it's a bit more complicated. You need to go to your applications persistent data path.

On windows it's C/Users/Username/AppData(hidden folder)/Roaming/Spiral Knights

I don't know where it is on Mac, but you should be able to find it somewhere.

And that's it! You've found your SK directory. You can make all the modifications you want in here. Let's move on to step 1.

Part 1 - Installing Spiralview

To get started you're going to want to download https://github.com/lucas-allegri/spiralview/releases

After downloading, just drag it into your game's directory and you have it installed. Double click it to launch it.

Part 2 - Using Spiralview

Open the model viewer, that's what you'll be using the most.

1. You click on the filename in the inspector panel on the right of spiral spy to select a different *.dat to view.
2. You click edit to change the different properties of it.
3. In order to save your changes go to the top left of the edit window, click File > Save.
4. You can do File > Save As if you don't want to overwrite the existing properties.

Part 3 - Retexturing

Retexturing an item is the easiest mod to do. All you need is an image editor. There are some good free image editors such as Gimp, or Paint.net.

Now all you need to do is go into your game's files and find the texture for the object you want to edit. Open it up and make the changes you want to make and save. It's easy as that!

Part 5 - Uploading

Head to #showcase in the discord to submit a mod. The site is updated weekly.