Flowers of Antimony

**Flowers Of Antimony** is the seventeenth extra level of *Just Shapes & Beats* and the forty-third level overall. It is unlocked in the Playlist by getting 1400 Beatpoints or by using the Shovel Knight amiibo figure. It is one of the four levels introduced at Update 1.3’s **Shovel Knight** remixes.

## Description

This level is a part-water level that has a alchemist and potions theme to it.

Like all of the levels featured in Update 1.3, *Flowers Of Antimony* features elements (of varying degree) from one the four protagonists/antagonists in *Shovel Knight*'s campaigns, with this level motif based on Plague Knight.

In this level, a new minor character, the winged creature, makes a brief appearance in this level.

## Layout

Segment 1
A large beaker of pink liquid immediately appears at the bottom middle of the screen as soon as the song starts, with bubbles coming out of it. Shortly afterwards, another beaker spawns on the right, followed by another one on the left, with both beakers spewing out bubbles as well. After a while, a flask appears on the top centre, and drops down to the bottom, causing a shockwave.

Segment 2
More flasks drop from the ceiling. These flasks only cause splashes, which only spread a little to the left and right of the impact, but barely reach into the upper portion of the stage. A while later, a Florence flask is spawned on the right just above the explosions, and travels to the left. Shortly after the flask reaches the left side of the screen, the pattern repeats, except the Florence flask now goes from left to right.

Segment 3
Ceiling spikes appear, and water floods the bottom of the screen. Two beakers are spawned at the bottom, spewing out bubbles. Three black holes are placed between the beakers in order to remove the safe spots from the bubbles. After a while. the black holes and the beakers switch places, therefore spawning 3 beakers. A bomb similar to that of the segment 1 bomb is spawned.

Segment 4
The beakers, ceiling spikes and water disappear, and the first half of segment 2 occurs. Afterwards, bombs still drop, but a beaker is spawned on the right side of the screen, forcing the player towards the left side of the screen. After a while, the beaker disappears and another spawns at the left side, forcing the player to the right side of the screen.

Segment 5
The beaker disappears, and wall spikes close in on both sides of the screen. 4 beakers spawn which are connected with their bottom vertices, leaving a blank square in the middle. The beakers then start rotating, and slowly move around. The player can either go into the square in the middle of the beakers, or try to dodge the bubbles on the outside.

Segment 6
This segment is similar to segment 3, where ceiling spikes close in and the water rises. There are 3 beakers that spawn. This time the beakers are smaller, allowing 4 black holes to spawn instead of 3. A small winged create appears in the middle of the upper portion of the screen, with it exclaiming "?!?". During the segment it will fly around a little, and then disappearing near the end of the level. The level ends with the bomb dropping from the ceiling, causing a huge shockwave.

**Hardcore Changes*** Bubbles spawned from beakers travel further and are faster
* Shockwave warnings appear more briefly
* Bombs travel at a much faster pace
* When the flasks are spawned in the second segment, bombs can spawn at the top, bottom, left and right sides of the screen.
* Ceiling and wall spikes close in faster
* Water rises faster
* Beakers' warnings after segment 1 are more brief.
* The beakers spin faster in segment 5

## Gallery

BeakerBomb From Segments 2 and 4.The **Winged Creature** that appears in this level.
## Trivia

* This is the first level featuring the composer *Rainbowdragoneyes*, who is known for composing the soundtrack of The Messenger.
	+ The other track composed by him, that is used in JSAB, is Creatures ov Deception.
* The remix used for this level has a short reference to the soundtrack from *The Messenger* in it.
	+ The soundtrack referenced is the theme for the Glacial Peak, a level found in *The Messenger.*
	+ When this part of the song plays, a small winged creature appears that resembles Quarble, a character from The Messenger.
* This level uses hazards such as the beakers that are not used in all the other levels.
* This is the fourth level to have water. The other three are The Art Of War, Dubwoofer Substep, and Lycanthropy.
	+ This level is the only one to:
		- Have water that does not stay until the end of the level.

## External links

* Flowers of Antimony on the Shovel Knight wiki.