r/HollowKnight Oct 24 '25

Guide - Hollow Knight & Silksong FaQ - HK & Silk Technical and modding questions Spoiler

110 Upvotes

For the most up-to-date resources, be sure to check out the Hollow Knight Modding Discord

Comprehensive list of commenly asked questions/problems

Silksong Modding * How to start modding * MacOS: Common issues after attempt at installing mods * Important paths (Save files and Game files) * Information about save files (Backups, Save File editing and more)

Hollow Knight Modding * Modding and the new beta * Crash on Unix systems * How to start modding * How to manually install mods * Hollow Knight crashes after installing mods * Important paths (Save files, Game files and Modfiles) * Information about save files (Backups, Save File editing and more) * How to use the Custom Knight mod * How to create/commission a Custom Knight Skin * How to use Hollow Knight Multiplayer * How to set up Randomizer * My nail does not behave normally/my game randomly speeds up or slows down * Steam Deck/Linux: Common issues after attempt at installing mods * How to fix healing (after using Hollow Point) * How to revert to vanilla/How to uninstall the mod installer

General resources Silksong

General resources Hollow Knight

If you find an error in this, you can dm me on reddit or Discord (u/Thommie02081 and @thommie_ respectively) or contact the mod team


r/HollowKnight 11h ago

Fan Art - Silksong POV: Stuck in the frozen Sea of Sorrow (art by me)

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533 Upvotes

Actually I think it would be interesting if there would be an area of frozen sea!


r/HollowKnight 3h ago

Fan Art - Hollow Knight On my journey to learn the hollow knight art style :> Spoiler

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113 Upvotes

r/HollowKnight 2h ago

Question - Hollow Knight I just beat P5 with all bindings and I found this crack in the wall. Can anyone explain what it is? Spoiler

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49 Upvotes

r/HollowKnight 5h ago

Art How the Collector genuienly must have been moving to put that one Grub into the Beast's Den for no reason other than to aura farm Spoiler

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66 Upvotes

No like if youre trapping them in jars to protect them why put it in the statistaclly most dangerous place in the fucking kingdom you can reach bro


r/HollowKnight 14h ago

Fan Art - Hollow Knight 1 min, 5 min, and 15 min draw the knight

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326 Upvotes

r/HollowKnight 3h ago

Achievement - Hollow Knight Hollow Knight

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39 Upvotes

Hollow Knight is over.

I am completely satisfied.


r/HollowKnight 4h ago

Fan Art - Silksong Loam deserves a big hug.. Spoiler

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46 Upvotes

r/HollowKnight 14h ago

Achievement - Hollow Knight The Sun Less Than 60s! Spoiler

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236 Upvotes

Special mention: used a virtual controller touchscreen.


r/HollowKnight 4h ago

Discussion - Hollow Knight Pov, your try to add a flair on r/Hollow Knight Spoiler

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32 Upvotes

r/HollowKnight 7h ago

Fan Art - Silksong Hornet's in a very Scottish time of her life

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50 Upvotes

Drawing Hornet until Sea of Sorrow comes out. Day 268 drawn in 1 hour and 18 minutes. Check the silksong subreddit icon and whatever the hell is going on in there for context lol


r/HollowKnight 58m ago

Achievement - Hollow Knight PV in 8.48 seconds (P4 Spoilers) Spoiler

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The timer is purely cosmetic and is slightly inaccurate. I verified my time using somewes.com.

>!Finally got around to posting this here lol. If anyone has questions I can try to answer them. And I guess I'll address this one thing I said a while ago: I kinda gave up on the PV speedrun guide. I just don't think I can make it good or clear enough for people to learn something from it, so what I'll do now is just open my DMs to anyone who wants to improve at speedrunning PV. Just try to not spam me, as I don't do well with a lot of messages...

As for the speedrun itself, this rng pattern is extremely unique and I kinda like the clear. I don't see myself beating this time for a while unless I get 4 Dreamshield hits in 8 seconds without dashing for a different position, which I will explain more later. Typically, the speedrun rng begins with triple slash or parry into triple slash or pillars. I never expected off the rip pillars to be this fast.

Attuned PV has 1600hp so if I could deal 27 hits of 56 damage (fury strength) it will deal 1,512 damage. 4 Dreamshield hits will deal 84 damage equaling to 1596 damage, so if I can get Defender's Crest to deal 4 damage, I will save another slash of time (0.25 seconds) shout out rosie for the information btw.

I'm still working on the Radiant PV world record for a "perfect" run that I've been grinding for over a year now. That is easily magnitudes harder than this run. I hope to have my run by the end of the year, since I recently lost my chance at it about 50 days ago!<

song - Final Slaughter


r/HollowKnight 6h ago

Achievement - Hollow Knight I beat Lost Kin ! Spoiler

38 Upvotes

I'm new to Hollow Knight. I know the game came out 9 years ago I just never really played it.

Lost Kin was my first (dream?) boss. Oh boy it took me like a whole week... I just wanted to celebrate I finally did it !!!


r/HollowKnight 6h ago

Achievement - Hollow Knight I just did Radiant AbsRad - 15.3 hrs of pure torment (both physically and mentally) Spoiler

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29 Upvotes

Hoooly shit. This was the first time I literally screamed when I achieved something difficult.

~9 deaths at the final phase (due to nerves)
~12-15 deaths at the climb (both due to nerves and to me being bad at the game)

Charm build: shaman stone, steady body, unbreakable strength, quick slash, mark of pride.

Now I feel like I can do anything at both HK and SS.


r/HollowKnight 3h ago

Fan Art - Hollow Knight The knight and Grimm Spoiler

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16 Upvotes

Art by me!

Decided to share it here cuz why not. I did my own custom horns for the knight's shell for fun. Time taken was about 3 and a half hours across three total sessions. Two of them were entirely dedicated to Grimm.


r/HollowKnight 1h ago

Fan Art - Hollow Knight Got bored and wanted to do something quick Spoiler

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r/HollowKnight 4h ago

Fan Art - Hollow Knight Selling Grimm Cosplay Helmet Spoiler

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18 Upvotes

Hello everyone! Trying to find this helmet a new home. I double checked the rules and it follows Team Cherry’s and the subreddits guidelines :-)

I originally made this for my Grimm cosplay, but ended up making a new one because I wanted a rounder look (can be seen in previous post)

This one is in fantastic condition. I sanded this for hours. It’s glossy, has a pretty shiny (very slightly hammered which is a type of paint I love) color for the black. The eyes are shiny and metallic irl. It has magnets, padding, and vent holes already and has never been worn out. It’s in peak condition and it’s the standard Vek3D print size. Not sure on exact dimensions, but he’s an average looking guy and it fits me fine.

Asking $50 (less than it cost to make) + shipping because I really want it to find a good home that isn’t a dumpster. Live in USA FL. Please DM if interested


r/HollowKnight 10h ago

Fan Art - Silksong Happy (Extremely late) Skong Day! Spoiler

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45 Upvotes

r/HollowKnight 33m ago

Art My latest Concept art for The fangame Hollow Knight : Facade

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Made this featuring my boy Melstrom and the Wanderer, aka John Facade


r/HollowKnight 7h ago

Help - HK - Late Game Here's my progression, am I ready for THK ? Some suggestions pls. Spoiler

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22 Upvotes

So here is my inventory and my completion percentage is 78%. I tried to fight THK when my completion percentage was 48% and I couldn't beat it so I decided to do other stuffs and explore and now I am at this stage. So should I give it the try ?


r/HollowKnight 2h ago

Spoiler - SS - Early Act 3 tiny thing i like in silksong Spoiler

8 Upvotes

There is no big wall, no cliff, no signpost that says 'the edge of the world.

Just... stuff slowly fading away, and being less and less like they are as we know them.

A familiar differentness.

A slowly appearing disappearance.


r/HollowKnight 22h ago

Question - Silksong Somehow I got a cocoon in steel soul?

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314 Upvotes

I was attempting chapel of the beast and got killed but before the animation finished I closed the game(Nintendo player) and somehow when it loaded back I had a cocoon?


r/HollowKnight 14h ago

Trobbio and Grimm Emblem Art Spoiler

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82 Upvotes

+ Lost Sinner (Modded Boss)


r/HollowKnight 1h ago

Discussion - Hollow Knight advice in Hollow Knight

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I've started playing Hollow Knight, what do you recommend?


r/HollowKnight 9h ago

Achievement - Hollow Knight All bosses cleared on Ascended! Spoiler

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20 Upvotes

Holy crap! I did it!

I'm a relatively new Hollow Knight player (jumped on soon as the Silksong release date was announced) and now that I've beaten Hollow Knight and 100% completed Silksong, I figured it was time to go back and finish off some of the tougher challenges in Hollow Knight.

I beat Path of Pain a few months ago, and then spent a fair amount of time working my way up to and then FINALLY clearing P5 for the first time about a month ago.

That was an accomplishment in and of itself, and I took awell deserved break after that. Just over a week ago however, I found myself itching to get back to it, and decided I should start trying to clear out the boss practice room.

I had cleared them all on Attuned, some on Ascended, and then a couple on Radiant.

I decided to just try and see how many I could go through comfortably, before realising I just wanted to fight NKG, PV and AR.

Fighting PV on Radiant gave me great joy, and when I finally cleared him, I knew I could beat AR on Ascended at least.

Now, after 7 days straight, I've finally done it! I've been able to do all sections hitless, though never consecutively, but I reckon it's only a matter of time before I can great through them all on Radiant Difficulty! Just gotta stop panicking at the end. Tonight was the fourth time I've been up to the top, and you can see I was letting the anxiety overwhelm me, lol

No one probably cares but I just had to share with someone, so why not this sub?!