Another 15 Little Details and Secrets in Hollow Knight: Silksong

A second collection of small discoveries, QoL tricks, and routing notes for Silksong. Focuses on fast travel, benches, map vendors, keys, and safe exploration habits—with video.

Light spoilers only. These are broadly useful tips and patterns that help with routing and survivability across Pharloom.

Summary

Another 15 Little Details (Quick‑Use List)

  1. Fast travel unlocks in stages. Free the bell travel first, then keep an eye out for additional nodes in Citadel regions to shrink runbacks.
  2. Shakra’s humming helps you find her. If you miss her in‑area, she can sell missed maps later once you return to a hub.
  3. Benches can be “broken” or trapped. If a seat looks suspicious, scout for a lever or a breakable wall before resting.
  4. Door toggles create safe loops. In interior areas like Whispering Vaults and Underworks, flip every toggle on your way out to shorten retries.
  5. Memorium has a clever ceiling. The map‑room ceiling can hide a passage that bridges toward the ducts—useful for alternate routes.
  6. Ducts map is close to a hub. In the Putrifield Ducts, the area map sits just south of the main bench room—tag the bench first to make retries trivial.
  7. Apostate door unlocks a big fight route. Grab the Apostate key from the ducts to open a stubborn door in The Slab.
  8. Strings protect savings. Convert Rosaries to strings before long hazard segments to reduce loss on death.
  9. Plan Simple Key usage. Keys open great shortcuts but are scarce early; route toward your biggest time wins before spending.
  10. Audio is navigation. Hums (Shakra) and machinery cues (Citadel interiors) are strong signals when maps are incomplete.
  11. Add control beats greed. On bosses that summon adds, clear the room first; then take short, consistent punishes.
  12. Two‑hit rule in tight arenas. In compact rooms (e.g., hunts in The Slab), land one pogo + one swipe, then reset to avoid trades.
  13. Bench hubs > long pushes. Build short scouting loops from a safe bench rather than committing to long, risky chains.
  14. Upgrade checks are subtle. If a route feels “almost connected,” poke flat walls and ceilings—breakables often sit near obvious seams.
  15. Use boards to stack goals. When visiting a region, pick up multiple Wish tasks that target the same area to compound progress.

Sources & Verification

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