Hollow Knight: Silksong

Hollow Knight: Silksong

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Speedrunner Achievement Guide
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Guide and route to help with beating the game under 5 hours.
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Introduction
Hey so i just did the speedrunner achievement and wanted to make a guide because this great higher quality guide helped me get the achievement in the first game, also this game is so incredibly beautiful and it's everything on my mind rn. My run was pretty close but i wasted like an hour on an arena because i completely forgot about the pinmaster and didn't buy bell stations. All to say the time limit is pretty generous and i think if u beat the game you can probably do it.

Spoilers
just in case

This route isn't very optimized for comfort so grabbing some tools or a skill on the way will make the run easier i'll mention some i thought of after doing the run but i haven't tested them. Let me know if u have suggestions for upgrades to put in the route.

Did a second attempt to show that there is quite a bit of spare time. I still had plenty of deaths and its by no means a speedrun but i wanted to show that i really did just waste 1 hour on that arena.
Route Overview
  1. Play with bell beast
  2. Get Dash
  3. Defeat Lace
  4. Get Hover
  5. Defeat Moorwing
  6. Get Claw
  7. Defeat Widow
  8. Defeat Cogwork Dancers
  9. Get Melodies
  10. Defeat Lace again
  11. Defeat Grandmother Silk
Route and Guide
Path order is:
Red > Dark Blue > Yellow > Pink > Green > Light Blue > Yellow again > Purple > White
sorry for using Yellow twice i forgot i already used it at the start
I'll mark optional Benches with an O on the route and arenas with an A.
The achievement goes by ingame time so you can pause the game and take breaks (map and inventory probably count aswell)


Bone Bottom - The Marrow

Red path:
  1. Get to Bone Bottom
  2. Get Silkspear
Dark Blue path:
    O: Bench
  1. Defeat Bell Beast


Deep Docks

Dark Blue path:
    O: Bench closer to Dash (arena ahead)
  1. Get Dash

Yellow path:
    O: u can bench closer to Lace but its locked behind an arena
  1. Defeat Lace


Optional Upgrades (Warding Bell, Craftmetal)

(thx to King Ultimax in the comments for suggesting the Craftmetal)
Warding Bell is a good defensive option and the Craftmetal can be used to get 4 tools on the way (2.5 of which are usefull imo).

Yellow path:
  1. Get Warding Bell
  2. Get Craftmetal
    This can be used to get either the Cogwork Wheel or Sawtooth Circlet at the Twelth Architect or later on in High Halls to craft the Cogflies if you don't have enough rosaries for the other two.
  3. Continue to Seamstress


Far Fields

Yellow path:
  1. Talk to the Seamstress and accept the wish
  2. Farm the spines then quit to bench (u can respawn the enemies that drop them by exiting and reentering the room at the transition to the right)
  3. Get Cloak

Pink path:
  1. Defeat Fourth Chorus and go up to Greymoor through Pilgrim's Rest


Optional Upgrades (Thread Storm, Threefold Pin)

Getting Thread Storm and Threefold Pin provides more offensive options. Thread Storm is good aoe and helps with arenas and Threefold Pin is good dmg against bigger bosses (beware of shell costs tho).

Pink path:
  1. Bench at Shakra (arena ahead)
  2. Beat the arena inside the Craw Lake building
  3. Get Thread Storm
  4. Get Threefold Pin
    O: Bench at the Bellshrine


Greymoor

Pink path:
  1. Bench at Halfway Home (arena ahead)
  2. Unlock the shortcut
  3. Defeat Moorwing


Bellhart - Shellwood

Pink path:
  1. Bench at Bellhart (arena ahead)
    O: There is an enemy pogo to skip Sister Splinter (example video)
  2. Get Claw

Greenpath:
  1. Defeat Widow
  2. Buy the Bellhart Bellway station
  3. Get the first nail upgrade


Greymoore - Sinner's Road

Greenpath:
  1. Unlock Elevator
  2. Bench at Halfway Home for Sinners road
    O: Unlock shortcut
  3. Solve The Mist
  4. Bench inside of Exhaust Organ top left
  5. Defeat Phantom


Citadel entry

Greenpath:
  1. Bench at Grand Bellway and buy the station if u can't there will be another chance later
  2. Bench at Songclave
  3. Defeat Cogwork Dancers
  4. Unlock the lower door
  5. Unlock the upper door
  6. Get Pale Oil

Light Blue path:
  1. Bench at Grand Bellway and buy the station if u didn't earlier (farm rosaries in the room to the left of the station if u can't afford it)
    Travel to Bellhart and get the second nail upgrade
  2. Defeat Trabbio back at Grand Bellway


The Cauldron

Light Blue path:
  1. Bench at the Architect
  2. Get Harpoon
  3. Take the path below elevator


Citadel again

Light Blue path:
  1. Bench and get the Sacred Cylinder

Yellow path again:
  1. Get the 1st melody (give cylinder to collector)
  2. Bench at Songclave and make your way to High Halls


High Halls

Yellow path again:
  1. Bench infront of High Halls
  2. Bench after High Halls (arena ahead)
    Beat the hardest Boss in the game this arena took like 1 hour without any nail upgrades gl
  3. Get the 2nd melody and follow purple path back to Dancers


Cogwork Core

Purple path:
  1. Bench below Cogwork Dancers
  2. Solve Core "puzzle" and get the 3rd melody

White path:
  1. Bench below Cogwork Dancers one last time
  2. Defeat Lace again


The Cradle

White path:
  1. Bench at Terminus
  2. Unlock shortcut
  3. Defeat Grandmother Silk


Hope this helps some people if you have feedback let me know.
GL on your runs!

Credits
182 条留言
jPvD2 10 月 23 日 下午 2:11 
Thank you for this amazing guide! I just beat the game under 4 hours and I could'nt have done it without you
EJlester 10 月 23 日 上午 10:21 
massive thanks to this guy who put it all together and made it easy to understand, again, thank you!
Neidhardt 10 月 23 日 上午 3:04 
Thanks for the guide
GammaEmerald 10 月 23 日 上午 12:24 
Really good guide, I followed the general path whilst also getting plenty of extra upgrades to prepare for speed completion on the same file and I got a time of 4h42m with a self-calculated completion of 38%.
Turambar 10 月 22 日 上午 8:34 
Great guide, it helps me a lot :)
TIMLIN 10 月 20 日 上午 11:24 
Amazing route and guide! Only change I did was after saving Bellheart, I rotated back to Mosshome and Bone Bottom to get the Wander's Crest (mainly out of preference). Thank you for the guide! Finished with a tme of 3:16:32
LilPats69xD 10 月 19 日 下午 8:09 
just got the achievement, my final time was 4:01, there is plenty of time with this route, i wasted 40 minuts in the mist and another 30 on the high halls gauntlet, i wasted more time here and there with some bosses like trobbio, but it is really easy as long as you dont choke a lot, great guide, thanks.
QibliTheSecond 10 月 19 日 下午 7:47 
thank you! got a 2:13 with this for my first run! warding bell was very helpful and i picked up cogflies, forgetting to use them entirely lmao
SãoJorge 10 月 19 日 下午 12:31 
the guide is pretty good, the only downside to me is that you mention the cogfly but didnt put it as a possibility in the way. Sometimes in the rush to now waste any time we can just forget it, and it could help a lot.
zettovyker 10 月 16 日 下午 9:13 
Appreciate this guide sooo much. Did it in 3h 30m~ and because the routing is super tight and well thought out, I had a lot of free time to pick up stuff like the shard pendant, there's a memory locket directly in the route for flexibility which I used to slot my Pollip Pouch I routed in for my Cogflies. Got to send the purple boys out one last time :')