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☻ Before you continue you need the Lantern ♦ Hollownest Seal right-and-up from Queen's Station ♦ always keep some soul to heal, and only heal once. ♦ when nailing-down from above they WILL jump up eventually ♦ mainly, stay on the ground, hit once, listen for 'roll' attacks ♦ make sure to cut chandelier before (smash wall) ♦ open shortcut door in case you need to repeat ♦ the huge Husk takes damage after slashing TWICE leave the room for the candlesticks to re-appear ♦ to get up that ledge: nail-down on some candlesticks You probably need other upgrades, though, to have a chance to beat Zote. in Howling Cliffs with a King's Idol and Wanderer's Journal (~1000 Geo).

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♦ (optional: Vessel Fragment after a mini-boss fight)įree Zote-Run: If you're not after the Speedrun achievement but just wanted to free Zote in this second run, you don't need to fight Warrior Knights or any of the other Dreamers. (per elevator above King's Station, stag there is free) ☻ Golden Husk: 420g, top-left door from King's Station ♦ get back up, take bench+stag at King's Station ☻ get to the right (east) side of the City: ♦ top level, far right, behind a Husk Guard ♦ right and half-way down from Grubfather (easy) ♦ in City of Tears, when going up of LEG 4 ☻ get the 450-relic before 'ascending' to Dirtmouth ♦ 'below' Hot Spring (needs Wall Climb), quit! (get the 450-relic before 'ascending' now) ☻ buy charms and a 5th notch from Salubra (300+220+120)

♦ Fragile Strength 600g before doing Dung Defender ♦ you may have to sell relics first (quit!) ♦ Dirthmouth: 450-relic before 'ascending', quit Steel-Run: forget the Mask Shards but you need a 5th notch:

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Looking for even more basics of all the basic game elements? What is this white energy? money? lives? How to get out of Crossroads in the first place? Look no further, read this guide:ĭo NOT take a bench in Dirtmouth or Crossroads! Thanks again to Blankdud for the original '3HR Speedrun Guide' and many, many others who provided detailed maps and all those useful Hollow Knight Wiki entries! (yes! you can stop the game any time! no problem!) I also liked playing with Fragile Heart (2 more masks) and Fragile Strength (50% more nail damage!) in later runs but you'd have to stop the game if you are down to like two masks. This all helps greatly with the remaining boss fights. In my first run, I had MASSIVE difficulties in Soul Sanctum, so for this guide I found a way to buy the lantern to get to Crystal Peak, gathered 4 mask shards, and got the second nail upgrade, and even the double-jump. If you really want to get fast, use spells more often! Desolate Dive in particular is a powerful attack that makes you invincible for a short time - you should try it!Īlso, this is not a 'speedrun' in the sense of (you'll find excellent guides there, btw) The WR is at under 40 minutes (no glitches) but the path uses skips that you'd need to practice for hours, like pogo on your own shade, super-dash over acid, and of course excellent boss-fighting skills. I should mention that for a long time I preferred using the nail, I even beat The Radiance with nail only. (For those who love their calculator: At about 500,000 players who actually started the game according to steamspy, that's roughly 180,000 players. If you're already there you only need 2-3 hours to get to the first ending! That's a good start! To split this up: If you haven't been to the City yet you only need 2-3 hours to get there. Of those 'tipped their toe in' players nearly half made it to the City of Tears (presumably, since 35% opened half of the 10 stag stations). However, it's really not that difficult to get there! I did it (and I'm old and slow) so you can do it, too! 50% have defeated Hornet according to Global Achievements, that's good, but only 12% made it to the first end-boss.

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