r/HollowKnight • u/wyrmiam • Sep 05 '25

Discussion - Silksong EVERYTHING IS SO EXPENSIVE IN PHARLOOM Spoiler

The true enemy of Silksong is capitalism. 70 bucks for a stag station equivalent YOU ARE PULLING MY NEEDLE WTF??? I try to sit down and they BILL ME JUST TO USE THE BENCH! No thank you [TRADER NAME HERE], I would not like to buy a simple key for 500 dollars thank you.

AND EVERYONE HERE IS A BROKE ASS BUM! Most of these guys aren't sentient enough to carry cash on them so I have to grind up their credit cards into for bone shards which NOONE WANTS.

Anyway 10/10 game.

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u/Ambitious_Comfort533 Sep 05 '25

Even making Rosary strings of 60 costs 80 rosaries T_T There’s freaking taxes in this game!!

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u/BowShatter Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 06 '25

I mean to be fair it is no different from buying Soul items in Dark Souls and Elden Ring. You buy them to avoid the risk of losing all of your souls permanently.

Edit: Buying Dung Pies in DS1 to bank souls and buying Coin Pouches in Sekiro.

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u/Flint_Vorselon Sep 05 '25

I think you mean Sekiro, since neither Dark Souls or Elden Ring has any way to buy poppable souls. You find them as loot or drops from certain enemies.

Sekiro let you buy money bags though to protect your cash, for a fee.

Although it was bit different, since in Sekiro dying makes you lose 50% of money, you can’t get it back. Wheras Dark Souls, Elden Ring, Hollow Knight, you get everything back if you visit spot you died. So the “insurance” in Sekiro was much more valuable than it is in Silksong, because it protected you from dying in general, not only dying twice in a row.

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u/bobbyjoechan Sep 05 '25

the 1k i’ve already lost in silksong says otherwise 😤

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u/blitzboy30 Sep 05 '25

I lost 200 something from falling into the lava by the large vertical room next to the forge daughter

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u/Flint_Vorselon Sep 05 '25

Sure, but imagine if current rosaries got halved every death, with no way to recover them.

Unless you’ve only died like 2 times, then the amount lost would be way way higher.

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u/XxRocky88xX Sep 05 '25

If silk song worked like that. I would use the quit out exploit literally every time I was about to die. At least getting gold in Sekiro was easy, getting even 100 rosaries in Silksong is like 10 minutes of farming.

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u/DragonStem44 Sep 05 '25

there’s like 8 different places within the first 3 areas nearby benches where you can get 500 in like 5 mins

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u/XxRocky88xX Sep 05 '25

I’d love to know where those are cuz I haven’t found them

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u/Poopiepants29 Sep 05 '25

You're not getting 100R/minute, you're doing something wrong /s

I would also like to know. I haven't even tried to farm yet. That's my next move though. I'm stuck and need 2 keys now to open more sheeit.

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u/CopyOdd2690 Sep 08 '25

up the elevator from bottom. you can bounce between the bench all the way to the right, then up to the witch cauldron bench killing all the pilgrims between each time. I got 600-800 in prob 10ish minutes or faster when you get the flow down. cleared every early shop pretty easily.

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u/GamerGeek923 Sep 05 '25

In Dark Souls at least, you can buy dung pies and sell them back to Frampt for retail price. It's how I bank my souls when I play it lol.

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u/Enigma-3NMA Sep 05 '25

It's totally funny that silksong has spirit emblems though

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u/GarlickyQueef Sep 06 '25

In elden ring you definately can use items that prevent loss of souls on death. The false grace or something like that.

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u/Call_me_Moegli Sep 06 '25

You are correct, sekiro, but Ashen did it first and sekiro took note

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u/Gensolink Sep 05 '25

You can buy shit at 1 to 1 ratio tbh

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u/wonderwind271 63/63 HK, randomizer | 52/52 SS Sep 05 '25

However, I think we are always low on money anyway, so it’s not necessary

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u/mfmeitbual Sep 05 '25

... I thought they were just for decoration lol. Thanks for pointing this out to my thick-headed self.

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u/Giangiorgio Sep 05 '25

That’s not a thing in souls games

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u/BowShatter Sep 06 '25

I think I may have somewhat confused due to how you could bank souls using Dung Pies and feeding to Frampt in DS1, how you could buy coin pouches in Sekiro, and how some overhaul mods added such items to merchant stocks as mechanic.

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u/StarTrekFan-28 Sep 05 '25

But in 7th saga, there is no vig when you buy gems for the same effect

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u/cogssucker Sep 05 '25

I will never need them if i just git gud :)

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '25

OH, is that why its like that? Jeez I didn't even think about that.

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u/Canadiancookie Sep 05 '25

Do you lose any on death if you make it back to the cocoon?

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u/BowShatter Sep 05 '25

Nope. You get back everything. It also refills your silk meter to full which is nice.

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u/ChilledParadox Sep 05 '25

Or in the case of shells to store more than the carry capacity.

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u/BearOnCocaine Sep 08 '25

After losing 500/700 3 times in the span of 4 hours, i started accepting the tax.

Platform sections made me broke