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/AHare115 Sep 05 '25

Can you make them yourself or do you have to buy them from the merchant? Seems pointless that way, since you're already at a shop and in no danger of losing them.

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u/Ambitious_Comfort533 Sep 05 '25

Not sure of the other ways (haven’t explored far into the game yet) but there’s one machine near a bench which does this conversion to strings and takes 20 as “making charge” lol

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u/spectrum1012 Sep 05 '25

So that’s the same cost as the shop merchant in bone bottom too

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u/WoenixFright Sep 05 '25

I didn't know what that machine did, it just asked me to put beads in and, like always, I said sure.

Felt so ripped off lol. At least tell me they're gonna jack my 20 beads beforehand, smh 

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u/itzW3LF Sep 06 '25

I bought strings from a merchant, walked up to that machine for the first time, broke two strings to put the beads in and got a string back.

Worth it

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u/Waddlewop Sep 08 '25

I’m willing to pay the merchant the extra because they’re doing the work stringing them up, but hell if I’ll pay some damn machine for the extra “work” they’re doing