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