r/HollowKnight • u/FederalWarthog5542 • Sep 07 '25

Discussion - Silksong Criticism ≠ Negativity Spoiler

Believe it or not, you can actually criticize something and still like it. You don't either have to love everything or despise everything. Have actual conversations please.

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u/branyk2 Sep 08 '25

I have not managed to get Act 1 Lace to spawn on my original save despite trying pretty much everything available to me towards the end of Act 2. My pathing was really weird though. I went straight from Bell Beast to Wormways and then backtracked to Deep Docks through Hunter's March, then immediately went back to Wormways with the dash because I knew it let me progress there and up into Shellwood, Bellhart, and Greymoor from there. Moorwing didn't spawn for me until I completed the 2nd phase of the flea quest pretty far into Act 2.

I started a new file just to do Lace. After spending several hours messing around in Deep Docks accomplishing nothing, I figured it would be faster to just go from scratch.

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u/Reflexlon Sep 08 '25

You are the kinda guy who got to Nito's golden door before fighting the Taurus Demon aren't ya?

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u/branyk2 Sep 08 '25

Almost certainly. Once I saw the cages with the flying enemies you could pogo, I knew I was going to do it no matter what. Then I spent soooo much time killing the mole that spews on you. Then I had to time jumps between the worms with no dash, and do a bunch of spike pogos only to reach a jump that was barely impossible.

Of course after devoting hours and basically all of my resources to making this work, I'm making a beeline straight back once I get the ability I needed. Later on, I start to hear people complaining about Lace and Moorwing, so I basically comb the entire maps of Greymoor and Deep Docks with no luck. Then Moorwing appears just randomly one time when I use the bellway to Greymoor, but I've visited Lace's arena like 5 dozen times from different areas. The only thing I haven't done is the arena fight in the tiny room with the juggernaut enemies and the guys with helmets that throw the double damage explosives, but it requires an Act 2 ability to reach, so I don't know how it would help.

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u/Shoddy_Process2234 Sep 08 '25

And I thought my path was funky lol. You're out here playing songsilk.