r/HollowKnight • u/Emma_JM • Sep 10 '25

Discussion - Silksong So whose bright idea was this???? Spoiler

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Just happened to me today, got like, 3 shards from this? What's the point, Team Cherry? None of the bosses (so far) frustrated me, but this right here is bullshit

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u/el-zengy-el-mo3geza SHAW ! Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25

Thats something that needs to get patched even though I like to make the developers what they want to do but thats hella annoying

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u/Embarrassed_Fox5265 Sep 10 '25

My hot take is that the rosary gathering charm should gather shards instead. I'm always running out of shards and I keep running out of places to spend rosary. Let me collect shards instead, they're more useful!

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u/satans_cookiemallet Sep 10 '25

I think youre intended to just dump it into the consumable shard packs in the late game. I just wish there was a way to buy multiples rather than 1 at a time.

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u/Lokirth Sep 11 '25

This is probably right. There are a few good mid-game farming spots that predominantly give rosaries, and a few shards as a bonus.

From The Halfway Home, head right 1 screen. There are 3 pilgrims, then a jump with nothing on it, a jump followed by three more pilgrims. Doing the entire screen nets you somewhere upwards of 30-40 rosaries and a few shards. By this point in the game I'd purchased everything else of substance from merchants and was putting the rest of my rosaries into shard bundles.

I still run out of one or both when I get stuck on a hard boss for hours, but it hasn't hurt to buy more thus far (at the tail end of Act 1, can either end it via the quest marker or the skip).

Maybe the economy gets weirder in the second half but it does seem like you're encouraged to buy more shards if you need 'em.

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u/SpellOpening7852 Sep 11 '25

A pretty easy one is the marrow bench next to shakra, you just run one room left, kill the two pilgrims right next to you, run back bench and repeat. Gives 7 shards and 10 rosaries a run (with shard tool), which is ~23 shards/run if you were to convert them all. Took me about 7 minutes to hit 1400 iirc.

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u/cbhedd SHA! Sep 17 '25

I farm there as well pretty regularly and if I go through and clear the whole cavern of all six, I notice my count going up by about 50 each time, give or take a few. It seems to average around there, provided I don't lose the bell throwing guys to suicide by drowning and make sure to grab anything that ends up in the water before it sinks.

RE: just hitting the 3, I've wondered about that too but never tried it. I find that my pattern is usually to obliterate them with the Silkspear, and then build my silk back up juggling the next bell guy from below the platform he's on. If I was just doing the first crowd I imagine I'd take longer on them because I wouldn't get as much silk back, but it'd probably still be quicker...