Ready to transform your Hollow Knight: Silksong experience? After years of anticipation, this challenging Metroidvania has captured the hearts of many, including newcomers who might be surprised by its demanding difficulty. While Team Cherry has a clear vision for the game, the vibrant modding community has stepped up to offer incredible solutions.
Since Team Cherry is steadfast in its design philosophy, it’s the dedicated modding community that provides excellent enhancements for Silksong. If you’re hoping to ease the game’s unforgiving challenge or streamline those lengthy treks back to boss arenas, you’ll find a mod here to significantly improve your journey.
Here are some of the most impactful Hollow Knight Silksong mods available:
Bonfire Teleport
While Silksong’s built-in fast travel system helps, imagine an even smoother experience. After meticulously unlocking all those benches, kassent’s Bonfire Teleport mod lets you instantly warp to any activated bench directly from your map. It’s incredibly convenient and feels like a native feature, simplifying navigation across Pharloom.
Boss Health Bar
One of the most frustrating aspects of battling Silksong’s formidable bosses is the lack of a visible health bar. With xiaohai’s Health Bar mod, you can now see precisely how much damage you’re inflicting with each attack, and every enemy gains a health bar. During boss encounters, a prominent health bar appears at the bottom of your screen, signaling when to deliver the finishing blow.
This mod is also highly customizable, allowing you to adjust the placement and appearance of health bars. You can choose to display them only for bosses or even add numerical values to enemies’ remaining health, helping you strategize your attacks more effectively.
Rebirth Anywhere
If backtracking after a defeat fills you with dread, kassent’s Stakes of Marika – Rebirth Anywhere mod is a game-changer. Drawing inspiration from Elden Ring’s checkpoint system, this mod respawns you right at the scene entrance instead of sending you all the way back to a bench. This applies to any death, whether from a challenging boss or a tricky platforming section, saving you countless hours across your playthrough.
It’s important to note that some game sections are designed for you to die, triggering specific cinematic sequences. Fortunately, this mod includes a hotkey for in-game activation, offering the flexibility to enable it whenever a particularly infuriating boss battle starts to get the better of you.
Easy Mode
Team Cherry continues to fine-tune Silksong’s difficulty, but these official adjustments might not cater to everyone’s preferences. Many players desire a more forgiving experience than the developers originally intended.
Thankfully, didrio’s Relaxed Mode mod significantly reduces the difficulty by implementing a wide range of gameplay changes. These include increased rosary and shard drop rates, reduced incoming damage from enemies, and many other tweaks. If Silksong feels too overwhelming, this mod offers a much smoother and more accessible journey.
Always Have Compass
Navigating the Silksong map can be challenging, especially for newcomers to the genre. Early in the game, you’re forced to make tough choices with your limited Silksong Tools. While most games provide constant map orientation, LordGregory’s Always Have Compass mod eliminates this dilemma, allowing you to always see your location on the map without sacrificing a tool slot.
For even greater convenience, consider pairing this with LordGregory’s Always Have Magnet Effect mod, which automatically pulls in rosaries and shards, eliminating the need to equip specific tools for collection.
Instant Rosaries
Tired of grinding for currency? Ez’s Simple Rosary Cheat liberates you from tedious Silksong Rosary farming. With a single keystroke (F3), you’ll instantly gain 1,000 rosaries. This means you’ll never have to worry about insufficient funds when encountering merchants, ensuring you always have enough to purchase whatever you need.
Luma HDR
For those with a high-end television or gaming monitor, the Luma HDR mod is a must-have, introducing native HDR support to the game. Even if you don’t have HDR hardware, there’s still value in this mod for its commitment to accurate color representation.
While Windows 11’s Auto HDR can provide a similar effect, native HDR offers a superior, cleaner image quality. The visual impact of this mod is best appreciated firsthand, so be sure to watch the demonstration video above if you have any doubts.
Silksong Multiplayer
While Silksong was never expected to be a cooperative experience, this mod hints at exciting future possibilities. Created by nek5, SilklessCoop allows you to embark on your journey through Pharloom alongside your friends in the same game instance.
Keep in mind that this is nek5’s inaugural mod, so anticipate a potentially involved installation process and be prepared for various bugs that are still being addressed. As a compelling proof of concept, it demonstrates incredible potential for a future co-op version of Silksong and is definitely one to watch.
Shadow Dash
Fans of the original Hollow Knight might find Silksong’s updated Dash ability somewhat frustrating due to its lack of invincibility frames. Null_993’s Shadow Dash mod reintroduces these crucial iframes, making combat and evasion more forgiving. Additionally, it offers settings to customize the dash speed multiplier, allowing you to traverse Pharloom at a much faster pace.
All Enemies Drop Rosary Beads
Team Cherry intentionally designed certain enemies to drop rosary beads, but if you prefer a more generous economy, YukkuriC’s All Enemies Drop Rosary Beads mod ensures you’re rewarded with currency every time you defeat an enemy. The number of rosaries received scales with an enemy’s total health, and this even applies to bosses, guaranteeing you’ll always leave a fight a little wealthier.
How to install Silksong mods
Before proceeding with any mod installations, we strongly advise backing up your save file. Your save directory is typically located at ‘AppData\LocalLow\Team Cherry\Hollow Knight Silksong’. While issues are rare, it’s always best to be prepared for any unforeseen circumstances.
Silksong shares the same engine as Hollow Knight, which explains the rapid development of so many mods, even shortly after its release. These installation steps have been confirmed to work for both Xbox Game Pass and Steam versions, with the only variation being the specific location of your game directory.
- Download the latest version of BepInEx 5 from a trusted source.
- Extract the contents of the .zip folder directly into your Silksong game directory (where the game executable resides).
- Launch Silksong once to allow BepInEx 5 to initialize, then close the game.
- You should now find a new ‘BepInEx’ folder within your game directory.
- Locate the ‘Plugins’ folder inside the ‘BepInEx’ directory and extract the contents of your downloaded mods into it.
It’s always a good practice to check the comments or posts section of any mod you download for potential conflicts with other mods. However, in our experience, running multiple mods has generally been smooth, but your individual results may vary.
This covers some of the most essential Silksong mods currently available, and we’ll continue to update this list as new and exciting options emerge. With these enhancements, you’ll be well-equipped to conquer the single-player game. Don’t forget to check out our Silksong endings guide to discover how to achieve the true ending.