Posts tagged: hollow-knight

Hollow Knight

2025-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hollow Knight

Game Progress & Stats

Achievements #

55.56%

35/63 Unlocked

Playtime #

125.8h

Total hours played

Last Played #

2025-09-01

Most recent session

Unlocked Achievements (35)

Charmed
Acquire your first Charm
Unlocked: December 24, 2022

Enchanted
Acquire half of Hallownest's Charms
Unlocked: May 13, 2024

Protected
Acquire 4 Mask Shards
Unlocked: May 08, 2024

Masked
Acquire all Mask Shards
Unlocked: April 20, 2025

Soulful
Acquire 3 Vessel Fragments
Unlocked: May 11, 2024

Worldsoul
Acquire all Vessel Fragments
Unlocked: May 28, 2024

Falsehood
Defeat the False Knight
Unlocked: December 24, 2022

Test of Resolve
Defeat Hornet in Greenpath
Unlocked: September 13, 2023

Proof of Resolve
No description
Unlocked: May 24, 2024

Illumination
Defeat the Soul Master
Unlocked: May 11, 2024

Release
Defeat the Broken Vessel
Unlocked: May 22, 2024

Peace
No description
Unlocked: May 29, 2024

Honour
Defeat the Dung Defender
Unlocked: May 11, 2024

Respect
Defeat the Mantis Lords
Unlocked: May 05, 2024

Obsession
No description
Unlocked: June 03, 2024

Rivalry
No description
Unlocked: May 18, 2024

Attunement
Collect 600 Essence
Unlocked: May 27, 2024

Awakening
Collect 1800 Essence and awaken the Dream Nail
Unlocked: June 03, 2024

Grubfriend
Rescue half of the imprisoned grubs
Unlocked: May 25, 2024

Metamorphosis
Rescue all of the imprisoned grubs
Unlocked: June 08, 2024

Happy Couple
No description
Unlocked: April 19, 2025

Witness
No description
Unlocked: December 06, 2024

Solace
Bring peace to the Grey Mourner
Unlocked: December 14, 2024

Execution
Defeat the Traitor Lord
Unlocked: May 27, 2024

Connection
Open half of Hallownest's Stag Stations
Unlocked: May 08, 2024

Hope
Open all of Hallownest's Stag Stations and discover the Stag Nest
Unlocked: May 23, 2024

Teacher
Destroy Monomon the Teacher
Unlocked: May 25, 2024

Watcher
Destroy Lurien the Watcher
Unlocked: May 27, 2024

Beast
Destroy Herrah the Beast
Unlocked: May 25, 2024

Cartographer
Acquire a map of each area
Unlocked: May 25, 2024

Warrior
Complete the Trial of the Warrior
Unlocked: May 18, 2024

Conqueror
Complete the Trial of the Conqueror
Unlocked: April 17, 2025

The Hollow Knight
No description
Unlocked: June 09, 2024

Dark Romance
No description
Unlocked: April 23, 2025

Grand Performance
No description
Unlocked: December 23, 2024

Locked Achievements (28)

Blessed
Acquire all Charms and receive Salubra's blessing

Strength
No description

Ascension
Collect 2400 Essence and hear the Seer's final words

Neglect
Leave Zote to die

Purity
No description

Fool
Complete the Trial of the Fool

Sealed Siblings
No description

Dream No More
No description

Void
No description

Speedrun 1
Complete the game in under 10 hours

Speedrun 2
Complete the game in under 5 hours

Completion
Achieve 100% game completion and finish the game

Speed Completion
Achieve 100% game completion and finish the game in under 20 hours

Steel Soul
Finish the game in Steel Soul mode

Steel Heart
Achieve 100% game completion and finish the game in Steel Soul mode

Keen Hunter
Record all of Hallownest's creatures in the Hunter's Journal

True Hunter
Receive the Hunter's Mark

Passing of the Age
No description

Mortality
No description

Memory
No description

Ritual
No description

Banishment
No description

Brotherhood
No description

Inspiration
No description

Focus
No description

Soul & Shade
No description

Embrace the Void
No description

Pure Completion
Achieve 112% game completion and finish the game.

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Mark Of Pride Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T17:10:06Z

mark of pride hollow knight keeb run

The Knight collects the mark of pride charm after defeating the mantis lords.

Defeating The Mantis Lords

2025-08-31T17:09:31Z

Defeating the mantis lords

The Knight reigns victorious against the three mantis lords, earning the respect of the mantis village.

Mantis Lords Defeat Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T17:08:29Z

mantis lords defeat hollow knight keeb run

The Knight falls victim to the Mantis Lords in his first attempt to challenge them.

Challenging The Mantis Lords Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T17:06:58Z

Challenging the mantis lords hollow knight keeb run

The little night steps in front of the three mantis lords and draws his nail signaling his challenge.

Thorny Wanderers Journal Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T11:16:31Z

Thorny Wanderers Journal Hollow Knight Keeb Run

Parkour though the thorns yields a wanderers journal.

Spore Shroom Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T11:15:42Z

spore shroom hollow knight keeb run

Unlocking the Spore Shroom Charm in Hollow Knight Keeb Run

Thorny Mask Shard Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-31T11:14:55Z

Thorny Mask Shard Hollow Knight Keeb Run

A tricky parkour through the thorns to yield a mask shard and complete a full mask.

Aquiring Ismas Tear Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-30T11:13:21Z

Aquiring Ismas Tear Hollow Knight Keeb Run

The long trek has paid off and we have aquired Isma’s tear, it coats our outter shell with protective coating from the acid, giving us access to new parts of the world.

Ismas Tear Battle Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-30T11:07:17Z

ismas tear battle hollow knight keeb run

Finishing the battle before accessing Isma’s tear in Hollow Knight

Climbing Out Of Deep Nest In Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-30T11:02:47Z

Climbing out of deep nest in hollow knight keeb run

Making light moves of this tricky parkour run between deepnest and the royal waterways

Kings Station In Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-23T11:01:07Z

Kings Station in Hollow Knight Keeb run

Unlocking Kings station in my hollow knight keyboard only run

Defeating The Dung Defender In Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-23T11:00:03Z

Defeating the Dung Defender in hollow knight keeb run

The final blow to the Dung Defender as he admits defeat and allows the little knight to access the valve in the royal waterways.

Unlock Royal Waterway Bench In Hollow Knight Keeb

2025-08-23T09:48:08Z

unlock royal waterway bench in hollow knight keeb

Using desolate dive to unlock the Royal Waterway bench in my Hollow Knight keeb only run.

Entering Royal Waterway Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-23T09:46:21Z

entering royal waterway hollow knight keeb run

Entering the royal waterway during my hollow knight keeb only run.

Unlocking Royal Waterways In Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-23T09:45:20Z

unlocking royal waterways in hollow knight keeb run

Using the simple key to unlock the Royal Waterway in Hollow Knight during my keeb only run.

Getting The Lumafly Lantern In My Hollow Knight Keeb Run

2025-08-23T09:43:36Z

getting the lumafly lantern in my hollow knight keeb run

Purchasing the Lumafly Lanten from Sly’s shop in Dirtmouth during my Hollow Knight keeb only run.

hollow knight home row layout

2025-05-05T20:44:36Z

I just made it past 100% in my main hollow knight run, so now I will allow myself to get silksong when it comes out. I did this with a little bit of YT guidance, but mostly just figuring it out. I only just discovered the ⭐ ReznoRMichael hollow-knight-completion-check which got me an extra 2% for a few items I must have got and not saved on, because I was sure I had them.

Controller #

Hollow Knight is a game that can be played with keyboard or controller, You can use analog stick for movements, but they just translate to dpad, there really are no analog moves in the game. This makes it ripe for playing on pure keyboard. I really favor controller when there are more than one analog (throttle, brake, steering for example).

On controller I’ve switched to only using d-pad as I feel like it gives me the most crisp of controls. It is really easy to miss a pogo on analog by hitting slightly left or right.

My Keyboard #

My daily driver keyboard is a custom built 40% monoblock keyboard I absolutely love using it, it perfectly plops down on a laptop when I am in laptop mode and really fits me quite well for my wrok as a software/infrastructure engineer.

WASD #

We’ve got to talk about pinky stagger

I can use wasd perfectly fine on it, I have a layer that has no holds on any keys so that they are all nice and crisp and tailored to gaming operations that would require a hold.

Now what I haven’t ran into before is that trying to game with wasd and use the right side is very uncomfortable with this steep of a pinky stagger. Generally with keyboard an mouse games I have the keyboard a little slanted and move my fingers to wasd just fine, but it just does not work well with both hands on the keyboard.

Enter asdf #

Today is day one, I’m not quite sure how long it will last, but I am giving asdf a try for arrow keys. This will work much more akin to a fight stick where each finger has a primary direction instead of using one finger for both up and down.

vim keys, but mirrored

I chose to mirror vim keys with down towards the middle.  I had it the other

way, but when I played, I kept pressing it the other way.

a - left
s - up
d - down
f - right

power keys

I wanted to put the most common keys on the strongest finger (feels like

left pinky breaks this mantra, but whatever).

j - attack
k - dash
l - focus/cast
h - quick cast
e - inventory
u - super dash
m - map
g - dream nail

This seems weird #

So Ya, I know it’s weird. I did some searching wasn’t able to find much other than this one reddit post talking about using asdf. oddly one person reccommended sdfg, this souds so much like vim, which makes a lot of sense, but brings back moving fingers off of home row position or using one finger for down and right, which aint gonna work.

First thoughts #

I’m about 20 minutes in and struggling on False Knight, I could be a bit more patient, but I’m trying to work on pogos on all the mobs on the way in.

Holding up or down #

The ability to just hold up or down as you run through the map with enemies coming from above or below feels superior, and its going to be nice, I really just got to put some time in to get use to the layout, maybe even make some changes.

I realize now that Hollow Knight rarely needs quick swiching between up and down and would probably be fine on a wasd layout if i were to be using a split keyboard or a bit less pinky stagger that would work out, but for now I am giving this a shot.

My Son’s experience #

So my son is playing along with me, new save as well. He went with wasd and mouse, while this sounds insane to me to use mouse for clicking and no movement the natural feel that it has, has him blazing through faster than he does on controller, doing pogos he’s never done before.

False Knight down #

The recording somehow stuck on the menu screen and did not record video, but I got this screenshot of the victory.

Vengeful Spirit #

Day 2 I managed to make it to the Ancestral Mound and get the Vengeful Spirit cast. Everything is starting to feel much better and more natural. Surprisingly my main issue is with up and down since they are used a bit less, left with my pinky has not been any issue.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-vengeful-spirit.mp4

Hornet Battle 1 #

I made it successfully through the first hornet battle I was able to snag this clip of a few nicely timed pogos. Its getting better, I am still really struggling between down srike and up strike.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-hornet-pogos.mp4

Mothwing Cloak #

I got so lucky with the finish of hornet, I thought she hit me while healing, kinda lost where we were tanked a hit and almost took one last hit again and beat her to the final punch.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-hornet-finish.mp4

Gruz Mother #

After completing gruz mother I went to grab my macropad to click the clip button when her babies came out, and it was at this moment my son told me I was done for, there was no recovering from this. I was already at 2 hearts, and a mistake left me with one. You can see me fumble for the up key in the clip as I get repositioned fully on back on the board.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-gruz-mother.mp4

Now we have Sly the merchant unlocked and can buy items from him.

City #

I made it to the city, but on my way, it looks like one of the smokey layers were getting put on top of the game instead of layer in behind. I’ve never seen this, so I really have no idea what it is. During the thorny area it was in and out and right as I entered the city it locked on top and did not leave.

Soul Master #

I made my way over to the soul master, dying several times along the way to a few Soul Twisters, its time to battle.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-soul-meeting-master.mp4

After beating his second room, (this clip makes him look way too easy as he wasn’t targeting me fore some reason at the end), I picked up desolate dive, which brings a new key combo to get familiar with down+cast.

hollow-knight-keeb-run-soul-master-finish.mp4

Moss Knight #

I took a break for awhile on the game, my son got bored and moved on. He tends to switch out games a lot faster than me. I came back to it tonight after a few months off and just got some geo from the moss knights for awhile. I got this decent clip of clearing them, I’m no pro, but getting better at timing on the keeb layout.

hollow-knight-keeb-moss-knight.mp4

Lumafly Lantern #

While I had a lot of geo from the Moss Knights I finished out getting 1800 geo to get the lumafly lantern from sly’s shop at dirtmouth.

hollow-knight-keeb-lumafly-lantern.mp4

Royal Waterway #

I decided to head back to the city of tears and into the royal waterway to fight the dung defender and collect Isma’s tear.

hollow-knight-keeb-royal-waterway-unlock.mp4

hollow-knight-keeb-royal-waterway-entering.mp4

hollow-knight-keeb-royal-waterway-bench.mp4

The Dung Defender battle, great lore with this guy, lots of bouncy movement, but overall not too hard of a boss. He is not very accurate with attacks, so you have time to just sit in the corners and heal.

hollow-knight-keeb-dung-defender.mp4

Once the Dung Defender was defeated, I continued on up to the Kings Station and unlocked it.

hollow-knight-keeb-kings-station.mp4

I could not remember where ismas tear was and I ended up all the way down in deep nest, the climb out is a bit of a challenge, here I am going right by the route you take with crystal dash to get isma’s tear.

climbing-out-of-deep-nest.mp4

Isma’s Tear #

I managed to find my way through the royal waterway and where you crystal dash over to isma’s tear. This battle took two attempts, because the first I had no health left and walked in with two masks.

hollow-knight-keeb-ismas-tear-battle.mp4

Now the tear coats our shell and allows us to swim through the acid, and we can get a lot more places, and some places are just easier to get without precision parkour over the acid.

hollow-knight-keeb-ismas-tear.mp4

Thorny Mask #

I wandered around the world a bit today and found a few small items, nothing of major concequence.

hollow-knight-keeb-thorny-mask-shard.mp4 hollow-knight-keeb-spore-shroom.mp4 hollow-knight-keeb-thorny-wanderers-journal.mp4

Challenging Mantis Lords #

It felt like time to challenge the Mantis Lords. For the reason to prove to myself that I am getting better at this layout.

I drew my nail and ready for the challenge.

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First try I made it past the first one, and deep into the second one, I think If I would have remembered the healing window for them I would have had a shot at a first try on them.

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After three tries I had it. Maybe its not apples to apples with my first ever run years ago on steam deck, but it took months. I would have about 20 minutes a day waiting for kids pickup at school and I would just keep grinding at them for what added up to be likely several hours.

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After defeating them I’m let into the treasure room where I get a bench, Hallownest seal, a big loot box, and the mark of pride. This is actually one of my favorite charms as it gives you an extra 25% range to your nail attacks. This opens up the window for pogos and reach attacks without taking damage.

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