5 more SOFTLOCKS in Hollow Knight!

[@FIREOWLHK]

Hey everyone! I hope you enjoyed the video! If you have any questions regarding anything in this video, reply below or join my discord: discord.gg/MvzvNXguCK If you wish to see the full playlist of all known Hollow Knight softlocks, click here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/paLHXmV3pZZna7c EDIT: Turns out the bugs in QG can’t hit you in 1.2.2.1 so instead you have to buy longnail to perform that skip. EDIT 2: You can escape the second softlock: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpSwqqKsmbmdY8U

[@truetentic]

Pin this maybe?

[@FIREOWLHK]

@@truetentic i thought i did pin it oops

[@sinedddmk8996]

question, is one of the musics in the video a remix or realated to ori and the blind forest? near the beggining, 2:53 onward oh, nevermind, it must be because later you defenitly use another in the hardest softlock segment.

[@FIREOWLHK]

@@sinedddmk8996 i used an extended version of dashing and bashing because it was too short for the amount of clips i had edited for it

[@MrEmiel66]

Ga zo door. Hoewel het boven mijn pet gaat. Groeten uit the Netherlands.

[@derram0k]

There is something immensely funny about the knight just reading the map and walking right past Hornet, ignoring her threat. "Yeah yeah, get in line. Even the bushes want to kill me."

[@dkt1800]

Yes

[@dkt1800]

Btw, you can also do that with nkg. I saw that in a video once

[@joshuam7749]

@@dkt1800 is there any practical use to that? NKG is in a dream and in an enclosed room if I remember correctly. Either way that's still cool.

[@dkt1800]

@@joshuam7749 open the map and completely disregard NKG's fire pillar attack, not as cool, but still funny af

[@jbrainbow23]

Nkg: attempts to kill the knight with a huge pillar of flame The knight: hmm where am I

[@aloysiuskurnia7643]

Softlock 1 Cons: softlocked Pros: softlocked with quirrel

[@squiddler7731]

The abyss soft lock is pretty fitting, lol

[@FIREOWLHK]

the bad ending

[@stresswaves01]

@@FIREOWLHK the knight gets to stay at home

[@sakuchi4914]

THK had to use cheat to get out of that chamber that fast without wing or claw

[@zaynanater5980]

i thought it was really interesting to see the development of the softlocks in the discord! Great video!

[@6Alexis8]

hidden promotion of the discord server lmao... It makes me wanna join now

[@FIREOWLHK]

@@6Alexis8 you should, you get secret previews on videos 👀

[@Krillori]

@@6Alexis8 yes

[@gamean5873]

This video shows that most of the game is built around claw Also, blue lake skip is too cursed Edit: about that last softlock, didn't you reach that same position in your get to as many areas as possible challenge, and then you reached to fungal, meaning that you could get claw and make your way back to dirtmouth?

[@FIREOWLHK]

i did, but i didn’t have a nail upgrade

[@gamean5873]

Yes, I guess you kill the flukes too quickly so you can't get enough height

[@FIREOWLHK]

@@gamean5873 exactly

[@Mariomm_marti]

I was thinking the game is built around cloak. For every skip, and for every run (even speedrun), it is always picked up because otherwise the game would be literally unplayable. Initial skills open areas, later skills improve movement I'd say.

[@FIREOWLHK]

@@Mariomm_marti you can beat the game without dash

[@name4852]

Man claw is important. Also I cannot imagine how hard it must have been to find these in a game like Hollow Knight, so great job👍😁

[@plainbreadmike]

The reason why patch 1221 lags on your pc is probably because earlier hollow knight patches came without a framerate cap. When I tried 1221 on my pc for the first time it went up to 700 fps and gpu started overheating lol. If your gpu doesn't come with a manual framerate cap override you could try using a framerate limiter software such as Rivatuner like many speedrunners do

[@FIREOWLHK]

thanks! ill try this out

[@dumpsterExorcist]

Ok, but the missile green screen joke was actually funny lmao

[@21y15]

2:06 Just found a "use" for Heavy Blow :3 Also, Ori music in Hollow Knight!

[@mweep7366]

It was fun being in the discord call while u were doing 8:07. Great vid as always Fire ❤

[@schmolu3198]

Great video, one really sees that you spent much time making this. And it's exclusive hollow knight content, no one else did these softlocks as far as I am aware

[@l.n.3372]

I thought I recognized Ori music and apparently I was right! Hollow Knight, Ori 1 and Ori 2 are some great games with amazing music! Also, nice timing at 13:22 with the soul sanctum/soul master theme. Why does having the map allow you to skip the Hornet boss fight? That's so funny but it seems so weird that it's in the game at all.

[@serraramayfield9230]

IIRC it's because Hornet locks your animation state including some menus

[@stretch7293]

Ayo Ori music I like that game Also holy cow this video is incredible The amount of dedication and planning you've put into this is so incredible Amazing work!

[@MegaDragon1983]

Me trying to figure out why the hell I'm watching how to softlock my game.

[@FIREOWLHK]

its fun

[@fredericogoncalves8654]

(nvm only read the pinned comment now) Great video and I can notice that you put a lot of effort into them! There's just a little thing that bothers me in the second softlock: Since you need 1221 to perform the lever skip with dash slash to QG, the skip in the slightly darker room in QG that leads to deepnest won't be possible because the spiny husks' thorns don't have a hitbox in that version. I'm not sure if this is true, but I think it's worth it checking out if it's possible. Great video again!

[@FIREOWLHK]

its true, someone on my discord pointed it out. thankfully by purchasing longnail, the softlock is still possible

[@fredericogoncalves8654]

@@FIREOWLHK that's great!

[@respicio2990]

Greenpath is where I fell in love with this game.

[@bow_to_gorb]

Nice music choice, Ori and the Will of the Wisps is one of my favorite games :)

[@Abinbomb]

love the content! keep up the good work!!

[@rwlab1253]

Your choice of music earns my respect

[@VGamingJunkieVT]

I bet the Abyss Softlock felt a little too close to home for the poor little Knight.

[@Waddleclaws]

Omg the fireball hover trick seems awesome for speed runs

[@metylsalicylat]

How interesting Quirrrel shows up with mask of Monomon after dreamers' scence in Greenpath. But most of players seem to ignore it.

[@DragonPanda4]

Duly noted that fireball skips were not intended as a feature but become one because we got lucky and only foud 1 genuine softlock

[@FIREOWLHK]

fireball skips are allowed in nmg tho

[@CamiloLascoutx]

My worst nightmare will be getting softlocket in deepnest.

[@doomeddragon76]

Dashing and Bashing is one of my favourite Ori tracks

[@bamaxdaws6459]

The choice of music in this video is amazing!

[@santiagogil7508]

Hornet do be actin strange. You think silksong's got her stressed?

[@ethanlee8307]

Man iirc even CC's route up from abyss using only "base knight" still required claw for "ledge grabs".

[@FIREOWLHK]

yes

[@roma540]

Softlocking yourself in horror location? WHAT A MASOCHIST!

[@Tipi_]

10:46 You can perform shade fireball skip. Apparently, you can pogo on that fireball. You can also fireball it back for geo

[@FIREOWLHK]

but you need claw

[@Tipi_]

kinda forgor about that

[@INK_NOR]

missile green screen never gets old, man. Thanks!

[@DavidCornell1]

Cool video! Small tip though, you still have the game's music turned on, so whenever the game music is actually playing there are 2 different music tracks playing since you put music on top of it, which isn't ideal. But it definitely didn't ruin it and I enjoyed it!

[@FIREOWLHK]

i keep forgetting to turn off in game music. thanks for the feedback

[@calvindang7291]

(1:23) whoa, 2 fireball (12:57) this shade skip can be skipped and you just need to pogo the enemy to the right; see at about 21 minutes into the csc wr (by staxis). ~~also nice csc run, whats your time~~

[@FIREOWLHK]

tbh i wasn’t timing it but probably a couple hours lol

[@staxis3955]

hey that's me

[@FIREOWLHK]

@@staxis3955 staxis is watching my videos, sick

[@tremen151]

Hi staxxy

[@fishy1ttv]

the shade skip skip

[@Beanie26]

I once got “softlocked” (I say in quotations because someone with more skill would not be in that situation) in Crystal Peaks, because I went in using D-dive and didn’t have lantern to exit through the gate, but didn’t have the skill to dark room into resting grounds

[@sophier996]

Why didn’t you just get crystal dash and leave that way?

[@Beanie26]

@@sophier996 i couldent find it and i was working on my skills without a map TwT

[@sentris5293]

A tip for future videos, i would recommend going to the options menu to disable in game music if you want to add in your own

[@FIREOWLHK]

thanks for the feedback

[@cloverlucky5977]

@@FIREOWLHK in future videos, you might be able to find a place in your video editing software that allows you to mute sections of the video for where you'd like to place music over. hope this helps!

[@generalvn1939]

Synonym for the word “kill” is just amazing

[@nerfjanetreal]

Using the flying shotgun as a skip tool is the best thing ive ever seen

[@oceanman7360]

Lmao

[@meleboo8499]

This video had a lot of very funny moments in my opinion

[@mistermooseyman]

Obsessed with these videos! Love them sm!

[@YaBoiMega]

Local tech museum has a playable hollow knight display, time to do some trolling

[@FIREOWLHK]

yes! that would be hilarious

[@truetentic]

I love plush Knight and his lore

[@gaganzanwar]

I saw the title of the Abyss section and I already realised we doing clawless shade cloak lmao

[@never_always]

14:32 now you know how the siblings feel lol

[@FIREOWLHK]

become sibling%

[@AviusL]

Just found your channel. Really nice videos tbh. The only thing I'm missing is that it would be nice to hear you talk instead of having to read text. Would properly make these videos clutch. Good work still :)

[@arjen7074]

15:07 casually puts this in the video like he does it all the time :)

[@FIREOWLHK]

of course that nail boost was definitely first try

[@DaydreamsOfSleeplessNights]

I love the fact that he's using Ori music for a hollow knight video

[@rintaroou]

damn nice editing

[@indigopixel]

I always love the well placed Ori soundtracks

[@BreadstixTheAnimator]

using dashing and bashing as bg music? subbed

[@poobum3797]

You monster... You killed knight plush!

[@FIREOWLHK]

he will be back dont worry!

[@danielliebergall856]

People have gotten so bored waiting for silksong we have started making soft lock tutorials

[@wiselychosenname2867]

Man, i thought i was tripping after hearing ori music but realized that it was from the video and made me look like an idiot

[@nikoberryy]

Hey, im not positive about this but you could possibly get out of the greenpath softlock. Instead of going the intended way back up you could go back from where you exit the hornet arena. If the fight still triggers but your locked out of the room, you might be able to kill her from the hitting her when she gets near the wall. Im not at all positive on this so ill probably test it.

[@nikoberryy]

also for the softlock in the deepnest hot spring, cant you do a shade skip once making it the spot at 8:02

[@FIREOWLHK]

1. too high up 2. shade spawns off screen

[@nikoberryy]

@@FIREOWLHK sadness

[@jeanyeap4229]

Tell me if it works, I’m not enough of a gamer for fireball skips

[@nikoberryy]

​@@jeanyeap4229 ight got it

[@voidgamer7122]

softlock 4 also known as non-knight vessel simulator

[@noodlesbaldwin8075]

The ancient basin one, you can grind geo there, stall ball skip to hidden station and go to Dirtmouth.

[@FIREOWLHK]

we didn't grab fireball

[@Sokobansolver]

This is what waiting for Silksong does to ppl

[@Kiier6452]

Just wanna say im not sure but for the shade skip to oro im pretty sure you can just pogo a primal aspid to Get up if you use some fireballs, can probably save some time

[@FIREOWLHK]

yeah but it sucks lol also im not trying to go fast, simply showing some softlocks

[@Kiier6452]

Yeah i know your not trying to go fast but then you dont have to die an go all the way back which can be pretty annoying

[@claymore_lol505]

im pretty sure that you can escape the ancient basin SL by simply doing a pogo shade skip across the spikey area. killing the broken vessel. yoinking double jump and then farming the 2 geo off the shade crawlers till you have enough to go to the hidden station and then get the goofy out of there. though you might need mantis claw to get up to certain areas. im sure you can use some tricky skips. probably possible but maybe impossible

[@FIREOWLHK]

if you have mantis claw it wouldn’t be a softlock anymore?

[@claymore_lol505]

@@FIREOWLHK no i meant like the areas to get to broken vessel or monarch wings might be unaccsessable without mantis claw. but ther emight be a possibility you could do it with tricky skips. just no shade sko because you need that to get over the spike pit. probablyh impossible without fireball. but maybe, just maybe

[@fireflower_sys]

ori music my beloved

[@FIREOWLHK]

im just glad i didn’t get copystriked for using it

[@DjBarns2077]

This video makes me realise how important mantis claws are

[@d3monhunt3r76]

I love how this video is about HK but you use Ori music lol

[@kaulis6524]

Yoooo, new upload neat

[@aurasenic]

I'm wondering if there's a way to softlock yourself out of 112% completion.. maybe getting shade soul before fireball and thus not getting soul catcher

[@FIREOWLHK]

maybe using glitches? i doubt it though also getting shade soul opens up mound no matter what. its a good question though and ill think about it

[@kevinspinar7099]

Actually, if you get shade Soul before fireball, then indeed you can't get soul catcher. The game gets confused because you have a "fireball ability" but you haven't killed the elder baldur in the Ancestral Mound. And so, the gate is closed and if you talk to the shaman, she acts like you're stuck inside the Mound and tells you to kill the beast. But you can't get inside because you're on the wrong side.

[@tylerbowdoin372]

Some of those skips look hard as hell.

[@FIREOWLHK]

some of the harder ones took up to 2 hours to do in one go with save states

[@tylerbowdoin372]

@@FIREOWLHK Dang, I applaud your dedication!

[@Rebecca-r4d6g]

I kind of softlocked myself in steel soul. I was trying to do that skip where you pogo, dash, and c-dash to get ismas. I forgot I didn't have c-dash and I didn't want to save quit.

[@FIREOWLHK]

well it's not really a softlock

[@Rebecca-r4d6g]

@@FIREOWLHK That's why I said it was kind of a softlock. I got myself into a place where the only options were erase my save file because I was on one mask or save and quit Edit: I just realized this may have sounded snarky and that was not the intention

[@ammyvl1]

greenpath softlock works perfectly fine in not steel soul mode because shade respawns in the hallway leading up to hornet

[@FIREOWLHK]

yeah that’s why steel soul is needed

[@ammyvl1]

​@@FIREOWLHK i think you misunderstand--the shade spawns out of reach of the knight in that room, regardless of where you die (trust me, I've tried all the acid pools). You cannot get out of the softlock, even in normal mode.

[@FIREOWLHK]

@@ammyvl1 oh i see, good to know

[@snidlin]

Wait. How did you kill the Baulder with fury and longnail? I thought it was frame perfect...

[@ambinub]

with skill

[@FIREOWLHK]

it is frame perfect

[@snidlin]

Oh frick. It was editing wasn't it. I thought you just stood there and spammed the nail lol

[@FIREOWLHK]

@@snidlin i edited all the hits to be consecutive. looking back, i probably should have made it more clear

[@snidlin]

Nah I was just rubbing my eyes. It was a lot more satisfying that way. But if you wanted rougher cuts would make it much more apparent whole keeping the aesthetic.

[@feyfiren]

get to areas that expect you to have mantis claw w/o using mantis claw so that you can't leave

[@Celastrous]

Audio was great. Keep using the music

[@bishopskul3534]

Hey fun fact you don’t have to fight brooding mawlek to get 6 masks in the beginning you can do a skip by getting the vengefly pogo in the goam room and all 5 grubs as well as buying sly’s 2 mask shards for 650 geo and that is six masks though you can do spike pogo skips and get to mawlek

[@FIREOWLHK]

yeah but i prefer fighting mawlek over grinding the extra geo for a mask shard from sly

[@bishopskul3534]

Ah

[@nerfjanetreal]

Thanks for the qg dash slash skip,im beating the game without certain items and that really helps to skip the stupid darknest room

[@HKSilksong]

0:03 Rude of you to call Quirrel an elephant

[@FIREOWLHK]

hahaha this is a good comment

[@dialog_box]

God this music is making me want to play ori again

[@Gamesaucer]

I wonder if it's possible to stallball out of the deepnest one after you run out of corpse creepers. I'm not super familiar with the geometry there and I don't know if you can get enough height, but that ledge on the left looks like it _may_ have the geometry for a stallball. I'm not sure whether it _would_ be possible if you could just get up that particular ledge either though.

[@FIREOWLHK]

check the pinned comment :)

[@aharanr]

I do love myself some Softlocking lore

[@FIREOWLHK]

the new mossbag

[@hollow3656]

*false knight scream* "Buh-"

[@jalepinojoe6285]

KZbin recommending me this again out of nowhere and the abyss one looks just about escapable to me. Luring a sibling lets you get back to the door but the final spot to get out is looking tricky. Has anyone disproven this yet?

[@FIREOWLHK]

so far a few people have come up with something that's theoretically possible, but no one has done it yet

[@no-namemaortwitchvideos4926]

on the revamped ab (i think) u can do a shade "skip" to kill a bug then get geo get your shade and die do it till u have enough money for buy stag then shade skip for the stag on the right but the stag then go to dirtmouth and the last one try to use that flying worms its hard without wings but i pretty sure its possible

[@FIREOWLHK]

you can get up to the stag anyway. even with a shade

[@Stormy_SE]

For the abyss softlock, when climbing out of the abyss, could you not lore 1 or 2 siblings up there? Maybe it wouldn't be enough to get all the way up anyway but I'm just curious.

[@FIREOWLHK]

not enough to get all the way up

[@skeletonwarlock5741]

@@FIREOWLHK you can actually just a flipping Knightmare probably

[@IGacitua]

@@FIREOWLHK I think there's a video that manages to get out of the abyss using only dash, siblings and pogo?

[@FIREOWLHK]

@@IGacitua link?

[@IGacitua]

@@FIREOWLHK kzbin.info/www/bejne/fojQd5RrgNyMoc0

[@Chez_com]

Dont forget that vanilla softlock if you enter the fluke room (the one you need Dive for) without wings. Found that one myself. You cant escape the room bdfore fluke marm. Maybe with flukes to pogo? But its difficult

[@FIREOWLHK]

there is no bench down there?

[@Chez_com]

@@FIREOWLHK oh, that's right. But let's say you forget something and want to go back, you can't unless you die/quit out. But i guess i mis understood what softlock meant :) /gen /notsarcasm

[@FIREOWLHK]

@@Chez_com yeah softlock means you are 100% stuck with no way to escape

[@bilingualfish4246]

would It be possible to softlock at soul master? you need wings or claw to escape the room he's in and there is a hard save after dive.

[@FIREOWLHK]

you also need wings or claw to reach soul master unfortunately

[@bilingualfish4246]

@@FIREOWLHK oh

[@frysauce8653]

Im too scared to try it, but what happens if you exhaust all the use all of the soul in the room after you kill soul master and need to use desolate dive to get out. Is there more soul available? Or will you just be softlocked?

[@FIREOWLHK]

there’s actually multiple options 1. quit out to reset soul totem 2. exit and reenter that chamber to respawn the folly (theres one that spawns right under the geo chest)

[@castieusarmaneaus3089]

It looks like you could shade skip with and use the corpse bugs together to get to tram pass in the second soft lock not 100% on it tho

[@FIREOWLHK]

check the pinned comment

[@bryanvanderlubbe5350]

Ori music. Both hk and ori are beautiful metroidvanias

[@yisrael5180]

all of these can be escaped by just using debug so they aren't softlocks

[@animarthur5297]

There's an insanely difficult way of leaving the Abyss with nothing but jumps and pogos, so softlock 4 is technically wrong

[@FIREOWLHK]

nope, watch that video again and you’ll see that they use claw

[@animarthur5297]

@@FIREOWLHK Oh yeah i forgot about that

[@CryCabbage]

I’m stuck near the hollow knight statue in the city without a key how do I get out?

[@FIREOWLHK]

go to the stag

[@CryCabbage]

@@FIREOWLHK Ty you saved meeee

[@nicjolas]

ccmaci actually posted a video on how to escape the abyss without claw or double jump, and if im not mistaken, without the vengeful spirit either. its kinda crazy

[@FIREOWLHK]

you still need claw, watch the video again

[@nicjolas]

@@FIREOWLHK my bad, i forgot he had the rule where you could use claw on edges

[@Victor-sw4ne]

You could make a video about the resting grounds stag. I found it strange that it was the only one to be opened by leaver, but it is actually a design choice to avoid a softlock

[@Victor-sw4ne]

If you had to spend even 1 geo to buy it, you could end up in a softlock without any skips

[@bridgeseller7004]

Well, it was gated by iirc 30 geo in the past, but it was patched out to prevent softlocks.

[@FIREOWLHK]

interesting, i hadn’t thought about that

[@Victor-sw4ne]

@@bridgeseller7004 ohh, I had no idea

[@matheuscabral9618]

a friend of mine actually got there with 0 geo so if that wasn’t a thing he would be softlocked

[@protomedia8325]

Nice to see the g to dab mod.

[@vietnamgamer9490]

Does shade skip not help with the deep nest softlock?

[@FIREOWLHK]

kind of, check the pinned comment and theres a video of someone escaping the softlock

[@Amoeba_Podre]

@@FIREOWLHK there’s no pinned comment

[@FIREOWLHK]

@@Amoeba_Podre fixed, for some reason youtube keeps unpinning my comment

[@tako-sensei6072]

i definatly didnt spend 20 minutes trying to pause and read that...

[@blueluelueluelue2343]

How did you get out from hornet 2 arena without claw?

[@FIREOWLHK]

go up as you would to get to colosseum

[@archerfiltchstickmanrus8218]

Hey i actually had softlocked myself in city of tears. No great slash for skips, no money for stags, no simple key for the waterways. I tried to speedrun and now i have to benchwarp to get great slash. I cant even reach the stags, or get monarch wings.

[@FIREOWLHK]

you can just grind geo for the stag

[@archerfiltchstickmanrus8218]

True but im not sure if i can even acces city etorerooms

[@archerfiltchstickmanrus8218]

King's station isnt really an option

[@FIREOWLHK]

@@archerfiltchstickmanrus8218 do you have claw? then reaching storerooms is easy

[@archerfiltchstickmanrus8218]

Ohh, yea i reached city of tears by city crest. Welp thanks for the info

[@bgmarshall]

15:07 Nice.

[@FIREOWLHK]

im glad someone noticed the nail boost

[@Mikeoxlong460]

You can excape the ab softlock, watch cc's vid

[@FIREOWLHK]

abyss or ancient basin?

[@hyx6194]

Cant you escape from anciemt bassin softlock by going to beat Broken Vessel with some skips?

[@FIREOWLHK]

how do you plan on getting over to broken vessel?

[@hyx6194]

​@@FIREOWLHKi thought of it for a while and realised that it is impossible to escape. while you can get over the huge spike pit with a shade to help you, and big part of basin being completable, the part right before BV requires mantis claws. And you cant even do shade skip because it is needed to get over The pit of Spikes. So you are right. It is a softlock

[@FIREOWLHK]

@@hyx6194 that section surprisingly does not require mantis claw. the hard part is actually getting on the ledge where you normally crystal dash without dash or fireball

[@Iamverykarpy]

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[@danvevoooo]

Idk if there's a way but it would be funny to get sofltocked at the start of the radiance fight

[@FIREOWLHK]

you can softlock in the black egg by using benchwarp to teleport to the bench. leaving the black egg crashes your game instantly

[@danvevoooo]

@@FIREOWLHK I meant like not being able to go up to the place where you challenge radiance but that's also cool

[@FIREOWLHK]

@@danvevoooo i think that’s possible itemless. you can just quit out and get claw or something though

[@danvevoooo]

@@FIREOWLHK yea I forgot you can just leave from the bench

[@geometricalpancake3815]

i almost soft locked myself when i first played bc i was exploring green path and went through an area i hadnt been to before and then went into *another* area. i was so lost that by the time i found a bench i was relieved and saved my game. didnt think how stupid that was... took me a couple hours of getting better at the game to get out of there lol. i still have flashbacks

[@FIREOWLHK]

fortunately the game is well enough designed that most people cant accidentally softlock themselves. you really have to be trying to actually softlock