SilksongTweaks
Return to where you died, never permanently lose rosaries, set max masks and damage taken. One panel, gamepad friendly, shows whether each tweak is actually working.Silksong Tweaks
Four quality-of-life tweaks for Hollow Knight: Silksong, in one mod with one panel.
Press F8 in game. Everything applies instantly.
- Return to death spot — after respawning at a bench, travel back to where you died, on a cancellable countdown
- Keep rosaries — dying twice no longer destroys your first cocoon
- Max masks — raise Hornet's maximum health (1–20)
- Damage taken — scale incoming damage, from invulnerable to harder than vanilla
Install
With a mod manager (easiest). Install from Thunderstore with r2modman or Gale. BepInEx is pulled in automatically as a dependency — nothing else to do.
By hand.
- Install BepInEx 5 for Silksong
— extract it, then copy the contents of the
BepInExPackfolder next toHollow Knight Silksong.exe. - Run the game once so BepInEx creates its folders, then quit.
- Drop
SilksongTweaks.dllintoBepInEx/plugins/. - Launch and press
F8.
Uninstall: delete SilksongTweaks.dll. Nothing else is touched.
Why another mod?
Because you cannot tell whether the others are working.
The mods this replaces will happily report that they loaded and then do nothing at all — and from the outside, a working mod and a silently broken one look identical. This mod shows a status per tweak: whether it hooked the game, and when it last actually did something.
| Badge | Meaning |
|---|---|
ACTIVE · fired 12s ago |
Working, and it has done something |
ACTIVE · not yet fired |
Hooked, not yet triggered |
OFF |
You switched it off |
UNAVAILABLE · <reason> |
Could not hook the game, and why |
A game update that breaks one tweak leaves the other three running, and says so.
Design notes
- Your save file is never written to. Max health works by intercepting the game's reads, never by storing a new value. Uninstalling leaves a vanilla save with nothing to undo.
- Nothing hooks compiler-generated code. Iterator state machines like
<Die>d__1101carry numbers the compiler regenerates on every build, so hooking them breaks silently on any game patch. Every hook targets a stable, named method. - One source of truth for hook targets.
HookTargets.csis consumed by both the runtime and a test that reads your installedAssembly-CSharp.dlland fails if any target has moved. Run it after a Silksong update and it names what broke. - Disabling never un-patches. Patches stay installed and short-circuit on a boolean, because runtime un-patching is a known source of instability.
Building
Requires the .NET SDK. The game supplies the reference assemblies.
dotnet build src/SilksongTweaks -c Release
dotnet test tests/SilksongTweaks.Tests
If Silksong is not at the default path:
dotnet build src/SilksongTweaks -c Release -p:GameDir="D:\path\to\Hollow Knight Silksong"
tools/ApiInspector reads the game assembly without running it, for finding hook targets:
dotnet run --project tools/ApiInspector -- dump "<ManagedDir>" '^PlayerData$' 'health'
dotnet run --project tools/ApiInspector -- xref "<ManagedDir>" '^maxHealth$'
Credits
Silksong Tweaks is an independent implementation, written against the game's own API. None of the mods below were decompiled and none of their code is used. They came first, they proved these ideas were worth having, and they deserve the credit for them:
- Xiaohai (XiaohaiMod) — ReBack, for returning to the death location
- BlueRaja — rosaries never permanently lost, for merging death cocoons
- Ericky1694 — CustomDifficulty, for health and damage tuning
Built on BepInEx and HarmonyX. Not affiliated with Team Cherry.
Licence
MIT.