Hollow Knight: Silksong Patch Update Reduces Difficulty for Early Game Bosses

Team Cherry updated Hollow Knight: Silksong on Sept. 9, 2025, nerfing early game bosses Moorwing and Sister Splinter. The difficulty of the bosses was slightly decreased, but the exact changes and adjustments were not revealed. Various bug fixes were implemented as well, including correcting a bug where players would get stuck floating down after down-bouncing on certain projectiles. 

Here are the full Hollow Knight: Silksong patch updates, according to the official blog post: 

• Fixed situation where players could remain cloakless after Slab escape sequence.
• Fixed wish Infestation Operation often not being completable during the late game.
• Fixed wish Beast in the Bells not being completable when Bell Beast is summoned at the Bilewater Bellway during the late game.
• Fixed getting stuck floating after down-bouncing on certain projectiles.
• Fixed courier deliveries sometimes being inaccessible in the late game.
• Fixed craft bind behaving incorrectly when in memories.
• Fixed Lace tool deflect soft-lock at start of battle in Deep Docks.
• Fixed Silk Snippers in Chapel of the Reaper sometimes getting stuck out of bounds.
• Fixed Claw Mirrors leaving Hornet inverted if taking damage during a specific moment while binding.
• Fixed Snitch Pick not giving rosaries and shell shards as intended.
• Removed float override input (down + jump, after player has Faydown Cloak).
• Slight difficulty reduction in early game bosses Moorwing and Sister Splinter.
• Reduction in damage from Sandcarvers.
• Slight increase in pea pod collider scale.
• Slight reduction in mid-game Bellway and Bell Bench prices.
• Slight increase in rosary rewards from relics and psalm cylinders.
• Increase in rosary rewards for courier deliveries.
• Various additional fixes and tweaks.

All fixes will apply retroactively, so players who’ve hit a significant bug that prevents progress may want to switch over to public-beta to receive the fix.

Hollow Knight: Silksong surpassed 500,000 concurrent players on Steam during its day-one release. Two days later, Silksong achieved 587,150 concurrent players on Steam. The title was easily the most anticipated indie title of the decade, resulting in other indie studios delaying their titles to avoid directly competing against Silksong’s historic release.