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Silksong: Additional Cut Content Discoveries
This video delves into the deleted content of Hollow Knight: Silksong, including details about the Red Coral Canyon, discarded sprites and assets, deleted cinematics, map zones that did not make it to the final game, discarded game mechanics and other miscellaneous elements. It is based on community research and the game's sketchbook to reveal unpublished information about the development of Silksong.
1. 🌊 Red Coral Canyon: Final Details and Reasons for its Removal
- ✅ The Red Coral Canyon was going to be what we now know as Karak Sands and Worn Steps.
- ⚠️ Team Cherry removed this area because they felt it didn't fit the tone of the game, as they wanted to reflect the destruction of life in Farlum by the citadel.
- ✅ In its final stage (2021), the bridge that Hornet breaks at the beginning was repaired by workers from the lower workshops.
- ✅ The area contained numerous rooms with lakes, including the Last Judge's room.
- ✅ The map showed areas with bluish lighting to recharge plasm.
- ✅ The Needle Master's house was located in the northernmost part of the area, and Bolt's nest was integrated into the map.
- ✅ The Border Watcher's arena was larger and directly connected to the wastelands.
| Element | Detail |
|---|---|
| Area Size | Much larger and more alive than in the final game. |
| Sharp | Tin Chir has confirmed that we will see Sharp in a future DLC. |
00:31 - 02:57
1. 🌊 Red Coral Canyon: Final Details and Reasons for its Removal
- ✅ The Red Coral Canyon was going to be what we now know as Karak Sands and Worn Steps.
- ⚠️ Team Cherry removed this area because they felt it didn't fit the tone of the game, as they wanted to reflect the destruction of life in Farlum by the citadel.
- ✅ In its final stage (2021), the bridge that Hornet breaks at the beginning was repaired by workers from the lower workshops.
- ✅ The area contained numerous rooms with lakes, including the Last Judge's room.
- ✅ The map showed areas with bluish lighting to recharge plasm.
- ✅ The Needle Master's house was located in the northernmost part of the area, and Bolt's nest was integrated into the map.
- ✅ The Border Watcher's arena was larger and directly connected to the wastelands.
| Element | Detail |
|---|---|
| Area Size | Much larger and more alive than in the final game. |
| Sharp | Tin Chir has confirmed that we will see Sharp in a future DLC. |
03:03 - 06:02
2. 🎨 Discarded Sprites and Assets: Parasites, Dialogues and Animations
- ✅ Sprites related to Hornet's parasite: indicator of not being able to heal, grub without tentacles and cocoon full of rosaries.
- ✅ Sprites of dialogues between Needolin and the Green Prince, and between ghost relationships and the being.
- ✅ Sprites of the Fierce Master and a weaver with possible dialogue.
- ✅ Sprites of enemies such as the Bodbin (full body), crows (verdanir and last claw), and the corpse of the bellringer.
- ✅ Deleted animation of Seth dying on the ground.
- ✅ Unused assets: sap-life roots, runes, blazon sanctuary, frost zone, large chair and initial versions of Net's fountain.
- ✅ Initial design of the cult of the will-o'-the-wisps staff.
- ✅ Sprites of the back of a scroll reader, icons of forest wasp spawns, early version of alita (Scars).
- ✅ Initial prompts: bell beast, blazon change, materi, huntress blazon, spells and silk flight.
- ✅ Animation of Moshka scared and the Widow greeting.
06:05 - 07:48
3. 🎬 Deleted Cinematics: The Widow, the First Sinner and Haunted Pilgrims
- ✅ Widow's cinematic: a weaver whose mask is removed, possibly after being defeated, sealing her silk abilities.
- ✅ Sprites related to the early version of the First Sinner's caten and other weavers of the first generation.
- ✅ Cinematic of pilgrims from the citadel being haunted, possibly replacing the city of the empty.
07:53 - 10:50
4. 🗺️ Discarded Map Zones: Extensions and Inaccessible Rooms
- ✅ Extension of the Bone Valley with bluish colors, related to sap-life.
- ✅ The shaman's chapel was not going to be an interior and would have a connection to the mossy grotto.
- ✅ The nest of the weaver Atle was going to have a bell station, Eva and bodies of weavers covered in moss.
- ✅ The new olin was going to be obtained in the ruined chapel.
- ✅ The Gray Wasteland does not differ much from the final game.
- ✅ The huntress was going to be found in distant fields, between the hunter's nest and the fields.
- ✅ Combat against Nilet outside of memory, with remains of connection to the sanctuary.
- ✅ The witch's chapel was going to be larger.
- ✅ Bilious Waters was going to have more rooms.
- ✅ The Cradle was going to have two more rooms: one related to the bells and a map, and another known as weaver's mask.
- ✅ Inaccessible rooms: one in Karak Sands and an area full of architect bodies in the architect's chapel.
- ✅ Breakable zone in Coral Chambers and statue of carapace fragments in the mossy grotto.
10:55 - 13:14
5. ⚙️ Deleted Mechanics: Blazon Upgrades, Silk Hearts and Needolin Tuning
- ✅ Improve the blazons by using them to unlock spaces for tools (removed for encouraging grinding).
- ✅ The Last Judge, Ignisigrón and the Fourth Choir were going to give a silk heart.
- ✅ The Judge has the possibility of being possessed by the void.
- ✅ Sacred benches that were activated when passing nearby and allowed to convert rosaries into ristas (replaced by payment benches).
- ✅ Needolin tuning improving the range and effects in weaver fountains (orbs and projections).
13:18 - 15:37
6. ✨ Other Deleted Elements: Pearls, Silk Spools and Lace's Additional Attack
- ✅ The pearls were going to be rarios worth 15 each.
- ✅ Silk spools dropped by enemies or purchased in silk dispensers in the citadel.
- ✅ The Beast Master, part of a trio of powerful ants, ended up being a corpse in the arena of the wild beast fly.
- ✅ Father Flame was going to have a platform on the combat line.
- ✅ Aset from the Distant Fields map not used.
- ✅ Smaller variant of the fierce carid.
- ✅ Possibility of launching Daspilo at Sacrual during his suction attack.
- ✅ Sakra maps unused: one without distinctive elements (Cloverland) and another with a ring.
- ✅ Variants of explosive tools with barnacles.
- ✅ Rune related to the blazons in Farlom Bay.
- ✅ Tokens related to the bell stations.
- ✅ Lace was going to have an additional attack with threads that covered the arena and trapped the player, taking out three masks.