Team Cherry has rolled out Patch 1.0.28650 for Hollow Knight: Silksong, bringing a mix of new features and crucial bug fixes. Players now have access to a dithering effect in the advanced video settings, helping reduce color banding at the cost of slightly softer visuals. The update also revises the Herald’s Wish achievement description to clarify requirements.
Beyond visual options, the patch delivers extensive stability improvements. Boss encounters such as Shrine Guardian Seth, Second Sentinel, and Savage Beastfly have received fixes to prevent out-of-bounds errors, while other battles, items, and NPC interactions were refined to improve consistency. Numerous smaller tweaks and bug fixes round out the update.
Full Patch Notes:
- Added Dithering effect option in Advanced video settings. Reduces color banding but can slightly soften foreground assets. Defaults to Off.
- Updated Herald’s Wish achievement description to clarify both completing the wish and finishing the game are required.
- Fixed Savage Beastfly in Far Fields sometimes remaining below lava.
- Fixed rare cases of Shrine Guardian Seth going out of bounds during battle.
- Fixed rare case of Second Sentinel knocking the player out of bounds during battle.
- Added catch to prevent Lugoli from flying off screen and not returning during battle.
- Further reduced chance of Silk Snippers getting stuck out of bounds in Chapel of the Reaper battle.
- Fixed instances of dying to bosses while killing them causing death sequences to play incorrectly or out of sync.
- Fixed Shaman Binding into a bottom transition causing a softlock.
- Updated Cocoon positions in some locations to prevent spawning in inaccessible areas.
- Fixed Liquid Lacquer courier delivery not being accessible in Steel Soul mode.
- Fixed some NPCs not correctly playing cursed hint dialogues in certain instances.
- Fixed Pondcatcher Reed not flying away after singing.
- Fixed Verdania memory orbs sometimes replaying layered screen-edge burst effects.
- Fixed break counter not working for certain multihitter tools such as Conchcutter.
- Fixed Volt Filament damage multiplier not applying to certain Silk Skills.
- Fixed Cogflies and Wisps incorrectly targeting Skullwings.
- Fixed Cogflies resetting HP to full after scene change.
- Fixed Curveclaw always breaking on the first hit after being deflected.
- Fixed Plasmium Phial and Flea Brew sometimes not restoring as intended at benches.
- Various smaller tweaks and fixes.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is a Metroidvania video game developed and published by Team Cherry. Released on September 4, 2025, for Linux, macOS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, it serves as the long-awaited sequel to the critically acclaimed Hollow Knight.
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