In the long -awaited trailer for the release date for Hollow Knight Silksong, Unveiled August 20, 2025, fans were treated with a new shot that showed new features and gaming systems in Silksong. The Cherry team turned over the last seven years of development Silksong From DLC for Hollow Knight into its own separate game and is set to completely differ from the original India darling.
For example, while Hollow Knight had one urban hub, Silksong will have several cities. While the knight could equip magic to improve his statistics and combat skills, Hornet can equip various tools and combs – some of them come from the new game creation system.
Over the years many new features in continuing Hollow Knight He was teased by the Cherry team in trailers, interviews and other official communication – this list compiles some of the largest new mechanics confirmed for Hollow Knight Silksong.
More cities
Silksong will have numerous urban nodes like Dirtmouth
IN Hollow Knight, There was only one real city hub Dirtmouth. The Dirtmouth, which he met at the very beginning of the game, is a knight's point for the rest of their adventure through Hallownest pod well east of the city.
IN SilksongHowever, Hornet can stop by numerous urban nodes, such as Dirtmouth as it rises to the top of the scary kingdom, where he can meet new NPCs, access sellers and participate in other urban activities.
In the issue of trailer, which debuted 20 August 2025, we briefly looked at Hollow Knight Silksong Map of the world. This map showed several names – Pilgrim's rest, bone bottom, bellhart and halfway – which could be the names of some of these new Silksong the city.
Creation
In a trailer for the publication of Silksong was teased
One of the most interesting new Silksong Playing functions that were not present in the original Hollow Knight is a crafting system. Will be briefly displayed in August 20 Silksong Loosen the trailer, Hornet can get a craft set that allows it to create “finer, sharper and dead tools”, which gives us our first sight of how SilksongThe craft system will work.
The craft system was originally revealed on the product description page on many platforms as early as 2019. Until now we have not seen it in action. As it turned out, Hornet can solve tools, traps, mechanisms and other paintings that improve Hornet combat capabilities or give other buffs.
Displayed below Hornet's HP
While watching trailer 20. August, look under the Hnut Bar during the game game segments and notice sets of icons inside red and white circles. In the original notice notice, we looked at the tool and ridge screen where Hornet can equip items into one of the three slots – items that seem to correspond to the icons displayed under HP HP in a new trailer.
While the knight of Hollow Knight Hornet had spells that should occupy and spells to passively improve her skills, instead of sitting on the bench. This includes explosive pimpillo, sharp studs and some expanding weapon with a throwing needle.
Acrobatic combat and traverse movements
Hornet has different combat movements and combos of the middle air
Knight Hollow Knight He had basically no combos or attacks that could be strung together. There are spells and unique abilities that you can intertwine between normal attacks, but it's nothing compared to combat variety and movement options displayed in Silksong So far trailers.
While the knight's and combat options were limited, the hornet can sprint, match, chain attacks together, acrobatically dance around enemies and perform the right combos (even in the air). Although players may have to spend some time to unlock these skills in the game, there is no doubt that playing like Hornet will feel completely different than playing as a knight.
New tasks of NPC
New Questy Silksong linked to new characters and systems
IN Hollow KnightPlayers could pick up the tasks from a handful of NPCs throughout Hallownest, which required the knight to chase enemies, found objects, or finish specific goals. The task system is returning Silksong with a little twist.
Compared to the original sometimes vague objectives of searching, Silksong The tasks will be followed by the correct search system with more direct directions that need to be followed and means monitoring progress.
For example, in the original 2019 Releter Relater trailer, a character called Druid of Moss Temple asks Hornet to complete the list of requirements. These applications include hunting that requires hunting a particular enemy and gathering goals that require Hornet to come out and find specific herbs or other objects in the world.
The binding is replaced by the focusing mechanic
To make a hornet heal
One of the new mechanics in Silksong Replaces the medicinal system of the original Hollow KnightBut it basically works in the same way. By holding the Hornet binding input, it uses a certain amount of its silk meter to recharge HP.
IN Hollow KnightThe knight had a similar mechanic called Focus, which used about a third of its energy bar to get a single point of HP. To match the new topic SilksongHornet seems to be tied instead of silk. Like the focus system, the hit of the enemies will restore a small part of your binding meter.
Hundreds of new enemies and bosses
More than 200 new enemies and 40 new bosses
One of the most impressive new things Silksong There is an absolutely huge number of brand new enemy designs and dozens of bosses with whom the game will be launched. The fans looked at some of these bosses in the original 2019 trailer, including the boss with a huge bone club, gigantic grub, a boss's dance gangs with a red mane and several others.
In a trailer 20. August 2025 we had to see even more bosses – like a small, agile swordsman and gigantic boss of a fire spider. In the demo Gamescom 2025, players could fight with Moch's mother at the end of the first section, bee covered with green moss. And that doesn't say anything about dozens and dozens of enemies that have so far been revealed from which it seems to be repeated from the original Hollow Knight.
Brand new expansive map
Instead of immersing the underground, Hornet must get up up
IN Hollow Knight, Players dive deep into the underground kingdom of Hallownest, but in SilksongPlayers are tasked to climb the peak of an unnamed “ghostly kingdom”. As such, Silksong It will have a new map with brand new places that are completely separated from the original places.
Although we could see a look into Hallownest Silksongor could there be links Hollow Knightsettings Silksong It seems unique and will have only small or no links to the original game.
Hook … or needle?
The most famous skill of Hornet, now in the hands of players
When you come across a hornet all the time Hollow KnightAt the end of the meeting, she ignites by throwing her needle attached to silk, somewhere outside the screen. In fact, one of the primary characteristics of the hornets of its agile moment SilksongPlayers finally use Hornett's movement skills for self-contained this iconic capability of a hook similar to a hook.
Hornet needle can be used to attract it towards specific objects in the field, such as hooks or pull (or draw into) enemies for subsequent attacks. Although you may need to unlock these skills as you do in the game, it is still great to know that Hornet's boss is moving Hollow Knight are represented in her movement Silksong.
