Hollow Knight Silksong walkthrough: Part 13 (Weavenest Atla and Weavenest Cindril)
Here's how to reach both the Weavenests in Act 1
Looking to enter the Weavenests in Hollow Knight: Silksong? If you've been keeping pace with our Silksong walkthrough so far, then you've already unlocked Hornet's wonderful Needolin skill up in Shellwood - but perhaps you're not quite sure yet what use it serves. As it turns out, the Needolin can be played to open certain doors, into secretive mini-regions known as Weavenests.
In Part 13 of our Hollow Knight: Silksong walkthrough, I'll show you exactly where to go to unlock the two Weavenests available to you so far: Weavenest Atla, by Moss Grotto; and Weavenest Cindril, by the Far Fields. This page will walk you step by step through everything of note in both these locations, including how to reach all the secret areas within these secret areas.
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Weavenests walkthrough steps:
- Enter Weavenest Atla via Moss Grotto.
- Obtain the Weavenest Atla map.
- Complete the lava course for a Mask Shard.
- Meet Eva.
- Obtain the Spool Fragment.
- Gather the Mossberry on the ceiling.
- Defeat the Moss Mothers for the Weavelight tool.
- Enter Weavenest Cindril via Far Fields.
- Obtain the Silkspeed Anklets.
- Unlock the secret room for a Rune Harp.
1. Enter Weavenest Atla via Moss Grotto.
From where we left off in Greymoor, head to the Bellway and fast travel to Bone Bottom. Then drop down into Moss Grotto, and make your way to its far-right side. The quickest way to do this is just to wall-climb back up the main shaft of Moss Grotto, to the upper-right pathway - or indeed, just land here as you're falling down.
Anyway, at this far-right side of Moss Grotto you may dimly recall there being a big metal door you couldn't open. Well, now you can! Hold Y to play your Needolin while standing before the door, and it will open, allowing you access into the secretive mini region, Weavenest Atla.
2. Obtain the Weavenest Atla map.
Getting the map for this new region is very easy. Just run over to the far end of the path (note the pressure plate on the ground at one point - it does nothing right now, but we're about to change that). At the end of the path, jump to hit the two lights on the ceiling. Doing this will light up the whole corridor in an eerie glow.
Backtrack a few steps and you'll find a now-lit-up monument which you can inspect to obtain the Weavenest Atla map.
3. Complete the lava course for a Mask Shard.
Walk back to the pressure plate you ran over before, and stand on it. A teleporter will activate, sending you into the room below. Once you're down there, head into the room to your left and rest at the Bench by the pond.
Now, head back into the teleporter room, and climb the right-hand wall. Then climb up the tunnel that the teleporter sent you down, until you find a pathway on your right that you can follow into a new room.
Once inside this room, climb up to the ledge above you for a Rune Harp, and then drop to the ground level and break through the wall on your right. This path will take you into an adjoining area where - after dealing with a couple of nasty ceiling-hanging spider enemies - you'll arrive at a lava-filled parkour course.
Make your way through the course, and you'll find a Mask Shard waiting for you at the end. After that, you can drop down and return to the bottom teleporter.
4. Meet Eva.
Next up, break the wall to the right of the teleporter and follow the very short path to its end. There, you'll find an intriguing new character - the mysterious Eva. Exhaust her dialogue, and she'll bestow a couple of boons on you - including an upgrade to your base Hunter Crest, as well as a Vesticrest (a new tool slot separate from your Crests) if you've used at least 4 Memory Lockets so far to upgrade any of your Crests.
5. Obtain the Spool Fragment.
Head back to the teleporter again. This time, climb up the right-hand wall and then jump across to the left side. Down this path, you'll find your way barred by a big beefy Marrowmaw, but don't panic. Just jump on the spot over its rolling charges, and slash downwards each time to kill it.
Once that's dealt with, climb up the tunnel to find another one, which you should handle in the same way. Then drop down the hole at the end to obtain a Spool Fragment.
6. Gather the Mossberry on the ceiling.
Go back to the Bench, and rest if you need it. Then jump into the pond and pass through the wall to your left to reveal a new passageway forward. Jump over the upper ledges in the next room to reach another Marrowmaw, and behind it, another little ledge patrolled by a Mawling.
Just beyond that ledge is another mossier ledge, and on the ceiling above this one is a Mossberry. Attack it to harvest it for the Moss Druid. You didn't forget about her, did you?
7. Defeat the Moss Mothers for the Weavelight tool.
The final step of Weavenest Atla is to make your way to the far left-hand side of this new passageway you're in currently. Battle carefully through the various enemies you encounter, and you'll finally reach the boss of this region. Two of them, in fact.
The Moss Mother you faced in Moss Grotto was pretty easy, but two of them in a confined space makes the task a mite trickier. The main strategy here is simply to focus on one so as to turn it into a one-on-one fight as soon as possible. Otherwise, you know all of their moves already.
Once they're slain, you'll be rewarded with a lovely tool - the Weavelight. This blue-slot tool increases the speed of your Silk regeneration, and is probably the most universally useful of your blue tools so far.
8. Enter Weavenest Cindril via Far Fields.
Weavenest Atla is now fully conquered, so exit back into Moss Grotto and up to Bone Bottom. There's one other Weavenest still to crack, but this one will be far quicker.
Fast Travel your way into Far Fields, and then head past the Seamstress's home to the very easternmost edge of the region, where you'll find another musical door you can open with your Needolin. Welcome to Weavenest Cindril!
9. Obtain the Silkspeed Anklets.
Weavenest Cindril is little more than a single corridor, really. You can rest at the bench a short way in, and then progress to the end of the path, where you'll find a number of pressure plates in a row.
All you need to do in Weavenest Cindril is run across the pressure plates from start to finish, so that they all light up at once. If you run at full speed using your Swift Step sprint, then a pedestal will appear at the end of the path, from which you can loot the Silkspeed Anklets.
Fittingly, the Silkspeed Anklets are a tool which noticeably increases your sprint speed - albeit at a very slight Silk cost as you run.
10. Unlock the secret room for a Rune Harp.
That's only half of the puzzle of Weavenest Cindril complete. To fully solve the puzzle, rest at the Bench again, and equip both the Silkspeed Anklets and the Flea Brew that you obtained from Grishkin at the Flea Caravan. Take a swig of the Flea Brew to increase your move speed, and then sprint again across the row of pressure plates.
With the combined effect of the two tools, your speed will be enough to light the pressure plates up all the way this time. Doing so unlocks a hole in the ground at the end of the path (where the pedestal was before), which you can drop down for a well-hidden secret area.
Alas, all that's down here is another Rune Harp on the left-hand side which you can trade in at Bellhart for Rosaries. There's nothing to loot on the right, although it does offer a rather sombre and intriguing look at some savage windswept dunes beyond. A portent of what's to come, perhaps...
That's both Weavenests sorted, and it's about time Hornet got back to her main task - reaching the Citadel! There are a couple of ways to reach her goal, and we'll show you the easier of the two paths in Part 14 of our Silksong walkthrough.
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