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Hollow Knight Silksong Blasted Steps

Blasted Steps is a location in Hollow Knight: Silksong. See a map of Blasted Steps, a list of points of interest including locations for bosses, wishes, tools, skills, abilities, crests, NPCs, items, and a guide to 100% the area here!

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Blasted Steps Bosses

Boss Location
Lost GarmondLost Garmond
Lost Garmond is located in the western part of the Blasted Steps.
Great ConchfliesGreat Conchflies
The Great Conchfiles are located in the far west of the Blasted Steps, just right before the Pinstress.
Last JudgeLast Judge
The Last Judge is the final boss of Act 1 in Hollow Knight: Silksong. You can find the Last Judge to the east of the Blasted Steps, guarding the way to the Citadel.

List of All Boss Guides

Blasted Steps Wishes

Task Description Reward
A Vassal Lost How to Unlock:
Talk to Steel Seer Zi in Blasted Steps
Task:
Investigate 3 resting sites marked by Zi.
Growstone

All Task Locations and Rewards

Blasted Steps Lost Fleas

Checkmark Overworld View Map Location
Found at the top of Blasted Steps. The Faydown Cloak and Clawline are recommended to reach this area. You can also get up here with Cling Grip and Drifter's Cloak. Note that you can pogo on the spikes.

Blasted Steps Tools

Tool Slot and Effect How to Get
Hollow Knight: Silksong - Magnetite Dice Magnetite Dice Slot: Yellow
Playthings carved from magnetic material. Used in simple games and believed to bring luck to the bearer.

Found at the end of a hallway in Blasted Steps.
Hollow Knight: Silksong - Thief Thief's Mark Slot: Yellow
Symbol worn to identify oneself to fellow thieves. Gain extra rosaries from defeated enemies, but lose some rosaries on taking damage.

Purchase from Grindle at Blasted Steps.
Hollow Knight: Silksong - Snitch Pick Snitch Pick Slot: Blue
Hooked tool for the forceful retrival of loot from bugs and husks. Harpoon into foes to steal rosaries and shell shards, while causing additional damage.

Purchase from Grindle at Blasted Steps.

List of All Tools and Effects

Blasted Steps Abilities

Ability Effect How to Get
Needle Strike (Charge Attack) This ability lets you charge your attack, which increases its damage.
Unlocked after speaking to the Pinstress in Blasted Steps.

All Ability Locations and Upgrades

Blasted Steps NPCs

NPC Location
Pinstress
The Pinstress can be found to the left of the Great Conchflies' room. Use your Swift Step to reach the platforms and make your way to the tent.
Shakra
Shakra can be seen to the right of a large room with bugs and cages hanging. Avoid the enemies for now and reach her location to get to the map.
Sherma
Upon unlocking the bench near the Bellway, Sherma can be next seen beside it. Here, she will be resting for a bit from her journey towards the Citadel.
Lumble the Lucky
He can be found in a room to the left ot the Bellway in Blasted Steps. Keep heading left, avoiding hazards along the way, until you reach a closed room.
Grindle
He can be found in a room to the upper left of the Bellway in Blasted Steps. You will need the Faydown Cloak to reach the area where he resides.
Nuu
Upon returning to the area where you beat the Great Conchflies, you will find Nuu eating their corpses.

Blasted Steps Items

Blasted Steps Mask Shards

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From below, use Silk Soar to reach the upper platform then enter the room above. Head to the top left section of the room to find the Mask Shard.

All Mask Shard Locations

Blasted Steps Memory Lockets

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You can find a Memory Locket on a platform in a dark passageway located in Blasted Steps. This can be found past the hanging bells where you need to pogo around. Head down after crossing the area and avoid the falling rocks to get to the item.

All Memory Locket Locations

Blasted Steps Spool Fragments

Checkmark Overworld View Map Location
Purchase the Spool Fragment from Grindle for 680 Rosaries at Blasted Steps.

All Spool Fragment Locations

Grindle Shop Items

Item Location
Silksong -  Rosary String Rosary String Shop Price: 80 Rosaries
Description: Short string of rosaries. Can be broken and the rosaries used to trade. Contains 60 rosaries.
Crafting Kit Shop Price: Rosaries
Description: Crafting by claw alone produces inferior results, With this kit you can craft finer, sharper, and deadlier tools... if that is your wish.
Psalm Cylinder Shop Price: Rosaries
Description: Metallic cylinder of Citadel make, etched with a recording of sund.

The cylinder can be played in a gramophone.

List of All Items

Hollow Knight: Silksong Related Guides

Hollow Knight Silksong Maps

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Moss Grotto The Marrow Deep Docks
Far Fields Hunter's March Greymoor
Wormways Bellhart Shellwood
Blasted Steps Grand Gate Underworks
Choral Chambers The Slab Mount Fay
Whiteward Wisp Thicket Cogwork Core
Whispering Vaults Memorium Putrified Ducts
Bilewater Weavenest Atla Sinner's Road
High Halls The Cradle Sands of Karak
Lost Verdania The Abyss -

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3 Anonymous Anonymous about 2 months

Thats extra content for steel soul mode only

2 Anonymous Anonymous 2 months

Dang, that's exactly what I'm trying to get to as well. No idea how to get there.

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