Silk Cells

Play Hollow Knight: Silksong as the Beheaded from Dead Cells.

Hornet is gone. In her place: the Beheaded, flame head and all, with his own moves and his own two starting weapons, loaded straight out of your copy of Dead Cells while you play. Every room, enemy, boss and ending of Silksong is still there; you just go through it like a Dead Cells run.

What you get

• The Beheaded, for real. His sprites, animations, palette, the flame where his head should be, and his sounds are read from the res.pak of your own Dead Cells install while Silksong runs. Nothing from Dead Cells is in this download.
• Rusty Sword (attack): the three-hit combo, with Dead Cells' timing, damage ratios and slash effects.
• Beginner's Bow (tool button): six arrows that stick in what they hit and come back to your quiver. Your quiver shows under Hornet's health.
• Dodge roll (dash), available from the start: invulnerable while you roll.
• Double jump, available from the start.
• Ground slam (down + attack in the air): plunge, shockwave on landing, bigger from higher up; bounce off enemies.
• Enemies, silk, benches, bounce pods and everything else react exactly as they do to Hornet's needle.
• Pick another of Dead Cells' own colour sets (gold, retro, ...) in BepInEx/config/gg.melty.silkcells.cfg.

Your save is never altered: the roll and double jump are granted without touching the save file.

Controls

Attack = sword · Tool (quick cast) = bow · Dash = roll · Jump twice = double jump · Down + attack in the air = ground slam. Everything else is Silksong's own.

You need

• Hollow Knight: Silksong (Steam)
• Dead Cells (Steam) installed on the same PC. Melty finds it and hands its folder to the mod; outside Melty the mod looks through your Steam libraries, or you can put the folder's path in BepInEx/config/SilkCells.deadcells.txt.

Single player. Fan-made, not affiliated with Team Cherry or Motion Twin / Evil Empire. Built with AI assistance. Uses BepInEx and NVorbis (Ms-PL).