Give Hornet a ranged needle attack: hold Attack to fire shots, land hits to build heat, then cut loose with a piercing burst.
Needlelight adds a ranged needle attack to Hornet in the normal Silksong campaign. Your slash, parry, pogo, Silk skills and progress all stay exactly as they are; the shots come on top.
How it plays
- Hold Attack to fire needle shots alongside your slash, about five a second.
- Aim with your movement: straight ahead, up, or diagonally up. Down in the air still pogos as usual.
- Shots hit with part of your current needle damage, so they get stronger as your needle does. Enemies react normally: knockback, invulnerability and Silk gain all work the way the game intends.
- Every shot that really takes health off an enemy earns heat (up to 6).
- F6 spends 3 heat and the normal Silk skill cost on a burst shot: bigger, faster, 2.4x damage, and it pierces up to three enemies.
- F8 turns the shots off or back on whenever you want plain Silksong.
A small panel in the top right shows your heat, total hits and best hit chain. Heat clears when you change rooms or fall. Needlelight keeps its own little record for each save slot and never touches your Silksong saves.
Good to know
- Needs Hollow Knight: Silksong version 1.0.30000 on Steam. On any other version it stays switched off and tells you why.
- Shots fly through pickups, money and grass, and stop at walls.
- Shots are simple glowing squares drawn over the game; nothing in the game's art or sound is changed.
