Save Completion Analyzer for Hollow Knight v2.1.0 (2022-02-20)

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

Update v2.1.0 2022-02-20:

List of changes, fixes and additions:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/367520/discussions/0/2915472677711090083/?ctp=4#c3187989286470842045

Official Guide:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2209910193

How to easily use:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM02OhEx6Bg

Screenshots:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2381565717

Hi, fellow Hollow Knight fans! 🙂

I wrote a simple Tool which analyzes your save file and shows you exactly everything you have done (✅) and not yet done (❌) in the game world.
Also I designed a hint system (more info below).

✅ Shows all individual Mask Shards and Vessel Fragments + their locations/costs (optional, hidden by default)
✅ Shows all individual items/bosses/charms etc. + their locations and costs (optional, hidden by default)
✅ Shows your Game Completion % even if you didn't yet unlock the % Completion in the game
✅ Shows current Health, Soul, Geo
✅ Shows hints I invented based on your game progress, if this is your first playthrough and you feel completely lost (optional, hidden by default)
✅ Shows all things that don't count towards 112% Game Completion, but are necessary to achieve it, like all Keys, Simple Keys and Pale Ore
✅ Achievements Essentials
✅ Game Statistics

Now if you have 111% Game Completion and you totally forgot everything you already did, you can use the tool and easily see the missing %. No guesswork, asking around the forums, no manual checking everything one-by-one directly in the game world anymore!

Hope it will be useful to you.

If you have any problems/feedback/suggestions for the tool, let me know here, or in the comments under the guide. 🙂

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

Okay, the mysterious Secret Room riddle seems to be solved.
Through some pain of enduring the Saws & Spears™ role-playing game again, I discovered that "White Palace Secret Room" switch in the save file is most probably The Pale King's Workshop:
https://hollowknight.fandom.com/wiki/White_Palace#The_Pale_King.27s_workshop

[kanna]

Nice work, as always! Let us know if you need testers to be sure it's the workshop and not the nursery. (Those two are the only secret rooms I know about in what I've heard called the "Super Meatboy" sub-level of the game, anyway.)

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

Thanks! If you like, you can always double-check if I am correct, the "White Palace Secret Room Discovered — Help identify this room!" is in the Game Statistics section and will turn green when you will find it. I'm 99.9% sure this is the Workshop, because I discovered the White Lady Room and entrance to PoP before on my save, and it didn't switch 🙂

[kanna]

Finally got my save that was created during the beta back to the White Palace and did everything but visit the King's workshop (or do Path of Pain, which I'll save for later). I visited the room I thought of as a "nursery" of sorts for their Pure Vessel because of the lullaby and the cradle-like structure, but I remembered you call it the White Lady's room and this time I noticed the chair in the room has a subtle tree or root-looking design on it. I never caught that before! (I'm sure this is probably nothing big to you but it's interesting for a lore nerd like me.)

Anyway, I can confirm that as you found yourself, "White Palace Secret Room Discovered" is still a red X for that save right now. Just for the sake of completion, I'll go back there now and then update this post to confirm if the status updates in your tool after visiting the workshop.

EDIT: It's lit up now that I've visited the workshop.

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

Thank you, kanna! Great work, like always 🙂

I took the "White Lady's Room" from wiki. I didn't notice this myself as well, until I saw this name and read on the wiki why it's named like that.

[kanna]

Ah, thanks for explaining where you saw that. The text in the wiki about the "secret room of the White Lady" (with the picture showing the design I mentioned) doesn't show a source for the assumption though, so I'm going to just assume that's just her chair and the room could still have been Pure Vessel's room. (Or maybe Zote's! ) :P

Do you have a way of tracking whether players entered that other room, by the way? Only way I can guess to do that is if there's a way to see if the floor is broken next to the statue (assuming the map doesn't "update" with it somehow like it sometimes does for other places you can't see on your map), but I don't know if the flag for that would be easy to find.

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

Yeah, looks like they named it like that because of the design on the chair!

I think it is possible to do that using the storage for the breakable floor, good idea 🙂 If a "secret discovery ding" is played after breaking or entering this path, I could also use it (this sound played is also stored in save files) when I can find that.

EDIT: I think I found it. I'll add it in the next update. I don't see a sound for it, so I'll use the breakable floor.

[kanna]

Neat! Looking forward to it. 🙂

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

Update v1.4.1 2021-03-16:

— Game Completion Essentials additions:
✅ Grubfather Rewards Collected (shows how many rewards the player has collected, and how many remain waiting to collect)
✅ Charms Owned (useful for Salubra Notches)
✅ Mantis Village Floor Lever (required for 1% Mantis Lords and 1% Mark of Pride)

— Game Statistics changes/additions:
✅ "White Palace Secret Room Discovered" becomes White Palace: Secret Room #1 (Pale King's Workshop) (thanks to kanna for double-checking)
✅ White Palace: Secret Room #2 (White Lady's Room) (thanks to kanna for the idea)
✅ White Palace: Path of Pain Entrance

— Removed red cross mark appearing near hints text

— Changed the Lumafly Lantern hint, and some smaller hint texts additions

— Minor spoiler changes and additions for better precision

— v1.4.1 2021-03-18: Changed Grubfather Rewards text to Awarded instead of Collected

[kanna]

Yay! I'll definitely be checking this out later. 👍

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

I think I will be able to add White Palace: Secret Room #3 (Throne Room Lore Tablet) as well. While watching a playthrough recently it dawned on me that it also uses a breakable wall. It's so easy to forget some things after some time 🤔
Weirdly, in the save file its ID is "Breakable Wall Waterways".

[kanna]

Great work, as expected. And good idea about the the lore tablet! Not sure why I didn't bring that up, since it was also on my mind. And it's called a "Waterways" breakable wall in the White Palace? That's an interesting quirk. Maybe someone was copying and pasting different code from what they thought (or maybe the dark room was repurposed from Waterways). 🤨

While skimming through, I noticed that on my 4th save file, it says "Grubfather Rewards Collected: 46 / 46— 46 Rewards total" but although I did go there after all 46 grubs were saved, I just used Crystal Heart to take all the money and relics in one go (so I could upgrade Strength). I didn't take the mask shard as I want to do regular Radiance with 5 masks on that save. Of course under mask shards collected, it confirms I don't have the one from that room, but depending on the trigger, do you think it would be more accurate to say all Grub Rewards were "Awarded" instead of "Collected"? Not a big deal. Just wondering.

Anyway, thanks for the update!

[🉑 rezno[R].technology]

Who knows 🤔 "Waterways" might have some interesting story behind it, or may as well be just a simple shortcut during development or accidental mistake.

引用自 kanna：

do you think it would be more accurate to say all Grub Rewards were "Awarded" instead of "Collected"?

Thanks! Again, very nice feedback... I actually thought about how I can phrase this to be more accurate, but I didn't know at that point what word(s) to use for this 🙂 "Awarded" sounds nice for this purpose, I will use this. (EDIT: change is now live)

BTW I'm curious, you have a lot of knowledge about the game. Do you know what happens when you exit the Grubfather room (accidentally or on purpose) before collecting the Geo reward(s)? Are they lost eternally or stay in place?

[kanna]

Neat! Thanks for the quick update.

I thought I read somewhere that there was a patch that made grub rewards "persistent" so they don't disappear if you leave the room. I just went and checked and that mask shard is still there. I'm sure I picked up everything else in the room up on my last visit, which must include the 1 rancid egg your tool shows I have on that file (which I picked up by accident).

(EDIT: I was thinking if I can't find where that update was noted, I might eventually use another save file to see if the money stays there if you let it all drop without taking it and then go somewhere else and reload the game and return, and then again if you take some of it but leave most of it there.)

[kanna]

Update: One of the original changes from the public beta is "Fixed uncollected Grubfather rewards being miss-able.".

I think seeing that update was what made me want to check if the geo can truly be left behind and collected later.