Infinite health, Geo and damage guide!

For players who want to play Hollow Knight for the story, want infinite geo, or are just having difficultly with a boss, this is the guide for you!
This is a step by step guide.

To do this you will need to install Cheat Engine. [www.cheatengine.org]

DISCLAIMER: I try to explain everything with as much detail as I can, and I apologise if you got lost in this guide if you have any questions feel free to comment and I will try my best to try and help you.

Health

NOTE: Go through health first and then you can change Geo and Damage easily afterwards!

Activate 'mono' on Cheat Engine (CE) and click 'Activate mono features'.

Ok, time for the difficult part!

To start this you want to have 5 health bars (Souls) (which you should assuming that you're at the beginning of the game). Now, you want to get hit ONCE, which should leave you to four heath bars (Souls). Now once you have gotten hit, go to Cheat Engine and type '4' where it says 'value:' and click 'next scan'. To your left you should see a bunch of addresses/values popping up.

Now go back to Hollow Knight and get hit again, this should leave you down to 3 souls. Now, go back to Cheat Engine and type in '3' in 'Value:' and click 'next scan'. Now go back to HK and get hit again, now you should have 2 souls, go back to 'Value:' and type '2' and click 'next scan' again. Go back to HK and get hit one last time, now you have 1 soul, type in '1' in CE 'Value:' and hit 'next scan' again.

Doing this right should give you 4 addresses/values on your left on CE. One is needed which is 'PlayerData' double click one of them to check which one it is. Below the one you clicked on should appear. Left click on it and press Ctrl+B and then Ctrl+D. Now click 'Structures' and 'Define new structure' and click yes. If it says 'PlayerData' that's the one you want. If it doesn't delete the address below.

Now you have found PlayerData, you can start looking for health. Select the addresses named 'health' and 'maxHealth' and 'maxHealthBase' and 'healthBlue' and 'joniHealthBlue' and 'damagedBlue' and 'heartPieces' and 'heartPieceCollected' and 'maxHealthCap' and 'heartPieceMax'. Right click and change the value to 999. This will give you 999 souls!

Geo

Now that you have changed your total amount of soul, we can start on the easy bit! Changing the amount of Geo you have! (To get this working you need to die, or reload, or enter a new place afterwards). Ok, so click the one that is simply named 'Geo' and change the value to however much Geo that you desire. For example if you want an infinite amount of Geo, set the value to 10000000.

Damage

NOTE: Upgrading your nail (By the Nail Smith) reverses your value of nail damage!

This part is also easy. Simply click 'NailDamage' and 'NailRange' and 'BeamDamage' and right click and change the value to 999.

Now you have changed your health, Geo and damage! Don't forget to save in CE and reload your game!

[Deus Mama]

That helped me a lot with dissecting the structure. A useful hint I use for playing are the following offsets in the structure which are more than enough to have a relaxed gaming experience:

- BF3 (Byte) - isInvincible
- BF4 - infiniteAirJump

You don't need to care about your souls any more. Also found a stable pointer to the structure to just start my game and CE and really enjoy the story :)

[YipYop]

@icyredwolf I've never heard of scarab before! I might look into it, thanks for sharing

[icyredwolf]

its good but an easy way of doing that is just to install scarab and use the debug menu

[*✬*]

pretty cool

[Finglor]

For those using this beware it causes the game to get stuck if you increase your heartPieces and then try to complete the 1500 essence quest from the seer. I had to revert those back to 0 in order to get unstuck. I don't think you need to change the heartPieces values to increase your health. You can change increase "health", "maxHealth" and "maxHealtBase" to 999

[YipYop]

@heavensent Dying and retrieving your items brings you back to your full health. Once you've got your items repeat the steps in Health: get hit once, type 4 where it says value and click next scan, etc..

[heavensent]

@niho how to repeat the steps and i only have 1 health

[YipYop]

@heavensent You should be able to change it still, maybe die and once you find your items and repeat the steps to changing your health again. That should fix your problem.

[heavensent]

helppp how to reset i put one Health by a mistake and i don't know how to reset pls help

[YipYop]

@Lubenita Flocoasa ‘Addresses’ just means what the ID is named, the addresses are all found in “PlayerData”. Addresses/ID are named many things, the ones you need to find are:
‘health' and 'maxHealth' and 'maxHealthBase' and 'healthBlue' and 'joniHealthBlue' and 'damagedBlue' and 'heartPieces' and 'heartPieceCollected' and 'maxHealthCap' and 'heartPieceMax'.

if you are confused it may be best to repeat the process again until you find PlayerData.