HKMC

• HKMC Adds various features from the hit indie game Hollow Knight into Minecraft!
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Charms

Commands

How to Craft Items

Recipes for all items are provided to all players immediately. Use the recipe book to find and craft items. Alternatively you can use the /loot give @s loot hk:<item name> command to give yourself any item.

Nails and Pale Ore

Nails are the primary weapons of HKMC. You can attack with them to gain soul.

Craft the Old Nail with the following recipe:

To upgrade that nail, drop it on top of an anvil with Pale Ore. Craft the Pale Ore with the following recipe:

Amount of Pale Ore needed to upgrade the nail increases with more powerful variants of the nail:

1. Old Nail + 1 Pale Ore = Sharpened Nail
2. Sharpened Nail + 1 Pale Ore = Channelled Nail
3. Channelled Nail + 2 Pale Ore = Coiled Nail
4. Coiled Nail + 3 Pale Ore = Pale Nail

Dream Nail

Allows you to teleport to anywhere with the dreamgate and attack to gain more SOUL.

Hold right-click while looking up or down to warp or make a dreamgate.

1. Looking up: teleport to a dreamgate. fails if none are present.
2. Looking down: create a dreamgate. sends a message in chat which shows you the location of the newly created dreamgate.

Abilities and Spells

All abilities and spells have to be crafted and put in your inventory to unlock their powers and gain the ability to use them.

1. Focus: Hold the ability wheel and hold sneak while looking DOWN to charge, then release to heal 2 masks. Available to use by default, no unlock needed.

2. Isma's Tear: Protects the player from molten liquids

3. Monarch Wings: Press jump key twice to double-jump

4. Mothwing/Shade Cloak: Press forward key twice to dash. Mothwing cloak deals 2 hearts of damage for every dash.

5. Crystal Heart: Hold the ability wheel and hold sneak WITHOUT looking down to charge. Then release to super dash.

6. Mantis Claw: face a wall, look slightly down and hold the jump key to climb up the wall (similar to ladders)

7. Vengeful Spirit/Shade Soul: right-click with the ability wheel WITHOUT looking up or down to cast a spirit that will damage enemies and go through walls.

8. Desolate Dive/Descending Dark: right-click with the ability wheel while looking DOWN and FALLING to dive downwards with insane speed.

9. Howling Wraiths/Abyss Shriek: right-click with the ability wheel while looking UP to damage enemies directly above you.

Nail Arts

All nail arts have to be crafted and put in your inventory to unlock their powers and gain the ability to use them.

TO USE NAIL ARTS: Hold any nail, hold sneak, and release according to the following requirements:

1. Great Slash: release while NOT looking up or down.
2. Cyclone Slash: release WHILE looking up or down.

For Dash Slash: keep holding sneak while also pressing forward key twice at the same time.

Other Collectibles

Also have to be crafted. The following list specifies all collectibles with custom functionality:

1. Delicate Flower: while it's in your inventory, if you take damage, it will turn into the ruined flower. Only one flower breaks per instance of damage taken.
2. Map and Quill: right-click to see your last death location in coordinates.
3. Lumafly Lantern: hold in your mainhand to use dynamic lighting.
4. Mask Shard: craft and obtain 4 to create 1 full mask. 1 mask adds 2 hearts to your health. Max masks that can be obtained are 4.
5. Vessel Fragment: craft and obtain 3 to create 1 full vessel. 1 vessel adds 33 SOUL to your maximum SOUL. Max soul vessels that can be obtained are 3.

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