
A datapack that adds various Hollow Knight features to Minecraft!


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 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:

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.

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

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.
Isma's Tear: Protects the player from molten liquids
Monarch Wings: Press jump key twice to double-jump
Mothwing/Shade Cloak: Press forward key twice to dash. Mothwing cloak deals 2 hearts of damage for every dash.
Crystal Heart: Hold the ability wheel and hold sneak WITHOUT looking down to charge. Then release to super dash.
Mantis Claw: face a wall, look slightly down and hold the jump key to climb up the wall (similar to ladders)
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.
Desolate Dive/Descending Dark: right-click with the ability wheel while looking DOWN and FALLING to dive downwards with insane speed.
Howling Wraiths/Abyss Shriek: right-click with the ability wheel while looking UP to damage enemies directly above you.
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:
For Dash Slash: keep holding sneak while also pressing forward key twice at the same time.
Also have to be crafted. The following list specifies all collectibles with custom functionality:

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