Silksong’s First Patch: Team Cherry Hands Out Training Wheels (Sort Of)

Hollow Knight: Silksong arrived in 2025 with the kind of critical applause that makes other indie games nervously straighten their moss cloaks. Praise rained down. Bug fans wept into their needle-shaped pillows. And then a not-insignificant number of players hit the early game like a moth hitting a lantern — repeatedly, painfully, and with increasingly creative swearing. Team Cherry, apparently listening from a very comfortable bench, responded with patch 1.0.28470: a collection of bug fixes and early-game balance tweaks designed to make Silksong slightly less likely to fling newcomers into the nearest thorn bush.

The patch was announced on Steam as a mostly bug-fixing affair with a few balance adjustments sprinkled into the early game, and Team Cherry aimed to roll it out roughly a week after the note. In the grand timeline of 2026, that first patch is ancient history, but its philosophy still matters: Silksong does not have to be a wall made of needles. Sometimes it can be a wall made of slightly softer needles. Progress.

The Patch Notes Are Basically a Group Hug

The headline nerfs target two early bosses that have collectively caused enough controller-squeezing to register on seismic equipment. Moorwing, the flying boss that looks like a giant moth with a grudge, becomes easier to take down. Sister Splinter, the plant boss with a vine-based personal vendetta, also gets softened. If either of those fights has felt like banging one’s head against a brick wall — or like Silksong might not be the game for them — the update offers a polite invitation to come back next week and try again with slightly fewer bruises.

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