Silksong Save-and-Quit Trick Lets You Keep Your Rosaries on Runbacks — Almost Feels Like Cheating
If you’re grinding through Hollow Knight: Silksong and dreading the long walk back after a death, there’s a simple, reliable workaround that many players are using to avoid losing rosaries on long runbacks.
How the save-and-quit trick works
Save and quit where you are, and when you reload you’ll respawn at the last bench you rested on. Your inventory will contain the rosary beads you had when you saved, and your health will be restored to full at that bench.
In other words, instead of risking a full run only to have beads drop on death, you can hard save before a risky section and return to the bench with the same rosaries intact. This is the most straightforward way to avoid losing beads without changing gameplay or using external tools.
Spend or save: managing your rosaries
You have two clear options when approaching a dangerous area. First, keep beads on you and use the save-and-quit trick to preserve them across sessions. Second, spend your loose change before entering a new area so there’s nothing to drop if you die.
For many players, spending beads before a risky section is a practical strategy: you ensure Hornet has the crests or upgrades you want and you won’t lose currency on death. Conversely, if you prefer to hoard beads for later purchases, the save-and-quit method gives you that option while minimizing the risk of losing them in a bad fight.
Farming rosaries and PC mods
Rosaries become more common in later areas, so farming is an option if you don’t want to fret over each bead early on. Additionally, on PC there are community mods that change item or currency quantities; some of those mods provide unlimited or increased rosary drops.
However, using mods alters the intended difficulty and progression. If you want to stay within the base-game experience, rely on benches, strategic spending, and farming routes instead.
Quick tips
- Bench = reset point: Reloading sends you to the last bench you used.
- Hard save before risky fights: Saves your rosary count as-is on reload.
- Spend before new areas: Reduce the chance of losing beads by converting loose change into permanent upgrades or purchases.
- Consider farming later: Rosaries are more plentiful in some late-game zones.
