If you've run into Shakra in Hollow Knight: Silksong, chances are you don't have enough Rosaries to buy all her maps, the Compass, and other map add-ons. They're very important for your progress, though, which is why I recommend this simple trick to farm Rosaries early on close to Shakra.
If you haven't met Shakra yet, you eventually will. She's the character who sells maps, the Quill, and the Compass, and she's impossible to miss once you get to the second area, The Marrow. Just go right until you get to the lava area past the first bench, where you can insert 30 Rosaries and start climbing up and left to get there.
After you speak to Shakra, go left and down into a room full of moss and weird humanoid creatures. They all drop Rosaries when defeated, so that's where you'll farm now. Clean up the room and, instead of leaving from where you've entered, climb up the platforms and go right until you find the upper exit. You'll be once again in Shakra's room, still to the left of her, but on the upper side now. You'll find a bench where you can rest and a lever you can hit to unlock the gate that connects to Shakra.
From here on, the loop to farm Rosaries is simple:
- Rest on the bench
- Return to the moss room
- Kill all enemies
- Return to the bench and rest again
- Return to the moss room, and all enemies will have spawned again.
The trick here is that whenever you rest on a bench, monsters in other rooms respawn, along with their drops. So the monsters that drop Rosaries will keep showing up as long as you rest on the bench before going into the room again.
You can check the video below for the full farming cycle.
I took 1 minute per cycle of going into the moss room, killing all monsters, and resetting at the bench. Each cycle gave me 30 Rosaries since I killed all six monsters in the room every time. That means you should need around 11 cycles of this farming method, or 11 minutes, to get 330 Rosaries, which is 20 more than you need to buy all items from Shakra. I think that's fast enough considering the low risk, since if you mess up and die, you respawn right next to the room where you lost your Rosaries.
Remember that if you want to farm Rosaries further, you can prevent losing them by creating Rosary Strings in Shops when you're near one. Otherwise, you will drop them all and have to retrieve them if you die.
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