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Key Locations and Strategies
Embarking on this quest involves diving into secret areas, overcoming challenging encounters, and mastering specific traversal abilities. Let's explore some of these key locations:
- Bone Bottom: Start your collection journey by speaking with Pebb, who offers a Mask Shard for 300 Rosaries.
- Far Fields: Three shards await in this region. Use wind currents, grapple hooks, and complete challenges to claim each prized shard within the towering skull and beyond.
- Shellwood: Seek a shard west of the Bellway, where plant agility will see you across treacherous vines and pitfalls.
- Deep Docks: Employ the Drifter's Cloak and Wall Jump to navigate past a lake of lava and mechanical obstacles to reach a hidden shard.
- Bellhart: This location offers challenges entwined with side quests, like defeating the Savage Beastfly or resolving the mystery of the Hidden Hunters to claim your shards.
- Mount Fay: With a double jump and grappling skills, ascend icy platforms and rock towers to acquire these frigidly hidden shards.
Advanced Techniques in Challenging Areas
The game's complexity widens as you progress to more challenging northern domains, such as:
- Wisp Thicket: Tackle poison pools, spikes, and utilize your double jump alongside the trusty Grappling Hook for shard victory dances.
- Choral Chambers: Engage the Cogwork Dancers, then glide through secret paths unlocked by lever mechanisms for your tangible reward.
Acquiring all Mask Shards is not just a matter of zipping from one location to another. It demands strategic engagement with the environment, including defeating boss characters like the Broodmother within The Slab and Weavenest Atla's area-beast to unlock avenues to these precious items.
Ultimately, these Mask Shards grant profound benefits. They provide those critical health upgrades that are necessary for the more intense phases of your Silksong journey, especially during late-game explorations or the epic boss fights that await daring challengers ready to shape the future of Pharloom.
