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You’ll have to leave this to the end of your adventure in Shellwood.
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Finding all the Pollip Hearts for the Rite of the Pollip quest is difficult. You might think the quest should be easy just because you get it from Greyroot early in your adventures through Shellwood, but the only way to complete it is by clearing the boss in the area.
Let’s go through the preparations you need to complete the Pollip Hearts quest. First, defeat Shellwood’s boss, Sister Splinter, to find a room where you’ll unlock the wall-jumping powers of Cling Grip. You can find this boss by navigating up and right of Greyroot’s room until you get to the right edge of Shellwood, from where you’ll start going up and left.
With Cling Grip, it’s time to start looking for Pollip Hearts. Greyroot says you need to “seek out the purple blooms,” and inside them, you’ll find the hearts. If you want hints instead of all the answers at first, I have one for you. Look for little purple flowers on the walls and for rooms or areas with floating purple petals. If you see either or both, you’re very close to a purple bloom with a Pollip Heart.
The blooms that contain Pollip Hearts are big purple flowers attached to walls. Only one of them will be in each area. To extract their heart, simply hit it with your Needle until they burst, which will cause them to drop a Pollip Heart on the ground, marked by a purple glow. Interact with the glowing item to collect it.
Pollip Hearts map
Here’s the map with all Pollip Heart locations. Their spots are numbered so you can reference them with their specific locations in the article section following the map. You don’t need to pick them in that order.
All Pollip Heart locations in Hollow Knight: Silksong are marked by yellow arrows. Screenshot and edit by Destructoid
Pollip Heart #1
This Pollip Heart is near the entrance to Shellwood. Screenshot by Destructoid
This Pollip Heart is the closest one to the bottom right entrance to Shellwood, which doesn’t mean you can grab it early. The only way to reach this platform is by using Cling Grip to jump on the wall on the top right of the room. Once you’re there, simply hit the blossom to get a Pollip Heart.
Pollip Heart #2
This Pollip is also close to the entrance. Screenshot by Destructoid
You can grab this Pollip Heart without Cling Grip in the room to the left of the entrance of Shellwood. Go all the way to the left, climb the platforms, then head right until you find a series of platforms that will lead you upward to where you’ll find the purple blossom. As usual, hit the flower and collect the Heart.
Pollip Heart #3
Complete this tricky jumping puzzle to get this Pollip Heart. Screenshot by Destructoid
This Pollip Heart is really tricky to reach. You must bounce on a series of white flowers that make a path upward, where you’ll spot a purple blossom. To bounce on a flower, jump toward it, and press down and the attack button to swing your needle below you. This will propel Hornet upward and close to the next flower, where you’ll do the same until you’re high enough to reach the blossom.
While you can try to hold the jump button to float between flowers, I found it easier to do all the attacks in a row because floating made me overthink and overcalculate Hornet’s movements. If you’re struggling with floating, try just finding a good attacking pace to reach the Pollip Heart.
Pollip Heart #4
You’ll need a lot of wall jumping for this one. Screenshot by Destructoid
The fourth purple boom with a Pollip Heart is close to where you kill Sister Splinter and get the Cling Grip. If you go to the room marked on the map, you’ll see that the path to this Pollip Heart is like a simple vertical platforming puzzle. Go up and all the way to the left, where you’ll drop from a ledge and move right to find the purple blossom.
Pollip Heart #5
This Pollip is deep into Shellwood. Screenshot by Destructoid
You can get this Pollip right after Pollip Heart #4. It’s in the center room of Shellwood, and you can get to this spot by jumping on the walls to the far left of the room, as if you were leaving to the right of it, next to its right exit. Go left as soon as you’re about half of the room’s height, and you’ll see a wall with purple flowers on it. Cling and slide on it, hold left, and you’ll be on a platform with this purple bloom to collect its heart.
Pollip Heart #6
Break the vine wall on the bottom left to find this Pollip Heart. Screenshot by Destructoid
The last Pollip Heart is only accessible via Bellhart. To get to Bellhart, exit Shellwood from the top right, also to the right of where you killed Sister Splinter. Once you’re in the upper part of Bellhart, start dropping down carefully to avoid the huge bell bugs. When the big drops end, go all the way to the left, and you’ll find a passage that will take you back to Shellwood, but that you couldn’t access before.
Keep going to the right while doing the platforming section with the spikes. Going through the bottom part of this area, you’ll find a vine wall with purple flowers. Jump toward it, destroy the vines, and you’ll find the last purple bloom to collect its Pollip Heart.
Rite of the Pollip reward
Pollip Pouch will help you deal some extra damage. Screenshot by Destructoid
With all six Pollip Hearts, go back to Greyroot in the bottom left of Shellwood, as marked on the map in this article. Speak to it twice and you’ll trade your Pollips for a Pollip Pouch. The Pollip Pouch is a charm you can equip in the blue slot. It applies a poison effect to your tools.
In my case, the Straight Pins I used to hit enemies would poison them and make them take passive damage four times after they got hit. Essentially, it’s a small attack boost to your Tools. This means that your normal Needle attacks, unfortunately, don’t apply poison with Pollip Pouch, since the Needle is a weapon, not a tool.
If you want to make your Needle stronger, you’ll have to upgrade it at Pinmaster Plinney.
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