Team Cherry Says Silksong Patch 5 Is the Last Major Update Before Sea of Sorrow DLC
Hollow Knight: Silksong just received what Team Cherry is calling its final significant patch before the Sea of Sorrow expansion. After years of waiting, the signal is as clear as it's ever been.
Team Cherry dropped a patch. Then they said it's the last one before the DLC. The Silksong faithful have been waiting a long time for a sentence like that.
Hollow Knight: Silksong received Patch 5 (v1.0.29926) on March 16 for PC, with a console rollout expected before the end of the month. The update is notable not just for its contents, but for how Team Cherry described it: the studio explicitly called it "the last significant update before the Sea of Sorrow DLC."
The patch itself is a meaningful quality-of-life release. The Silk Soar ability's double-jump behaviour has been adjusted — a change that will affect traversal flow for players mid-run. The Savage Beastfly boss fight, which had accumulated a reputation as one of the game's more frustrating encounters due to erratic hitboxes, has been reworked. Sixteen additional bug fixes round out the functional changes. On the localisation side, Traditional Chinese language support has been added, and German localisation has been substantially improved — signals that Team Cherry is continuing to invest in the game's international reach ahead of a major content drop.
Silksong launched in 2024 to widespread acclaim, building on the extraordinary foundation of the original Hollow Knight with a new protagonist, Hornet, an expanded movement toolkit, and a denser, more vertically complex world. Sea of Sorrow was announced alongside launch as a major expansion — described as a wholly new area with its own quest lines, bosses, and story beats that branch from the main game's ending states.
Team Cherry has been characteristically quiet about specifics — no release date, no trailer, no extended marketing push. That's consistent with how the studio operates. But "last significant update before the DLC" is a phrase that doesn't leave much room for ambiguity. The community has learned to read between the lines with this studio, and right now, those lines are pointing in one direction.
Patch 5 is live on Steam now. Console update coming by end of March. Sea of Sorrow - when it comes - will be paid DLC.