Solve the Mushroom Sage’s riddle and track him to all seven spots.
Completing the Passing of the Age quest in Hollow Knight: Silksong is a bit of a challenge, as you try to track the Mushroom Sage’s locations across Pharloom using the riddle he left you. It’s a little similar to the Great Taste of Pharloom quest in that it sees you running all over the map to find the fungi in different out-of-the-way spots.
You can’t access this wish until you’ve acquired the Silk Soar ability in Act 3, specifically via The Dark Below quest. Once that’s done, head to the right side of the Pale Lake in the Putrified Ducts (just across from Fleatopia), climb up the platforms, and use Silk Soar to enter the passage above where you’ll find the riddle in question and be able to get started.
Below, I’ll run through all of the locations you need to find, as well as share my own (painful) experience with the final platforming section so you can see the exact route and method for getting through it.Under Chapel fallen to the monarch’s might
The first location is in Moss Grotto, the starting area of the game, in the Moss Mother boss arena, just to the right of where you drop down into the Chapel from Bone Bottom. Play your Needolin near the glowing spores and the Mushroom Sage will rise from the earth. Simply talk to him and he’ll move to the next location.Over camp collapsed to the black thread plight
The second location is on the upper right side of Bone Bottom, at the spot where Shakra used to hang out and sell her maps. If you’ve never visited her here, the map above will point the way.
