Charms: charm loadout, notch budget and Lifeblood Heart

About this game

Developer: Team Cherry · Publisher: Team Cherry · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Hand-drawn & ink · Screen type: Character / Unit Detail

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What to study

A build in Hollow Knight is a jewellery box, not a stat sheet: the Charms screen lays the whole collection out as more than twenty painted medallions in a loose grid, empty rings holding the places of charms not yet found, while the four currently worn sit in an Equipped row at the top. The build's budget is drawn, not numbered: a row of Notches under the equipped charms (five lit, two dark here), and every charm's price is the same dots repeated in its detail panel, Lifeblood Heart costs two. The panel itself splits its text the way the game splits every item: a sentence of pure fiction first ('Contains a living core that seeps precious lifeblood'), then the mechanic in plain words (a coating of lifeblood when resting that absorbs damage). Nothing on the screen has a number stat, a rarity colour or a DPS figure; power is communicated entirely by cost in notches and by prose. Frame at about 0:40 in the Release Trailer (Steam), manually extracted at 39.5s: the scene-change pass missed this screen entirely (it fades in under the trailer's charm montage, between candidates at 36.3s and 40.5s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

loadout-grid detail-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs Grid Marker Slots Button prompts

Screen inventory

• Charms header on an ornate filigree frame, Inventory tabs with arrow markers in both top corners
• Equipped row: four charm icons (green mask-face, bronze shell, moth, pink eye) plus one empty slot ring
• Notches row: five lit notch dots and two dark dots
• Collection grid of more than twenty charm icons, with plain rings marking uncollected slots
• selected charm in the grid (Lifeblood Heart) glowing blue, Lifeblood Core beneath it
• detail panel at right: Lifeblood Heart name, Cost label with two notch dots, large charm icon
• two-part description text: 'Contains a living core that seeps precious lifeblood.' / 'When resting, the bearer will gain a coating of lifeblood that protects from a modest amount of damage.'
• Equip prompt with Z key chip, bottom right

Top 3 colors

#000000 52%#060609 14%#242128 10%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Team Cherry, Hollow Knight screenshot: Release Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Team Cherry.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-22. verified 2026-10-22: frame manually extracted at 39.5s from the pipeline-downloaded Release Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; real game UI (Charms screen, Equipped row, Notches, Collection grid and Lifeblood Heart detail panel with Equip prompt) confirmed visible and legible; no trailer text overlays the frame

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