Hollow Knight, a Metroidvania action-adventure game developed by Team Cherry, recounts the adventures of a nameless warrior known as the Knight who journeys across Hallownest, a ruined kingdom due to a strange infection. As the Knight travels around Hallownest, the Knight will meet many characters that will help the player understand the game’s story entirely.
One of these characters in Hollow Knight is Bretta, a beetle and a resident of Dirtmouth. Bretta is trapped somewhere in Hallownest and is waiting for someone to save her. Once the Knight has saved Bretta, she will develop a crush on the Knight. She blushes once the Knight sits next to her for a while, and a couple of drawings and dolls of the Knight and a diary where she talks about the Knight can be found inside her house in Dirtmouth.
This guide will teach you how to find Bretta in Hollow Knight!
Bretta
You can find Bretta at the end of a maze in the southeasternmost part of the Fungal Wastes and the Mantis Village area.
The Knight will fight many different enemies in the Fungal Wastes and the Mantis Village. Still, on the journey to Bretta’s location, the Knight will specifically encounter the following enemies: Mantis Youths, Mantis Warriors, Shrumal Warriors, Shrumelings, and a Sporg.
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It is worth noting that attempting to find Bretta after killing the Mantis Lords, the optional boss in the Mantis Village will be far easier, as all of the Mantis Youths and Mantis Warriors will become passive to the Knight and will only attack the Knight if they are provoked.
Before the Knight can find Bretta, we recommend that the Knight has the Mothwing Cloak ability, which allows the Knight to perform a horizontal dash forward, the Monarch Wings ability, which allows the Knight to perform a secondary jump mid-air, and the Mantis Claw ability, which allows the Knight to cling to walls and jump off of them. With these abilities, finding Bretta will be no challenge at all.
Locating Bretta in Hollow Knight
To find Bretta in the Fungal Wastes area, this is what the Knight must do:
- Go to the right from the middle of the Mantis Village’s main area. There the Knight will find a Mantis Youth. Climb up the tall platform above the acid pool with the help of the Mantis Claw or the Monarch Wings ability. Continue heading to the right and drop down the gap. Jump to the next platform, continue heading to the right, and take the exit.
- Upon entering the next room, the Knight will encounter a Mantis Warrior. Continue heading to the right, where the Knight will find another Mantis Yout. Drop down the gap, head to the shaft’s bottom, and go to the left.
- Jump across the gap where another Mantis Warrior is below and continue heading to the left. Drop down the gap, and head on the path below using the small platform (watch out for the acid pool). Then take the exit on the bottom left. A Bench on the other side of the exit is where the Knight can heal and save.
- Then, continue heading to the left and drop down the gap on the left. Drop down the gap on the right and then drop down the gap on the left. Continue heading to the left while also dropping down on the gaps. Then head down using the small platforms.
- After that, head to the right and drop down the gaps to head to the bottom. Then head to the left, where you see a statue at the bottom. You can find the Dashmaster Charm there.
- Next, head to the wall on the left with a hidden narrow path at the bottom left. Continue to the left through the hidden path where the Knight will find two Shrumal Warriors and several Shrumelings.
- Head to the wall on the left and climb up the wall on the left using the Mantis Claw ability. At the top, jump to the right and perform a secondary jump with the help of the Monarch Wings ability towards the wall on the left above.
- Head up this shaft with the help of the Mantis Claw ability. Then jump towards the platform above on the right, where the Knight will encounter a Sporg.
- Then, jump towards the wall on the right, head up the wall using the Mantis Claw ability; at the top, jump and dash using the Mothwing Cloak ability towards the wall on the left, head up the wall with the help of the Mantis Claw ability, and jump towards the platform above on the right.
- After that, head to the right and dash in the middle of the spikes towards the wall on the right with the help of the Mothwing Cloak ability. Slide down the shaft while sticking to the wall on the right with the help of the Mantis Claw ability.
- Before reaching the bottom of the shaft and hitting the spikes, dash towards the wall on the left. Slide down the shaft while sticking to the wall on the left before hitting the spikes at the bottom. Dash towards the wall on the right and slide down the shaft while sticking to the wall on the right.
- Dash towards the wall on the left before hitting the spikes. Slide down the shaft while sticking to the wall on the left. Then dash towards the platform on the right before hitting the spikes at the bottom.
- Next, head to the right, jump up the slightly elevated platform, and climb up the wall on the right with the help of the Mantis Claw ability. Jump towards the safe spot on the wall on the shaft’s left before hitting the spikes above.
- Jump towards the safe spot on the wall on the right above the spikes and continue heading up the shaft. Then jump towards the wall on the left before the spikes above. Continue heading up the shaft and jump towards the safe spot on the wall on the right before hitting the spikes above. Head up the shaft, then jump towards the thin platform above on the right.
- Then, drop down the narrow shaft on the right while sticking to the wall on the left, then before reaching the spikes at the bottom of the shaft, dash towards the platform on the right.
- Finally, head to the right, jump up the slightly elevated platform, and the Knight will find Bretta!
The Knight can now talk to Bretta in Hollow Knight, who will say that she does not know she ended up there, and she will be surprised that the Knight wanted to rescue her as everyone ignores her. After talking to Bretta, head to the right to break the breakable ground and exit the maze.
Once the Knight returns to Dirtmouth, Bretta’s house, which is the rightmost house, will be unlocked. Enter Bretta’s house, and the Knight will be rewarded with a Mask Shard!
