Underloft
The cost of so much grandeur... Did I peer closely enough into the foundations of my own kingdom?
Underlofts are enemies in Hollow Knight: Silksong. They are sickly Underworkers, bearing two twistpins that were once tools of repair but now serve as spun projectiles.[1]
Behaviour and Tactics
Underlofts often cling to walls and other surfaces as they work, but jump off to attack Hornet once she gets near.
Being flying enemies, they try to remain aerially out of range of Hornet's Needle, and fly back and forth with poor control, preferring horizontal distance over vertical distance. They use one of two attacks depending on Hornet's range from them:
- Twistpin Throw: Readies and then hurls a spinning projectile at Hornet, which flies in a straight path, dealing
. It can be hit with a Needle to disable its hitbox. - Cartwheel: If Hornet is very close to or anywhere beneath them, it holds out both its twistpins and begins spinning rapidly, rearing back briefly before flying at Hornet as it spins, bouncing off a surface once before stopping a second after. If Hornet is hit at any part of the attack, it deals +.
Underlofts deal 
on contact.
Chasing them down and maintaining pressure is key to defeating them, as well as retreating or dashing away briefly whenever they use Cartwheel, due to its threatening hitbox and damage.
Act 3
Black-threaded Underlofts have their health doubled. They can gain any of the standard void attacks.
Needolin Dialogue
- For the light, unseen...
- These halls kept clean...
- Rest and fade...
- We... were chosen...
- See us faithful!
- Shells bend, shells break...
- Through duty, purity...
- The sacred toil...
Location
Underlofts can be found primarily in the Underworks, with one encountered as part of the enemy gauntlet in the northwest of the area, three in the gauntlet in the middle of the area, and another during the gauntlet in the Cauldron.
In Act 3, a black-threaded Underloft is fought during the gauntlet in the ruined Cogwork Core, and another spawns alongside a Void Mass in the Cauldron.
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Locations in the Underworks
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Locations in the Underworks in Act 3
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Location in the Cogwork Core in Act 3
Gallery
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In the Underworks
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In the Cogwork Core during Act 3
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Twistpin Throw
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Cartwheel
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Responding to the Needolin
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Clinging to a wall
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Working alongside an Underpoke
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Sleeping alongside an Underworker
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Sitting with an Underworker
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Corpse below a bench room
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Corpses in a bench room
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Corpses in the Cogwork Core
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Corpse in the Whiteward
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Corpse in the Putrified Ducts
Names in Other Languages
| Language | Name | Meaning/Explanation |
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 Brazilian Portuguese
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Claustrolido | |
 French
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Sous-loftin | Under-loft |
 German
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Unterschmeißer | Under Thrower |
 Italian
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Fondolancio | Combination of fondo (bottom) and lancio (throw). |
 Japanese
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礎の修繕者 Ishizumi no Shūzensha |
Foundation Repairman |
 Korean
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지하투척꾼 Jihatucheokkkun |
Underground Thrower |
 Russian
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Цехоброс Cexobros |
Workshop-throw(er) |
 Simplified Chinese
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圣厂投掷工 Shèngchǎng tóuzhì gōng? |
Holy Factory Throw Worker 圣堡工厂 shèng bǎo gōngchǎng (Holy Castle Factory) is the name of the Underworks in Simplified Chinese. |
 Traditional Chinese
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下層投擲工 Xiàcéng tóuzhí gōng? |
Lower-level Throw Worker 下層工廠 xiàcéng gōngchǎng (Lower-level Factory) is the name of the Underworks in Traditional Chinese. |
 Spanish
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Lanzador subterráneo | Underground Launcher |
 Internal name
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UNDERSTORE_THROWER
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UNDERSTORE internally refers to Underworks.
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References
- ↑ Underloft Hunter's Journal entry: "Exhausted bug, grown sickly from the smog of the Underworks. The worker's twistpins, once tools of repair, now serve as spun projectiles."
