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Hollow Knight
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Broken Vessel

Shattered corpse, reanimated by infected parasites.

Hunter’s notes

The shape of this creature... I have seen something like it before. More than once, perhaps. It looks a little like the bugs of Hallownest, but not quite the same. Where did these empty little wanderers come from?

The notes unlock after 1 kill.

Nail hits to kill

Its 525 HP over the nail's damage per hit at each upgrade, plain and with Fragile or Unbreakable Strength (×1.5, rounded the game's way). Some places give it different HP; the table by area below has each one.

NailDamageHitsWith Strength
Old Nail510566 (8 a hit)
Sharpened Nail95938 (14 a hit)
Channelled Nail134127 (20 a hit)
Coiled Nail173121 (26 a hit)
Pure Nail212517 (32 a hit)
  1. Broken Vessel525
  2. Mawlurk135
  3. Lesser Mawlek60
  4. Shadow Creeper20
  5. Infected Balloon15
HP of the enemies found mostly in Ancient Basin, highest first.

In Godhome

HP as the arena's own HealthManagers set it (the Attuned fight), and the nail hits that takes at each upgrade, plain and with Strength (×1.5). Track Godhome.

Broken Vessel · Broken shell of an empty god

In the Hall of Gods and in Pantheon of the Artist, Pantheon of Hallownest.

NailInfected Knight · 700 HP
Old Nail (5 a hit)140 · 88 with Strength
Sharpened Nail (9 a hit)78 · 50 with Strength
Channelled Nail (13 a hit)54 · 35 with Strength
Coiled Nail (17 a hit)42 · 27 with Strength
Pure Nail (21 a hit)34 · 22 with Strength

Lost Kin · Lost god of the Abyss

In the Hall of Gods and in Pantheon of the Knight, Pantheon of Hallownest.

NailLost Kin · 1200 HP
Old Nail (5 a hit)240 · 150 with Strength
Sharpened Nail (9 a hit)134 · 86 with Strength
Channelled Nail (13 a hit)93 · 60 with Strength
Coiled Nail (17 a hit)71 · 47 with Strength
Pure Nail (21 a hit)58 · 38 with Strength
  1. God Tamer750 #19
  2. Mantis Lords750 #20
  3. Soul Warrior750 #21
  4. Winged Nosk750 #22
  5. Broken Vessel700 #23
  6. Nosk680 #24
  7. Crystal Guardian650 #25
  8. Enraged Guardian650 #26
  9. Galien650 #27
The Hall of Gods fights closest in HP to Broken Vessel (#23 of 46 by HP), each by its strongest enemy.

Where it is, its HP and Geo there 2

HP and Geo are read from each scene’s own HealthManager, so they’re exact for that place. Geo with Fragile Greed follows the game’s rule: each coin size gets 20% more coins, rounded up.

AreaFormHPGeoWith GreedPlacedMap
Ancient BasinInfected Knight525001Show
DreamLost Kin1200001Show

Overview

HP
525
Kills for the Hunter’s notes
1
Placed copies
2
Kind
Enemy

Also mostly in Ancient Basin 4