You're now done setting up your system for creating your first Hollow Knight mod. Or manually by replacing the files in your Managed Folder in the game files with the contents of Hollow Knight Modding Api's latest release for your operating system, this will be your copy of the modding api.Either by using a modinstaller (auto installs on load).Install the Modding Api (skip if already using a modded install of the game.).Create a folder named Hollow Knight Mods as your working directory (you will create your mods here).Make sure to also install the 'C# for desktop development' workflow.Download and Install Visual Studio Community.if you prefer, you can refer to the video guides below and follow along as well.
To Setup your system for modding, you need to do the following steps. Any version of Visual Studio or any other C# IDE works.It grabs mods from the community drive, and puts them automatically in the correct folder. Installing them through any modinstaller (e.g. This Is a mod installer for hollow knight - designed to make mod installation a breeze.A copy of the Hollow Knight Modding Api binary (dll) files.XBox / PS4 / Nintendo Switch versions do not work for our purposes.A Legitimate copy of Hollow Knight on PC (Steam / GoG / HumbleBundle).A Windows / Linux / Mac device that you can code on.
