Silksong Mouse Inventory Use

v0.1.7·Updated 2025-10-09

Use Mouse in the Inventory (Work in Progress).

About this mod Author’s original text

Description:

I use mouse-and-keyboard to play pretty much all games.

Hollow Knight (and Silksong) is made for controller, with mouse-and-keyboard as an afterthough.

This mod is to make it more mouse-and-keyboard friendly.

(if you already have the tools, why not use them?)

However, it's also not a small task, and gonna take a while.

So I've decided to release it bit-by-bit, as I work on it.

hence, WORK-IN-PROGRSS (WIP) label

Currently available:

  • Click Arrows at sides to switch tab/'pane' (v0.0.1)
  • Click Tabs in top right (v0.0.3)
  • Mouse-over, and clicking most inventory/crest/quests/hunter's journal elements (v0.0.4)
  • Map section clicking (jank), and returning (right click) (v0.1.0)
  • Map zoom in/out with mousewheel (v0.1.1)
  • Map click-n-drag (v0.1.2)
  • Mouse-over scroll-arrows to scroll (inv, crests, quests, hunt journal) (v0.1.3)
  • Mouse-scroll while hovering arrow-scroll sections (janky) (v0.1.4)
  • Markers placable by mouse. Navigate in with normal confirm, or mouse side buttons, or double click. Click pins to change, or scroll mouse, or use "quick map" button. (v0.1.5)
  • Clickable "Show/Hide Completed Quests" in Tasks tab (v0.1.6)
  • hotfix: Prevent closing inventory with rightclick if hovering rosary cannon, to prevent incompatibility (v0.1.7)

Links:

GitHub:::

To install::

It should all be handled for you auto-magically.

ie: I set this package's dependency as BepInEx.

Manual:

First install BepInEx to your Silksong folder,

(note: this will break how does things)

You can find it at

latest stable is currently 5.4.23.4

After unzipping, run the game once, so that the BepInEx folder structure generates

(ie: there's folders in there apart from just 'core')

Then pull this DLL, or folder including the dll in to

Hollow Knight Silksong\BepInEx\plugins

Hybrid:

If you somehow have.

And have BepInEx installed through it.

But this mod's dependencies glitched out or something,

You should be able to find the 's BepInEx plugins folder at

C:\\Users\\{username}\\AppData\\Roaming\\ Mod Manager\\DataFolder\\{game}\\profiles\\{profile_name}\\BepInEx

If you're somehow NOT on windows, AND I screwed up the packagin, AND you aren't a techie... god help you.

Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin

  1. The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
  2. Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
  3. Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
  4. Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.

Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file.

Dependencies

Install these first, or the mod will not work:

BepInEx-BepInExPack_Silksong

File & checksum

Filename
Silksong_Mouse_Inventory_Use-0.1.7.zip
File size
25.1 KiB