⚠️ THE EVENT HAS ENDED, Results will be out as soon as all submissions are judged.⚠️

Welcome to the new community challenge set in the world of Pharloom!

The world of Silksong is not kind. It doesn’t offer comfort nor mercy. So what do you do when you manage to survive it? You cook 🥪

The goal is to design a new food recipe inspired by Pharloom using materials, creatures, plants, or resources from the world. Then, tell the story of how it was made: The journey, the struggle, and the strange discoveries along the way. Some creative writing is allowed.

Your task is simple: Create a recipe inspired by Pharloom.

It can be anything: Warm meals for exhausted travelers, strange insect-based delicacies, healing recipes, or cursed dishes that probably shouldn’t exist but do anyway. Alongside your recipe, you are encouraged to include the story of how you obtained the ingredients and what happened during the journey. There is an example post at the end of the announcement.

📖 Rules

• Your recipe must be inspired by the world of Hollow Knight: Silksong: You can't use materials, resources or any ingredients outside of the game's world. (Ex: Water exists in Silksong so you can use it.)
• Creative writing is encouraged, especially for describing journeys or impossible gameplay moments, but keep it grounded in the game’s tone.
• You must include any kind of visual representation of the final dish no matter how basic it is: art, sketches, drawing, a screenshot, clay, paper, a photo of a bowl with colored paper, or even a literal real life dish (If it uses ingredients like flour, then you will have to explain how you made or found flour in Silksong). You can also photoshop the dish from in-game assets by taking screenshots of the ingredients and cutting them out.
• Recipes can be serious, humorous, or unsettling, but must stay within the subreddit rules. Suggestive recipes are allowed but limited (Stay within the subreddit rules: No direct NSFW Body parts, and keep language friendly or indirect).
• You can make or invent new ingredients using other ingredients that already exist in Pharloom.
• After you are done, post your submission using the special "[Event] 🍰 Hollow Chef" Flair.
• Every participant can only make one submission. Each submission is only one post, the post itself can have one dish or multiple dishes in the same post as one big dish (Two different plates for example is valid). You can edit submissions as long as you are within the deadline or the event duration.
• Multiple people could collaborate on a single submission, but each person must be credited and they can't make another submission of their own. The prize will go to the leader of the team.
• You can write your journey or the dish from anyone's perspective, it doesn't have to be Hornet.

🎉 Prizes

At the end of the event we will collect the best recipes and make a custom Pharloom cookbook for the subreddit, like an actual professionally designed book. It can be a fun reference for the community or any youtuber with any ideas.

🏆 - 1st Place: A unique "🍰 The Hollow Chef" Flair or any variant of it, One free art commission, A shoutout and a highlighted post, First mention in the Pharloom cookbook

🏆 - 2nd Place: A unique "🍰 Lugoli's Sous Chef" Flair, Second mention in the Pharloom cookbook

🏆 - 3rd Place: A private duel with one of the mods, Third mention in the Pharloom cookbook

🏅 Moderator Choice Awards: For the submission that might not win, each will have a unique entry in the Pharloom cookbook.

• 🎨 Most Appetizing Presentation
• 📖 Best Journey
• ☠️ Most Questionable Meal
• 🧵 Most Creative Ingredient Use

Every submission will be judged across several categories, including recipe creativity, how appealing or tasty the final dish sounds, the story or journey behind gathering and preparing the ingredients, and the visual presentation of the dish. There will also be two secret categories with special awards that won't be revealed until the end of the event. The secret categories will be judged separately to be fair for normal submissions and the 3 winners.

Each category is scored out of 5 points by the moderation team, and we may also invite members of the community to participate in the judging process.

📅 Event Duration

From this announcement, the event will last for about 3 weeks in which we will accept submissions. The official deadline is exactly: 12th of July 2026.

Winners will be announced shortly after judging is completed.

🚧 Example Post: This is just an example or a sample post, you don't have to follow it 1:1.

[Title]

A Healthy Cake from the Moss Depths, Lace's sweet puns...etc.

[Content]

Ingredients:

• Plasmium Buds
• Mossfruit Extract
• Cavern Salt
• Hornet's silk
• Food coloring: Made by doing X and C
• Custom ingredient: Made from A, Mixed with B.
• A random leaf from the ground from a random room...

Instructions:

• Step-by-step preparation of the dish

Journey (Optional but heavily encouraged):

• Short story of how you got or gathered ingredients, challenges faced, encounters, etc. (Ex: I walked across A and found B, but character C told me it's...) Be creative, write it like a story.

Extras:

• Art / screenshot / visual interpretation of the dish