Mina the Hollower Beginner Guide: Best Early Tips Before You Get Lost

Choose the Weapon That Keeps You Alive

Nightstar is the safest beginner pick because its reach gives you room to learn spacing. Whisper and Vesper are fast but close-range, while Blaststrike Maul hits hard but asks for slower, cleaner punish windows. Choose comfort and survival over raw damage.

Learn Burrowing Early

Burrowing is a combat and repositioning tool, not just travel. Use it before Mina is trapped, reset bad angles, cross awkward terrain, and escape pressure during boss patterns.

Attack Less Than You Want To

Hit once or twice, move away, watch the next pattern, and punish again. Greed costs more health than low damage does, especially while learning new enemies.

Use Sidearms, Trinkets, and Bones With a Plan

Use Sidearms before a room becomes chaotic, especially against flying enemies, traps, unsafe bosses, and ranged chip damage. Treat Trinkets as Mina's build system: switch between defense, damage, movement, exploration, farming, and Sidearm support. Spend Bones on upgrades that help the next route, including Attack, Defense, Sidearms, Bonestones, capacity, or survival tools.

Reach Ossex, the Guild, and the Map

Ossex is the hub where you should slow down, check NPCs, and start the Hollower's Guild route. Rescue Rhene, reveal Drillhardt, buy the Isle Map before serious backtracking, and save full completion for later when your tools are stronger.

Beginner Mistakes to Avoid

• Ignoring burrow until panic.
• Using Bones randomly or carrying too many into unknown routes.
• Hoarding Sidearms when they would prevent damage.
• Trying to 100% areas too early.
• Never changing Trinkets.

Best First-Hours Checklist

1. Pick a comfortable starter weapon.
2. Practice burrowing in normal rooms.
3. Reach Ossex and talk to NPCs.
4. Start the Hollower's Guild route.
5. Rescue Rhene, reveal Drillhardt, and buy map support.
6. Spend Bones on upgrades that help your next route.