Barbed Bracelet
Barbed Bracelet is a 
Yellow Tool in Hollow Knight: Silksong. It increases Needle damage by 25% but doubles most damage taken.[Note 1]
Usefulness
Barbed Bracelet only increases the damage of the Needle itself, Silk Skills are not affected. The Needle Strike is affected.
As damage from nearly every source is doubled, it is not recommended to equip this Tool in areas with lots of environmental hazards, as the damage from missing a platforming section can quickly add up.
- With Black-Threaded enemies and Lost Lace,
dealt in a single hit is not doubled due to how Void damage is calculated; it is set to a flat 2 Masks of damage after the Barbed Bracelet multiplier is taken into account. However, the damage taken from attacks that deal + in quick succession is still doubled by the Barbed Bracelet. - Damage dealt by the cold on Mount Fay
is not doubled.
In many cases, it will reduce the amount of hits needed to kill an enemy by 1, making it effective when re-treading explored areas or farming for Rosaries, as enemy attack patterns are already known and unexpected damage is less likely.
How to Acquire
Found in Sinner's Road, at the bottom of a pit at the easternmost end of the passage from Greymoor.
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Location in Sinner's Road
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Room where the Barbed Bracelet is acquired
Gallery
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Hornet's Masks with the Barbed Bracelet
Names in Other Languages
| Language | Name | Meaning/Explanation |
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 Brazilian Portuguese
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Bracelete Farpado | Barbed Bracelet |
 French
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Bracelet épineux | |
 German
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Stachelarmreif | Spiked Bracelet |
 Italian
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Bracciale spinato | Barbed Bracelet |
 Japanese
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トゲの腕輪 Toge no udewa? |
Thorned Bracelet |
 Korean
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가시 팔찌 Gasi paljji |
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 Russian
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Колючий браслет Koljučij braslet |
Spiked Bracelet |
 Simplified Chinese
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棘刺手环 jícì shǒuhuán? |
Barbed Bracelet |
 Spanish
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Cilicio | Cilice |
 Internal name
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BARBED_WIRE
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The damage is rounded to the nearest integer. This results in 6, 11, 16, 21 and 26 damage at Needle base damages 5, 9, 13, 17 and 21 respectively. For example, at max Needle upgrade the base damage is 21, so with Barbed Bracelet it will be 1.25 • 21 = 26.25, which rounded down results in 26
