Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove Shovel of Hope upgrades and checkpoints: health, magic, gold and chalices
Spend treasure on lasting improvements and understand the cost of a failed attempt.
Items at a glance
Flare Wand
Useful role: Ranged fireball attack.
Phase Locket
Useful role: Brief invulnerability.
Chaos Sphere
Useful role: Bouncing damage in enclosed spaces.
Dust Knuckles
Useful role: Forward punches and dirt-block traversal.
Throwing Anchor
Useful role: Arcing attack toward raised targets.
Propeller Dagger
Useful role: Forward aerial movement and damage.
Edition covered
Treasure Trove collects the 2014 Shovel of Hope adventure and the later Plague of Shadows, Specter of Torment, King of Cards and Showdown releases, completed in 2019. These Steam gallery captures show Shovel of Hope. Showdown and co-op availability differ on 3DS and PS Vita; Shovel Knight Dig and Pocket Dungeon are separate games.
Turn Meal Tickets into health
Give Meal Tickets to the Gastronomer in the Village to increase maximum health. The Magicist sells magic capacity, so health and relic use have separate upgrade paths.
| Upgrade or service | Provider | Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Maximum health | Gastronomer with Meal Ticket | More room for mistakes |
| Magic capacity | Magicist | More relic use before refilling |
| Armor | Armor Outpost merchant | Changes a combat or movement property |
| Shovel Blade upgrade | Armor Outpost blacksmith | Adds a useful shovel technique |
| Chalice filling | Troupple King | Stores an ichor effect |
Shop for gear at the Armor Outpost
Armor and Shovel Blade upgrades change how Shovel Knight plays. Read the effect before buying, especially when a movement change could disrupt a familiar platforming route.
| Decision | Reward | Cost or condition |
|---|---|---|
| Keep a checkpoint | Nearby retry location | No checkpoint-breaking gold |
| Break a checkpoint | Immediate treasure | Longer retry after death |
| Recover dropped bags | Regain lost gold | Requires reaching the death location |
| Return to Map mid-stage | Reset to the pre-stage state | Current stage gains are discarded |
| Spend before a hard stage | Permanent purchased benefit | Less carried gold available for other purchases |
Keep checkpoints until the room is mastered
Destroying a checkpoint grants gold but removes that respawn point. On defeat, Shovel Knight drops a quarter of carried wealth, which can be recovered if the bags are reachable.
Fill Troupple Chalices before a difficult stage
The Troupple King provides useful ichors for owned chalices. Choose a restoration or temporary protection effect that answers the part of the level causing trouble.
Return to Map resets the current stage’s progress; it is not a way to bank its collected treasure.
References
| Reference | Website |
|---|---|
| Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove publisher listing | store.steampowered.com |
| Yacht Club Shovel of Hope instruction manual | old.yachtclubgames.com |