Mina the Hollower Best Trinkets: 10 Must-Find Items and How to Get Them

Mina the Hollower's best trinkets reshape everything about how you fight, dodge, and claw your way through Tenebrous Isle, and the game throws 60 trinkets at you before the credits roll. It's not a complaint. But most players won't find half of them on a first playthrough, so you're meant to experiment and stumble onto combinations that break the rules in delightful ways.

You start with one slot. Trinkets slot into your Underlab and grant passive effects from magnetic item collection to mid-air hovering to a literal second chance at life, and more Trinket Bags expand that number, and suddenly you're stacking effects that turn baseline mechanics inside out. But with so many options scattered across shops, boss drops, and obscure side tasks, it's knowing which ones actually pull their weight that saves you a lot of wandering.

Ten Trinkets Worth the Hunt

They're universally useful. Some trinkets shine in specific builds, but others are so universally useful that they'll fit into practically any loadout you can imagine, and these ten belong in that second category.

Stolenoid and Deboning Wand

Pickups litter every screen. Bones, Joule jars, and Plasma Roses are everywhere. Walking over each one manually during a fight feels like a chore you didn't sign up for. But Stolenoid, purchased from Belvedere in Queensbury Crypt's Statue Head Hall for 600 bones, magnetically draws all nearby items toward Mina, and it's simple, effective, and a genuine relief during chaotic platforming stretches.

The Deboning Wand comes from Elizabeth in the Radiant Manor Courtyard. Take a bone loan from her. Pay back 1,000 bones. Once equipped, enemies drop more bones when defeated, and those extra bones mean faster upgrades, more Bonestone, and deeper purchasing power, but the bonus bones bounce wildly across the ground like they're trying to escape. Without Stolenoid, you'll leave half behind. So together, the two trinkets form a farming engine that pays for itself within minutes.

Iron Lung and Tunneling Codex

Burrowing is Mina's signature survival tool. But it's got sharp limits. She can only stay underground for a couple of seconds, and she also needs to perform a normal jump before diving, which adds a split-second delay that gets punished in fast fights.

Get the Iron Lung. It drops from the Mock Moon boss in Nox's Bayou: Moonlit Path and extends burrow time by several seconds while boosting underwater tunneling, making wetland traversal far less punishing. But there's more. The Tunneling Codex, earned by scoring 5,000 points in the Ring Dive Parlor minigame in Sandfalls: Shifted Sands, lets Mina chain burrows without the mandatory hop between them. Hold the jump button and she surfaces only to dive right back down. So pair both trinkets and you can stay underground almost indefinitely, popping up only to deal damage.

Movement, Air, and Healing

It's Steady Soles. In Ossex City Center, burrow into the attic left of the balcony with the telescope on the east side of town, take the left stairs onto another balcony, and open the chest. And it normalizes movement on water, grass, ice, and stairs, eliminating the sluggish slippage making Coltrane Peak's icy cliffs feel actively hostile, and it also boosts knockback resistance keeping you out of bottomless pits.

Bellows Bustle unlocks after beating all of Blaise's races starting in Ossex and the Western Wilds then continuing at Sandfalls Sandy Station. It grants an air dash propelling Mina forward with a second jump press while airborne. Suddenly long gaps become manageable. Flying enemies become manageable. Keri the Wisp, which you can buy at Poppit's cave shop in the Southern Outskirts near Bone Beach Trail for 500 bones, slows your descent when you hold the jump button midair. But full aerial control during the float means you don't overshoot platforms.

It's not a gamble anymore. But Plasma Funnel costs 700 bones at the Trinket Bazaar in Ossex, and it dramatically shortens the Plasma Vial drinking animation while critically preventing enemies from destroying the vial if they interrupt you. Getting safe heals during intense combat stops feeling like a gamble.

• Stolenoid: 600 bones at Belvedere's shop, Queensbury Crypt
• Deboning Wand: Repay 1,000 bone loan to Elizabeth, Radiant Manor Courtyard
• Iron Lung: Defeat Mock Moon, Nox's Bayou: Moonlit Path
• Tunneling Codex: Score 5,000 points at Ring Dive Parlor, Sandfalls
• Steady Soles: Hidden chest in Ossex City Center attic

Vial Salvo takes it further. You can buy it from Tubert in Astral Orrery: Stellarium for 2,000 bones, or you can buy it from Panino's in Ossex Station Underside for 2,500 bones. But drink a Plasma Vial and it'll launch homing missiles at your nearest enemy, dealing damage and returning extra Plasma to your health meter if they connect. You heal while maintaining offensive pressure, which transforms how aggressive you can afford to be.

Proto Spark Is the Safeguard

Dying in Mina the Hollower drops one of your Sparks and boots you back to the last Underlab. Lose all your Sparks and your bones scatter too. It hurts. Proto Spark changes that calculus entirely.

Once I unlocked this thing, I never took it off, and it saved my bacon countless times.

Obtaining it requires finding the Duke in Queensbury Crypt, escorting him to the room after the Duchess boss fight, and sealing him in a coffin. It sounds morbid. It is worth it. When Mina dies with Proto Spark equipped, she revives on the spot with partial health restored. The trinket works against any death: enemy attacks, pit falls, everything. It needs recharging at an Underlab after each use, but that single-use safety net turns frustrating sections into manageable ones.

Crafting Your Ideal Loadout

Trinket combinations unlock the game's deepest tactical layers. Stolenoid plus Deboning Wand creates a bone economy. But it fuels faster progression. Iron Lung plus Tunneling Codex lets you live underground, Steady Soles plus Bellows Bustle makes platforming feel precise, it's not punishing, and Vial Salvo plus Plasma Funnel turns healing into a weapon.

• Bone farming: Stolenoid + Deboning Wand for effortless econ
• Burrow mastery: Iron Lung + Tunneling Codex for near-permanent subterranean play
• Platforming safety: Steady Soles + Keri the Wisp + Bellows Bustle
• Aggressive healing: Vial Salvo + Plasma Funnel keeps you fighting while recovering

Mina the Hollower best trinkets do not demand you commit to one rigid build. They invite you to stack effects, discover synergies, and break the game's challenges in ways that feel earned. Proto Spark sits at the top because it forgives the mistakes you will inevitably make while experimenting with everything else. Find it early. Keep it equipped. Then start mixing the rest and watch Tenebrous Isle become a very different kind of dangerous.