Mina The Hollower Walkthrough – Queensbury Crypt

Welcome to the Into Indie Games walkthrough for Queensbury Crypt in Mina The Hollower.

Mina the Hollower blends fast-paced action, exploration, and classic retro-inspired design into a challenging adventure packed with secrets. As Mina, a skilled Hollower armed with her trusty whip and burrowing abilities, you’ll battle dangerous enemies, uncover hidden treasures, and navigate a sprawling world full of surprises.

This walkthrough will guide you through each area, helping you find key items, solve puzzles, and overcome the toughest encounters along the way.

For more information on Mina the Hollower beyond this walkthrough of Ossex, be sure to check out the official website here.

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Queensbury Crypt

Old Graveyard

On the path to the crypt, check the Underlab first. Break the cracked rock on the left and make your way to the right. Take out the slimes and the birds as you make your way to the right and get the skulls. Keep going till you reach the spikes on top of the screen and then the pressure switch on the opposite corner.

Go through the now opened path and head north. Take out the ghouls there. You will find Mrs. Sodsby digging graves at the very north of the screen. Dig the graves for her and she will give you a kear. Take out the zombies and the slimes and move to the right. There is a Bonestone here on the map.

Move to the right and then take the path at the bottom right corner. In the next screen pick up the bones from the center of the map.

Kill the new jumping skeleton enemy and then pick up the Sidearm, Mist Jar if you want. Go back to the previous screen and clear the debris from the stairs up north and go up. Kill the bird there and find the pressure switch to the left. Now go to the left and up and behind the fence.

Clear the path and go north and use the kear to unlock the path and check the vault in the middle.

Inside you will find the trinket, Desperation Bonnet. Clear the slimes that show up outside and go back down. Go north now, through the path that was closed off with spikes. Fight the new goat enemy. There is a Bonestone in the corner of the stairs here.

Go north again and onto the moving platform and keep making your way up. You can pick up loot from the ground on the left behind the church spire. Keep moving north till you reach the screen where you can see a red chest on the right. Talk to Belvedere here. Go to the right corner, dig, and jump to the northern ledge here.

Go to the right from here to find a secret area. Dig the graves for skulls and you will also see fast travel pipes here. Go south and hop on the moving platform and to the right to pick up a Bonestone.

Go back to the main path. If you take the fast travel pipe it will take you back to Eastern Heath. Just drop the rope down here to open this shortcut up. Go back to Belvedere and through the doorway into the crypt.

Foyer

Go up and to the right and blow up the wall here.

Pick up 80 bones here and go left. Do the same on the opposite side and head through the door. You will be out on the balcony with the red chest. Pick up Whisper and Vesper. Go back in through the main door. Hit up the Underlab on the right. Head north and check the inscription and then head down the stairs.

Entryway

Avoid the arrows and pick up the bones from the right bottom corner. Take out the enemy and the jars. Head up. In the next screen take out the goat enemy and then head to the left. Avoid the arrows from the traps. Pick up the skulls and take care of the birds. Hit the switch at the end of the path. Avoid the runes on the floor.

Jump down and head to the previous screen and go up. Take out the ghoul and avoid the spike roller and head through the path on the top right corner. In the next room, break the jars in the bottom left corner and jump over the two rollers. You can pick up the bones around them if you are quick enough. Take out the blue bird. There are a couple of rollers. Same deal. Go to the right at the end.

In the next screen pick up all the bones, use the moving platforms to get to the chest with the kear on the right. Avoid the arrows and talk to the weird bird. It will run away. Go back out and then up. Take out the enemies here, use the jars if needed. Avoid the arrow or the runes to trigger the arrows. Move north again. Crawl into the small opening on the right at the top of the screen.

Pick up the skulls and the Bonestone fragments from this room and go back out. Dig up to the next room and take out the slime and the tall enemy here. Pick up the statue head and place it on the left statue.

This will retract the spikes and you can go through. Speak to Ophidio in the next room. Take the stairs heading down.

Statue Head Hall

Avoid the roller and pick up the chest with the Bonestone Flakes in the bottom left corner and then head up. Go to the right and drill through the opening on the wall.

Dodge the spikes and pick up all the bones in this area. Go back out and drill through the opening on the top left corner.

Inside Belvedere is selling items. The Kear is the most important item he has. But you can also pick up the trinket, Stolenoid. Head out and go through the same location on the opposite side.

Inside is a blue chest and two jars. Grab everything. There is a mirror here that you can check. But interestingly, you can enter the mirror.

Astral Orrery

Mirror’s End

Once you are in, hit the switch in the middle and go down. Go right then up, and you can find a chest. That’s pretty much all you can do here now. Head back.

Queenbury Crypt

Statue Head hall

Go back out to the main hall now and go left, pass the tunnel to Belvedere. Clear all the enemies in this room and go north, up the stairs. Clear all the mobs in this room, avoid the arrows and go north up the stairs. Pick up the statue head and throw it down to the lower platform. Now carry it back and place it on the statue on the left of the spikes.

Go to the right now and make your way down. Break the stone and go through the bottom left corner.

Go down and to the right till you find that weird bird, Midden again. Avoid the spikes and kill the skeleton and pick up the bones. Once Midden leaves pick up the bone stone. Go back out and head north. Pick up the statue head and bring it back to the spikes and place it on the right sided statue. Go up once the spikes are down. The next room is tough, 4 tough enemies here. Slow it down, don’t panic roll and look for openings.

The switch to the spikes is on the bottom right corner, so if you want to avoid the fight, just press it and make a run for it through the door.

Final Stairwell

Inspect the skeleton with the red shawl and go through.

Ancestral Chamber

Hit the Underlab on the left. Go to the right and sacrifice two vials to open the path. You will find Midden here and it will be a boss fight.

Boss Fight: Midden

Cheese tactic, stand in the top left corner and just spam attack Midden. He can’t hit you.

Once he is down, you will get the trinket, Fly Bait. Pick up all the loot from here including the candle. Go back to the path and head north now. In the next room, take out the tall enemy and move north again. Walk over the planks and once you reach the second screen, break the cracked stone on the left.

Pick up the bones and the jars on the planks and go north. In the next room, take out the tall zombies and then break the stone in the bottom left corner.

You will find the Duke on the left of this screen but to get to him you need to sacrifice 2 vials. Use the ropes to get to him. You do have to kill a tall zombie up top. Once you speak to the Duke he will start following you, head south with him. Go past all the traps. Go around and then head north. Back at the central hall go up the stairs.

Clear the area of loot and head up. You can use the fast travel pipe here to unlock the path to the outside. On the left of this hallway, destroy the wall to find a statue head.

Go north with it and drop it down to summon the Duchess.

Boss Fight: Duchess

Phase 1

Avoid her swings and the arrows she triggers by stepping on the runes. The arrows deal damage to her too. Keep moving around and avoiding damage and she loses almost 50% hp from chip damage from the arrows.

Phase 2

She will pop her tentacles under you.

She will also slam down with all here tentacles. Nothing really changes about the fight. Just avoid and punish. Once she is gone, you will receive the upgrade, Health Rose. Go north through the exit and you will find the Royal Tomb.

Royal Tomb

Follow the Duke. Break all the candles in the room and place the lid on the tomb. This will get you one of the best trinkets in the game, Proto Spark.

Go back out and take the stairs leading out.

Solemn Generator

Go north, speak to the trooper there and check the generator. You will now have to climb up the tower in a sort of side scrolling action game. You need to avoid the enemies and traps and reset the fuses as you climb up.

Once you reach the top and complete the section you will get a Fused Bonestone. Mina will write a letter to Lionel and fall asleep. Once she wakes, use the channel that just opened up and head down to the ground. Head south to exit the Crypt and into Mourner’s Mile.

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