Mina the Hollower packs 60 trinkets into its world, and with only six equip slots available at maximum, picking the right ones matters more than collecting them all. Some sit in shops waiting for you to spend Bones. Others demand you solve environmental puzzles, beat optional bosses, or carry a snowball across half the map without dropping it. This guide breaks down the six trinkets worth prioritizing, where to find every single one, and how to unlock all the Trinket Bags you need to equip them.
What are the best trinkets to equip in Mina the Hollower?
With six slots to fill and 60 options on the table, the strongest loadout balances survival, healing, and movement. Here are the six picks that deliver the most value across the whole game.
Proto Spark
Proto Spark is the first trinket you should chase. Help the Duke locate the Duchess in Queensbury and you receive it as a reward from the Queensbury: Royal Tomb. The effect is simple: die once, and you immediately revive with roughly half your maximum health. The reset triggers on each death, so it remains useful all the way through late-game boss fights. Going into a tough encounter with this equipped means one bad hit does not end your run.
Proto Spark revive trinket
Primed Vial Pouch
Once you have a second Trinket Bag, slot in the Primed Vial Pouch. It adds 2 extra Plasma Vials to your carry capacity, which helps enormously when navigating vial gates without burning through your healing stock. The secondary effect is the real value: every vial use restores at least a small amount of health even if you have not struck an enemy recently. To find it, exit Ossex via the southern entrance and head west. Pass the guards, look for the massive gap with an opening below, drop down, attack the stump on the right, then enter the house and access the cellar.
The Primed Vial Pouch is located in Southern Outskirts: Residence. You have to drop through the roof to reach the cellar, so do not look for a front door.
Tunneling Codex and Iron Lung
The Tunneling Codex is the hardest of the six to earn. You need to beat the Ring Dive minigame in Sandfalls: Ring Dive Parlor and clear a high score of 5,000 points. Once you have it, holding the jump button keeps Mina burrowing continuously without needing to resurface between dives. Areas like Nox's Bayou and the Backwaters open up completely.
Pair it with Iron Lung, found north of the Mock Moon boss room in Nox's Bayou: Moonlit Path. Iron Lung extends your maximum burrow time, including underwater. Together these two trinkets make water traversal trivial and let you reach hidden items that would otherwise require multiple surface breaks.
Iron Lung extends burrow time
Keri the Wisp and Bellows Bustle
Keri the Wisp costs 500 Bones from the merchant in Southern Outskirts: Commons. Press jump while airborne and Mina floats briefly, extending her fall and clearing gaps that would otherwise require a specific route. It is cheap, available early, and immediately useful.
Bellows Bustle comes much later. Win all three Blaise races (one in Ossex, one in Western Hills, one near Bone Beach station) by reaching Ossex City Center before time runs out without using shortcuts or stairs. The reward is an air dash on a second jump press. Combined with Keri the Wisp's float, Mina can cover horizontal distances that feel impossible without them.
Bellows Bustle is also available from Panino's shop in Ossex: Station Underpass if you miss the races, but reaching Panino requires the Drill Driver Sidearm to cross the gap to his rope. Budget roughly 10 minutes of in-game waiting after purchasing from him before the item appears at his stall.
How do you get more Trinket Bags in Mina the Hollower?
You start with limited trinket slots. Trinket Bags expand your capacity, and tracking all of them down should be a priority alongside finding the trinkets themselves.
The three Emporium bags are the most straightforward. Save Bones early and buy them in order as you can afford them. The Astral Orrery bag is the most involved, requiring two portal keys and a Kear, so plan for it as a late-game objective.
Panino in Ossex: Station Underpass also stocks several trinkets that are otherwise tied to complex puzzle sequences. If you find a trinket's normal acquisition method too involved, check his inventory after meeting the prerequisite conditions.
Ossex Emporium Trinket Bags
Tips for building your trinket loadout
A few patterns emerge after testing trinkets across different playstyles.
The Beastium family (Draining, Burning, Reckless, Warding, Starving, Volatile) all trade one resource or stat for another. They reward players who understand the tradeoff and build around it. Reckless Beastium pairs well with Proto Spark since the revive cushions the increased vulnerability. Draining Beastium works best if you have Windfall Charm equipped to recover Joules from enemy hits.
For boss fights specifically, Voltaic Guard and Flame Guard are situationally strong. Both block one hit from their respective damage type and recharge in seconds. Against bosses that lean heavily on lightning or fire attacks, either guard trinket effectively reduces the number of meaningful hits you take.
The Wisp trinkets (Helio, Willow, Keri) each serve different purposes. Helio heals after taking damage. Willow boosts attack damage and speed after taking damage. Keri extends airtime. Helio and Willow do not stack in a way that doubles the wisp effect, so pick based on whether you need more survivability or more offensive output.
Uranium Bracelet unlocks at Ossex: Trinket Bazaar for 2,000 Bones after defeating the Septemburg boss. The "deal and receive significantly more damage" tradeoff is punishing on its own, but pairing it with Proto Spark and Evasion Powder turns it into an aggressive glass-cannon setup that can shred boss health bars.
For new players still learning the game's systems, the beginner's guide to Mina the Hollower covers weapons, bones, and survival fundamentals that will make your trinket choices more effective.
Where to find Panino and what he sells
Panino operates a shop in Ossex: Station Underpass. Reaching him requires the Drill Driver Sidearm to jump across the gap to the rope on the far side. Climb the rope and deposit 4 Vials to open the path. Several trinkets that are otherwise locked behind complex puzzles appear in his stock as an alternative acquisition method, including Dummy Cache, Bridge Weaver, Bellows Bustle, Spring Heels, Watchful Eye, Volatile Beastium, Dodging Pendulum, and Blinking Glass. After purchasing, leave the area for around 10 minutes before returning to find the item at his stall.
For more on navigating Ossex and the broader world, the guide on how to get the map explains how to unlock the Hollower's Guild and purchase the map from Drillhardt, which makes tracking down obscure trinket locations significantly less painful.
For the full breakdown of every trinket across all 60 slots, plus build recommendations organized by playstyle, the Mina the Hollower guides collection has everything you need to finish the game with the strongest possible loadout.