From there, the "1031 = Silksong release date" theory exploded. Believers argued that Team Cherry would announce the game on (10/31). October 2023 came and went. October 2024 came and went. Nothing.
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The original bug (real bug, not Vengefly) typically occurred in the or during the Colosseum of Fools third trial. Community programmers traced 1031 to a memory allocation failure tied to particle effects—specifically, the spore clouds from defeated Flukemon enemies. From there, the "1031 = Silksong release date"
Instead, "1031" refers to a specific or object ID found when datamining the game’s Unity assets or, more commonly, a persistent error code that PC players reported between 2018 and 2020. When the game crashed to desktop, a small percentage of users would see a log file ending with error_1031 . October 2024 came and went
The conspiracy originates from a now-deleted tweet in April 2023. A user claiming to be a former QA tester for Team Cherry mentioned that an internal build of Silksong had a debug room labeled scene_test_1031 . According to the leak (likely false), this room contained all of Hornet’s new silk-based moves and a single, untextured NPC modeled after the Last Stag.