General Description

This mod was created for really just two main purposes

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Reducing chests filling up with greater essences of life

If you are farming a lot in Hytale you might've run into the issue of your chest filling up with essences of life rather quickly. Especially if you are playing on a server with some form of XP/Lvl system, where essences are more of a byproduct.

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Something to grind for

This is more or less something I am dealing with, but I find it cool to have something to grind for in games. An ultimate essence of life accumulating up to a million essences of life could definitely be something to grind for, given that not even I have managed to get half of that in 2 weeks of play time :D

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Crafting, and Recipes

As expected all Essences of Life can be found in the Farming Bench, I also added the recipes for them.

Higher Essence of Life requires Farming Bench Tier 4 Ultimate Essence of Life requires Farming Bench Tier 8

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Design Choice

So I feel like I can also touch on the design aspects of the models/textures, as I tried to keep it as faithful to the original as possible.

I thought that, as essences become smaller, they become more powerful as they concentrate their power into a singularity, just like a star. To account for this, I decided to add rings around the essence, as if they were holding it in place.

Future Updates

I am not gonna do much more, other than improving the models and textures, as well as adding animations to the final essence so it feels more special (given that it's a legendary item)

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Potential Improvements/Ideas

Adding new Farming Workbench categories for each individual new essence tier to reduce clutter in the already existing Essence category. I would essentially create a new category for both Higher and Ultimate and also add the ingredients of all the fruits and vegetables to essences (Probably only higher essences because legendary wouldn't make much sense)