General Description

This mod was created for really just two main purposes

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.

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

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

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)

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)

Life Essence Expansion