Vitja's Essence Exchange
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Learn items, dissolve spare resources into Creation Essence, and recreate remembered forms with an animated transmutation plate and native Hytale UI.
A quarter-block transmutation plate with a floating red crystal, luminous cyan corner stones and swirling essence particles. Captured in Hytale 0.7.2.
The native Essence Exchange interface: nine input slots, learned forms, readable CE values, search and a persistent player inventory. Captured in Hytale 0.7.2.
Description
Vitja's Essence Exchange
Singleplayer fix in 1.0.2: CE preparation no longer disconnects you when starting a singleplayer world. The loading screen waits until the complete CE catalog is ready.
Learn matter. Store its essence. Create it again.
Turn spare resources into Creation Essence (CE) and spend that essence to recreate items you have learned. Build an animated Transmutation Plate, open its native Hytale interface, and start your own collection of remembered forms.
From Matter to Essence
- Learn by dissolving: deposit an eligible item and dissolve it to remember its form and receive its CE value.
- Create what you know: click a remembered form to create one item. Shift-click creates the largest affordable stack that fits your inventory.
- Nine input slots: drag items or Shift-click stacks into the input bank, then use Dissolve all to process them together.
- Optional Auto-Burn: dissolve eligible deposits immediately. Items without a supported CE value stay in the bank and can be taken back.
- Personal progress: CE, learned forms, the input bank and Auto-Burn preference are saved per player. Learned forms survive later recipe or value changes.
Search your remembered items, browse the most valuable affordable forms, and see CE values in ordinary item tooltips. Large numbers use readable abbreviations such as K and M. Ordinary damaged tools can be dissolved for a proportion of their intact value, based on remaining durability and repair wear. Items carrying unsupported special data are protected from dissolution.
An Altar for Your Workshop
The Transmutation Plate has a thin, quarter-block body, a floating red crystal, glowing blue corner stones and swirling particles. Interacting with it raises the crystal and opens Essence Exchange. The plate can be mined and recovered.
Find the Essence Core and Transmutation Plate in the mod's own Creative tab and its category at the standard Workbench.
Essence Core: 4 Aetherstone Dust + 4 Glowstone Dust + 1 Red Crystal Shard.
Transmutation Plate: 1 Essence Core + 4 Basalt material units + 4 Iron Bars.
The dusts come from Vitja's Aether-Stone (MC Redstone), which is a required dependency. Mobile transmutation and automatic condenser machines are not included in this release.
Values That Follow Your Modpack
Essence Exchange rebuilds one shared CE catalog at every server start. It reads supported registered recipes and acquisition paths, including crafting, furnace/processing recipes, loot, gathering, hammer conversions, renewable sources, and supported natural generation and structure rules.
Natural-resource values use deterministic estimates from the registered rules, expected drop quantities and configured reference values. They are balance estimates, not a promise of exact rarity in every world. No temporary measurement world is generated. Updated recipes, supported generation rules and loot changes are read again after a restart. Since 1.0.2, CE preparation finishes during server startup: singleplayer stays on the loading screen until the catalog is ready, and early connections wait for the completed catalog instead of being disconnected.
This also helps price items from other mods when their ingredients and acquisition chains can be resolved. Compatibility depends on the paths a mod exposes: unsupported custom generation, missing ingredients or inaccessible assets can remain unpriced. Those items are not silently assigned invented values. The server exports a complete item catalog and individual reasons for missing values, with configurable overrides for special cases.
If Vitja's InfoHUD+ is installed, its optional integration shows CE for the block you are looking at. InfoHUD is not required.
Installation and Commands
Install this mod and Vitja's Aether-Stone (MC Redstone) 0.6.10 or newer on your Hytale server, then restart. Supports Hytale 0.7.x; tested with Hytale 0.7.2 and 0.7.3. The interface supports English and German, with automatic or manual language selection.
Normal players open the interface by interacting with the Transmutation Plate. Since version 1.0.1, the /essenceexchange command and its /genesis and /transmute aliases are reserved for operators/administrators with essenceexchange.admin; they do not provide ordinary players with portable access.
Server administrators can use /essenceexchangeinfo to inspect preparation and coverage, /essenceexchangereload to reload manual settings, and /essenceexchangerescan to recalculate supported rules. Administrator commands require essenceexchange.admin.
Feedback and Suggestions
Feedback, suggestions and bug reports are welcome! Please leave a comment below or send me a private message through my CurseForge profile. For bug reports, please include your mod version, Hytale version and steps to reproduce the issue.
License and Custom Versions
Copyright © 2026 Vitja. All rights reserved. This mod is proprietary and its source code is not publicly available. You may download and use official releases under the applicable platform terms. Reuse, redistribution, modification, or publishing derivative versions requires prior written permission, except where permitted by applicable law. For a custom version or permission request, please contact me through CurseForge.
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