Not sure how to use Essence of Life in Hytale? At its core, Hytale is a crafting-focused game, where you'll spend most of your time gathering resources and building. While many items are straightforward in both function and use, some, like Essence of Life, can be confusing at first. In this guide, I’ll explain what Essence of Life is, how to use it, and the best ways to farm it efficiently.
How to Use Essence of Life in Hytale
Unlike many other items you'll gather during your first couple of hours in Hytale's exploration mode, Essence of Life is not a crafting item. Rather, it is one of many currencies in the game, which you'll use to trade with a specific NPC for their goods. To use Essence of Life, head to the Forgotten Temple on your map. Here's how to find it:
- When starting the game, open your map and look for the Forgotten Temple. It’s a massive, three-winged structure, usually located on a river, with a teleportation icon next to it labeled "Forgotten Temple." Check out our images.
- Head to the temple, enter it, and make your way downstairs.
- There will be a Golem, whom you'll need to defeat.
- When you beat the Golem, enter the massive blue portal.
- You will be teleported to the Forgotten Temple location.
- There will be an NPC called Rootling Merchant.
- This is the merchant where you can use Hytale's Essence of Life as a currency to trade for items.
Essence of Life Description Reads:
A form of overflowing life energy found in abundance around plant life on Orbis. In great enough concentrations, perhaps it could even bring forth sentience where it was absent before.
Hytale Essence of Life Farming Tips & Tricks
This item is essentially omnipresent, dropping from nearly any living creature and obtained through activities like gathering flowers and other plants, defeating animals, and opening chests. In fact, most resource-related activities will frequently reward you with Essence of Life. As a result, there’s no need to farm it specifically - you’ll naturally accumulate plenty as you progress throughout the game.
Essence of Life FAQ
Essence of Life is an item that usually drops when collecting plants. It is an in-game currency that can be traded in for various resources bought from an NPC vendor called Rootling Merchant.
Rootling Merchant is an NPC located at the Forgotten Temple.
You can purchase various consumable items, mostly food, recipe ingredients, cooked meals, and other similar items.
No, the Rootling Merchant has a limited stock of each item. Once an item sells out, it will restock after three days. Even if the merchant is fully stocked, their inventory still refreshes with a new set of items every third server day.
In the early game, it’s generally best to spend it as quickly as possible. There’s plenty available, and no real reason to save it. You'll need those other resources.
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