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As you make yourself at home inNightingale, you’ll need to gather resources to establish an Estate. Building bigger and stronger workbenches and tools requires recipes to do so, which can be found as rewards or purchased from vendors. Buying recipes is faster and more direct, but it will require one specific component: Essence Dust.
Essence Dust is the currency of the Fae Realms, and you’ll need plenty of it to get by. Thankfully, there’s more than enough to go around if you know where to look. Here’s how you can line your pockets with Essence Dust quickly in Nightingale.
What Is Essence Dust?
If you’ve explored the Fae Realms for more than an hour, you’ve likely come across Essence Dust. This lovely item can befound in many places, and it’s vital to your experience in Nightingale.
Essence Dust isnot only the currencyyou’ll trade with, but it’s alsowhat you’ll be using to repair tools and equipmentas needed. It’s safe to say you’llneed it often and in great quantities.
The problem becomes how to gather the sheer amount of Essence Dust you’ll need to get by. Thankfully, there are several ways you canfarm Essence Dust quickly.
Defeating Enemies For Essence Dust
While it’s not the fastest option, it is themost efficient in terms of resource gathering. Fighting enemies and hunting wildlife cansometimes drop Essence Dust. Unfortunately, the drop isa single Essence Dustrather than a bundle of it, so this route will take more time to reach your goal.
However, it does come with the benefit ofgathering other materials, like hide, bone, and meatin the process. The other downside is that you’ll likely need torepair your weapons afterward, which will also consume Essence Dust.
Extracting Essence Dust From Items
The best way to get Essence Dust quickly is toextract it from itemsyou already have. You’ll getone Essence Dust for every item extracted, so you’ll want to gather in excess.
However, there isa workaround to maximize your Essence Dust. Using the workbench, you cancraft Simple Rock Marblesusing Rocks. For the cost of a few rocks, you can craft 20 Simple Rock Marbles at a time.Each one can be extractedto obtain Essence Dust.
You’ll need six rocks to craft marbles, but you’ll end up withover a dozen more marblesto extract!
