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??? note "Essential sucks"

Its new microtransaction system is predatory, purposefully designed to charge you more than what it would cost you
prior to the new currency update. Essential now uses a new in game currency in order to buy cosmetics, similar to
Fortnite's V-Bucks. The amount of currency you can buy and the price of cosmetics is purposefully placed so that
you always have to buy extra coins than you need to buy an item, forcing you to spend extra. This business
practice is incredibly anticonsumer and profit driven.
Essential's new microtransaction system is predatory, purposefully designed to charge you more than what it would
cost you prior to the new currency update. Essential now uses a new in-game currency in order to buy cosmetics,
similar to Fortnite's V-Bucks. The amount of currency you can buy and the price of cosmetics is strategically
placed so that you always have to buy more coins than you need to buy an item, forcing you to spend extra. This
business practice is incredibly anticonsumer and profit driven.

Several users have also reported having their worlds/save files get completely corrupted due to Essential. While
this seems to be rare, it's better to use the safer alternatives than risk getting your worlds deleted.

Essential also tries to market itself as a mod library. Because of this, if another mod wants to use something
Essential offers, all users of the mod are forced to install Essential alongside the original mod. There is no way
around this. If you are a mod developer, please look elsewhere for the features Essential offers. Their libraries,
Elementa, Vigilance, and UniversalCraft can all be used individually without the need of Essential, should you
need to use them. However, Polyfrost has alternative libraries that may be more useful, such as their
UniversalCraft fork, OneConfig (Vigilance competitor), and PolyUI (Elementa competitor). I especially recommend
avoiding Vigialnce in general, due to its myriad of issues that have been known but not fixed for years.
avoiding Vigilance in general, due to its myriad of issues that have been known but not fixed for years.

Essential has tracking and data collection. This information may be shared to third parties as can be read in
their [privacy policy](https://essential.gg/privacy-policy), as well as what data they collect.

Lastly, Essential is a half-baked mod. Almost every promise for new features has yet to be delivered since and
before its release. Additionally, the features Essential currently has are purposefully made to be worse than
other mods. Most obvious of this is their built in zoom, which despite some of its features being copied from
Patcher, most of its functionality and customization was not adeded to make it "less intimidating and easier
other mods. Most obvious of this is their built in zoom, which despite all of its features being copied from
Patcher, most of its functionality and customization was not added as to make it "less intimidating and easier
for new players". Instead of using these half-baked and random features that can easily break with other mods,
you should just use the free and open alternatives that have more features and are able to provide more support.
you should just use the free and open alternatives that have more features and are able to provide better
support.

Don't feel forced to use Essential!

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