In Nightingale, Essence Dust is an essential currency you will need to repair your equipment and buy items from Essence traders you will find on your map. Here’s how to make it quickly.
As in any survival game,Nightingaleis full of resources that you will need to be able to farm from the landscape and the various adventures you go on. Becoming self-sufficient is one of the earliest, yet most important things you need to establish, as without it, you’ll quickly perish.
In Nightingale, after you have access to somefood and tools, you’ll find you require Essence Dust. With this, you will be able to repair and upgrade your items, but also buy things from special traders out on your map. It’s not a particularly hard-to-find resource, as you can get it by just extracting it from basically anything you pick up.
That said, just because it is easy to come by, doesn’t mean there aren’t better ways to get it than others. Here’s the best farm we’ve found for getting a chunk of Essence Dust early on inthe game.
The best early game Essence Dust farm in Nightingale
While you can get Essence Dust by just picking things from the ground like plants and fiber and extracting it, here is a very efficient way to farm a lot of Essence Dust quickly, especially towards the beginning of the game. All you need is access to some rocks and a Simple Workbench:
There you have it. That’s all you need to know about how to get a lot of Essence Dust quickly. With this, you should be able to buy blueprints, and upgrades allowing you to keep yourself alive until you’ve established a strong base.
Patrick Dane was Dexerto’s Games Editor in the UK team, leading the gaming section globally. With over 10 years experience in the gaming industry, he has built a reputation for industry-leading coverage of live service games such as Overwatch and Destiny. He also enjoys RPGs, single-player games, and attending events where the next big game drops. Patrick has bylines at TechRadar, IGN, PC Gamer, GamesRadar, International Business Times and Edge magazine.
