Filth is a good way to put it

Such a horrible mod. I won't talk about the microtranactions because i feel Alro did a good job talking about it in there review, so i will talk about all the other things that make Essential bad.

Installer

The Essential.jar you download is not what ends up being ran by your modloader. Instead, Essential runs a installer and can install whatever it wants! This content persists after the Essential.jar is removed

[17:24:30] [main/INFO]: Updating stage1 to version 13 from jar:file:/home/smeagle/.local/share/PrismLauncher/instances/1.19.2/minecraft/.fabric/processedMods/essential-loader-1.3.2-ee8364190873c568.jar!/gg/essential/loader/stage0/stage1.jar
[17:24:30] [main/INFO]: Updating Essential Loader (stage2) version 1.7.4 (fd9925651d7d2a7c4382209f86cf67c6) from jar:file:/home/smeagle/.local/share/PrismLauncher/instances/1.19.2/minecraft/mods/Essential_1-3-10-9_fabric_26-1-2.jar!/essential-loader-stage2-fabric-1.7.4.jar
[17:24:30] [main/INFO]: Starting Essential Loader (stage2) version 1.7.4 (fd9925651d7d2a7c4382209f86cf67c6) [stable]
[17:24:30] [main/INFO]: Downloading 52718KB of updates...

By Other Mods

Due to the installer essential has, it is possible (and encouraged) for other mods to just install essential with no warning.

Privacy Policy

Essential collects your data!

Information collected includes:

• Geolocation information
• Usage Information
• Behavioral Information
• Metadata (from screenshots or files)
• Third-Party Information (that they buy from other company to 'supplement' what they already collect)