Hey, Hi, Howdy, and Hello 

I am a witch obsessed with Giant Crops, and thanks to the mod Giant Crops Tweaks I recently grew a Giant Crop collection on my Ginger Island farm. My collection includes the beautiful BBR's Giant Flowers which adds 6 giant flowers to my game. After installing and using Tap Giant Crops on my various giants, I noticed that tapping flowers gave me nothing in return (though with a recent update to Tap Giant Crops, they now can give the corresponding honey), so I set out to make something so that my giant crop collection could be complete.



I have added 8 floral essences for the 8 flowers in the vanilla game (including Sweet Pea and Crocus) which can be crafted by inputting a flower into a keg, and after about 2 in-game days, you'll have some essence!



Why craft it in a keg you say? Well looking into the Tap Giant Crops mod, the production rules for that stated that it can work with anything that's keg crafted, so I whipped this up to be able to collect them from the tappers on my giant crop collection farm.

No, you don't need Giant Crops for these to be made, in fact, you can use just any ol' flower, pop them in a keg and craft them! They sell for about twice the price of that flower's honey at its base.

Flowers in the kegs work with PFMAutomate, but the essence from giant crop tappers do not as of right now (due to the Tap Giant Crop mod not having that)

But WAIT! There's MORE!



I finally got around to making custom dropper bottles for the flowers from Lumisteria Flowers, Mizu's Flowers, and the foragable flowers from Stardew Valley Expanded! YAY! (I actually also made 25 for Farmer To Florist but had forgotten to check the permissions on that mod beforehand, so those are not available due to permission restrictions, sorry)

So with the added flowers, there are now a total of 50 floral essences that you can collect and drink for no reason and sell for big money!

These are now all added under the optional files and will require their respective mods to work.


CREDITS:

Now, I'm not the best pixel artist, most of my work comes from in-game sprites recolored and mish-mashed to make something somewhat appealing, so I can't take credit for the original sprites, apart from the little flower sparkles. The first batch was made by combining and recoloring the oil bottle and various kinds of honey from the wonderful Fancy Artisan Goods Retexture mod that I am obsessed with by Aimon111 who crafted the sprites with inspiration and repurpose of Henry Software's Free Pixel Food Tileset 

Mods in Pictures:
Giant Crops, Giant Crops Tweaks, Tap Giant Crops, 6480's Giant Crops, Giant Qi Crop 
also the Giant Rafflesia, Lumisteria Flowers, Mizu's Flowers, and Stardew Valley Expanded


What all has been UPDATED, and why? Well, I'm glad you asked!

Updated Sprites: I remade all the previous bottles into my own thing and made them a little smaller with a dropper top, to look like those little essential oil dropper bottles you find at any store that sells those things! I like them.

Price Balancing(I think): I changed the sell price formula for these to be worth 4.5x more than the value of the flower you input, to get it closer to the price I had originally in mind, which was 2x the value of the honey from that flower. As you can tap the giant crop versions of all the flowers that are currently available, this means that you can get some huge profit from tapping the Giant Rafflesia from Mizu's Flowers if you download that mod, so I made the essence production time of that one in particular much longer than the others, about 10 days.

Edibility Change: These don't taste that good honestly. I have a machine I am slowly working on that will implement floral essence in a unique way so the edibility is closer to sap. I will perhaps even make a custom machine for those who want an option other than putting flowers into a keg or getting them from giant crops.

Gift Tastes: The base game floral essences all have gift tastes added based on what makes sense in my head: 

• Blue Jazz Floral Essence is loved by Pam
• Crocus Floral Essence is loved by Sandy, Krobus, and Wizard
• Fairy Rose Floral Essence is loved by Evelyn, Jas, and Marnie
• Poppy Floral Essence is loved by Penny and hated by all else
• Summer Spangle Floral Essence is loved by Caroline and Gus
• Sunflower Floral Essence is loved by Gus, Haley, and Leo
• Sweet Pea Floral Essence is loved by Gus, Maru, and Sandy
• Tulip Floral Essence is loved by Evelyn, Emily, and Jodi
  

Shipping: I removed all essences from being an item required for the shipping sheet, so you no longer need to sell these in order to get the Full Shipment achievement. I decided this based on how I had originally named them, with the flower name first. That bothered me, I would prefer to see them all grouped together. I like a nice clean and organized inventory and collections, and the essences were all over the place when I was looking them over on my heavily modded Sad Sap farm. Adding in a total of 50 needed items to ship seemed a bit extreme and I would prefer that you just collect these because you want to, not because you feel you need to.

Future Updates? I have no more droppers currently planned until I see a nice mod with lots of flowers. If I do release a different machine to process these, I'll likely release it separately as I imagine it'll have other functions too.