Please revise the T1 essence hunger of the game

I can somewhat understand why you removed the possibility to extract essences from plant fiber, rocks and sticks. Having players vacuum everything all the time probably isn't your preferred style of the game being played. But what happens now is that trees are cut down in thousands at a time, just to get the T1 essence necessary to keep everything in working order.
You now won't need as much early on but late-game, the T1 essence hunger is only slightly mitigated.

So, I'm suggesting one or more of the following:

1) Bring back fiber, rocks, and sticks essences. Might make things too easy early game, but would reduce the deforestation late-game.

2) Make repairs much cheaper or free even. Maybe use a specialized bench for that. If I recall correctly, repairs in Valheim were free but you needed a bench for that

3) Remove item/cloth wear altogether

4) Make essence interchangeable: Repair with less of T2,T3,T4 essences if need be.