Enhance your in-game persona with a variety of free and premium emotes within Essential.

What are emotes?
Emotes in Essential provide a dynamic way to express yourself, adding to the depth beyond skins. Whether you're celebrating with a dance or greeting others with a wave, there's a variety of emotes to convey your feelings. Explore the wardrobe for both free and premium options to bring your character to life.
Applying emotes
- Open the wardrobe
- Click on
Emotesin the sidebar - Click or drag and drop an emote to apply it to your emote wheel
- Claim or purchase the emote if you haven't unlocked it yet
Using emotes
- Join a world or server
- Press and hold the emote wheel key (default is
R) - Hover your mouse over the desired emote and release the keybind
- Watch your character break into a… t-pose?!
Gifting emotes
- Open the wardrobe
- Click the
...orright-clickon the emote you wish to gift - Click
Gift to Friend - Enter your friend’s username
- Click
Purchaseto send the gift

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