If your not a cave fanatic.

If you go down to a nightmare place and find the Elixr for that amulet you can apply/use/place in the amulet you need to reuse and it turns the Empty Amulet/Empty Shell back into the Life Giving Amulet or whatever amulet you were using. You have to find the different elixrs for the different amulets, and they wouldn't be easy to find, plus, they don't stack, so if you went on an elixr hunt, you could only carry as much as your inventory allows...

AND don't forget the nightmare monsters you'll have to fight off while hunting for the elixrs. This would make geting amulets back almost as hard as finding the gems unless you've got an old file... It would be kinda hard to get them, since it's like harvesting a bush, it takes time to get the elixrs rather than like a carrot you just grab. 

Also, when you use an elixr your sanity would lose alot of sanity (But just for the rest of the day!) So while you've got the amulet you're now running from normal monsters. If you didn't have a stack of food waiting for you in a chest, you'd have to eat beardlings and that night/evening/day that happened after you used the elixr your sanity would go back to what it was previously (NOT COUNTING THE DAY/NIGHT YOU SPENT WITH LOW SANITY!!!) henceforth, if you picked fifty flowers and got sanity higher than your sanity before, it would go back to your sanity before picking the fifty flowers and using the elixr.

A plus is while you have an elixr on you, you'd be kept warm, like a nevercoldening heatstone, and if you eat/drink the elixr you'd get all your health, hunger, and sanity back, but monters would be drawn to you for a couple of minuites (Hint not drink/eating them at night).

You CAN Feed them to other animals E.X pigs, spiders, merms, and houndsthat eat things off the ground. This woul turn the animal onto your side, so if you gave a spider queen an elixr she (and her babies) would fight on your side, or if you had a hound eat one, it would fight (forever unlike the others) on your side. a pig or merm would follow you around telling the other pigs/merms to also, so if you fed one pig an elixr, you'd get five pigs until the one that had the elixr's alligence to you wore off.

ALSO If you harvest an elixr, you can plant it in a farm, where it would take an annoyingly long time to make two elixrs (henceforth after like five days of waiting you'd get more than you started with). Of course, these plant grown elixrs will attract hounds/pigs/spiders/exc... until they are picked up, and, unlike other plants, will harvest themselvs, so if you aren't around when the plant is done, don't expect to gert the elixrs.

The pluses; once you had one elixr, you could make more... You dont have to continualy remake amulets which (if you are using graves) a very sanity-depriving task, and you could make basically a win-win food-amulet farm that you wouldn't have to leave from often. Also, you could get mobs to follow you and possibly have an army of hounds on your side forever. Elixrs do not spoil, and are very good at making even the most agressive mobs to like you if you feed it to them (must be given by hand, not dropped on the ground). The elixrs will also make passive (food) mobs come out of their warrens/trees/houses to wander after you (if you kill/trap one of these mobs the other mobs will fly/walk/run away from you for a period of 5 game hours). It also allows you to control the weather (limited) If you drink the elixr at night it rains, if you eat it in the day (if it was raining) it will stop raining (if it wasn't) it will begin a thunder (lightning) storm, if dusk it will rain frogs (this ability can be stopped by dropping the elixr nd then picking it up and drinking it before you've held it for 30 seconds, also it can be treated as a negitive or a positive).

The negitives; unless you have a good weapon or panic shelter, you'll have a problem with drinking the elixrs, because it calls a lot of angry mobs toward you (hinting at the idea maybe you are drinking part of the soul of the island away) ex Tallbirds, hounds, spider/warriors/queens, hallucinations, nightmare monsters, merms, tentacles (if in the area), batsalisks ,exc... to you for a perid of 7 (game) hours. also, this makes you lose sanity darasticly for a (four game hour) period of time, making terror beaks, crawling horrors, exc... even more ominous (this sanity drop affect resets after the period of time ends and you get the sanity you had before drinking the elixr(s) back). And, when the plants are done growing, they harvest themselves and the elixrs drop onto the ground where the closest mobs (including passive and agressive) will come and try to eat the dropped elixr(s) (if the mob normally eats things from the ground). It also allows you to control the weather (limited) If you drink the elixr at night it rains, if you eat it in the day (if it was raining) it will stop raining (if it wasn't) it will begin a thunder (lightning) storm, if dusk it will rain frogs (this ability can be stopped by dropping the elixr nd then picking it up and drinking it before you've held it for 30 seconds, also it can be treated as a negitive or a positive).

You'll have some fun spelunking the ruins.

I think the amulet should have a different chance of becoming a "empty" item depending on the durability is was in during resurrection. And honestly, I think other items should be able to be repaired with a special science station, and how much it is repaired depends on which material the item is mostly made of. Ex. You would want to repair a log suit with wood more than with rope.

"Why do my darn tools break, anyway?!" -Wilson