Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-34204318-20180104230151/@comment-26553378-20180106020737

LordofLustria wrote: In medival times one of the main ways of getting food was hunting. Since Middle Earth is based on medival times hunting should be a part of the mod.

First: Hunger should run out slower

Second: There should be more types of creatures to hunt but they should be rarer and have better models as we all agree the current ones are really bad.

Things to hunt with: A short-bow, a skinning knife you use to get extra hide form creatures you kill and stakes that damage creatures that run into them and slow them like cobwebs, they could be deployed before archers like in the battle of Agincourt. You could also place these vertically and put heads on them to act as spikes.

Physics: Dead stuff drop their dead body like in the butcher's mod which you can stand on like a warg rug and despawn pretty quickly to cut down on lag. 1. it already was... a lot. 3x slower if I recall correctly. (doesn't work on cauldron server though)

2. Insulting the mod teams modelling abilities won't change the fact that this is minecraft, and as such is rather blocky by default. Without more than simply saying "they're bad" I don't think that the mod team could to anything with that.

3. Spike traps are an interesting idea, though stalagmites can function well at present. as far as a short bow and skinning knife... honestly, those are some fairly good ideas, a bow with a bonus against wild-life that can simply be used by hunters, and a knife to increase drops in a realistic way rather than the knife being "lucky"

4. An interesting idea, use ragdoll physics. Its possible, I'd say make it so they become an inventory holding their drops, and using a skinning knife will make more leather/hide in it, but can only be used once, for kid-friendliness this would of course not make a bloody lump out of the critter. the meat would decay into rotten flesh over time, and the leather into nothing, once nothing "useful" is left it would despawn. this would of course be a rather swift process, completing in only 2-5 minutes. bones and rotten flesh would then be dropped in item form.