Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26119768-20161214051130

There are few things as cool to hang on a wall as a map. I propose that a LOTR mod version of maps be

added.

Standard Maps
These will be crafted like so, with p= paper, I= charcoal dust or ink sac, and n= nothing:

NPN

PIP

NPN

This will craft a blank map. When you right click and hold it, (like how you eat food) black particles will fly out of the map, and a sound like a quill writing will be heard. after a second or two this will end and your map will update. It will show the entire biome you are in, complete with labels for major roads and rivers. This map will be in sepia tone. When you enter a new biome and hold shift right click again, the map will update and include the new biome, allowing you to travel Middle-Earth and become a cartographer. When you shift right click the map it brings up a gui. You can mouse over the map in this gui and see the coordinates of where you mouse over. This gui also has  2 buttons. One will allow you to place a mark on the map in the place you currently are. You can then type a label for the mark. This mark will be displayed every time you look at the map. The second button allows you to use the mouse to place a mark anywhere on the map, along with labelling it.

Travel Maps
these are crafted by putting the previous map (blank or used) in a crafting grid with a feather. This creates a travel map. The biomes you travel through are revealed automatically, without holding right click. A dotted trail also is put on the map wherever you go. Both these features are disabled by taking the map out of your hotbar. This map can also be marked with locations and landmarks.

Middle-Earth Map
This map is only sold by traveling merchants. It is a complete map of Middle-Earth, and works like the standard map, and can be turned into a travel map.

Map Holder
Crafted like an item frame but with paper instead of leather. When right clicked with a map of any kind, it holds the map, displaying it. When you put a map holder in a 3x3 crafting grid and surround cit with sticks you get a large map holder, which displays a 3x3 block version of the maps put in it.

Tables of Command
Tables of command could have a second slot, and if you put a map in it that is what the top of the table displays.

Thats all, I hope you like it! 