Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-24906748-20150821043848

There are a lot of things about the ancient evil Valar hell fortress that can be improved. Some are:

-Balrogs need to be less like the movie and more like the book. Like a black silouhette of a person with wings. When it touches a fire block, it becomes an entity that swirls around it and makes it light fires everywhere it goes(a smaller area because it would be smaller). They would throw bricks like the mountain troll chieftain throws rocks, and be on all levels.

-There would be random fires in the fire floor, and actual ice and obsidian in the respective floors.

-Prisons. cells in holes in the wall, containing Valinor elves(Valinor is planned, which should include Valinor elves) and tormented elves. There would be Utumno steel* bars.

-Materials. Utumno steel, made with all the other materials that you can use for armor and/or weapons, including vanilla materials in Utumno forge, which has enough space, and you get the same amount of Utumno steel as the amount of different materials. You can craft "fake" Utumno weapons/armor on normal crafting table, they would be like iron, just look nice. Also there would be mithril in Utumno, as well as mithril equipment, which would be rarely worn by orcs.

-New texture for armor, which would have light gray on it for ice, as well as purplish black for obsidian and orange for fire. same with all the weapons. The balrog whip would not be a fire whip, it would look like, again, ice, fire and obsidian.

-More diverse stucture. Glorfindel of Gondolin mentioned lava pits and bridges in another thread; I'll add that I agree with that idea. Rooms, guarded gates(Raedus the Wise mentioned big gates and fancy doors), and, as I mentioned earlier, prisons. 