Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-33069171-20170910033629

As far as I can tell no one in recent memory has suggested anything like this. As traveling is such a massive part of the LOTR world and story, don't you think it should be easier to do so? There should be an item that you can place on the ground and it sets up a fully-enclosed tent that you can open and close. It would also be nice to be able to spawn it in with certain amenities. Like you could craft it with a crafting table, furnace, bed and light source so when you placed it, it would have all those things. This isn't necessary as those could be placed rather rapidly by the player, but it takes time to set up an actual tent. The feature could be expanded further by having different style tents for each faction. Another nice feature would be the ability to craft a campfire by just putting several logs and sticks in the crafting table, making it easier to get a fire started.

If the Variags of Khand ever become a faction/sub-faction then they could have yurts, which are not only tents, but fully functioning houses that are mobile. A way to herd animals effectively like having a small pen spawn with the tent/yurt could make a people fully nomadic which would add a completely new and interesting dynamic to the game, especially on severs.

You could also just lonewolf it as a traveler and go all over middle earth with ease. Below are a few concept images of the basic design some of the tents could have. I know it being in minecraft would make it impossible to reproduce these exactly, but the basic design and concept could remain.

I know this isn't much help on the design front, but Tolkein didn't give really any information as far as I know.

Herding is another problem in minecraft. There isn't really a good way to do it. Leads break to easily, they won't follow food reliably (especially if they're still on cooldown), and it's too difficult to construct pens everywhere you go. The most ideal situation would be to have the ability to train herding dogs, but that's a lot of coding, so I think the easy construction of pens would work better. Unless the modders are willing to make leads work better. Of course they may not be willing to do any of this, but I can still try. Thank you for your time. 