Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26073467-20150527002329

I think finding sugar cane all over middle earth is a little unrealistic. The only problem is that it's used in many recipes. Here's s an idea on what you can do:

1. Sugar cane should only spawn at harad rivers, jungles, and near harad fertile. Would be valuable to trade.

2. Sugar itself would have multiple recipes. You can obtain it the vanilla way(Sugarcane), or you can get it from smelting maple syrup in a furnace or oven.

3. Paper can be made with one paper and one bucket, of water or a piece of leather and a bucket of water.

One problem with this is that to stop sugar can from spawning in middle earth is to change rivers in middle earth, or create a new middle earth river. 