User blog:LOTRMod/On the Removal of Diamonds

Edgy idea, I know, but please read it first and consider it before posting an angry response.



This came to me when I was thinking about 2 problems and suddenly thought of a way to solve both:

 1. Diamond armour and tools in middle earth are too easy to get and make faction equipment worthless, since diamond is better than iron, so why wear faction armour when you can have diamond instead? (Yes, the same applies to mithril about making faction armour worthless, but mithril is a lot rarer so that's not as bad, plus I can control the rarity of mithril a lot easier and even add harder ways of making it in the future)

2. Pablo suggested a special mod enchantment system which is more LOTR friendly which I quite liked, however, to properly implement this we would need a way to ensure players in middle earth used this enchantment system instead of vanilla ones - and not have the choice of either, because the new one would be pointless if you could use the old one instead, not to mention clutter



The solution?

>Remove diamond ore from middle earth, thus making the enchantment table recipe unavailable, and faction armours/weapons would then all become the second best type of armour in middle earth

And when the time comes for ring forging, I can add 'Adamant', which is the word used for diamonds in LOTR, this can be used as decorations etc. but not equipment

(Yes of course you could just go back and get diamonds from the overworld but that doesn't invalidate my points about Middle-earth)