Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26440623-20150530005308

With horses, wargs, and even rhinos your trusty mount is protected. However, should you ride the fearsome spawn of Ungliant your mount is bare and easy to kill. I propose:

SPIDER ARMOUR!

This would be crafted as such:

Ingot       Skull          Ingot

Naurite   saddle      Naurite      -->

Ingot       leather      Ingot

This armour would make your mount faster, immune to projectiles, and and better protected than an unarmoured spider. Also, in spider pits, there would be a Mordor Spider Picador. This trader would sell you armour, saddles, food for you spider, and leads. He would hold a spear in one hand and a coin in the other.

The only difference in recipes is Dol Guldor Spider armour is crafted with guldril instead of naurite. The srmour would look like the legs have a plate of armour on them, the top of the spider is armoured, but not the abdomen, and the saddle is on the back of the mount. A skull rests on its head. The flanks of the spider glow accordingly with either green or vermillion for naurite or guldril.

Also, you should be able to armour hired spidersby throwing the armour to them.

There would also be a new weapon, the Picador's Spear, which cannot be thrown, but has a longer reach, is held backhand above your head, and gives your spider a speed boost. If used from a mount, It has a damage buff, and deals more damage than your average spear. It has two varients: Dol Guldor and Mordor

x         x           {}

x         /            x

[]        x            x

/  - Stick

[] - Ingot of orc steel

{} - crystal, either guldril for Dol Guldor, or Naurite for Mordor 