Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-39245592-20190901000013

I bring with me three suggestions to improve far harad jungle and I am sure that unless one of them will please you.

I - Oliphaunt cemetary

This is censed to be a sub-biome of Far Harad Jungle and exactly like Oasis in the Great Desert, it'd be a small and rare sub-biome. They are very similar to Taurethrim Clearing: a flat and tree-less clearing, except instead to find tauredain and their villages, the player will discover all a bunch of Mûmak Skeleton ! Opposing to Mûmak skeletons which spawn in Near Harad, these ones won't necessarly spawn half- or completely buried under the ground.

These rare and hidden sub-biomes are colossal source of bone meals and will be very helpful to evil players who want complete the gulfings mini-quest who ask to collect bone blocks and, why not, the moredain will ask you through the mini-quest too to find these oliphaunt cemetaries and scavenge them by collecting bone blocks for sale nearby the gulfers or make suffer the taurethrim who, of course, considerate the cemetaries as holy as their beasts ; in the same way dunlendings ask to player to kill horses to make suffer the rohirrims.

But beware ! Because Taurethrim know these unusual places and will defend the cemetaries against the profanators: with a moderate (but not high) rate spawn, there will be met blowgunners and warriors of Taurethrim folks who protect the zone and a grup of warrior or blowgunner will spawn around the player if (s)he harvests the bone block, making losing him alignment with Taurethrim. It'll be marked "-1 (Taurethrim) Profanation" and tauredain give a warning to player (except if his/her alignment is negative obviously). Yea ! Exactly like stealing grape system to Dorwinion !

I think it would be a good addition while waiting for Mevans to update the mûmakils. When the mûmakils will be added, they will can occasionnally spawn in the oliphaunt cemetaries (alive ! not dead !)

II - Coffee Tree

Yup, another fruit tree. Why not ? Fruit trees are amazing ! Everyone likes fruit trees. This one is found in the far harad jungle and will drop coffee beans when we break the leaves and will give to player an opportunity to drink a delicious black coffee. Crafting a coffee is simple: take any vessel filled with water, combine it with three coffee beans and you get a coffee... a LIGHT coffee. If you combine your light coffee with two other beans, you get a moderate coffee. If you repeat the processus once again, you get a strong coffee. Stronger is the coffee, stronger the effects.

Coffee has four utilities: firstly, it cancels the nausea effect if you are drunk ; very useful ! Because there is no bovine in Far Harad: no bovine = no milk to stop the nausea effect. Secondly, like all drinks, coffee heals the hunger bar ; stronger it is, better it is. Thirdly, drinking coffee will give to player speed and haste effect (speed boost of 20% and tool speed boost of 50%). The effects last 30 seconds if it's light, 60 seconds if it's moderate and 120 seconds if it's strong. And finally fourth, Taurethrim could ask coffee beans or the drink itself by mini-quest ; you could sell coffee beans to Taurethrim Shaman and the shaman could sell to you light, moderate or strong coffee. This trade may be possible with the merchant of Harad or the gulfer bartender.

III - El Dorado (this one is a bonus ok ?)

This is an easter egg suggest. I know what the rules say about this type of suggest but I think it worths to be told. El Dorado would be a very small secret biome hidden in the far harad jungle, exactly like Meneltarma. Nobody knows where El Dorado is. It needs to be discovered.

But what is El Dorado anyway ? Everybody knows this myth speaking of a golden city where the houses, roads, buildings... absolutely everything is pure gold. El Dorado is It: a biome which would be an entire golden city with houses, roads, buildings, temples, and even pyramids (It's a specific type of pyramid, not what you could think !) built in Taurethrim golden brick. There is no special loot or treasure to find in this biome. It's just a golden and forsaken city, lost in the deepest of the jungle. The only reward is the satisfaction to have found it... like every easter eggs right ? Furthermore, El Dorado is censed to be a tiny biome, even tinier than the Meneltarma and the far harad jungle is huge, one of the biggest biome of the mod. Mevans would have no difficulty to hide it if he adds it.

This easter egg is a reference to forsaken maya cities in yucatan jungle, to past and sorrowful glory of ancient Taurethrim empire (even if the Taurethrim Pyramids already have this role), and to the old serie "The mysterious cities of gold". But as what I said before, El Dorado is a bonus. I don't hope Mevans adds this suggest because... one does not simply ask to Mevans to add a new easter egg.

So ! What about you !? Oliphaunt cemetary, coffee tree, El Dorado ? What do you think about ? 