Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-30567038-20170622144024

I was recently playing my second favorite Minecraft mod, Millenaire, and was thinking about how amazing it would be to have a similar idea in the Lord of the Rings mod.

For those of you who do not know what Millenaire is, read this paragraph below. If you already know what it is, you can skip this paragraph. It adds 5 cultures to Minecraft. When you find one of their villages (each culture has several different types), it is very small, and has very few villagers. In the middle of the village, there is a town hall which contains several informational signs. One shows you the population of the village. Another shows the map of the village, and where the next building that will be built. There is another sign which shows what resources are required to build new buildings/upgrade existing ones. You can sell these villagers the resources they need for money, and then they will use it to build new buildings. On their own, the villages grow (in population, and in size), and become self sustaining. They eventually build tree farms (with villagers who farm them), mines for cobblestone/sandstone/iron (there are miners, but they don't actually mine because they would end up breaking the whole world), they also have farmers who plant crops, grow them, and then harvest them. You can help them out though to speed up their progress. Most of the resources they produce can be bought from them (including items you can't craft like obsidian tools), rewarding you for your effort. One of the coolest parts of the mod is that the buildings they build don't just magicaly appear, the village builder actually places every block. There is a lot more to the mod, but the other parts are not what I am focusing on...

It would be amazing if a similar system could be added into Lord of the Rings mod where you can find villages of the different races that would grow on their own, but you would be able to speed up their growth by selling them resources (of course some villages would spawn pre-built). Each city would be built through the custom blocks of that culture. As they grow, they may add walls to fortify their city, or build a forge to equip their soldiers with better equipment (they have this in Millenaire as well). Special weapons and tools should be uncraftable, and you have to buy them from a developed citiy's forge. This would greatly add to the roleplaying in Lord of the Rings, and would make defending a city mean so much more (defending something you helped create). Although this might take a while to add, I think it would be worth it. As there is already a mod with this in it, Mevans should not have to create completely new code for this, just modify it to fit the Lord of the Rings mod.

Thanks for reading! Any comments will be appreciated. 