Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-30645975-20170714182636/@comment-25101089-20170716032920

Campinator wrote:

HighElvenDoge wrote:

160.3.59.49 wrote: also why does mithril no longer spawn in melentarma? (ik i spelled it incorrectly) Because Mithril was never supposed to be there in the first place. It was a mistake which they fixed. Source?

We came to view it as a mistake, not a factual or "lore accuracy" mistake, but the kind of mistake that you regret with hindsight. Here are some reasons why: So we came to view it as a mistake, and decided to fix it. And I have to say, I'm pleasantly surprised by how well the community have received this change.
 * Meneltarma was supposed to be a place that you knew was out there, somewhere in the world, but wouldn't necessarily rush to visit. Something which enhanced the depth of the world by its faraway (rumoured) existence. Similar to how it was described in the Akallabeth.
 * People often travel to Meneltarma on servers, which causes bad lag for everyone else.
 * And thinking realistically, even though mithril is said to have been found on Númenórë, there's no reason it should be found below the summit of a sunken mountain. More likely, it would have been found in veins deep below the ground elsewhere on the island.