Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26564307-20151128003306

Hello, Fronacen here will a couple of suggestions. I love the elves, so I spend a lot of time with them and get quite a few ideas about them. Because of that, many of these have Elven-focused content, but it also reaches out to many other factions.

Please note that this all is just ment to enhance the mod, and that to my knowledge none is against lore (although I don't see how any of it could be). Would love to get suggestions on how to improve as well.Also, m any of these goes along with Faenor's suggestions on the Elven Factions and the Ruins of Numenorean. They are not required to be read though, I just aknowledge that some inspiration was gathered from them.



 Biomes:  
 * 1)  Old Woods  – So a similar issue as with Mirkwood Corrupted happens here, a plains leads right into a spooky woods. Because of that, I think an Old Woods Edge should be added. (I would also say I think a Mirkwood Corrupted Edge should be added too, but I know this isn't the only time that it's been brought up.)

Another good alternative to an Edge biome would be having Shire/Eriador Woodlands always spawn around the Old Woods. I actually lean towards this because you'd still have to walk into the dangerous part of the forest to get the achievement for entering the biome. 
 * 1)  Rhun  – Okay, so this isn't really specific (because I realize that you could very well have a lot of Rhun planned out already), but I think it would be really cool to have a Bamboo Forest on the East Coast of Rhun. I would love to see a couple different types of Bamboo (White, which would really be a lighter, pale green with green stripe; Golden, with Black Stripes; and Black, with darker-green stripes. They would be craftable into blocks, stairs, slabs, and fences. This would be a perfect place for Tigers, Giant Pandas, Red Pandas, and Golden Monkeys.

 Blocks: 
 * 1)  Elven Accent Blocks  – The idea here is to have a slightly different colored version of each of the Elven specific blocks to enhance buildings seem fanicer. It would be cool if a special stone spawned throughout Middle-Earth deminsion that wasn't faction-specific, which would allow Elves (and Dwarfs as well) to have a special block. It would come in all the standard version, and would esentially be a recolored version of the current blocks.
 * 2)  Roofing  – A block that is ment for roofing. The idea is to have one for each type of wood (made out of logs in a 2X2), one for every stained-clay (made in the same 2X2 pattern), and faction specific that would go well with established faction colors. Crafting would be 2X2 of a material (faction dependant) on the faction's crafting table. They'd come in slab and stair form.

Factions with special roofing could include:


 * 1) The Elves – Normally Elven builds would use wooden roofing (Holly in Eregion, Mirkoak in Woodland Realm, Mallorn in Lothlorien, and Beech in Lindon and, maybe, Imladris), but the elves would have a faction specific roofing. High-Elven Roofing would be a Darker Blue, Lothlorien Roofing would be a Golden-Yellow, and Wood-Elven Roofing would be an Orange-Red. If the brick color sugestions from Faenor's Elven post are used, Imladris Roofing would be an even Darker Blue than High Elves, and Avari Roofing would be a Dark-Red.

Elven Roofing itself would be made out of hardened clay. All of the smithies would spawn with this roofing, as would High-Elven Halls. The Avari would probably not use much of this, nor would the Galadhrim.
 * 1) Dale – Obviously not implemented yet, but I feel roofing would fit their builds.
 * 2) Gondor – I'm not too sure about them, as I don't really know their building style. I feel a roofing fits them as well.
 * 3) <p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Arnor – I'm NOT suggsting adding in the kingdom of Arnor (just to prevent any issues), but I feel that some (future) ruins may put good use out of this. It would be crafted on Ranger Crafting Tables (as Arnor brick can be too) with Harden Clay. A good color may be Green.
 * 4) <p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Dwarves – Of course Dwarves are more underground builders, but I feel they should have their own type of roofing just because. I don't know what colors to use, but they would be made out of Harden Clay (I would say stone, but the 2X2 patern obviously conflicts with normal Faction Bricks).
 * 5) <p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Numenorean – Going along with Faenor's sugestion of Faithful and Numenorean brick is the idea of specific roofing (obviously they wouldn't be a faction, but would be made on one of Numenorean's Crafting Tables). Once again, made with Harden Clay. I don't know what color they would be.

<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">NOTE: I did not leave out evil factions because I want something just for good players, I just don't see any of the current Evil Factions having their own Roofing. Some Rhun factions may deserve such a thing, but that will be decided later when their building style is developed.
 * 1) <p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"> Hobbit Cobblestone  – A block that is ment to be a neater alternative to cobblestone. Made with 2 stone and 2 cobblestone in a 2X2 checker patern, the block looks like a brick path, but grey. It's ment to be made on a Hobbit Crafting Table, but could be named Fancy Cobblestone and crafted on a normal crafting table. This is what roads in the Shire would be made of instead of normal cobblestone. Has a slab, stair, and wall version.
 * 2) <p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"> Fancy Item Frames  – A personalized item frame. The basic idea is an item frame's frame with a veriety for each would type would be crafted with a plank of the desired wood type in the top center spot with sticks making up the rest of the furnace shaped recipe, and that could be hung up. Then, a colored piece of wool could be clicked on it to give it a back-ground color. From there it could be used like a normal item-frame, the object having to be taken down and replaced to change the background color.

<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">On top of this all, Faction specific types could be made with sticks around wool, resulting in a dark-blue background for the High Elves, Redish-Orange for the Wood-Elves, etc. <p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">

<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"> Others 
 * 1) <p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"> Elven Bronze  - Faenor and I sort of discused this idea in the post about the Avari, but basically an Elvish type of Bronze with slightly better durability and protection as Iron. This could possibly be made with Bronze and Quendite (or the normal Tin and Copper), and would be a shinier version of normal bronze.

<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">All Elven factions would be able to craft a set of armor with this (though obviously for the Avari, this would be the strongest and most elite). It would obviously not be top choice,but Warrior units could perhaps have a slightly higher chance of spawning with this set of armor as compared to Elven-Steel Armor. Each Elven Factions would also have bars made with this stuff. They could perhaps be more edged than normal metal bars. This would also replace most of the naturally spawning Elven-Steel loot. <p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">
 * 1) <p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"> Rhun Faction  – I'm not going to go into too much detail to help let it mold any ideas you may already have, but an idea I had was to have a South-East Asian inspired faction. They would have two brick types: Faction Bricks, which are small, greyish bricks with a slab, stair, pillar, and wall version; and Ancient Faction Bricks, which are darker grey, small bricks with a slab, stair, wall, pillar, and carved version. A structure of theirs would be a Temple that resembles those in Bagan, Burma. Some would be called Faction Temple, which would be made with the standard brick, some would be called Ancient Faction Temple, which would be made of Ancient Faction Bricks, and some would be called Ruined Faction Temple, which would be a ruins version of the Ancient Faction Temples. I also picture this faction being more peaceful than anything, but that doesn't nessisarily have to be true.

<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">I hope you all enjoyed this. <ac_metadata title="Some Suggestions"> </ac_metadata>