Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25981649-20170309084553

"Behold! The bats are above his army like a sea of locusts."
''- Gandalf. Hobbit, 17'' The Clouds Burst

While never encountered directly, locusts are shown to exist in Middle Earth, as referred to by Gandalf, before the BOTFA. It shows that, to some knowledge they understand they exist.

For me, I believe that it is strange that there is no natural, harmful creatures / pests in Middle Earth, and it feels far too easy than it should to be able to survive.

That's why I'd like to introdcue Grasshoppers, Locusts, and Locust swarms.

Grasshoppers
Grasshopppers (or more speciifcally short-horned Grasshoppers) are naturally spawning insects, which are about the same size as a termite, have 1 health, and don't drop anything when killed.

They spawn commonly throughout Rhun, Harad Fertile, Rohan, Enedwaith and Eregion (and very rarely Gondor) since these all have climates that are identical to real life grasshoppers.

Similair to butterflies, they would have different textures depending on what climate their in (spawned in Harad, looks like a Desert Locust, etc.)

Locusts
Locusts rarely spawn naturally.

If 3 grasshoppers are in the same block, they will all turn into 2x the amount of locusts.

If a locust is in the same block as a grasshopper, the grasshopper turns into 2 locusts.

Locusts in the same area move together in a large group, and can fly at an alarmingly quick pace, moving towards any source of food they can find.

They also have 1 health, but deal a cactus-amount of damage if they come into contact with anything. They also destroy (or revert by one level) any crops they come into contact.

They never attack anything willfully, and once they destroy a crop they will despawn.

Locust Swarm
If more than 10 locusts are in the space of a block, a Locust Swarm will occur

It will be announced similair to a Invasion, and will be a mass of around 200,000-3,000,000 locusts (of course, instead of having 3,000,000 entities, it would be 10 or so entities that resemble a very dense group of Locusts, similair to midges. These do 4 damage if you come into contact with them, and destroy any crops they touch. 1 entity would have 20 health, but can only be damaged by fire or explosions

Like the single-entity locusts, they do not seek out entities, but instead only move towards growing crops or hay bales.

That's really all 