Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-192.173.185.11-20160130140906

Ok, after playing the LOTR Mod for 100+ hours, to me it looks like vanilla tools and armor are quite bland and ugly, and I'm sure many of us feel the same way. So I propose a change. The vanilla weapons and tools should look more lotr-like, more detailed. And the armor should look different too. The leather armor should look rough and uneven, the chain armor should look better woven together and with visible straps. The iron armor should look similar to the armor of the spanish conquistadors, and gold armor should be more regal and fancy. Diamond armor needs no replacement texture, since it has been removed from Middle-Earth.

A second suggestion - a crafting recipe for Chainmail Armor. Iron Chains should be used to create it, and four iron ingots in a brick-like formation should create six iron chains.

Annnnd a third.. Leather armor should protect a few armor points more, and it's crafting recipe should be harder. I propose a block called a Tanning Rack! Animals should no longer drop leather. They should drop Hide. Hide can be used to create Hide Armor, which may be worn by bandits or refugees. Leather must now be created by curing Hide. A new ore called salt should spawn on the Rocky Coastline, Tolfalas, and Emyn Muil, which could be used to cure Hide. You place the hide on the tanning rack, right click it with salt a few times, and you get leather! Salt should also be used to cure Raw Pork to create Gammon. 