Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-34241117-20180113031037

As you all know, I am a HUGE fan of Harad, and I am sending all sorts of ideas to help make it better. But, perhaps, Mevans will see this, and, even if not Harad, add it to the game, and I will know that I made a contribution, and be honored. :)

#1) Mumakil/Oliphaunt add-ons: I know, I know. This is on the FAQ, and the "question not to ask", but I thought that if Mevans was going to add the war elephants, I could give him some ideas. Mumakil Armor: The leather could be replaced with Gemsbok Hide to give it a different texture/color, and the chest could be replaced with a basket, but this would give the Mumakil 6 armor points, and one chest/basket worth of inventory space.

Mumakil Tower: If you are not worried about the Mumakil dying, you could add a tower on top, crafted like so. If you put this on the back of a mumakil, there will be a little 5x5 tower, with a 3x3 space inside, in which you would get a better vantage point, and be able to shoot approaching enemies





The next item is Mumakil Tusk Covers: they will be made solely out of iron or bronze, and made in this way. >

You can put this on the mumakil, with one of the previously mentioned add ons, but this will give the Mumakil +5 attack damage, ( this is me jumping forward and thinking that the Mumakil WILL be able to attack with its tusks like in the books and movies, but... just in case :))

This is it for the Mumakil adds, but that is just a small part of my ideas for the updates!

#2) Scorpion Hunters.) These can be a new type of NPC in Harad. They are called Scorpion Hunters, and, I think, quite appropriate to this biome, due to the unholy amount of scorpions in the desert, cloud forests, etc. They have small camps with three little tents in a line, and a campfire in the middle. There are chests, but they only contain used weapons, spider eyes, and rotten flesh. The Scorpion Hunters themselves are in a 15 block radius around the tents, and they kill any scorpions which spawn in a 30x30 block radius from them. They will give you quests to kill certain amounts of certain scorpions, and trade with you for scorpion drops, including rotten flesh, spider eyes, bottles of poison, and sometimes, poisoned weapons, along with the normal food or drink most traders give. If you have negative alignment with Harad, they will attack you with a poisoned scimitar or poisoned arrows, saying "You are no better than the scorpion filth!" or something like that.

#3) River of Fire: This is a fixed "biome" of harad. It will be cutting through the borderline of Harad and Harondor. The river of fire acts much like the river in the Morgul Veil. Any burnable blocks or boats in this river will be burned, and any player with negative or neutral alignment will get the nausea effect, and be set on fire (obviously) when entering this river. Any player with positive Harad alignment will get regeneration 2, as long as they are in the river. If you pick up some of the water from the river in a bucket, it will spread as quickly as lava, but will act and burn as much as lava. (same rules apply to the bucket water as to the river).

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FROM THIS POINT FORWARD, ALL THINGS CAN BE ADDED ANYWHERE, EVEN IF IT IS NOT HARAD.

#4) Scrolls: Made with a paper with a stick above and below, this acts like a book, but you can lock the scroll by combining it with one clay block: (like a stamp) The stamps color varies upon the color of clay which you used. The only way to open the stamped scroll is by right clicking over a torch with it.

#5) Tea and Teapots: I am most likely not the first to suggest this, but here you go. Tea should grow in warm climates, kind of like pipeweed or sugarcane. you can harvest the leaves and seeds by breaking a fully grown tea leaf bush, and you will get 1-3 tea leaves, and 2-4 seeds. (you can grow it with normal farming methods) You use the tea leaves in the brewing barrel with buckets of water to make weak, moderate, and strong tea. There could also be different types of teas depending on the biome of where you found the tea leaves.

#6) MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: This happened in the movies, and the books, and happens in real life. THE GAME NEEDS THIS! There will be 3 instruments, with possibly more added in the future, if this is added at all, but PLEASE! Do it! The 3 items are the fiddle, flute, and lyre.

From top to bottom: fiddle, flute, and lyre. They all make the music of the normal instruments in real life, and each can be made of wood, gold, (except the fiddle, which can only be made of wood) and bronze. Thats it! Please be free to tell/say anything you think went well or not in these comments, and tell me your ideas! 