Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26149161-20170221225823

Hello, fellow users! It has recently come to my attention what exactly Tolkien based Mordor on. And I agree with him. It is literal hell on earth. The Black Country of the Midlands, the most industrialized part of England, and the most polluted. Seeing as Mordor is based off this, I decided to write about Mordor's industrial might.

New Blocks:



Slag: Made by combining iron ore with stone, slag is the excess of iron forging. Massive hills and fields of this can be found, like entrails vomited from the Mountains of Mordor. Mordor Powder: Made of crushed slag, this horrible gravel-like block is affected by gravity. If it

touches water, the water gains a venomous grey color.

Tarpaper Wall: Crafted out of wood and tarpaper, this lines some Mordor and Isengard houses.

Nurnic Brick: A brick crafted by putting slag in a crafting table. It is used in many buildings.

Orc Windows: Small, ugly narrow windows found in Orcish structures, crafted like windows in a Morgul crafting table.

Mordor Furnace: A huge factory forge, several blocks tall, that smelts blocks quickly. They are always found with a smokestack on top of them.

Smokestack: An iron or brick tube that spews huge amounts of black smoke and flame into the air. Crafted by making a tube of Orc Steel, Mordor, Nurnic, or Vanilla brick in a Morgul crafting table.

Mordor Vat: A great iron container filled with water, oil, lava, or molten steel.

Items: 

Tarpaper: Crafted by surrounding a bucket of oil with paper, this is an essential part of Tarpaper Walls.

Whip: Crafted with leather, whips are used to make slaves move faster. They give a four-block-wide speed affect.

Nurn Plow: A large device that allows the player to till four blocks at once. It can be drawn by a player, a slave, or by a horse.

Natural Features:

These features would be present most commonly in Udun, Dagorlad, and Eastern Mordor, but not Gorgoroth.

Slag Heap: A pile of Slag.

Coal Heap: very rare, these are a huge mound of coal blocks and dust.

Oil Pool: A pool of oil.

Oily Water: A pool of water contaminated by oil.

Powder Hill: A hill of Mordor Powder.

NPCs:

A new type of slave would be added, Slaves of Mordor. They would not be hireable, but be found everywhere in Mordor. They are grimy and blackened by soot, and there are many Easterlings among them, as in the book. Their children work in the mines, and the adults and children in the factories.

Mordor Orc Miner: A slavemaster of the mines, these Orcs sell stone and ores to the player.

Mordor Orc Smith: An orc who has chosen a career as a blacksmith. These are found in factories and sell the player armor and weapons.

Mordor Orc Miller: Found in Mills, one can purchase bread and grain products from him.

Structures: 

Mordor Factory: Huge, long buildings with tall smokestacks that spew hideous fumes. Built of Mordor and Nurnic brick, these serve as smithies for Mordor's troops. Anvils, massive furnaces, and molten metal vats are found inside, along with Orc Blacksmiths and Mordor Slaves. Present most commonly in Udun and Eastern Mordor, but not Gorgoroth.

Mordor Mine: Huge networks of tunnels coursing through the mountains, where Orcs and children work alongside each other to mine coal and steel. They are filthy and horrible.

Mordor Encampment: Mentioned by Grievous in his suggestion here, these would essentialy be large encampments of tents, brown, black, red, and grey, in which Mordor Orcs and Mordor Slaves dwell.

Mordor Village: Huge, drab encampments of huts and long buildings, filled with slaves and factories.

Mordor Hut: A cobblestone, Nurnic, tarpaper, or wool hut, the cramped dwelling of Orcs and Men.

Mordor Slave Hall: A long, low building made of Nurnic brick, these serve as dwellings for large groups of slaves. They are filthy and hideous.

Mordor Mill: Large Nurnic buildings, found straddling the rivers. They are filled with wheels and grist-grinders. These spew out filth and muck, fouling the water, and the wheels can be used to grind grain.

Mordor Cistern: Found in Gorgoroth, these are wells that are sometimes filed with muddy water.

Nurn

Nurn was mentioned as being far more industrialized in its farming apporach than we see now. As such, I propose huge brick mills (as mentioned in the Structures category), giant farmlands, and many, many more slaves. Nurn should also be more desolate than it currently is, with brown grass and burned trees.

Tolkien theorized that a few Entwives might have been enslaved in Nurn. Not saying anything, but...

Thank you for reading this suggestion! As always, comments, Kudos, and constrctive critiscism is welcome!

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lome) 22:58, February 21, 2017 (UTC) 