Servers/Eras of Arda

News and Announcements
15-08-2016: Players applying for evil roles and factions will have the right to claim a free set of faction gear (armour + a single weapon and a set of tools)!

17-08-2016: '''Building competition! For more info about the competition and its prizes, check our Facebook Page!'''

The Server:
The Second Age server is made for people who wants to experience the Second Age. The timeline of our server begins after the forging of the Rings of Power, when Annatar was revealed to Sauron. Precisely at S.A. 1600 to be exact. This means factions like Eregion does still exist, as it has not been invaded yet. In order to ensure the best Second Age experience, we have made a Second Age sub-mod, which will change various textures, biomes as well as the map to fit with the theme of the Second Age.

For further contact with us as well as announcements, you are more than welcome to join our Facebook page

We are a server open to the majority of the community, although roleplay is adviced. In our experience, everyone is going to have a much more fun time when they are roleplaying, which is why we are going to set this base line for the server. This does not mean players have to pick lore characters, as custom characers are more than welcome as well. However, roleplay is key and is expected! The greater and more you roleplay, the more we're going to like you in staff, and who knows - maybe it'll trigger a nice gift someday?

Our special version of the LotR mod will update along with the original version, and in future we might update some of our features as well, such as adding in the missing continents of Dark Land as well as the Land of the Sun.

We are more than open to hear your questions, and we hope to see you on the server soon enough!

The New Map:
The map of the server is a whole new map setting in the Second Age of the Tolkien universe. It currently contains the continents of Middle Earth, Númenor and Aman (Valinor), although the continents of Dark Land as well as the Land of the Sun might be added at a later point. The new map contains many new biomes in many new places in order to represent the Second Age in the best and most interesting way! Things will look very differently in the map of the Second Age Server compared to the maps of many other servers, which will mean a new experience for the many veteran players joining the server!

The continent of Aman will be a No-PvP zone, and only Vanyar elves may take residence there! However, this does not include the island of Tol Eressëa, where PvP is allowed and general server rules apply.

Partnership with The First Age LOTR Server
The Staff-Members of this Server and The First Age LOTR Server now have an official partnership, to learn more about this please read the following document by WarPig1237.

"Good day, this is a document intended to fully explain the partnership that shall be taking place between the First Age LOTR Server and the Second Age Server. This shall be explained in several points that shall attempt summarize the various features of this partnership. Firstly, it must be acknowledged that the most crucial feature of this partnership is that of co-operation and mutual respect between the Staff-Members, Players and general communities of both Severs. Secondly, this partnership shall aim to allow so called 'cross-server' events to take place, whereby through the co-ordination of Staff-Members large events can take place between both Servers. Thirdly, the Staff-Members of both servers should be capable of easily communicating and sharing information of all sorts. Fourthly, certain Staff-Members (chiefly Owners) of let us for example say the First Age LOTR Server should be given the position of Guest Staff-Member upon the Second Age Server, and vice versa. Lastly, both Servers should attempt to publicize each other and to ensure that the original methods used to create both Servers are not reproduced without the full permission of the Staff-Members of the First Age LOTR Server and Second Age. Seeing as the features of this partnership have now been fully described, the remainder of this document shall attempt to explain some further regulations surrounding it. Firstly, should this document be accepted by both parties the features outlined in it are to be fully respected and implemented to the best ability of the Staff-Members of both the First Age LOTR Server and the Second Age Sever. Secondly, this document is to be displayed upon the Facebook Page (should there be one in existence) and the Lord of the Rings Mod Wiki Page of both Servers. That now concludes this document which has hopefully been informative and helpful in explaining this partnership."

Roleplay and Roles
Roleplay is advised (but not a must) and you must therefore apply in order to become a lore character. You are also welcome to apply for a special custom character, in order to get on this list, however it is not a necessity to do for custom character, unless it rules a faction. You are more than welcome to join the server without applying for anything. The application must be posted here and must include the lore of the applied character, why you want to become said character as well as your experience with the mod and roleplay in general. Make your application seem appealing if you can, like any assignment - it does give a bit of bonus points.

"Why would someone apply for a special custom character when it's not a must to do?"

-A Wikia contributor

"Because the applied custom characters starts with their special lore & rank from day 1. While player 1, who has not applied for a custom character, would start out clear with nothing - player 2, who applied to become a captain of Númenor, starts out with his captain rank of the Númenorean Army."

-PredatorFish, Owner of the Second Age Server

Accepted characters will be posted down below:

Factions
Here you can find the current existing factions as well as their respective leader. Custom factions are allowed to be made, by applying to staff. Do note that the factions below are what we consider "official" factions on the server, due to them having NPCs. More will be added underway, as more factions gets implemented in the mod. Meanwhile for requested factions like the Avari elves or Easterlings (which will be an official faction as soon as they become implemented in the mod), we advice you to apply for them as a custom faction.

Section A. – General Rules:
§1. Common sense is to be expected. Any breakage of such common sense will be taken as a breakage of the rules, and the punishment will always depend upon the crime.

§2. The word of the Staff is law. If you disagree with it, contact the staff member in question's superiors, and if they have none - then I'm afraid there is not much that can be done.

§3. Swearing is allowed, in moderation (none of the more "extreme" words - keep it about PG-13), but if someone stresses that it is making them uncomfortable, and this is ignored, or swearing is used in any other form of malice, then that is a breakage of the rules.

§4. Any specific roles upon the server that come from lore will require an application beforehand, and any role not mentioned in lore but still holding a significant position (King, Lord, etc.) will also require an application. For more info about specific roles, see the Roleplay section further down.

§5. Staff do not make applications, but are promoted upon merit. If you make an application, you will be thought of no less, but it does not necessarily mean that you will get an answer.

§6. Any disrespect, towards anyone, will not be tolerated.

§7. Hacking, in any form, is punishable by a permanent ban. Same rules apply for use of X-Ray mods!

§8. Being in the Nether as well as in the Overworld, except for the spawn area, is not allowed!

§9. You may ask for fly when building, but ONLY for building. Using fly for other things, like flying around the world or killing NPCs, will lead to punishment!

§10. No combat-logging!

§11. No spawn nor afk-killing!

§12. When teleporting to a player or nearby a player, at least 2 minutes must occur before attacking the player is allowed! This applies fast travel and killing people returning from afk as well. You may not lay behind someone, who's afk, waiting for them to come back in-game and then immediately kill them!

§13. Any form of exploits, or cheats that aren't necessarily hacks, will be punished relative to the crime.

§14. Special tags costs 10 blocks of silver, while they only cost 2 blocks of silver for applied roles. Rank tags may freely be given out by leaders to their subjects.

§15. Only Vanyar elves may take residence in Aman.

§16. Aman is a No-PvP zone. However, special events made by Staff may allow certain types of PvP to take place during said events. This rule does not include the island of Tol Eressëa, but only the mainland of Aman.

§17. Griefing is a big no-go! There is to be no breaking of blocks that belongs to other players. Looting is not allowed either, unless a war is occurring and the terms of war allows so. However, these terms of war only apply for players, who are taking part of the war. The terms of war may allow griefing of certain places as well, although these special terms must be discussed with staff before both parties of a war agrees upon it.

§18. Wars can only be declared by faction leaders.

§19. No use of mithril weapons or armour in a war is permitted, unless you are the leader of your faction; faction leaders are allowed to use a single piece of enchanted mithril armour in a war. This rule applies for NPCs as well, meaning NO hired troops, running around with mithril weapons and/or armour!

§20. During a war, faction equipment is adviced! You need a good reason for why you're not using the equipment your faction provides or something alike. Custom factions are allowed to "design" their own custom faction armour and weapon's set. However, Gondolinian Sword and the Charred Mallorn Mace may not be part of this set, and the set must fit the race/lore of the custom faction as well as be approved be a staff member. These rules apply for NPCs as well!

§21. The maximum allowed amount of NPCs is 24, in wartime that number is 36. Cavalry counts as 2 (due to there being 2 NPCs) and larger mobs, such as Olog-Hai and Huorns, counts as 3.

§22. It is possible to gain leadership of official factions by applying for the lore character which rules the faction. However, should the faction already be ruled by either a custom character or a lore character, which usually does not rule the faction, the true lore ruler won’t take control of the faction. This rule only takes place, should the faction be without a leader. At the same time, applying for a lore character who rules a faction, does not necessarily mean one has to rule the faction. It’s a free choice.

Section B. - Claiming Land and Custom Factions:
§1. In order to claim an un-owned land, one must begin the construction of a settlement/colony in the unowned land.

§2. The wanted land MUST be accessible, meaning if it’s blockaded in any way (as via an enemy fleet, army, unfriendly territory surrounds it etc.) it is not possible to claim the area. There must be a clear way into the area in order to claim it.

§3. Only faction leaders can claim land, meaning no regular players can claim an un-owned land, like North Eriador. It must be a faction leader or a “high-ranking” player with special permission from the faction leader to claim the land.

§4. Any land with no faction-owned settlements of any sorts is considered un-owned and therefore claimable by other factions. This also means that if a faction claims an area, but forgets to construct a settlement of any sorts, it will shortly after be considered un-owned and claimable again.

§5. Custom factions can be created, however – at least 3 players must be in a group in order for one to be created as a standard. However, if there is a special lore reason for it – groups with less people can create a custom faction.

§6. Applications for custom factions must be made in the Wikia page or send in a message to our Facebook page. The application must contain information of which area they wish to claim in the creation of the custom faction. The area MUST be un-owned and therefore claimable. The application must also contain information about the official faction armour of the custom faction, lore of the faction, alignment and so on. It also has to make sense in a lore perspective.

§7. As soon as a custom faction application has been sent, the wanted area for the custom faction will be considered un-claimable, while the application is still in the process of being answered by staff. This rule is made so no faction claims the area while the custom faction waits for a response.

§8. As soon as they custom faction has been created, they must now follow any other rules like any regular faction.

Section C. – Rules of War:
§1. Wars are declared by a faction leader upon another faction leader, and the terms of war organised from there. If certain things cannot be decided upon, the Staff will be forced to intervene and it will default to the less severe one, such as no loot being kept etc. The terms of war must be written down in an in-game book as proof of its existence!

§2. Any fortresses taken will be owned by the faction who took them, and require a battle to re-take. Any castles of a size larger than fifty square blocks on the surface (like square meters) will also require a battle or siege to take, and cannot simply be walked past.

§3. In order for armies go from point A to point C, the warring factions’ armies needs a clear way. This means they may cross through their own land as well as allied land (if the allies are participating in the conflict, if not they can ask for "open borders"). To cross neutral land, it has to be either unowned or they must ask for "open borders" to cross through the land. However, if a faction needs to go from point A to point C and Point B is hostile, they will either need to fight their way or find another way to point C. You cannot simply attack Mordor from Eriador, if you do not have a clear way in between. Use common sense and realism to find the best way.

§4. The very same rules apply if there is an ocean between point A and point C. You will first of all need a standing navy to cross the ocean with your armies. Second of all, you need control of that local ocean, meaning if the enemy has a standing navy as well, you will need to defeat it, in order to gain clear passage for you armies, through the ocean. Naval ships have to be of a size larger than 40 square blocks from the top down (and be in the shape of a ship, to be judged by the Staff), so a floating platform of 25 square blocks does NOT count as a ship!

§5. It is not possible for any other armies than Dwarven and Gundabad Orc armies to cross neutral or hostile owned mountains! However, all armies can cross friendly owned mountains as well as capture any enemy settlement in the mountains.

§6. In order for armies to cross area via rivers, there must be ways of transportation to cross them, such as bridges, ships or river crossings.

§7. It has to be pointed out, that when talking about armies, the rules are not referring to individual players. It only refers to what is possible to attack and besiege in wars, when taking larger armies into account. This means any players can freely cross rivers and mountains whether they be hostile, neutral or friendly owned whenever they want.

§8. Settlements has to be attacked in whatever order would make the most sense. This means you cannot simply attack settlements far in the east if you attack from the west. You have to conquer whatever settlements that lies the closest to your “armies” and “fleets”.

§9. In order to win control of a biome/area, all larger enemy settlements (castles, fortresses and the like), must be conquered. Once all of these are conquered, the attacking nation owns the land. Peace can be made mid-war, and a peace agreement must be made by both sides of the war.

§10. Map location is a requirement to be on for all players participating in battles, naval battles and sieges (including reinforcements once they join the fight) while they are on-going for these systems to function.

Section D. – Regular Battles:
§1. Battles are to be announced when attacking in open field as well as any sized un-walled settlements.

§2. A battle must start with the attackers a minimum 500 blocks away from the defenders, and with a 10 minutes grace period to allow the defenders to properly fortify their position. Once the 10 minutes have passed, the attackers may then proceed towards the defenders. Defenders may flee, but as soon as no defenders are within 500 blocks of the "battlefield" (so, in a battle, the area which they started on, or in a siege, the besieged settlement), the battle is over, and the fight is over. You may NOT flee with teleporting or fast-travel; you MUST walk the distance! No teleportation of any kind is allowed in combat! The same rules apply for the attackers, they may flee as well, but as soon as they are 600 blocks from the battlefield, the battle is over.

§3. People who dies in a battle are NOT allowed to re-join it! Not even as reinforcements!

§4. Reinforcements are allowed to join, meaning players who weren't a part of the start of the battle. However, in order to join the battle as a reinforcement, a certain amount of things are required. In order to reinforce defenders, at least 10 minutes of the actual battle must have taken place (not counting the "preparation time of 10 minutes). The reinforcements may only join in ONE wave, meaning there will only be one reinforcement force, so get as many people in this wave as possible. The reinforcements must start 500 blocks away from the battlefield. The very same rules apply for reinforcements for the attackers!

§5. Reinforcements can be disallowed if both warring factions agrees to in the terms of war!

Section E. – Naval Battles and Rules:
§1. Naval battles are battles taking place in the sea/ocean between two standing fleets. A naval battle requires a staff member to be online, as the two fighting fleets needs to be pasted within 50-100 blocks of each other, so a fight can take place. The ships in each fleets must have a way to for players to board them, meaning a ladder, staircase or something alike.

§2. Fleets can only attack fleets in the same ocean territories as they are in themselves. The naval battle will commence 5 miniutes after both sides has entered their ships (after they’ve been pasted in the right spots). The different ocean territories can be found in the Oceanic Territorial map on the Facebook page as well as on the Wikia page. It has to be noted that 2 fleets can freely be in the same territory without having to attack each other, even if they are enemies. It’s a choice, not a must!

§3. Fleets can be moved around the different ocean territories by asking staff members to move them, however – a fleet may only be moved to adjacent ocean territory at the time and only ONCE pr. day. To see the ocean territories, check the map on our Facebook page or at the buttom of this rules section.

§4. Depending on the size of a ship, each ship can only transport an X amount of players/NPCs, depending on how many "cabins" it has for them. Each bed on a ship means it can host 1 NPC soldier. For players, the ship must have an officer's cabin, which must be of a size larger than 8-9 square blocks in floor space for smaller ships and larger than 12 square blocks for larger ships. So to make it simple:

1 bed = 1 NPC troop (must be put in a proper troops cabin!)

1 Officer's cabin = 1 Player (must be made a proper cabin for the "officers").

§5. This means, a ship with 3 officer cabins as well as troop cabins with 24 beds, means this ship can host 3 players and 24 NPCs, who may all participate in the naval battle! A ship design MUST be approved by a staff member, in order to ensure it's a functional ship design and not just some floating platform! Explosives, fires and other destructive things are NOT allowed in naval battles as a default, unless the terms of war allow otherwise! There are no reinforcements in naval battles as "sailors" do not simply appear on a ship.

§6. A ship is considered “destroyed” in a battle once all of its crew has been killed. However, in order for it to be “destroyed”, a red piece of wool must be placed on it, once the crew is dead. However, should a white wool be placed instead, the ship will be considered captured/surrendered and whoever wins the battle keeps the captured/surrendered ships.

§7. It is possible to surrender for a ship crew to surrender their own ship, by placing a white flag (with some white wool) on it. Surrendered ships will be spared from destruction no matter what, but do keep in mind they will reduce the amount of allowed players and NPCs in the fleet. A ship crew may only surrender their ship once half of its crew capabilities are gone, meaning a ship with space for 24 NPCs and 3 players, must have a maximum of 12 NPCs and 1 player before it can surrender! Meanwhile, there must be at least 1 player left on said ship, in order to surrender it!

§8. Only one "stationed/patrolling" fleet pr. faction is allowed pr. ocean territory, however - it is allowed to have "reserves" in local ports. This means a fleet in the Bay of Belfalas (OT (ocean territory) 12) cannot simply attack a fleet at the coast of Forlindon  (OT 6) without being "stationed" there or to an adjacent ocean territory. At the same time, you can have a "stationed" fleet at the coast of Forlindon and at the same time have 3 fleets stationed in 3 different port-cities around Forlindon, which can be put to use, should you lose the "stationed" fleet at the coast of Forlindon (OT 6).

§9. A fleet controls an ocean territory once every enemy fleet stationed in the local ocean territory has been destroyed. Should there still be enemy ships in harbours in the local ocean territory, the local ocean territory will still be controlled by the stationed fleet, unless the enemy ships move out and destroys the stationed fleet. However, these enemy ships may only have 1 attempt!

§10. Controlling an ocean territory with enemy harbour cities in it, means they are all blockaded just as well as the territory. This means no enemy ships from outside ocean territories can move past the ocean territory, as well as in or out of the enemy harbours in said ocean territory. Meanwhile, the enemy is not allowed to build new ships in the blockaded territory! At the same time, controlling an enemy ocean territory like OT 8, which surrounds an island or area Númenor, means the island is fully blockaded and no hostiles can move in or out of the area, in this case being Númenor, unless the blockade has been lifted. It has to be noted again, that a blockade does not block regular players, just “armies” and “fleets”. Regular players can freely move in and out of blocked areas as pr. usual.

§11. In order to colonize an island, adjacent ocean territories must be controlled while “dispatching” a “landing party” to explore or colonize it.

§12. It is not possible to attack enemy settlements, if an uncontrolled ocean territory surrounds it! An example of this is that it is not possible to invade Númenor, unless OT 8 (ocean territory 8) has be secured, in order for a naval landing to take place. Meanwhile, if too many High Elven fortresses protects their eastern border, it is simply possible to control OT 6 and OT 7 in order to attack from the West and surpass/avoid these border protections.

§13. Capturing an enemy harbour city with an enemy fleet inside it, means the enemy fleet will be captured and be yours to take or destroy, should you wish so.

§14. It is allowed to sell captured or newly constructed ships to other players/factions. However, shipyards may only exist in either cities, where the different resources required for ship building are easily accessible (realistically) or in a place where lots of timber, metal and wool are easily accessible as well (ask staff if you’re in doubt).



Section F. – Sieges:
§1. Sieges are to be announced when attacking a walled settlement.

§2. Once a siege is announced, at least 24 hours must occur before the siege may take place. Meanwhile the besieging nation must make a siege camp around or near the enemy fortress or city. During the siege, the attackers are allowed to place siege equipment such as siege towers, ladders and alike. If the area is protected, they may ask a staff member to place their equipment where it needs to be. Explosives however, are not allowed during a siege, unless the terms of war allow the use of it during sieges. Once the siege has commenced, standard re-enforcement rules apply. The winner of a siege keeps the fortress or city.

§3. The gates of the besieged settlements must be unprotected during a siege battle, in order for the attackers to be able to break the gate!

§4. Note: The besieging faction may ask Staff to place a battering-ram in front of the enemy main gate (which needs to be unprotected during the siege battle). This battering ram must be designed have one piece of explosive in front of it, so it can blow a small hole on the enemy gate. The explosive may NOT be activated until during the actual siege battle and the gate has to be unprotected, so the battering ram can blow a whole into it!

Staff
On-the-scenes staff:

PredatorFish (Owner & Creator)

Heartgold1234 (Co-Owner)

PredatorWhale (Head-Moderator)

WarPig1237 (Moderator)

_Durin_I (Moderator)

Aglarion_II (Moderator)

Behind-the-scenes staff:

mikkelkagen (Server Management)

AlteOgre (Advisor & Modding Management)

VulcanForge (Modding Advisor)

Timgodreuil (Coder)

Please do not ask to become a Staff-Member!

The First Age LOTR Server
The First Age LOTR Server is run by Carter938 and funded by MasterZeff. As the name of the server suggests, it takes place in the First Age of the tolkien universe, and includes various new landforms such as Aman (Valinor) and Beleriand, before it was sunk in the end of the First Age. As is mentioned above we now also have an official partnership with The First Age LOTR Server and we're looking forward to doing many new and interesting things with them in the future. Their wiki page can be found here as well as their Facebook page can be found here

Legal Rights
All rights reserved ©2016 Second Age Server. No parts of these publications may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, usage for a new server - public or private, or other forms of methods, without the prior written permission of the publishers - the Second Age Server team.

The special version of the Lord of the Rings mod is made with special permission from Mevans - the creator of The Lord of the Rings Mod: Bring Middle Earth to Minecraft. The use of this "sub-mod" is only permitted for singleplayer use, and hosting a server with the use of our special Second Age versions of the LotR mod, without our permission, will be a direct break of copyright law and can lead to legal actions. For permission requests, contact The Second Age Server team.

Special Thanks
A special thanks to AlteOgre for being of much help with the creation of the map as well as Second Age "sub-mod".

As well as this, a huge thanks to Thorin Stonehelm, High King Ithilion, Faenor Celebrî and Calanon Evergreen for supplying us with custom textures.

We would also like to give our thanks to the LotR mod team, for helping us through this process as well.