The Gulfing khopesh is a weird weapon. It looks like a billhook. Except you reap gondorians instead wheat. I thought first that kind of weapon is really called a khopesh because the mod called it a khopesh.

You know, I'm french, not english (that explains why my english is not always perfect but wathever). I asked how we call a khopesh in french and google trad said khopesh didn't come from english, but hindi. And in hindi, "khopesh" means "flail". But the gulfing khopesh doesn't look like a flail; it looks like a billhook.

So I've made some research on this weapon once known to be used by the armies of african kingdoms in reality during the Antiquity and Middle-Age.

These billhook-shaped swords are actually called "shotel". They were invented and used by abyssinians (the ancestors of the ethiopians). The particularity of this weapon is to hook the enemy. The shotelai (as we called the shotel users) used the shape of their swords to dodge the shield and poke the enemies on the side with the point of the blade. (I hold it from wikipedia)

It gave me some ideas.

First, I suggest we name it the gulfing shotel instead khopesh for a better accuracy of this kind of weapon and history. It's a better name. The teammod take a lot of attention to the name-accuracy. I saw them struggle for many updates to find a more accurate name for sarlluin and sarngaran (now called luigon and cargon). So I don't see why it'd pose a problem for them to review the name of this weapon, don't you think?

Second, I suggest we make this weapon unique. In renewed, the shotel would work exactly like a sword, except it ignores the shield. It doesn't break the shield like the vanilla axe but ignores it, exactly like the piercing enchant of the arbalest except it's for a melee weapon and only ignores the shield (not the armour. It'd be OP if it does)

I finished. What do you think?

Some NPCs have an interaction selection menu, such as warlord. We can hire someone from him or talk to him. But the functionality for the conversation button is almost absent, of course, the NPC when you click on it tells us something, but who actually reads their phrases? I suggest also adding the ability to issue a quest from this NPC, depending on its type and with a certain chance, namely:

blacksmith - quests to collect resources (bring ore, wood)

warlord-quests related to killing enemies of the faction, as well as quests to collect equipment (armor, weapons)

city merchants-collect resources related to their profession (for example, a woodcutter will need axes or food)

Write to me if you have any questions, I will explain.

P. s. The chance of whether the npc will give the quest and whether to add a chance at all is already at your discretion. I just think there should be a chance, but very high (60%), that NPCs don't give quests all the time, but do it often.

I was checking languages in my game in renewed, and to have fun I switched to upside down-English, but it didn't quite work as I expected. This is what happened:

Don't know if the picture is high enough resolution to see anything (it isn't when writing this), but the faction name is upside down, but not things such as my alignment status, alignment title, the co-ordinates below compass and (possibly) the biome indicator above the compass. Also, the compass could be upside down too, maybe? Not a big issue, and I wouldn't care too much if it wasn't fixed, but, it's still an issue! (BTW, the guidelines say that no matter what I'm trying to do, this is the wrong place. Is that right? It sure seems like the right place to me!)

So what other mods do you use with Lotr mod?

(The question we replied to Xreflexsemx )

I use optifine

Hi there! My name is Tristan and I am the owner of The Age Of Arda (a small Lotr modded minecraft server, look for it in the technic launcher if you wish to join) and I am planning on making an event in which Mordor can summon balrogs as custom units for a limited time. Since in RP I am son of Sauron I kinda made up a way to be able to "summon" Balrogs in an event and use them as hired units. I just don't know how to make the balrog friendly to Mordor and how to make the Balrog a hired unit. Can somebody help me? And by the way I am looking for somebody who is good in coding to be a server staff member. Contact me over here if you are interested: tristan.verhagen666@gmail.com . Thanks for reading!

I've gotten a new phone, and will be leaving for a bit of time. I'll be back with a different name, most likely be tomorrow. I doubt anyone will read this, due to the different time zones, but its here anyway.

Farewell.... For now.

1. The ability to marry. This will allow players to use the gameplay for better role-playing. It would also be possible to add this feature to two players on Lotr servers.

2. The ability for players to create faction outposts for a more flexible conquest system. And the ability to occupy enemy forts.

3. The ability to find a crafting recipe scroll that is not available for the selected equipment or item faction. For the balance of each item or item type, you can arrange a separate receipt each.

4. The ability to initially select the player's race (but not the faction!). Each race can have its own advantages and disadvantages. Choosing a race will not only allow you to immerse yourself in the game, but also allow each player to fully play for their favorite faction. And someone may want to play for the dark faction, while playing a representative of the forces of light.

5. Add the cities of the factions marked with dots on the map. This is possible with random generation for the first time. This will not only give the world scale, but also make it more alive. But it will also give you flexibility for battles, especially on game servers.

Very simple question: Will we ever be able to transfer our old maps to renewed?

I ask if anyone could clear my mind about this. I know Optifine isn't compatible with lotrMOD in 1.7.10. But what about Renewed. I've heard somewhere optifine will be compatible with the mod 1.15.2 but I just want to be sure. Because fastcraft doesn't exist on this minecraft version (apparently).

When i started my world, everything was working well. I found named houses/taverns everywhere in the shire with inhabitants. But now that i journeyed east (Currently close to Haygate, all the houses and taverns are not named anymore and there are no hobbits inside.. When i look it up on the wiki, i think all these buildings should have people living inside right?

Im using 36.10 (so no renewed).

It would be nice to add a new type of quest when we belong to Gondor, then we can be ordered to go to Rohan and help fight their enemies. And the same with other alliances.

Also, I would like to add that if Gundabad has an alliance with the Erebor Dwarves then you do not get tasks to kill your own allies. I and some of my colleagues have just such a problem. It's not that annoying but it would be nice to change this detail.

So as we all know uruk-hai and black uruks are VERY powerful, and I think they are too powerful. Tolkiens gateway states "They were faster than normal Orcs and could travel during the day without being weakened. They were not only faster but smarter, stronger and larger, though most were still shorter than Men."

Usually shorter means not as strong, at least when it comes to orcs. (sry dwarves I didn't mean to insult you) Uruk-hai in the mod right now are usually more powerful then Elves, and that is not right. Elves should be the best Soldiers in middle earth not some orcs that are shorter on average to humans.

I just think that Uruks are a little too strong, Even if we don't change how strong the Uruk-hai are maybe make Snaga spawn more often compared to them, or something like that because walking into nan curunir is a death trap, and even rohan at night is probably not good Idea.

I am thinking about creating a modpack and I have some compatibility questions. Will a mod like dynamic trees or better foliage work with LotR trees? Can mode that change the crafting process work on lotr items?

Thanks.

I made this new map that I want to play on, but it crashes the launcher every time, there's no logs or reports,

This is the map,

There's more to the south of the dark land but this is basically all of the map, and it crashes but I made a map really close to this one and it did not crash, well it did but I fixed it, but this one I do the same thing i did before, now it crashes

Please help, I want to play on this map I made

Now, the mod, as it currently stands, has very few large underground structures. The nearest would be the Dwarven Mines. Orc "dungeons" are the same as vanilla spawners, and incredibly difficult to find, with little reward. I am simply proposing more dungeon-like structures. Doesn't need to be an actual dungeon, but perhaps generated in the same way as other dungeon mods-piece by piece. The best thing about them, is that there is absolutely no exterior work to be done, and the rooms can generate mostly independently, only limited by how they fit with other rooms. They also are not carbon copies of other structures because they each generate randomly.

Most factions should be able to have at least some form of larger underground structure. Anything from tombs, to eating halls, to barracks, to goblin-cities.

I joined back to the game after restarting it because it got stuck on fast travel screen and i couldnt do anything and now the compass in the top right isnt there even tho its turned on in the settings, can anyone help?

Change it so you need to kill the player in a set amount of time or the quest will go away

While it being crafted on the Mordor CT makes sense as Sauron created The Nine, I think it makes sense for the Morgul Armor and Morgul Blade to be crafted on the Angmar Crafting Table as well. It's always felt weird to me that an armor set modeled after the Witch-king of Angmar couldn't be crafted on the Angmar CT.

A case could also be made for adding it to the Dol Guldur CT as well, as the ringwraith Khamul was Lieutenant of Dol Guldur during the War of the Ring, but either way it definitely should be on the Angmar CT.

I just thought about this like yesterday said in my mind why not add a marriage system where you can marry an npc and get an achievement on it just saying i dont think this is actually relevant in the game only to those who probably do Roleplay just a thought and just going to say this been loving the mod and i hope more stuff gets added in this and you guys keep updating it keep up the great work

As I've been making a build for Thranduil's Halls, I've noticed something that honestly surprised me: there's no mossy stone. Sure, we have the vanilla mossy cobblestone, as well as mossy stone bricks, and mossy variants to different factions' bricks. But what about all other stone/rocks?

I suggest the addition of adding a Mossy Stone, Mossy Gondor Rock, Mossy Luigon, etc., as it will allow for more building potential. Bringing it back to my building of Thranduil's Halls, it is most certainly an overgrown structure. It is not something that has clean cut stone, and adding mossy cobblestone is a total eye sore. However mossy stone would act as a perfect transition! These stone/rock variants would simply open up more doors for building more structures, and logically should already have been implemented!