All posts by LOTRMODlover

Hi, another player and myself came up with an alternative for the waypoint structures in renewed and banner protection in the mod. What if, instead of having to build a 5 x 5 x 5 structure with a twice upgraded map per custom waypoint, there could be a single block per custom waypoint?

This single block would be crafted with a valuable block (gold, silver or iron) surrounded by wood on the crafting table. Then the player left clicks with the block in their hand on a placed block that is very common (Mordor brick, Cobblestone, Oak Wood Planks). and it assumes the visual of the block used but no other properties. They place down the block, right click it with a red book, and set custom waypoint in the interface that pops up. The block is explosion proof, protected from players not added to it, and is not affected by gravity. You can put down as many of these blocks as you want, but a limit is set on how many you can have activated by you. After the block is broken, all of its waypoint data is reset and will have to be added again. If you remove your custom waypoint remotely with the mini map, the block goes inactive and can be used by anyone. You warp to standing on top of the block whenever you fast travel there.

The Banner Protection block will be used in much the same way visually, but it will be able to protect an area instead of be able to be warped to. To craft it, you would have a banner in the middle, a valuable block below the banner, and all other slots filled with wood planks (or something else). It would have a faction protection and an area of protection based on whatever faction banner and the value of the block that were used in its crafting.

Both blocks would help not take up space in the world or build / make the world or build ugly, while also having a set place in the world. Because it would be hard to spot the blocks as they look just like any other block, they would glow light blue for waypoints and light green for banner protection just like placed banners do in the legacy version of the mod with the f3 toggle.

Hi, I would like to help update the wiki, but it will take more than just me to make progress on its many pages. So I was thinking that I would make a discord directly for editing the lotr mod wiki. Right now I'm writing up an update to Troop Guide - Which is Best?. Progress is slow, and there are many other pages to update/write. This discord would only be there for updating the wiki and organizing updates/writing for the wiki pages. If wiki staff approve of this, I will make the discord and post the invite link in the comments.

Hi, I would like to know the names of each of the LOTR data packable features and the format used in LOTR-mod-editing data packs. On the wiki page about data pack features it doesn't say what the in-editing names of the features are. I'm using the data pack guides on minecraft websites to figure data packs out, but none of them list how to get the in-editing names of the features for mods. In order to edit what I want with the data packs I need to be able to name the features that I want to edit. Thanks for assisting!

Hey there! I noticed while updating my renewed server (Twilight Legacy) to 5.3 that lotr:palantir appeared in the log for starting it. I don't know how long its been there, but I'm guessing before 5.3, maybe even out to 5.0. You can find it in the creative menu in Misc. When you place it on the ground and then hit interact (Place Block) on it, you get a message: 'You ponder the orb for a while, but do not yet know how to make use of it.' I'm so excited to wonder how its going to be implemented into this mod,

Hi, I'm wondering if in renewed we'll EVER be able to change alignment drain to be off and custom waypoint build sites to not be required? These are two very "real" factors, but they destroy the game. It IS a game, and what makes this mod stand out is WE HAVE AN OPTION for many things, including which side we fight for, who we ally, trading, etc. Most games are disappointing because everything in them is too life like. We play games to get out of reality, to have fun, not face reality head-on in the very thing designed to remove us from the trials of life. We need a choice between "truth" and "game", otherwise it is not a game, it is a simulation. Without hope for this suggestion, and a heavy heart, Barad_Dur.

Hello, I noticed that the Mordor sphere of influence is not working, the faction menu says it's there but when I kill Gondorians inside of it I don't get Mordor align as well as the alignment meter doesn't have the arrows OR dots that signal that I am in the sphere of influence of Mordor. I tried on another world and the same thing occurred. Can you fix this? Thank You!

Hi, I'd like to be able to disable the need for building a structure to make a custom waypoint in renewed, it does make sense, although it subtracts from the game in the following areas.

1. Just a Hassle: Custom waypoint structures make it so that if you are, say, traveling and need to go somewhere else for food or have lost all of your storage space, you need to build one and then fast travel away, instead of just fast traveling away after placing a waypoint down. They also are hard to build underground, and if you are mithril mining and break your pickaxe, you can't save your mineshaft easily. Another reason they are a hassle is that you need to carry all of the items in a pouch before being able to use them to build a single simple structure that actually gets expensive over time.

2. Defacing the terrain: If everyone had private waypoint structures everywhere, then most players that see them don't have a use for them, and they take away from how pretty the terrain looks.

3. Ruining the builds: If a player was making a large build/base and then realized they had to make a waypoint inside it, they would have to shift chests, walls, and even ceilings to fit the waypoint structure, otherwise they would need to walk all the way out of the base to set up a waypoint, and then that waypoint would not fit in with the build. If they planned for the waypoint, then it would still be looking out-of-place except in the cases of the best builders, who thought the entire project through to the most minute detail.

It. Is. A. Game. Why do we need to have things make sense when there are so many other features in the BASE of Minecraft that don't make sense? Like how there is no process for separating seed from crop, no need to relight the forge to craft a single iron sword, no way to enable trees to drop fruit that grows into new trees by themselves. The reasonable approach is to at least let us make the decision on whether or not we need custom waypoints in our own game, or else why did you allow us to turn alignment drain off?

Thank you!