The "magic smoke" (When he and Bilbo sit together, it's the ship that Gandalf blows in the movie) should travel slightly faster, through the air, than the regular smoke ring.

Otherwise you can't recreate the iconic moment where the ship goes through the ring. (the ship never really reaches the ring)

A small idea, but a nice touch if I do say so myself :)

I think tea should be introduced to the mod, because it's canon(cannot find the citation but it was said that bilbo drank tea or was it sam?)

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Aehm, so there'll be three classic types of teas:

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Fruit=Apple + Willow leaves

Herb=Lavender + Mint(new)

Black=Tea Leaf(New) + Sugar

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And faction teas:

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Shire "Lowlier"=Lavender + Cherry

Dunedain "Uruinen"=Athelas + Nettle

High Elven "Calenthúl"=Azalea leaves(I suggest they only spawn here and in Ithilien) + Pine leaves + Holly Leaves

Blue Dwarven "Velluglim"=Dwarfwort + Birch leaves

Dwarven "Ulouglim"= Dwarfwort + Black Iris

Woodland "Chwest"= Red-Oak Leaves + Green-Oak Leaves + Mint

Dalish "Rhaiwen"= Sugar + Mint + Tea leaf

Dorwidhrim "Naraqał"= Grapes + Pomegranate

Galadhrim "Ninquai"= Lairelossë leaves + Elanor

Rohirrim "Theolind's tai"= Simbelmynë + Mint

Gondorian "Numénor's dream"= Lebethron Leaves + Maple Syrup + Athelas

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Any other ideas/ suggestions on

Ill put it simply:

Blackstone and basalt generation in Mordor

Tuff in normal stone biomes

Calcite in Chalk biomes and Gondorian White Mountains

I checked the FPS, PS and WNTS

I've been running a LOTR server for about 7 years now. I love the mod. I have some ideas/grips about fellowship. This is all meant to be constructive.

Index FT = Fast Travel

Number of fellowships: I don't like that you can be in 50+ fellowships. It makes no sense.

Suggestion #1. Make a server setting to limit the number of fellowships people can be in. Zero means no limit or input a number to make a limit. This will give servers/players a choice as to weather or not they want to set a limit. (Choice is good)

Clearing clutter: The map gets very cluttered with all of the FT points people share with their fellowships.

Suggestion #2. Make a way to choose what fellowship's FT points you see on the map. Some kind of toggle able feature so that people can, for example, turn off seeing FT points for Fellowship A but still see the points for Fellowship B or see all of them or whatever they want.

More Server options: Making it possible to use commands to put people in and out of fellowships.

Suggestion #3. On my server for example we made FT points for server builds and shared them with a fellowship called "Server". That way people can find them and go there easier. However for people to be added to it we need staff to invite every... single... member. With our traffic that is a lot of people. A way to just run a command to add someone and/or everyone without need of accepting an invitation would make that much easier. I have heard that we might be able to add FT points server side in the future but there are still ways that this proposed feature could still be handy.

Again this is meant to be constructive. I love the mod. It's a quality piece of work and I hope to see it continue living on.

I have been thinking about this mod recently and why not just by the way add some new things I want added to this mod.

Mobs:

• Elephants (not Mûmakil) - Large peaceful beasts that drop Ivory when killed and can be sold to the Haradrim. Can be ridden

• Toucans- Similar to the parrot and can drop feathers.

• Hyenas- Cowardly animals that hunt small animals and runs away when approached

• Ostrich- Proud animals that have a superb speed and drops feathers with killed. Can be ridden

• Desert mouse- a mouse that have small holes in the desert.

Factions:

The Scorpion worshippers of Wardith

Savage tribes of Scorpion Worshippers dwelling in their tree forts of the Far Harad Forest. Fierce warriors in the service of the One eye, riding Jungle scorpions to the destruction of the Taurethrim tribes. Poisonous scorpion stingers and claws they use with the normal weapons, they control the Far Harad forest. The forest men and all of Middle-Earth shall be poisoned by the Great Scorpion!

Items:

• The items for the Wardith (Pickaxe, Spear, sword, Banner e.t.c ..... )

• Wains: Large carts used for transporting goods and Soldiers.

• Ivory: Drops from elephants. Bought by the Harad for great prices.

These are just suggestions but I would love to see some of them added!

Chests in generated structures should have a special 'ownerFaction' string assigned to them in the nbt (Player-placed chests will have no ownerFaction).

If the player opens a chest owned by a faction, they should lose 25 alignment of that faction, but ONLY if an NPC of that faction is present nearby (this is to prevent, say, Gondorian players from ransacking entire gondorian towns)

Some chests should be exempt from this (like the armour chests in fortresses)

To compensate for the reduced loot (due to less chests looted by the player) the loot in chests should be more valuable.

Hey guys, one thing that I've recently noticed in my last playthroughs is the absolutely ridiculous amount of loot inside Ruffian Houses. A single house offers at the very least 200 silver from the loot inside it. And there's at least 8(?) of this type of house in the the 4 major towns of Bree-Land. For the sake of balance, I propose the amount of loot should be reduced somewhat.

Currently, banner protection is universal. And that's fine for most servers- especially bigger ones. However, for grittier ones, it'd be nice to have a way to do raids, battles, and wars, without having to get an admin on high to allow it to occur.

Therefore, I propose the server option of Dynamic Banner Protection.

Firstly, to make clear, everyone who has positive alignment with a banner's faction is subject to it's permissions, no matter what. Allies cannot grief their allies. Everything works the same.

However, neutral and enemy players may get through banner protection. It works differently whether the banner is in neutral, friendly, or enemy territory.

• Neutral- for example, a Gondor Banner in the Forodwaith: Neutral and enemy players may ignore the protection. The simplest- if there's no way to gain conquest in the area, an enemy can get past it.

• Enemy- for example, a Gondor Banner in Mordor: The banner protection only works as long as there is enemy conquest aligned with the Banner's faction in the area. For example, the chunk the banner is in is an area of positive Rohan or Gondor conquest.

• Friendly- for example, a Gondor banner in Rohan or Gondor; It is reversed. By default, banner protection works in friendly chunks- until that chunk is an area of enemy conquest to the local banner's faction, such as Isengard in Rohan. (It is the local faction, not the banner's faction, as there may well be friendly areas to the banner's faction where no enemy of said faction can gain conquest, creating a permanent protected area).

Overall, this means that players may lay siege and attack enemy bases, gaining conquest, allowing them to loot their foes. It also gives a practical incentive to conquest. I understand this probably will never be seen, but it's a neat feature imo, and I'd be happy ta see it in the distant future.

So on the lotr minecraft facebook page their was a question that was asked that was "should npcs have the same attack speed as the player or should they have slightly lower.

That got me thinking what if we had it so that so that certain npcs had higher attack speed than others... of course weapons change attack speed but I mean just an overall buff like +10% or something like that.

Then I thought that we should have 3 tiers of buffs. There would be elite, there would be average, and there would be weak.

Elite: ( +10% attack speed )this would include stuff like elves, dwarves, knights of the silver swan, Golden easterling, maybe the dunedain. Also stuff like Isengard Berserkers. This will show how some soldiers are better skilled with weapons then others

Weak: ( -10% attack speed )This would include stuff like orcs, possiby corsairs of Umbar, civlians for all factions. also maybe trolls, The reason I say trolls is that when I think of trolls I think of big hulking brutes and when they hit you you go flying. As it is in the mod.

Average: ( + 0% attack speed )This would include basically everything I didn't say so stuff like regular Gondorians, and also stuff like Black Uruks, and other uruks types. The reason I say black uruks is that

#1 this would be a skill up from regular orcs which would mean that they are already better.

#2 This is to show that stuff like Elves and dwarves are more skilled than even the best orc. And I think that this would be an easy way to show they are better with out dramatically changing any stats

Possible setback: I am not a coder and don't know anything about coding so this may be more difficult.

If you guys have any suggestions to where some units should go please tell me and I might update it depending what everyone says

Thanks for reading this essay of a suggestion !!!

Hey friends 😂😂.

I was just wondering if the war hammers and battle axes be single handed or two handed.

Also clearing to us if we can use a shield with them or not

Opinion.

As we already have throwing axes, it would so good if we could make these wepons two handed so they do godly damage but make you vulnerable too..

Ok about a year ago I suggested this as a Random Fandom user. My grammar was out the window and it didn't go into much detail. This is take 2. My Idea is to add Javelins to the mod. The texture will be shorter, if you know what I mean, than a spear but the throwing mechanic will work the same. Javelins will be able to work in stacks of up to 16 like snowballs eggs and ender pearls. They will do more damage than a spear but can be thrown further. Not sure what factions would use them though...

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I hope the mega structure can provide some actual faction feeling

It can only be captured by pledged players, and the ownership is only with faction and not certain player/fellowship

It can have some banner victory mini game function to it

Perhaps "Colonies" isn't the best name, but it'll do for now.

Spider Colonies would be structures found deep in Mirkwood, filled to the brim with Mirkwood Spiders. The structure would consist of larger Mirk-oak trees connected to each other by bridges of webs that the Spiders can walk across. You can find 2-block-tall "Web Bundle" blocks that work like Remains strung up on these bridges, and breaking them will provide "loot" that includes Rotten Flesh, Man-Flesh, Bones, Elf Bones, Orc Bones, and Skulls.

Some of these bundles might not be blocks, however! You can rarely find "Wriggling Bundles" which are actually entities that will wriggle about while hanging. After 2 or 3 hits they will drop like anvils before breaking on the next block, releasing the caught prisoner inside. These will usually be Woodmen (when those are added) or Wood-elves, (as I don't believe any Dwarves would have been in Mirkwood during the War of the Ring), but rarely a Dol Guldur Orc will pop out and begin attacking you! After being freed the caught prisoner will quickly thank you for freeing them (unless they're an Orc) and give you a reward such as coins or food before running off into the woods and despawning.

I believe that this would help flesh out Mirkwood a bit more, and give a reason to actually wander off the path, no matter how much the resident skinchanger warns against it!

Introduction:

As we all know minecraft has a village mechanic in which you have villagers, they breed, the village grows and iron golems spawn and you make the houses and all that jazz. I suggest something similar to this for the mod itself.

As a player who generally aligns with "Dunedain of the north" who also lives in Minhiriath I've had problems with trading and whatnot because the only trading you get here is through merchants or having to fast travel and sit through a 30 minute cooldown. And I believe a village system would fix this problem while also adding more depth to the mod.

Obtaining/founding

To Start a village you should have pledged to the given faction and have a certain amount of to said faction aswell as a few hired units . A village should also only be possible in a geographically logical location under said factions banner claimed land. As a Village of the Dunedain of the north in Mordor wouldn't really make sense.

Having things such as houses and farms and farmhands should also be a must in a village as the inhabitants need places to sleep and food to eat.

Usage:

As of right now I have come up with possible 3 different uses.

One would be to get traders to your base. As a person who as before stated lives in minhiriath i cant get any permanent traders so being able to get a settled trader would be great. I also believe more merchant arrivals near you village would make sense.

A different use of having a village would be a source of income as your "villagers" pay taxes

Gaining alignment as more NPCs move in would also be a good feature

The way NPCs move in should be similar to how traders arrive. They should have a message like "A settler has arrived nearby" and you assign them a house

Combat/Risks

This is where we come in to the more wacky territory

As your village grows it should be susceptible to sieges or attacks in which the assailants goal is kill the inhabitants and pillage. This should be an actual threat to your village unlike invasions where there is no destruction at all to bannered the attacks should have orc bombarders who can blow through walls as well as builder who can build bridges over moats and ladders over walls

Your village so be at an actual risk of being destroyed

If sieges are implemented, it should most definitely be optional in the mod config

Deaths/Casualties and reputation

If someone dies in your village it should lose reputation. This leads to less settlers arriving, you get less income through tax and traders prices should go up.

Ways to gain reputation should be to win sieges or have a surplus of food better housing

Final thoughts:

This would be a huge feature which would really give the mod a new layer of depth. But all of this is a really tall order, so if even half of what I've written is implemented, I believe it would be a great addition to the mod which would make it feel so much more alive. As someone who has been playing the mod for 7 years, ever since biomes were randomly generated I have always wanted to have my own town/village and now that renewed is eventually coming out there isn't a better time to implement it.

Take what you want from this and leave thoughts or critiques. Id be happy to see what everyone thinks of this idea!

Thanks - T_Series

This is a pretty simple suggestion. In the chapter Queer Lodgings in The Hobbit Tolkien writes this: "They sat long at the table with their wooden drinking-bowls filled with mead." So why not add it? It would fit in really well when the Beornings/ Woodmen are added. On top of this I think that bowls should be able to be placed down like mugs or bottles, something just doesn't feel right when you have a stack of bowls full of leek soup on a plate... LAYING HORIZONTALY.

Ok I am going to be honest here. I have no idea if this is the correct word for my suggestion... either way here we go. In the Return of the King movie there is this scene:

I also think that tolkien says the word pennant in some chapter in The Two Towers or the Return of the King. Don't get me wrong I think banners are great, I think that the triangular flags should be added, IN ADDITION to banners. Each faction would have one and the designs would be different from that of a banner. This could just add more variety to each faction. It could also be really cool if they could be put on polearms like shown in the picture above. I don't really know though, let me know hwat you gusy think. :)

Now that the mod is porting to 1.16.5, certain factions should absolutely get the Piglin Bartering System!

The ones I have in mind currently are the Lossoth, Northern Orcs, Half-Trolls, when the Morwaith are split into Subfactions then the Southern and Western Morwaith (Eastern and Northern Morwaith would trade coins), and possibly the Taurethrim?

Not sure what they'd barter with, but I really don't see the Lossoth, who "did not value jewels", trading for items with silver coins. I made an exception for the Eastern and Northern Morwaith because the Eastern Morwaith are known for trading Mumask to Near Harad and the Northern Morwaith are known for being bought as mercenaries to fight for Near Harad, so I could see them using coins.

I also considered Dunland, but I'd like to hear y'all's opinions on that first before saying anything.

I have some changes in mind which I would really like to see. I thought of these because I suddenly started building more than ever:

• Horizontal Pillars: Self Explanatory.

• Wooden Posts: These are basically fence posts which don't connect to each other and can be put vertically.

• Flooring: These are carpets but are made from wooden blocks(can be a grind to make and they wouldn't work on all other blocks).

• Custom Banner: This may be hard to implement, but I've seen similar things be done in other mods: Craft a blank (LOTR) banner with any wool, and when you right-click with it, it opens a GUI where you basically draw a custom banner. This banner will do the normal banner protection and can be given to banner-carrying Units. It will help in servers where people create new factions.

• Stair Carpet: these are carpets modeled for stairs going straight up (not connected to another stair facing another direction, not upside-down).

• Kebab Sandwich: This is obviously not for building, but from where I come (Yemen, Southern Arabia) we put Kebabs inside of bread (circular bread)(sometimes with salad and garlic sauce). So seeing a Kebab Sandwich will be delicious, to say the least.

DISCLAIMER: All of these additions are meant for Renewed!