I have started using the rotten logs as chimneys in my builds because they let the smoke particles through which provides a pleasing aesthetic for my constructions. I wondered about the possibility of making new blocks from the same geometry as the rotten log, but replacing the texture with stuff like Brick and Gondor Rock and such to add a different textured chimney to a build. Thank you for your consideration and thank you for the amazing mod! See attached pictures for example of implementation.

This was just a quick model I built for an example.

This suggestion entails a new way of hiring Trolls, for the future when Trolls and Hiring are added into Renewed of course, if this suggestion is Endorsed.

Trolls, I believe, are way to easy to hire. All you have to do is simply gain alignment and coin, (a lot, yes, but its still pretty simple) find an Angmar Orc Commander, and just like that, you have a beast that can cause untold destruction!

This, in my opinion, does not do the beasts justice. Therefore, I have come up with a suggestion to improve the hiring of Trolls....

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The first step in this new way of hiring, is crafting a "troll chain". This will be a large chain that works like a lead for trolls. It can be crafted on any Orcish crafting table in a similar manner to the chains in the newest Minecraft versions, but with iron blocks replacing the iron ingots, and iron ingots replacing the nuggets.

After you have crafted the troll chain, you must find a troll. Only normal trolls and hill trolls can be tamed with the troll chain. Olog-Hai and Mirk-Trolls should be tamed in a different way (how, I know not).

After you have found the troll, you will have to construct a five block high column, preferably made of stone, as anything else will break. Once this is done, you will right-click the troll with the chain.

(Note: only with sufficient alignment can you capture trolls in such a manner. Any player with alignment below the necessary amount will learn, very painfully, how foolish it is to try and capture a troll with a chain).

Assuming you have the right amount of alignment, the troll will be attached to the chain. However, you're not out of the woods yet! The troll will struggle profusely, regardless of alignment. Make sure to bring good armour, as captured trolls are stronger than regular ones!

Assuming you survived the struggles, you must now attach the chain to the stone column. Afterwards, the taming process will begin. Simply feed the troll meat (different amounts, depending on the type of meat. For example, tiny chicken meat will require 50 - 90, whereas large cow meat will require only 25 - 50. Feel free to change the numbers of course, I'm terrible at giving numbers :D). Just be careful, as the troll might just attempt to scoff you up instead of the offered meat!

Assuming you've given enough meat, and survived, the troll will now be tamed.

Why do I suggest this? As the beginning of this suggestion said, I believe trolls are too easy to get. If this seems like its to difficult an endeavour, perhaps buffing trolls a bit might help? Regardless, I've created this suggestion, it is my hope that it may one day in the fire be added.

Thank you for reading (and, if you gave kudos, double thanks!). Further suggestions, comments, criticism, and just about anything are welcome!

Can't wait to see the forum's thoughts on this! :)

My suggestion for a new smithing scroll would be Mount bane which increase damage dealt to mounts. This effect can only be applied to pikes and spears to create an anti cavalry role to certain units. This will be even more needed if ride-able Oliphants with large HP's are added.

**Full disclaimer, these suggestions are just game mechanics that I think would improve Utumno in renewed, and none of them are deeply rooted in lore. If you have lore-friendly suggestions/improvements, please share them!**

Currently in Legacy, Utumno has few challenges and elements to it. Essentially, there are just two: tons of hard mobs, and treacherous terrain generation. When you go to Utumno, all you want to do is get the drops you came for, and then get out of there alive. While this definitely works and is still an incredible challenge, I think there is a missed opportunity for something... special. This brings me to my main suggestions for an Utumno revamp in Renewed.

Utumno Structures:

These structures, rather than the cave-like passages of current Utumno, would be reasons to travel throughout the dangerous area. These Structures would generate into the existing generation of Utumno, but they would add an enhanced exploration aspect, as well as a possible way to get good loot. Here are a few suggestions I thought of:

Prison Cells (all layers): A network of cells with tormented elves, or a new NPCs called "Utumno Prisoners". These cells need not be too complex (even something as simple as the cells in vanilla Strongholds), but their very presence, especially with a unique NPC, could greatly enhance player experience. These new NPCs would be passive, but run away from anything that approaches them (including the player). If you talked to them, their speechbank would likely be similar to Slaves of Nurn, or Tormented Elves. You could also get the Utumno advancement [Trapped in Darkness] upon interacting with them.

Torture Chambers (obsidian and fire layers): These would be similar to the Prison Cells (possibly even a branch off of that main structure), but with slightly different details, and possibly a loot chest with a new item, the "Utumno Branding Iron". This weapon would be repaired with orc steel, and light its targets on fire with the effect of a fire aspect I weapon (this one might be too OP, or like the balrog whip, adding chill simply wouldn't be an option). Attack stats would be similar to the Smith's Hammer.

Utumno Forge (fire layer): Here is where the orcs of Utumno forge their weapons of war. I envision a large room, similar to the large open spaces in Legacy Utumno, with vats of lava and orc forges. Here you could find Utumno Smiths (normal Utumno orcs wielding Smith's Hammers), and loot chest/armour stands with Utumno gear. If you kill an Utumno Smith, you get the advancement [Forged in Hellfire].

Failed Attempts (any layer): The last stand of past explorers. These might have a small barricade, inside full of skulls, and a chest with maggoty bread, and worn out gear. You might also find a final diary (similar to the one found by the Fellowship in Moria) with the last accounts of the attack.

Barracks (any layer): This would be the Utumno version of the Middle Earth camps. Chiseled into the walls, there could be some fur beds, barrels of orc draught, and a chest with maggoty bread, orc steel, and the chance of Utumno gear.

Spider nest (ice layer): This would be a normal large opening, except full of spider webs, they new Renewed Hanging Webs, and Webs of Ungoliant. This room would be full of ice spiders, and in a central nest (similar to the cave spider spawner in Vanilla mineshafts) there could be a chest with mysterious webs, gold, silver, rotten flesh, and manflesh.

Utumno Chests: as a brief side-thought, it would be cool if the Utumno loot was found in special Utumno Chests (similar to the stone chests, and ancient haradric chests in middle earth). These would be nothing more than a cool chest texture for Utumno.

Using new vanilla items/blocks, or adding Utumno versions: I think there are some cool new blocks that could be added to Utumno. First, the vanilla chain would look so cool incorporated into Utumno generation such as the large vertical shafts (and also in some of these structures I suggested). I also think that the soulfire items could be a cool addition, or Utumno variants of them (maybe "hellfire lanterns", etc.).

These are just a few thoughts I had on this, and please let me know any suggestions you might have more more/different structures, or changes that would make these fit better to the lore.

Hi,

I was just playing and I tamed some wolves in Weather Hills and was fighting some orcs with my hired units and wolves and I found out there is no friendly fire feature for wolves so if a wolf accidentally is hit with a hired units bow or ranged weapon it retaliates and it ends up in a big fight between wolves and hired units, which the hired unit wins. Just wondering if a friendly fire for wolves like friendly fire for units will ever be added?

Thx in advance

Horus

As for now you need to chop down the tree to craft maple syrup from logs.

I suggest harvesting syrup by right clicking a maple log with a bowl in hand instead. After that the log would be stripped of its bark.

Thus you don't have to chop down maple trees for syrup. It's more realistic too.

Just wondering if it will ever be added that you can give a hired unit a mount if they do not already have one or cannot be bought with one. Such as i have 2 ranger outriders and 1 ruffian brute and we all have horses but the brute. Will i eventually be able to give the ruffian brute a horse in a new update because in reality you can give someone a horse or some other mount.

Thx in advance

Horus

Northern orcs were almost entirly wiped out after the War of Dwarves and Orcs and the Battle of the Five Armies. They barely participate in the War of the Ring (northern campain was led by Dol Guldur).

In the mod, however, they are the most numerous faction in Middle-Earth. They spawn anywhere from Ered Luin to the Rhunic border. And the spawn rate is enormous. That's not lore-friendly and should be fixed in Renewed.

Hi.

Chainmails are actually only used by Bree-guards. I suggest the chain armor may be more popular among the people of Middle-earth. I think some units like Isengard snagae, gundabad orcs, levymen of Dale, Gondor and Lebennin must be able to spawn with one or several pieces of set of chain armor.

To be more accurate, chainmail would be a part of random armors weared by gundabad orcs isengard snagae; and Levymen, instead to spawn with a iron helmet or the helmet of their faction, they'd have a small chance to spawn with chain helmet.

I suggest this because I said to myself... a bit more variety in the arsenal of armies of Middle-earth would be nice. And, of course, this suggest is for renewed. I know it's a bit too late to suggest some things for legacy anyway.

And I will add to finish I saw in new snapshot (2.8.1) Gundabad was renamed "Nortern Orcs" so I guess Gundabad is going to become a sub-faction. I don't know what the team-mod planned for the armor sets of orcs of other northern orcs subfactions but chainmail armor for these orcs too would be a good idea if they'd get to spawn with random armors either.

Well. That's all folks!

First one example:

1 Gondor Archer needs ca.30 landed shots to kill 1 Black Uruk.

1 Player with Gondorian Bow (without damage buff) needs ca. 18 Shots for the same. Considering that the Npcs are missing shots the number of shots needed raises the number of entities. Therefore battles can take a long time and result lag.

Perhaps one Solution:

An overall bowdamage increase and a drawspeed decrease should lower the projectiles (entities) in battles and make the combat more dynamic.

Merry Christmas and NewYear to the whole Mod-team!

You do incredible work. I followed the progress of the mod since pre-map-days, and had countless joyfull hours.

Regards

A loyal fan

Ps: not a native speaker^^

Monkeys should be in the mod. They can be found in Harad jungle or smoething just please add monkeys. These can drop bananas and monkey tail which can be used as a rope to grapb items.

Ps: Please add monkes

When Renewed gets around to adding mobs, Camels should definitely use the Caravan mechanic that Llamas currently have in vanilla.

Hey, I´m here with another little suggestion. In the lord of the rings, the members of the fellowship of the ring had cloaks which later were a kind of symbol for their affiliation. I want to suggest that the members of the same fellowship have the name and the symbol of it on their cloaks when wearing them.

Of course, coats are required for this. Otherwise this should be possible on the armour.

Description:

I think this would be especially useful for servers, but I think an option of the world scale (probably up to 1:1 I don't know why you'd want to go higher) would be cool if it is feasible to add.

Why might I want a bigger world?

This is the option that I really want, it would allow for a lot more players to live in small areas/factions and allow for much more realistic builds in some areas. I also think that certain roleplay events would be made easier and more natural to implement. Another thing I have wanted to do in the past is make a full server restricted to the Shire, this might be niche, but it would be a lot more effective with a larger world.

Why might I want a smaller world?

This is a secondary aspect that would be created by adding the scale option and, to be frank, most benefits of a small world are already given by the teleport function but perhaps a player may want to omit the feature in options (obvious reasons) and want to be able to travel easier, especially on singleplayer worlds.

Another thing I would benefit from:

Also not really a full suggestion but a side note, I think more roads and checkpoints, especially in the rather empty areas, would make travel easier and more fun, I especially like to use the roads in travelling because you don't have to check the map and the path is (generally) flat.

When the renewed map extends further south into Far Harad, Llamas should definitely spawn in the Harad Mountains. I don't personally see any other good place where they would except maybe the Mountains of the Wind, but that just doesn't feel right considering the Harad Mountains are a lot more like the Andes than the Wind Mountains.

Chestnut trees should definitely spawn, as they're explicitly stated to be there in the books. Larches and Aspens would also be good choices for the sake of variety.

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PLS, UPVOTE IN MY SUGGESTION!!!

1. Add Northern Eriador biome

Darker grass and occasional snow, similar to Northern Dale. Because now transition between Eriador and Northern Forest is too drastic.

2. Extend Minhiriath farther North.

Minhiriath is what's left of Cardolan. Back in the day Barrow Downs and South Downs were a part of Cardolan. That's why Minhitiath should stretch as far as Bree and South Downs.