What Units Should I Hire?
If you're playing the Legacy version of the mod, you'll quickly come to realise that for many factions, there's a huge assortment of units that you can potentially hire. Furthermore, you'll likely have sufficient positive alignment with multiple factions to hire their troops, too. All of this choice can beg the question: which units to hire?
- 1 Pledging
- 2 What's the army's job?
- 3 Bodyguards
- 4 Terrain
- 5 Fighting an Invasion/Conquering land
- 6 Base defense
- 7 Fighting a player
If you haven't already, consider pledging to your favourite faction. This will give you a discount on hiring their soldiers, give you access to all their units, and enable you to conquer enemy lands when you kill enemy NPC's.
To kill enemies. Duh.
But be more specific: what exactly are you…
Three Recruits!
What fruit this day has brought! Three recruits.
Most seem to think that my announcement is 'childish' which is a understandable conclusion. However, their growing enmity to the Mod Devs for their role in maintaining the Great Silene is strong enough to ally with me.
The Official Server seems to be down, sadly. Us Gorthangeaions need a base of operations.
The only way we can be taken seriously on the Discord or Official Server if we act as a united phalanx, all at once, cutting through the trolls and Loyalists with the searing blade of justice, wielded by many doughty arms!
Still, we must gather more. Contributions to the Wiki are essential, we need to become popular. No page vandiazazions, no trolling, no direct insults. We just type and act …
The Beginning of the Gorthaneaion Revolt
Well, it is time. It is time for Mevans to give the community a teaser. It is time for the community to ask for one. It is time...for the Gorthangeaion Revolt to begin!
It has been six months since the last teaser of a few Rohirrim riding horses. It is only two days until the Rings of Power airs. I wonder what will happen.
I intend to form a base, out in Rhun or WIlderland on the Official Server, for the Gorthangeaions to rally around. We need movements across the Discord and Official Server, possibly others, for this to work.
I have already established control of the wiki, within the bounds of the rules, of course. I am likely the most active person on the wiki, so our center of command is, of course, the wiki.
No recruits just yet. Need more…
Need a skin?
Hello, I'm TheblueWizard, and I have a bit of free time, so if you have a skin or texture idea you'd like me to make feel free to post it in the comments and I'll try and do it this month. If you want to reach me after this month, I am always active on discord CopnMagi#2463 and my minecraft texturing discord https://discord.gg/sdEnyXk. We also have a lot of the mod's skins turned into player skins if you wanted to peek in there and grab something.
Signature with custom character
How can I make a signature with custom characters (for example Aghertas Erebor)?
Thank you very much in advance for the answer.
An Unexpected Return
I have returned! After a long hiatus from the mod, I have come back (possibly temporarily, but still,) to enjoy this community and mod once more. However, upon my return, I have found that, well, all of the servers I once enjoyed are long gone. This being said, I make a simple request to anyone who might see this: Do you have any server recommendations? I would greatly appreciate it if someone could guide me to a server of at least decent quality. This being said, it is good to be back!
vanstar youtube video
https://youtu.be/Z_VNYAPuYx4
https://youtu.be/Zrlmat-bmzk
https://youtu.be/mdOSjN57nNY
https://youtu.be/1QyvPAE4OLs
https://youtu.be/zhuFjYs-Wfs
https://youtu.be/XPahFnUZOg0
Story So Far Of How I Came to be.
It Started In the Creation of The Universe itself... The Valar oh where do I see myself above all of them "Evil Laughs" I Was once a apprentice of Aule the Valar of Smiths. But I Felt no need for my time need greater purposes and more desire! DESIRE!!!!! POWER!!!! Morgoth was just the convincing I needed he gave me a purpose showed me things they couldn't And then I had a since of no regret..... After my Master perished I felt that I had no need for anyone else humiliated. Retreated into my Darkness oh the Darkness it calls for me.... So many Voices ancient by days. I forget who I even am anymore. what am I? who am I? I Am Sauron The Dark Lord over these Lands and I'll crush my enemies for they do not know fear.... the truth what I've seen…
AstikorCarts MOD perfect support
[https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/astikorcarts
Done! Originally, diamond hoe was used for Plow, but since there is no diamond in Middle-earth, I chose iron hoe. Since there are many situations where farming is left to NPCs, I think that this level of change will not be a problem.
Enjoy!
SublimeText and Mediawiker Setup
Mediawiker is an addon for SublimeText that allows you to edit pages directly within SublimeText. River from Gamepedia has a great blog about it here where she shares more about it and her setup. I am similarly putting my setup here for my own and possibly others' reference.
- 1 Pros and Cons
- 2 My Plugin List
- 3 Configs
- 3.1 Mediawiker
Overall, I find SublimeText/Mediawiker pretty helpful because I often copy and paste page/template source into a text editor anyway so that I can do find/replace (although this will be built into the editor in UCP!), see if curly braces match up, etc. I think it's definitely better for templates or code pages than content pages though.
- (Pro) Syntax highlighting is quite nice overall but has some quirks (ex. when callin…
Treecapitator Config
I changed the config file of Treecapitator MOD so that it can cut down trees in Middle-earth, so make a note of the setting.
Open Treecapitator.cfg and add it under tree_and_mod_configs.
For 1.7.10, there is no prerequisite mod other than Forge.
lotr {
M:modID=lotr
S:axeIDList=lotr:item.axeBronze;lotr:item.battleaxeOrc;lotr:item.axeMithril;lotr:item.axeMallorn;lotr:item.axeElven;lotr:item.axeDwarven;lotr:item.axeOrc;lotr:item.axeUruk;lotr:item.axeWoodElven;lotr:item.axeAngmar;lotr:item.axeHighElven;lotr:item.axeBlueDwarven;lotr:item.axeDolGuldur;lotr:item.axeTauredain;lotr:item.axeRivendell
S:shearsIDList=
- This setting controls whether or not the mod config section it appears in will override an IMC message sent by that mod. [default: false]
B:ove…
Granite, Andesite, and Diorite -- Where Would They Be Found?
Hello folks,
This blog post was written in response to a discussion with Mevans on the mod's Discord (where he got really jealous of my proximity to the Eastern Shore Granite ridge) where we were trying to establish: where would vanilla granite, andesite, and diorite spawn in Middle-earth? I took some inspiration from the Geologic map of Nova Scotia, and here are some of my findings.
- 1 The Rocks
- 1.1 Andesite
- 1.2 Granite and Diorite
- 2 Where would they be found?
- 2.1 Andesite
- 2.2 Granite and Diorite
- 3 New rock type?
Andesite is an igneous extrusive rock, which means it's typically associated with areas that are currently or used to be volcanic. They generally have small crystals, due to being formed from lava that solidified fairly quickly on the earth's sur…
How do you make all the pictures look like the minecraft wiki?
How does the developpers make all the pictures look like the minecraft wiki? I mean not like screenshot. Do you just take a screenshot from the right angle with the good daytime and you remove the background? Im talking about the blocks and the structure wiki picture not the texture.
where can we find the npc skins?
as the title said, i think the elven skins are really well made and i would like to use one myself, any idea where i may find the npc skins? or at least that high quality skins? (sorry if this is not where i should ask, im new to this page)
Music Pack: Music of the Ainur
Music of the Ainur is a music pack that adds a variety of classical-ish music to Middle-earth. With famous works such as the symphonies of Beethoven to folk songs of the Middle-east, Music of the Ainur contains over 100 unique works. It's my hope that this adds a new element to your exploration of Middle-earth.
It is highly recommended that you increase the minimum time between tracks (you can do this by clicking 'mods' from Minecraft's main menu), or that you use it in conjunction with another music pack.
Due to the way the music system works, sometimes tracks will continue to play even if you've left the area they are meant to play in. If this bothers you too much, you can reset the music by going into your options, turning music off, returni…
Restarting the LOTR Font Pack
The LOTR Font Pack that I "teased" a few months ago will have to be remade from the beginning again, I lost the original pack I was working on due to my computer breaking down (It was seven years old, so should've been no surprise). I'll start working on it again very soon.
Fan-Made Update 36 Rundown
Made by me (Nakras) and FroggisMe/Owen, here is a more cinematic rundown of the latest update, with custom music etc. as a quality start up for our new channel. We’ll be posting tutorials, gameplay and guild related stuff based within the Lotr mod and other things of entertainment. Feel free to subscribe or share the video around. It’ll be much appreciated
Mordor Renewed ~ Download Available!
Hey comrades, it's been a while.
As those of you in the Community Discord may have heard, I have begun completely revamping my old Mordor map. Progress has been made, and now it is once more time for a WIP version to be put out.
The link to download, the link to some pics, and a list of everything that's on the map can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bZRxSdROIuzhGQP-FGznW_7tu6s_fTb_Q8Z8f3RXHn0/edit
Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 02:14, June 23, 2020 (UTC)
Starter Base 7: Bree
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Bree farm
- 3 Materials and Variations
- 3.1 Materials I used in the building:
- 3.2 Variants:
I've often been on servers where I found a lot of simple "wood cubes" as houses. They were often built by new players who need a cheap and useful shelter. As a survival player I know this issue too but as a builder it just makes me cry. So many great servers and their player citys loose their lotr atmosphere because of these "cubes". So I started developing starter bases. They should look nicer as the cubes but should cover everything a new player needs. You'll find everything from a crafting table, to a small kitchen garden in a faction specific building. I only use blocks from the lotr mod and vanilla minecraft, so everybody can build this. P…
JEI LOTR for LOTR Renewed-1.1
I officially announce the JEI plugin for LOTR Renewed - JEI LOTR.
If you didn't know, NEI (NotEnoughItems) doesn't exist at 1.15.2 anymore, instead, there is JEI (JustEnoughItems).
Feature-wise they are comparable, so nothing to worry about.
To make it compatible with the LOTR Mod, a plugin is needed, which I just made - JEI LOTR.
The benefit of JEI LOTR is, that JEI has a much better structure as NEI, and thus NEI Recipe Handlers isn't neeeded anymore - just the LOTR Mod, JEI and JEI LOTR.
JEI LOTR is open source and licensed under the GPL 3.0.
For further announcements, a help-channel and so on, join the official Discord server: https://discord.gg/37GanUf
The wiki also has an announcement thread (https://lotrminecraftmod.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:…
Currently Working on a Resourcepack
I am trying to make a resourcepack that will simply change the Minecraft font into some higher quality LOTR font. I'm sure there is probably another resourcepack that already does this, but this pack will only change the font, and is higher quality. Heres a little test of the pack so far, I might need to fix some of the spacing still, and I'm not too happy with the G yet. Let me know if there are any LOTR font resource packs already.
lotr structures - reworked
We alle know them and we all love them - the generated structures of the lotr mod! They serve as starter bases, looting areas and as beautiful decorations of the landscape. There's no doubt that everybody that these strucutres truely bring middle earth to live.
However I think those structure have another purpose: they serve as inspirations for players to build in faction specific styles. So I did it! I took the high elven structues of the mod and mixed them with my own building style. With this faction I've choosen a quite difficult faction because I've always felt that the mods building style doesn't fit my imagination of the high elves because the bright colours look a lot like a "comic" styled version of the high elves. In addition I ne…
Starter Base 6: Hobbits
Hello everybody,
I'm back with another "Starter Base". This time we're looking at our hungry friends form the shire. Let's go!
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Hobbit Hole
- 3 Materials and Variations
- 3.1 Materials I used in the building:
- 3.2 Variations:
I've often been on servers where I found a lot of simple "wood cubes" as houses. They were often built by new players who need a cheap and useful shelter. As a survival player I know this issue too but as a builder it just makes me cry. So many great servers and their player citys loose their lotr atmosphere because of these "cubes". So I started developing starter bases. They should look nicer as the cubes but should cover everything a new player needs. You'll find everything from a crafting table, to a small kitchen…
How much is a Silver Coin worth??
Hello everyone,
After seeing a certain Game Theory episode, I started wondering: How much is the currency in Middle-earth -- the Silver Coin -- worth in real life dollars?
For this comparison, I am going to use Canadian dollars, due to my living in Canada. As you'll soon see, there are quite a few ways to approach this question.
An ingot of silver consists of 1/9th of a block of Silver, which measuring 1m3, would have a mass of 10.5. That means that the silver block weighs a total of 10.5 metric tons, and each ingot would weigh 1.167 tons.
Now consider that you can get nine nuggets of silver out of an ingot, and each nugget makes one coin. Therefore, each coin weighs 130kg. With today's silver prices ($767 Canadian/kg), that one coin would cos…
MPM LOTR - More Player Models now fully works with the LOTR Mod
Ever installed MPM with the LOTR Mod and experienced the weird blackscreen?
This can be fixed by disabeling the PoV setting from MPM, but sadly, that also disables that feature, which means that for example if you choose the Balrog model, your "Point of View" (PoV) is stil the player one, not the high Point of View a Balrof (or any comparable large model) would have.
I created a small mod which fixes that - MPM-LOTR. Just download it and drop it into your mods folder, voila.
- v35.3/v35.4 of the LOTR Mod
- 1.7.10b of MPM (https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/more-player-models/files/2242988)
- Download: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/mpm-lotr
- Sourcecode: https://github.com/CraftedMods/mpm-lotr
- Issue tracker: https://github.com/Cra…
Discord Server and Wiki Conduct
Hello all, I am writing this blog post to inform the community of a collective staff decision that was made this week. As many of you are aware, this wiki has a discord server which is utilized for discussions related to the mod and wiki, as well as to provide a less structured digital hang-out area for LOTR Mod fans, specifically those who are wiki members. The wiki forum is also utilized for more structured discussions of various topics, Suggestions and Bug Reports primarily.
As the wiki staff, we have come to the conclusion that the behavior of many users of both the wiki and the discord server have been allowed to let the rules of both discussions platforms slide beyond what we believe to be acceptable, and the staff as a collective hav…
NEI Emmaitar - a Not Enough Items plugin for Emmaitar
Playing on a server with Emmaitar but wondering how many paintings they have?
Well, here's the solution, use the brand new NEI plugin for Emmaitar (well, it's not that new, but anyway ...)!
You don't know what Emmaitar is? It's an awesome mod from Mevans itself, which allows the addition of custom paintings to Minecraft.
- 1 Features
- 2 Screenshots
- 3 Installation
- 3.1 Requirements
- 4 Important Links and Download
- Integrates the painting recipes in NEI crafting and usage mode - with displaying the actual painting
- Adds a painting button to the crafting table which - upon clicking it - shows every painting registered via Emmaitar
- Contains an integrated version checker which notifies you about new versions
- Make sure the required mods are installed (see below)
- Downlo…
Region Spotlight -- Issue 33 -- October 20, 2019
Man it's been way too long since I did one of these, but here goes nothing. Region spotlight is back, and I will hopefully be doing it slightly more often from now on (I'll aim for ~ once a month). But anyways, what region shall I feature this time?
Today I have chosen a region that looks slightly different with the new resource pack than it did in the past and is located just west of the Misty Mountains. It's Dunland.
- 1 Where is it?
- 2 What do you like about this region?
- 3 Any advice for travellers?
- 4 Gallery
Dunland is north of Isengard and west of the Misty Mountains, somewhat to the south of Eregion. If you come from Gondor direction, head along the Greenway and turn north soon after the Fords of Isen. If you come from Bree, follow the Greenway u…
A fix for laggy horses
Good day everyone,
A good many things were changed in , but among them, one of the greatest changes was that to horses & other mounts, so that their movement is controlled client-side, rather than server-side.
While for lots of people, this was a great fix, for a few others, including myself, this change resulted in horses becoming extraordinarily slow, barely the speed of sneaking.
Just this morning, I think I've found a fix for this problem. The fix is quite straightforwards, and takes maybe 5 minutes to complete.
The problem (as far as I gather) occurs when the mod is downloaded as a .zip file, as opposed to a .jar file. For more about what's happening, see the picture below.
When downloaded the mod will end up in your default downloads director…
A New "Retrospective" Series
Hello every, Fronacen here. For anyone who recognizes me, I'll be a sight for sore eyes.
With the latest update out for the mod, I have decided to start a blog series, a retrospective as it were.
Of course, retrospective usually implies something has run its course: that is not what am saying about this mod. Instead, I want to use my experience with this mod and it's many updates to critically look back at what has happened with this mod. This is not meant as a review of the mod.
I would also like to point out a few things:
First of all, for those who don't know, I have been watching this mod for a LONG time (I believe way back in July, 2013, when Mirkwood was added). For people at home, that means since Beta 7. I have seen a lot, both mod-add…
Climates of Middle Earth
I decided to create a climate map of middle earth, using a simplified Koppen clasification system, because i was bored...
For reference on what the colours mean go here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification
Constructive critisism on how to make this and any other maps better would be gladly welcomed.
- Depending on where the inbound current reaches the continental shelf off the coast of gondor would decide how much the bay of belfalas would be of a mediterranean climate
- The cold deserts and steppes of Rhun could be a little more inland, (not entirely sure how the sea of Rhun effects things
- A new desert region in the utter-most east, akin to the last desert
- Another small central desert in Harhudor
- Southern Palisor would be …
Name for a LOTR Mod YouTube channel
Hey guys, I've been thinking of making a LOTRMC channel (in addition to my bug related YouTube) for a while now, and recently decided to go for it. I already have my first video filmed and trimmed, but I have yet to come up with a name for my channel. Any ideas?
Edit: Is this profile pic decent?
Why this mod is still relavent to me -- even after SIX years!
Good day folks,
I've been around here a while. A long while, actually. In fact, I am the second oldest still active wiki contributor, and have seen my fair share of moments on the wiki, from great collaborations on projects to angry arguments resulting in the ban of multiple users.
Yet I've been playing the mod for even longer, for nearly six years, in fact. Over that time, the mod has also grown greatly, going from a small mod that added a few regions and factions of Middle-earth in a randomly-generated pattern (still accessible if you use Middle-earth Classic world generation) to a mod that adds in the entire continent of Middle-earth, along with almost all of its factions.
Even though all this time has passed, and I've grown considerably o…
Me
So When I think of myself I think I am worse than Morgoth and Sauron combined I Dropped Hundreds of Khamuls Fire on Lothlorien. My Motto is Burn and Pillage Then kill them because their like Gollum pitful.
Server-side mod: RndTp
If you think baby orcs should not be born in The Shire and then crawl their way down to Mordor (probably why they keep talking about maggots!), or on the contrary if you wonder why those so-called quiet people originating from The Shire are making all the fuss everywhere in Arda, then you may be interested by what follows:
rndtp (RaNDom TelePort) is a server-side mod that you can use for randomly teleporting players into specific areas.
It's designed for server operators to be used in server signs / pressure plates / command blocks in a server spawn in order to spread players on their chosen faction territory.
While not specifically dedicated to the Lord of the Rings mod, this mod has a companion set of directories/files enabling you to teleport a…
Music Pack: Ambience of Middle-Earth
Ambience of Middle-earth is a music pack which adds the sounds of the world to Middle-earth. From a gentle breeze rolling across the shire, the staccato chatter of birds in the jungles of Harad, or the eerie sounds of water dripping from stalactites in a cave, this pack (hopefully!) adds a new element to the environment.
It is highly recommended that this pack be used with an increased minimum time between music tracks (can be changed via "mods" button from Minecraft's main menu), or be used in conjunction with a second music pack.
Due to the way the music system works, sometimes tracks will continue to play even if you've left the area they are meant to play in. If this bothers you too much, you can reset the music by going into your opti…
Greater Rohan Map
Hello Everyone, I've decided to create a Map of Greater Rohan; Including Isengard, Dunland, The Adornland, Rohan and Fangorn
By now, many of you have seen Grevious' Mordor map. And I wanted to try and build on that (not to take away from his or replace) because many people out there might not have the time or the skills to re-create rohan. This is just the start, only including Isengard with; The Tower of Orthanc, Caverns of Isengard, Campsites and a re-done biome and wall. It is available to be downloaded.
Just for the Beginning you will spawn just outside Nan-Curunir, on the path. Later on i will make a camp with supplies and fill out Structures with Resources.
Here’s a list (so far), with descriptions, of the builds included:
- The Tower of…
Playing with Fire -- Making coloured flames
About a day ago, I got to play around with an oxy-hydrogen torch, that burns at around 3200 oC. I made some solutions of various metal salts, such as NaCl, KBr, Sr(CH3COO)2, CuSO4, and put these solutions into the hot flame. When I did this I got some beautiful colours.
Some of these emission lines, such as Na, K, Li, and Cu, you may have seen in fireworks. Sr can be seen in road flares. But I'm sure you haven't seen all these flame colours.
23:07, April 2, 2019 (UTC)
Is any other fandom experiencing loading issues?
Im having a loading problem with fandom and idk what to do when i created a new page for mine it just takes forever to load.
here is the problem im experiencing
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/511675595231461386/558290063872491551/Bandicam_239.mp4
my internet connection is good and idk what else to say other then the site is broken and i want to ask the staff here if they know how to fix thanks
Cool Decoration
Bear with me, this could be a little confusing.
Now, this is a cool trick I discovered a while back. It's a little resource consuming, it can only be used in pretty specific lighting, but it looks pretty cool.
Here's a picture of the end result in a WIP Gundabad build I started ages ago:
So, looking pretty cool, isn't it? This is how you do it.
Alright, first choose where you want the food item to lie. We'll call that block 1.
Block 2 is directly adjacent to block 1, and you'll dig three blocks down from block 2. Place a torch at the bottom of the hole.
Mine out the block under block 1 and put a plate there.
Following me? No? Alright, here's how it should look.
Understand now? Excellent. It takes a little less than 64 food items to show through b…
Region Spotlight -- Issue 32 -- February 13, 2019
Why hello there.
It's been a while since I've done this, but with a rather messy winter storm bearing down on my house, I figured why not do this since I really don't have anything else to do.
The region I have chosen to feature today is actually more of a region variant than a true region. It's rather wet, and is the kind of location where people like to build cottages in real life. That's right, it's a lake.
- 1 Where are they?
- 2 What do you like about this region?
- 3 Any advice for travellers?
- 4 Photos
Lakes and ponds can be found as uncommon variants of most regions of Middle-earth. The exact location of each lake/pond depends on the world seed, and varies depending on the world, although fixed lakes are found near Esgaroth, north of the Shire, and s…
New funny bug in the sauron mob
ok so im using the 1.6.4 version of lotr and what im going to say is funny
i spawned in multiple saurons on some elves to see what would happen
they defeated the elves but they dealt damage to eachother with the mace and look at this meme i made becuase they started hitting eachother XD
one does not simply make the dark lord angry at himself
Ahoy!
This is just a quick announcement to let you all know that I'm working on an updated Pirate Speak translation for the mod. It doesn't appear to have been updated for a long time, as more than half the blocks and items have no translation. My plan is for it to be totally comprehensive, like any good translation, and include everything from weapons and armor to gui and achievements.
MY NEW BOOK
For nearly a full year, I have awaited this moment.
After many long nights spent writing...
At 269 pages...
With 121,900+ words...
It is my pleasure to present the Complete Guide to the Clone Wars!
After deciding that it would honestly just be too boring to just throw out the revised Clone Wars timeline that I've made, I decided to make a book out of it, and that book is now complete. In eighteen chapters (plus a prologue and epilogue), this Guide thoroughly and exhaustively explores the Clone Wars, from the Separatist Crisis to the last days of the war. Complete with color maps and in-depth battle profiles, each chapter explores 1-3 months of the Clone Wars at a time, treating the conflict as one massive story, from the widely-known battles of…
Has the LotR Mod Lost Its Charm? Applying AntVenom's Video to the Mod
Good day,
Today, I watched a video on AntVenom's channel, in which he tries to answer the question, "is Minecraft (vanilla, modded, otherwise) dying?" By all accounts of sales figures and active players, the answer to that question is no. The game is still selling well, and more people have played Minecraft in November than in the past several years. So the game isn't dying by a numbers point of view.
But, you can also look at it from a more philosophical point of view: has Minecraft lost the charm that attracted players years ago? To answer this, watch AntVenom's video on the topic below.
After watching this video, it got me thinking. We're in a similar situation with the Lord of the Rings mod in that it's been around for a good many years (close …