Ilu Ambar - Quentacéva Arda[]
This is a LOTR mod Renewed+Extended server. As the combination of [The Lord of the Rings Mod: Renewed - Minecraft Mods - CurseForge|LOTR Renewed] and [Lord of the Rings: Renewed Extended - Minecraft Mods - CurseForge|LOTR Extended] mods is not 'feature complete', this server will face regular (partial) resets while new updates for these mods become available.
The server was launched with LOTR R+E version 1.8.1 and opened for whitelisted Ilu Ambar members on 29 September 2025.
The server was updated to LOTR R+E version 1.9.1 and advertised in the LOTR modded Minecraft community on 6 January 2026.
Features[]
The list below gives a rough overview of present main features, just to provide a first impression to help people determine whether the server and its community may be worth joining. Note that eventually we plan to have features comparable to the ones we have for Ilu Ambar - Quenta Arda. Some of those features are simply not available yet.
- The server provides a gameplay environment aimed at long-term immersive roleplay survival, with focus on in-character roleplay, building, PvE and consented PvP. The server world is Middle-earth and uses the LOTRmod the way it is designed to be used.
- Survival mechanics are set to encourage planning ahead.
- The community uses a ruleset to support player roleplay immersion and empowerment, and minimum staff monitoring and intervention.
- Players require the following 6 mods to be able to join: LOTRmod Renewed, LOTRmod Renewed+Extended, Corpse, CustomNPCs, PlayerEx and UnionLib. All are included in these packs: Ilurambarcéva @ Technic and Ilu Ambar - Quentaceva Arda @ CurseForge. Alternatively, players can use this zipped instance for MultiMC.
- All players are equal and neither staff nor sponsors receive any benefits in-game.
- The community aims to gather players who value the server gameplay objectives above the predominantly short-term oriented PvP survival faction warfare that is typical for most minecraft factions/rp/rpg servers. The typical community member is mature, aims for long-term roleplay building and is relatively self-sufficient regarding the gathering of information and in-game resources. The server is whitelisted to ensure players who are allowed to join are aware of their behavioural responsibility. Whitelisting is controlled by trusted players via the Discord server.
- Players are recruited in the Minecraft and Vintage Story communities.
- In-game all player characters are encouraged to physically act in-character at all times, except for OOC events.
- Players are expected to respect each others choice on whether or not one is available for PvP: combat between players is by consent only.
- Characters can be in charge of land they control with the LOTR mod's banner protection system. Any other political rule is to be arranged for by the players. Characters can only claim control of areas around their own bannered bases in their own faction home biomes or neutral lands. Banner placement in enemy biomes is prohibited.
- The world political map is static with respect to the faction home biomes. There is only taking over of lands / conquest warfare in neutral biomes and only with affected players consent.
- New players start at world spawn in The Shire. There is no Overworld, or any other presence related to vanilla Minecraft. There is no faction selection yet. It's free roaming / character and story development for the time being.
- HOLD for these future additions: Players start with an starting kit that helps survive any environment, provided they're not too uncautious. Faction and sub-faction selection lead to dedicared spawn locations, simple platforms that are protected to ensure no enemy units or invasions spawn nearby (area stretching about 64 blocks surrounding the stall of their sub-factions middleman, which is also located there). Players will have to gather their resources and craft their gear themselves, or get it from other faction members on the spot. Voting for the server can boost your early game foor supplies and your bannering and purchasing power.
- Every player starts as an adventurous creature, with the default base body worth 20 hp and no special skills. The PlayerEx mod is used to add some RPG spice to the server experience and allows for conversion of gathered vanilla experience orbs to player skill attributes like health, agility and strength. Lower skill levels can be easily achieved, but the learning curve is steep, so deliberate grinding for higher levels is not that worthwhile. Avoiding death is very much worth the caution though, as the cost of a death event is the loss of all gained experience.
- The server only has a very minimal spawn area for the time being, and no premade lore builds. There are no builders with creative mode and no server shops selling construction materials. Eventually, a spawn area with trade and roleplay venues will be created, and the world will be dotted with builds created by our players.
- Due to the nature of the server and the lack of some features we used to have to monitor and manage player behaviour (a.o. PvP mode mod), the rules are kept very simple. We expect everyone to behave in line with the standards set for other Ilu Ambar's servers and we assume every Quén (= whitelisted Minecraft player) can be entrusted with a high degree of responsibility.
- Griefing, trolling, bullying and landscape scarring are prohibited.
- The server opened for whitelisted players on 29 September 2025 and is planned to remain active and thriving for many years to come.
Discord[]
Our discord server is where it's at. Check in using this link: Ilu Ambar Discord Server
Middle-earth and its chroniclers[]
To be filled in ...
Builds[]
To be filled in ...
Staff[]
In-game there is no formal staff policing the server. We expect every whitelised player to ensure misbehaviour is adressed when it happens, corrected on the spot, if possible, and reported when dealing with issues worth reporting.
We have 3 formal roles in our Discord that come with some additional responsibility compared to normal players, and these also come with a few permissions in-game to enable staff members to assist in some specific cases. The first is that of owner, the second is Vala, which is similar to an administrator role on Discord and/or server, and the third is Maia, which is similar to a moderator role. Valar and Maiar have access to more channels and can contribute to activities like whitelisting, Discord management and board discussions. They also get in-game permissions to set-up and manage events with the SiegeMode mod (once this becomes available for Renewed). They are only held accountable for their sole responsibility, which is to maintain their exemplary behaviour in the community. Any other contributions are not expected but appreciated. Valar and Maiar can have specific focus dependent on what they like doing for the server and its community.
Current Valar and Maiar are:
Valar - AlteOgre, Belzeref, Kastivi and Malvegil
Maiar - bel_qati, Bodhranist, kf131, WeirdBob and Xanyo111
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