Legacy Renewed On April 10th 2020, it was officially announced that the Lord of the Rings Mod will be gradually ported to 1.15 (and newer versions of Minecraft as they come out) alongside the release of Update 36 for 1.7.10 (which is the last major update for the older version of Minecraft). Branded as the Mod Renewed, the 1.16 version is being released in relatively frequent 'snapshots' (akin to the vanilla snapshots) and will adapt all of the content added to the mod thus far to newer Minecraft versions.
This page will chronicle the snapshot process for the Mod Renewed until it catches up with the mod as it currently exists, after which point further updates will be dealt with as usual on the main updates page. It will also showcase several of the images posted on the mod's Facebook page, and the highlight videos made by Glflegolas, for each snapshot.
Read the full, official announcement of the Mod Renewed here.
You can read the full changelog for the Mod Renewed here.
The renewed version of the mod can also be found on CurseForge here.
If you use the Just Enough Items Mod (JEI), you can download a LotR plugin (made by Malvegil) here.
Snapshot 1.0 - (April 24th, 2020)
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=== Renewed-1.0 === (24th April, 2020) >>> Ported: + Added the LOTR Mod main menu screen + Added the Ring Portal + Added the basic Middle-earth dimension and its modified landscape generator + Added the original five biomes (plus river and Shire woodlands), generating randomly + Added various rocks and bricks, and their slab, stair, and wall forms + Added pillars and pillar slabs + Added some faction crafting tables + Added basic ores, ingots, nuggets, and metal blocks + Added gold, silver, and mithril rings + Added salt, sulfur, and nitre + Added glowstone ore + Added glowing dwarven brick + Added bronze, mithril, and some faction toolsets and armour + Added trees, wood, and wooden block sets for shire pine, mallorn, mirk-oak, charred, apple, pear, cherry, lebethron, and beech + Added wooden beams + Added mallorn ladders + Added simbelmynë, shire heather, bluebell, marigold, asphodel, and lavender + Added elanor and niphredil + Added lembas, gammon, green apples, pears, cherries, and suspicious meat + Added apple crumble and cherry pie + Added the saddle and iron horse armour recipes (changed to match the leather horse armour recipe) + Added fur + Added fur armour + Added the Red Book + Added hearth blocks + Added boulders + Added Mordor dirt and gravel, grass, withered moss, and stabbing thorns + Added pocket matches + Added large item models for the appropriate weapons + Added longer day length in Middle-earth + Added the Middle-earth sky renderer + Added latitude-dependent water colour + Added waterfall particles >>> New in 1.15: * Retextured blocks and items to fit the Texture Update style + Added a new handheld model for the Red Book * Pillars can now be placed sideways + Added all-bark wood blocks, stripped blocks, pressure plates, buttons, and signs for mod woods * Fruit trees now grow a mix of fruity and fruitless leaves, and can grow as either red, green, or mixed apple trees * Pine trees now generate with stripped wood on their upper trunk + Added blasting recipes for all the ores and minerals + Added stonecutter recipes for Gondor blocks * Included suspicious stew effects for LOTR Mod flowers * Simbelmynë now makes white dye * Increased the food saturation of lembas from 1 to 1.5 (hunger restore is still 10) + Added particle effects around durnaur blocks * Slightly reduced the effect range of salting the earth + Salt can now melt snow layers (not snow blocks) * Increased the amount of bone meal produced from the nitre recipe * Hearth block crafting now makes only one block * Hearth blocks have a different texture when lit + Added a chance for small Gondor rock or stone boulders to generate in Gondor >>> Vanilla changes: + Added vertical placement for slabs * Oak leaves no longer drop apples, as they are now obtained from apple trees
The first Renewed snapshot ported over key features of the mod such as the Middle-earth dimension, the first 5 biomes, the Red Book, and many basic blocks. In addition, many textures were updated to match the style of Vanilla 1.15, and trapdoors, buttons, stripped wood variants, and similar blocks were added for the mod woods. Finally, some changes were made to Vanilla 1.15, including the addition of vertical slabs.
You can download Snapshot 1.0 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.1.27+).
Lord of the Rings Mod Renewed Test Drive Version 1.0
A video highlighting some of the features of the first snapshot of the Renewed version, by Glflegolas.
Snapshot 1.1 - (May 1st, 2020)
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=== Renewed-1.1 === (1st May, 2020) >>> Ported: + Added the Blue Mountains, Trollshaws, Eriador, Lone-lands, Ithilien, and Brown Lands biomes + Added stalactites and stalagmites, under a single 'speleothem' block for each type + Added beams for the vanilla wood types + Added maple trees and maple wood blocks + Added maple syrup + Added orc torches + Added common metal bars and some faction metal bars + Added elven wood bars + Added clovers and four-leaf clovers, and their potted variants + Added the Middle-earth tall grass variants + Added the missing slab, stairs, and wall for vanilla cracked stone bricks + Added underground water and lava lakes in Middle-earth + Added rocky terrain generation at higher areas + Added grass-podzol-dirt mixed terrain in treeish regions + Added a properly separate Middle-earth world time variable and the /lotr_time command >>> New in Renewed: + Added many new stone types of speleothem * Remodelled stalactites and stalagmites + Added double-size stalactites and stalagmites * Speleothems can now be waterlogged * Speleothems can now be placed on wall blocks + Added a new death message for falling upon a stalagmite * Renamed Sarlluin and Sarngaran -> Luingon and Carangon, and Durnaur -> Durnor, for linguistic reasons + Added beeswax and candles * Orc torches can now be crafted with either coal or durnor on any orcish table * Changed the elven wood bars recipes so as not to conflict with trapdoors * Wheatgrass now has a slightly greater chance to drop wheat seeds than other types of tall grass have * Four-leaf clovers can now be found in biomes other than the Shire, though much rarer and following real-world rates * The sun, moon, and stars (except Eärendil) now fade out gradually when approaching skyless biomes (i.e. Mordor) instead of a sudden transition + Added an ingame warning to help avoid the cause of a possible vertical slabs bug >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Retextured Gondor rock and brick * Lebethron trees are no longer found in Gondor proper - only in Ithilien * Rohan bricks now have random four-way rotations * Made the moon slightly smaller * Updated metal and mineral blocks with accurate hardness levels * Vertical slabs, except pillar slabs, no longer have rotated textures (uvlock: true) >>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed): * Fixed a bug with faction crafting tables sometimes duplicating the ingredients * Fixed faction recipes displaying the standard crafting table in the 'New recipe unlocked!' popup * Fixed mithril armour recipes using ingots instead of mithril mail * Fixed some Mordor equipment recipes being registered to the standard crafting table * Fixed a crash when trying to enchant mod armour * Fixed mod ores being harvestable by any pickaxe level * Fixed the Star of Eärendil appearing and disappearing suddenly >>> Vanilla changes: * Replaced the /weather command with an altered one that works properly in other dimensions >>> Translations: + Added Italian, Korean, French, and Chinese translations
The second Renewed snapshot ported over several more biomes, with some changes to terrain generation and the addition of speleothems (later renamed to Dripstones) to replace the old stalagmites and stalactites. It also added beams and beeswax, as well as a range of other tweaks and changes.
You can download Snapshot 1.1 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.1.27+).
Lord of the Rings Mod Renewed Test Drive Version 1.1 - Stalagmites! Maple Syrup! Vertical Slabs!
A video highlighting some of the features of the second snapshot of the Renewed version, by Glflegolas.
Snapshot 1.2 - (May 8th, 2020)
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=== Renewed-1.2.2 === (11th May, 2020) >>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed): * Fixed the game sometimes freezing in a world made before renewed-1.2, caused by broken registry name remappings >>> Translations: * Updated Chinese, Hungarian, and German translations + Added a Ukrainian translation === Renewed-1.2.1 === (10th May, 2020) >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Changed the thistle model >>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed): * Fixed glowstone ores / crystals generating instead of Edhelvir * Fixed some of the newer slabs rotating their textures when placed vertically * Fixed the missing lairelossë sign texture >>> Translations: + Updated Korean, Russian, French, Belarusian, Italian, and Pirate translations + Added a Hungarian translation === Renewed-1.2 === (8th May, 2020) >>> Ported: + Added chandeliers, with a new model and new recipes + Added the Lothlórien, Iron Hills, Dunland, Emyn Muil, Lindon, and Southron Coasts biomes + Added the mallorn tree model with boughs + Added falling leaf particles + Added mallorn torches of all four colours + Added Edhelvir and Gulduril ores, gems, and blocks + Added aspen, cedar, and lairelossë trees and their block sets + Added the alternate birch tree model + Added athelas, dwarfwort, wild pipeweed, and wild flax + Added pipeweed, flax, and lettuce crops + Added Harad flowers: red and yellow sand gems, southbells, Harad daisies, hibiscus, and flames of Harad + Added the desert oak tree model + Added the missing vanilla stone wall - Removed Harad + Re-added Harad >>> New in Renewed: * Candles can now be placed up to four in a block + Added crystal forms of Edhelvir, Gulduril, and glowstone * Remodelled and retextured pipeweed, athelas, and lettuce * Dwarfwort can now be found in the Misty Mountains * Changed Emyn Muil terrain generation to be less extreme * Replaced Emyn Muil hardened clay with granite + Added sandstone and red sandstone dripstones (speleothems) + Added crafting monuments in some biomes to serve as a temporary means of acquiring faction tables until proper structures are added >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Corrected Luingon and Carangon to Luinon and Caranon, for linguistic reasons * Renamed speleothems to dripstones * Improved dripstone placement behaviour * Thistles, nettles, and fernsprouts are now pottable * Changed terrain generation to make hills & mountains a little less steep and rivers more dominant in high terrain >>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed): * Fixed the fernsprout rendering as a grey nettle * Fixed a small missing segment of the candle model * Fixed pumpkins generating in the Brown Lands * Fixed strange islands of blue stone generating in water in the Blue Mountains * Fixed Morgul Iron ore generating at half the intended rate >>> Translations: * Updated Chinese, Korean, Italian, and French translations + Added Russian, German, Dutch, Belarusian, Norwegian, Turkish, and Pirate translations
The third Renewed snapshot added some more biomes, including Lothlórien (with branched Mallorn trees and Mallorn Torches) and the Iron Hills. It also added plenty of herbs, flowers and crops, as well as Edhelvir and Gulduril (including new crystal forms) and new models for Chandeliers.
You can download snapshot 1.2.2 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.1.27+).
Lord of the Rings Mod Renewed Test Drive Version 1.2 - New Flowers! Crafting Monuments! More!
A video highlighting some of the features of the third snapshot of the Renewed version, by Glflegolas.
Snapshot 1.3 - (June 28th, 2020)
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=== Renewed-1.3 === (28th June, 2020) >>> Ported: + Added the alloy, dwarven, elven, and orc forges + Added alloying recipes for bronze, elven steel, and dwarven steel + Added wood-charring recipes in the orc forge * Mithril and orc steel must now be smelted in their respective forges + Added Númenórean bricks, pillars, and related blocks + Added brick pillars and pillar slabs + Added the Uruk crafting table + Added Uruk bricks, pillars, and related blocks + Added Uruk steel + Added Uruk equipment + Added the Nan Curunír biome + Added the hobbit crafting table + Added the hobbit oven + Added pine trees + Added fir trees and fir wood blocks + Added larch trees and larch wood blocks >>> New in Renewed: * Alloy-forge-type recipes are now configurable by datapack * Forges now smelt at half the speed * Retextured the forges * Changed the forges' crafting recipes * Shift-clicking items in forges is more helpful * The hobbit oven now works more like an alloy forge, and can cook gammon by 'alloying' raw or cooked pork with salt * Shire pine is now a biome-specific shape of pine rather than a separate tree and wood; shire pine doors and trapdoors remain craftable on the hobbit table + Added hobbit crafting structures generating in the Shire >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Retextured Mordor brick and pillars * Corrected Luinon and Caranon to Luigon and Cargon, for linguistic reasons * Removed the registry alias fix due to bugfix in Forge 1.15.2-31.1.91 >>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed): * Fixed the Middle-earth dimension not being registered during the initial world load * Fixed the andesite stalactite model >>> Translations: * Updated Korean, Turkish, Dutch, and Russian translations + Added English (New Zealand), Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish, Polish, and Lolcat translations
The fourth snapshot ported the various forges and ovens to the mod with their recipes (and added some new mechanics) which can be configured with data packs. It also ported Uruk steel, equipment, blocks and Nan Curunír. Also ported were fir, larch and pine trees, the latter of which has been combined with the Shire Pine by now spawning (albeit with a different shape) in the Shire (don't worry, Shire pine doors and trapdoors are still craftable on the newly ported Hobbit crafting table).
You can download snapshot 1.3 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.0+).
Lord of the Rings Mod Renewed Test Drive Version 1.3 - New Forges! Trees! Uruk Equipment!
A video highlighting some of the features of the fourth snapshot of the Renewed version, by Glflegolas.
Snapshot 1.4 - (July 7th, 2020)
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=== Renewed-1.4 === (7th July, 2020) >>> Ported: + Added plates: wooden, stoneware, and fine + Added mossy, cracked, and carved Gondor brick sets + Added mossy, cracked, and carved High Elven brick sets + Added cracked and carved Mordor brick sets + Added cracked and carved Rohan brick sets + Added the Forodwaith biome + Added the Northern Lights (currently biome-dependent instead of latitude) + Added the thatch block set + Added the connected textures engine, which mithril blocks once again use + Added drystone + Added wattle and daub + Added gold-, silver-, and mithril-trimmed dwarven bricks * Blocks of copper, tin, bronze, silver, mithril, dwarven steel, elven steel, orc steel, uruk steel, edhelvir, and gulduril can be used as beacon bases >>> New in Renewed: * The mod's connected textures loader can be applied to any block model file + Added new thatch models + Added mossy Mordor and Rohan brick sets + Added mossy and cracked Númenórean brick sets + Added wattle and daub stacks + Added lilies of the valley in various forested biomes + Added foxes and sweet berry bushes in the Shire and various forested biomes + Added polar bears (rarely) in Forodwaith * A wider range of biomes now grow ferns and tall ferns >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Retextured Mordor brick, pillar, rock and other Mordor blocks * Retextured Númenórean brick * Changed the sky and fog colours slightly in Lindon >>> Translations: * Updated Chinese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Lolcat, French, Swedish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Pirate, Turkish, and German translations
The fifth snapshot ported a great many blocks, including the connected textures engine (used by mithril blocks, Drystone and Wattle and Daub among others) that can now be applied to any block's model. It also ported plates and added several vanilla features to Middle-earth, including foxes, polar bears, lilies of the valley and berry bushes. In the newly-ported Forodwaith biome only, the Northern Lights were also added.
You can download snapshot 1.4 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.0+).
Lord of the Rings Mod Renewed Test Drive Version 1.4 - Wattle this be about?
A video highlighting some of the features of the fifth snapshot of the Renewed version, by Glflegolas.
Snapshot 1.5 - (July 17th, 2020)
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=== Renewed-1.5 === (17th July, 2020) * Now requires Minecraft Forge 31.2.31+ >>> Ported: + Added the Middle-earth clouds renderer + Added the mod configuration file + Added brewing barrels, renamed to 'kegs' + Added wooden and ceramic mugs, and golden goblets + Added water, milk, chocolate, and apple juice drinks + Added brewable drinks: ale, cider, perry, cherry liqueur, mead, miruvor, orc draught, dwarven ale, dwarven tonic, athelas brew, rum, vodka, maple beer, carrot wine, cactus liqueur, melon liqueur, and soured milk + Added mallorn nuts + Added Morgul-shrooms + Added the advanced drunkenness camera effect + Added drunken speech + Added carved Luigon and Cargon brick + Added smooth Luigon and Cargon blocks and slabs + Added plates' breaking sounds + Added thrown plate dispenser behaviour * Hoppers distribute input items evenly into alloy forges >>> New in Renewed: + Added fancy food models for some items on plates, configurable by resource pack * Plates can now serve soups, stews, and other things in bowls + Added boats for all mod wood types * Mead is now brewed with honey * Brewing recipes are now configurable by datapack * Brewing recipes now support different brewing times, and experience rewards * Kegs stacked vertically have a stand in the model + Added sweet berry juice + Added mossy and cracked Luigon and Cargon brick sets * Smooth Luigon and Cargon blocks now follow vanilla smooth stone in their recipes and side-texture design >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Retextured Númenórean pillars * Retextured red Haradric brick and pillars * Retextured Rohan rock and pillars * Retextured Luigon and Cargon rocks, bricks, and pillars * Retextured Uruk steel blocks and ingots, and Uruk equipment >>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed): * Fixed the double cracked Mordor brick slab model * Fixed the northern lights not rotating properly with the camera during view bobbing * Fixed hobbit ovens with custom names not dropping the named item * Fixed maple syrup having the food properties of gammon * Fixed mallorn leaves dropping normal sticks instead of mallorn sticks * Fixed a server-side crash with thrown plates * Fixed a lighting bug on the handheld red book model * Fixed double stalagmites generating with a waterlogged top block if only the bottom is in water >>> Translations: * Updated Korean, French, Russian, Polish, Belarusian, Pirate, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish, and Turkish translations + Added Spanish and Slovak translations
The sixth snapshot ported the mod's long-awaited brewing system (now configurable), with a selection of drinks and the drunken speech generator. It also added models for some food types when placed on plates (configurable using resource packs), clouds, and boats for the mod's wood types ported so far. There were a sizable number of retextures as well.
You can download snapshot 1.5 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Lord of the Rings Mod Renewed Test Drive Version 1.5 - BEER!!!
A video highlighting some of the features of the sixth snapshot of the Renewed version, by Glflegolas.
Snapshot 1.6 - (August 1st, 2020)
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=== Renewed-1.6.1 === (2nd August, 2020) >>> New in Renewed: + Added more variant models for mirk-oak leaves + Added mirk-shrooms >>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed): * Fixed Mirkwood generating everywhere * Fixed mirk-oak roots growing very extensively * Fixed the missing holly sign texture >>> Translations: * Updated Polish, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), French, and Swedish translations === Renewed-1.6 === (1st August, 2020) >>> Ported: + Added the Blue Mountains crafting table + Added blue dwarven equipment + Added blue dwarven bars + Added gold, silver, and copper treasure piles + Added smooth Mordor, Gondor, and Rohan rock blocks and slabs + Added holly trees and holly wood blocks + Added the Eregion biome + Added the mirk-oak tree model + Added the Mirkwood biome + Added gradual fog density transition between biomes >>> New in Renewed: + Added a toggle in faction crafting tables to switch between faction crafting and standard crafting * Blue dwarven equipment is now crafted with ordinary dwarven steel; there is no longer 'blue dwarven steel' + Added glittering particles around treasure piles * Treasure piles are harvested more quickly with a shovel * Kegs and treasure piles can now be waterlogged * Mordor plants can be grown with bone meal on Mordor rock, dirt, and gravel * Beech trees, ferns, foxes, and sweet berry bushes can generate in Eregion + Added a new model for mirk-oak leaves * Mirk-oak leaves are now fully opaque to light >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Blue Mountains crafting monuments now contain the Blue Mountains table * The wooden plate recipe now makes two plates * Retextured the Morgul crafting table and Mordor gravel * Retextured Dwarven armour * Retextured some bars blocks * Retextured Gondor pillars * Slightly changed the colour of pear wood * Vessel drink icons are now 32x32 by default, with the upper left quarter used for item icons and the right half used for keg liquid display * Reduced the chance for athelas to generate >>> Translations: * Updated French, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese, Russian, Polish, English (New Zealand), German, Pirate, and Italian translations + Added Romanian and Japanese translations
The seventh snapshot ported the Blue Mountains crafting table and equipment, which is now made with Dwarven steel, as well as treasure (with new particle effects). It also ported Eregion and Mirkwood (with new and improved trees) and retextured several items. It also made a major change to faction crafting tables, adding a toggle to allow crafting of vanilla crafting table recipes on them.
You can download snapshot 1.6.1 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 1.7 - (August 8th, 2020)
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=== Renewed-1.7.1 ===
(9th August, 2020)
>>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed):
* Fixed a DynamicIngredient crash upon joining a server
* Fixed chandeliers (except golden) missing their loot tables
>>> Translations:
* Updated Polish, Korean, and Japanese translations
=== Renewed-1.7 ===
(8th August, 2020)
>>> Ported:
+ Added the Grey Mountains, White Mountains, Fangorn, Woodland Realm, and Dale biomes
+ Added the huge Fangorn trees
+ Added green-oak trees and green-oak wood blocks
+ Added red-oak trees
+ Added mossy, cracked, and carved Galadhrim brick sets
>>> New in Renewed:
+ Added hanging webs on mirk-oak trees
* Fangorn now has custom grass and water colours, and a clear sky
* Huge Fangorn tree trunks now have stripped log interiors with wood exteriors
* Increased tree coverage in the Woodland Realm
>>> Changes (to earlier Renewed):
* Reduced the biome size for Middle-earth procedural ('classic') biome generation
* Retextured Galadhrim and Wood-elven brick and pillars
* Retextured Mirk-oak doors
* Holly trees are now among the tree types which can grow with beehives
>>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed):
* Fixed mallorn ladders not dropping when broken
* Fixed the orc forge not cooking meat into rotten flesh
>>> Translations:
* Updated Swedish, Spanish, Polish, Slovak, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Korean, Pirate, French, Chinese, Turkish, and German translations
+ Added a Czech translation
The eighth snapshot ported several of the more 'wooded' biomes, including Fangorn and the Woodland Realm, along with the green-oaks, red-oaks and massive Fangorn trees exclusive to those biomes. It also added the Grey Mountains, White Mountains and Dale. Lastly it added cracked, mossy and carved Galadhrim brick, and made Mirk-oaks a little spookier...
The focus for the snapshots around the time of 1.7's release is to add most of the major biomes so that Middle-earth map generation can be added without leaving too many gaps. For this reason, the sizes of biomes in this snapshot was reduced by around a quarter, to allow easier exploration of new biomes until map generation.
You can download snapshot 1.7.1 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 2.0 - (September 5th, 2020)
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=== Renewed-2.0 === (5th September, 2020) >>> Ported: + Added the Middle-earth map generation and map screen + Added the Angmar, Harondor, Enedwaith, Vales of Anduin, Anduin Hills, Wilderland, Old Forest, Bree-land, Chetwood, Nurn, Umbar, Harad Desert, Northlands, and Northern Forests biomes + Added the mountain foothills biomes + Added the Mordor, Forodwaith, and Angmar mountains biomes + Added the Lindon Woodlands, Eriador Downs, and Lone-lands Hills biomes + Added the Sea, Island, Beach, Tolfalas, Lake, and Núrnen biomes + Added the Middle-earth (direct spawn) and Middle-earth Classic world types + Added seas in classic generation + Added arid grass + Added chrysanthemums: white, yellow, pink, red, and orange + Added cracked and carved dwarven brick sets + Added mossy, cracked, and carved wood-elven brick sets * The northern lights are now latitude-dependent again >>> New in Renewed: * The map menu key is now 'M' by default * The map image file now lives in /data instead of /assets * Map metadata (origin point, scale factor, sea latitude properties, etc.) is now defined in .json files * Map image and metadata can now be customised via datapacks * The sea ice transition now uses Perlin noise instead of randomised single blocks * The sea floor now transitions from gravel to sand going southward + Added kelp, coral, sea pickles, turtles, and all fish types in the Middle-earth sea, varying with latitude * Improved island generation + Added white foxes and sweet berry bushes in the northern forests * Lone-lands Hills now has a different grass colour from normal Lone-lands * Changed the environmental colours in Nurn, and added more surface variety * Arid grass has a lower chance to drop seeds than other grasses + Added Umbar crafting monuments in the biome - Removed the blue chrysanthemum in favour of a red one + Added bronze lanterns and bronze nuggets + Added mossy and snowy dwarven brick sets >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Mirkwood and Fangorn now have correct water fog colours * Retextured the mod menu buttons * Retextured Edhelvir and Gulduril ores, including new animated variants * Retextured Edhelvir and Gulduril blocks * Retextured the Gulduril item * Edhelvir and Gulduril crystals now have a 40% base chance to drop their resource (without fortune or silk touch) * Retextured gold, silver, and mithril bars * Retextured and remodelled Uruk bars * Retextured Uruk brick and pillars * Retextured Umbar brick and pillars * Retextured dwarven pillars * Retextured the Gondor, Rohan, Lindon, Rivendell, Galadhrim, Wood-elven, Uruk, Harad, and Umbar crafting tables * Retextured elanor, niphredil, simbelmynë, asphodel, marigold, and lavender * Retextured the Harad flowers * Retextured silver blocks and ingots * Retextured the salt ore, block, and item * Retextured the nitre block * Retextured elven torches - Removed the fringes models for thatch blocks due to visual glitches * Wattle and daub blocks now use scaffolding sounds >>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed): * Fixed athelas generating too commonly * Fixed icicles generating in water and being waterloggable >>> Translations: * Updated Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil), Czech, Pirate, Swedish, Turkish, French, Russian, Italian, Slovak, Spanish, and German translations + Added a Shakespearean English translation
The 2.0 snapshot added the long-awaited Middle-earth map generation, as well as 30 biomes to fill it up a bit - including a greatly improved ocean. The system is more customisable than the legacy form, with the use of data packs to change several map settings, as well as the image itself. It also retextured and added several blocks, as well as chrysanthemums, bronze nuggets and lanterns, and spiky Uruk bars. Notably, this was also the first snapshot to be posted on Curseforge.
You can download snapshot 2.0 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 2.1 - (September 20th, 2020)
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=== Renewed-2.10 === (6th February, 2021) >>> Ported: + Added custom waypoints + Added the show/hide waypoint type toggles + Added the show/hide map location toggle + Added the Eaves of Lothlórien, Harad Half-deserts, Harad Desert Hills, Desert of Lostladen, and Eastern Desolation biomes >>> New in Renewed: + Added new custom waypoint creation mechanics + Added optional lore for custom waypoints + Added public custom waypoints which other players are able to adopt + Added the ability to define map image overrides in resource packs to display a custom image in the map screen instead of the biome map, depending on the current datapack's map name + Added a new Middle-earth help screen displayed when first creating a world + Added small iceberg features, large iceberg terrain generation, polar bears, and snowfall in the northern seas + Added a transition to northern tree types and colder grass & foliage colours on the randomly generated islands + Added a 'procedural_rivers' flag to the map.json data file + Added texture variants for pear leaves + Added new player statistics for fast travel and custom waypoints + Added the /alignment query command + Added the /pledge [set|break|cooldown|query] command + Added new gamerules - lotr:fast_travel (replacing the config option) and lotr:custom_waypoint_creation >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Improved faction relations datapack loading: faction relations can now be defined in multiple files, in addition to the default list, with a load order to handle conflicts * Improved the placement of the faction menu page buttons * The faction menu page arrows are now translatable * Improved map teleporting in creative mode: the teleport now maintains height above terrain * Improved the waypoint selection tooltip * Moved the player argument in some mod commands to bring them more in line with vanilla commands' syntax * Retextured chandeliers * Retextured ring items * Retextured the Red Book * Retextured the on-screen compass and various other GUI elements * Kegs now play barrel sounds when opened and closed * Clouds are now rarer in deserts >>> Fixes: * Fixed map labels rendering in front of the area of influence tooltip * Fixed various map elements rendering in front of the compass * Fixed the cracked Rohan brick textures * Fixed player data constantly saving * Fixed the mod's custom statistics being saved with the minecraft: namespace >>> Translations: * Updated Italian, Japanese, and Spanish translations
This snapshot largely focused on porting more blocks (155 in total), including Arnorian and Dol Amroth varieties as well as clay tiling and fine glass. It also recoded the vertical slabs feature for improved compatibility, and added the Middle-earth respawning mechanics. There were also (as always) several retextures, bug fixes and tweaks.
You can download snapshot 2.1.3 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 2.2 - (October 1st, 2020)
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=== Renewed-2.2 === (1st October, 2020) >>> Ported: + Added map waypoints + Added fast travel + Added the /wpregion, /wpcooldown, and /ftclock commands + Added Angmar brick, cracked, and snowy brick, and pillar sets + Added the Angmar crafting table + Added the Coldfells, Ettenmoors, Harnennor, and Dagorlad biomes + Added Mordor rock's smoke particles, and for its slabs, stairs, walls, and dripstones + Added the alternative compass and clock crafting recipes with copper >>> New in Renewed: * Waypoints are now defined in .json files, and datapacks can customise them, remove them, or add new ones * The waypoint route on the main menu screen can now be customised via datapack + Added orc plating and rusted orc plating slabs and stairs + Added wool slabs and wool stairs + Added the mossy Angmar brick set + Added carved Angmar brick + Added Angmar crafting monuments in the biome * Changed the terrain generation and colours in the Ettenmoors * Changed the terrain generation in the Coldfells to be like the previous Ettenmoors + Added new purple and red moor-grass in northern regions, replacing flowery grass and wheatgrass + Added double wheatgrass and double arid grass + Added dead bushes in the Brown Lands and Dagorlad * Removed flowery grass and wheatgrass from Angmar and mountainous biomes + Added a new 'Western Isles' biome, distinct from the randomly generated 'Island', so that the western isles must be visited to unlock their waypoints * Changed the fog colours in the Harad biomes to a slightly sandy colour >>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed): * Fixed 'skeleton trap' horses being able to spawn from lightning strikes in Middle-earth >>> Translations: * Updated Japanese, English (Upside-down), and Czech translations
This snapshot ported waypoints (once again, these are customisable by data packs) and fast travel. It also added Angmar bricks (with new mossy and carved variants), the Angmar crafting table, and slabs and stairs for Orc plating and wool. It also added revamped the Ettenmoors and Coldfells biomes, as well as ported Harnennor and Dagorlad. Grass also received some additions and changes.
You can download snapshot 2.2 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 2.3 - (October 18th, 2020)
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=== Renewed-2.3 === (18th October, 2020) >>> Ported: + Added map labels + Added chalk and chalk brick sets + Added pressure plates and buttons for the mod's six stone types + Added Dorwinion brick, mossy and cracked brick, and pillar sets + Added the Dorwinion crafting table + Added the Dorwinion and Emyn Winion biomes + Added cypress trees and cypress wood blocks + Added white sand and white sandstone blocks + Added white beach biomes + Added the Wold, Minhiriath, and Eryn Vorn biomes >>> New in Renewed: * Map labels are now defined in .json files, and datapacks can customise them, remove them, or add new ones + Added a polished chalk block set * Chalk bricks and pillars are now crafted using polished chalk + Added chalk dripstones + Added a chalk layer beneath dirt in the Eriador Downs and the Wold + Added 'dirty chalk' as a transition between dirt and chalk + Added new red Dorwinion brick, mossy, and cracked brick sets + Added white sandstone dripstones + Added cut, chiselled, and smooth white sandstone block sets + Added stonecutting recipes for all factionless Luigon, Cargon, and chalk recipes, including all brick and pillar variants + Added stonecutting recipes for stone pillars, brick pillars, and carved brick + Added stonecutting recipes for all clay tiling blocks, including recipes made from the corresponding terracotta + Added crafting recipes for chain armour >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Renamed the 'Trollshaws' waypoint to 'Trolls' Cave' - Removed some superfluous waypoints which merely referred to regions, and replaced some with map labels * Changed the grass colour in the Weather Hills * Retextured Mordor dirt * Retextured mithril items * Andesite now generates only in western coastal biomes and the Weather Hills * Diorite now generates only in downland biomes, some hill biomes, and deep beneath some mountainous areas * Granite now generates in most biomes (but not all), and more commonly in the lands around Eriador, and Emyn Muil >>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed): * Fixed petrified Fangorn trees generating along the border with the Misty Mountains * Fixed the placement of vanilla slabs and their corresponding vertical slabs ignoring entity bounding box collisions * Fixed Middle-earth respawning using the wrong z-coordinate * Fixed mod fences and fence gates not working as fuel >>> Translations: * Updated Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, French, English (Upside-down), and Pirate translations
This snapshot added customisable map labels to renewed, as well as a wide range of blocks including chalk, Dorwinion brick and white sand (and their many derivatives - including some new ones). It also ported a few more biomes and changed the generation of andesite, diorite and granite to be more region-specific.
You can download snapshot 2.3 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 2.4 - (October 25th, 2020)
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=== Renewed-2.4 === (25th October, 2020) >>> Ported: + Added Dalish brick, mossy, cracked, and carved brick, and pillar sets + Added the Dalish crafting table + Added the Drúwaith Iaur, Andrast, Lossarnach, Lebennin, Pelargir, Lamedon, Lamedon Hills, Blackroot Vale, Pinnath Gelin, Northern Wilderland, Rivendell, and Rivendell Hills biomes + Added blackroot plants and sticks >>> New in Renewed: * Redrew the map of southern Gondor * Renamed the base 'Gondor' biome to Anórien + Added the Anfalas biome + Added Dalish paving blocks + Added Dalish crafting monuments in the biome * Improved terrain generation in Dale + Added the Northern Dale biome, with snowy areas + Added snowy areas in Northern Wilderland + Added surface diorite and granite variation in the Trollshaws + Added Rivendell crafting monuments in the biome >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Foxes and sweet berry bushes can generate in Eryn Vorn >>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed): * Fixed the cypress boat's name * Fixed the Dorwinion crafting table having stone material properties * Fixed the lack of Wood-elven crafting monuments in the Woodland Realm * Fixed a river pixel in the Brown Lands * Fixed a duplication glitch with crystals and dripstones >>> Translations: * Updated French, English (Upside-down), Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese, and Russian translations
This snapshot ported a host of biomes, with a particular focus on Gondor, which had its numerous fiefdom regions added and was substantially redrawn for greater accuracy (including adding a new 'Anfalas' biome and renaming the base 'Gondor' biome to 'Anórien') It also ported Rivendell and Northern Wilderland and added a new Northern Dale region, with improved terrain in the latter two as well as the Trollshaws. It also added the Dalish brick sets with new colourful paving blocks.
You can download snapshot 2.4 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 2.5 - (November 8th, 2020)
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=== Renewed-2.5 === (7th November, 2020) >>> Ported: + Added tree clusters for improved tree generation + Added leaf bush generation + Added the Shire Moors and White Downs biomes + Added marsh terrain generation and the Midgewater, Swanfleet, Gladden Fields, Long Marshes, Nindalf, Dead Marshes, Mouths of Entwash, Ethir Anduin, Shire Marshes, and Nurn Marshes biomes + Added yellow irises + Added quagmire + Added rotten logs and their rotten wood products >>> New in Renewed: * Revised the map of Southern Gondor again + Added a new 'Western Gondor' biome to fill some area that was previously Pinnath Gelin + Added mallos flowers in Lebennin, Pelargir, and Ethir Anduin * Changed the sky colour in Midgewater and added persistent fog * Changed the environmental colours in Nindalf and the Dead Marshes to slightly less intense palettes + Added tree cluster generation to several biomes that didn't use it in Legacy * Yellow irises can now be placed in one-block-deep water * Rotten logs and beams are now hollow and can be waterlogged * Rotten logs make only one planks block per log + Added driftwood on beaches >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Retextured Luigon blocks * Renamed the 'Pinnath Gelin' waypoint to 'Hirluin's Halls' * Increased the hilliness of the Weather Hills * Increased the hilliness in Rivendell and added more boulders * Moved the Rivendell biome so the river runs through the middle * Stabbing thorns now generate in thicker clumps >>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed): * Fixed full wood blocks displaying the wrong colour on maps >>> Translations: * Updated Shakespearean English, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), French, Polish, English (Upside-down), Russian, Belarusian, Pirate, and Italian translations
This snapshot ported Shire moors, the white downs and all of the marshland biomes found in the West of Middle-earth, as well as rotten logs (now hollow), irises and quagmire to make them feel more marshy. It also ported two plant-related generation features: tree clusters and leaf 'bushes'. It also added the 'mallos' flower, a new 'Western Gondor' biome and driftwood on beaches.
You can download snapshot 2.5 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 2.6 - (November 21st, 2020)
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=== Renewed-2.6.1 === (24th November, 2020) >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Removed thistles from Mordor generation * Rotten logs and boulders will no longer generate on roads * The client-side road curve generator now runs on a separate thread after entering a world in order to prevent world loading delay * Reeds and rushes are now flammable * Increased the amount of rushes along rivers * Changed the map colours of mallorn, cherry, beech, maple, lairelossë, and red-oak leaves to match their block textures >>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed): * Fixed the placement of the Bree-land waypoints to match their locations in the latest Legacy version * Fixed the Great East Road not running east to Redwater Ford * Fixed the road from Udûn through Carach Angren not passing through the mountain gap * Fixed a Great East Road map label overlapping the nearby High Pass waypoint label * Fixed the map screen's road points and label spacing not scaling with different map scale factors * Corrected the 'Nobottom' road to 'Nobottle' * Fixed marsh biomes generating mostly dry terrain * Fixed rotten logs generating in the bottom halves of double grass blocks * Fixed the water in the bottom half of waterlogged rushes and yellow irises disappearing if the top block is broken >>> Translations: * Updated Italian, French, English (Upside-down), Japanese, Polish, Russian, Shakespearean English, Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil), Turkish, and Pirate translations === Renewed-2.6 === (21st November, 2020) >>> Ported: + Added roads + Added more of the Near Harad waypoints + Added reeds and dried reeds + Added reed thatch blocks, slabs, and stairs + Added the Gorgoroth biome >>> New in Renewed: * Roads are now defined in .json files, and datapacks can customise them, remove them, or add new ones * Made road terrain-flattening more natural: roads now flatten the terrain less, over a wider range, and flatten linearly inwards instead of quadratically * Common path-style roads now use grass paths in their generation * Some roads now generate with different edge blocks * Trees will not generate on road grass or dirt blocks * Reeds are now always one to three blocks tall, with different textures for each stage, and can be placed either adjacent to water, or up to two blocks deep * Reeds can now be grown with bone meal * Reeds can be placed on quagmire * Reed crafting now makes two pieces of paper instead of three * Made dried reeds more friendly-looking + Added papyrus + Added rushes + Added water lily flowers + Added seagrass in marsh biomes * Sugar cane now generates only in Harad and southern Gondor biomes * The mod's leaves, saplings, grasses, flowers, mushrooms, fruits, crops, seeds, thatch blocks, reeds, rushes, and pies are now compostable * Thatch and reed thatch blocks can now be used as furnace fuel * Redesigned the normal 'Mordor' biome to closer match the book description - and moved the old biome generation to Gorgoroth * Mordor grass and stabbing thorns can now be placed on ordinary grass and dirt * Mordor and Nurn now generate a layer of Mordor dirt between ordinary dirt and Mordor rock * Dagorlad surface terrain now includes greyish grass >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Removed dark oaks from Western Gondor and Andrast * Removed lily pads from Ethir Anduin * Changed tree generation in Eregion and Ithilien to use tree clusters * Moved the Tarnost waypoint and nearby roads so they skirt around the hills * Moved the Rivendell waypoint further into the valley >>> Fixes (to earlier Renewed): * Fixed waypoint placement being off by half a pixel * Fixed the Forsaken Inn waypoint unlocking in Eriador instead of Bree-land * Fixed the Lossarnach map label and the Crossings of Erui waypoint having moved outside of Lossarnach after the recent map changes * Fixed fine glass, quagmire, edhelvir blocks, and non-waterlogged rotten logs and beams displaying water flowing down their sides when placed underwater * Fixed stripped logs being strippable into stripped wood * Fixed waterlogged rotten logs becoming dry when stripped >>> Translations: * Updated French, Polish, Japanese, English (Upside-down), Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese, Russian, Belarusian, Slovak, Italian, Turkish, and Spanish translations
This snapshot (after a brief hiatus to release Update 36.7) ported roads to the renewed version, with improved generation and data pack customisation. It also added reeds (as well as dried reeds and reed thatch), rushes and papyrus, and changed the generation in Mordor to match the books more closely, among many other tweaks and additions.
You can download snapshot 2.6.1 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 2.7 - (December 5th, 2020)
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=== Renewed-2.7 === (5th December, 2020) >>> New in Renewed: + Added log, wood, stripped log, stripped wood, and beam slabs for all wood types + Added wood and stripped wood stairs for all wood types + Added branch and stripped branch blocks for all wood types * Wood beams (and beam slabs) can now be used as furnace fuel * Pine trees' sideways branches can now generate with log slabs as well as full logs * Mallorn, cedar, and mirk-oak family trees' roots now generate with branch blocks + Added hedges along roads in the Shire + Added lapis-trimmed Luigon brick + Added dwarven torches >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Improved road generation in mountainous regions * Ruined roads with distinct edges now have even more blocks missing from their raised edges * Retextured Luigon blocks * Retextured Rohan bricks * Retextured pine logs * Retextured the candle item * Rotten logs now make two planks per log (up from one), and two wood blocks from four logs (up from one) * Wooden plate crafting now makes eight plates instead of two - and they can also be crafted from log slabs >>> Fixes: * Fixed the mod logging an error extremely frequently when near water with the FTB Chunks mod installed * Fixed the blast furnace not smelting copper faster than in the furnace >>> Translations: * Updated Polish, Hungarian, Spanish, Russian, and Belarusian translations
This snapshot was the first that didn't port anything directly from the Legacy version. Instead, its main focus was adding the rewards chosen by the winners of the recent Renewed building contest - namely slabs, stairs and 'walls' (named branches) for each wood type (including stripped variants), as well as beam and log slabs, adding a total of 225 new blocks (as shown in the image below). It also made several improvements to road generation and some textures, and added Dwarven torches and lapis-trimmed Luigon brick.
You can download snapshot 2.7 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 2.8 - (December 23rd, 2020)
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=== Renewed-2.8.1 === (24th December, 2020) >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Blubber can now be eaten >>> Fixes: * Fixed a crash sometimes occurring when opening the factions menu >>> Translations: * Updated French, Shakespearean English, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish translations === Renewed-2.8 === (23rd December, 2020) >>> Ported: + Added factions and the factions menu + Added faction areas of influence + Added the Middle-earth master menu + Added the on-screen Middle-earth compass + Added the Shire Reckoning date display + Added the /lotr_date command + Added wind ambience sounds + Added sun glare + Added rain mist + Added Misty Mountains mist + Added Middle-earth replacement rain and thunder sounds + Added Middle-earth replacement rain and snow textures + Added ashfall and sandstorm weather effects + Added alcohol tolerance >>> New in Renewed: * Factions, faction properties, relations, and areas of influence are now defined in .json files, and can be customised with datapacks + Added snow bricks, slabs, stairs, and walls + Added ice bricks, slabs, stairs, and walls + Added snow paths + Added fur and leather bundles + Added blubber and blubber torches + Added the Forochel biome + On multiplayer servers, an offline player's fast travel clock will now tick forwards at a rate of 0.1x the normal rate + Added temporary roads at Bree to stand in for the generated village * Sun glare now yellows at sunrise and sunset * Sun glare can now become oversaturated * Ashfalls and sandstorms now reduce visibility * Split the LOTRLevelData and LOTRPlayerData classes into separate server- and client-side instances >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Boughed mallorn trees now generate with wider leaf canopies and a full-bark wood block to cap the trunk * Retextured Uruk armour * Retextured drystone * Retextured pine beams >>> Fixes: * Fixed the boughs of mallorn trees overriding the vertical axis of the trunk * Fixed boughed mallorn trees sometimes generating with a gap near the top of the trunk * Fixed reeds sometimes generating deep underwater and replacing solid blocks * Fixed new players not starting with a full fast travel clock >>> Compatibility: * The removal of apples from oak leaves' drops is now implemented with a Global Loot Modifier instead of a data file replacement >>> Translations: * Updated French, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, Shakespearean English, and Turkish translations + Added a Venetian translation
This festive snapshot ported the faction system to Renewed, with the datapack customisation that has been emphasised throughout development. This allows future work on alignment and NPCs to begin, and is a major step for the Renewed version. Also added were several atmospheric additions from the legacy version, such as sun glare, mist, new and improved weathers, the on-screen compass and the Shire Reckoning date system.
Finally, it also added a new Forochel biome, faction, and several new blocks to make settlements in the far North more realistic.
You can download snapshot 2.8.1 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 2.9 - (January 9th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-2.9.1 === (11th January, 2021) >>> Fixes: * Fixed a crash when trying to use the /alignment command on servers * Fixed a mistake in the error message shown when trying to subtract too much alignment using the command * Fixed a crash when joining a world if the mod's main menu screen has not yet been displayed * Fixed a rare factions-related crash when joining a world >>> Translations: * Updated Chinese, Shakespearean English, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Polish, Hungarian, and Russian translations === Renewed-2.9 === (9th January, 2021) >>> Ported: + Added alignment + Added the on-screen alignment meter + Added the /alignment command + Added faction ranks + Added rank gender preference + Added pledging mechanics + Added certain waypoints being unavailable for enemy players >>> New in Renewed: * Factions' ranks are now defined in their .json files, and can be customised with datapacks * Improved faction rank translation: all name variants are now defined in a single line with new syntax, removed redundancy, and any rank can be translated into separate masculine and feminine versions * Moved Rohan's Esquire rank below Rider * Waypoints' faction ties for fast travel are now defined in their .json files * Waypoints unavailable due to enemy alignment now have a darker colour + Added fine zoom to the map screen (left shift + zoom) + Added a zoom scale display when zooming in and out + Added the /lotr_message command to display various preset ingame messages or custom message text to players * The mod's minimum required Forge version is now specified as a dependency >>> Fixes: * Fixed the game crashing when right-clicking the air in adventure mode * Fixed map labels rendering in front of the areas of influence title text * Fixed the Forge mod update notification not rendering in the custom main menu screen >>> Compatibility: * Allowed connected texture block models to fall back to their default connection context if supplied empty model data by another mod's renderer >>> Translations: * Updated Italian, Russian, Hungarian, Pirate, Dutch, and English (Upside-down) translations
The first snapshot of 2021 ported the mod's alignment system to renewed, including the meter, ranks, pledging and command - with much of it configurable using data packs. It also added a command to display in-game messages similar to the one that is displayed on entering Utumno for the first time, and a fine zoom function for the map, among other things.
You can download snapshot 2.9.1 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 2.10 - (February 6th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-2.10 === (6th February, 2021) >>> Ported: + Added custom waypoints + Added the show/hide waypoint type toggles + Added the show/hide map location toggle + Added the Eaves of Lothlórien, Harad Half-deserts, Harad Desert Hills, Desert of Lostladen, and Eastern Desolation biomes >>> New in Renewed: + Added new custom waypoint creation mechanics + Added optional lore for custom waypoints + Added public custom waypoints which other players are able to adopt + Added the ability to define map image overrides in resource packs to display a custom image in the map screen instead of the biome map, depending on the current datapack's map name + Added a new Middle-earth help screen displayed when first creating a world + Added small iceberg features, large iceberg terrain generation, polar bears, and snowfall in the northern seas + Added a transition to northern tree types and colder grass & foliage colours on the randomly generated islands + Added a 'procedural_rivers' flag to the map.json data file + Added texture variants for pear leaves + Added new player statistics for fast travel and custom waypoints + Added the /alignment query command + Added the /pledge [set|break|cooldown|query] command + Added new gamerules - lotr:fast_travel (replacing the config option) and lotr:custom_waypoint_creation >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Improved faction relations datapack loading: faction relations can now be defined in multiple files, in addition to the default list, with a load order to handle conflicts * Improved the placement of the faction menu page buttons * The faction menu page arrows are now translatable * Improved map teleporting in creative mode: the teleport now maintains height above terrain * Improved the waypoint selection tooltip * Moved the player argument in some mod commands to bring them more in line with vanilla commands' syntax * Retextured chandeliers * Retextured ring items * Retextured the Red Book * Retextured the on-screen compass and various other GUI elements * Kegs now play barrel sounds when opened and closed * Clouds are now rarer in deserts >>> Fixes: * Fixed map labels rendering in front of the area of influence tooltip * Fixed various map elements rendering in front of the compass * Fixed the cracked Rohan brick textures * Fixed player data constantly saving * Fixed the mod's custom statistics being saved with the minecraft: namespace >>> Translations: * Updated Italian, Japanese, and Spanish translations
The second snapshot of 2021 ported the mod's custom waypoint to renewed, with a brand new, more immersive method to create them as well as the abilities to add custom lore to them and make them public. It also added various new commands and gamerules as well as a method to add a cosmetic overlay for the Middle-earth map and a helpful message when creating a new world. Terrain generation was improved in both the North (with both gradual increases of snow and icebergs in the seas and more coniferous trees on the islands as you travel North) and the South (with several desert biomes being ported).
You can download snapshot 2.10 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 2.11 - (February 15th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-2.11 === (15th February, 2021) >>> Ported: + Added the Northern Mirkwood and Mountains of Mirkwood biomes + Added the Dalish armour and sword + Added the Dorwinion mannish and elven armours, and elven sword + Added the Dunlending crafting table, armour, and club + Added the blacksmith's hammer + Added Rohirric marshal armour + Added the winged Gondorian helmet + Added gold-, silver-, and mithril-trimmed dwarven armour + Added Ranger of the North and Ranger of Ithilien armours + Added the Dol Amroth armour and sword + Added swan feathers + Added Harnennor armour + Added bone armour + Added the Arnorian armour and sword * The Middle-earth moon phase now depends on the Shire Reckoning date + Added lunar eclipses >>> New in Renewed: + Added carved chalk brick + Added Middle-earth replacement drip, fall, and splash water particles to match the replacement rain * Dunlending armour can now be crafted with fur in place of leather * Retextured Dorwinion armour * Increased the statistics of Arnorian equipment to match Dol Amroth >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Made the custom waypoint construction hint for the stone base more informative * Durnor blocks can now be used as custom waypoint centrepieces * Custom waypoint structures now protect an extra block above in case the light source is a double torch or hanging chandelier * Increased wheatgrass in Dorwinion * Retextured pear wood blocks and items * Retextured cherry leaves * Retextured dwarven bricks * Updated the potted thistle model to match the normal thistle * Retextured mithril nuggets and ingots * Retextured the moon sprite * Made the stars slightly bluer in one skybox * Some armour sets now use different equip sounds >>> Fixes: * Fixed a mistake in the /pledge cooldown command's response * Fixed mod gamerules not working in the /gamerule command on servers * Fixed fur armour having the wrong durability and protection values * Fixed sponges generating on beaches * Fixed roads generating on Middle-earth Classic worlds * Fixed offline fast travel cooldown messages being sent on worlds with fast travel disabled or Middle-earth Classic worlds * Fixed Near Harad being enemies with Dorwinion instead of the Taurethrim >>> Translations: * Updated Hungarian, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Russian, Chinese, Italian, Shakespearean English, and Japanese translations
The third snapshot of 2021 focused on porting various small legacy features that hadn't been done up to this point - especially several armour sets (especially those with unique models) and weapons - as well as various other small features, retextures and bug fixes.
You can download snapshot 2.11 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 2.12 - (February 20th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-2.12 === (20th February, 2021) >>> Ported: + Added Beacons of Gondor + Added fallen leaves + Added thatch flooring + Added the mallorn toolset >>> New in Renewed: * Beacons of Gondor now give off signal smoke particles when not covered + Added new gamerules - lotr:gondor_beacon_range and lotr:gondor_beacon_lighting_time - to control beacons' communicating mechanics + Added the new 'scatter' customisable block model type, used by fallen leaves and thatch flooring * Increased the amount of fallen leaves and thatch flooring produced by their recipes * Mod items in creative tabs are now sorted by the fixed order of declaration in the mod, instead of the variable order of registry per-world >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Retextured Dol Amroth armour * Retextured Dorwinion armour items * Retextured the orc steel ingot and block * Retextured Mordor tools * Improved boughed mallorn trees' roots >>> Fixes: * Fixed the Arnorian sword's attack strength not matching Dol Amroth's * Fixed a crash if a datapack's map.json lacks the 'procedural_rivers' flag - now defaults to true * Fixed milking a cow with a single mug causing the mug to disappear >>> Translations: * Updated Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, French, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, German, Slovak, and Shakespearean English translations
The fourth snapshot of 2021 ported some more legacy features (with several improvements) including the Beacon of Gondor block (which now uses the signal smoke particles used by the vanilla campfire and two new gamerules), fallen leaves, thatch flooring (which both use a new block model type) and the Mallorn tools, as well as several retextures and bugfixes.
You can download snapshot 2.12 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 2.13 - (March 11th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-2.13 === (11th March, 2021) >>> Ported: + Added placeable mugs and goblets + Added silver goblets, copper goblets, wooden cups, waterskins, ale horns, and golden ale horns + Added the ability to wear plates on the head + Added the food-stack-on-plate-on-head model + Added horns + Added smoking pipes, smoke rings, and magical smoke ships >>> New in Renewed: + Added placeable map markers * Waypoints now highlight when hovered over + Added quick and slow map movement (ctrl or shift + movement keys) + Added quick map zoom (ctrl + zoom) + Added _settings.json files to the mod's map and faction data subfolders, providing an easy way for a datapack to remove all or some of the mod's default data files * Magic smoking pipes can now also be dyed * Smoke ring colours are slightly subdued * Smoke ships leave a trail of rings * Retextured horns * Retextured drink vessel items and block models >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Retextured Mordor rock (+ mirrored variants), ores, gravel, and grass * Retextured Mordor armour, scimitar, and pickaxe * Sped up the Gulduril ore animation * Retextured stone Morgul Iron ore * Retextured mithril ore with new variants and added a particle effect * Retextured fur armour * Fur and leather bundles now have distinct top and bottom textures * Retextured blue dwarven armour * Retextured Gondor cobblebrick * Retextured Rohan rock and related blocks * Retextured simbelmynë * Retextured maple leaves >>> Fixes: * Fixed client-side Middle-earth time not updating upon login or with the /lotr_time command if /gamerule doDaylightCycle is false * Fixed thrown plates not saving their direction of spin >>> Translations: * Updated Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Russian, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Slovak, Chinese, Italian, and German translations
The fifth snapshot of 2021 continued the improvements to the map menu, adding new 'map markers' (with several icons) that are similar to legacy waypoints but cannot be fast travelled to. It also ported several features related to food and drink - namely goblets and [[Ale Horn|ale horns, which, along with mugs are now placeable. It also ported pipes and the ability to carry plates on one's head, as well as a wealth of retextures.
You can download snapshot 2.13 here (Minecraft 1.15.2 and Forge 31.2.31+).
Snapshot 3.0 - (April 7th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-3.0 === (7th April, 2021) >>> Game version: * Updated to Minecraft 1.16.5 * Updated all wall models to the new 1.16 design * Retextured all mod signs + Added vertical slabs for new vanilla slabs >>> New in Renewed: + Added basalt patches in Mordor + Added a Mordor basalt brick set * Mordor plants can now be placed on basalt * Increased ravine generation in Gorgoroth + Added fish and chips * Biomes can now be mapped to multiple colours on the map image * The mapping between map image colours and biomes is now datapack-driven * Waypoint regions and their mappings to biomes are now datapack-driven >>> Ported: * Rivers will no longer generate in mountain biomes >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Moved the Isengard waypoint south of the Ring * Acceptable custom waypoint centrepieces are now defined in a block tag * Retextured mithril armour * Retextured dwarven armour * Retextured fur and blue dwarven armour icons * Retextured mallorn logs * Retextured lairelossë logs and beams * Retextured stone Morgul Iron ore * Rewrote Middle-earth distance respawning mechanics to relocate the player immediately without first loading the distant spawn point >>> Fixes: * Fixed pipe smoking crashing on servers * Fixed an overflow in the client profiler chart * Fixed drink vessels placed in tall grass not being filled * Fixed shift-clicking on plates popping off two items in survival mode * Fixed white sandstone dripstones not dropping * Fixed sepia map textures being doubly sepia-d >>> Translations: * Updated Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese, Slovak, Polish, Russian, French, Japanese, and Swedish translations
Snapshot 3.0 was the first in over 7 years to directly update the mod to a new version of Minecraft (1.16.5). 1.16 made significant changes to how modded biomes and dimensions are coded which made this update take longer than originally planned (see the original announcement post here for more details). In terms of new features and changes due to new vanilla content, there aren't too many (as 1.16 was largely focused on the Nether and therefore not relevant to the mod). However, 3.0 does add basalt to Mordor, make biomes far more customisable using data packs, and add fish and chips!
You can download snapshot 3.0 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.1.0+).
Snapshot 3.1 - (April 24th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-3.1 === (24th April, 2021) >>> Ported: + Added wooden gates + Added wooden, iron, and bronze portcullises + Added silver, golden, and mithril gates + Added factional gates + Added gate gears + Added wicker fences (remodelled, renamed from reed bars) + Added Morgul-flowers and Morgul-draught + Added the Morgul Vale biome + Added particle effects in the waters of Mirkwood and the Morgul Vale + Added the fast travel loading screen >>> New in Renewed: + Added support for datapack-driven biomes in the Middle-earth map generation + Added a southern counterpart to the map's latitude-varying water colour, sea ice, and sea floor features + Added blue vitriol as a means to create soul fire in Middle-earth + Added a 3D model for the wooden portcullis * Retextured wooden gates and orc gates * Gates can now be waterlogged + Added new gate-related fields to the connected texture block model type + Added non-connected wattle and daub, toggleable using sticks + Added new cloud textures, with different textures for the lower and higher layers * Clouds are now tinted pink during sunrise and sunset + Added ambient ash particles in the Mordor biomes and Dagorlad * Increased the effect range of Morgul-flowers' nausea * Dead trees now generate with branch blocks * Fast travel quotes can now be customised via resource pack >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Chandeliers now use chain block sounds * Orc plating blocks now use nether brick sounds * Retextured quagmire * Retextured orc plating * Changed the pumpkin pie on plate model >>> Fixes: * Fixed forges and hobbit ovens giving off light when not lit * Fixed cave ambience sounds not playing in Middle-earth biomes * Fixed rain sounds and splash particles appearing during sandstorms in the Lostladen biome * Fixed the lack of sea creatures in the Middle-earth sea * Fixed beaches blocking rivers which meet the sea * Fixed the /lotr_time command output stating the vanilla world time * Fixed potted wild pipeweed not giving off particles * Fixed a crash when loading a world with Optifine installed * Fixed a crash with Advanced Rocketry >>> Translations: * Updated Slovak, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Shakespearean English, and Pirate translations
Snapshot 3.1 continued the good work of Snapshot 3.0 by fixing some bugs and adding support for custom biomes using data packs, following the port to 1.16. It also ported gates, Morgul-flowers, Morgul-draught, the fast-travel loading screen and wicker gates (that replace the reed bars found in legacy). It also added new multi-layered clouds and blue vitriol, and made various other changes.
You can download snapshot 3.1 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.1.0+).
Snapshot 4.0 - (May 16th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-4.0.1 === (18th May, 2021) >>> Ported: * Elven swords once again glow blue when orcs are nearby * NPC melee attacks take the weapon's speed into account; melee cooldown for a weapon is equal to the player's in the current version >>> New in Renewed: + Added support for #comments and //comments in the fast travel quotes file >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Wooden branch blocks now connect to wooden fences * Wicker fences can now be used as furnace fuel >>> Fixes: * Fixed the Middle-earth Classic world type * Fixed a crash when elves eat or drink * Fixed most of the mod's sounds not attenuating with distance >>> Translations: * Updated French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Shakespearean English, Chinese, and Japanese translations + Added Polish, Shakespearean English, and Chinese fast travel quote translations * Fixed the Turkish and Shakespearean English translations === Renewed-4.0 === (16th May, 2021) >>> Ported: + Added hobbits, Mordor orcs, Gondorians, Gondor soldiers, Galadhrim elves, Galadhrim warriors, dwarves, dwarf warriors, and Uruk-hai + Added NPC name generators + Added NPC AI (move & look, talk, eat/drink/smoke, target, melee attack) + Added the NPCItemsInv and combat item-switching framework + Added NPC home position persistence and pathing + Added orc and dwarf sounds + Added mod spawn eggs + Added local NPC-generated areas of influence + Added maggoty bread + Added man-flesh + Added cram >>> New in Renewed: * NPC name banks can now be customised with datapacks * NPC faction assignments can now be customised with datapacks + Added a 'FactionOverride' NPC-specific NBT-tag for use with commands * NPCs now stop and look at the player when spoken to + Added NPC talking animations and particles + Added NPC-to-NPC conversation AI + Added NPC sunrise and sunset watching AI + Added elf stargazing AI * NPCs' melee attacks now deal the same damage as a player's would with the same item * Maggoty bread's hunger chance (now base 80%) decreases with higher orc/troll alignment, up to complete safety at +250 * Man-flesh now inflicts poison as well as hunger to un-orcish creatures, with the chance for these also decreasing gradually up to +250 * Orc draught is now 50% effective, increasing to 100% at +100 orcish alignment * Lembas and miruvor now inflict damage to orc-pledged players and orc-aligned creatures * Expanded some NPC food eating lists, including various meats for elves and more nutritional variety for orcs * Retextured maggoty bread, man-flesh, and cram + Added trimmed blue dwarven armour * Retextured trimmed dwarven armour * Retextured Rohirric armour >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Fast travel quotes can now be translated in the default mod with a different .txt file for each language * Ring portals now spin faster after a recent use * Ring portals can only be broken in creative mode by direct melee hits * Varied Forochel's grass colouring * Retextured lembas >>> Fixes: * Fixed being unable to place hanging webs on leaves * Fixed mallorn ladders not being climbable * Fixed ring portals not transferring non-player entities * Fixed a crash if casting a fishing rod into the ring portal * Fixed a lighting bug on the 3D portcullis model * Fixed a missing localisation for the ring portal when using HWYLA * Fixed a crash when loading the game with Abnormals Environmental installed * Fixed an Optifine crash when breaking rushes >>> Translations: * Updated Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Slovak, Russian, Spanish, French, Swedish, Japanese, Shakespearean English, Pirate, Italian, and Turkish translations + Added French fast travel quote translations
This snapshot made some of the vital first steps towards fully functional NPCs. It added the first basic NPCs as well as various AI, animations, names, sounds, speech etc. It didn't add the complex Middle-earth spawning mechanics meaning these NPCs can only be seen by using spawn eggs. It also added some food items including cram, and added improved alignment-based mechanics for some of the good and evil food and drinks. It also added trimmed Blue Dwarven armour and several retextures.
You can download snapshot 4.0.1 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.1.0+).
Snapshot 4.1 - (May 29th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-4.1 === (29th May, 2021) >>> Ported: + Added NPC spawning mechanics - new experimental spawn weighting system + optimisations + Added alignment bonus and penalty mechanics for killing NPCs + Added alignment bonus popups + Added NPC angry reactions to their friends being killed nearby + Added faction stats tracking for enemy kills and member kills + Added more NPCs: Rohirrim, Rohirrim warriors, Gundabad orcs, Dalishmen, and Dalish soldiers + Added the Rohan and Dalish name banks + Added legacy NPC equipment drop chances + Added the 'Belonged to' tooltip on NPC item drops + Added the config option for the mod's main menu screen >>> New in Renewed: * NPC kill alignment bonuses can now be customised with datapacks (and assigned to non-mod entities) * NPC equipment drops have a rare chance to drop in better condition * 'Belonged to' drops now support translated NPC names + Added the Snowy Northlands and Snowy Northern Forest biomes in the eastern parts of the world + Added dense Northern Forest (+ Snowy) biomes, with huge trees and more tree coverage, randomly generating within the main biomes * Dwarves now have some natural knockback resistance (nobody tosses a dwarf!) >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Retextured wattle and daub * Remodelled the vertical blackstone slab to fit the full block * Dried reeds can now be placed next to ice >>> Fixes: * Fixed entities being invisible on Fabulous graphics * Fixed Gondor soldiers having 30 max health instead of 20 * Fixed mod leaves, fallen leaves, thatch, reed thatch, and thatch flooring blocks not harvesting more quickly with hoes * Fixed NPCs not targeting non-mod entities which have been assigned to enemy factions * Fixed a crash with the 'Snow - Real Magic' mod >>> Translations: * Updated Pirate, Italian, and Slovak translations
This snapshot ported more of the important features regarding NPCs, notably the Middle-earth spawning system so now the world is a little more alive. It also ported some more NPCs as well as alignment bonuses for killing said NPCs. It also added some new Northlands biomes as well as knockback resistance for Dwarves.
You can download snapshot 4.1 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.1.0+).
Snapshot 4.2 - (June 6th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-4.2 === (6th June, 2021) >>> Ported: + Added Dunlendings, Dunlending warriors, Lindon elves, Lindon warriors, Rivendell elves, and Rivendell warriors + Added the Dunlending name bank + Added Gondorians' outfits and women's headwear + Added the Tower Hills biome >>> New in Renewed: * Biomes' NPC spawn lists are now defined in JSON files and can be customised with datapacks * Elves from other realms can spawn rarely in the Tower Hills * Passive civilian NPCs now aggro if a nearby friend was killed by any entity, not just by a player >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Renamed the Rohirric Coif to a Helmet * Increased mithril armour's 'toughness' attribute to match netherite + Added a new nettles model * Retextured Rohan bricks and carved bricks * Retextured Angmar bricks and mossy, cracked, and carved bricks * Retextured pipe-weed leaves * Retextured fernsprouts * Retextured the sun * Retextured dwarven and blue dwarven tool sets * Changed the Dalish soldier spawn egg colours to match the new armour texture >>> Fixes: * Fixed the Rivendell crafting table not being harvestable * Fixed orc torches dropping two items if the bottom half is broken * Fixed the mithril pickaxe animation * Fixed lightning strikes converting pigs into zombified piglins in Middle-earth * Fixed the mod's commands disappearing after a datapack /reload command * Fixed a silent crash when bonemealing some grass plants, which also caused problems with some other mods * Fixed an Optifine crash with plate-on-head models * Fixed a plate-on-head-related crash when saving entities in Create schematics >>> Translations: * Updated Slovak, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil), and Shakespearean English translations
This snapshot added some more NPCs (with some improvements - notably that civilians now react to friendly NPCs being killed by other NPCs as well as players) and also added the unenviable task of making the Middle-earth spawning mechanics work with data packs, meaning they can now be customised. It also added the Tower Hills and several retextures.
You can download snapshot 4.2 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.1.0+).
Snapshot 4.3 - (June 10th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-4.3 === (10th June, 2021) >>> New in Renewed: + Added caracals + Added a y_size_range to the scatter block model >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Retextured the blue dwarven pickaxe >>> Translations: * Updated Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Slovak, Chinese, Japanese, Shakespearean English, Russian, French, and Spanish translations
This smaller snapshot had one main feature - it added caracals to Middle-earth, as a birthday gift to The NASIranger, and in doing so fixed one of the main bugs that has plagued the mod for years. :floppa:
You can download snapshot 4.3 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.1.0+).
Snapshot 4.4 - (July 6th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-4.4.1 === (10th July, 2021) >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * NPCs now avoid coming too close while shielding * Dorwinion and Dale are now allies >>> Fixes: * Fixed NPCs sometimes losing track of their current combat target * Fixed dwarves and orcs in combat sometimes becoming stuck facing one another but not close enough to attack * Fixed the 'cancel' button on the destroy custom waypoint screen not working * Fixed the forsake custom waypoint screen crashing * Fixed datapack functions using the /alignment query command not fetching the correct alignment value * Fixed the /alignment command being able to act on technical factions >>> Translations: * Updated Shakespearean English, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Turkish, Polish, French, Chinese, and Japanese translations === Renewed-4.4 === (6th July, 2021) >>> Ported: + Added the Southron Coasts Forest, Umbar Forest, and Umbar Hills biomes + Added Coast Southrons, Coast Southron warriors, Harnedhrim, Harnennor warriors, Umbarrim, and Umbar soldiers + Added Blue Mountains dwarves and Blue Mountains warriors >>> New in Renewed: + Added Gondor, Mordor, Rohan, and Dale craftable faction shields + Added experimental situation-aware shielding AI for melee NPCs + Added a feature to generate up-to-date biome JSON files for all the mod's biomes and output them in the game directory during loading (config option, off by default - useful for datapack creators) + Added vines in the Old Forest * Crops and their seeds have Forge-namespaced item tags >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Decreased the amount of trees and tree clusters in Rohan * Retextured Morgul-flowers * Retextured pine leaves >>> Fixes: * Fixed smoke rings catching fire if blown into fire blocks * Fixed a rare keybinding-related crash when loading a world * Fixed mod leaf blocks causing suffocation * Fixed ambient occlusion on the lettuce stage 1 model * Fixed conversational NPCs being able to perform satwë-lanya * Fixed players who died in Middle-earth, but last slept in an overworld bed, respawning in the overworld at the wrong coordinates * Fixed an infinite loop if respawning in Middle-earth at the ring portal and a leaf block is obstructing the spawn point >>> Translations: * Updated Turkish, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Polish, French, Russian, Slovak, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese translations
This snapshot had five main features - it added faction shields to Middle-earth along with melee NPC shielding AI. It also ported the Blue Mountain Dwarves along with the Harnedhrim, Coast Southrons, and the Umbarrim. On a side note, the update added Biome Json Generators.
You can download snapshot 4.4.1 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.1.0+).
Snapshot 4.5 - (August 30th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-4.5 === (30th August, 2021) * Now requires Minecraft Forge 36.2.0+ >>> Ported: + Added melee weapon reach mechanics + Added iron, bronze, mithril, Gondorian, Rohirric, Mordor, Dwarven, Lindon, Rivendell, Galadhrim, Wood-elven, Haradric, Umbaric, Uruk, Blue Dwarven, Dalish, Dorwinion Elven, Dol Amroth, and Arnorian daggers + Added iron, stone, bronze, mithril, Gondorian, Rohirric, Mordor, Dwarven, Lindon, Rivendell, Galadhrim, Wood-elven, Haradric, Umbaric, Uruk, Blue Dwarven, Dalish, and Arnorian spears (not yet throwable) + Added NPC ranged attack AI + Added Gondor archers, Rohirrim bowmen, Dalish bowmen, Dunlending bowmen, Coast Southron archers, Harnennor archers, Umbar archers, Mordor orc archers, and Gundabad orc archers + Added the friendly fire toggle and warning message >>> New in Renewed: + Added stone and wooden daggers * Retextured some daggers and spears * Daggers now have a different model when sneaking + Added Harnennor, Coast Southron, and Umbaric shields * Arrows shot at allies now pass through instead of bouncing off * Archers now switch to dagger melee combat as a backup when their target comes too close + Added Uruk, dwarven, and blue dwarven archers + Added a 'lotr:sneaking' global item property for use in item model files + Added 'lotr:pipe_color' and 'lotr:pipe_is_magic' item model properties for smoking pipes >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Changed NPCs' melee reach formula to work better with weapon reach mechanics * Remodelled the smoking pipe * Retextured the Dalish shield * Retextured the uruk cleaver >>> Fixes: * [LOTR-15] Fixed being unable to climb up through a trapdoor above mallorn ladders (via Forge version upgrade) * [LOTR-45] Fixed fallen leaves generating in the bottom half of double plants and leaving the top half floating * [LOTR-52] Fixed Mirk-oaks sometimes growing unsustainable leaves * [LOTR-54] Fixed shift-clicking not toggling horizontal/vertical slab placement against the top & bottom faces of double vertical slab blocks * [LOTR-55] Fixed combined left+right click with vanilla slabs in creative mode placing the slab far away at the cursor position * [LOTR-61] Fixed melee NPCs becoming perpetually stuck in mutual shielding * [LOTR-62] Fixed Blue Mountains warriors wearing Durin's Folk helmets * [LOTR-65] Fixed melee NPCs under continuous attack being able to shield indefinitely without fighting back * [LOTR-66] Fixed a crash when placing signs with the Atum mod installed * [LOTR-68] Fixed shielding NPCs being knocked back by hits * [LOTR-69] Fixed the /locate structure command not working in Middle-earth * [LOTR-74] Fixed caracals being able to drown while swimming * [LOTR-77] Fixed invisible side faces on slabs and stairs adjacent to Beacons of Gondor * [LOTR-78] Fixed rain not falling in the Harad desert hills * [LOTR-80] Fixed crashes caused by various other mods that registry-replace the vanilla shield item * Fixed a crash when logging invalid client-side faction relations received from the server >>> Translations: * Updated Italian, Slovak, and Spanish translations
This snapshot focussed on ranged AI, adding archers for every melee unit added so far (including some not present in Legacy), and added several improvements such as avoiding shooting allies and the ability to switch to a dagger at close range. It also added spears and daggers (again with some changes) for each equipment set added, and three Haradric shields. It also added a wealth of retextures and bugfixes, many of which are now numbered in the changelog to match their entry in the mod's Discord server's bugtracker.
You can download snapshot 4.5 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.2.0+).
Snapshot 4.6 - (September 8th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-4.6 === (8th September, 2021) >>> Ported: + Added throwable spears + Added spear dispenser behaviour + Re-added reed bars (renamed to wicker bars) as a separate block from wicker fences >>> New in Renewed: * If holding a spear with a shield in the offhand, the player must crouch to throw the spear - otherwise the shield will be used + Added specific death messages for thrown spears + Added new textures for smoking pipe colours and magic pipes + Added reed bales and flax bales + Added wicker fence gates * Maggoty bread and cram are now compostable >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Improved the friendly fire toggle tooltip * Ice and snow bricks, and bone blocks, can now be used in custom waypoints in place of stone-material blocks * Changed the wicker fence recipe to a fence pattern * Changed Dorwinion roads to a rural style * Retextured the Middle-earth menu buttons * Retextured the Dunlending crafting table >>> Fixes: * [LOTR-75] Fixed being able to place vanilla slabs in the area protected by a custom waypoint * Fixed the friendly fire message referring to the wrong menu title * Fixed culling issues on wicker fences >>> Translations: * Updated Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese, Slovak, Polish, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, French, and Russian translations
This update continued the work on spears, making them throwable and dispensable, as well as their behaviour when used with shields. It also re-added Legacy reed bars (renamed to wicker bars) as a different block to wicker fences (which were given a wicker fence gate). It also added bale storage blocks for flax and reeds.
You can download snapshot 4.6 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.2.0+).
Snapshot 4.7 - (October 2nd, 2021)
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=== Renewed-4.7 === (2nd October, 2021) >>> New in Renewed: + Added a map exploration fog of war * Redrew the northern map to better accord with what is known about the Iron Mountains and Utumno + Added support for mixed entity types within a single entry in an NPC spawn list - so e.g. soldiers and archers can spawn in the same group + The mod's special item_handheld model loader now supports resource packs and _handheld models for non-LOTR-mod items + Added the Woodhall waypoint >>> Fixes: * [LOTR-81] Fixed a crash with the Ensorcellation mod * [LOTR-83] Fixed the wicker fence bounding box not including the top post * [LOTR-84] Fixed a floating pixel on one of the male Umbar / Coast Southron skins * [LOTR-85] Fixed a data loading error that occurs if the Thermal Foundation mod is installed * [LOTR-87] Fixed spears thrown in creative mode returning to the inventory when picked up in creative mode * [LOTR-93] Fixed the wooden dagger recipe * Fixed dwarven and blue dwarven archers not being present in the spawn lists >>> Translations: * Updated Turkish, Polish, Chinese, Slovak, Japanese, Italian, French, and Spanish translations
Snapshot 4.7 was a smaller update that added a new 'fog of war' feature that hides areas of the map until you have explored them (which can be turned off in the Configuration file), as well as a redrawn map of the mountains in the North of Middle-earth (to account for changes made by the Nature of Middle-earth book that was recently published), and several technical changes and bug fixes.
You can download snapshot 4.7 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.2.0+).
Snapshot 5.0 - (November 5th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-5.0.1 === (8th November, 2021) >>> New in Renewed: + Added a 'SpeechbankOverride' NBT-tag to allow giving a specific NPC a different speechbank from that defined in the entity type's datapack file + Added a 'fleeing' boolean speech condition + Added config options to set the duration for which NPCs will stand still and display talking animations when spoken to by a player >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * The 'elven_glow' item model override is now a global property so any item model can use it * Retextured the Bree-land crafting table * Candles no longer produce smoke >>> Fixes: * Fixed boolean-type speechbank conditions always matching any value * [LOTR-108] Fixed an ellipsis in the Mordor orc speechbank * [LOTR-109] Fixed culumalda branches not connecting to other branches and fences * [LOTR-110] Fixed support for JEI LOTR * [LOTR-111] Fixed a pledge condition error in the Rohirrim warrior speech lines >>> Translations: * Updated Polish, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Slovak, French, Russian, and Portuguese (Brazil) translations === Renewed-5.0 === (5th November, 2021) >>> Ported: + Added speechbanks for hobbits, Rohirrim warriors, and Mordor orcs + Added Immersive Speech pop-ups + Added drunken speech for NPCs + Added NPC speech triggers when attacking players + Added wood-elves and wood-elf warriors + Added Bree-men, Bree-hobbits, and Bree-land guards + Added the Bree-lander name bank + Added the Bree-land crafting table + Reinstated the Middle-earth world type help screen from the 1.15.2 version >>> New in Renewed: + Added Curuquesta, a brand new Conditional Speech engine, which decides a speech line by interpreting various conditions (of the NPC, player, and environment) and selecting from among the lines which satisfy those conditions, as defined in new JSON format speechbank files * Speechbanks can now be customised via resource pack * Speechbanks now support translations: a speechbank now points to a folder of language-code-named JSON files, rather than a single .txt file * NPC usage of speechbanks is now defined in datapack JSON files + Added a new field, "speechbank_home_biomes", to the faction JSON format + Added a config option to control the duration of Immersive Speech + Added culumalda trees and the culumalda block range + Added falling culumalda pollen + Added the Field of Cormallen biome + Added a button and hotkey (spacebar) to re-centre the map on the player's position + Added a server-side config option to force hide or show the map exploration fog for all players + Added Bree-land crafting monuments in the biome + Added customisation for MrCrayfish's 'Configured' and 'Catalogue' mods' screens if installed >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): + Added an animated candle texture * Improved Rivendell terrain generation * Removed Rivendell crafting monuments from the Rivendell hills * Changed the map colours for cedar wood to be more accurate >>> Fixes: * Dramatically optimised the gate connection algorithm * Fixed jerky movement around the map on the mod's main menu screen * [LOTR-76] Fixed the dedicated server crashing when set to use the world types lotr:me (Middle-earth) or lotr:me_classic (Middle-earth Classic) * [LOTR-95] Fixed the map screen sometimes opening onto empty sea at zero coordinates * [LOTR-97] Fixed vanilla mobs being unable to damage one another * [LOTR-98] Fixed large areas of influence (e.g. default Mordor's) not functioning ingame due to integer overflow * [LOTR-99] Fixed culling errors on the wooden portcullis under certain conditions * [LOTR-102] Fixed the Minecolonies mod's soldiers being unable to damage monsters * Fixed earning alignment from kills in other dimensions at coordinates that correspond to a faction's reduced area of influence in Middle-earth >>> Translations: * Updated Polish, Chinese, Russian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Italian, French, Slovak, and Japanese translations
Snapshot 5.0 was a large update that added speech properly to Renewed, with a brand-new system that is far superior to the legacy system (although in this update only hobbits, Rohirrim warriors, and Mordor orcs had their speech lines added). Codenamed Curuquesta, it decides a speech line by interpreting various (around 30 in total although not all are used by the mod's NPCs by default) conditions (of the NPC, player, and environment) and selecting from among the lines which satisfy those conditions, as defined in new JSON format speechbank files. Because of the adoption of JSON, speech can now also be customised via resource pack and support translations because a speechbank now points to a folder of language-code-named JSON files, rather than a single .txt file. As well as this new system, Snapshot 5.0 also ported drunken speech for NPCs and immersive speech pop ups above their heads.
As well as this important addition, Snapshot 5.0 also added some of the more usual features, such as Wood-elves, Breelanders, the Field of Cormallen and its endogenous Culumalda trees, as well as several tweaks and bugfixes.
You can download snapshot 5.0 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.2.0+).
Snapshot 5.1 - (November 17th, 2021)
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=== Renewed-5.1 === (17th November, 2021) >>> Ported: + Added speechbanks for Rohan civilians + Added speechbanks for Gondor soldiers and civilians + Added speechbanks for the Dwarves of Durin's Folk >>> New in Renewed: * Reworked all NPC models and skins to support the expanded player model features - separate right and left limbs, and a second layer for body, arms, and legs * Orc skins now support long hair like the other humanoids * Mannish women and Elf-women now use the 'Alex' model style with slimmer arms (config option per NPC type) + Added a 'parent' field to the speechbank file format to allow inheritance of common lines from a base speechbank + Added some new Dwarven speech lines + Added a new 'personality' speechbank condition with a system of ten independent pairs of personality traits for NPCs, to allow speechbank writers to give speechbanks more variety + Added Cobas Haven as a map label >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Moved some of the Rohirrim warrior speech lines into a new 'lotr:rohan/common' parent speechbank * Renamed the Western Gondor biome to Further Gondor >>> Fixes: * Fixed the 'pledge' speechbank condition not supporting OR-expressions of multiple values * Fixed the arms on NPCs' outfits (Dunlendings) not matching the pose of their actual arms * [LOTR-117] Fixed obnoxious carriage return characters in the description in the Mods menu >>> Translations: * Updated the Chinese translation + Added Chinese, French, Polish, Italian, and Spanish speechbank translations for hobbits, Rohirrim warriors, and Mordor orcs * Updated the Polish fast travel quote translations
Snapshot 5.1 was a smaller update that added more speechbanks (for civilians of Rohan, Gondorian soldiers and civilians and the Dwarves of Durin's Folk) and some more technical changes to NPCs and speech. Firstly, it updated the mod's skins and models to use the expanded post-1.8 player model features (separate right and left limbs, and a second layer for body, arms, and legs), as well as allowing female NPCs to use the 'Alex' model with slimmer arms. It also added the ability to use 'parent' lines of speech that can be used by multiple NPCs (to reduce unnecessary duplication), as well as a 'personality' speechbank condition with a system of ten independent pairs of personality traits for NPCs, to allow speechbank writers to give speechbanks more variety (Although these are not currently used in the base mod).
You can download snapshot 5.1 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.2.0+).
Snapshot 5.2 - (December 1st, 2021)
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=== Renewed-5.2 === (1st December, 2021) >>> Ported: + Added orc, elf, dwarf, hobbit, and troll bones + Added bone meal crafting recipes from the bones + Added drop tables for orcs, elves, men, dwarves, and hobbits + Added speechbanks for the Galadhrim + Added Galadhrim warriors spawning in response to enemy players harvesting mallorn trees + Added the Book of True-silver (currently non-functional) + Added the alignment popup when breaking a pledge >>> New in Renewed: * Only Galadhrim elves now drop lembas + Added the 'lotr:set_npc_drink_potency' loot function + Added glowing textures for Galadhrim axes and spears + Added new betrayal speech lines for Galadhrim + Added some new orc speech lines * Increased the anger range for killing a friendly NPC angering other nearby friendly NPCs to 16 blocks * Made Hobbits, Dwarves, and Orcs slightly smaller to match the figures given in The Nature of Middle-earth and other writings * Made Elves slightly taller * Redesigned the keg screen with a new texture * Made bees smaller in Middle-earth (config option) >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Retextured some hobbit skins in the Renewed style * Retextured the iron and bronze portcullises * Retextured Galadhrim armour, weapons, and tools * Retextured all the mod's door item icons * Rewrote the mod's custom armour models framework; all custom armour models now properly adapt to all humanoid model types >>> Fixes: * [LOTR-28] Fixed the map menu return button not adapting well to smaller screen sizes * [LOTR-118] Fixed dwarves holding items too close to their body * [LOTR-119] Fixed dwarves holding shields too close to their body * Fixed jerky movement in the keg brewing animation >>> Translations: * Updated Dutch, Polish, French, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, and Russian translations + Added Chinese and Polish speechbank translations for Rohan, Gondor, and Durin's Folk
This snapshot focused on adding drop tables for NPCs, as well as bones for each race, to make the aftermath of combat more rewarding and familiar. It also added one of the mod's oldest dynamic events - enemies of the Golden Wood should expect resistance if they try to harvest Mellyrn. There were also several visual improvements such as several retextures (including Hobbit skins that more closely match the new textureing style), a redesigned keg screen and remodelled NPCs that more closely match the heights descibed in the books (i.e. Elves are slightly taller and Orcs, Dwarves and Hobbits are slightly shorter).
You can download snapshot 5.2 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.2.0+).
Snapshot 5.3 - (December 21st, 2021)
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=== Renewed-5.3 === (21st December, 2021) * Now requires Minecraft Forge 36.2.20, which fixes the Log4j security exploit >>> Ported: + Added Party Tree varieties of oak, birch, dark oak, mallorn, beech, maple, lebethron, mirk-oak, green-oak, and red-oak trees >>> New in Renewed: * Improved the party tree generation: less blobby, more tree-ish with better-defined branches; sloping trunks; branch roots * Some kinds of party trees - mallorn, dark oak, and the mirk/green/red-oak family - now grow with different foliage that more closely resembles the normal tree * Party trees now grow naturally in more biomes + Added a distance measurement in map waypoint tooltips + Added the waypoint name to the fast travel countdown chat message + Added glowing textures for Lindon axes and spears >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Retextured Lindon armour, weapons, and tools * Changed bridge generation >>> Fixes: * [LOTR-128] Fixed the mod's flowery lily pads not using the dedicated lily block sounds * [LOTR-130] Fixed a crash when trying to adopt a custom waypoint that has no lore >>> Translations: * Updated Spanish, Chinese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), and Italian translations + Added Chinese and Polish speechbank translations for the Galadhrim + Added Italian speechbank translations for Rohan, Gondor, Durin's Folk, and the Galadhrim
This smaller snapshot mainly focused on adding party trees for 10 types of tree found in Middle-earth, all with improved generation. It also retextured Lindon Equipment, added some more supports to bridges, and made Forge 36.2.20 (which fixed the Log4j security exploit) a dependency.
You can download snapshot 5.3 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.2.20+).
Snapshot 5.4 - (January 12th, 2022)
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=== Renewed-5.4 === (12th January, 2022) >>> Ported: + Added pouches - small, medium, and large, with inventories + Added the crafting recipes for pouch combining, dyeing, and faction table dyeing + Added automatic pouch collection upon item pickup + Added the pouch restock button + Added NPC pouch drops and automatic enpouching of other dropped items + Added pouch renaming + Added pouch cleaning in cauldrons + Added smoking pipe cleaning in cauldrons + Added orcs' weakness in the sun + Added Mordor NPCs' immunity to stabbing thorns >>> New in Renewed: * The pouch tooltip now updates in response to inventory changes while the pouch is open + Added a tooltip to indicate pouches which have picked up new items + Added a shulker-box-style partial list of contents to the pouch tooltip + Added a tooltip for pouches dyed in faction colours * Pouches can now be combined, and dyed with dye items, on faction crafting tables + Added new pouch statistics and sound effects + Added Mordor dirt path blocks + Added more leafy undergrowth in Mirkwood, the Woodland Realm, Fangorn, and the Old Forest * Foxes spawning in Middle-earth have a very rare chance to spawn carrying a ring * Spawn eggs in the creative tab are now sorted by the consistent order of entity type declaration in the mod, rather than the per-world item registry order >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Retextured the Book of True-silver * Retextured cherry leaves * Faction crafting tables now use a single container type with variable data instead of a different type for each block >>> Fixes: * [LOTR-126] Fixed not gaining alignment from the death of an NPC who was recently hit but died to a non-player source of damage * Fixed passive civilian NPCs failing to aggro when a nearby friend is killed by a non-player entity * [LOTR-127] Fixed hoglins and zoglins being unable to damage the player * [LOTR-131] Fixed party trees generating with disconnected roots * [LOTR-132] Fixed branch blocks in party trees' roots setting the grass below to dirt * [LOTR-134] Fixed bronze lanterns being placeable in water * [LOTR-137] Fixed rain sounds and particles appearing during the mod's Christmas snowfall feature in biomes that normally rain * Fixed rain sounds and particles appearing in the cold regions of the sea where snow falls instead of rain * [LOTR-138] Fixed foxes being able to spawn in Middle-earth with an emerald in their mouth * [LOTR-141] Rushes can now be placed on sand, to reduce the impact of world generation order bugs * [LOTR-145] Fixed a broken player name alias in the Gondor civilian speechbank * [LOTR-147] Fixed the client freezing if the player is shot by a piglin holding a crossbow with the Piercing enchantment * [LOTR-148] Fixed the Withered Heath waypoint unlocking in an incorrect fast travel region * [LOTR-149] Fixed being unable to eat, shoot, and perform various other 'safe' right-click item actions within a custom waypoint's protection * Fixed a pixel error on one male Coast Southron skin * Fixed being able to fast travel while in a bed under rare circumstances >>> Translations: * Updated Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Chinese, Polish, Italian, and French translations + Added Dutch speechbank translations for Gondor and Durin's Folk + Added Pirate fast travel quote translations
This snapshot focused mainly on porting pouches to Renewed, with all of their main features (combining, dyeing, faction table dyeing, automatic item to pouch pickup, restocking, renaming, cleaning and pouch mob drops), as well as some new ones (new item tooltip, contents list tooltip, faction dye tooltip, combining and dyeing on faction crafting tables, statistics and new sound effects). Other additions included porting Orcs' weakness under the Sun, pipe cleaning, and Mordor NPCs' immunity to Stabbing Thorns. Newly added were Mordor dirt path blocks, more leafy undergrowth in Mirkwood, the Woodland Realm, Fangorn, and the Old Forest, plenty of bug fixes and some retextures, and spawn eggs becoming more organised.
You can download snapshot 5.4 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.2.20+).
Snapshot 5.5 - (February 24th, 2022)
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=== Renewed-5.5 === (24th February, 2022) >>> Ported: + Added wargs + Added warg bones + Added Isengard Snagas and archers + Added dwarves' sound effect for killing an enemy + Added speechbanks for Gundabad orcs + Added the config option to tune how often the mod clears the LOTR playerdata cache for offline players' data + Added the alignment display above players' heads >>> New in Renewed: + Added a new warg model and textures * Slightly increased wargs' health and aggressive movement speed * Wargs now have knockback resistance + Added a warg leaping special attack that disables shields + Added a silver warg variant * Changed the distribution of warg variants across the different factions * Wargs less often spawn with a rider * Wargs now occasionally target sheep, chickens, and foxes * Wargs now panic if aflame, even when in combat + Added the Hills of Evendim biome + Added dead pine trees in cold northern biomes + Added chalk path blocks for roads in downland biomes + Added side textures for wooden gates * Expanded the connected textures engine to support more diverse use cases, including: models with a mix of connected and non-connected textures, connected textures that only connect to a subset of directions, and customised paths for connection elements + Added a variant texture for cracked red Dorwinion brick + Added Isengard Snagas spawning at night in Rohan in addition to Uruks >>> Changes (to earlier Renewed): * Changed the formula that calculates NPCs' base melee reach from their width; as a result NPCs smaller than Man-size now have slightly more reach * Increased wheatgrass in Nurn * Retextured stone pillars * Acceptable water container items for brewing are now defined in an item tag >>> Fixes: * [LOTR-153] Fixed undyeing a pouch at a cauldron also opening the pouch inventory * [LOTR-159] Fixed being able to place pouches inside shulker boxes * [LOTR-161] Fixed right-clicking on NPCs while holding an item with a right-click action both speaking to the NPC and using the item * [LOTR-163] Fixed being unable to tame a wolf with LOTR mod bones * [LOTR-164] Fixed being unable to tame a parrot with LOTR mod seeds * [LOTR-170] Fixed being unable to open a pouch in the offhand * [LOTR-171] Fixed the blackroot stick not using a correct handheld model * [LOTR-173] Fixed a crash in some circumstances when shift-left-clicking to move items around in the keg inventory * [LOTR-174] Fixed glitches when moving items around inside a keg's ingredients grid * [LOTR-175] Fixed spiders being slowed by hanging webs * [LOTR-177] Fixed the third-person handheld model for fallen oak leaves being too large * [LOTR-179] Fixed the third-person handheld models for the mod's boats being too large * [LOTR-196] Fixed sitting caracals being able to drown * Fixed orcs suffering the Weakness effect (deal less melee damage) instead of a negative Resistance effect (more vulnerable to damage) when in sunlight * Fixed orcs with daggers dealing zero damage when in sunlight due to the mistaken Weakness effect * Fixed orcs never actually suffering negative Resistance while in sunlight (even in Legacy!) due to an off-by-one error * Fixed podzol generating above the treeline in the Trollshaws * Fixed the text part of alignment bonus popups not showing through blocks * Fixed the text part of immersive speech not showing through blocks >>> Translations: * Updated Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Polish, and Portuguese (Brazil) translations + Added Dutch speechbank translations for the Galadhrim and hobbits
This snapshot's main focus was adding Wargs to Middle-earth, with brand new models, textures and behaviours, such as a new leaping attack. It also added a new Hills of Evendim biome, Isengard Snagae, chalk path blocks and an improved connected textures engine.
You can download snapshot 5.5 here (Minecraft 1.16.5 and Forge 36.2.20+).
