Hello, I couldnt find anything relating to it posted here already. It is really just a small thing. In Tinker's Mod and Spark's Hammer Mod, you have two kinds of very usefull items, an hammer which crushes 3 x 3 stones around the center block and an excavator doing the same thing with dirt / sand etc.
My point is simple. Why not include it directly in the mod? Sure, you can just take another mod to have it, but tinker comes with a bunge load of other things that are not that fitting for middle earth in my opinion and sparks mod does its job, but based on the vanilla materials. And it wouldnt be needed to have those mods on all those different servers ...
From the logic point of view I would suggest to give the dwarfs that special hammer because building dwarven players will likely be under the earth anyways. The excavator on the other hand I would give to Morder and / or Isengart because the Orcs excelled in making trenches and having a lot of dirt like blocks in their biomes might help them.
Not sure if it would break somehow the balance between those factions, maybe more distributed to other factions but with different quality levels.
So, thats it, my 2 cents