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The Lord of the Rings Mod: Renewed
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Work-in-progress port of the LOTR Mod to Minecraft 1.16.
Themed around castles, knights, medieval weapons, and magic from the Middle Ages.
Themed around magical elements, mythical creatures, and enchanted worlds, often inspired by fantasy literature and folklore.
Includes a large focus on traversing worlds with enhanced world generation, structures, dungeons, and more for players to find unique loot.
Features role-playing elements like character progression, quests, and story-driven gameplay.
Introduces new dimensions with unique biomes, resources, and challenges.
Features structures of no particular theme, or meant as background decoration.
Includes mods that provide maps, minimaps, and informational tools for navigation.
Includes a custom backstory, written world-building, or narrative writing within the project or through external content.
Features new biomes or content focused on overhauling existing ones.
Enhances plant life and foliage in the game world.
Adds or enhances hostile creatures and enemies.
Adds or improves non-hostile and neutral creatures.
Introduces new non-player characters with various roles and behaviors.
A modified or ported version of an existing mod.
Forge is a popular mod loader for versions 1.1+ of Minecraft.
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"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish" - Samwise Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring
24th February 2022 - now with brand-new Wargs!
Current version: Renewed-5.5 for Minecraft 1.16.5
| Official Wiki | Community Discord | Facebook Page | Instagram | Legacy | Floppa |
The Lord of the Rings Mod is a huge expansion for Minecraft that adds the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth into the game, including content from his magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings, and from other related tales such as The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.
Renewed is a work-in-progress port to 1.16 of the original mod for 1.7.10, which is one of the most extensive mods ever created, beloved by Tolkien fans and Minecrafters alike. We have a close-knit and dedicated community, and now after many years we're updating to a modern Minecraft version to give the mod a fresh experience!
With features like:
- a new dimension that generates following the map of Middle-earth (with 100+ biomes)
- over a thousand new blocks and items, including faction block sets
- many new trees, flowers, and custom-modelled fallen leaves
- a night skybox, more pleasant rain, and the northern lights of Forodwaith
- custom crafting and smelting stations
- vertical slabs, wood slabs/stairs/branches, and multiblock gates
- an expanded melee combat system, featuring weapon types with different speed and reach
- a fun drinks-brewing system
- map waypoints and fast travel
- custom waypoints as 'multiblock structures'
- generated roads that go ever on and on
- NPCs from various Middle-earth factions
- a bespoke conditional speech engine which provides NPC speech lines by taking their environment into account
- caracals (floppa cats),
the Renewed mod is already an adventure in its own right, but there's a lot still to come from the 1.7.10 version. Over the coming months we will be porting an extensive factions system, where your actions can earn or lose you alignment with many different groups; hundreds more NPCs and structures; the lands of Harad and Rhûn; mini-quests, loads of new weapons and armour, multiplayer features such as banner protection, and much, much more!
Renewed benefits greatly from datapacks - in the current version, not only are crafting, smelting, and keg-brewing recipes configurable, but the map generation can be fully customised via datapack, changing the scale of the world and even generating a completely different map based on your own .png image. You can customise the map's fast travel waypoints - renaming or moving them, or adding entirely new ones. Roads, too, are defined in data files, allowing you to change their routes or add new ones. NPCs' faction alignments can be customised, as can their alignment values. Going forward, we aim to make even more of the favourite mod features customisable in this way, all shaped to your liking as though you stood among the Valar themselves.
Requirements & Technical Stuff
The current version - Renewed-5.5 for 1.16.5 - requires Minecraft Forge version 36.2.0 or higher.
Help:
- Installation guides
- Report bugs on the #bug-reports Discord channel. Post crash reports and logs!
- General technical support is also available there.
Companion mods:
- LOTR JEI module by The_Ranger_Malvegil
Community
For more information on Renewed and the Legacy 1.7.10 mod (which remains fully playable, with an active community), visit the mod's official wiki. Anyone can edit the wiki to help document the mod.
Join the community Discord server to discuss the mod with other fans, alongside a hefty helping of Tolkien lore, plenty of building showcases, and a smattering of linguistics!
Development progress and previews of updates are posted on the mod's official Facebook page.
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Pouches Dropped by NPCs of all sorts, these useful containers allow you to expand your inventory space, making room for resources and rarities from all across Middle-earth. And, as a bonus, they're nameable and dyeable! -
Northlands Day is cold and night colder in the barren, yet beautiful, tundra fields on the margins of the Forodwaith. -
Evendim Winds blow over the hills of Evendim, north of the Shire. -
Wargs The demonic wolves of Gundabad, Isengard, and Mordor, now ported to Renewed with a completely new model and textures! -
Caracals Big floppa in Middle-earth, what's he gonna do??? -
Stargazing The Elves love to look upon the stars at night, for they revere Elbereth Star-kindler more than most. -
Conversation Some hobbits enjoying a friendly forest chat. Maybe the nearby pipe-weed has drawn their interest? -
Map A picture of the ingame map, with waypoints and roads. The biomes of Middle-earth generate according to the map image, and this map and its biomes, along with the waypoints and roads, can be customised with datapacks.
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Fangorn Forest A view of the Entwood. -
Ettenmoors These stark northern moors, specked with boulders and moor-grass, are a haunt of hill-trolls (still to be ported!) -
Arnor road One of the ancient roads running through the lands that once comprised the Kingdom of Arnor. -
White shores Some biomes (Lindon, Dor-en-Ernil...) generate beaches with white sand and sandstone, instead of the usual yellow. Here's a range of blocks you can make from white sandstone. -
Mordor The Land of Shadow... featuring dark skies, charred trees, and several Mordor-exclusive blocks. -
Blue Mountains A look at the Ered Luin. -
Vertical Slabs The mod adds vertical placement for all slab blocks - here's a selection of a few. in addition to the vanilla slabs, there are over a hundred and fifty new slabs in all! -
Wool slabs, stairs (and vertical slabs) The mod adds vertical slabs, and slabs and stairs for wool blocks. Great for creating a pretty woodland scene like this. -
Chalkstone Hills The hills of Dorwinion, with one-of-a-kind terrain generation featuring exposed ridges of chalk. -
More Roads A road passing through Nurn, the southern fertile region of Mordor. -
Marshland Marshy terrain in Nindalf, a wetland region to the north of Gondor. Marsh biomes in the mod feature custom terrain generation, reeds and rushes, and waterlogged rotten logs. -
Roads A generated road running through the land of Rohan. Roads follow curving paths defined by waypoints, and their routes can be customised with datapacks.
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