Update

update 35.3

>>> Changes:
* Mount movement is now handled client-side to prevent server lag affecting it
* Mount breeding is now worthwhile: foal stats are now a random value between the parents' stats with a chance to be slightly better or worse, instead of averaging the parents' stats with a third random value
* Player-ridden mounts now deal with swimming more realistically
* Renamed some achievement titles to avoid confusion with the new ranks

>>> Fixes:
* Corrected 'Núrn' to 'Nurn'
* Corrected the rank 'Caundir' to 'Condir'
* Fixed being able to apply Infernal and Chilling modifiers to the Balrog whip

>>> Translations:
+ Added updated French and German translations

Update 35.2

>>> Changes:
* 'Civilian' NPCs are now defined simply by whether the NPC is passive: if it attacks enemies on sight, it is not 'civilian' (but passive captains are also not 'civilian')
* Orc chains can now be hung from fences, walls, and upside-down slabs and stairs
* Chandeliers can now be hung from orc chains
* Increased the coin price to smith mithril items with a dwarf
+ Added Wicked Dwarves, who can smith mithril items and sell dwarven goods to evil players
* Replaced the highest Blue Mountains rank with a Khuzdul title (and added feminine versions of both Khuzdul titles)
* Increased the melee reach of the Balrog whip
+ Added keyboard shortcuts for the new Middle-earth menu's buttons

>>> Conquest changes:
* Conquest decay now begins only after there have been no changes in that zone for 30 minutes
* Reverted conquest decay to 1 kill ~ 15 minutes
* Instead of certain biomes' spawn rates being less sensitive to conquest, conquest now affects spawn rates equally in all biomes but takes longer to earn in some
* The conquest map now toggles labels separately from the main map

>>> Bow changes:
* Reduced the strength of bow modifiers in reponse to the previous change to ranged-protection armour modifiers
* Modifiers and stronger bows now shoot faster (-> further) which indirectly increases damage, instead of directly increasing arrow damage
* Removed independent 'Range' stats for different bows because this confounded matters by indirectly affecting those bows' damage. (Fixes certain bows being stronger than the tooltip suggests)

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed the missing orc chain crafting recipe
* Fixed the Gondor Friend rank being named Guest
* Fixed faction-rank achievement titles not using the feminine rank if the player is using feminine ranks
* Fixed smith NPCs on servers sometimes not sending the correct reforge cost to the client
* Fixed miniquests with Arnorian equipment rewards only being given by Dúnedain villagers, never by Rangers
* Fixed Sting not being classified as a dagger
* Fixed incorrect dimension names on Cauldron servers

>>> Translations:
+ Added a Hungarian translation

Update 35.1

>>> Changes:
* Changed the conquest decay rate to 1 kill ~ 1 hour (was previously 1 kill ~ 10 minutes)

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed an NPC spawning crash in Erebor
* Fixed surrealist rendering issues around players holding a warhorn
* Fixed other players' above-head alignments always displaying the Hobbits value
* Fixed Dunlendings attacking Rohirrim even if /facRelations is used to improve their relations
* Fixed conquest values still affecting spawning if conquest is later disabled in the config

>>> Translations:
+ Added updated French translations

Update 35

>>> Alignment:
* Alignment is now a continuous number rather than an integer
* Alignment kill bonuses earned outside a faction's area of influence drop off smoothly to zero (at 50 pixels outside) rather than suddenly
+ Added a system of alignment ranks
* Changed the alignment meter display so that it runs from [rank -> next rank] rather than [+value -> -value]
* Replaced faction alignment achievements with new achievements linked to ranks
+ Added a ranks page to the faction screen
* The alignment meter now remembers the last-viewed faction when switching between regions
* Faction relations are now a five-level system: 'Allies', 'Friends', 'Neutral', 'Enemies', and 'Mortal Enemies'
+ Added a command to alter faction relations
* Some factions no longer encourage 'war crimes' and do not reward alignment for killing enemy civilians (and their soldiers will not start fights with enemy civilians)
* Holding positive alignment with two mortal enemy factions now drains your alignment with both

>>> Pledges & Conquest:
+ Added the ability to pledge service to a faction
* Breaking your pledge incurs a large alignment penalty and pledging cooldown
* Killing a pledged faction's NPCs, or NPCs from an 'Ally' (above 'Friends') faction, breaks your pledge (permitting one warning with a cooldown period)
* Titles ranked higher than a faction's pledge level are now exclusive for pledged players
* With an unpledged faction, alignment earned above their pledge rank is multiplied by 0.5
* Unit hiring costs are more expensive if not pledged to the faction
* Some special units are now exclusive for pledged players
* Bounty quest mechanics now operate on the player's pledged faction rather than their highest-alignment faction, where possible
+ Added a conquest system: pledged players can conquer areas for their faction by killing enemy NPCs to increase the spawning of their own NPCs
+ Added a conquest map on the Table of Command
+ Added a /conquest command
* Renamed the Horns of Conquest to Warhorns, with a new texture

>>> Gameplay:
+ Added a new tutorial mini-quest, replacing the on-screen prompts and starter chest
+ Added a more user-friendly Middle-earth menu
+ Added a chat notification for when you become unable to bear your current title
* Reduced the damage of all hammers/maces by 1 (half-heart), and further reduced the charred mallorn mace by 0.5 (quarter-heart)
* Reduced the protection of all ranged protection armour modifiers by 1 point
* Horses from Rohan and Dol Amroth no longer have a higher maximum jump, instead being more likely to spawn with a higher jump within the vanilla limits
* Player-ridden spiders can now only climb continuously for a limited time

>>> Orcs:
+ Added Black Uruk fortresses in Mordor
+ Added Black Uruk captains, who are now responsible for the hiring of Black Uruks
* Black Uruks have a very rare chance to drop shiny shirts
+ Added orc chain ladders
* Poisoned arrows and bolts are now craftable only on Orcish and Near Harad tables
* Orcs now have a chance to shoot poisoned arrows
* Redesigned warg and spider pits
+ Added snowy Angmar bricks
* Improved the Gulduril glow renderer for a better look with multiple blocks together
* Gulduril-treated blocks now glow in the inventory

>>> Miscellaneous:
+ Added the ability to toggle the scale on the Table of Command
* Modified several structures to include a Table of Command
* Improved the sepia map filter
+ Added kanuka trees and wood
+ Added a new kanuka forest biome in Far Harad
+ Added barren jungle mud and jungle mud paths
+ Added the branding iron as a name tag alternative
+ Added Arnor pillars and cracked pillars
* Retextured the Dorwinion Men skins and armour
* Retextured the Morwaith brick
* Retextured the Morwaith skins
+ Added an alternate saddle recipe using gemsbok hide
* Utumno entrance bricks (generated after this update) around the portal pit are indestructible
* Reduced the effect of looting modifiers on getting more than one Flame of Udûn or Chill of Daedelos in a single kill
+ Added a Balrog charging attack to make them stronger
* Retextured the Balrog wings and face
+ Added a Balrog wings config option
+ Added face variants for huorns
* Reduced hobbit drop rates
* Rewrote banner explosion protection to be more secure

>>> Translations:
+ Added an updated German translation

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed icy wargs not being able to drop the Chill of Daedelos
* Fixed water in the Utumno fire level not evaporating as intended if created by some means other than a bucket
* Fixed the obsidian shard achievement not triggering
* Fixed some rope placement bugs
* Fixed a troll statue / boss trophy duplication bug
* Fixed looting enchantments applying to a mob's death if you kill with a bow but switch to hold a looting sword before the arrow hits
* Fixed clover petals not rendering from beneath
* Fixed the player's dyed leather hat affecting the colour of their shield
* Fixed hired farmhands continuing to plant your supplied crops forever after being dismissed; farmhands now drop their inventory when dismissed
* Fixed Vintner Guards responding to right-clicks and breaking of not-fully-grown vines
* Fixed flickering and bounding box glitches around huorns
* Fixed hobbits fleeing from inactive huorns
* Fixed protection banner items, if placed by someone else and then dropped, not switching to the new owner when placed down again
* Fixed Khamûl's Fire jars in dispensers being able to replace any block
* Fixed incorrect spellings of 'sacrificial'
* Fixed durability and armour modifiers not working on Cauldron servers (credit Vinyarion and DwarfyAssassin)
* Fixed some problems when working with enchanted books in the modifier-enabled anvil

Update 34.3

>>> Changes:
* Spears are not subject to the bow drawing change
* Smiths of most kinds might buy string, and therefore can smith and reforge bows
* Gulfing blacksmiths might buy dried reeds
* Villages can no longer generate in scrubland and wasteland variants, to avoid unsuitable terrain

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed a missing hired nomad speechbank
* Fixed incorrect generation of the corners of Southron fortifications
* Fixed palm trees rarely generating on top of other palm trees
* Fixed headhunting weapons not looting player heads if keepInventory is enabled
* Fixed the anvil's collision box being defined incorrectly
* Fixed rope being invisible from behind
* Fixed 'pick block' for Mordor Gulduril ore returning ordinary Gulduril ore
* Fixed music packs logging a successful load as a WARNING
* Fixed the main menu briefly showing the wrong map location when first loaded

Update 34.2

>>> Changes:
+ Added golden and obsidian Taurethrim pillars
* Retextured the Taurethrim banner
* Increased the necessary charge amount before a bow will shoot, to lessen 'bow-spam'
+ Added functionality to the /fastTravelCooldown command to allow servers to also specify the minimum cooldown
* Retextured the Utumno ice blocks
* Wave sounds are now classified as 'ambient' instead of 'terrain'
* Some Gondorian renegades will now wear Pelargir armour
* Changed the desert fog to a more sandy colour

>>> Translations:
+ Added updated German, Chinese, and Portuguese (Brazil) translations

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed Pertorogwaith waypoints not unlocking upon entering the biome
* Fixed two missing sets of stairs in the Southron town gatehouse
* Fixed some outdated Near Harad achievement icons
* Fixed arid grass being placeable on sand half-slabs
* Fixed some pixel errors on the map
* Fixed chestplates with special models not moving their arms for players aiming a bow
* Fixed plates not rendering on armour stands
* Fixed a crash related to true mithril modifiers

Update 34.1

+ Added an updated German translation
* Fixed the new doors being instantly breakable by hand
* Fixed a visual glitch in the middle of the Mallorn door
* Fixed Umbaric weapons not unsmelting
* Fixed a crash caused by trader respawns
* Fixed a client crash caused by banners with fellowships listed
* Fixed some speechbank errors
* Increased the sale price of cram to dwarven miners

Update 34

>>> Near Harad:
* Redrew the map of Near Harad
+ Added the regions of Harnedor, Lostladen, Southron Coasts, and the Gulf of Harad
+ Added new waypoints and roads in Near Harad
* Changed the unlocking of the Poros and Harnen waypoints to facilitate first travelling to Harad
+ Added the Harnedhrim of Harnedor
+ Added the Men of Umbar and the Corsairs
+ Added the Nomads of the Great Desert
+ Added the Men of the Gulf of Harad
+ Added new structures, villages, and towns for the Near Harad subgroups
+ Added new Near Harad banners, shields, and titles
+ Added the Umbaric and Gulfen crafting tables
+ Added Umbaric, Corsair, Harnedor, Nomad, and Gulfen armour sets
* Renamed Haradric armour to Coast Southron armour
+ Added a new set of bronze Haradric weapons, and renamed the iron ones to Umbaric
+ Added relic Black Númenórean weapons and armour
+ Added Corsair weapons
+ Added Gulfen weapons
+ Added Umbar horse armour
+ Added Southron champion riders
+ Added Morwaith mercenaries
+ Added Gondorian renegades
+ Added slaves of Harad
+ Added bartenders, farmers, blacksmiths, and many new bazaar traders for Near Harad
+ Added Umbar bricks and pillars
* Retextured the Near Harad crafting table
+ Added dragonblood trees and their wood
+ Added palm trees and their wood (also on beaches throughout the world)
+ Added the ability to place carpets on camels
+ Added the white oryx
+ Added new Near Harad miniquests
+ Added new Harad lore texts
+ Added new shared Near/Far Harad titles
* Redesigned the Harad pyramid
+ Added ancient Harad forts in the desert
* Travelling Harad Merchants no longer wear desert robes
* Near Haradrim (except for nomads) are no longer immune to desert heat
* Improved the terrain generation and variety of the Near Harad desert
* Scrubland biome variants in Near Harad now generate sandstone instead of stone
* Moved the Umbar music region to a sub-category of Near Harad

>>> Far Harad:
* Renamed the Moredain to Morwaith, and the Tauredain to Taurethrim
+ Added new waypoints in Far Harad, and renamed some
* Respelled the Taurethrim waypoints according to a more suitable orthography
+ Added new lore texts concerning the history of the Taurethrim
* Renamed the rocky coastline biome to Corsair Coasts, with improved biome generation
+ Added corsair hideouts along the rocky coastline
+ Added Morwaith bronze swords
* Morwaith warriors sometimes spawn wielding Near Harad weapons
+ Added red clay in the Far Harad grasslands, now used to craft the Morwaith brick and table
* Retextured the Morwaith brick
+ Added lionskin rugs
+ Added giraffe rugs
+ Added a recipe for item frames using gemsbok hides in place of leather
+ Added sunflowers in Far Harad
* Redesigned some of the Taurethrim structures
+ Added Taurethrim smiths and smithies
* Increased the alignment required to trade with the Taurethrim shaman
* Harad flowers now generate in the jungle clearings
+ Added jungle sprout grasses
* Dart traps in jungle pyramids now have a chance to shoot poisoned darts
+ Added the Far Harad Jungle Mountains biome
* Improved the generation of volcanic pits
* The Far Harad Volcano biome now rarely spawns Half-trolls
+ Added the cursed forest of Taur-na-Torogrim
* Half-troll weapons are now crafted with flint

>>> Gameplay:
+ Added a new fast travel loading screen and sound
+ Added new Middle-earth and Utumno terrain loading screens
+ Added modifier template scrolls
+ Added an exclusive polearm protection modifier for mithril armour
+ Added 'Mithril Mail', a new item now used to craft mithril armour at half the expense
* Reduced the effectiveness of armour ranged protection modifiers
+ Added a coin count display for inventory screens
+ Added a trading sound effect
* Improved the coin-trading algorithm so that traders take smaller coins first before taking larger coins and giving change
* Traders now keep the same trades and trader data after respawning
* Traders now refresh all their trades after a certain amount of total wealth has been traded; after a refresh, trades are locked for a short time
* Reduced the time taken for traders to respawn
* Hired NPCs now sometimes say things after killing enemies, and less often when not in combat
* Mobs spawned from invasions will not despawn
* Bandits with stolen items do not despawn
* Lowered some NPC drop rates, including bosses, to correct for the prevalence of looting modifiers
* Slightly increased the drop rate of Chills of Daedelos
* Marsh wraith attacks now inflict a slowness effect
* Shared custom waypoints now display a list of the shared fellowships in their lore tooltip
+ Added the option to hide custom waypoints shared by other players

>> Blocks & Items:
+ Added new wooden doors for all wood types
+ Added bearskin rugs
+ Added bone blocks
* Renamed Black Gondor bricks to Númenórean bricks, which can now also be crafted on the Umbaric table
+ Added mossy, carved, and cracked Dalish bricks
* Cram is now crafted with salt instead of sugar
+ Added wooden and stoneware plates
+ Added the ability to wear plates upon the head
* Changed the clay plate crafting recipe to require two clay balls and produce two plates
* White plates are now produced by double-cooking raw clay plates
* Obsidian gravel in the millstone now produces shards at a 100% rate
+ Added a recipe for restoring barren dirt to ordinary dirt by crafting it with seeds
+ Added a recipe to craft packed ice
* Shears can now harvest cobwebs without silk touch
* Reduced the selling value of corn
* Reeds, sugar cane, and corn stalks can now be used as furnace fuel
* Blacksmith hammers can now be unsmelted
* Retextured the Hobbit crafting table
* Retextured the Galadhrim bed

>>> Miscellaneous:
* Recoloured much of the Middle-earth map
+ Added ambient wind and sea sounds, and wave particle effects
+ Added player armour slots to the armour stand GUI
+ Added a new inventory effect icon for the poisoned drink effect
+ Added a shadow effect when near Balrogs
* Improved boulder generation
+ Added new waypoints in Dunland, and expanded the Dunland biome
* Improved the Dunlending structures
+ Added the Adornland biome to represent the Dunlending-occupied region of Rohan
* Made the grasslands of Rohan greener and slightly flatter
* Unit captains now hold their shields during combat instead of their trader coin
* Renamed 'cavalry' units to more appropriate terms
+ Added new name lists for Dorwinion and Rhudaur, and changed some names of the Easterlings and Far Haradrim
* Renamed araq to arak
+ Added additional female hillman skins
* Adjusted the size of humanoid NPCs to bring them in line with the player's size
* Improved the scaling of waypoint lore tooltips for small GUI scales

>>> Translations:
+ Added an updated Dutch translation

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed melons and pumpkins not growing onto jungle grass and mud
* Fixed the faction pages not recording completed mini-quests
* Fixed bounty target players sometimes losing alignment if the hunter kills them after having failed the bounty quest
* Fixed traders briefly showing a different set of trades when first interacted with on servers
* Fixed various NPC drop rates not improving with looting modifiers
* Fixed the player's own shield not appearing to be invisible when invisibility is applied (even though it was invisible to other players)
* Fixed fellowship names sometimes disappearing from banners if the banner is viewed by an admin who is not in that fellowship
* Fixed entities pathfinding incorrectly around mod-added fence gates
* Fixed marsh wraiths spawning indefinitely if the player is in water far below the height of the surrounding block columns

Public Beta 33.8

>> Fixes:
* Fixed mod entities sometimes not appearing in multiplayer
* Fixed an error in the custom waypoint tooltip

Public Beta 33.7

>> Fixes:
* Fixed a bug causing some enchanted items to lose their enchantments

Public Beta 33.6

>> Fixes:
* Fixed a major source of server lag relating to loading old chunks
* Further optimised mob spawning

Public Beta 33.5

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed player skins not loading for the map player icons

Public Beta 33.4

>>> Mini-Quests:
+ Added a chance to receive some lore books as quest rewards
* Being slain by your bounty target now fails the quest, deals an alignment penalty, and grants an alignment bonus to the target
* Increased the alignment penalty for being bounty-killed
* Increased the duration for which NPC kills are recorded for generating bounty quests
* Coin rewards from bounty quests are now capped at a maximum amount
* Collect quest-givers now check the player's held item before other inventory items

>>> Changes:
+ Added new rain sounds, and mist during rain
+ Added a system of 'spawn damping', whereby server mob spawn caps can be configured to depend on the number of players
* Chill of Daedelos is now dropped only by ice-themed enemies, though now more commonly
* Repairing an item (without combining) now increases the next anvil cost by only 1, instead of 2
* Killing an allied NPC now angers nearby NPCs not only of the same faction, but also of allied factions
+ Added millstone recipes for grinding sandstone into sand
* Bookshelves can now be placed upon other bookshelves without opening them
* Changed the textures of Dol Guldur equipment

>>> Translations:
+ Added updated German and Portuguese (Brazil) translations

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed the Utumno return portal sometimes not working in conditions of high lag
* Fixed the Utumno return portal changing everyone's view when a nearby player enters the beam
* Fixed the Utumno return beam rendering at the wrong y-position
* Fixed bookshelves sometimes crashing when opened
* Fixed ranged weapons with Infernal, Chilling, or Headhunting modifiers dealing their effects if used in melee combat
* Fixed ordinary ropes dealing damage to enemies of the Galadhrim
* Fixed Orc camps spawning with mismatched fence gates
* Fixed some redwood sizes growing with partly hollow trunks
* Removed an unnecessary duplicate Southron title

Public Beta 33.3

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed an error when saving player data

Public Beta 33.2

>>> Modifiers & Combat:
* Reduced the damage multiplier granted by strength potion effects
* Reduced the damage of daggers
* Decreased the chance to obtain melee modifiers on tools
* Reduced the efficiency of the highest tool speed modifiers
* Decreased the chance to obtain looting / fortune modifiers
- Removed +3 armour protection modifiers
* Higher-tier armour no longer has a higher chance for negative protection modifiers as a result of fewer available positive protection modifiers
* Galvorn armour now protects against only arrows, bolts, and darts
* Reduced the strength of ranged damage modifiers
* Bows now cost more string to reforge
* Bone armour can now be anvilled using bones
* Fishing rods and shears can now be anvilled
* Mob kills in Utumno no longer count towards earning bane modifiers
+ Added particle effects for infernal weapon attacks

>>> Gemstones:
* Reduced gemstone generation
* Reduced traders' base values for gemstones
* Increased the generation of amber veins in the Far Harad jungle

>>> Mini-Quests:
+ Added an achievement, title, and new reward item for completing several bounty quests
* NPCs now give hints for their faction's bounty quests
+ Added a chat message when one player slays another for a bounty
* One player cannot have multiple active bounty quests to kill the same target player

>>> Miscellaneous:
+ Added Snow-trolls
+ Added a new rare drop in the Hells of Ice
+ Added new lore texts
* Reduced the chance to find lore books
+ Added ordinary rope, and changed the crafting recipe of elven rope
* Elven rope now deals damage to enemies of the Galadhrim
+ Added blacksmiths in Near Harad bazaars
+ Added female hillmen
* Millstones can now be crafted using bronze in place of iron
* Burning NPCs do not panic if in combat, and if not in combat seek out water
* Weak Orcs fleeing from players now stop fleeing if a nearby Orc is attacked or a stronger ally is present
* Stalagmites now only damage living entities
* Reduced the spawn rate of crocodiles underground
* Changed the textures of Utumno weapons
* Changed the textures of amethyst and topaz blocks
+ Added obsidian Tauredain dart traps

>>> Translations:
+ Added updated German, Chinese, and Portuguese (Brazil) translations

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed being unable to apply Flame of Udûn to weapons with 3 or more modifiers
* Fixed being unable to rename cosmetic armour items
* Fixed Rhûnic Blacksmiths not repairing Golden Easterling equipment
* Fixed the stained fine glass pane recipes only making 6 panes
* Fixed silk touch not harvesting ice stalactites and stalagmites
* Fixed killing an allied NPC not angering other nearby NPCs of the same faction
* Fixed drunken speech not working
* Fixed the fellowship owner receiving a notification if someone accepts the invitation of a fellowship guide
* Fixed bandits and magpies not stealing gemstones
* Fixed bonemealing corn being able to replace blocks above
* Fixed a startup crash when the mod is run on a Cauldron server

Public Beta 33.1

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed structures generating items that can't be stacked with ordinary items
* Fixed errors in some lore text authors

Public Beta 33

>>> Enchanting & Combat:
+ Added a new Middle-earth enchanting and modifier system
+ Added achievable 'bane' enchantments for weapons which have claimed many lives
+ Added the ability to slay Marsh Wraiths with a new enchantment
* The enchanting config setting (now disabled by default) prevents XP orbs from spawning in Middle-earth, and hides the XP meter
* Changed the mechanics of the anvil - it no longer suffers damage from use, and works with materials instead of XP
* Renaming items does not increase the next cost of using the anvil, and is free for items besides weapons, tools, and armour
* Changed the anvil crafting recipe
* Some trader NPCs can now perform anvil functions for a cost in coins
* Reduced the melee speed of pikes and polearms
+ Added poisoned arrows and crossbow bolts
* Crossbow bolts may now also be crafted with bronze tips
* Changed the 'ranged damage' tooltip stat to accurately reflect how bow and arrow mechanics work, with a damage multiplier relative to the vanilla bow
+ Added ranged tooltip stats for spears and throwing axes
* Throwing axes now count as critical hits (to match fully-charged bows etc.); reduced their base damage to compensate for this
* Blowguns now fire critical hits when fully charged; reduced the base damage of darts to compensate for this
* Spears, crossbow bolts, throwing axes, and darts now use the same critical hit damage formula as arrows
* Armour items now display their protection values in the tooltip
* Poisoned daggers may now be un-poisoned with a cauldron

>>> Blocks & Items:
+ Added new 'fine glass' blocks
+ Added fence gates for all types of wood
+ Added the ability to store books in bookshelves
+ Added precious stones
+ Added a millstone block, with various functions
* Rock salt now drops as a block and must be processed in the millstone
* Dyed clay tiles may now be crafted directly from the appropriate colour of stained hardened clay
* Improved the Arnorian helmet model
* Renamed Hithlain Ladder to Elven Rope, with some useful new right-click functions
* Increased the potency of Khamûl's Fire
+ Added mushroom pie

>>> Utumno:
* Improved Utumno terrain generation
+ Added Utumno floor tiling blocks
+ Added caves in Utumno
+ Added stalactites and stalagmites of ice and obsidian
* Improved the staircases generated by Utumno keys
* Slightly lessened the darkness of Utumno
* The Pickaxe of the Underworld cannot mine through blocks between different levels of Utumno
* Water now freezes in the Utumno ice level and evaporates in the fire level
* The Utumno fire level now appears more hellish the further you descend
+ Added a new drop from Balrogs
* Balrogs now always carry weapons, and drop their held items more commonly (50%)
* Balrogs now extinguish all nearby fires upon death
* Balrog fire outside of Utumno does not replace blocks
+ Added an achievement and title for returning alive from Utumno

>>> Biomes & World:
+ Added books of lore in generated structure chests
* The Sun now yellows at sunrise and sunset
* Changed the appearance of the Moon
+ Added the Star of Eärendil in the morning and evening sky
* Caves now cut through the surface of the terrain much less often
+ Added sponge blocks generating in the sea
* Increased the generation of iron ore in the Iron Hills
* Misty Mountains mist now includes denser fog in addition to the misty overlay
* Barrow-downs fog and sky colour now depend on the presence of barrow-wights
* Reduced mob spawning in Angmar
* Increased tree coverage in Lindon
* Removed clay from the Dead Marshes, decreased quagmire spawning, and increased remains spawning
* Improved dwarven mine entrances
* Improved the lower room of jungle pyramids
* Renamed the Middle-earth Tundra and Taiga biomes
* Meneltarma no longer generates mithril ore

>>> Miscellaneous:
+ Added player hunting mini-quests
* Seeds can no longer be used to turn dirt into grass
* Farmhands no longer try to attack rabbits; instead, rabbits avoid eating crops if farmhands are nearby
* Increased the chance to obtain treasure from fishing
+ Added some new titles
+ Added Gundabad orc traders
* Added faction crafting tables to some structure traders' stock lists
* Reduced the base value of salt sold to traders
* Orcs and Elves, like other NPCs, can now drop items from their structure loot tables
* Fellowships in the list GUI are now ordered by membership size
* Achievements which require negative alignment are now also listed at zero alignment
* Servers now send their 'feast mode' setting to the client to prevent synchronisation issues

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed an exploit which allowed the /msg command to be used as a player locator, and thus @a, @r, etc. can no longer be used in the command (configurable)
* Fixed melee weapons without a blocking action still slowing you down if holding right-click
* Fixed the 'Bring Him Down!' achievement triggering for bombardiers who have dropped their bombs
* Fixed Uruk-hai, and other enemies of Gondor not allied with Mordor, freely targeting slaves of Núrn
* Fixed cave generation not always setting the new highest block to grass
* Fixed large items rendering incorrectly if using HD textures
* Fixed the melee speed timer limiting damage dealt to non-living entities such as minecarts
* Fixed players not being dealt damage if hit by their own spears, crossbow bolts, throwing axes, and darts
* Fixed players being unable to deal damage to themselves if in a fellowship
* Fixed fellowship chat message text sometimes not displaying in yellow

Public Beta 32.3

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed a crash when felling Dark Huorns

>>> Changes:
* Improved the ordering of member names in the fellowship GUI

>>> Translations:
+ Added updated Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese, and Spanish (Mexico) translations

Public Beta 32.2

>>> Fellowships:
+ Added an admin role for fellowships
+ Added the option to disable a fellowship showing its members' map locations
* The fellowship GUI now displays offline members in grey
* Moved the fellowship GUI downwards to better accommodate large GUI scales
* Clicking on a fellowship chat message auto-suggests the appropriate /fmsg command
+ Added 'lore' for shared custom waypoints which shows who shared them
* Corrected the misleading information shown on the custom waypoint sharing menu about how to unlock a shared custom waypoint

>>> Miscellaneous:
* Corrected and updated some waypoint descriptions
* Grass and mud grass now spread grass growth to both dirt and mud
* Replaced the /lotrUnlockAllWPs command with a more versatile /lotrWaypoints command
+ Added an 'all' option for the /lotrAchievement remove command

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed not earning Hobbit/Dúnedain alignment by felling Dark Huorns
* Fixed the blocking animation
* Fixed a major source of server lag due to mob spawning
* Fixed some minor sources of server lag

>>> Translations:
+ Added updated German, Chinese, and Portuguese (Brazil) translations

Public Beta 32.1

>>> Changes:
* Players in fellowships can now see each other's alignment even if they have it set to hidden
* Fellowship-shared custom waypoints now have a different colour
* Expanded the areas of influence for Near Harad
* Changed the textures of High Elven armour, weapons, and blocks
+ Added many new High Elf skins
* Renamed the Lindon-specific 'High Elven' features to 'Lindon' features
* Moved the Ford of Bruinen waypoint into the Rivendell biome
* 'Feast mode' does not apply when riding a mount, so as to avoid accidental overeating

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed fellowship member usernames sometimes failing to load
* Fixed Rivendell smiths using buy trades in place of sell trades
* Fixed hired Rivendell cavalry wearing Lindon horse armour
* Fixed the broken bullet-points on the faction ally/enemy lists
* Fixed mod-added dyes not dyeing tamed wolves' collars

>>> Translations:
+ Added updated German and Portuguese (Brazil) translations

Public Beta 32

* LOTR mod now requires Minecraft Forge version 1558 or higher

>>> Gameplay:
+ Added Fellowships
+ Added the option to list fellowship names in banner protection
+ Added the option to open custom waypoints to fellowship members
+ Added a fellowship message command
+ Added a Beacon of Gondor alert feature for fellowships
+ Added lore descriptions for waypoints on the Middle-earth map
+ Added a 'Spheres of Influence' system, whereby alignment is only gained from killing enemies within the faction's areas of influence
* Faction alignment relations are now simpler: killing all 'enemies' can earn alignment, and killing all 'allies' can lose alignment, depending on areas of influence
* All faction ally/enemy relations are now symmetric
+ Added a listing of allies and enemies to the faction menu
* Invasion mobs now earn alignment for all enemy factions with influence within a 50-pixel range, or if there are none, the single enemy faction with the closest influence in a 150-pixel range
* A smaller version of the alignment bonus effect now appears if your alignment changes while viewing an unaffected alignment meter
* Hired units can now be commanded to attack players regardless of the target player's alignment
* Alignment is not lost for killing allied hired units in self-defence
* Allied hired units can now be attacked if friendly fire is enabled
+ Added a chat notification when fast travel becomes available
+ Added support for multiple ally and enemy factions in achievement requirements, and thus more accurate sorting of obtainable achievements
+ Added an 'alignmentsee' command for server admins to view players' alignments
* Cutting rotten logs in Fangorn no longer angers the trees
* 'Feast Mode': all food can now always be eaten regardless of hunger (configurable)
* Reduced the maximum amount of items that birds can steal in one go
* Baby spiders are no longer rideable

>>> Biomes & World:
+ Added the Rivendell biome
* Moved the Ford of Bruinen waypoint and changed the route of the Great East Road near Rivendell
+ Added the Elves of Rivendell
+ Added the Rivendell banner, crafting table, armour, and weapons
+ Added Rivendell wanderers, which replace or accompany Galadhrim wanderers in some regions
+ Added an Imladris title
+ Added a 'rivendell' music region
+ Added High Elven houses
* Changed the colour of the High Elves alignment meter
* Changed the borders of the Shire to be more accurate
* The White Downs biome now shares more characteristics of the Shire
* Replaced the Far Downs waypoint with one for the town of Greenholm
+ Added waypoints in Buckland for Haysend and the Hay Gate
* Made the roads near Tharbad more accurate
* Removed the road between Rivendell and Eregion
* Changed the placement of the three Moria Mountains waypoints to be more accurate
* Moved the generating location of Mount Doom to southeast of its waypoint for the sake of accuracy
+ Added a banner and shield for Esgaroth
* Gundabad Orcs can now spawn in Wilderland again
+ Added new achievements for entering Rhúdel, the Eryn Caran, Tol Rhúnaer, and the Emyn Winion
+ Added special bird types in Far Harad
+ Added fish mobs
* Fog in fog-dense biomes (Mirkwood, Barrow-downs, etc.) now transitions smoothly on approach

>>> Blocks & Items:
+ Added man-flesh
+ Added salt
+ Added a crafting recipe for gammon
+ Added 'Suspicious Meat'
* Renamed saltpetre to nitre and changed its textures
* Changed the textures of corn
* Reduced the growth rate of corn on bare stalks
+ Added corn bread
+ Added raisins, which are now used in the Dalish pastry recipe
* Changed the textures of Dalish bricks and pillars
+ Added Arnorian weapons
* More equipment sets can now be obtained from Remains blocks
* Changed the textures of Wood-elven scout armour
* Changed the texture of the Dorwinion elven bow
* Changed the texture of the Blue Dwarven helmet
+ Added a Rhûnic battleaxe
+ Added an alternate crafting recipe for arrows using horn tips
* Armour stands and weapon racks now take time to break
* Crafting robes and kaftans with coloured wool now produces dyed clothes of that colour

>>> Miscellaneous:
* Renamed Near Harad NPCs as 'Southrons', and their equipment and blocks as 'Haradric'
* Renamed the 'Dorwinion Hero' achievement and title to 'Dorwinion Lord'
+ Added an exclusive title for building contest winners
* Separated Elvish names into Sindarin and Quenya as appropriate for the different factions, added some new names, and removed some of the more famous names
* Orc names are now randomly generated
* Changed all dwarf skins so that their eyes and mouths align properly with player skins
* Changed the Barrow-wight texture
* Oddment collectors can now buy conkers
* Map player tooltips now render only one at a time
* Improved the custom waypoint interfaces
* Changed the default banner whitelist length to 16
* Increased the width of the faction menu scrollbar
+ Added a Finnish translation
+ Added an updated Portuguese (Brazil) translation

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed players sometimes dying from fall damage when entering Utumno, especially on lagging servers
* Fixed custom-modelled helmets sometimes rendering wrongly on players
* Fixed nearby placid lions and bears preventing fast travel
* Fixed the mithril mattock being wrongly assigned to dwarven crafting
* Fixed an occasional delay between clearing the map player icons and updating their new positions
* Fixed the Loremaster title not being available to Loremasters of 2016
* Fixed traders selling only weak drinks
* Fixed traders sometimes selling barrels with unusual items
* Fixed travelling traders sending their announcements to players in other dimensions
* Fixed invasions spawning in areas protected by NPC respawners, where the invaders cannot spawn
* Fixed the road through Michel Delving following a strange path
* Fixed the incorrectly named Deephallow waypoint
* Fixed dirt and gravel generating more commonly than is normal in the Red Mountains
* Fixed some armour stands in Near Harad towers generating incorrectly
* Fixed a mistake preventing warg pits and spider pits from generating naturally
* Fixed structure spawners for tents not playing the build sound effect
* Fixed spawner chests rendering with wrong orientations
* Fixed civilian Rohirrim not reacting to horse cruelty
* Fixed spider shadows not scaling with the spider size
* Fixed the mounted y-offset for entities riding spiders
* Fixed pistons being capable of moving protection banner base blocks
* Fixed different fences and walls not connecting (vanilla bugfix)
* Fixed pressure plates not being placeable on mod-added fences (vanilla bugfix)
* Fixed a bug where running the LOTR mod alongside some other mods could cause Overworld terrain to generate the wrong blocks

Public Beta 31.3

>>> Changes:
* Conquest horns now fail to work and give a notification if used in enemy-protected areas

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed a crash when using some Shaders Mod versions with the LOTR mod
* Fixed Balrog whips and fire pots not igniting players within the indirect hit radius
* Fixed a crash when hitting a non-living entity with a fire pot
* Fixed missing speechbanks in the Easterling 'kill Gondor allies' miniquest
* Fixed some exploitable trade prices

>>> Translations:
+ Added updated Portuguese (Brazil) and Russian translations

Public Beta 31.2

>>> Changes:
* Rhûnic fire pots now stack to 4
* Moved the Rhúnost waypoint
* Renamed some waypoints

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed hired units with small guard ranges wandering aimlessly around their guard position if pushed outside of their range
* Fixed spears not being held correctly while aiming
* Fixed 'pick block' on empty plates giving the wrong item
* Fixed inflammation by Balrog whips and Rhûnic fire pots not obeying the scoreboard friendly-fire command
* Fixed Khamûl's Fire being able to spread one block inside banner protection
* Fixed a missing block in Easterling fortresses
* Fixed a banner security exploit

>>> Translations:
+ Added updated French (France), French (Canada), Chinese, German, Spanish (Mexico), and Portuguese (Brazil) translations

Public Beta 31.1

>>> Changes:
* Basic Rhûnic armour is now crafted with an iron-leather mix
* Increased the health of Golden Easterling warriors
* Rhûnic fire pots do not stack
* Khamûl's Fire no longer does damage in banner-protected areas
* Changed the structure of Easterling watchtowers to improve village security
* Easterling village lamps now use glowstone instead of fire
* Collect miniquests are no longer sensitive to item NBT data (including renames and 'belonged to' tags)

>>> Fixes:
* Fixed NPCs dropping pouches filled with duplicated items
* Fixed the recipe for red Rhûnic pillar slabs instead making red brick slabs
* Fixed the Rhûnic warlord helmet recipe requiring an ordinary Rhûnic helmet instead of a golden helmet
* Fixed structures generating on roads
* Fixed beds in the Easterling tavern generating incorrectly
* Fixed orchard variants spawning on Tol Rhúnaer
* Fixed Khamûl's Fire jars being destructible by plates and not exploding
* Fixed a mistake in the Uruk Crossbower name
* Fixed a food-related crash when running the mod on a Cauldron server

>>> Translations:
+ Added an updated Portuguese (Brazil) translation

Public Beta 31

>>> Rhûn & Easterlings:
+ Added the Rhúdel Easterling faction
+ Added the banner, titles, and shield of Rhûn
+ Added new achievements for Rhûn
+ Added the Rhúdel and Tol Rhúnaer biomes
+ Added waypoints and roads in Rhûn
* Moved the Eastern Guard and some Dale waypoints
+ Added Easterling villages, towns, and fortresses
+ Added Easterling warriors, archers, clansmen, warlords, and banner bearers
+ Added Easterling taverns and bartenders
+ Added Easterling markets and traders
+ Added Easterling blacksmiths
+ Added Easterling farmers and farmhands
+ Added the Rhûnic Crafting Table
+ Added Rhûnic bricks, pillars, and gates
+ Added Rhûnic weapons and armour
+ Added gilded iron for Rhûnic crafting
+ Added Khamûl's Fire
+ Added fire pots and Easterling fire-throwers
+ Added Easterling kaftans
+ Added sour milk
+ Added pomegranates, pomegranate trees and wood, and pomegranate drinks
+ Added redwood trees and wood, and the Eryn Caran biome
+ Added the Mountains of the Wind and the Last Desert

>>> Blocks & Items:
+ Added crafting recipes for fallen leaves
+ Added faction crafting recipes for dyeing pouches in the colour of that faction
+ Added ordinary slabs for stone and all mod rock types
+ Added full-block 'smooth stone' versions of the old stone slab types, and renamed the old slabs to 'smooth slabs'
* Renamed Warg Fur (and associated items) to Fur, and retextured the Warg fur armour to be generic fur
+ Added a recipe for crafting item frames with fur
+ Added wattle and daub blocks
+ Added yams
+ Added termite tequila
* Kvass is now brewed with wheat and plums
+ Added kebab blocks
+ Added a Dorwinion elven bow
+ Added mithril mattocks
* Changed the textures of Uruk equipment, Angmar armour, Moredain lion armour, mithril equipment, and lances
* Renamed Uruk scimitars to cleavers
* Changed the texture of golden Tauredain brick
* Changed the textures of Arnor bricks
* Changed the textures of mud, mud brick, and obsidian gravel
* Changed the top textures of wood beams
* Changed the textures of silver- and mithril-trimmed dwarven items to better distinguish them
* Changed the textures of flax, fruits, vegetables, maple syrup, and various other items
* Near Harad poleaxes are now classed as short polearms instead of long polearms, to distinguish them from Near Harad pikes
* Ancient Dead Marshes items now require a right-click to convert into equipment
* Ancient items can now yield Arnorian equipment
* Items with the 'belonged to' tag now split the owner's name over multiple lines for long names

>>> Mobs:
+ Added Mannish merchants of Dorwinion
+ Added Dorwinion elf archers
* Harad merchants no longer travel to the regions of Eriador
+ Added bears
* Seagull spawning is now limited by other nearby seagulls
* Birds now sing less often at night
* Birdsong now plays over a shorter range
+ Added more skin variants for some mobs
* Decreased the spawn rate of wardens in the borders of Lothlórien

>>> Biomes & Environment:
+ Added Hobbit houses
* Redesigned date palm trees to allow their leaves to decay
+ Added dark oaks in Fangorn Forest
* Orcs no longer spawn in the White Mountains
* Conifer trees now generate more often in the White Mountains
* Fixed cave generation cutting through roads
+ Added clocks in some structures
* Some structures can now generate with wattle and daub

>>> Gameplay:
* Protection banners with self-protection can now only be broken by the owner, not by other players with permission
* Improved the Middle-earth achievement menu with a category scrollbar and new textures
* Improved the Middle-earth factions menu
* Scarecrow protection zones are now centred on the scarecrow's base
+ Added scarecrows in structures with crops
* Right-clicking with a bow, crossbow etc. in hand does not activate gates
* Ranged weapons and hoes may now be placed on weapon racks
* 'Pick block' on weapon racks and plates now gives their displayed items
* Invasions now announce themselves to players in a wider range
* Reduced the occurrence of Olog-hai in Mordor invasions
* Bandit theft now cancels an active fast travel countdown
* Food restoration amount of brewable drinks now varies less with potency, compared to alcoholicity
* Bartenders can now sell a wider range of drink potencies
* Troll totems now require a view of the sky in order to activate

>>> Miscellaneous:
+ Added the Loremaster 2016 shield for the top ten wiki contributors of 2016
+ Added a Vintner Guard shield
+ Added a music subregion for the Angle
* Made the alignment meter thinner
* The mod now attempts to detect a Cauldron server and automatically disable the mob spawning lagfix
+ Added an updated German translation

>>> Fixes:
* Pouches may no longer be sealed inside Dalish crackers
* Fixed picked-up items not completing more than one unfinished stack in pouches
* Fixed the music pack system not working in Utumno
* Fixed imprisoned orcs in Wood-elven towers spawning with weapons
* Fixed an incorrect wood type in the Dorwinion merchant selling trade entries
* Fixed a rare crash with carved signs
* Fixed a rare crash with marsh lights
* Fixed some missing Rohirrim speechbanks
* Fixed Dúnedain dropping Rohirric items
* Fixed the map screen crashing if one of the directional movement keys is configured to a mouse button
* Fixed a vanilla crash caused by having the render distance set above 16 in the options.txt
* Fixed the alignment meter displaying when first loading a world
* Fixed the alignment meter sometimes changing twice quickly when a key is pressed
* Optimised checking the player armour for full armour achievements
* Corrected some instances of the incorrect pluralisation of Uruk

Public Beta 30.5

+ Added updated Dutch and Portuguese (Brazil) translations

* Fixed poisoned drinks which were poisoned in the inventory crafting grid being visibly poisoned for everyone
* Fixed a mistake preventing Mordor orcs, Olog-hai, trolls, and wood-elves from sometimes attacking players below a certain alignment threshold
* Fixed birds eating berry bush blocks
* Fixed being able to place mushroom stew on plates
* Fixed tent generation sometimes not changing grass to dirt below solid blocks
* Fixed a rare bandit spawn crash

Public Beta 30.4

+ Added a Portuguese (Portugal) translation

* Fixed poisoned drinks which were shift-clicked out of the crafting grid being visibly poisoned for everyone
* Fixed Dunlending axe-throwers holding melee weapons while throwing axes
* Fixed the Uruk-hai chieftain's max health being less than that of standard Uruk-hai

Public Beta 30.3

* Fixed glitchy lighting on chisel carvings
* Relaxed the spawning conditions for shieldmaidens
* Slightly increased the spawn rates of rangers
* Reduced the time taken up by Beacons of Gondor updating
* Fixed Utumno equipment, barrow-blades, Arnorian armour, Gondolinian equipment, and golden Tauredain armour not being unsmeltable
* Fixed Utumno daggers not being poisonable in crafting
* Fixed Gondorian bows not being craftable on the Dol Amroth table
* Fixed LOTR-mod-added chests being openable with solid blocks above
* Drunken NPCs now sometimes speak in the manner of drunken players
* Fixed a crash related to valuable items that sometimes happens with other mods installed (not the Battlegear crash)

Public Beta 30.2

+ Added new warg sounds and rabbit sounds
+ Added a Dutch translation

* Fixed a major source of lag due to vanilla grass block update behaviour
* Fixed the unsmeltery sometimes outputting items of the wrong metadata value
* Fixed an error in an old Ranger miniquest speechbank

Public Beta 30.1

+ Added updated Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, German, Spanish (Mexico), French (France), and French (Canada) translations

* Reverted custom waypoint unlocking to its prior requirements
* Fixed village spawners not working on low superflat worlds
* Fixed custom waypoints ignoring liquids and fire when updating to safe y-positions

Public Beta 30

+ Added a new Middle-earth-styled main menu (can be disabled in config)
+ Added a music pack system
+ Added titles for higher alignment levels
+ Added more achievement-earned titles
+ Added a title and shield for translators
+ Added head animations for the miniquest offer screen
+ Added structure spawners for villages
+ Added structure spawners for orc and ranger camps
+ Added the men and women of Rohan
+ Added Rohan villages
+ Added a new mead hall design
+ Added Rohan fort-villages and an improved fortress design
+ Added shieldmaidens of Rohan
+ Added Rohirrim farmers and farmhands
+ Added Rohan market traders
+ Added Rohirrim stablemasters
+ Added Rohirric gates and wooden beams
+ Added the Angle biome
+ Added the Dúnedain of the North
+ Added Dúnedain villages
+ Added Dúnedain blacksmiths
+ Added ranger bows
+ Added hireable ranger outriders
+ Added uncraftable relic Arnorian armour
+ Added ruined Rhudaur castles
+ Added craftable unsealed Dalish crackers, which can be filled with custom items
+ Added chisels for carving words into stone, wood, and metal
+ Added ithildin and moon-chisels
+ Added an animated mithril ore texture
+ Added bird cages
+ Added more bird types, some of which have thieving tendencies
+ Added bird crop stealing behaviour in the absence of suitable scarecrows
+ Added some new bird sounds
+ Added new waypoints in the Blue Mountains, Lindon, and Eriador
+ Added a Portuguese (Brazil) translation
+ Added an updated German translation
+ Added a config option to remove diamond armour recipes

* Changed the IDs of LOTR blocks and items to fix the game log being spammed with 'illegal prefix'
* Fast travel is no longer cancelled by hired units pushing
* Leashed entities now follow in fast travel
* Custom waypoints in unsafe y-positions now update to a safe position when used
* Increased the number of achievements needed to unlock custom waypoints
* Fixed the Black Gate waypoint not unlocking
* The Brown Lands now extends further westward to the Undeeps
* Bree-land waypoints and roads are now more accurate to the book description
* The Rangers of the North faction is now named Dúnedain of the North
* Fixed a potential exploit in melee attack timing
* Retextured the melee attack meter
* Pouch inventories are no longer disrupted by clicking the pouch item
* Pouches have different icons when open in the inventory
* Improved the trading screen to make it easier to view which items can be sold
* Enabled shift-clicking into the trading sell offer slots
* Fixed a trading exploit
* Fixed the colour boxes in the titles menu sometimes displaying as white
* NPCs displaced far enough (128 blocks) outside their maximum home range will not attempt to return
* Ordinary dwarven doors are now blank stone, and glowing doors are a new block which requires ithildin for crafting
* Glowing dwarven doors now have connected textures for larger designs
* Dwarven doors now function like gate blocks
* Dwarven doors are now opaque to light and blend in better with stone
* Dwarven doors now glow at a greater range
* Dwarven houses now fit better into the terrain
* Dwarves now spawn rarely above ground in dwarven biomes
* Orcs now spawn far less often in the Iron Hills
* Killing Gundabad NPCs now gives Dalish alignment
* Reduced the chance for NPCs to give a pouch as a quest reward
* Rohirric armour is now crafted with leather and iron again
* Ranger tunics and leggings are now crafted with leather and iron
* Changed the textures of Ranger armour
* Goblets can now be unsmelted
* Filled barrel items no longer stack
* Made the barrel brewing animation smoother
* Fixed NPCs sometimes spawning in mid-air
* Reduced the spawn rate of Olog-hai
* Removed birds and butterflies from Nan Curunír and added crebain
* Crebain now spawn in Fangorn Forest
* Fixed a minor texture glitch on some butterfly models
* Swans now hiss more directly at players
* Spooky ambience now plays in more biomes
* Increased the spawn rate of wildberries
* Thistles, nettles, and Mordor thorns no longer damage armour
* Thistles and nettles do no damage if you have boots and leggings equipped
* Changed the textures of Near Harad blocks
* Fixed caves generating lava one block lower than they should
* Renamed and retextured Quendite and Naurite
* Naurite ore and blocks now glow
* Corrected some Sindarin compound names
* Restored Sindarin translations for some waypoints of Far Harad
* The Erebor achievement is now counted in the Dale category
* Changed the textures of Gondolinian armour and equipment
* Changed the textures of Gondor and Dol Amroth lances
* Changed various item textures
* Players now hold loaded crossbows ready to fire
* Improved the NPC respawner interface to allow selecting a greater range for spawn interval time
* Slightly reduced RAM usage by the map biome generator
* Fixed waypoints, roads, and labels jittering when the map screen moves
* The on-screen compass no longer shows 'Shire' in unloaded chunks
* Fixed game log errors due to Utumno biome variants not being assigned
* The Utumno entrance portal is now rendered from a greater distance
* The Utumno entrance portal now plays spooky ambience
* Improved the appearance of the Utumno return portal
* Fixed wargs being vulnerable to Forodwaith cold and conversely other NPCs being invulnerable
* Fixed alloy forges and hobbit ovens not ejecting emptied fuel buckets into hoppers
* Fixed shirriff chiefs in taverns riding ponies
* Fixed dirt slabs being flammable
* Fixed cracked red brick slabs using the mossy brick texture
* Fixed unobtainable Gulduril brick types causing a crash when spawned in
* Fixed wood-elven towers generating with a central column of mirk-oak wood instead of green-oak
* Fixed miniquests requiring mirk-oak materials where green-oak should be required
* Blue Mountains dwarves no longer give miniquests to kill spiders
* Fixed villages spawning in the Mouths of Entwash
* Fixed some errors in camp generation
* Fixed z-fighting with some weapons on weapon racks
* Fixed an error in the Italian translation
* Resource packs including LOTR connected texture icons with non-matching dimensions now generate error textures to avoid crashing

- Removed the Brandy Hills and Midgewater Marshes waypoints

Public Beta 29.6

* Fixed a rare crash related to NPCs throwing spears

Public Beta 29.5

* Fixed the hunger meter resetting upon logging into a world
* Further optimised mob spawning on servers
* Fixed stone and gravel generating in Mordor mountains
* Roads in Near Harad and Harondor desert are now made of Harad bricks again
* Changed the Lossarnach banner item icon to match the actual banner
* Torog draught no longer damages the player

Public Beta 29.4

* Fixed hired units from neutral factions sometimes killing each other
* Fixed a potential crash when spawning bandits and invasions

Public Beta 29.3

* Fixed a client crash when fast travelling on servers

Public Beta 29.2

+ Added updated French (France), French (Canada), German, Spanish (Mexico), and Russian translations

* Fixed a major source of server lag due to vanilla mob spawning
* Fixed a source of server lag due to frequent saving of LOTR player data
* Fixed miniquests not appearing to move to 'Completed' on servers
* Optimised village generation
* Increased the spacing between Gondor villages
* Optimised the generation of Rammas Echor and the Ring of Isengard
* Removed flowery roads in Pelennor due to them causing excessive lag
* Fixed Lossarnach Axemen not using ranged combat properly
* Fixed incorrect names for Gondor cobblebrick slab variants
* Improved the stats of the Blackroot Bow
* White Mountains Foothills now extend through Drúwaith Iaur
* Increased large trees and dense variants in Drúwaith Iaur
* Party trees can now be grown from dark oaks
* Fixed pick-blocked dark oak leaves using the wrong name
* Changed the Mordor Scimitar item icon
* Improved the barrel block model
* Fixed copper and tin ores generating half as commonly as they should
* Fixed snow appearing in southerly regions of the sea
* Fixed chandeliers spawning identical particles in groups of four

Public Beta 29.1

+ Added an updated Chinese translation

* Changed the textures of Utumno, Dol Guldur, and bone armour
* Fixed villages generating on fixed mountains and hills
* Fixed map rivers not connnecting to some lakes
* Fixed cave generation not cutting through surface water
* Reduced orc spawn rates in Gondor and Rohan
* Fixed the Lamedon armour achievement not being awarded
* Fixed a missing name for the Lamedon conquest horn
* Fixed Blackroot Vale Bowlords wearing wrong equipment
* Fixed damaged items not being unsmeltable
* Fixed a crash when unsmelting some items
* Fixed Gondor farmers spawning in blacksmith stalls
* Fixed a crash when right-clicking a block with a potion bottle
* Fixed invisible thrown splash potions
* Fixed custom-modelled helmets displacing when sneaking
* Fixed a crash on servers running Cauldron

Public Beta 29

+ Added a Middle-earth classic biome generator world type
+ Added map labels for regions, waypoints, and roads
+ Added an improved Red Book menu that includes more quest information and records completed quests
+ Added a miniquest tracking feature
+ Added a chance to obtain pouches from miniquests
+ Added speechbanks for when miniquests cannot be accepted due to reaching the active limit
+ Added many new titles and multi-faction titles
+ Added the ability to re-equip hired units
+ Added new drink vessels: ceramic mugs, goblets, skull cups, wine glasses, waterskins, alehorns, and placeable bottles
+ Added the biomes of Lossarnach, Imloth Melui, Pelargir, Lamedon, Lamedon Hills, Blackroot Vale, Pinnath Gelin, Andrast, and Drúwaith Iaur
+ Added the banners, shields, and titles of the Fiefdoms of Gondor
+ Added men and women of Gondor
+ Added Gondor villages, towns, and fort-villages
+ Added Gondor taverns and bartenders
+ Added Gondor barns, farmers, and farmhands
+ Added Gondor markets and traders
+ Added new Gondor fortresses (renamed the old structure to Gondor Watchfort)
+ Added Gondor watchtowers
+ Added Gondor levymen
+ Added Gondor gambesons
+ Added a new Gondor Helmet model
+ Added the banner of the Stewards of Gondor
+ Added the Rammas Echor
+ Added Gondor cobblebrick
+ Added lebethron caskets
+ Added Lossarnach, Pelargir, Pinnath Gelin, Blackroot Vale, and Lamedon armour and weapons
+ Added Lossarnach axemen
+ Added Pelargir marines
+ Added Pinnath Gelin soldiers
+ Added Blackroot Vale soldiers and bowmen
+ Added blackroot plants
+ Added Lebennin levymen
+ Added Lebennin gambesons
+ Added Lamedon warriors, archers, and hillmen
+ Added unit captains for the fiefdoms of Gondor
+ Added Dol Amroth men-at-arms and archers
+ Added Dol Amroth gambesons
+ Added Dol Amroth longspears
+ Added rare pipeweed plants in Gondor
+ Added the Harondor Desert transition biome and changed Harondor surface generation
+ Added banners of Minas Morgul, Black Uruks, and Nan Ungol
+ Added Minas Morgul and Black Uruk shields
+ Added Morgul-flowers in the Morgul Vale
+ Added Morgul Draught
+ Added female slaves of Núrn
+ Added a Rhudaur Hillman banner
+ Added a new hobbit tavern design
+ Added taverns in the Shire Moors
+ Added treasure piles
+ Added reed baskets
+ Added mallorn boxes
+ Added mallorn torches and chandeliers of multiple colours
+ Added Dalish gambesons for levymen
+ Added Dalish crackers
+ Added party hats
+ Added Dorwinion bathhouses
+ Added mossy, cracked, carved, and flowery Dorwinion bricks
+ Added Dorwinion pillars
+ Added a new model for the Dorwinion Elven helmet
+ Added poisonous berries
+ Added the ability to grow full-bark wood blocks with bone meal
+ Added aspen trees
+ Added greenwood oaks
+ Added new models for mirk-oak trees
+ Added lairelossë trees
+ Added almond trees and almonds
+ Added marchpane
+ Added plum trees and plums
+ Added plum kvass
+ Added new models for citrus and olive trees
+ Added large olive trees
+ Added variant models for Mallorn, oak, and birch trees
+ Added the ability to grow party trees by placing saplings in a 3x3 grid
+ Added new forest biome variants dominated by single tree types
+ Added orchard biome variants
+ Added scrubland and wasteland biome variants
+ Added new rocky terrain generation in hilly and mountainous areas
+ Added naturally generated bush formations
+ Added nettles
+ Added marigolds
+ Added chrysanthemums
+ Added black irises
+ Added new variant textures for aurochs and Kine of Araw
+ Added aurochs horns
+ Added clay tiling walls
+ Added dirt, mud, gravel, and sand slabs
+ Added mossy cobblestone slabs and stairs
+ Added a crafting recipe for chiselled stone bricks
+ Added white sand and sandstone
+ Added white beaches for Lindon and Dor-en-Ernil
+ Added dedicated rocky coastline biomes for Lindon, Forodwaith, and Harad
+ Added fertile riverbank biomes around Near Harad desert rivers
+ Added Near Harad oases
+ Added Near Haradrim pikes
+ Added waypoints and roads in the jungles of Far Harad
+ Added glowstone ore in the Misty Mountains
+ Added a recipe to re-craft glowstone ore
+ Added rabbits and more flower types to Lothlórien
+ Added very rare Galadhrim warden spawns in the vales of Anduin
+ Added rare Kine of Araw in Wilderland
+ Added stone spears
+ Added melon soup
+ Added more functionality to the NPC respawners
+ Added a remove shield option to the shields menu
+ Added click-and-drag rotation for the player in the shields menu
+ Added a config option for servers to force hide/show player map locations
+ Added a config option for servers to disable broadcasting 'Hobbit Slayer' achievements, to protect new evil players from persecution
+ Added config options to disable bandits and invasions
+ Added a structure timelapse setting
+ Added updated Russian, German, and Quenya translations

* Hunger now decreases more slowly
* Ring portals can now be broken in creative mode
* Protection banners are now visible through blocks when in creative mode with the debug screen open
* NPCs now spawn less often in many biomes
* Civilian NPCs from most human factions do not attack unless provoked
* NPCs selecting attack targets now account for other nearby NPCs having the same target
* Hired halted units now stand to attention
* The Sword of Command now targets an area rather than a single enemy
* NPCs now indicate when they have a miniquest on offer
* Miniquest offers are now generated routinely by NPCs and remain for a period of time or until accepted by a player
* NPCs may now have active miniquests with multiple players at once
* Miniquest rewards now involve a degree of randomisation
* NPC speech now overrides other above-head displays
* NPCs have a chance to become drunkards in the presence of a bartender
* Drunken NPCs deal more melee damage
* Drunken NPCs regularly say things unprompted
* Roads now generate half-blocks where appropriate
* Roads in some biomes have fallen into disrepair
* Improved bridge generation
* Rivers now generate as biome variants of the surrounding biome instead of dedicated biomes
* Small map rivers now generate narrower in the world
* The map screen viewpoint can now be moved with WASD and arrow keys
* Renamed Ocean to The Sea
* Recast the Eriador Woodlands biome as Eryn Vorn
* Improved tree coverage variation in Lothlórien
* Improved the appearance of the Tundra biome
* Improved terrain variation in Ithilien
* Improved surface generation in Morgul Vale, Dagorlad, and the Brown Lands
* Improved surface generation in the Wold of Rohan
* Improved surface terrain variation in Near Harad fertile
* Fixed biomes with more invasion types spawning invasions more often
* Fixed invasions spawning more frequently where many players are gathered
* Invasion NPCs spawned from Horns of Conquest will not despawn
* Fixed invasions spawning mobs at the highest point of the block column, regardless of the invasion's position
* Birds, butterflies, and rabbits can now spawn underground on grass with sufficient lighting
* Hobbit skins now use the same proportions as other humanoid skins
* Renamed Mountain Trolls to Hill-trolls
* Increased the melee range of mountain trolls
* Increased the health of trolls and wargs
* Increased the alignment given by killing trolls and wargs
* Reduced the spawn rates of Gundabad Uruks
* Bandits always say things when they appear
* Slaves of Núrn are now associated with the Gondor faction and are not targeted by good NPCs
* Unsmelting calculations now work directly from the amount of items used in the crafting recipe
* Dunlending armour is now crafted with leather again
* Changed the protection levels of some armour types
* Changed the crafting recipes of pikes and lances
* Changed the crafting recipe of command horns
* Mallorn torches are now crafted with coal and a variety of colourants
* Galadhrim chandeliers are now crafted with mallorn planks
* Chandeliers can now be placed beneath inverted slabs and stairs
* Wood-elven items can now be crafted with any wood type
* Lothlórien butterfly jars now give off light
* Mugs are now crafted with wood instead of clay
* Placed mug blocks can now be poisoned by hand
* Fixed a mug duplication bug
* Empty barrels can now be refilled with mugs
* Improved the liquid in the barrel GUI
* Enabled shift-clicking into the barrel recipe grid
* Ent-draughts can now only be brewed in Fangorn
* Cake-type blocks now drop as items if uneaten
* Fixed a coin exchange duplication exploit
* Coin exchange now requires a button press
* Enabled shift-clicking out of the coin exchange slots
* Uruk traders can now buy pipeweed
* Willow vines can now be used in mossy brick crafting
* Naurite blocks can be used as furnace fuel
* Hardened clay, charcoal, and ceramics can now be smelted in alloy-forge-type blocks
* Reed can now be dried in hobbit ovens
* Changed the textures of stone pillars
* Changed the banners of of Gondor, Dol Amroth, and Dol Guldur
* Banner stands now all use the same texture
* Fixed wall banners being placeable where they would hang into solid blocks
* Fixed held banners in first person rendering back-to-front
* Re-added the flag on the Ranger Watchtower
* Changed the dwarven shield textures
* Changed the texture of Obsidian Dwarven brick
* Improved the accuracy of Dalish longbowmen
* Changed the textures of Dalish armour and equipment
* Fixed the killing of Dorwinrim lowering Dale alignment
* Changed the textures of Dorwinion armour and elven swords
* Dorwinion vineyard guards now respond to breaking the block below a grapevine
* Reduced the Kine of Araw spawn rate in Emyn Winion
* Changed the textures of Rohirric armour and equipment
* Improved the designs of Gondor fortresses and smithies
* Gondor smithies no longer generate free-standing
* Improved the design of Dol Amroth stables
* Changed Dol Amroth brick and shield textures
* Invasions no longer spawn in the Pelennor Fields
* Near Harad riders now have a chance to spawn as camelry again
* Changed the Near Harad scimitar and armour textures
* Changed the route of the Harad Road
* Roads in Near Harad desert are now made of Gondor bricks
* Ents and Huorns are now immune to poison
* Troll hoards now include treasure piles
* Angmar no longer generates burning land
* Changed the appearance and outfit of Dunlending berserkers
* Mordor spider keepers now also sell unmounted orcs
* Changed the textures of Utumno armour and equipment
* Changed the textures of Dol Guldur equipment
* Changed the textures of Mordor armour, daggers, and shield
* Changed the textures of Half-troll armour
* Changed the textures of bone armour
* Improved thatch floor rendering
* Fallen leaves now have a fast graphics option
* Mango trees now use the citrus tree model
* Fixed Fangorn trees not generating branches
* Fixed cedar and mahogany trees generating leaves in unstable places
* Changed the texture of birch beams
* Changed the texture of Mallorn wood
* Changed the Elanor and Niphredil textures
* Changed the textures of corn
* Fixed orc bombardiers chasing rabbits
* Fixed Isengard Snagae giving +2 alignment when killed
* Fixed Shire Ponies always breeding white foals
* Fixed an occasional crash related to weapon swing animations
* Fixed an unusual trader crash
* Fixed structures sometimes generating plates with inappropriate food items
* Fixed orc camps generating in water
* Fixed LOTR flowers not rendering with random displacements
* Fixed a rare crash related to yellow irises
* Fixed obsidian gravel not breaking faster with shovels
* Fixed misaligned placement of NPC respawners
* Fixed a crash with PneumaticCraft installed
* Fixed some speechbank and namebank spelling errors
* Fixed the alignment entity registry not working
* Fixed some LOTR commands not working with @a, @p, @r
* Improved loading times by running the language update helper on a separate thread

- Removed the Shire Orchard biome (replaced by biome variants)
- Removed biome-specific river biomes
- Removed the Hobbit Drunkard and Dunlending Drunkard mobs

Public Beta 28.2

+ Added updated French (France) and French (Canada) translations

* Fixed a crash when generating terrain in Emyn Winion
* Improved White Downs terrain generation
* Fixed biome-specific stone layers in Gondor, Rohan, and Dorwinion generating deeper than intended

Public Beta 28.1

+ Added new sounds for aurochs and Kine of Araw
+ Added the Northern Wilderland biome
+ Added updated Spanish (Mexico), Chinese, German, French (France), and French (Canada) translations

* Vineyard defence can now also spawn Vintner Guard crossbowers
* Changed some Dorwinion textures
* Fixed Dorwinion Elven blades not glowing
* Aurochs and Kine of Araw now drop more meat and leather
* Aurochs and Kine of Araw attacks now have increased knockback
* Mordor and Dol Guldur orcs now spawn in Wilderland and East Bight instead of Gundabad orcs
* Gundabad no longer invades Wilderland
* Improved pine tree generation
* Dirt path roads now feature varied blocks
* Fixed dirt not breaking faster with shovels
* Fixed a texture bug on the aurochs model
* Fixed a missing Dalish blacksmith speechbank
* Fixed a missing Dorwinion merchant speechbank
* Fixed an unfortunate error in a Dorwinion miniquest speechbank

Public Beta 28

+ Added the Dale and Dorwinion factions
+ Added the Dale, Dorwinion, and Emyn Winion biomes
+ Added new waypoints and roads in Wilderland, Dale, and Dorwinion
+ Added the Men of Dale
+ Added Dalish levymen, soldiers, longbowmen, captains, and banner bearers
+ Added Dalish blacksmiths and bakers
+ Added travelling Dalish merchants
+ Added Dalish villages
+ Added Dalish fortresses and watchtowers
+ Added the Dalish Crafting Table, banner, and shield
+ Added Dalish weapons and armour
+ Added Dalish bricks, slabs, stairs, walls, and pillars
+ Added a recipe for cram
+ Added the Men of Dorwinion
+ Added Vintner Guards, crossbowers, captains, and banner bearers
+ Added Dorwinion Elves
+ Added Warriors of Bladorthin
+ Added Dorwinion vintners, vinekeepers, and vinehands
+ Added travelling Dorwinion merchants
+ Added Dorwinion houses
+ Added Dorwinion gardens
+ Added Vintner Guard camps
+ Added Dorwinion breweries
+ Added the Dorwinion Crafting Table, banner, and shield
+ Added Dorwinion Mannish armour
+ Added Dorwinion Elven weapons and armour
+ Added the Spears of Bladorthin
+ Added Dorwinion bricks, slabs, stairs, and walls
+ Added grapes and grapevines
+ Added white wine
+ Added a brewing recipe for red wine
+ Added grape juice
+ Added cypress trees and wood
+ Added olive trees and wood
+ Added olives
+ Added olive bread
+ Added aurochs
+ Added Kine of Araw
+ Added the Tower Hills biome
+ Added High Elven towers
+ Added the Hobbit Crafting Table
+ Added Hobbit banners
+ Added Hobbit gates
+ Added recipes for Hobbit ovens and pancakes
+ Added fences in Shire orchards
+ Added dyeable pouches
+ Added cauldron undyeing for pouches, leather hats, feathers, Hobbit pipes, and Harad robes
+ Added poisoned drinks
+ Added tooltip information for poisoned weapons
+ Added a bonemeal slot for farmhands
+ Added farmhand AI to deposit crops into and collect seeds and bonemeal from chests marked by an item frame with a hoe
+ Added the ability to grow grass on dirt by right-clicking with seeds
+ Added a name for 'grassless dirt' and made it obtainable
+ Added better forest floor generation
+ Added a variety of ruined structures
+ Added randomly generated gravel patches
+ Added dried reed plants
+ Added leeks
+ Added leek soup
+ Added turnips
+ Added apple juice
+ Added camel meat
+ Added carved Rohan brick
+ Added mossy and cracked red bricks with slabs, stairs, and walls
+ Added Gundabad Uruk daggers, spears, pikes, and bows
+ Added Angmar poleaxes
+ Added Dol Guldur spikes
+ Added Tauredain bludgeons, battleaxes, and pikes
+ Added Moredain clubs
+ Added Ithilien Ranger armour
+ Added new textures for Ranger armour and the Ranger alignment shield
+ Added new textures for Near Harad armour
+ Added new textures for the Moredain and Ranger banners
+ Added new textures for Dol Guldur weapons, tools, and armour
+ Added new textures for Mallorn torches and glow particles
+ Added more tree types to Eregion
+ Added separate achievements for hiring different farming units
+ Added config options for the altered Middle-earth player respawning
+ Added updated Russian, French (France), French (Canada), and Spanish (Mexico) translations

* Improved NPC respawning in structures
* Trimmed dwarven bricks now use connected textures
* Open vertical gates do not show the bottom edge of the gate
* High Elf Lords now spawn in towers instead of halls
* Moved the Dalish Pastry recipe to the Dalish crafting table
* Moved the syrup pancake recipes to the Hobbit crafting table
* Waste block crafting now gives four blocks
* Fixed vanilla armour dyeing not using the Forge Ore Dictionary for dyes
* Fixed some wood beam recipes giving an incorrect number of beams
* Made underwater sand and clay generation more random
* Changed Hobbit hole entrances
* Changed the appearance of citrus trees
* Banana trees now grow smaller
* Fixed purple butterflies not spawning in the Woodland Realm
* Fixed cows spawning in Rohan
* Removed Gondor invasions from Wilderland
* Reduced the spawn rate of bandits in Near Harad Fertile
* Orc and Warg bombardiers no longer chase rabbits
* Changed the sky colour in Nan Curunír
* Improved terrain generation in the Ettenmoors
* The White Downs are now grouped as part of the Shire
* Fixed some achievement icons rendering wrongly
* Moved the 'Heady Vintage' achievement to the Dorwinion category
* Fixed hired unit death messages being disabled by default
* Increased the Sword of Command commanding range to 12 blocks

- Removed Gondor horse archers
- Removed the 'Tomb of Elendil' waypoint

Public Beta 27.2

+ Added mud bricks

* Fixed the Dol Amroth gate recipe giving Gondor gates
* Changed the Gundabad invasion icon

Public Beta 27.1

+ Added silver, gold, mithril, Dol Amroth, and Uruk gates
+ Added new High Elven sword and dagger textures
+ Added elven longspears
+ Added shish kebab
+ Added mithril halberds
+ Added updated Russian, German, Quenya, French (France), and French (Canada) translations

* Kebab stands now use fuel items for their full duration or until all the meat is cooked
* Changed the recipes of elven battlestaves
* Changed the Galadhrim cloak textures
* Changed the Galadhrim bed texture and recipe to a hithlain style
* Restored the old red Near Harad brick textures
* Optimised gate connected textures
* Brick pillars are now crafted with brick blocks
* Tamed dogs and cats now follow the player in fast travel
* Wolves can now be tamed with mod-added bones
* Fixed the Erebor biome inheriting some inappropriate properties of the Wilderland biome
* Orcs and Rangers no longer spawn in the White Downs
* Fixed Rhudaur chieftain houses burning down
* Fixed a missing Isengard orc skirmish speechbank

Public Beta 27

+ Added gates
+ Added deer
+ Added venison
+ Added drunken messages
+ Added kebab stands
+ Added Harad bandits
+ Added new textures for Near Harad armour
+ Added new Near Haradrim skins
+ Added a new Near Harad shield texture
+ Added ruined dwarven towers
+ Added dwarves, dwarven mines, and dwarven towers to the Erebor biome
+ Added extra spawns for iron, gold, and silver in Erebor
+ Added new textures for Wood-elven armour
+ Added elk sounds
+ Added dik-dik sounds
+ Added Rohirric lances
+ Added the ability for farming units to farm corn
+ Added corn liquor
+ Added cooked corn
+ Added clay tiles
+ Added chalk blocks
+ Added the White Downs biome
+ Added stairs for stone and all mod rock blocks, and renamed cobblestone stairs appropriately
+ Added stairs and slabs for mossy and cracked stone bricks
+ Added walls for stone, stone bricks, clay bricks, and sandstone
+ Added stone and brick pillars
+ Added Gulduril versions of Gondor bricks
+ Added Utumno brick stairs, slabs, and walls
+ Added Angmar pillars
+ Added green dye made from clovers
+ Added charcoal dust as an alternate black dye
+ Added a composite brown dye
+ Added dye recipes for Simbelmynë, Dwarfwort, and Fangorn flowers
+ Added Warg fur beds
+ Added a recipe for saddles using Warg fur
+ Added waterfall effects

* Improved mithril connected textures
* Pillars now connect visually to different pillar types
* Dismissing a hired unit also dismisses its mount or rider if applicable
* Farming units can now only hoe and plant on blocks directly beneath them
* Farming units can be told to not hoe a block by placing sand beneath it
* Farming units always keep one seed to know what they are farming
* Rabbits do not spawn if a farming unit is nearby
* Farming units will chase away rabbits when farming
* Shire farms can now generate corn
* Hobbit farmers can now sell corn
* The Morgul Vale now has grassy terrain
* Pebbles can now be thrown and reused like conkers
* Plates and pebbles can now be skimmed on water
* Smoke rings now grow as they fade
* Orcs no longer spawn in Erebor
* Deer spawn instead of cows in most biomes
* Renamed Woodland Elk to Elk
* Elk now drop venison
* Elk now spawn in some other northern biomes
* Fixed crebain not spawning
* Fixed dik-diks not spawning at night
* Near Harad warriors sometimes wear turbans
* Changed the Gemsbok helmet recipe to include horns
* Changed some dye recipes to give only one dye for consistency
* Stone brick stairs and slabs can no longer be crafted with mossy or cracked bricks
* Remodelled some structures to include gates
* Fixed Tauredain melon farms' design preventing melons from growing
* Fixed Simbelmynë not growing on Rohan barrows
* Simbelmynë now grows rarely throughout Rohan
* Changed High Elven armour and equipment textures
* Changed bronze and copper textures
* Changed the orc bed texture
* Changed red Near Harad brick textures
* Changed the Near Harad bow texture and bow properties
* Fixed lapis lazuli ore not spawning in Near Harad Fertile
* Fixed dirt paths not breaking faster with shovels
* Fixed shirriffs not holding slings in the ranged stance
* Fixed players not receiving departure warnings from travelling traders on a server when the trader is not loaded on their client
* Fixed traders moving when the coin exchange screen is open
* Fixed vanilla acacia and dark oak stairs not being flammable
* Vanilla saplings and mod saplings are now flammable
* Mod flowers and some plants are now flammable
* Thatch floors are now flammable
* Fixed vanilla cauldrons not accounting for biome-specific water
* Renamed silverfish blocks to prevent accidental mix-ups in the search tab
* Fixed 'pick spawn egg' not working for gemsboks
* Fixed Far Harad jungle lakes generating biome variants

Public Beta 26.5

* Fixed hired NPC mounts duplicating after fast travel
* Reduced Gundabad Uruks' health
* Reduced the spawn rate of willows

Public Beta 26.4

+ Added updated French (France) and French (Canada) translations

* Fixed variant biomes following the same pattern in all worlds
* Fords of Isen is now classed as an Enedwaith waypoint
* Removed the collision box from weapon stands
* Travelling trader departure speech is now sent as a chat message to all players
* Fixed Near Haradrim lacking a hired speechbank
* Fixed miniquest icons being rendered when GUI is disabled

Public Beta 26.3

+ Added all remaining wood beam types
+ Added updated German, French (France), and French (Canada) translations

* Fixed singleplayer LOTR player data persisting after joining a server
* Fixed mounts and hired units disappearing after using a custom waypoint
* Players now automatically re-mount a mount after fast travelling with it
* Fixed the fast travel timer sometimes counting down from 10 very slowly
* Made the Shire map more accurate
* Fixed the map jittering when zooming on high zoom levels
* Fixed the map scaling incorrectly on high zoom levels
* Fixed Near Haradrim Archers not holding bows
* Fixed ruined dwarven mines not generating with cracked brick
* Fallen leaves can now generate and be placed on water
* Improved problematic road generation at biome borders
* Wooden beams now connect nicely in different orientations
* Waste blocks now look more random
* Banners now protect against TNT minecarts
* Fixed the insides of shields being back-to-front
* Increased the default cloud rendering range

Public Beta 26.2

+ Added more wood beams
+ Added loot in Gondor Smithies
+ Added a new message for dismissing a hired unit
+ Added updated Chinese and Russian translations

* Fixed a crash when interacting with hired units
* Fixed a crash with horns of command
* Fixed dwarven axe-throwers holding melee weapons
* Fixed dwarven commanders holding the wrong items
* Renamed Uruk Wargs to Isengard Wargs
* Fixed some male Gondorians bearing a female name

Public Beta 26.1

* Fixed the server sending the wrong alignments to the client

Public Beta 26

+ Added a new Middle-earth cloud renderer
+ Added the option to rename custom waypoints
+ Added weapon racks
+ Added dirt path blocks
+ Added better bridge generation
+ Added more wood beams
+ Added willow trees and wood
+ Added gold and silver-trimmed elven bricks
+ Added obsidian dwarven bricks
+ Added Dwarven and Blue Dwarven pikes
+ Added Dwarven Smiths and Smithies
+ Added Gundabad Uruks
+ Added Gundabad Uruk armour and weapons
+ Added the Nan Curunír biome
+ Added Isengard Snagae
+ Added the Uruk Berserker helmet
+ Added waste blocks to replace soul sand
+ Added a means of producing rotten flesh by cooking meat in the Orc Forge
+ Added achievements for killing Gundabad Orcs and Black Uruks
+ Added glowing eyes for Orcs, Tormented Elves, Wargs, Ents, and spiders
+ Added a new design for beacon towers
+ Added Dol Amroth daggers
+ Added Gondorian lances
+ Added carved black Gondor brick
+ Added lapis-trimmed Near Harad brick
+ Added corn
+ Added wraiths in Tauredain Pyramids
+ Added obsidian gravel in Far Harad Volcano biomes
+ Added a command to give and remove Middle-earth achievements
+ Added a command to set alignment for all factions at once
+ Added updated Quenya and German translations

* Fixed the version checker
* Rewrote the mod's packets to use the SimpleImpl system
* Renamed the Uruk-hai faction to Isengard
* Rewrote NPCs changing weapons and items to make the system more stable and allow for variety
* Swan Knights now only use lances if mounted
* Lances now look better when held
* Elf warriors can now use battlestaves
* Galadhrim Elves now use daggers instead of mallorn swords
* Reeds now grow like sugar cane
* Fixed the missing recipe for crafting reeds into paper
* Fixed berry bushes regrowing very slowly
* Fixed pouches visually duplicating items when shift-clicking
* Breeding two tamed mounts now automatically tames the child
* Changed trimmed brick recipes to be more sensible
* Changed the recipe for the Tauredain crafting table
* Increased the spawn rate of gold in the jungle
* Mordor alignment is now decreased by killing Angmar and Dol Guldur
* Angmar and Dol Guldur alignment is now decreased by killing Mordor
* Mordor invasions include Black Uruks again
* Black Uruks and Uruk-hai can no longer ride Wargs
* Oddment collectors can now buy Warg fur
* Gundabad Wargs now run faster than other Wargs
* Gundabad Orcs can now spawn with Dol Guldur equipment
* Beacons of Gondor now store the beacon propagation state individually instead of globally
* Dwarven commanders now wield warhammers instead of swords
* Dwarven invasions now use a warhammer icon
* Fixed mounts and hired units ignoring saved y-coordinates of custom waypoints
* Mountain biome variants are now more mountainous
* Roads in most biomes are now dirt paths
* Made roads flat in hilly biome variants
* Fixed road points overlapping onto the east and south borders of the map
* Fixed player map locations persisting after leaving a server and opening a singleplayer world
* Moved the Trollshaws biome away from the road
* Fixed barrows not generating stone chests
* Fixed dwarven mines spawning in water
* Fixed some structures generating reed instead of thatch in the roof
* Replaced furnaces with alloy forges in Rohan and Gondor smithies
* Increased the kill range for activating the Utumno portals
* Utumno portal bases now have visual effects
* Fixed collision issues with Utumno portal bases
* Fixed the NPC burning panic AI not being applied to newly spawned NPCs
* Traders no longer send advertisements to players in creative mode
* Fixed the missing departure speechbank of oddment collectors
* Fixed Morgul-shroom eating particles
* Fixed melee range modifiers not working properly for block reach
* Fixed the date changing every time the world is reloaded
* Fixed flamingos not bending their head when fishing
* Fixed reeds generating in ice

Public Beta 25.3

+ Added golden Tauredain dart traps
+ Added improved surface terrain generation in Mordor, Angmar, and Far Harad Arid Savannah
+ Added new textures for carved Near Harad bricks

* Fixed incorrect surface terrain generation in mountains
* Fixed caves and ravines not cutting through mixed surface terrain
* Corrected the achievement icon for entering Angmar
* Fixed a duplicate entry in the Tauredain Shaman's trade list
* Fixed the .lang file update helper not deleting temporary files

Public Beta 25.2

+ Added new textures for birch and acacia wood beams
+ Added a command to unlock all fast travel waypoints for a player
+ Added a Chinese translation
+ Added updated French (France) and French (Canada) translations

* Fixed weapon tooltips not showing extra melee damage from enchantments
* Pikes now point upright
* Fixed a missing Galadhrim Warden speechbank
* Fixed a crash sometimes when climbing ladders

Public Beta 25.1

+ Added more wood beam types
+ Added a config option to send messages to the chat log even if immersive speech is enabled

* A player charging a ranged weapon is now interrupted if hurt by a melee attack
* Increased the base melee attack speeds for players
* Reduced the speed of daggers
* Increased the speed of polearms, battleaxes, and hammers
* Increased the damage of hammers
* Fixed a lighting bug on the attack meter
* Reeds are now collectable without shears
* Fixed a client crash when creating a custom waypoint on a server
* Fixed pyramid protection banners being vulnerable to ranged attacks
* Fixed an incorrect Tauredain miniquest speechbank
* Renamed the Tauredain Club to Tauredain Sword
* Fixed forest variants always appearing at spawn in the Shire
* Fixed biome variants following the same pattern in all worlds
* Fixed the names of Warg invasions
* Changed the lime textures
* Corrected the achievement icon for entering Lindon
* Gemsbok now rarely spawn in Pertorogwaith
* Fixed the Middle-earth menu prompts flickering on high FPS
* Fixed scorched stone walls appearing in the creative menu twice
* Changed Half-troll houses to allow the Half-trolls to get in and out

Public Beta 25

+ Added a world type option which spawns you straight into Middle-earth
+ Added a map button to toggle sepia map
+ Added more mountains and hills at specific locations
+ Added more waypoints and roads
+ Added lake biome variants
+ Added Immersive Speech
+ Added an objective display to the mini-quest offer screen
+ Added a difficulty lock option
+ Added the Tauredain
+ Added Tauredain villages
+ Added the Tauredain Crafting Table, banner, and shield
+ Added Tauredain bricks, slabs, stairs, walls, and pillars
+ Added Tauredain tools, weapons, and armour
+ Added Tauredain blowguns, darts, and dart traps
+ Added Tauredain torches
+ Added Tauredain drinks
+ Added jungle pyramids
+ Added the Far Harad Jungle Edge biome
+ Added a dense jungle biome variant
+ Added mahogany trees and wood
+ Added jungle mud and mud grass blocks
+ Added new jungle butterfly types
+ Added obsidian gravel and shards
+ Added the Barrow-wights
+ Added an improved barrow design
+ Added barrow-blades
+ Added stone chests for some structures
+ Added travelling oddment collectors
+ Added new fishing loot tables for the Middle-earth dimension
+ Added the Alloy Forge as a Mannish equivalent to other forges
+ Added recipes for all cracked and mossy block variants
+ Added ruined dwarven mines in the Grey Mountains
+ Added cracked dwarven brick and pillars
+ Added dwarven and blue dwarven boar armour
+ Added ruined elven smithies in Eregion
+ Added Gondolinian armour
+ Added hithlain
+ Added hithlain rope ladders
+ Added Galadhrim hithlain cloaks
+ Added Galadhrim Wardens
+ Added the Field of Celebrant biome
+ Added the Wold region of Rohan
+ Added a new chainmail design for Rohirric armour
+ Added the old Rohirric armour design as Rohirric marshal armour with a new helmet model
+ Added the Pelennor Fields biome
+ Added the East Bight biome
+ Added the Long Marshes biome
+ Added reeds
+ Added dried reed blocks, slabs, stairs, and bars
+ Added many new polearm-type weapons
+ Added varied surface terrain generation for Harondor, Near Harad Fertile, Near Harad Semidesert, and Umbar
+ Added some boulder field biome variants
+ Added Near Harad cavalry and horse armour
+ Added horses in Near Harad fertile
+ Added red sandstone
+ Added red Near Harad bricks, pillars, and derived blocks
+ Added a red Near Harad desert biome
+ Added mutton
+ Added lemon, orange, and lime trees, fruits, and wood blocks
+ Added lemon cake, lemon liqueur, lemonade, orange juice, and lime liqueur
+ Added the Umbar Forest and Umbar Hills biomes
+ Added a dense Ithilien forest variant
+ Added a Morgulduin river biome
+ Added Warg invasions
+ Added wooden beams
+ Added rotten planks, slabs, stairs, and fences
+ Added scorched stone
+ Added burnt and rotten variants of the ruined house
+ Added alternate recipes for clocks and compasses with copper in place of redstone
+ Added new textures for warhammers
+ Added new textures for Mordor armour
+ Added new Moredain skins
+ Added a new table of command block texture
+ Added a config option to disable orc skirmishes
+ Added config options to disable enchanting and potion brewing mechanics
+ Added an updated Russian translation

* Changed the map of Rhûn to be more correct for a flat map
* Changed and added many Harad rivers
* Renamed and moved many Far Harad waypoints
* Reduced memory usage from loading map textures
* Server ops are now only shown hidden players' map positions when in creative mode
* Custom waypoints now save and use the y-coordinate they were created at
* The up/down arrow keys now cycle between faction regional groups on the alignment meter
* Melee combat now has an attack cooldown instead of allowing unlimited attacks by spam-clicking
* Weapon types now have different melee speeds, reach, and attack damage
* Melee speed, reach, and knockback bonus are now displayed on weapon tooltips
* Ranged weapon properties are now displayed on some ranged weapon tooltips
* The number of slots in banner whitelists can now be increased and decreased beyond the default of 24
* Alignment protection banners now have a text box to input the alignment level precisely, and a wider allowed alignment range
* Protection banners now save their protection data when dropped as items
* Putting a banner item with protection data in the crafting grid will clear the data
* Banner items with protection data can be duplicated by combining them with empty banners in the crafting grid
* The banner protection warning now has a cooldown to reduce spam (configurable)
* Ops in creative mode can now edit any protection banner
* Increased the costs of most hired units
* Archer NPCs now lower their weapons when not in combat
* Improved hired unit following AI to make them less clingy
* The summon horn now teleports hired units to nearby instead of directly to the user
* Improved hired unit health bars
* Hired units now display their squadron and held item icon instead of 'Hired'
* Near Haradrim now spawn naturally riding horses instead of camels
* Ents (except Mallorn) and Huorns now take normal damage from axes/fire and 33% damage from anything else, instead of 200% damage from axes/fire
* Increased the drops from Ents and Huorns
* Trolls now have armour points roughly equivalent to wearing leather
* Crafting bronze (as opposed to alloying) now gives only one ingot
* Daggers can now be crafted into poisoned daggers at any damage value
* Changed the recipe pattern for Half-troll maces
* Rohirric and Dunlending armour are now crafted solely using iron
* Changed scout armour to work via attribute modifiers, not potion effects, and thus no particles
* Changed High Elven block textures to a slightly greyer colour
* Utumno blocks outside of Utumno can now be mined with any pickaxe
* Made fixed mountain generation less uniform
* Fixed strange discontinuities between fixed mountains and normal terrain
* Moved some waypoints slightly
* Forodwaith now contains packed ice
* Changed the shape of large Lebethron trees
* Squid now only spawn in the ocean
* Fixed Woodland Elk not spawning in the Woodland Realm
* Woodland Elk now fight back when attacked
* Changed the Mountains of Mirkwood to look more mountain-like
* Orcs now spawn in the Mountains of Mirkwood
* Lapis lazuli now generates only in Near Harad and Harondor
* Crocodiles no longer spawn in the Harad mountains
* Jungle sky and water are now green
* Water is now more prevalent in the jungle
* Mud and vines now generate commonly in the underground jungle
* Banana trees now grow in the jungle
* Rhinos now rarely spawn in Pertorogwaith
* Fixed mixed oak-spruce forest variants not generating
* Updated the requirements for the 'Master Craftsman' achievement
* Fixed the unsmeltery not accepting inputs from hoppers
* Fixed Near Harad weapons being unsmelted into bronze
* Fixed Morgul Portals not animating properly
* Table of command inventory items and dropped items now render the table map
* Fixed glitchy lighting on tables of command
* Fixed the maps on tables of command disappearing when near the edge of the screen
* Fixed huorns disappearing from view when looked at from the side
* Fixed huorns in combat switching in and out of active mode
* Fixed dispensed crossbow bolts playing the arrow sound effect
* Fixed Warg Bombardiers destroying terrain in protected areas
* Fixed banner protection not preventing players from extinguishing fire
* Fixed Rangers of Ithilien giving no mini-quests

Public Beta 24.4

+ Added the missing updated Spanish (Mexican) translation
+ Added updated French (France) and French (Canada) translations

* Fixed a crash when the mod is launched on the (unsupported) Cauldron server
* Fixed names sometimes disappearing from banners on servers
* Meneltarma is now hidden on the map unless you have travelled there
* Made the terrain on Meneltarma more rocky
* Reduced spawn rates of athelas and mithril on Meneltarma
* Athelas may now be grown with bonemeal on Meneltarma grass very rarely
* Fixed the outer ocean on the map not being sepia when sepia map is enabled
* Reduced the drop rates of boss exclusive weapons
* Moredain battleaxes now use the standard battleaxe recipe shape
* Fixed hoes not being unsmeltable
* Fixed LOTR projectiles launched from dispensers giving 'entity.lotr' death messages

Public Beta 24.3

+ Added updated Spanish (Mexican), French (France), and French (Canada) translations

* Boss kill achievements now require players to have done a certain amount of damage recently as well as hitting the boss recently
* Fixed crashes when crafting cakes and fences
* All the mod's fence recipes now follow the same format as the vanilla 1.8 recipes
* Fixed hats and turbans on armour stands rotating if nearby mobs are wearing them too
* Fixed Glowstone Ore not generating
* Fixed mugs sometimes disappearing when used to milk cows

- Removed the old oak wood fence recipe as it is no longer needed

Public Beta 24.2

* Fixed the Mallorn Ent's ranged attack crashing the game

Public Beta 24.1

* Fixed the Mallorn Ent crashing servers

Public Beta 24

+ Added a new fullscreen Middle-earth map
+ Added many new titles
+ Added a scrollbar to the titles menu
+ Added the Mallorn Ent boss
+ Added exclusive reward items for defeating the Mountain Troll Chieftain
+ Added temporary trade locking when a trade is used often
+ Added a Sword of Command feature to right-click on nothing in particular and cancel hired units' attack targets, but only if those targets were set by the sword
+ Added invasions and Horns of Conquest for Dol Amroth, Ithilien, Black Uruks, and Nan Ungol
+ Added the Unsmeltery
+ Added fences for vanilla wood types
+ Added bone armour
+ Added the Hillmen of Rhudaur
+ Added Rhudaur hillman houses and villages
+ Added bronze and iron throwing axes
+ Added female Dunlendings
+ Added new names for Dunlendings
+ Added Dunlending Berserkers
+ Added Dunlending Axe-throwers
+ Added Harad robes
+ Added new textures for Near Harad bows and shields
+ Added the Northern Mirkwood biome and renamed Mirkwood to Woodland Realm
+ Added more tree types in Mirkwood Corrupted
+ Added a new Wood-elf house design
+ Added Mount Doom
+ Added the Meneltarma biome
+ Added athelas and mithril on Meneltarma
+ Added barred window blocks for many metals
+ Added Elven Wood-bars
+ Added Glowing Dwarven Brick
+ Added cram
+ Added travelling Iron Hills Merchants
+ Added new mithril armour texures
+ Added extra head branches on some Ents
+ Added new hobbit speechbanks
+ Added a configuration option to disable the animated elven blade glow
+ Added a configuration option to disable Elven and Morgul portals
+ Added updated German and Quenya translations

* Faction relations now have a 'neutral' level separate from 'allies' and 'enemies', where factions will not fight normally, but can if provoked or commanded
* Changed the allied/neutral/enemies relationships between many factions
* Killing Rangers of the North now earns Dunland alignment, and vice versa
* Killing Gundabad Orcs no longer earns Dunland alignment
* Invasions - and Horns of Conquest - have been decoupled from factions to allow more specific invasion types
* Gundabad invasions now use bronze swords as the icon
* Ranger invasions now use a bow as the icon
* Bosses now give the achievement when defeated to all players who hurt them within the last ten seconds, including ranged attacks and attacks by hired units
* Fixed bandits attacking NPCs unprovoked
* Uruk mobs no longer spawn in the Misty Mountains
* Ents and Huorns can now spawn on podzol
* Relaxed the spawning conditions for swans
* The Mountain Troll Chieftain can now only be summoned by players with negative Angmar alignment
* Morgul armour now damages the weapon of the attacker and no longer inflicts wither on attackers
* Morgul blades no longer damage the equipment of the target
* Galvorn and Morgul armour achievements now only require you to wear the full set
* Fixed Morgul blades applying the wither effect even if the attack attempt doesn't go through
* Changed some unbalanced trades
* Crafting silver coins now gives four coins instead of one
* Crafting flax into string now gives only one string per flax
* Slightly increased the amount of coins given for mini-quest rewards
* Mini-quest rewards now use the higher-valued coins where appropriate
* Reduced the damage dealt by thistles
* Quendite blocks now emit light
* Renamed the wrongly-named Moredain Axe battleaxe to Moredain Battleaxe
* Dunlending Trident fishing now works by holding right-click down and releasing it, so as to be less spammable
* The Dunlending Trident can now only catch fish and not treasure or junk items
* Fixed spears always having full charge when thrown
* Fixed a spear duplication bug
* Fixed a duplication bug in Gollum's inventory
* Fixed Dol Amroth equipment not having an assigned repair material
* Fixed cake-type blocks being edible under banner protection
* Fixed special armour models sometimes not rendering
* Blue Mountains Merchants no longer travel to some areas, replaced there by Iron Hills Merchants
* Fixed dwarf commanders losing their weapons on world reload
* Moved the Forest Gate waypoint to its correct location
* Renamed Galadhrim Traders to Galadhrim Wanderers
* Changed elves' hair not being rendered when they have headwear on
* Fixed various screen overlays rendering solid colour instead of the correct image
* Fixed screen overlays breaking the pumpkin overlay
* Fixed the elk's head vibrating in the inventory screen
* Fixed a missing hobbit bartender speech bank
* Fixed a crash when a double flower of incorrect metadata is spawned
* Changed the beech leaves textures

- Removed Angmar Orc Warriors
- Removed the 'Ranger' starter title (it is now a faction title)
- Removed the chat notification that you can buy Horns of Conquest
- Removed the 'Kinslaying' achievement due to it being impossible to obtain

Public Beta 23.3

+ Added torches to Moredain structures
+ Added new textures for Near Harad armour, shields, crafting table, and scimitar
+ Added an updated Russian translation

* Banner protection now prevents the spawning of hostile mobs (e.g. scorpions, crocodiles, vanilla mobs)
* Fixed duplication of custom waypoints in singleplayer
* LOTR player data is now marked for saving on an individual basis to decrease lag from saving
* Fixed the sun glare appearing when looking at non-solid blocks in front of solid blocks
* Sun glare is now stopped by all blocks
* Moredain invasions now display as a Moredain spear
* Fixed the Moredain Crafter achievement not being awarded
* Orcs which have given mini-quests no longer skirmish
* Arid grass can now be placed on grass and dirt
* Fixed incorrect terrain generation on biome borders and in mountains
* Changed the new elven pillar textures to better match Galadhrim pillars

Public Beta 23.2

+ Added updated French (France) and French (Canada) translations

* Fixed a bug with loading and saving custom waypoint cooldown times
* Fixed waypoints being reset
* Fixed the sun glare appearing in biomes with no sun

Public Beta 23.1

* Fixed fast travel cooldown times being displayed as zero
* Fixed servers kicking players who fast travelled

Public Beta 23

+ Added the Moredain people
+ Added Moredain villages and huts
+ Added Moredain weapons and armour
+ Added the Moredain Crafting Table, banner, and shield
+ Added Moredain bricks, slabs, stairs, and walls
+ Added separate Far Harad Savannah and Jungle achievement categories
+ Added female Near Haradrim
+ Added High Elven and Wood-elven bricks, slabs, stairs, walls, pillars, and pillar slabs, and renamed old Elven blocks to Galadhrim blocks
+ Added new Galadhrim brick textures
+ Added the Elven Forge block
+ Added Elven Steel
+ Added High Elven, Galadhrim, and Wood-elven forge structures
+ Added Elven Smith traders
+ Added the Dor-en-Ernil biome
+ Added Swan Knights and Dol Amroth Captains
+ Added Dol Amroth weapons and armour
+ Added the Dol Amroth Crafting Table, banner, and shield
+ Added Dol Amroth bricks, slabs, stairs, and walls
+ Added Dol Amroth stables
+ Added swans and swan feathers
+ Added the Mouths of Anduin, Mouths of Entwash, and Núrn Marshes swamp biomes
+ Added swamp lowland and upland biome variants to improve swamp biome generation
+ Added fir and pine trees, and their wood
+ Added the Erebor biome
+ Added carved and cracked Near Harad Brick
+ Added a column of smoke particles above hearth blocks
+ Added new skins for hobbit children
+ Added a squadron display on the tooltip for command items with assigned squadrons
+ Added a 'Middle-earth Utilities' creative tab for utility blocks
+ Added a sun flare effect
+ Added a new Galadhrim Helmet model
+ Added new Galadhrim and High Elven armour textures
+ Added new textures for the Angmar sword and Morgul blade
+ Added new Gulduril ore textures
+ Added new maple leaf textures
+ Added more orc skins
+ Added more bandit skins
+ Added a head-bobbing riding animation for the elk model

* Increased Middle-earth day-night cycle length to 40 minutes
* Middle-earth world time is now separate from vanilla world time and is controlled with the command /lotr_time
* Post-fast-travel cooldown now decreases for a waypoint the more that waypoint is used
* Changed the skin format for human NPC skins
* Oak leaves no longer drop apples
* Mithril ore and blocks can now be mined with iron-level pickaxes
* Invasions are now more common on lunar eclipse nights
* Dunlendings now spawn rarely in Enedwaith again
* Orc dungeons and ruined Wood-elven towers now generate with a group of mobs instead of a mob spawner
* Lowered the spawn rate of desert scorpions
* Lakes no longer generate above ground
* Fixed marsh light blocks dropping as items
* Changed the look of Núrn
* Changed the roads in Mordor to be made of Mordor dirt
* Fixed steppe biome variants not being as flat as they should be
* The Far Harad Baobab biome has been removed and re-added as a biome variant
* Anduin land between Mirkwood and the river is now Vale instead of Hills
* Split the Gondor waypoints into separate Gondor, Ithilien, Lebennin, and Dor-en-Ernil regions
* Gondorian kills now give Uruk-hai alignment, and Uruk-hai kills now give Gondor alignment
* Fixed cedar trees not growing when adjacent to tall grass
* Fixed holly trees replacing blocks when they grow leaves
* Fixed shrubs generating with jungle wood
* Fixed the new tall grass types not surviving in low light conditions
* Alcohol tolerance now decays more slowly
* Mallorn nuts now restore more food points
* Half-troll Scavengers no longer sell mithril nuggets
* Increased the costs of valuable minerals sold by Half-troll Scavengers
* Increased the hiring costs of all Gondor, Rohan, and Near Harad units, and various other units
* Increased the drawback time of the Black Uruk bow
* Reinstated the Rohirrim's faster horse-riding attribute
* Reduced the health of Shire Ponies
* Troll statues can now be collected by any pickaxe instead of requiring silk touch
* Fixed troll hoards generating above ground
* Fixed the troll tickle checking for alignment below a certain level instead of above it
* Renamed Dwarf Steel to Dwarven Steel
* Corrected some ingot names which lacked the 'ingot' suffix
* Fixed some bugs with special armour models
* Lowered the drop rate of conkers
* Fixed a bug where conkers would very rarely drop from cedar or baobab leaves
* Fixed the 'belonged to' tooltip displaying incorrectly
* Fixed being unable to clear a pouch's custom name
* Fixed 'collect' miniquests not accepting items if the item has special NBT data
* Fixed the banner edit screen crashing on servers when the escape key is used to exit it
* Fixed the custom waypoint name field retaining its text after the waypoint is created
* Fixed doors under banner protection appearing to change state when interacted with
* Fixed a missing hobbit farmer speech bank
* Fixed incorrect Gollum fishing speech banks

- Removed crafting recipes for golden apples (can be disabled in config)

Public Beta 22.4

* Fixed crafting and smelting crashes

Public Beta 22.3

* Changed the LOTR.dat data structure
* Fixed a major cause of lag on servers
* NPCs can now only give out miniquests to one player at a time

Public Beta 22.2

* Fixed all biomes sharing the same ore list
* Changed the Rohirric bow textures

Public Beta 22.1

+ Added the option to assign squadrons to units when hiring them
+ Added updated Spanish (Argentina) and Russian translations

* Fixed a server bug where fast travelling on a mount would only move the mount
* Road generation now smooths out the terrain around the road
* Fixed troll hoards generating on roads in the Trollshaws
* Made swamp biomes flatter
* Fixed the coin exchange not updating when one type of coin is swapped for another
* Fixed Rohirrim Marshals and Archers not being referred to as such
* Fixed LOTR equipment being unenchantable and tools having incorrect harvest levels
* Fixed butterfly jars crashing servers
* Fixed a server crash when attempting to create a waypoint in a banner-protected area
* Fixed the baby rhino model displaying horns and a very large neck
* Increased the alignment gained by killing Uruk-hai
* Mordor plants can now be placed on Mordor gravel
* Fixed a Half-troll miniquest which was assigned to Near Harad

Public Beta 22

+ Added roads
+ Added new waypoints
+ Added a system of randomly generated biome variants to greatly improve biome diversity
+ Added smooth zoom to the Middle-earth map
+ Added a new factions menu with faction information and statistics
+ Added region categories for the factions menu and the alignment meter
+ Added a squadrons system to enable easier command of hired units
+ Added the Horn of Conquest
+ Added higher-valued coins and a coin exchange feature for traders
+ Added shorter ranges of banner protection using bronze and silver blocks
+ Added the currently empty Moredain and Tauredain factions to replace the Far Harad faction
+ Added Half-trolls
+ Added Half-troll Warlords, Warriors, and banners
+ Added Half-troll weapons, armour, and rhino armour
+ Added Half-troll Scavengers
+ Added the Half-troll Crafting Table
+ Added Torog Draught and Stew
+ Added Half-troll houses
+ Added Mordor brick ruins to Pertorogwaith
+ Added Ithilien Ranger Captains, hireable Rangers of Ithilien, and Ithilien banner bearers
+ Added Ithilien hideouts
+ Added butterfly jars
+ Added berry pie and berry juices
+ Added Black Gondor Brick blocks, stairs, slabs, and walls
+ Added Black Gondor Pillar blocks and slabs
+ Added several new carved dwarven and elven bricks
+ Added the regions of Udûn, Gorgoroth, Morgul Vale, and Eastern Desolation to Mordor
+ Added Angmar orc camps, traders, and Warg pits
+ Added Dol Guldur orc camps, traders, and spider pits
+ Added Shire Woodlands biomes to the map
+ Added taiga regions to the map
+ Added beech trees to the Woodland Realm
+ Added silver, gold, and mithril trimmed dwarven armour
+ Added a new Durin's Folk shield texture
+ Added iron and bronze battleaxes
+ Added bronze crossbows
+ Added larger textures for some swords
+ Added a command to set the LOTR date
+ Added new round sun and moon textures
+ Added lunar eclipses
+ Added new models and skins for lions and rhinos
+ Added new Near Haradrim skins and new hobbit skins
+ Added new AI to make ranged units flee if their target gets too close
+ Added hundreds of new NPC speeches
+ Added occasional trader speech advertisements when players are nearby
+ Added Warg and horse armours to some traders' stock lists
+ Added config options (intended for servers) to enable or disable miniquests, fast travel, and titles
+ Added the Loremaster 2014 shield
+ Added an updated Russian translation

* Improved speech bank directory structure and corrected all lowercase race names to uppercase in speech banks
* Diamonds no longer generate in Middle-earth
* Changed the magical hobbit pipe recipe to include a mithril nugget
* Increased the durability of most Middle-earth equipment sets
* Enchanted equipment is no longer available from traders and loot chests
* Fixed the Middle-earth map cursor displaying the wrong biome adjacent to biome borders on high zoom levels
* Fixed biome borders generating incorrectly
* Improved the height transitions between biomes
* Beaches are now smaller
* Fixed beaches generating at the borders between rivers and ocean
* Randomly generated rivers are now wider
* Shire grass is now brighter
* Bare dirt no longer generates in forest biomes
* Changed the Pertorogwaith biome colours to give a more gloomy atmosphere
* Changed the Forodwaith Mountains to have greater amounts of stone and snow
* Increased the spawn rate of Mordor lava ravines
* Improved some night sky textures
* Moon phases now depend on the LOTR date
* Rabbits, birds, and butterflies can now spawn in almost all biomes but require certain conditions to be met
* Invasion spawners now display a weapon used by their faction
* Summoned invasion spawners no longer perform spawning if the gamerule doMobSpawning is disabled
* Dunlendings no longer spawn in Enedwaith
* Fixed hired huorns being dismissed when a tree is cut down nearby
* Fixed Gundabad Orc archers and crossbowers dropping the wrong ammunition
* Increased the drop rate of arrows from archer NPCs
* Utumno creatures now can only drop key parts for the level they are on
* Renamed Orc equipment to Mordor equipment
* Fixed Mordor camps generating on bodies of water
* Fixed Mordor Gulduril ore dropping crystals which are unusable for crafting
* Fixed a crash in Near Harad fortress generation
* Fixed armour stand slots accepting all types of armour
* Fixed summoned NPCs being assigned a home position at the centre of the world
* Changed the dwarf model to use the same skin proportions as other humanoid models
* Fixed the dwarf model's arms being mismatched
* Fixed dwarf children always being male
* Updated some animals with multiple skins to use the mod's random skins system
* Changed textures of mithril items to be less vivid
* Fixed the player data not saving the currently viewed faction on the alignment meter
* Fixed the displayed banner protection cube being slightly vertically misplaced
* Fixed banners dropping as a result of explosions because they were not resistant to all motion

- Removed a large number of randomly generated 'variant' biomes
- Removed the hired unit command options to toggle obedience for command horns