LOTR: Renewed Extended

(Beta 1.9.0) (High Elves release cycle, Rivendell)

• Biomes
  • Added Rivendell Cliffs (a more sharp version of the Rivendell Hills biome)
  • Added Rivendell River (a Rivendell specific river biome for water colors and such)
  • Added Rivendell Valley (a more level version of the Rivendell biome)
  • Removed lava falls from Rivendell Hills
  • Tweaked the regular Rivendell biome to be a tiny bit more hilly
• Blocks
  • Added Chimney Pots
  • Added High Elven Chain
  • Added High Elven Lanterns
  • Added Placed Books (Book, Red Book, and Book of true silver can be placed)
  • Added the Shards of Narsil
  • Added the ability for bars to connect to branches
  • Finally fixed some fur type blocks not mining faster with shears
  • Fixed a crash when placing bars next to a vertical slab
  • Fixed empty placed glass bottles not being pickable
  • Gem ores now require iron tier or above tools to mine
  • Placed books can be stacked up to three in any random book order
  • Ported Angmar, Dale, Dol Amroth, Dol Guldur, Dowinion, Dunland, Gondor, Isenguard, Lindon, Lothlorien, Mordor, Rivendell, Rohan, and Woodland Realm banners
  • Ported High Elven Beds
  • Ported Waste Blocks
  • Renamed Morgul Lantern to Morgul Brazier
• Config
  • Added a server config setting to allow bars to connect to branches
  • Added a server config setting to allow bars to connect to half sides of vertical slabs
  • Added a server config setting to enable/disable XP orbs/bar in Middle Earth
  • Added a server config setting to enable/disable enchanting in Middle Earth
  • Added a server config setting to enable/disable feast mode
  • Added a server config setting to enable/disable modifiers in Middle Earth
  • Added several server config settings for better basic overworld/middle earth spawn protection for servers
• Entities
  • Added Elrond
  • Added Imladris Guards
  • Added Rivendell Weavers
  • Disallowed bandits from stealing from the armor slots or the player’s held item
  • Ducks lay eggs about half as often now
  • Fixed domesticated ducks textures sometimes being completely black
  • Ported Bandits
  • Ported Rivendell Captains
  • Ported Rivendell Smiths
  • Reduced the run speed of wild ducks so it is possible to catch them now
• Features
  • Added a modifier system (Middle Earth friendly alternative for enchanting) (based on legacy)
  • Implemented a “Feast Mode” (eat whenever like in legacy)
  • Ported Bandit encounters (chance based upon biome)
• GUI
  • Added ability to hide the XP bar in Middle Earth
  • Fixed a crash in the banner gui when pressing “add player”
  • Fixed MC-167448 bug in minecraft (advancement tooltips being hidden by the category background texture on the bottom and left side)
• Hired Units
  • Added 2 more hired units (Rivendell Elves and Warriors)
  • Fixed Blue Mountains Axe Throwers wearing Dwarven armor instead of Blue Dwarven armor
  • Potentially fixed an attack goal crash
• Items
  • Added 14 new Pattern Banner Items and textures (Angmar, Dale, Dol Amroth, Dol Guldur, Dowinion, Dunland, Gondor, Isenguard, Lindon, Lothlorien, Mordor, Rivendell, Rohan, and Woodland Realm)
  • Added Imladris Guard Boots
  • Added Imladris Guard Chestplate
  • Added Imladris Guard Helmet
  • Added Imladris Guard Leggings
  • Added Imladris Guard Shield
  • Added a Rivendell Shield
  • Added tapestries (currently only one: The Last Alliance)
  • Fixed Extended’s Bows sometimes shooting arrows with zero velocity
  • Fixed duck eggs being present in the vanilla foods tab
  • Ported Anduril
  • Ported Modifier scrolls
  • Ported Rivendell Bow
• Localization
  • Added Russian (ru_ru) speechbank translations
  • Added Spanish (es_es) translation
  • Fixed Tolkien having two names (a localizable and hardcoded one)
  • Fixed some BM speechbanks not saying the player name
  • Simplified the localization for banes
  • Updated Chinese (zh_tw) translation
• Loot Tables
  • Added Modifier scrolls to chests loot tables
• Misc
  • Added 11 new advancements in Extended (39 currently)
  • Added 7 advancements from Legacy (52.2% currently ported)
  • Faction tables can now be used to all leather armors (like pouches)
  • Faction tables can now be used to dye leather hats (like pouches)
  • Fixed millstone result slot crashing clients
  • Fixed mossy blocks not being craftable with willow vines
  • Fixed mossy stone bricks not craftable with extended greens
  • Fixed picked spawners items not showing type when placed
  • Fixed poison bottles crashing some servers
  • Fixed renewed sending playerData for logged-out players for unstable server connections that would cause lag
  • Fixed the barren dirt recipe only resulting in one block
  • Hobbit pancakes now craft two pancakes when using duck eggs
  • Hobbit pancakes recipe now supports duck eggs
  • Made crucibles craftable (but still don’t have unsmeltary functionality)
• Modifiers
  • Added 2 new fishing luck modifiers (Alluring, Tantalized)
  • Added 3 new armor toughness modifiers (Tough, Thick, Unwavering)
  • Added 3 new blast protection modifiers (Layered, Reinforced, Fortified)
  • Added 3 new fishing speed modifiers (Fluked, Gifted, Prosperous)
  • Added 3 new underwater breath/strength modifiers (Shut, Latched, Sealed)
  • Added 3 new underwater speed modifiers (Webbed, Finned, Ulmoqint)
  • Anvils can now color item names with gemstones
  • Anvils can now engrave the user’s name on item
  • Anvils can now reforge items to re-roll the present modifiers
  • Anvils now accept materials instead of xp as payment in Middle Earth
  • Anvils now accept scrolls instead of books in Middle Earth
  • Fixed killing witches giving Wightbane
  • Grindstones can now be used to remove all modifiers from an item
  • Items found in chests, weapon racks and fishing have a chance to have random modifiers applied
  • Modifiers now apply to newly crafted items
  • Modifiers now retroactively apply to existing items a player picks up
  • Modifiers now retroactively apply to existing player/unit held/equipped items
  • Moved Basic Protection modifiers to armor points (like in legacy)
  • Renamed legacy “Tough” to “Steadfast” (+2 protection)
  • Reset some banes on items as they could easily be gotten sometimes
  • Smithing tables can now be used to mint coins with silver and chisels
  • Smithing tables can now color item names with gemstones
• Sounds
  • Fixed duck footsteps subtitle being broken
• Structures
  • Added Rivendell Captain Tower
  • Added Rivendell Weaver House
  • Fixed Gundabad camps not generating sleeping tents
  • Ported Rivendell Houses
  • Ported Rivendell Smithy
  • Remove windmills from spawning in the shire woodlands biome
• Textures
  • Added a custom skin and cape for Elrond
  • Added different scroll textures depending on the contained modifier tier
  • All-new High Elven Bed texture
  • Changed how banner textures are stored
  • Fixed wood slabs using log model instead of wood model
  • Re-mastered the legacy hobbit gate textures (Redone Renewed pack)
  • Re-worked scorched stone and brick textures
  • Re-worked the Bree shield back texture
  • Re-worked the Dunedain shield front texture
  • Re-worked the Dwarven Bed texture
  • Re-worked the Ranger of the North armor textures (Redone Renewed pack)
  • Re-worked the Rivendell armor textures (Redone Renewed pack)
  • Re-worked the banner model
  • Reworked all banner item textures
  • Reworked the Dunedain Ranger’s cape texture
  • Tweaked Extended’s Rivendell armor item textures (Redone Renewed pack)
  • Tweaked Extended’s hobbit textures (Redone Renewed pack)
• Trading
  • Added the ability to have non-persistent trades
  • All wandering traders chat messages colors the npc’s name based on their faction
  • Bree Merchants and Smiths now have a low chance to sell a single low tier scroll
  • Fixed traders only selling Ale instead of other drinks since maybe 1.7.3?
  • Rivendell, Blue Mountains, and Galadhrim Traders now have a low chance to sell a single high-tier scroll
• WorldGen
  • Moved the Fords of Bruinen waypoint a bit south so that a bridge wouldn’t spawn half out into the river
  • Moved the Rivendell waypoint slightly more north to reduce the chance it spawns in the river
  • Re-worked the Rivendell biome map layout
  • Tweaked the road layout in Rivendell