"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish" - Samwise Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring
24th February 2022 - now with brand-new Wargs!
Current version: Renewed-5.5 for Minecraft 1.16.5
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The Lord of the Rings Mod is a huge expansion for Minecraft that adds the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth into the game, including content from his magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings, and from other related tales such as The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.
Renewed is a work-in-progress port to 1.16 of the original mod for 1.7.10, which is one of the most extensive mods ever created, beloved by Tolkien fans and Minecrafters alike. We have a close-knit and dedicated community, and now after many years we're updating to a modern Minecraft version to give the mod a fresh experience!
With features like:
- a new dimension that generates following the map of Middle-earth (with 100+ biomes)
- over a thousand new blocks and items, including faction block sets
- many new trees, flowers, and custom-modelled fallen leaves
- a night skybox, more pleasant rain, and the northern lights of Forodwaith
- custom crafting and smelting stations
- vertical slabs, wood slabs/stairs/branches, and multiblock gates
- an expanded melee combat system, featuring weapon types with different speed and reach
- a fun drinks-brewing system
- map waypoints and fast travel
- custom waypoints as 'multiblock structures'
- generated roads that go ever on and on
- NPCs from various Middle-earth factions
- a bespoke conditional speech engine which provides NPC speech lines by taking their environment into account
- caracals (floppa cats),
the Renewed mod is already an adventure in its own right, but there's a lot still to come from the 1.7.10 version. Over the coming months we will be porting an extensive factions system, where your actions can earn or lose you alignment with many different groups; hundreds more NPCs and structures; the lands of Harad and Rhûn; mini-quests, loads of new weapons and armour, multiplayer features such as banner protection, and much, much more!
Renewed benefits greatly from datapacks - in the current version, not only are crafting, smelting, and keg-brewing recipes configurable, but the map generation can be fully customised via datapack, changing the scale of the world and even generating a completely different map based on your own .png image. You can customise the map's fast travel waypoints - renaming or moving them, or adding entirely new ones. Roads, too, are defined in data files, allowing you to change their routes or add new ones. NPCs' faction alignments can be customised, as can their alignment values. Going forward, we aim to make even more of the favourite mod features customisable in this way, all shaped to your liking as though you stood among the Valar themselves.
Requirements & Technical Stuff
The current version - Renewed-5.5 for 1.16.5 - requires Minecraft Forge version 36.2.0 or higher.
Help:
- Installation guides
- Report bugs on the #bug-reports Discord channel. Post crash reports and logs!
- General technical support is also available there.
Companion mods:
- LOTR JEI module by The_Ranger_Malvegil
Community
For more information on Renewed and the Legacy 1.7.10 mod (which remains fully playable, with an active community), visit the mod's official wiki. Anyone can edit the wiki to help document the mod.
Join the community Discord server to discuss the mod with other fans, alongside a hefty helping of Tolkien lore, plenty of building showcases, and a smattering of linguistics!
Development progress and previews of updates are posted on the mod's official Facebook page.
Server Hosting
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Could you please make a File for Version 1.18.2?
In reply to KyberHydra:
The mod will get updated to 1.18 in the future, but there are no concrete plans on when that will happen, for right now it will remain in 1.16, please be patient.
Is there a way to move the compass? I like having it but I need to move it around other mods GUIs.
In reply to GamerBolts:
Sadly you can't, there is no way to move the compass in the current version of renewed, you can disable it in the mod's config file but not move it, only the alignment bar can be freely moved.
1.12?
In reply to mystorio_conscript:
Verbatim from the developers in the renewed QnA back in april 2020:
Q: Is there any chance that the mod might get an update and compatibility with versions between 1.7.10 and 1.15? Such as 1.12.2
A: It won't be made for 1.12 or any other intermediate versions, since the workload in updating it at all is quite huge.
The stance on this has not changed, the mod is not getting backported, sorry.
Following .. my kids and I are looking forward to this .. thanks for all y'alls hard work and dedication ..
When will the full play？I am very excited！I can't wait for itIn reply to COALMAN360:
There is no ETA on when the porting process will be completed, we can only speculate that it will still take a significant amount of time to get the heavier features into renewed.
In reply to DarlPielord:
understand. Looking forward to future updates
I'm really love this mod.Thank you!
Are all items already ported to 1.16? :)
In reply to evokenmachinima:
No, Renewed has around 2/3s of all the items found in the legacy version.
In reply to DarlPielord:
Oh that's good enough, good luck with the next updates! I will certainly check them all :)
May I please have explicit permission to make a really cool lord of the rings mod add on for my first minecraft mod?
it's normal that there are not structure in the 1.16 version ?
In reply to bernardleking:
Yes, Structures have not yet been ported to the Renewed version, if you want to play with structures please use the legacy version found >Here<
One major caviat I had about the old version is how short sighted the troops were, I couldn't send them to attack far and instead I could only attack if I got dangerously close, even tho the sword has a range of 64 blocks, the troops don't go 64 blocks, and the archers were kind of useless with their short range, so in this update hopefully I will see better troop AI.
Me and my friends want to start a LotR project and we thought about taking the modpack "simply LotR". Are all the changes/enhancements mentioned above also updated there?
In reply to telekomkrieger:
The Simply Lotr modpack uses the legacy version of the mod which can be found >Here<, this page belongs to the renewed version of the mod, thus, none of the features mentioned above apply to the experience you could expect from using that modpack since it centers around a completely different version of the mod.
It is worth noting though that the legacy version of the mod is much more complete and it is the recommended way to experience the mod while it gets ported to 1.16 and beyond.
In reply to DarlPielord:
OK, thank you