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[existent]

War of the Ring is a total overhaul mod for Dwarf Fortress, based upon the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
War of the Ring Features:

-Races-

Good

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Human-
          Humans come in three varieties: the common Gondorian, the slighter rarer and slightly more powerful Rohirrim, and the rare yet skilled Dunedain.

Dwarf (Playable)
Elf (Playable)
Hobbit (Playable)
Ent

Evil

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Wildman
Orc
Haradrim

-Weapons/Armor-

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Clubs
Shovels
Double-Bladed Sword
Scavenged Breastplate/Scavenged Mail

-Resources-

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Mithril
Silmarils

-Creatures-

Wild Animals

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Wargs
Crows
Wild Goblins (Underground Only)
Barrow Wights
Mumakil

-Flora-

Agricultural

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Cotton (can be processed into thread)
Corn (can be milled into cornmeal)
Mushroom
Shire Potato (can be brewed into Sweet Potato Wine)
Shire Cabbage
Wild Carrot (can be brewed into Carrot Juice)
Sweet Galenas (currently has no use)
Tobacco (currently exists only in the raws)
Athelas (currently has no use)
Blueberry (can be processed into blue dye)
Wild Strawberries (can be processed into red dye)

Arboreal

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Withered Tree (found in evil biomes)
Galathilion Tree (replaces Feather tree)
Mallorn Tree
Lebethronedit Tree (produces black logs, I think)

-Misc-

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Black Lung Disease

Dev List:

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Good Races
Ents
Wizards
Hobbits
Revamped Dwarves
Elves That Don't Suck (ETDS)
Revamped Humans

Evil Races
Evil/Wild Men/Haradrim
Revamped Goblins
Nazgul
Orcs
Balrog(s)
Fallen Wizards

Good Fauna
Revamped Horses
Revamped Giant Eagles
Army of the Dead

Evil Fauna
Balrog(s)
Revamped Giant Spiders
Wargs
Oliphaunts/Mumakil
Barrow Wights
Wild Goblins
Cave Troll
Great Beasts

Materials/Weapons/Items
Staffs
Runes
Enchanted Weapons
Mithril
Halberds
Throwing Spears
Double-Bladed Swords
Orcish Armor
Slings
Thrown Rocks
Flaming Weapons
Siege Weaponry

Flora
Tree Re-write
Athelas
Sweet Galenas/Tobacco
Corn
Cabbage
Carrots

Custom Reactions
Process Tobacco
Process Corn
Process Athelas
Enchant Weapon
Produce Paper
Runesmithing

Custom Workshops
Wizard's Hut
Paper Mill
Magic Forge

[existent]

War of the Ring is constantly changing, being updated, and having bugfixes. I seriously recommend posting in this thread, so that you can stay on top of changes.

Prepackaged with Dwarf Fortress 31.13:
Download Version 0.13.3 Here.
Individual RAW files:
Download Version 0.13.3 Here.

Now Hear This, Now Hear This:
Any and all suggestions will be considered for implementation. That said, feel free to fiddle with the mod on your own. I have no problem with people changing things, or with people sharing said files with the community.

Change Log:
Version 0.13.3

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 Updated to DF 31.13

Version 0.13.2

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 Bugfixes

Version 0.13.1

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 Fixed Duplicate Creature Error

Version 0.13

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Added Lofn's Black Lung Mod
Strengthened Ents
Allowed Hobbits Access To Axes
Introduced Haradrim Civ
Introduced Mumakil
Introduced Barrow Wights
Toughened Dwarves
Added Double-Bladed Sword
Nerfed Axe
Added "Scavenged Breastplate"/"Scavenged Mail"
Added Orc Civ
Added Goblins
Lowered Population Requirement For Sieges

Version 0.10.1

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Fixed Hobbit Nobles

Spoiler: Credits (click to show/hide)

War of the Ring was made possible by:
Deon, for making Ents possible, and for his Middle Earth Mod, which was both inspiration and example.
The Tolkien Wiki for helping fill out the lore.
andhfe, for pointing out huge bugs I can't believe I missed.
Kilakan, for pointing out the solution to bugs I can't believe I missed.
3, for patiently combing through .txt files to find my one typo that's breaking the game.
Camden1990, who created the silmarils.
ungulateman, for lending a hand when my modding experience wasn't up to par.
Lofn, for his Black Lung Mod.
My younger brother, for diligently testing every new release, and helping me come up with ideas.
The Bay12 community, for encouraging me all the while.
And, of course, The One Toad himself.

[3]

Should ents build structures? I doubt it. Use TREE_CITY as their entity site type to get rid of them.

Also, VBASE. It will ensure that your stuff is compatible with everything else, and will cut down on file size (vastly, in some cases) and editing time to some degree. If you're not interested in using it right now, then I suggest you try getting used to it once you've gotten a handle on modding basics.

[existent]

Should ents build structures? I doubt it. Use TREE_CITY as their entity site type to get rid of them.

To be honest, I kinda thought I had. These Ents are nowhere near finished. Also, thanks for the tip, I'll check out vbase after I've tinkered with the Ents a bit.

Also, now that I think about it, didn't Treebeard have a hut/house of some sort? I'll have to check that sometime. Either way, I'm probably going with TREE_CITY for them.

[Eagle_eye]

in my experience, creatures made of non flesh materials are extremely brittle. I tried to make a slade golem once, it was bitten in half by a puppy. I'm not sure how the bronze colossus manages...

[3]

It depends. I just made a creature with a primary material based on muscle, and it proved indestructible (Literally. I had given it no heatdam/colddam point, tried attacking it with a Grandmaster Hammerer BC with a slade maul, and couldn't dend it) all because of me giving the tissue def THICKENS_ON_STRENGTH. I took that out, and it worked fine.

[Deon]

You can look into my old Middle-Earth mod for the ideas on critters and races. It's great to see this in the works .

[andfhe]

You can look into my old Middle-Earth mod for the ideas on critters and races. It's great to see this in the works .

How many mods have you made?!

You need to be like, promoted, or something.

[Deon]

A lot.

[existent]

You can look into my old Middle-Earth mod for the ideas on critters and races. It's great to see this in the works .

Awww man. Linking me to that was a mistake.

Also, I'll let you guys know how I end up making Ents not fight like styrofoam.

On the list for today:
Make the Dev list coherent
Continue working on Ents
Flora Re-write
Testing and probably tweaking Wargs (although, wargs might be changed later into more of an "evil mount" than the demon wolf they are now)
Make the Dev list coherent. That's a biggie.
Hobbitses!
Slight weapon tweaking (NOT the weapon re-write, that'll come in later)
Elf Re-write

I'll probably get started on the Flora Re-write first, mainly because it won't be that hard but will have a big affect on immersion. At least, it will for me, and I'm making it, so that's all that counts. After that, Ents, and once they're in some form of working order, I'll jump into the Dev List Overhaul. Everything else is susceptible to getting pushed back.

[Deon]

Why that was a mistake?

[existent]

Why that was a mistake?

I'll be stealing like.... most of that.

Hmmm.... well, making these Ents work is tricky, but I think I might have got it. As they are now, they're essentially "Copper Colossuses", which had some interesting results. First off, unarmed attacks seem to be next to impossible to hit them. This means they cannot kill each other, which I guess is good. Ents aren't very murderous. Secondly, they're not too tough, but they're also unkillable. Four unarmed dwarves were completely crushed by a pair of Ents. One dwarf with no armor, skills set at grandmaster and a blue-metal axe was unable to do much of anything before an Ent crushed his head. One dwarf, in steel armor, with skills at talented, managed to get most of them into cyan before dying.

At this point, an Ent is fairly even matched against 5 Ironclad Gobblins, with the exception that Ents are now unkillable. I'm working on that last bit.

[Deon]

Wait what. That's 38c or 39c man . Don't joke like that.

And the concept belongs to Tolkien.

[existent]

Ugh. I'm officially giving up on Ents for now, and moving on to the Flora Re-write. I can get one to die, but it takes a Bronze Colossus 5 minutes to do it.

[Eagle_eye]

try giving them a low heatdam point and adding flaming spells/arrows.