The current king is SmexySmit. Gundabad is seperated into multiple clans ruled by fearsome war chiefs. Gundabad welcomes all Orcs that wish to join. The leader of Gundabad was bubberet who ruled from an orc outpost at Mt.
After a war on the faction conducted by the Rangers of the North and the Dwarven House, Gundabad was seemingly destroyed and the Dwarves reclaimed the mountain to build their holy city.
The second dynasty of Gundabad started when SirWilsonGS declared himself the leader and created a mighty stronghold at Mt. Caradhras, the mightiest peak in the Misty Mountains. SirWilsonGS was also able to reclaim part of Mt.
Gundabad for orcs. Gundabad once again. Gundabad is now growing at an exciting rate, ready to take on any faction who stands in their way. The home of the Half Trolls was ruled by Glaerdir , the only known member, who used to be High King of Lindon before getting corrupted by evil influences.
The faction of the Hobbits is a friendly little family of jovial and good-natured players. We prefer a peaceful playing style with building our holes and houses, working the land, raising livestock, drinking ale in our taverns or just chilling, smoking pipes and doing serious party business. Also we try to build and improve the many waypoints in the Shire and to clear up the rubbish that a lot of players left behind after joining the server at spawn in the middle of our land. Beside this, we Hobbit players are always ready to start an unexpected journey or adventure beyond our borders.
Current faction leader is Wollibo , a fool of a Took and Thain of the Shire. If you like a cozy time at the server, think about joining our faction, you are welcome! Iron Hills. The Iron Hills are ruled by LlianB. They are allied with the Rangers of the North and are allied with the great forests of the Fangorn. The Iron Hills separate Wilderland and Rhun from the tundra in the north.
Kingdom of Anduin. They wish no quarrel with good players however, they recognize that sometimes argument is necessary for satisfactory solutions. Kingdom of Khazad-dum. They own a big fortress at West Gate in Eregion on the edge of the Misty Mountains from where they try to dig through to the eastern rim.
Moria is allied with the Rangers of the North. They are also a part of the Dwarven House and are in an alliance with all other dwarves in the house. Kingdom of Dale and Rhovanion. Republic of Lebennin. At first, this faction was created by a small coalition of city-estates that seceded from Gondor due to discrepancies on the way the server should be played; but over time this small republic has grown considerably claiming most of Lebennin's territory for its own and generally playing casually and building.
The faction has sworn neutrality for all Middle Earth, but its relations with Gondor have shifted from war to alliance many times. Always welcoming everyone, all the information about them is constantly updated here. Read more here Dragonearth. Celleborn left looking for a new life leaving his steward TomBombadil Galadriel in charge of all Lothlorien with Cookminers as steward to Tom.
Soon after, Orchidcube joined him to rule by his side as Queen and second-in-command. She officially took over as ruler when Celleborn left the server to pursue greater aspirations. He gained rights to the land in an election that was posted on the Official Server's Facebook page. He has resigned to owning and building Barad-dur. ItsSecret was later determined Dark Lord of all Mordor after some border disputes with the previous Overlord.
He now rules in undisputed power and prepares the legions of the Black Land to defend or attack. Later, after a civil war and outside interference, Morishi took the throne of Mordor. After a long time of the black lands laying dormant, Aidansebastian Sauron and BDdeuce Witch-King took kinship in that order and are working to restore Mordor to a force of great power once again.
Since then, BDdeuce has had to step down as ruler. This lead to Rumil becoming Queen of Mordor. At first the Moredain lived as independent and isolated tribal communities.
The arid Savannah ruled by gestgeorge and the Savannah ruled by Glydencat. After gestgeorge was killed by angry Gondorians, Glydencat annexed gestgeorge's kingdom and united the Moredain once more.
Zuperned became the ruler after Kingopai1. Near Harad. After Karseius II transformed Near Harad into a monarchy of multiple independant states, the rule of the continent was divided between the five Serpents of Harad. Each Serpent is lord of his own city which is considered an independant sub-faction the whole of Near Harad existing out of sub-factions.
Rangers of the North. They are allied with the Dwarven Kingdoms, as well as the elven realm of Lindon. It is commonly regarded as one of the largest and most powerful nations in middle earth. You can read more updated information about Arnor and all of TOS's middle earth here.
Red Mountains Orocarni. Wille is the current king of the Red Dwarves and their mountains. He is the leader of the Ironfist clan but also all the other clans. He is the oldest red dwarf on the server.
Forodren Gwaith. The Tauredain are a generally newer faction, and are wereruled by LordEnedar , who took rule by declaration and order of Mevans. The Tauredain's chief military fortresses will be located on name withheld and the geographical feature withheld south of it. Celleborn was the former steward of the Tauredain under Enedar, and joined after much much much convincing done by Enedar, Celleborn took this position, though he is still lord of Eryn Vorn.
In return, Enedar joined his faction of assassins and came to his house. The Tauredain's main and chief ally is the NorthShire Republic, and the two factions are known for jointly attacking the Moredain, Haradrim, Cerinrim, and Limwaith.
Another ally is Gundabad, although this is just due to their support of the Tauredain. LordEnedar has met many men, elves, hobbits, and orcs from many factions, and allied with them also, although he is not a friend of elves as of recent.
The Tauredain's religion is Taurianea, and the trees are sacred. The Tauredain also lay claim to the Far Harad Cloud Forest, and will expand upon the creation of the people of the Tauredain. The Corsairs of Nawfal. After watching so many people die because of Kvesir's stubbornness these corsairs deserted and fled north, to the Bay of Belfalas. Completely independent, the corsairs started to build their home.
The Riders of Rohan. Rohan, the home of the horse lords, in the center of middle earth, is ruled by Icefrone.
Under Mewarmy , the Rohan rebellion was over and Rohirrims were reunited. Rohan avoided civil war. Now Umbar is the one true Kingsmen nation united under the Umbar banner. Umbar is an integral part of the Astrasi, as it is a port nation. Capital is the city of Umbar, that is under construction.
The opped SpadeCompany is the undisputed owner of Isengard. He is currently building the tower of Orthanc in the newly revamped Nan Curunir biome. Again, check your package management system for instructions on how to install them on your favourite OS.
For FreeBSD, you would just need to enter the following command change screen by tmux, if you want that one :. These commands also usable with Forge servers bring an additional benefit: the ability to communicate with the Minecraft console from the command line to enter Minecraft commands or talk in the chat. On a more trivial side, you'll also need to install an Unzip package to uncompress the KCauldron distribution:.
All the things described in the Forge server configuration section apply just the same for K Cauldron. But there are new configuration files to check: bukkit. The remaining ones, commands. For server only mods, you won't need them as you'll find a plugin offer which is both richest and better established. You could start by checking this popular selection of plugins , and then review the Most downloaded Top Minecraft Bukkit plugins list.
To give you some ideas, here are the results of a survey made in January about the plugins used by LOTR servers , and a post about some plugins this page author is using for his own LOTR server. You can use almost all plugins versions made for CraftBukkit up to 1. Most Spigot plugins work too. Check the Configuring third-party software for the mod page for hints on how to best use them with the mod.
Be careful about your server casting. If you disagree later on, think about how you will share things and part peacefully. It might get complicated when there are several people who are paying for the server, or with file access to the server files folder sensitive information such as the world's seeds might be leaked You'll also need to define what's allowed or disallowed on the server.
Check the servers pages for examples of that or the Minecraft wiki page on Griefing , for an extensive list of the bad things that could will! Before opening your server and advertising it, you might want to build or import one or more spawn points for your players, and add some major builds. This is of course beyond the score of this wiki page. These operating systems are not recommended by this page author as they devote a lot of your preciousss server resources to the interaction with the console user, need a lot of administration on their own well at least for Windows and their complexity creates additional security issues remember your server will be on the Internet?
You certainly don't want to serve as a relay to attack others or provide wide access to your home computers! On the other hand, as Mac OS X and FreeBSD are closely related , especially at the "userland" utility level with the notable exception of the packaging system , the command lines provided here should be relatively close to work out of the box on a modern Mac. But there are far more options available beware, they often vary between Java versions.
If you encounter issues such as periodic lags while you have excellent TPS and memory available, this might be caused by an application "pause" for memory garbage collection. You might then want to use an alternative Java garbage collector , tuned for low latency. The problem here is that there is no one size fits all solution.
Simply Lord of the Rings is a faithful love of the films and you can see it in regards to what you do and when. It is up to you to examine all of the different options and choices to find what works for you, and this can be understandably hard. We personally would recommend you explore Minecraft server hosting to find the best results by using multiplayer. Select this, and then press save profile. Click "play". You can quit game once again once it has loaded.
Now, open your file browser. Navigate to the "View" menu at the top of your screen, and click "Show Hidden Files". Find the ". In this folder, there should be a folder called "mods". Place the file [1. You might want to back up the "saves" folder in your ". To back it up, simply make a copy of the file on your desktop or elsewhere. To switch back to vanilla, just change your profile in the launcher so it has your MC username.
If everything worked properly, you'll see the LotR map moving around in the background, when watching the Minecraft title screen. This feature was added in Public Beta Also, since Public Beta 25 , new world options are available when creating a new world. When making your world: you have two options: Putting the world type to Middle-earth or just vanilla. If you choose to take Middle-earth, you will directly spawn in the Middle-earth dimension.
Otherwise, when you spawn into your new world, you will start off in a vanilla Minecraft world. To get to Middle-earth, you will need to create a gold ring , and throw this into a fire or lava.
When all is said and done, it usually takes one iron ingot , a gold ingot , and a piece of flint to get into Middle-earth. You can either go into Creative or use NotEnoughItems to cheat these items in, or you can gather all the things you need within an hour or less.
Another option is to use a world seed that spawns you right next to a desert pyramid or jungle temple, and get the loot. There are countless things to do in Middle-earth. Read the Middle-earth Gameplay Guide to learn more about what you can do in this realm.
If you run into problems installing the Lord of the Rings Mod, please ask in the "technical-support" channel on our Discord server. The community will be happy to assist you with any issues you might run into. If Discord doesn't help you, post on one of the Technical Support Boards below if you have any questions.
Things To Do. Community Portal. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? History Talk 0. Do you like this video? Play Sound. To allocate more memory for minecraft using the vanilla launcher, click on Edit Profile in the lower left corner.
At the bottom of that dialogue box is JVM Arguments. The recommended amount of memory for LOTR is 2G, but if you are using a high resolution texture pack you should allocate more. Likewise, if your computer is limited on memory, you may want to allocate less to be sure that your operating system and other programs have enough memory.
To allocate more memory for minecraft using the newer edition of the vanilla launcher, click on Launch Options , located on the right side of the menu bar. Click the gray toggle to enable arguments for this profile. In the box, put -Xmx2G or -XmxM. To allocate more memory for minecraft using the technic launcher, click on Launcher Options at the top right corner. Then click on the Java Settings tab and from there you can change the amount of memory to your liking.