------------Welcome to Middle-Earth: The One Ring - By Pacman and Team------------

> First Release: v1.0 / 05. November. 2022
> Latest Update: v3.6 / 10. October. 2025

► Introduction
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Hello and welcome to Middle-earth.
A place of adventure and epic tales.

This world file was made to combine the LotR Mod for Minecraft, with all the important locations and characters, 
as well as other mods like rings of power and more weapons, armor and Custom NPC's with quests and skins. 
It 's in active development over many years now and the project is growing every day.

Our goal is to recreate Tolkien's world with accurate lore, in a new role play game experience.
All new added structures will be manually edited into the world and improved, 
to make sure they fit in a nice transition into the environment.
Experience Middle-earth like never before with a full open world.
Hundreds of lovely created dialog lines, with many different
answer choices, lies ahead for you to explore.

Quest lines that will lead you into the footsteps 
of your heroes and many followers you can hire on the way.
But are you able to destroy the one ring, or will you bound to his power?

The world is available in many languages.

Thanks for downloading and playing,
you can join our discord server to not miss on update news.

Discord Server (download links of the map in "install tutorial" channel) --> https://discord.gg/UxDYMmzMNZ

Youtube Installation Tutorial Video --> https://youtu.be/uJuWuVprRBY?si=aABIF60njpLbRLld


 ► Installation instructions: 
(Minecraft launcher, Windows Java version)
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   1. Download the Map-Pack, Soundpack and Musicpack. Extract the Map-pack with a program like Winrar or 7zip, the files you need are inside the Updated world folder. 

   2.  Start the "forge installer.jar" from inside. (If you can't run it, install Java).  Make sure **Install client** is selected and the path is set to the "AppData\Roaming\minecraft" location,  (usually you don't need to changes this) - press **OK**.

   3.  Open the Minecraft launcher, go to installations, select the new "1.7.10forge version" and apply, at the bottom of the list, at least "4GB" of RAM (more are even better) by changing the number in "Xmx2G" to "Xmx4G".

- Start and close the game again so it can install the 1.7.10forge version.

  4.  A new mods folder is created in "C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Roaming\minecraft", put all the mods from the downloaded folder inside.
(To open the folder, just type %appdata% into your windows searchbar)

 - Here you can copy the "optional mods" you like to use as well. 

 - Start and close the game again so it can install the mods correctly before adding the map.

  5.  Put the "Middleearth - The One Ring" Folder inside the "\Roaming\minecraft\saves" folder.

  6.  Put the "customnpcs" folder into "\Roaming\minecraft" folder. Its for the custom skins used in the game.

   !!! Now you are finish and ready to play !!!

But Wait! There are a few optional steps:
- Resourepacks: Place all the packs found in the map pack into your local Resourepacks folder and activate them in game. Load order picture is in the folder.
- Sound pack: Place it into Resourepacks folder. Activate it on top of the load order.
- Music pack: Unzip the Musicpack.zip and place the 8 smaller zipped files into your "lotrmusic" folder which gets created by lotr mod. No activation needed.
- Shader pack: Drop the "shader-fix-lotr" file, into your Shaderpack folder. Activate it in game. Keep some setting from the next post in mind.
- Performance pack: Check the tutorial inside.
- Change your language files of the new main Questline thanks to our team. You will find the translation packs in the Map-pack Optional stuff folder. Just copy your language from this folder and overwrite the files in "Middleearth - The One Ring\customnpcs\dialogs" and also in quests folder.
- If you are interested in even more addons like a special ring texture pack, check out my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PacmanYT
- Interested in making a server or joining one? Check out Wabbanodes server. A one click installation of my map when using the link: https://wabbanode.com/affiliate/lotrwtme

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**CurseForge Tutorial:**
1. Create the CurseForge instance or update it: https://legacy.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/lotr-welcome-to-middle-earth 
2. Click on the 3 dots and click "open folder". At the top you see "mods that cant be on CF" copy both of them into your mods folder.
3. If this is your first installing, start the game now, so it can set up some folders. Exit it again once you are in main menu. 
4. Download the Map pack, link above. Extract it with a program like winrar or 7zip. The files you need are inside the Updated world folder. Add the Map "(Middleearth - The One Ring)" into the CF Saves folder. 
5. Download the newest version of "Resourepack by Gorthaur" from the pinned message at the News channel (also found in the map pack). Put it into Resourepack folder. 
6. Download the Soundpack and Music packs from the links at discord. 
- Sound pack: Place it into Resourepacks folder. Activate it on top of the load order.
- Music pack: Unzip the Musicpack.zip and place the 8 smaller zipped files into your "lotrmusic" folder which gets created by lotr mod. No activation needed.

7. Ready to play!

Optional:
- Activate the Shaderpack (optifine needed, it's inside the map pack). Set the lotr-sky in mod config (main menu -> mods) to false and also deactivate MC sun, moon, stars and clouds.
- Download the performance pack, link above, and install it. Tutorial inside.
- Also check your Keybindings for conflicts and set your settings.
- Change your language files of the new main Questline thanks to our team. You will find the translation packs in the Map-pack Optional stuff folder. Just copy your language from this folder and overwrite the files in "Middleearth - The One Ring\customnpcs\dialogs" and also in quests folder.
- If you are interested in even more addons like a special ring texture pack, check out my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PacmanYT
- Interested in making a server or joining one? Check out Wabbanodes server. A one click installation of my map when using the link: https://wabbanode.com/affiliate/lotrwtme

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► For installing an update of the world, just delete the old files and copy the new ones again, 
  sometimes new mods or skins will be added so make sure to copy the new "customNPCs" folder and "Mods" too.
 (You can start at step 4 of the installation process.)

- If you want to keep some areas you have build in, use MC-Edit to import them into the updated world.
  (Tutorial on how to import builds into lotr mod: https://youtu.be/TaDsXhMxUag).

- If you want to keep your player progress, just copy your playerdata.

- Copy my options setting files inside your Minecraft if you having problems. Make a Backup of your own first. 

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► Important: 

- If you want to use the shaders with lotr mod, make sure to set the middleearth sky to "false" inside the new lotr mod options in the menu.
  Otherwise you will have a black screen. 
  (Sadly all the new sky effect like the Mordor areas, are not visible when playing with shaders, so its recommended to turn it off in that areas to have a better lotr feeling. 
- Change your keybindings, "L" its used for many mods, just change them all to different keys, otherwise it doesn't opens the lotr map.
- Copy my options setting files inside your minecraft if you having problems. Make a Backup of your own first. 
- Make sure to turn the "void particles" off in the new added options from optifine. Many structures are starting at a very deep layer of the world due to height limits.
- Set your ingame GUI / HUD to large. The smaller settings will cut of the new dialogs. 
- To install the translated language files of the quests and dialogs, just unzip the files and overwrite the files in:
C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Roaming\ .minecraft\saves\Middleearth - The One Ring\customnpcs\dialogs
C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Roaming\ .minecraft\saves\Middleearth - The One Ring\customnpcs\quest
 

► Notes:
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A lot of time went into this project and it was supposed to be only a singleplayer world at first. 

If you like this project, or have improvement ideas just tell us in the discord.
Feedback is allways welcome. 
The best way to support me would be subscribing to my Youtube Channel "Pacman" for free.

(https://youtube.com/@YoutubeChannelPacman)

I upload a lot of Game Trailers and LotR content there. 

You can also donate to support the development of this project and 
get yourself some extra packs (Rings of power)
Found here: https://www.patreon.com/PacmanYT

Hope you have a great time playing this world. 
If you have any trouble with it, just tell me in the bug-report and suggestions channel.
Thanks for downloading :-) 


►Tips:
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- You should start in the Shire at Frodo, if not and you are in the overworld for some reason just craft a normal 
  golden ring in minecraft and throw it in fire and the portal to ME opens, its on top of Frodo.
- About the shader: Its based of the "Sildur's Vibrant Shaders v1.32 High" with a day and night cycle fix.
  the tutorial from "mindofmike channel" on YT is helpful, if you want to use a different shader.
- If you having trouble reading text in speechbubbles turn of motion-blur and dept of field inside the shader options, if that's not helping 
  just play with some settings, have in mind that lotr mod is not used to work with shaders. 
- Some of the new added flora is not weaving in the wind, because the shader/optifine dont work with it, 
  if that is bothering you just turn of all the weaving inside the shader options.
- between the missions its intended to work on alignment for a faction and build an army too, sometimes its alot of treveltime otherwise, 
  or way to hard without an army of companions if you progress to fast.
- If you are lost, just fast travel to a road near the quest point, look out for a way with torches or other markings that lead the way.
- Set dynamic lighting to fancy - causes torches to glow in hand.
- Set better grass on fancy  - causes some gras blocks having gras on the side.(makes shire looks better)
- You have two quest systems, one from the lotr mod where you can earn reputation and one from the quests from the Custom NPC mod.
  To open the Quest Log from LotR just press "L" and a new menu opens. To check you story quests, simply open your inventory and check the new added quest panel.
  You can change the Hotkey for the Questlog as well.
- The Mod Custom NPC's allows you to even set up your own Quest's in the creative mode.
- The command: /wpCooldown <max|min> <seconds>allows the player to set the default minimum and maximum 
  time they have to wait after fast travelling, in seconds.(30 minutes by default)
- You can play the world online with friends too, just set up a simple server with the world and let them join.
 (they have to install the mod too. There are many YT tutorials about LotR Server making, i recommend the one from mindofmike channel.)
=> Check out our discord for way more tips and also screenshots.

►Credits: 
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Thanks to the helping people with this project,
and to the awesome builders from Planet Minecraft and the other structures.
Thanks to the community for the feedback and suggestions. 
As well as big thanks to the mod creators for lotr mod and the rings of power mod.
Without you all this work would not be possible <3
(check out the Credits.txt for more infos.)

►Info:
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- Searching for builders or coders who want to help us with the project. 
  Knowledge in worldedit, MC-Edit or the CustomNpcs mod would be great but is not needed.
- Searching for voice actors for the NPCs.

►Youtube:
Watch videos about updates, news and cinematics of this world.
https://www.youtube.com/@YoutubeChannelPacman

►Discord:
Thanks for downloading and playing the world, join our discord for more information about this project, 
Suggestions, tips and tricks: https://discord.gg/UxDYMmzMNZ

►Patreon:
Join the Patreon community and become a supporter of this project.
You will also get the "realistic rings of power addon" as a special thanks!
https://www.patreon.com/PacmanYT

For any specific request or question about that project, please reach out to: pakpacmanyt@gmail.com
