Ilu Ambar - Enquenta Arda | 3rd Age Middle-earth
LOTR Mod - Immersive roleplay survival

Ilu Ambar - Enquenta Arda is a LOTRmodded minecraft server for people who wish to experience creative custom roleplay and building in Tolkiens legendary realm Middle-earth, during the Third Age. The timeline for this server's roleplay starts at the eleventy-first birthday of Bilbo, Shire reckoning 1401.

This server is a continuation of ‘Ilu Ambar - Quenta Arda’, which started in January 2019 and was discontinued in August 2023, but with a reset world and various server and player builds from the old server.

• The server is a LOTRmodded minecraft server using the LOTRmod to provide a gameplay environment aimed at long-term immersive roleplay survival, with focus on in-character roleplay, building, PvE and consented PvP. The server world is Middle-earth and uses the LOTRmod the way it is designed to be used.
• Survival mechanics are set to encourage planning ahead: incapacitation comes with a partial loss of inventory and a random body relocation, and fast transport is restricted.
• The server has a ruleset and serverside mods (a.o. Lembas with the PvP Mode mod) to support player roleplay immersion and empowerment, and minimum staff monitoring and intervention.
• As of April 2020, players require the following 7 mods to be able to join: LOTRmod, ArmourersWorkshop, AstikorCarts, BiblioCraft, CustomNPCs, CyanosLootableBodies and MineTweaker. All are included in this Technic modpack: Ilurambarla. We also provide a zipped MultiMC instance.
• All players are equal and neither staff nor sponsors receive any benefits in-game.
• The server aims for a community of players who value the server gameplay objectives above the predominantly short-term oriented PvP survival faction warfare that is typical for most minecraft factions/rp/rpg servers. The typical community member is mature, aims for long-term roleplay building and is relatively self-sufficient regarding the gathering of information and in-game resources. The server is whitelisted to ensure players who are allowed to join are aware of their behavioural responsibility. Whitelisting is controlled by trusted players via the Discord server.
• Players are recruited from the minecraft community focussed on the LOTRmod and themed roleplay.
• In-game all player characters are expected to ‘physically’ act in-character at all times, except for OOC events. Chatting can be out-of-character in assigned chat channels.
• Players can toggle their ability to hit or get hit by other players and hired units in friendly and neutral biomes. In enemy biomes, players are ‘free game’, and trackable by others.
• Characters can be in charge of land they control with the mod’s banner protection system. Any other political rule is to be arranged for by the players. Characters can only claim control of areas around their own bannered bases in own faction home biomes or neutral lands. Banner placement in enemy biomes is prohibited.
• The world political map is static with respect to the faction home biomes. There is only ‘taking over’ of lands / conquest warfare in neutral biomes and only with players consent.
• The server offers options to create and organise staged battles using the SiegeMode mod. Players can create scenes and organise battles or sieges with minimal staff support.
• New players start in a spawn area where they can select one of several tens of (sub-)factions. Upon selection they are granted a bonus alignment with the faction of their choice and two allied factions, they get negative alignment with all enemy factions defined by the LOTRmod, and are then teleported to the spawn location of their choice. Faction selection is a one-way process ... but players are allowed to create new characters and even resume playing old characters every week!
• Players do not unlock access to The Shire upon joining the server and they start with nothing in their inventory. The (sub-)faction spawn locations are simple platforms and are banner protected to ensure no enemy units or invasions spawn there. Players will have to gather their resources and craft their gear themselves, or get it from other faction members on the spot.
• Besides the numerous procedurally generated structure the server has no premade lore builds. There are no builders with creative mode and no server shops selling construction materials. The number of impressive, survival made builds gradually grows and each of them turn into fitting sites fit for immersive roleplay.
  Note: Upon the launch of this server, we have a small team of temporarily empowered builders active to finish a limited number of player builds transferred from the old server.
• Griefing, trolling, bullying and landscape scarring are prohibited.
• The original server was opened for whitelisted players on January 15 2019 and is replaced by this server in August 2023, with a reset world using the same seed. We plan to remain active for many years to come.
• Utumno is closed atm, but planned to be opened.
  Note: Utumno was opened permanently on Quenta Arda on the first serversary on January 15 2020.
• We have a vast catalogue of custom, LOTR themed paintings available for use in-game through use of the Emmaitar mod, all with their own dedicated crafting recipe and fully documented in our Discord server.
• Players can purchase NPC spawn eggs from middlemen spread around the numerous faction spawn sites and even customise their own trader NPCs.
• There are also special mercers that sell and buy a range of products players cannot obtain or sell elsewhere in Middle-earth.
• Besides the aforementioned, we have a range of special features to make life on our server more enjoyable than on others, a.o.: formations of hired troops are a thing, bomb damage is greatly reduced, player drops float around longer than the default 5 minutes, players can sit down on objects as they please and various recipes to make life more enjoyable, like recipes to combine lower tier smith scrolls to higher tier ones.

Information

• Starting points, scope and objectives: Overview
• Rules and Guidelines for both Discord and Minecraft server: Rules and Guidelines
• General Information, a.o. on IP, Modpack and Discord roles: General Information
• Installation guides and an overview of tutorial information, tips and links for people new to minecraft or the LOTRmod: Installation and Gameplay Guide
• All information on the whitelisting procedure and the application template: Whitelisting