Middle-Earth
It has been thousands of years since Gandalf and the Elves sailed west leaving Middle-Earth into the age of Men – it is just a matter of time until it gets annexed by the Soviet Union…
Follow the footsteps of Bilbo and Frodo in this map based J.R.R Tolkien’s world for Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
The map includes most of the cities and places of Middle-Earth, where I tried to use the vanilla buildings that resembled the most with each city’s architecture. It is compatible with the base game (v0.8.8+), no additional mods are needed.
Resources were added where they would best fit in the story line, and balanced for medium difficulty:
- Mordor (south-east) is rich in Oil (to breed Orcs) and Uranium (source of dark magic), but the rocky terrain will make it hard to build there;
- Bauxite, to make the finest Mithril (Aluminium), can only be found in the depths of Moria, at the center of the map;
- Iron is only available in the North, in the Iron Hills and Grey Mountains;
- Stone and Coal are more common around the map;
- The Shire (west) is good for a small self-sufficient farming commune, if want to play in Frodo-Cosmonaut mode…
Other differences from the "real" thing:
- map had to be scaled down (the game doesn’t support very big maps), so the locations are closer together;
- rivers were adapted a bit to allow navigation to the borders
Update 2022-10-08: Switched and reshaped borders (v0.8.8 new feature)
