LOTR: Renewed Extended

(Beta 1.7.2) (Third update in the Bree-Land release cycle)

• Blocks
  • Fixed Axes not mining Wattle and Daub blocks faster
  • Ported Bree-land Banner
• Config
  • Changed structureBlockOutlineViewDistance option from a float to an integer (will cause the value to reset to default)
• Entities
  • Added Hireable Gundabad Orc Units
  • Added Hireable Dunedain Ranger Units
  • Fixed Structure Entity spawners not rendering debug viewer when in dev mode
  • Ported Gundabad Chieftains
  • Ported Ranger of the North Captains
• Hired Units
  • Added a Datapack driven system for defining hired units (localization strings, coin cost, pledge requirements, alignment threshold, base gear pools) (This enable modpacks or servers to tweak hired unit parameters)
  • Added a new setting in the options menu to toggle FriendlyFire with hired units owned by the player
  • Fixed some compatibility issues with LOTR: Companions (for R+E1.7.2 + future companions update)
  • Fixed units Friendly Fire not respecting fellowship FriendlyFire settings
  • Fixed units being immune to ally (own) arrows or self lit TNT (enableable via PvHU setting)
  • Fixed units health bars not hiding when F1 is pressed (hideGui)
  • Fixed units not Fast Traveling with their owner
  • Fixed units not being damaged by owners when Friendly Fire was enabled (enableable via PvHU setting now)
  • Fixed units not dropping player supplied equipment when killed.
  • Fixed units not dropping their 9-slot inventory when killed
  • Fixed units reviving themselves with passive healing after death. (becoming undead)
  • Fixed units teleporting onto non-solid or invalid blocks
  • Fixed units teleporting while in mid air
  • Made base equipment not render in inventory when player equipped armor is present
  • Units can now equip skulls, player heads, pumpkins (all 3 variants), and elytra (visual only)
• Items
  • Added Bree Shields
  • Added a Bree Banner Pattern
  • Added a Hobbit Banner Pattern
  • Buffed Morgul Armor to balance it because it does not have the weapon breaking feature
  • Fixed shears not shearing some blocks faster
  • Nerfed Taurethrim armor stats to align with legacy values
• Localization
  • Added an initial Bosnian language translation (bs_ba) (Bosanski (Bosna i Hercegovina))
  • Added an initial Croatian language translation (hr_hr) (Hrvatski (Hrvatska))
  • Added an initial French language translation (fr_fr) (Français (France))
  • Added an initial Serbian (Latin) language translation (sr_cs) (Srpski (Srbija))
  • Added localization support for all the hired unit inventory strings
  • Fixed Bree-land strings using Bree-Land
  • Updated Chinese (Taiwan; Mandarin) translation (zh_tw) (繁體中文 (台灣))
  • Updated Renewed’s Chinese (Taiwan) speechbank translations (zh_tw) (繁體中文 (台灣))
  • Updated Renewed’s Chinese (Taiwan) translation (zh_tw) (繁體中文 (台灣))
• Loot Tables
  • Fixed Bree Hamlets chests sometimes spawning with 25+ bows in a chest
• Misc
  • Added Gemstone grinding to the Stone Grinder (Ores->Gems for Extended, Renewed, and Vanilla gems)
  • Added chair denied status debug logging to troubleshoot player issues
  • Fixed Stone Grinder turning bricks into bricks
  • Fixed several items being in the wrong creative tabs
  • Fixed two Rohan advancements having flipped names
• Renewed Patches
  • Fixed a bug where player alignment bars render even if Team disallows nameplate rendering
  • Potentially fixed the elusive (Drystone/WattleDaub) connected texture crash (Thanks to everyone who reported this issue, was I was able to track down the potential issue that was causing it, TLDR: Java 9+ changed some things that caused texture queries to sometimes conflict causing a ConcurrentModificationException)
• Textures
  • Added an all new designed Bree Banner and Shield texture
  • Reworked the leather hat model
  • Updated Dunedain Shield texture
• Trading
  • Fixed Oddment Collectors selling vanilla emeralds