Middle-earth Kinship

Speak with the free folk of Middle-earth: trade, change your coin, and hire a blade for the road.

A Fabric mod for the Middle-earth mod

Description

Walk up to a friendly villager, ranger or soldier with an empty hand, right-click, and a quiet dialogue opens off to the side of your view. From there you can barter over their wares, break your heavy coin into smaller pieces, or take a warrior into your service for the road ahead.

Nothing here is pulled out of thin air. Prices are worked out from Middle-earth's own alloy recipes and the nutrition of its food. A trader's purse follows who their people are by lore, from the gold of Erebor to a snaga's few coppers. A hireling's wage follows the gear on their back, not the title over their head.

Tip: talk with an empty main hand. Coins in hand are left free for other mods that trade on them, so the two never fight over the same click.

What you can do

	A small, see-through dialogue sits beside the crosshair, so the world and the person stay in view. Every people speaks in its own voice: Erebor is blunt and about the coin, Lórien courteous and distant, the Shire warm and about supper, Rohan plain and about horses.
	Buy a trader's wares, or sell your own. A worn tool fetches less by how battered it is, and a sound item you sell goes back on their shelf, so you can buy it back later.
	Change copper, silver and gold in either direction, by a slider or a typed amount. You can only change as far as the trader's own strongbox reaches, so a wealthy merchant is worth finding.
	Each trader's wealth is rolled from their race and faction by Tolkien's lore, and it rises and falls as you deal with them. Sell a fine blade to a farmer and he may not have the coin for it.
	Wares, prices and the odd rare find are drawn from each NPC, so a shop you walk back to is the same shop, but the one two doors down is not. Gear sits one to a shelf, a second piece the rare exception.
	Take a warrior into service for a term you set in game-days (shown in real minutes too). They follow you, keep a distance you choose, run to catch up, survive relogs, and can be extended or let go. Up to three at once.

The coin

Middle-earth mints three coins, and this mod ties them together:

	is worth
1 gold	100 silver
1 silver	100 copper

A long game leaves you carrying stacks of copper worth a few gold. Any trader with a deep enough strongbox will change it, up or down.

How to use

To do this	Do that
Talk	Right-click a friendly Middle-earth NPC with an empty main hand
Buy / sell	Pick "Show me what you carry", then Buy a row or Sell yours (hold Shift to sell your soundest copy)
Change coin	Open the Coin tab, choose a direction, set an amount, press Change
Hire	Pick "I need a blade on the road", set the term, press Hire
Give orders	Talk to a hireling again to set how close they keep, extend their service, or let them go
See your company	Run `/mekinship crew` at any time

Requirements


Minecraft	1.21.8, on the Fabric loader
Fabric API	Required
Middle-earth by Jukoz	Required. Its folk, coins and goods are the whole point
Roughly Enough Items	Optional. If you use it, the mod keeps its overlay out of the trade window

Built in for English and Русский.

More for your Middle-earth run

Middle-earth Satchels

My other mod for the same world: eight tiers of backpack, each forged from its culture's own metal, from a humble leather satchel up to mithril. Carry more, and dye the wrap to your own colours.

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Minecraft: Java Edition

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