The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria – Beginners Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks for New Players

By Guy

Mining

Mining is important but remember you don’t have to mine everything you see whenever you see it. Try not to be greedy. Take what you need. You can always go back for more. You have limited inventory space so don’t waste it on stuff you don’t need.

Mining deals with 3 types of resource. Rock(stone, granite, etc), ore(like iron and copper but this can also include coal), gems(of which there are many). Rock is probably 75% of an ore vein. Ore is 20% and gems are 5%. Don’t feel like you have to mine everything. If you need ore – focus on the ore. If you need rocks, focus on the rock. Trying to do everything will fill your bags up super fast.

It’s easier to mine down, than it is up. So when you find an ore vein you want to excavate, try and get on top of it. It might require a little bit climbing and quick platform work. But you’ll be able to do a more thorough sweep of the ore vein mining downward rather than up.

Base Basics

Always put a door on your base, don’t just leave a hole in your wall. A door will stop patrolling enemies walking in or attacking enemies charging in.they will also slow down besieging enemies. Enemies who attack your base will focus on your doors first. So be ready to defend them.

Don’t put windows on the ground floor, enemies patrolling near by can see through windows and will attack if they see you.

Adventuring Basics Camping

Always carry basic materials in your pack so you can build a camp hearth.10 wood scraps. 6 stone. 6 coal.

Always carry 5 iron bars and Lots of metal scraps. You can then build a repair station in your camp. Being able to drop a camp hearth wherever you are so you can repair your armour and weapons while away from base is game changing.

Until you can create food to take with you. Making a camp hearth and camp table, then cooking some meat or mushrooms is the best way to regenerate your health while adventuring. So carry some meat in your pack.

Remember to deconstruct the camp when you’re finished to reclaim your materials.

Cold and Tired Basics

You’ll see ‘cold’ pop up as a status effect on your screen. Being cold, or bone cold, increases your stamina cost for actions and means you get tired and exhausted faster. This can leave you vulnerable to attack when you don’t have the strength to defend yourself (when say the noise of you mining triggers a horde, or patrolling enemies see your light or hear your singing). Try putting a camp hearth next to yourself to keep warm while you mine. It will stop you getting cold and you’ll keep your strength up longer. Remember to deconstruct the hearth for your materials back before you move on.

Being tired and exhausted comes to us all. A tired dwarf doesn’t have as much stamina, and an exhausted dwarf can’t regenerate stamina . But a couple of things will clear the debuff. Sleep is the easiest thing to do! In your base or at a camp site. Eating lamas bread cooked in an ofen, or singing at a statue or while drinking some ale will also shake off fatigue.

Food

Build an oven at your base as soon as you can. Ovens cook food that can be eaten while adventuring, to restore health without a heath and meal table. Make sure you carry plenty of oven cooked food when exploring, to heal yourself back

[ ] Build an oven at your base as soon as you can. Ovens cook food that can be eaten while adventuring, to restore health without a heath and meal table. Make sure you carry plenty of oven cooked food when exploring, to heal yourself back Up

Ale!

Ale is just as important as food. Make brew kettles to brew it, and flaks to carry it with away from base. Drink evening ale before bed to get an extra buff waking up! Different ales in flask give different buffs. So try them all!

Pallets or Chest?

You might see under essentials there is chest… and well pallets! Now, which one is better really depends on what you are going for.

If you like having more life in your decorating spree! I would suggest pallets as you put a specific amount of recourses into the pallets to give certain characteristics of either being full, a bit used, used, nearly empty, or empty.

If you like having function over looks, than chest be your choice! Not only they potentially hold more per-chest, but they take a fraction of a space than pallets in all three axis(x, y, and z) no less! Even as you unlock better chest, yes they do cost more but typically are worth it, you gain the freedom of storing anything you like without limits! As pallets limits you to one recourse per-pallet.

More Tips

• Complete the Tutorial. Several things unlock off of tutorial steps, and it can be challenging to find a forge or hearth to repair if you run straight to the first boss and then decide you want to drop a bedroll.
• Pick up everything at least once. A lot of things unlock from gathering a raw material used in their construction. One option for starting a new game would be to prepare a couple goody bags with one of every raw material in them and dropping those into your new game world. Things like every ore and food ingredient. However, it’s possible that in a few cases, the unlock occurs specifically when you refine or craft something. I need to test for these.
• Hammers! Certain building pieces unlock from one hammer or another, and having a later hammer won’t unlock it for you. So, take your entire toolkit, even the basic hammer. (Because, if you’re like me, you’ll forget to craft that one if you have something better.)

Many things are unlocked by building structures. Here’s a list of Structures which unlock other ‘structures’:

Bellows, Tiled Hearth, Grand Hearth

And other recipes:

Forge, Gem Cutter, Gristmill, Spinning Wheel, Stove, Ufuhan Furnace, Khuzdul Forge

Activate all the Great Forges.

I hope you found this useful!