Originally posted by L1m3r:

@luponix - Awesome thank you.
Previously I wanted to use another more complex "ComfortTweaks" mod[valheim.thunderstore.io] but unfortunately it contains low-grade spyware[key.sayless.eu] without any proper explanation why and the author has no interest in explaining/discussing anything[www.nexusmods.com].
Source code isn't available either and the code is obfuscated....

They (from what I've seen "they" mostly being modders connected to the Odin mod team) use that spyware as a kill switch for the mod if people upload it somewhere instead of linking to it. They're not wrong about copyright, but it seems pretty extreme for free mods - especially since most free software is also freely disseminable and these people in particular usually have lazy or no licensing info.

I've also seen them block people they don't like, for asking "rude" questions in their discord or whatever. It's "I'm the king of the sandbox" level stuff, but they make nice mods - though several are based on/ripped from abandoned open source mods. They also need a better explanation for their key manager, and mod authors should actually spell out their rules for not getting banned - instead of leaving it as a nasty surprise for anyone caught out.

Hopefully a 1.0 release of Valheim will improve things. For now it seems we can have abandoned open source MIT licensed mods, or unknown licensed black box mods from people who can most generously be called paranoid.