I played vanilla x3 thru last boss and loved it.

Then I added Valheim+ for QoL, Raft and Epic Loot and loved it even more but it got a bit easy towards the middle. So I added a bunch more (as per below) to add difficulty, new monsters but it was still not right.

Finally I got into the .json and .yml files to balance spawns/drops by world level and integrate EpicLoot drops on new monsters, etc, etc and it's been a blast, on my 2nd world now.

Mods:
PlantEverything
ClockMod
ConfigurationManager
ValheimRaft
MapIconMod
GammaMod
SlopeCombatFix
DropThat (configs)
SpawnThat (configs)
JudesEquipment
DoDMonsters
BetterArchery
JotunnBackpacks
BetterUI (edits)
CreatureLevel&LootControl (edits)
QuickStack
EquipWheel x2
EpicLoot (edits)
Valheim+ (edits)
ValheimLegends (edits)
Terraheim
MassFarming

A recent pic of hunt time with the pack after some deer meat, berries and a few horns of tasty mead. Skal!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2795925318