Hi.

I'm Dennis, and I work with TCAdmin. My main role with TCAdmin is creating configs for new (or existing) games. The point of making these configs is to make hosting servers easy for server providers and communities.
I've been digging into making a config for Valheim and want to include uMod - but that seems to require installing the uMod Agent on each of your machines. I can see how it would make things easy for some people, but with TCAdmin we would basically have to change the entire commandline based on if the user has uMod installed or not.

Is there no way to get the files for uMod, place them on the server and then start the server like you normally?

Thanks in advance.

At the moment no, as uMod and what is involved with it is more than a bundle of patched files.

Everything that the Agent installs or updates is sourced from the manifest: https://assets.umod.org/uMod.Manifest.json.  You are free to use this file to create your own installer/updater.

However, there are a couple of considerations with this approach..
1. If any of the uMod apps are not found, uMod.Core will attempt to reach out to the Agent to install them
2. Some Agent commands are meant to be available from the server console, namely "show", "require", "update" (plugins only), "old|obsolete|outdated", "suggests", "fund", "depends", "prohibits", "status", "licenses", "remove|uninstall" (plugins only).

Without the Agent, uMod will error when attempting to obtain the apps or when running any of those commands. We could add the ability to specify a launcher argument to suppress errors that arise from a missing Agent.

However, this will probably generate support requests for both TCAdmin and us given that the above commands will become the standard way to perform certain critical actions in our ecosystem, in particular installing, updating, and removing plugins.

For that reason I would recommend against it, and if at all possible, use any of the documented installation methods to obtain the agent for uMod-enabled servers.

Thanks for your feedback. I'll work on adding uMod integration.
I'm curious about one thing, though: If a user runs their server with this commandline: valheim_server.exe -nographics -batchmode -port 2456 -name "Valheim Server" -world "world" -password "12345" -public 1 -savedir C:\path\to\valheim\folder
How will the umod agent know these parameters? Can we add them after

umod launch​

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Thanks for your feedback. I'll work on adding uMod integration.
I'm curious about one thing, though: If a user runs their server with this commandline: valheim_server.exe -nographics -batchmode -port 2456 -name "Valheim Server" -world "world" -password "12345" -public 1 -savedir C:\path\to\valheim\folder
How will the umod agent know these parameters? Can we add them after

umod launch​

?

umod new launcher -logfile output.log​

1. During pre-release the "-P" or "--prerelease" argument is required, but this is only temporary. "umod new launcher --prerelease"
2. The "--skip-default" argument is available to prevent the default launcher arguments from being added, if you want to specify these yourself

Thanks for the help so far.
Would I be correct to assume that we could just use the uMod Agent to install uMod, but still launch Valheim using the .bat file, and still have uMod working on the server?

sNIP8760

Thanks for the help so far.
Would I be correct to assume that we could just use the uMod Agent to install uMod, but still launch Valheim using the .bat file, and still have uMod working on the server?