diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index d492510c..5638c284 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -163,28 +163,12 @@ subprojects {
         jaxDoclet
         // give test dependencies access to compileOnly dependencies to emulate providedCompile
         testImplementation.extendsFrom compileOnly
-
-        dddResource // custom configuration for our ivy resources (eg. font info)
-        dddResource.description = "Resources (eg. yml or json data) to be included in jar builds"
     }
 
     repositories {
         // Maven Central is defined in allprojects (for JaCoCo)
         maven { url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots" }
         maven { url "https://papermc.io/repo/repository/maven-public/" }
-
-        // Note: Subprojects can't have repo overrides to we have to put it here
-        // Define a Ivy repo for the font width data (that way we don't need another plugin!)
-        def dddResources = ivy {
-           url "https://dumbdogdiner.github.io/"
-            patternLayout { artifact "/[module]/[revision]/[classifier].[ext]"}
-            metadataSources { artifact() } 
-        }
-        // Only use the Ivy repo for font width data - speeds up dependency resolution
-        exclusiveContent {
-            forRepositories(dddResources)
-            filter { includeGroup("dumbdogdiner") }
-        }
     }
 
     dependencies {
@@ -271,7 +255,7 @@ dependencies {
 // Root build: create uber sources from subproject sources
 task rootSources(type: Jar, dependsOn: subprojects.classes) {
     // Gradle 7 implicit dependency fix: depend on special common tasks
-    dependsOn(":common:copyMCFontExtractor")
+    dependsOn(":common:downloadWidthData")
     dependsOn(":common:commonSources")
 
     archiveClassifier.set("sources")
@@ -291,7 +275,7 @@ task rootTestReport(type: TestReport) {
 // Create a libs/modules folder with submodule jars
 task copySubprojectJars(type: Copy, dependsOn: subprojects.jar) {
     // Gradle 7 implicit dependency fix: depend on special common tasks
-    dependsOn(":common:copyMCFontExtractor")
+    dependsOn(":common:downloadWidthData")
     dependsOn(":common:commonSources")
 
     // Copy subproject jar and sources
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/DownloadTask.groovy b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/DownloadTask.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..80dada03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/DownloadTask.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import org.gradle.api.DefaultTask
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.Input
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.OutputFile
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskAction
+
+class DownloadTask extends DefaultTask {
+    @Input
+    String from
+
+    @OutputFile
+    File destination
+
+    @TaskAction
+    void download() {
+        ant.get(src: from, dest: destination)
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/common/build.gradle b/common/build.gradle
index 6a5d3468..8d83aa3c 100644
--- a/common/build.gradle
+++ b/common/build.gradle
@@ -15,9 +15,6 @@ dependencies {
     // testRuntimeOnly = only accessible during the test job
     testRuntimeOnly "org.yaml:snakeyaml:1.27"
 
-    // Font width data (see above)
-    dddResource "dumbdogdiner:mc-font-extractor:main:mojangles_width_data@json"
-
     implementation "com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.7"
 
     // Dependencies available in both bukkit and bungee
@@ -88,21 +85,18 @@ compileJava.source = processSourceTokens.outputs
     This task serves to copy width data from the default Minecraft font into the final jar.
     This data is generated by <https://github.com/DumbDogDiner/mc-font-extractor>.
  */
+task downloadWidthData(type: DownloadTask) {
+    from "https://dumbdogdiner.github.io/mc-font-extractor/main/mojangles_width_data.json"
+    destination file("build/gen-src/generated/mojangles_width_data.json")
+}
 
-// Font Width Info
-task copyMCFontExtractor(type: Copy) {
-    def path = project.configurations.dddResource.find {it.name.startsWith("mc-font-extractor") }
-    println("common: Found font data at: " + path)
-    from file(path)
-    // into file("src/main/resources")
-    // - Please keep this comment for future reference.
-    // - This is how we would do this if we weren't also adding build info (see processSourceTokens, above comments)
-    destinationDir file("src/main/resources/generated/")
-    rename "mc-font-extractor-main-mojangles_width_data.json", "mojangles_width_data.json"
+// Font Width Info: Switch resources folder
+processResources {
+    from("build/gen-src")
 }
 
 // Run the font data copier
-tasks.processResources.dependsOn copyMCFontExtractor
+tasks.processResources.dependsOn downloadWidthData
 
 
 // Common build: create a jar from the :common & :common:serverversion projects
diff --git a/common/src/main/java/com/dumbdogdiner/stickyapi/common/util/TextUtil.java b/common/src/main/java/com/dumbdogdiner/stickyapi/common/util/TextUtil.java
index 1ca0d78a..4101d314 100644
--- a/common/src/main/java/com/dumbdogdiner/stickyapi/common/util/TextUtil.java
+++ b/common/src/main/java/com/dumbdogdiner/stickyapi/common/util/TextUtil.java
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ private static class WidthEntry {
 
     static {
         Gson gson = new Gson();
-        try (InputStream input = ClassLoader.getSystemResource("generated/mojangles_width_data.json").openStream()) {
+        try (InputStream input = TextUtil.class.getResourceAsStream("/generated/mojangles_width_data.json")) {
             WidthEntry[] entries = gson.fromJson(new InputStreamReader(input), WidthEntry[].class);
             for (WidthEntry entry : entries) {
                 if (entry.getId() == null) entry.setId(0);