diff --git a/platforms/sponge/build.gradle.kts b/platforms/sponge/build.gradle.kts
index 9880b8c93..feabcda9d 100644
--- a/platforms/sponge/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/platforms/sponge/build.gradle.kts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ repositories {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-    "compileOnly"("org.spongepowered:spongeapi:7.2.0")
+    "compileOnly"("org.spongepowered:spongeapi:8.0.0-SNAPSHOT")
     "shadedApi"(project(":common"))
     "shadedImplementation"("org.yaml:snakeyaml:1.27")
     "shadedImplementation"("com.googlecode.json-simple:json-simple:1.1.1")
diff --git a/platforms/sponge/src/main/java/com/dfsek/terra/sponge/SpongeLogger.java b/platforms/sponge/src/main/java/com/dfsek/terra/sponge/SpongeLogger.java
index 1ead85e8d..838ccd58a 100644
--- a/platforms/sponge/src/main/java/com/dfsek/terra/sponge/SpongeLogger.java
+++ b/platforms/sponge/src/main/java/com/dfsek/terra/sponge/SpongeLogger.java
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ package com.dfsek.terra.sponge;
 import com.dfsek.terra.api.util.logging.Logger;
 
 public class SpongeLogger implements Logger {
-    private final org.slf4j.Logger logger;
+    private final org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger logger;
 
-    public SpongeLogger(org.slf4j.Logger logger) {
+    public SpongeLogger(org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger logger) {
         this.logger = logger;
     }
 
diff --git a/platforms/sponge/src/main/java/com/dfsek/terra/sponge/TerraSpongePlugin.java b/platforms/sponge/src/main/java/com/dfsek/terra/sponge/TerraSpongePlugin.java
index 536850875..162c04010 100644
--- a/platforms/sponge/src/main/java/com/dfsek/terra/sponge/TerraSpongePlugin.java
+++ b/platforms/sponge/src/main/java/com/dfsek/terra/sponge/TerraSpongePlugin.java
@@ -20,17 +20,21 @@ import com.dfsek.terra.registry.master.ConfigRegistry;
 import com.dfsek.terra.sponge.world.SpongeWorldHandle;
 import com.dfsek.terra.world.TerraWorld;
 import com.google.inject.Inject;
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
+import org.spongepowered.api.Server;
+import org.spongepowered.api.Sponge;
 import org.spongepowered.api.config.ConfigDir;
 import org.spongepowered.api.event.Listener;
-import org.spongepowered.api.event.game.state.GameStartedServerEvent;
-import org.spongepowered.api.plugin.Plugin;
+import org.spongepowered.api.event.lifecycle.StartedEngineEvent;
+import org.spongepowered.plugin.PluginContainer;
+import org.spongepowered.plugin.jvm.Plugin;
+
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 
-@Plugin(id = "terra", name = "Terra-Sponge", version = "", description = "Terra")
+@Plugin("terra")
 public class TerraSpongePlugin implements TerraPlugin {
     private final ConfigRegistry configRegistry = new ConfigRegistry();
     private final CheckedRegistry<ConfigPack> packCheckedRegistry = new CheckedRegistry<>(configRegistry);
@@ -42,16 +46,18 @@ public class TerraSpongePlugin implements TerraPlugin {
 
     private final EventManager eventManager = new TerraEventManager(this);
 
-    @Inject
-    @ConfigDir(sharedRoot = false)
-    private Path privateConfigDir;
+    private final PluginContainer plugin;
 
     @Inject
-    private Logger logger;
+    public TerraSpongePlugin(PluginContainer plugin) {
+        this.plugin = plugin;
+    }
 
 
     @Listener
-    public void initialize(GameStartedServerEvent event) {
+    public void initialize(StartedEngineEvent<Server> event) {
+        plugin.logger().info("Loading Terra...");
+        plugin.logger().info("Config: " + getDataFolder());
         addonRegistry.loadAll();
         configRegistry.loadAll(this);
     }
@@ -73,7 +79,7 @@ public class TerraSpongePlugin implements TerraPlugin {
 
     @Override
     public com.dfsek.terra.api.util.logging.Logger logger() {
-        return new SpongeLogger(logger);
+        return new SpongeLogger(plugin.logger());
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -83,7 +89,7 @@ public class TerraSpongePlugin implements TerraPlugin {
 
     @Override
     public File getDataFolder() {
-        return privateConfigDir.toFile();
+        return Sponge.configManager().pluginConfig(plugin).directory().toFile();
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/platforms/sponge/src/main/java/com/dfsek/terra/sponge/world/SpongeWorldHandle.java b/platforms/sponge/src/main/java/com/dfsek/terra/sponge/world/SpongeWorldHandle.java
index 422229ba9..11a375d31 100644
--- a/platforms/sponge/src/main/java/com/dfsek/terra/sponge/world/SpongeWorldHandle.java
+++ b/platforms/sponge/src/main/java/com/dfsek/terra/sponge/world/SpongeWorldHandle.java
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import org.spongepowered.api.block.BlockState;
 public class SpongeWorldHandle implements WorldHandle {
     @Override
     public BlockData createBlockData(String data) {
-        return SpongeAdapter.adapt(Sponge.getRegistry().getType(BlockState.class, data).orElseThrow(() -> new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid block data \"" + data + "\"")));
+        return SpongeAdapter.adapt(BlockState.fromString(data));
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/platforms/sponge/src/main/resources/META-INF/plugins.json b/platforms/sponge/src/main/resources/META-INF/plugins.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..91f9a6926
--- /dev/null
+++ b/platforms/sponge/src/main/resources/META-INF/plugins.json
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{
+  "plugins": [
+    {
+      "loader": "java_plain",
+      "id": "terra",
+      "name": "Terra",
+      "version": "@VERSION@",
+      "main-class": "com.dfsek.terra.sponge.TerraSpongePlugin",
+      "description": "@DESCRIPTION@",
+      "dependencies": [
+        {
+          "id": "spongeapi",
+          "version": "8.0.0"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
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