diff --git a/src/api/Server.ts b/src/api/Server.ts
index a2e63f464..1d9fe2ab2 100644
--- a/src/api/Server.ts
+++ b/src/api/Server.ts
@@ -157,14 +157,6 @@ export class SpacebarServer extends Server {
 
         // new well-known location
         app.get("/.well-known/spacebar/client", (req, res) => {
-            let erlpackSupported = false;
-            try {
-                require("@yukikaze-bot/erlpack");
-                erlpackSupported = true;
-            } catch (e) {
-                // empty
-            }
-
             res.json({
                 api: {
                     baseUrl: Config.get().api.endpointPublic?.split("/api/")[0],
@@ -178,7 +170,7 @@ export class SpacebarServer extends Server {
                 },
                 gateway: {
                     baseUrl: Config.get().gateway.endpointPublic,
-                    encoding: [...(erlpackSupported ? ["etf"] : []), "json"],
+                    encoding: ["etf", "json"],
                     compression: ["zstd-stream", "zlib-stream", null],
                 },
                 admin:
diff --git a/src/gateway/events/Connection.ts b/src/gateway/events/Connection.ts
index e3e6d2f07..5876c3e15 100644
--- a/src/gateway/events/Connection.ts
+++ b/src/gateway/events/Connection.ts
@@ -27,16 +27,9 @@ import { Close } from "./Close";
 import { Message } from "./Message";
 import { Deflate, Inflate } from "fast-zlib";
 import { URL } from "node:url";
-import { Config, ErlpackType } from "@spacebar/util";
+import { Config } from "@spacebar/util";
 import { Decoder, Encoder } from "@toondepauw/node-zstd";
 
-let erlpack: ErlpackType | null = null;
-try {
-    erlpack = require("@yukikaze-bot/erlpack") as ErlpackType;
-} catch (e) {
-    console.log("Failed to import @yukikaze-bot/erlpack: ", e);
-}
-
 // TODO: check rate limit
 // TODO: specify rate limit in config
 // TODO: check msg max size
@@ -108,8 +101,6 @@ export async function Connection(this: WS.Server, socket: WebSocket, request: In
             return socket.close(CLOSECODES.Decode_error);
         }
 
-        if (socket.encoding === "etf" && !erlpack) throw new Error("Erlpack is not installed: 'npm i @yukikaze-bot/erlpack'");
-
         socket.version = Number(searchParams.get("version")) || 8;
         if (socket.version != 8) {
             console.error(`[Gateway/${socket.ipAddress}] Invalid API version: ${socket.version}`);
diff --git a/src/gateway/events/Message.ts b/src/gateway/events/Message.ts
index 043b73768..7a2e49d3d 100644
--- a/src/gateway/events/Message.ts
+++ b/src/gateway/events/Message.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 */
 
 import { CLOSECODES, Payload, WebSocket } from "@spacebar/gateway";
-// import { ErlpackType } from "@spacebar/util";
 import * as erlpack from "harmony-erlpack";
 import fs from "node:fs/promises";
 import BigIntJson from "json-bigint";
@@ -29,13 +28,6 @@ import { PayloadSchema } from "@spacebar/schemas";
 
 const bigIntJson = BigIntJson({ storeAsString: true });
 
-// let erlpack: ErlpackType | null = null;
-// try {
-//     erlpack = require("@yukikaze-bot/erlpack") as ErlpackType;
-// } catch (e) {
-//     console.log("Failed to import @yukikaze-bot/erlpack: ", e);
-// }
-
 export async function Message(this: WebSocket, buffer: WS.Data) {
     // TODO: compression
     let data: Payload;
diff --git a/src/gateway/util/Send.ts b/src/gateway/util/Send.ts
index 6a9c639d7..f857a4003 100644
--- a/src/gateway/util/Send.ts
+++ b/src/gateway/util/Send.ts
@@ -20,16 +20,9 @@ import { Payload, WebSocket } from "@spacebar/gateway";
 import fs from "node:fs/promises";
 import path from "node:path";
 
-import { ErlpackType, JSONReplacer } from "@spacebar/util";
+import { JSONReplacer } from "@spacebar/util";
 import * as erlpack from "harmony-erlpack";
 
-// let erlpack: ErlpackType | null = null;
-// try {
-//     erlpack = require("@yukikaze-bot/erlpack") as ErlpackType;
-// } catch (e) {
-//     console.log("Failed to import @yukikaze-bot/erlpack: ", e);
-// }
-
 // don't care
 // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
 const recurseJsonReplace = (json: any) => {
diff --git a/src/util/imports/Erlpack.ts b/src/util/imports/Erlpack.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 46431f0a7..000000000
--- a/src/util/imports/Erlpack.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-/*
-	https://github.com/discord/erlpack/blob/master/js/index.d.ts
-	MIT License
-	Copyright (c) 2017 Discord
-*/
-/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any */
-// @fc-license-skip
-
-export type ErlpackType = {
-    pack: (data: any) => Buffer;
-    unpack: <T = any>(data: Buffer) => T;
-};
diff --git a/src/util/imports/index.ts b/src/util/imports/index.ts
index d94776469..5e690d4a6 100644
--- a/src/util/imports/index.ts
+++ b/src/util/imports/index.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,5 @@
 */
 
 export * from "./OrmUtils";
-export * from "./Erlpack";
 export * from "./Jimp";
 export * from "./Interactions";