diff --git a/common/build.rs b/common/build.rs
index 71e4750974..1916c4b808 100644
--- a/common/build.rs
+++ b/common/build.rs
@@ -1,10 +1,4 @@
-use std::{
-    env,
-    fs::File,
-    io::{Read, Write},
-    path::{Path, PathBuf},
-    process::Command,
-};
+use std::{env, fs::File, io::Write, path::Path, process::Command};
 
 fn main() {
     // If these env variables exist then we are building on nix, use them as hash
@@ -52,38 +46,6 @@ fn main() {
             Err(e) => panic!("failed to retrieve current git commit hash: {}", e),
         }
     }
-
-    // Check if git-lfs is working
-    if env::var("DISABLE_GIT_LFS_CHECK").is_err() && cfg!(not(feature = "no-assets")) {
-        let asset_path: PathBuf = ["..", "assets", "voxygen", "background", "bg_main.jpg"]
-            .iter()
-            .collect();
-        let asset_file = match File::open(&asset_path) {
-            Ok(file) => file,
-            Err(e) => panic!(
-                "failed to open asset file {}: {}",
-                asset_path.to_str().unwrap(),
-                e
-            ),
-        };
-        const LFS_MARKER: &[u8] = b"version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/";
-        let mut buffer = Vec::new();
-        let bytes_read = asset_file
-            .take(LFS_MARKER.len() as u64)
-            .read_to_end(&mut buffer)
-            .expect("failed to read asset file");
-
-        if bytes_read == LFS_MARKER.len() && buffer == LFS_MARKER {
-            panic!(
-                "\n\nGit Large File Storage (git-lfs) has not been set up correctly.\n\
-                 Most common reasons:\n\
-                 \t- git-lfs was not installed before cloning this repository\n\
-                 \t- this repository was not cloned from the primary gitlab mirror.\n\
-                 \t  The github mirror does not support lfs.\n\
-                 See the book at https://book.veloren.net/ for details.\n\n"
-            );
-        }
-    }
 }
 
 fn create_hash_file(hash: &str) {
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 691249a142..9a69eac388 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -86,9 +86,6 @@
       pkgConfig = common: let
         inherit (common) pkgs;
         veloren-common-ov = {
-          # Disable `git-lfs` check here since we check it ourselves
-          # We have to include the command output here, otherwise Nix won't run it
-          DISABLE_GIT_LFS_CHECK = true;
           # We don't add in any information here because otherwise anything
           # that depends on common will be recompiled. We will set these in
           # our wrapper instead.