diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3e40057f2e..e572ded28b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2289,9 +2289,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "mio 0.6.16 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "mio-extras 2.0.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "rand 0.5.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "rayon 1.0.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "serde 1.0.90 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "serde_derive 1.0.90 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "shred 0.7.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "specs 0.14.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "sphynx 0.1.0 (git+https://gitlab.com/veloren/sphynx.git)",
  "threadpool 1.7.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
diff --git a/assets/voxygen b/assets/voxygen
index cff10b010d..7ebb1a9205 160000
--- a/assets/voxygen
+++ b/assets/voxygen
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit cff10b010db25ce9af5edbdfb5ef0af889dd741a
+Subproject commit 7ebb1a92057e6c0b9d989ffb7a5fe321599ddd6e
diff --git a/common/Cargo.toml b/common/Cargo.toml
index da924061fd..7c6a403538 100644
--- a/common/Cargo.toml
+++ b/common/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 [dependencies]
 sphynx = { git = "https://gitlab.com/veloren/sphynx.git", features = ["serde1"] }
 
-specs = { version = "0.14", features = ["serde"] }
-shred = { version = "0.7", features = ["nightly"] }
+specs = { version = "0.14", features = ["serde", "nightly"] }
 vek = { version = "0.9", features = ["serde"] }
 dot_vox = "4.0"
 threadpool = "1.7"
@@ -19,3 +18,4 @@ serde_derive = "1.0"
 bincode = "1.0"
 log = "0.4"
 rand = "0.5"
+rayon = "1.0"
diff --git a/common/src/state.rs b/common/src/state.rs
index 9e7646a988..447c9117e4 100644
--- a/common/src/state.rs
+++ b/common/src/state.rs
@@ -7,14 +7,15 @@ use crate::{
     sys,
     terrain::{TerrainChunk, TerrainMap},
 };
-use shred::{Fetch, FetchMut};
+use rayon::{ThreadPool, ThreadPoolBuilder};
 use specs::{
     saveload::{MarkedBuilder, MarkerAllocator},
+    shred::{Fetch, FetchMut},
     storage::{MaskedStorage as EcsMaskedStorage, Storage as EcsStorage},
     Builder, Component, DispatcherBuilder, Entity as EcsEntity, EntityBuilder as EcsEntityBuilder,
 };
 use sphynx;
-use std::{collections::HashSet, time::Duration};
+use std::{collections::HashSet, sync::Arc, time::Duration};
 use vek::*;
 
 /// How much faster should an in-game day be compared to a real day?
@@ -57,6 +58,8 @@ impl Changes {
 /// things like entity components, terrain data, and global state like weather, time of day, etc.
 pub struct State {
     ecs: sphynx::World<EcsPacket>,
+    // Avoid lifetime annotation by storing a thread pool instead of the whole dispatcher
+    thread_pool: Arc<ThreadPool>,
     changes: Changes,
 }
 
@@ -65,6 +68,7 @@ impl State {
     pub fn new() -> Self {
         Self {
             ecs: sphynx::World::new(specs::World::new(), Self::setup_sphynx_world),
+            thread_pool: Arc::new(ThreadPoolBuilder::new().build().unwrap()),
             changes: Changes::default(),
         }
     }
@@ -77,6 +81,7 @@ impl State {
                 Self::setup_sphynx_world,
                 state_package,
             ),
+            thread_pool: Arc::new(ThreadPoolBuilder::new().build().unwrap()),
             changes: Changes::default(),
         }
     }
@@ -197,7 +202,7 @@ impl State {
         self.ecs.write_resource::<DeltaTime>().0 = dt.as_secs_f64();
 
         // Create and run dispatcher for ecs systems
-        let mut dispatch_builder = DispatcherBuilder::new();
+        let mut dispatch_builder = DispatcherBuilder::new().with_pool(self.thread_pool.clone());
         sys::add_local_systems(&mut dispatch_builder);
         // This dispatches all the systems in parallel
         dispatch_builder.build().dispatch(&self.ecs.res);