diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index d718f030d9..8ce58c2c8a 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -121,15 +121,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "ansi_term"
-version = "0.12.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d52a9bb7ec0cf484c551830a7ce27bd20d67eac647e1befb56b0be4ee39a55d2"
-dependencies = [
- "winapi 0.3.9",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "anstream"
 version = "0.3.2"
@@ -739,13 +730,9 @@ version = "2.34.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "a0610544180c38b88101fecf2dd634b174a62eef6946f84dfc6a7127512b381c"
 dependencies = [
- "ansi_term",
- "atty",
  "bitflags 1.3.2",
- "strsim 0.8.0",
  "textwrap",
  "unicode-width",
- "vec_map",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -778,7 +765,7 @@ version = "4.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3f9644cd56d6b87dbe899ef8b053e331c0637664e9e21a33dfcdc36093f5c5c4"
 dependencies = [
- "heck 0.4.1",
+ "heck",
  "proc-macro2 1.0.56",
  "quote 1.0.26",
  "syn 2.0.15",
@@ -2797,15 +2784,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "stable_deref_trait",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "heck"
-version = "0.3.3"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6d621efb26863f0e9924c6ac577e8275e5e6b77455db64ffa6c65c904e9e132c"
-dependencies = [
- "unicode-segmentation",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "heck"
 version = "0.4.1"
@@ -6231,12 +6209,6 @@ version = "1.0.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "9e08d8363704e6c71fc928674353e6b7c23dcea9d82d7012c8faf2a3a025f8d0"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "strsim"
-version = "0.8.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8ea5119cdb4c55b55d432abb513a0429384878c15dde60cc77b1c99de1a95a6a"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "strsim"
 version = "0.9.3"
@@ -6249,30 +6221,6 @@ version = "0.10.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "73473c0e59e6d5812c5dfe2a064a6444949f089e20eec9a2e5506596494e4623"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "structopt"
-version = "0.3.26"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0c6b5c64445ba8094a6ab0c3cd2ad323e07171012d9c98b0b15651daf1787a10"
-dependencies = [
- "clap 2.34.0",
- "lazy_static",
- "structopt-derive",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "structopt-derive"
-version = "0.4.18"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "dcb5ae327f9cc13b68763b5749770cb9e048a99bd9dfdfa58d0cf05d5f64afe0"
-dependencies = [
- "heck 0.3.3",
- "proc-macro-error",
- "proc-macro2 1.0.56",
- "quote 1.0.26",
- "syn 1.0.109",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "strum"
 version = "0.24.1"
@@ -6288,7 +6236,7 @@ version = "0.24.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "1e385be0d24f186b4ce2f9982191e7101bb737312ad61c1f2f984f34bcf85d59"
 dependencies = [
- "heck 0.4.1",
+ "heck",
  "proc-macro2 1.0.56",
  "quote 1.0.26",
  "rustversion",
@@ -6970,7 +6918,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustyline",
  "serde",
  "specs",
- "structopt",
  "termcolor",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
@@ -7015,7 +6962,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "cfg-if 1.0.0",
  "chrono",
  "chrono-tz",
- "clap 2.34.0",
+ "clap 4.2.7",
  "criterion",
  "crossbeam-channel",
  "crossbeam-utils 0.8.15",
@@ -7045,7 +6992,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "slotmap 1.0.6",
  "specs",
  "spin_sleep",
- "structopt",
  "strum",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-subscriber",
@@ -7361,6 +7307,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "shell-words",
  "signal-hook 0.3.15",
+ "strum",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
  "tui",
diff --git a/client/Cargo.toml b/client/Cargo.toml
index eea8241977..896433eb67 100644
--- a/client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/client/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ edition = "2021"
 [features]
 simd = ["vek/platform_intrinsics"]
 plugins = ["common-state/plugins"]
-bin_bot = ["common-ecs", "serde", "ron", "clap", "structopt", "rustyline", "common-frontend", "async-channel", "voxygen-i18n-helpers", "client-i18n"]
+bin_bot = ["common-ecs", "serde", "ron", "clap", "rustyline", "common-frontend", "async-channel", "voxygen-i18n-helpers", "client-i18n"]
 tracy = ["common-base/tracy"]
 tick_network = []
 
@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@ voxygen-i18n-helpers = { package = "veloren-voxygen-i18n-helpers", path = "../vo
 client-i18n = { package = "veloren-client-i18n", path = "i18n", optional = true }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = [ "rc", "derive" ], optional = true }
 ron = { version = "0.8", default-features = false, optional = true }
-clap = { version = "4.2", optional = true, features = ["color", "std"] }
-structopt = { version = "0.3.13", optional = true }
+clap = { version = "4.2", optional = true }
 rustyline = { version = "11.0.0", optional = true }
 ## logging
 termcolor = { version = "1.1", optional = true }
diff --git a/client/i18n/Cargo.toml b/client/i18n/Cargo.toml
index 9fa61d3646..980d14e53b 100644
--- a/client/i18n/Cargo.toml
+++ b/client/i18n/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ hashbrown = { version = "0.13", features = ["serde", "nightly"] }
 deunicode = "1.0"
 tracing = "0.1"
 # Bin
-clap = { version = "4.2", features = ["suggestions", "std"], default-features = false, optional = true }
+clap = { version = "4.2", features = ["suggestions", "std", "help", "usage", "error-context"], default-features = false, optional = true }
 fluent-syntax = { git = "https://github.com/juliancoffee/fluent-rs.git", branch = "patched"}
 
 [[bin]]
diff --git a/client/src/bin/bot/tui.rs b/client/src/bin/bot/tui.rs
index 72b23a8246..7d3528405e 100644
--- a/client/src/bin/bot/tui.rs
+++ b/client/src/bin/bot/tui.rs
@@ -26,12 +26,15 @@ impl Tui {
 
         let handle = thread::spawn(move || {
             thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(20));
-            let mut readline =
-                rustyline::Editor::<(), rustyline::history::FileHistory>::with_history(
-                    Default::default(),
-                    Default::default(),
-                )
-                .unwrap();
+            let config = rustyline::config::Builder::new()
+                .max_history_size(1000)
+                .unwrap()
+                .build();
+            let mut readline = rustyline::Editor::<(), _>::with_history(
+                config,
+                rustyline::history::MemHistory::with_config(config),
+            )
+            .unwrap();
             while let Ok(cmd) = readline.readline("\n\nbotclient> ") {
                 let keep_going = Self::process_command(&cmd, &mut commands_s);
                 readline.add_history_entry(cmd).unwrap();
@@ -77,7 +80,7 @@ impl Tui {
                     Some(("register", matches)) => command_s.try_send(Cmd::Register {
                         prefix: matches.get_one::<String>("prefix").unwrap().to_string(),
                         password: matches.get_one::<String>("password").unwrap().to_string(),
-                        count: matches.get_one::<usize>("count").cloned(),
+                        count: matches.get_one::<usize>("count").copied(),
                     }),
                     Some(("login", matches)) => command_s.try_send(Cmd::Login {
                         prefix: matches.get_one::<String>("prefix").unwrap().to_string(),
diff --git a/common/Cargo.toml b/common/Cargo.toml
index b54ad7d59c..38b9b5c14c 100644
--- a/common/Cargo.toml
+++ b/common/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ edition = "2021"
 no-assets = []
 hot-reloading = ["common-assets/hot-reloading"]
 simd = ["vek/platform_intrinsics"]
-bin_csv = ["ron", "csv", "structopt"]
-bin_graphviz = ["petgraph", "structopt"]
+bin_csv = ["ron", "csv", "clap"]
+bin_graphviz = ["petgraph", "clap"]
 bin_cmd_doc_gen = []
 bin_asset_migrate = ["ron"]
 rrt_pathfinding = ["kiddo"]
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ strum = { version = "0.24", features = ["derive"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dependencies]
 approx = "0.4.0"
-clap = "2.33"
 crossbeam-utils = "0.8.1"
 bitflags = "1.2"
 crossbeam-channel = "0.5"
@@ -67,11 +66,11 @@ serde_repr = "0.1.6"
 ron = { version = "0.7", default-features = false, optional = true }
 # csv export
 csv = { version = "1.1.3", optional = true }
-structopt = { version = "0.3.13", optional = true }
 # graphviz exporters
 petgraph = { version = "0.6", optional = true }
 # K-d trees used for RRT pathfinding
 kiddo = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
+clap = { version = "4.2", optional = true }
 
 # Data structures
 hashbrown = { version = "0.13", features = ["rayon", "serde", "nightly"] }
@@ -91,7 +90,6 @@ rand_chacha = "0.3"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.7", default-features = false, features = ["fmt", "time", "ansi", "smallvec", "env-filter"] }
 petgraph = "0.6.0"
 
-
 [[bench]]
 name = "chonk_benchmark"
 harness = false
diff --git a/common/src/bin/csv_export/main.rs b/common/src/bin/csv_export/main.rs
index bc45460217..485fc26cbf 100644
--- a/common/src/bin/csv_export/main.rs
+++ b/common/src/bin/csv_export/main.rs
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 #![deny(clippy::clone_on_ref_ptr)]
 
+use clap::Parser;
 use std::{
     error::Error,
     io::Write,
     ops::{Div, Mul},
 };
-use structopt::StructOpt;
 
 use veloren_common::{
     assets::{self, AssetExt},
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ use veloren_common::{
 
 use vek::Vec3;
 
-#[derive(StructOpt)]
+#[derive(Parser)]
 struct Cli {
     /// Available arguments: "armor-stats", "weapon-stats", "all-items",
     /// "loot-table", "entity-drops"
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ fn entity_drops(entity_config: &str) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
 }
 
 fn main() {
-    let args = Cli::from_args();
+    let args = Cli::parse();
     if args.function.eq_ignore_ascii_case("armor-stats") {
         if let Err(e) = armor_stats() {
             println!("Error: {}\n", e)
diff --git a/common/src/bin/csv_import/main.rs b/common/src/bin/csv_import/main.rs
index bd48782870..c393fac746 100644
--- a/common/src/bin/csv_import/main.rs
+++ b/common/src/bin/csv_import/main.rs
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 #![deny(clippy::clone_on_ref_ptr)]
 #![allow(clippy::expect_fun_call)] //TODO: evaluate to remove this and use `unwrap_or_else(panic!(...))` instead
 
+use clap::Parser;
 use hashbrown::HashMap;
 use ron::ser::{to_string_pretty, PrettyConfig};
 use serde::Serialize;
 use std::{error::Error, fs::File, io::Write};
-use structopt::StructOpt;
 
 use veloren_common::{
     assets::ASSETS_PATH,
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ use veloren_common::{
     },
 };
 
-#[derive(StructOpt)]
+#[derive(Parser)]
 struct Cli {
     /// Available arguments: "armor-stats", "weapon-stats"
     function: String,
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ fn weapon_stats() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
 }
 
 fn main() {
-    let args = Cli::from_args();
+    let args = Cli::parse();
     if args.function.eq_ignore_ascii_case("armor-stats") {
         if get_input(
             "
diff --git a/common/src/bin/skill_graphviz.rs b/common/src/bin/skill_graphviz.rs
index 493d2597af..3cca25bd3d 100644
--- a/common/src/bin/skill_graphviz.rs
+++ b/common/src/bin/skill_graphviz.rs
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
+use clap::Parser;
 use hashbrown::HashMap;
 use petgraph::{
     dot::{Config, Dot},
     Graph,
 };
 use std::{fs::File, io::Write};
-use structopt::StructOpt;
 use veloren_common::comp::{
     item::tool::ToolKind,
     skillset::{
@@ -12,14 +12,14 @@ use veloren_common::comp::{
     },
 };
 
-#[derive(StructOpt)]
+#[derive(Parser)]
 struct Cli {
     /// Available arguments: "sword"
     skill_group: String,
 }
 
 fn main() {
-    let args = Cli::from_args();
+    let args = Cli::parse();
     let skill_group = match args.skill_group.as_str() {
         "sword" => SkillGroupKind::Weapon(ToolKind::Sword),
         _ => {
diff --git a/common/src/comp/admin.rs b/common/src/comp/admin.rs
index 2254852f28..9dc7361ac1 100644
--- a/common/src/comp/admin.rs
+++ b/common/src/comp/admin.rs
@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
-use clap::arg_enum;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use specs::{Component, DerefFlaggedStorage, VecStorage};
+use strum::EnumVariantNames;
 
-arg_enum! {
-    #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, Ord, PartialEq, PartialOrd, Serialize, Deserialize)]
-    pub enum AdminRole {
-        Moderator = 0,
-        Admin = 1,
-    }
+// EnumVariantNames is used by bins for clap only, but using strum here gets rid
+// of the clap dependency
+#[derive(
+    Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, Ord, PartialEq, PartialOrd, Serialize, Deserialize, EnumVariantNames,
+)]
+pub enum AdminRole {
+    Moderator = 0,
+    Admin = 1,
 }
 
 #[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
diff --git a/server-cli/Cargo.toml b/server-cli/Cargo.toml
index 7294b16f98..df7299975d 100644
--- a/server-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/server-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ shell-words = "1.0.0"
 tracing = { version = "0.1", default-features = false }
 ron = {version = "0.8", default-features = false}
 serde = {version = "1.0", features = [ "rc", "derive" ]}
+strum = { version = "0.24" }
 
 [target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies]
 mimalloc = "0.1.29"
diff --git a/server-cli/src/cli.rs b/server-cli/src/cli.rs
index 056c62b2b5..f5a5825a6d 100644
--- a/server-cli/src/cli.rs
+++ b/server-cli/src/cli.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ use clap::Parser;
 use common::comp;
 use server::persistence::SqlLogMode;
 use std::sync::mpsc::Sender;
+use strum::VariantNames;
 use tracing::error;
 
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Parser)]
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ pub enum Admin {
         /// Name of the admin to whom to assign a role
         username: String,
         /// role to assign to the admin
-        #[arg(ignore_case = true, value_parser = SqlLogMode::variants())]
+        #[arg(ignore_case = true, value_parser = clap::builder::PossibleValuesParser::new(comp::AdminRole::VARIANTS))]
         role: comp::AdminRole,
     },
     Remove {