diff --git a/Core/src/main/java/com/github/intellectualsites/plotsquared/plot/PlotSquared.java b/Core/src/main/java/com/github/intellectualsites/plotsquared/plot/PlotSquared.java
index 681c2dd33..429e1396b 100644
--- a/Core/src/main/java/com/github/intellectualsites/plotsquared/plot/PlotSquared.java
+++ b/Core/src/main/java/com/github/intellectualsites/plotsquared/plot/PlotSquared.java
@@ -61,14 +61,18 @@ import lombok.NonNull;
 import lombok.Setter;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
 
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLConnection;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.sql.SQLException;
 import java.util.ArrayDeque;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -76,6 +80,7 @@ import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Comparator;
+import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Iterator;
@@ -1602,6 +1607,18 @@ import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;
             }
         }
         Settings.load(configFile);
+        //Sets the version information for the settings.yml file
+        try (InputStream stream = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/plugin.properties")) {
+            try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream))) {
+                String versionString = br.readLine();
+                String commitString = br.readLine();
+                String dateString = br.readLine();
+                this.version = PlotVersion.tryParse(versionString, commitString, dateString);
+                System.out.println("Version is " + this.version);
+            }
+        } catch (IOException throwable) {
+            throwable.printStackTrace();
+        }
         Settings.save(configFile);
         config = YamlConfiguration.loadConfiguration(configFile);
     }
diff --git a/Core/src/main/java/com/github/intellectualsites/plotsquared/plot/PlotVersion.java b/Core/src/main/java/com/github/intellectualsites/plotsquared/plot/PlotVersion.java
index d6abb880d..ea533e598 100644
--- a/Core/src/main/java/com/github/intellectualsites/plotsquared/plot/PlotVersion.java
+++ b/Core/src/main/java/com/github/intellectualsites/plotsquared/plot/PlotVersion.java
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ package com.github.intellectualsites.plotsquared.plot;
 public class PlotVersion {
     public final int year, month, day, hash, build;
 
+    public PlotVersion(int year, int month, int day, int hash, int build) {
+        this.year = year;
+        this.month = month;
+        this.day = day;
+        this.hash = hash;
+        this.build = build;
+    }
+
     public PlotVersion(String version, String commit, String date) {
         String[] split = version.substring(version.indexOf('=') + 1).split("\\.");
         this.build = Integer.parseInt(split[1]);
@@ -13,8 +21,23 @@ public class PlotVersion {
         this.day = Integer.parseInt(split1[2]);
     }
 
-    @Override
-    public String toString() {
+    public static PlotVersion tryParse(String version, String commit, String date) {
+        try {
+            return new PlotVersion(version, commit, date);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+            return new PlotVersion(0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public String versionString() {
+        if (hash == 0 && build == 0) {
+            return "NoVer-SNAPSHOT";
+        } else {
+            return "5." + build;
+        }
+    }
+    @Override public String toString() {
         if (hash == 0 && build == 0) {
             return "PlotSquared-NoVer-SNAPSHOT";
         } else {