diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 84348df..9d36622 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
   <name>chipmunkbot</name>
 
   <properties>
-    <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
-    <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
+    <maven.compiler.source>17</maven.compiler.source>
+    <maven.compiler.target>17</maven.compiler.target>
   </properties>
 
   <repositories>
diff --git a/src/main/java/land/chipmunk/chipmunkbot/Main.java b/src/main/java/land/chipmunk/chipmunkbot/Main.java
index 260f233..df79145 100644
--- a/src/main/java/land/chipmunk/chipmunkbot/Main.java
+++ b/src/main/java/land/chipmunk/chipmunkbot/Main.java
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.BufferedWriter;
 import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileWriter;
 
 import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
 import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
@@ -19,9 +21,31 @@ import com.google.gson.JsonParser;
 import com.google.gson.Gson;
 
 public class Main {
-  private static File CONFIG_FILE = new File("config.json");
+  private static final File CONFIG_FILE = new File("config.json");
 
   private static JsonObject getConfig () throws Exception {
+    if (!CONFIG_FILE.exists()) {
+      // Read the default config
+      InputStream is = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("default_config.json");
+      BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
+      StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
+      while (reader.ready()) {
+        char character = (char) reader.read();
+        stringBuilder.append(character);
+      }
+      String defaultConfig = stringBuilder.toString();
+
+      // Write the default config
+      BufferedWriter configWriter = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(CONFIG_FILE));
+      configWriter.write(defaultConfig);
+      configWriter.close();
+
+      System.out.println("The config.json file was not found, so a default one was created.");
+
+      // Return the default config (instead of reading again, for efficiency)
+      return JsonParser.parseString(defaultConfig).getAsJsonObject();
+    }
+
     InputStream opt = new FileInputStream(CONFIG_FILE);
     BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(opt));
 
diff --git a/src/main/resources/default_config.json b/src/main/resources/default_config.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a736854
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/default_config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+  "bots": [
+    {
+      "host": "localhost",
+      "port": 25565,
+      "username": "ChipmunkBot"
+    }
+  ]
+}
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