diff --git a/desktop/build.gradle b/desktop/build.gradle
index 6149b845a2..86baa7fd1b 100644
--- a/desktop/build.gradle
+++ b/desktop/build.gradle
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ sourceSets.main.java.srcDirs = [ "src/" ]
 
 project.ext.mainClassName = "com.unciv.app.desktop.DesktopLauncher"
 project.ext.assetsDir = new File("../android/assets")
+project.ext.discordDir = new File("discord_rpc")
 
 task run(dependsOn: classes, type: JavaExec) {
     main = project.mainClassName
@@ -29,6 +30,8 @@ task dist(type: Jar) {
     // see Laurent1967's comment on https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/issues/5491
     from {configurations.compileClasspath.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) }}
     from files(project.assetsDir)
+    // This is for the .dll and .so files to ake the Discord RPC work on all desktops
+    from files(project.discordDir)
     archiveFileName  = "${appName}.jar"
  
     manifest {
diff --git a/desktop/discord_rpc/darwin/libdiscord-rpc.dylib b/desktop/discord_rpc/darwin/libdiscord-rpc.dylib
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b48f5616cd
Binary files /dev/null and b/desktop/discord_rpc/darwin/libdiscord-rpc.dylib differ
diff --git a/desktop/discord_rpc/linux-x86-64/libdiscord-rpc.so b/desktop/discord_rpc/linux-x86-64/libdiscord-rpc.so
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..43f56c753e
Binary files /dev/null and b/desktop/discord_rpc/linux-x86-64/libdiscord-rpc.so differ
diff --git a/desktop/discord_rpc/win32-x86-64/discord-rpc.dll b/desktop/discord_rpc/win32-x86-64/discord-rpc.dll
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..289d550306
Binary files /dev/null and b/desktop/discord_rpc/win32-x86-64/discord-rpc.dll differ
diff --git a/desktop/discord_rpc/win32-x86/discord-rpc.dll b/desktop/discord_rpc/win32-x86/discord-rpc.dll
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4254cfa278
Binary files /dev/null and b/desktop/discord_rpc/win32-x86/discord-rpc.dll differ
diff --git a/desktop/src/com/unciv/app/desktop/DesktopLauncher.kt b/desktop/src/com/unciv/app/desktop/DesktopLauncher.kt
index 73b33bc2e9..da34f5e42f 100644
--- a/desktop/src/com/unciv/app/desktop/DesktopLauncher.kt
+++ b/desktop/src/com/unciv/app/desktop/DesktopLauncher.kt
@@ -16,36 +16,37 @@ import kotlin.concurrent.thread
 internal object DesktopLauncher {
     @JvmStatic
     fun main(arg: Array<String>) {
-
-        if (File("../Images").exists()) { // So we don't run this from within a fat JAR
-            val settings = TexturePacker.Settings()
-            // Apparently some chipsets, like NVIDIA Tegra 3 graphics chipset (used in Asus TF700T tablet),
-            // don't support non-power-of-two texture sizes - kudos @yuroller!
-            // https://github.com/yairm210/UnCiv/issues/1340
-            settings.maxWidth = 2048
-            settings.maxHeight = 2048
-            settings.combineSubdirectories = true
-            settings.pot = true
-            settings.fast = true
-
-            // This is so they don't look all pixelated
-            settings.filterMag = Texture.TextureFilter.MipMapLinearLinear
-            settings.filterMin = Texture.TextureFilter.MipMapLinearLinear
-            TexturePacker.process(settings, "../Images", ".", "game")
-        }
+        if (File("../Images").exists()) // So we don't run this from within a fat JAR
+            packImages()
 
         val config = LwjglApplicationConfiguration()
         config.addIcon("ExtraImages/Icon.png", Files.FileType.Internal)
         config.title = "Unciv"
 
-
         val game = UnCivGame("Desktop")
 
-//        tryActivateDiscord(game) // Deactivated until we can figure out how to make it work from the .jar
+        tryActivateDiscord(game)
 
         LwjglApplication(game, config)
     }
 
+    private fun packImages() {
+        val settings = TexturePacker.Settings()
+        // Apparently some chipsets, like NVIDIA Tegra 3 graphics chipset (used in Asus TF700T tablet),
+        // don't support non-power-of-two texture sizes - kudos @yuroller!
+        // https://github.com/yairm210/UnCiv/issues/1340
+        settings.maxWidth = 2048
+        settings.maxHeight = 2048
+        settings.combineSubdirectories = true
+        settings.pot = true
+        settings.fast = true
+
+        // This is so they don't look all pixelated
+        settings.filterMag = Texture.TextureFilter.MipMapLinearLinear
+        settings.filterMin = Texture.TextureFilter.MipMapLinearLinear
+        TexturePacker.process(settings, "../Images", ".", "game")
+    }
+
     private fun tryActivateDiscord(game: UnCivGame) {
         try {
             val handlers = DiscordEventHandlers()