diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7341ff2b53..629bf42035 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
         <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
         <mainClass>net.server.Server</mainClass>
+
+        <log4j.version>2.14.1</log4j.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -33,21 +35,33 @@
             <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
             <version>8.0.23</version>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-            <version>1.7.21</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-            <artifactId>slf4j-jdk14</artifactId>
-            <version>1.7.5</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.esotericsoftware.yamlbeans</groupId>
             <artifactId>yamlbeans</artifactId>
             <version>1.13</version>
         </dependency>
+
+        <!-- Logging -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+            <version>1.7.30</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${log4j.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${log4j.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>log4j-slf4j-impl</artifactId>
+            <version>${log4j.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml b/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..286496cbf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<Configuration status="WARN" name="Cosmic">
+    <Properties>
+        <Property name="filename">cosmic-log</Property>
+    </Properties>
+    <Appenders>
+        <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
+            <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
+        </Console>
+        <RollingFile name="File"
+                     fileName="logs/${filename}.log"
+                     filePattern="logs/$${date:yyyy-MM}/$${date:yyyy-MM-dd}/${filename}-%d{yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss}-%i.log">
+            <PatternLayout>
+                <Pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n</Pattern>
+            </PatternLayout>
+            <Policies>
+                <OnStartupTriggeringPolicy minSize="0"/>
+                <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="20 MB"/>
+            </Policies>
+        </RollingFile>
+    </Appenders>
+    <Loggers>
+        <Root level="trace">
+            <AppenderRef ref="File" level="debug"/>
+            <AppenderRef ref="Console" level="trace"/>
+        </Root>
+        <Logger name="org.apache.mina" level="info"/>
+        <Logger name="com.zaxxer.hikari" level="info"/>
+    </Loggers>
+</Configuration>
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