diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/LibsConfig.kt b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/LibsConfig.kt
index f88fafae0..c494137ac 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/LibsConfig.kt
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/LibsConfig.kt
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.tasks.ShadowJar
 import org.gradle.api.Project
+import org.gradle.api.artifacts.ExternalModuleDependency
 import org.gradle.api.artifacts.ModuleDependency
 import org.gradle.api.internal.HasConvention
 import org.gradle.api.plugins.MavenRepositoryHandlerConvention
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.Upload
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.bundling.Jar
 import org.gradle.kotlin.dsl.apply
+import org.gradle.kotlin.dsl.dependencies
 import org.gradle.kotlin.dsl.get
 import org.gradle.kotlin.dsl.getPlugin
 import org.gradle.kotlin.dsl.invoke
@@ -106,3 +108,16 @@
 
     applyCommonArtifactoryConfig()
 }
+
+fun Project.constrainDependenciesToLibsCore() {
+    evaluationDependsOn(":worldedit-libs:core")
+    val coreDeps = project(":worldedit-libs:core").configurations["shade"].dependencies
+        .filterIsInstance<ExternalModuleDependency>()
+    dependencies.constraints {
+        for (coreDep in coreDeps) {
+            add("shade", "${coreDep.group}:${coreDep.name}:${coreDep.version}") {
+                because("libs should align with libs:core")
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/worldedit-libs/bukkit/build.gradle.kts b/worldedit-libs/bukkit/build.gradle.kts
index 79734ff82..a9d1c255e 100644
--- a/worldedit-libs/bukkit/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/worldedit-libs/bukkit/build.gradle.kts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 applyLibrariesConfiguration()
+constrainDependenciesToLibsCore()
 
 repositories {
     maven {
@@ -6,6 +7,7 @@
         url = uri("https://hub.spigotmc.org/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/")
     }
 }
+
 dependencies {
     "shade"("net.kyori:text-adapter-bukkit:${Versions.TEXT_EXTRAS}")
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/worldedit-libs/sponge/build.gradle.kts b/worldedit-libs/sponge/build.gradle.kts
index 5854dd616..47bd7e59c 100644
--- a/worldedit-libs/sponge/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/worldedit-libs/sponge/build.gradle.kts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 applyLibrariesConfiguration()
+constrainDependenciesToLibsCore()
 
 repositories {
     maven {
@@ -8,4 +9,4 @@
 }
 dependencies {
     "shade"("net.kyori:text-adapter-spongeapi:${Versions.TEXT_EXTRAS}")
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}