diff --git a/src/module/basicShard.ts b/src/module/basicShard.ts
index 60717ca3c..68b9196ff 100644
--- a/src/module/basicShard.ts
+++ b/src/module/basicShard.ts
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ export async function createBasicShard(
 
   const basicShard: BasicShard = {
     id: shardID,
-    socket: await connectWebSocket(`${data.url}?v=6&encoding=json`),
+    socket: await connectWebSocket(`${data.url}?v=8&encoding=json`),
     resumeInterval: 0,
     sessionID: oldShard?.sessionID || "",
     previousSequenceNumber: oldShard?.previousSequenceNumber || 0,
diff --git a/src/module/bigbrainbot.ts b/src/module/bigbrainbot.ts
index db30b173a..aa18c76e7 100644
--- a/src/module/bigbrainbot.ts
+++ b/src/module/bigbrainbot.ts
@@ -1,16 +1,12 @@
-import { delay } from "../../deps.ts";
-import { DiscordBotGatewayData, RequestManager } from "../../mod.ts";
+import { DiscordBotGatewayData, RequestManager, spawnBigBrainBotShards } from "../../mod.ts";
 import { endpoints } from "../constants/discord.ts";
 import { ClientOptions, EventHandlers } from "../types/options.ts";
-import { botGatewayData } from "./client.ts";
 
 const botOptions = {
   createNextShard: false,
   workers: new Map<number, Worker>(),
   eventHandlers: {} as EventHandlers,
   botGatewayData: {} as DiscordBotGatewayData,
-  customShards: [] as number[],
-  shardsPerWorker: 25,
   identifyPayload: {
     token: "",
     compress: true,
@@ -20,7 +16,7 @@ const botOptions = {
       $device: "Discordeno",
     },
     intents: 0,
-    shard: [0, 0],
+    shard: [0, 0] as [number, number],
   },
 };
 
@@ -33,9 +29,7 @@ const botOptions = {
 export async function startBigBrainBot(data: BigBrainBotOptions) {
   botOptions.identifyPayload.token = `Bot ${data.token}`;
   if (data.eventHandlers) botOptions.eventHandlers = data.eventHandlers;
-  if (data.shards) botOptions.customShards = data.shards;
   if (data.compress) botOptions.identifyPayload.compress = data.compress;
-  if (data.shardsPerWorker) botOptions.shardsPerWorker = data.shardsPerWorker;
 
   // Initial API connection to get info about bots connection
   botOptions.botGatewayData = await RequestManager.get(
@@ -46,58 +40,19 @@ export async function startBigBrainBot(data: BigBrainBotOptions) {
     (bits, next) => (bits |= next),
     0,
   );
-  botOptions.identifyPayload.shard = [0, botGatewayData.shards];
 
-  spawnBigBrainBotShards();
+  spawnBigBrainBotShards(botOptions.botGatewayData, botOptions.identifyPayload, data.firstShardID, data.lastShardID || (data.firstShardID + 25));
 }
 
-async function spawnBigBrainBotShards(shardID = 0, skipChecks = 0) {
-  if (shardID >= botOptions.botGatewayData.shards) return;
 
-  // 25 shards but shards start at 0 so we use 24
-  const workerID = shardID % botOptions.shardsPerWorker - 1;
-  const worker = botOptions.workers.get(workerID)
-
-  // High max concurrency allows starting shards faster
-  if (skipChecks) {
-    // If the worker exists we just need to add
-    if (worker) {
-      worker.postMessage({ type: "CREATE_SHARD", shardID, workerID, botOptions });
-    } else {
-      const path = new URL("./shard.ts", import.meta.url).toString();
-      const newWorker = new Worker(path, { type: "module", deno: true });
-      // Add to worker map
-      botOptions.workers.set(workerID, newWorker);
-      newWorker.postMessage({ type: "CREATE_SHARD", shardID, workerID, botOptions });
-    }
-
-    spawnBigBrainBotShards(shardID + 1, skipChecks - 1);
-  }
-
-  // Make sure we can create a shard or we are waiting for shards to connect still.
-  if (botOptions.createNextShard) {
-    // !(shardid % botOptions.botGatewayData.session_start_limit.max_concurrency)
-    botOptions.createNextShard = false;
-    // Start the next few shards based on max concurrency
-    spawnBigBrainBotShards(shardID + 1, botOptions.botGatewayData.session_start_limit.max_concurrency);
-    return;
-  }
-
-  await delay(1000);
-  spawnBigBrainBotShards(shardID);
-}
 
 export interface BigBrainBotOptions extends ClientOptions {
-  /** This can be used to distribute your bot across different servers. For example, if you wanted 1 million shards per server you could control it using this. */
-  shards?: [number, number];
+  /** The first shard to start at for this worker. Use this to control which shards to run in each worker. */
+  firstShardID: number;
+  /** The last shard to start for this worker. By default it will be 25 + the firstShardID. */
+  lastShardID?: number;
   /** This can be used to forward the ws handling to a proxy. */
   wsURL?: string;
   /** This can be used to forward the REST handling to a proxy. */
   restURL?: string;
-  /** This allows you to control how many shards per worker. For the times where you can optimize with more shards per worker as your bot has less tasks per shard.
-   * @default 25
-   */
-  shardsPerWorker?: number;
-  /** The absolute file path to the file where the worker will run.  */
-  workerFilePath?: string;
 }
diff --git a/src/module/shardingManager.ts b/src/module/shardingManager.ts
index 4b1cb2d31..68d8e7476 100644
--- a/src/module/shardingManager.ts
+++ b/src/module/shardingManager.ts
@@ -60,6 +60,31 @@ export function createShardWorker(shardID?: number) {
   shards.push(shard);
 }
 
+export async function spawnBigBrainBotShards(data: DiscordBotGatewayData, payload: IdentifyPayload, shardID: number, lastShardID: number, skipChecks?: number) {
+  // All shards on this worker have started! Cancel out.
+  if (shardID > lastShardID) return;
+
+  if (skipChecks) {
+    payload.shard = [shardID, data.shards];
+    // Start The shard
+    createBasicShard(data, payload, false, shardID);
+    // Spawn next shard
+    spawnBigBrainBotShards(data, payload, shardID, lastShardID, skipChecks - 1);
+    return;
+  }
+
+  // Make sure we can create a shard or we are waiting for shards to connect still.
+  if (createNextShard) {
+    createNextShard = false;
+    // Start the next few shards based on max concurrency
+    spawnBigBrainBotShards(data, payload, shardID + 1, lastShardID, data.session_start_limit.max_concurrency);
+    return;
+  }
+
+  await delay(1000);
+  spawnBigBrainBotShards(data, payload, shardID, lastShardID, skipChecks);
+}
+
 export const spawnShards = async (
   data: DiscordBotGatewayData,
   payload: IdentifyPayload,