diff --git a/build/tmp/compileJava/previous-compilation-data.bin b/build/tmp/compileJava/previous-compilation-data.bin
index ee31e97..bcec3fb 100644
Binary files a/build/tmp/compileJava/previous-compilation-data.bin and b/build/tmp/compileJava/previous-compilation-data.bin differ
diff --git a/src/main/java/mc/unraveled/reforged/plugin/Traverse.java b/src/main/java/mc/unraveled/reforged/plugin/Traverse.java
index f63bc67..617ce80 100644
--- a/src/main/java/mc/unraveled/reforged/plugin/Traverse.java
+++ b/src/main/java/mc/unraveled/reforged/plugin/Traverse.java
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ public final class Traverse extends JavaPlugin {
 
     @Override
     public void onEnable() {
-        this.SQLManager = new DBConnectionHandler(new DBProperties("db.properties"));
+        this.SQLManager = new DBConnectionHandler(new DBProperties(this, "db.properties"));
         this.commandLoader = new CommandLoader(this, "TRAVERSE");
         this.dataManager = new DataManager(this);
         this.banManager = new BanManager(this);
diff --git a/src/main/java/mc/unraveled/reforged/storage/DBProperties.java b/src/main/java/mc/unraveled/reforged/storage/DBProperties.java
index e1b064e..90222e7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/mc/unraveled/reforged/storage/DBProperties.java
+++ b/src/main/java/mc/unraveled/reforged/storage/DBProperties.java
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 package mc.unraveled.reforged.storage;
 
 import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
+import org.bukkit.plugin.Plugin;
 
+import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.Properties;
 
@@ -17,13 +20,21 @@ public class DBProperties {
     private final String username;
     private final String password;
 
-    public DBProperties(String fileName) {
+    public DBProperties(Plugin plugin, String fileName) {
+        File file = new File(plugin.getDataFolder(), fileName);
         properties = new Properties();
-        try (FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(fileName)) {
+
+        try (FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(file)) {
+            if (file.createNewFile()) {
+                Bukkit.getLogger().info("Created new properties file.");
+                plugin.saveResource("db.properties", true);
+            }
+
             properties.load(fileInputStream);
         } catch (IOException e) {
-            Bukkit.getLogger().severe("Could not load database properties file!");
+            Bukkit.getLogger().severe("Error loading properties file!" + e.getMessage());
         }
+
         driver = properties.getProperty("driver");
         databaseType = properties.getProperty("databaseType");
         databaseFile = properties.getProperty("databaseFile");