diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 9f1b48395..e2d5de578 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@
 [submodule "depends/clsocket"]
 	path = depends/clsocket
 	url = git://github.com/DFHack/clsocket.git
+[submodule "scripts"]
+	path = scripts
+	url = git://github.com/dfhack/scripts.git
diff --git a/scripts b/scripts
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..5a09a5316
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 5a09a53169663b87d848643e6a50d6d32662090a